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1st CALL FOR
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The Sixth International Workshop on
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ONTOLOGY
MATCHING<BR>
(OM-2011)<BR>
</FONT><A href="http://om2011.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
title="http://om2011.ontologymatching.org/
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face=Verdana>http://om2011.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana> October 23 or 24, 2011, ISWC
Workshop Program, Bonn, Germany </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR><FONT face=Verdana>BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND
OBJECTIVES<BR>Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the
Semantic Web, <BR>as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration
tasks <BR>dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the
ontologies <BR>as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of
<BR>correspondences between the semantically related entities of those
ontologies. <BR>These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as
ontology<BR>merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web
of data. <BR>Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
<BR>in the matched ontologies to interoperate.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>The workshop has three goals: <BR>1. To bring together
leaders from academia, industry and user institutions <BR>to assess how academic
advances are addressing real-world requirements. <BR>The workshop will strive to
improve academic awareness of industrial <BR>and final user needs, and
therefore, direct research towards those needs.<BR>Simultaneously, the workshop
will serve to inform industry and user <BR>representatives about existing
research efforts that may meet their <BR>requirements. The workshop will also
investigate how the ontology <BR>matching technology is going to
evolve.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of
ontology matching <BR>approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation
Initiative) <BR>2011 campaign: </FONT><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>. <BR>The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on
real-world <BR>specific matching tasks involving, e.g., open linked data and
<BR>biomedical ontologies. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation
<BR>initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion <BR>of how well
the current approaches are meeting business needs.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>3. To examine similarities and differences from database
schema matching, <BR>which has received decades of attention but is just
beginning <BR>to transition to mainstream tools.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>This year, in sync with the main conference, we
encourage submissions <BR>specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of
the approaches proposed <BR>(not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application
of the matching technology <BR>in real-life scenarios and assessment of its
usefulness to the final users. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
<BR> Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open
government data); <BR> Requirements to matching from specific
domains; <BR> Application of matching techniques in real-world
scenarios; <BR> Formal foundations and frameworks for
matching; <BR> Matching patterns; <BR>
Instance matching and data interlinking; <BR> Large-scale
matching evaluation; <BR> Performance of matching techniques;
<BR> Matcher selection and self-configuration;
<BR> User involvement (including both technical and
organizational aspects); <BR> Explanations in matching;
<BR> Social and collaborative matching; <BR>
Alignment management; <BR> Reasoning with alignments;
<BR> Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information
integration); <BR> Matching for dynamic applications (e.g.,
search, web-services). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>SUBMISSIONS<BR>Contributions to the workshop can be
made in terms of technical papers and <BR>posters/statements of interest
addressing different issues of ontology matching <BR>as well as participating in
the OAEI 2011 campaign. Technical papers should <BR>be not longer than 12 pages
using the LNCS Style:<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and
<BR>should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. <BR>All
contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted
<BR>through the workshop submission site at: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2011"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2011</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Contributors to the OAEI 2011 campaign have to follow
the campaign conditions <BR>and schedule at </FONT><A
href="http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
<BR>August 15, 2011: Deadline for the submission of papers. <BR>September 12,
2011: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. <BR>September 26,
2011: Workshop camera ready copy submission. <BR>October 23 or 24, 2011:
OM-2011, the Maritim convention center, Bonn, Germany </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main
contact)<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>2. Jérôme Euzenat <BR>INRIA & LIG,
France</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>3. Tom Heath <BR>Talis Systems Ltd, UK</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>4. Christoph Quix <BR>RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>5. Ming Mao <BR>SAP Labs, USA </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>6. Isabel Cruz <BR>The University of Illinois at
Chicago, USA </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>Paolo Besana, University of
Edinburgh, UK <BR>Chris Bizer, University of Berlin, Germany <BR>Olivier
Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA <BR>Paolo Bouquet, OKKAM, Italy
<BR>Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy <BR>Jérôme David, INRIA &
LIG, France <BR>Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy <BR>Fausto
Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy <BR>Bin He, IBM, USA <BR>Eduard Hovy,
ISI, University of Southern California, USA <BR>Wei Hu, Nanjing University,
China <BR>Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan <BR>Antoine
Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands <BR>Krzysztof
Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA <BR>Anja Jentzsch, FU-Berlin,
Germany <BR>Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK <BR>Monika Lanzenberger,
Vienna University of Technology, Austria <BR>Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings
Universitet, Sweden <BR>Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands <BR>Maurizio
Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy <BR>Vincenzo Maltese,
University of Trento, Italy <BR>Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
<BR>Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany <BR>Peter Mork, The
MITRE Corporation, USA <BR>Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Italy <BR>Andriy Nikolov, Open
University, UK <BR>Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA <BR>Leo Obrst, The
MITRE Corporation, USA <BR>Matteo Palmonari, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
<BR>Yefei Peng, Google, USA <BR>Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA <BR>Luciano
Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy <BR>Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
<BR>Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy <BR>Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague
University of Economics, Czech Republic <BR>Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA
& LIG, France <BR>Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France <BR>Giovanni Tummarello,
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy <BR>Lorenzino Vaccari, European
Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy <BR>Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
<BR>Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands <BR>Baoshi Yan,
LinkedIn, USA <BR>Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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<DIV><BR><FONT
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about ontology matching: <BR></FONT><A
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title="http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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href="http://book.ontologymatching.org/"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://book.ontologymatching.org/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
face=Verdana>-------------------------------------------------------</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Verdana>Best Regards,<BR>Pavel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT
face=Verdana>-------------------------------------------------------<BR>Pavel
Shvaiko, PhD<BR>Innovation and Research Manager<BR>TasLab, Informatica Trentina
SpA, Italy<BR></FONT><A
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