<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apologies for cross postings<br><br><br> 6th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2010)<br> 7 December 2010 <br> Held in Conjunction with the <br>23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2010)<br> Adelaide, Australia<br> <a href="http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010">http://krr.meraka.org.za/~aow2010</a><br><br>AOW 2010 is the sixth in a series of workshops on ontologies held <br>in the Australasian region.<br><br>For the second year running, AOW 2010 will have a best paper <br>award, with a prize of $250(AUD) being awarded to the <br>author(s) of the best paper. <br><br>The primary aim of the workshop is to bring together active researchers in<br>the broad area of ontologies. Topics of interest include, but are not <br>limited to:<br><br>- Ontology models and theories <br>- Ontologies and the Semantic Web <br>- Interoperability in ontologies <br>- Ontologies and Multi-agent systems <br>- Description logics for ontologies <br>- Reasoning with ontologies <br>- Ontology harvesting on the web <br>- Ontology of agents and actions<br>- Ontology visualisation <br>- Ontology engineering and management<br>- Ontology-based information extraction and retrieval<br>- Ontology merging, alignment and integration<br>- Web ontology languages<br>- Formal concept analysis and ontologies <br>- Ontologies for e-research<br>- Linking open data<br>- Significant ontology applications<br><br>The AOW 2010 proceedings will be published at a suitable<br>venue to be announced soon. <br><br>Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit <br>extended versions of their AOW 2010 papers as chapters in <br>a forthcoming Springer book.<br><br>Important Dates:<br>Paper submission deadline: 24 September 2010<br>Notification of acceptance/rejection: 22 October 2010<br>Camera-ready copies due: 12 November 2010<br>AOW 2010: 7 December 2010<br><br>Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at<br><br> <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow2010</a><br><br>Workshop Chairs:<br>Thomas Meyer<br>Meraka Institute, South Africa<br><a href="mailto:tommie.meyer@meraka.org.za">tommie.meyer@meraka.org.za</a><br><br>Mehmet Orgun<br>Macquarie University<br><a href="mailto:mehmet.orgun@mq.edu.au">mehmet.orgun@mq.edu.au</a><br><br>Kerry Taylor<br>CSIRO ICT Centre<br><a href="mailto:Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au">Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au</a><br><br><br>Program Committee (more names to be added):<br>Arina Britz (Meraka Institute, South Africa)<br>Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA)<br>Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)<br>Aurona Gerber (Meraka Institute, South Africa)<br>Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia)<br>Marijke Keet (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)<br>Kevin Lee (NICTA and UNSW, Australia)<br>Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK)<br>Lars Moench (University of Hagen, Germany)<br>Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia)<br>Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia)<br>Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)<br>Ivan Varzinczak (Meraka Institute, South Africa)<br>Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, Ireland)<br></body></html>