<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>[Apologies for cross posting]<br><br>CALL FOR PAPERS: <div><br></div><div> OWLED 2011<br><br>OWL: Experiences and Directions<br>The Eighth International Workshop<br>June 5-6, San Francisco, California, USA<br><a href="http://www.webont.org/owled/2011/">http://www.webont.org/owled/2011/</a><br><br>Co-located with<br>2011 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011)<br><a href="http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/">http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/</a><br><br>The adoption of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language in real-world <br>applications continues to grow as the research and tools for OWL <br>mature. The new version, OWL 2, has been a positive factor in this <br>direction. As the experience in using OWL in different applications <br>and domains increases, the strengths and weaknesses of the language <br>are discovered, resulting in new research and development that further =<br><br>extends its reach.<br><br>The OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) workshop series aims to <br>bring users, developers and researchers from academia and industry <br>together to describe applications of OWL, to share experience, and to =<br><br>discuss extensions to the language for satisfying further application =<br><br>requirements. The workshop will allow the OWL community to set an <br>agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based <br>technologies into new applications.<br><br>This year the OWLED workshop will be held June 5-6 in San Francisco, <br>California and be co-located with the 2011 Semantic Technology <br>Conference (SemTech).<br><br>As usual, the OWLED workshop will try to encourage participants to <br>work together and will give space for discussions on various topics to =<br><br>be decided and published at some point in the future. Tutorials on OWL =<br><br>2 and related technologies will be organized for the larger SemTech <br>community. There will also be formal presentation of submissions to <br>the workshop.<br><br>More information on the workshop is forthcoming. For more information =<br><br>or to offer sponsorship, please send us a note at =<br><a href="mailto:owled2011@easychair.org">owled2011@easychair.org</a><br><br>Important dates<br>---------------<br>January 10, 2011 Tutorial/demo proposals due<br>February 28, 2011 Titles and abstract due<br>March 7, 2011 Paper submissions due<br>April 14, 2011 Notifications of acceptance<br>May 14, 2011 Final versions of papers due<br>June 5-6, 2011 OWLED 2011 workshop<br><br>Topics<br>-------<br>Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory,<br>methods and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not<br>limited to the following topics:<br><br>- Application-driven requirements for OWL<br>- Applications of OWL, particularly<br> * from industry or<br> * for data integration<br> * for service interoperability<br> * for sophisticated/non-obvious inference<br> * for knowledge discovery<br>- Experience reports on using OWL, OWL 2 and its profiles<br>- OWL ontologies, particularly if highly expressive or large scale<br>- Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages<br>- OWL based information systems<br>- Query answering with OWL<br>- Performance and scalability experiences<br>- Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL<br>- Non-standard inference services, including:<br> * explanations<br> * static verification<br> * modularity<br>- Tools for OWL, including:<br> * collaborative editing and versioning<br> * parsers and syntax checkers<br> * high performance reasoners<br> * visualization tools<br>- Extensions to OWL, including:<br> * extended constructors for datatypes, properties or classes<br> * constraints, rules<br> * non-monotonic, probabilistic or fuzzy extensions<br> * temporal and spatial extensions<br><br>Submissions<br>-----------<br>- Tutorials<br>We invite proposals (maximum 4 pages) for 90 minute tutorials that <br>cover basic, intermediate and advanced OWL-related topics of interest =<br><br>to the OWLED and SemTech communities. Proposals should provide the <br>title, intended audience, skills developed, motivation, objectives, <br>detailed outline, instructor biography and prior tutorial/teaching <br>experience.<br><br>- Application Track<br>Application papers (maximum 4 pages; LNCS style) may present novel <br>practical approaches in using OWL, or may employ scientific methods <br>(qualitative and/or quantitative) to understand in greater detail the =<br><br>application of OWL in real-world systems.<br><br>- Research Track<br>Research papers (maximum 10 pages; LNCS style) should clearly describe =<br><br>original, significant research pertaining to OWL.<br><br>- Statement of Interest<br>A statement of interest (maximum 4 pages; LNCS style) can be about <br>ideas, solutions, methods, products, research projects or <br>implementation experience pertaining to OWL.<br><br><br>Organization<br>------------<br><br>General Chair:<br>Melanie Courtot, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre (Canada)<br><br>Program Chair:<br>Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (Canada)<br><br>Program Committee:<br>* Jie Bao, RPI (USA)<br>* Mike Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC (Canada)<br>* Kendall Clark, Clark and Parsia (USA)<br>* Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University (UK)<br>* Achille Fokoue, IBM<br>* John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK)<br>* Janna Hastings, EBI (UK)<br>* Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (USA)<br>* Martin Hepp, Universitaet der Bundeswehr M=FCnchen (Germany)<br>* Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge (UK)<br>* Rinke Hoekstra, Leibniz Center for Law of the University of <br>Amsterdam (Netherlands)<br>* Matthew Horridge, University of Manchester (UK)<br>* Markus Kroetzsch, Oxford University (UK)<br>* Joanne Luciano, RPI (USA)<br>* Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen (Germany)<br>* Bijan Parsia, Manchester University (UK)<br>* James Malone, EMBL/EBI (UK)<br>* Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)<br>* Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)<br>* Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)<br>* Bjoern Peters, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (USA)<br>* Alexandre Riazanov, UNB (Canada)<br>* Sebastian Rudolph, KIT/AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany)<br>* Alan Ruttenberg, University of Buffalo (USA)<br>* Matthias Samwald, DERI (Ireland)<br>* Uli Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)<br>* Michael Schneider, FZI (Germany)<br>* Thomas Schneider, Universitaet des Saarlandes (GermanY)<br>* Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)<br>* Zhe Wu, Oracle (USA)<br>* Antoine Zimmermann, DERI (Ireland)<br><br>Steering Committee:<br>* Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia (USA)<br>* Melanie Courtot, Terry Fox Laboratory (CA)<br>* Michel Dumontier, Carleton University (CA)<br>* Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)<br>* Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo (USA)<br>* Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)<br>* Michael Schneider, FZI Research Center for Information Technology (DE)</div></body></html>