<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apologies for cross postings<br>-------------------------------------- <br><br>8th Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2012)<br> 4 December 2012 <br> Held in Conjunction with the <br>25th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2012)<br> Sydney, Australia<br> <a href="http://aow2012.yolasite.com/">http://aow2012.yolasite.com/</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>email: <a href="mailto:aow@csir.co.za">aow@csir.co.za</a><br><br>AOW 2012 is the eighth in a series of workshops on ontologies held <br>in the Australasian region.<br><br>For the fourth year running, AOW 2012 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>Important Dates:<br>Submission of papers: 10 October 2012<br>Notification of acceptance/rejection: 12 November 2012<br>Final camera ready copies: 23 November 2012<br>Workshop date: 4 December 2012<br><br>Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair system at:<br> <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow20120">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aow20120</a><br><br>For submission instructions: see the AOW website at <br><a href="http://aow2012.yolasite.com/">http://aow2012.yolasite.com/</a><br><br>For enquiries or more information, the <br>workshop email address is <a href="mailto:aow@csir.co.za">aow@csir.co.za</a><br><br>Workshop Chairs:<br> Aurona Gerber (CAIR, South Africa)<br> Tommie Meyer (CAIR, South Africa)<br> Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University)<br> Kerry Taylor (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia<br><br><br>Program Committee:<br> Franz Baader, TU Dresden, Germany <br> Mike Bain, UNSW, Australia<br> Arina Britz, CAIR, South Africa <br> Giovanni Casini, CAIR, South Africa<br> Werner Ceusters, SUNY at Buffalo, USA<br> Michael Compton, CSIRO, Australia<br> Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain<br> Atilla Elci, Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey<br> R. Cenk Erdur, Ege University, Turkey<br> Peter Fox, TWC/RPI, Canada<br> Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece<br> Tudor Groza, University of Queensland, Australia<br> Armin Haller, DERI, Galway, Ireland<br> Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland<br> Bo Hu, SAP Research, UK<br> C. Maria Keet, UKZN, South Africa<br> Anees Krishna, Curtin University, Australia<br> Kevin Lee, NICTA and UNSW, Australia<br> Laurent Lefort, CSIR ICT Centre, Australia<br> Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia<br> Constantine Mantratzis, University of Westminster, UK<br> Deshen Moodley, CAIR, South Africa<br> Maurice Pagnucco, UNSW, Australia<br> Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK<br> Debbie Richards, Macquarie University, Australia<br> Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia<br> Barry Smith, SUNY Buffalo, USA<br> Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia<br> Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA<br> Boontawee Suntisrivaporn, Sirindhorn International Insitute of Technology, Thailand<br> Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br> Nwe Ni Tun, National University of Singapore, Singapore<br> Ivan Varzinczak, CAIR, South Africa<br> Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia<br> Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University, USA<br> Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne, France<br><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,Trebuchet MS" size="1">
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