<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CALL FOR PAPER: 12th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (USA), October 9th - 10th, 2015 co-located with ISWC 2015</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.w3.org/community/owled/workshop-2015">http://www.w3.org/community/owled/workshop-2015</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Paper submission due: August 5, 2015 (EXTENDED)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">      </span>* Acceptance notifications: September 4, 2015</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Final papers due: September 18, 2015</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"> </span>* OWLED workshop: 9-10 October, 2015</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OWLED is now also a Community Group at the W3C. Everyone is invited to participate: <a href="http://www.w3.org/community/owled/">http://www.w3.org/community/owled/</a> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">——————————————————————————————————————————————————</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The aim of the OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED) is to establish an international forum for the OWL community, where practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL can describe real and potential applications, share experiences and discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OWL has become the representational model of choice for supporting interoperability in many industries. With its rise in popularity, as well as the number of publicly available ontologies, it becomes important to focus on the processes by which ontologies can be engineered through reuse.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> In this edition of OWLED we aim to bridge the gap between ontology engineering practices and software engineering, where reuse is common practice, and we welcome submissions of papers describing reuse methods employed throughout the ontology development cycle; modeling / terminological decisions, alignment and comparison between ontologies, how ontologies are stored, versioned, distributed, and consumed over the Web. As with previous editions, we also welcome proposals for improving the OWL standard.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This year we also have a special ontology track, with submissions of ontologies that present interesting modelling problems or that can generate challenging tasks with respect to OWLED topics (e.g., ontologies that are challenging for reasoners to handle).</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We invite submissions of the following types of papers:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Technical papers:  All submissions must be in English and be no longer than 12 pages (including references). Papers that exceed this limit will be rejected without review.  These papers should present research, implementation experience, and reports on the above and related topics. Space will be reserved for authors to present their work at the workshop.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Short papers (4-6 pages, including references): These papers should present work that is in an early stage and/or include publishable (novel) implemented systems that are of interest to the OWLED community; and (in case of an implemented system), can be demonstrated at the workshop.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ontology papers (4-6 pages, including references): These papers should describe ontologies that present interesting modelling and other challenges with respect to OWLED topics (e.g., ontologies that are challenging for reasoners to handle or that demand features that are outside the standard OWL profiles). Papers are expected to include the URL of the ontology described.</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All submissions must be in PDF, and must adhere to the Springer LNCS style. For more details, see Springer’s Author Instructions: <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers can be submitted online using the Easychair Conference system: </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2015">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2015</a> (tbc)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers related to any aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome. </div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">      </span>* Application driven requirements for (extensions of) OWL</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">      </span>* Applications of OWL, particularly</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">            </span>- from industry or</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">             </span>- for data integration</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">         </span>- for service interoperability</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">         </span>- for sophisticated/non-obvious inference</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">              </span>- for knowledge discovery</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">      </span>* and within specific domains such as</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">          </span>- law</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">          </span>- biology and biomedicine</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">              </span>- eLearning</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">    </span>* Experience of using OWL: notably, highly expressive ontologies or the OWL 2 Profiles</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"> </span>* Evaluation of OWL tools (e.g., ontology editors, versioning tools, reasoners)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">        </span>* Benchmarks for OWL tools</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">     </span>* Performance and scalability issues and improvements</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Extensions to OWL</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">    </span>* OWL and Rules</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">        </span>* Ontology engineering  techniques and experience reports</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">     </span>* Non-standard reasoning services (implementation and requirements for)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">        </span>* Explanation</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Translating natural language into OWL (and vice-versa, i.e., verbalisation)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Ontology comprehension and visualisation</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">     </span>* Multilingual OWL</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">     </span>* Modelling issues</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">     </span>* Reuse of OWL ontologies</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">      </span>* Tool descriptions and experience reports, including editors, visualisation, parsers and syntax checkers</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">      </span>* Collaborative editing of ontologies</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Comparison of OWL ontologies (diff)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Versioning of OWL ontologies</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"> </span>* Alignment of OWL ontologies</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Ontology modularity and views</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">        </span>* Query answering with OWL</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">     </span>* SPARQL and OWL</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">       </span>* Linked Data and OWL</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">  </span>* Ontology-based data access (e.g., ontologies for big data, data integration, data fusion)</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">    </span>* Cognitive aspects of ontology engineering</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr. Mauro Dragoni<div>Post-Doc Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK-IRST)</div><div>Via Sommarive 18, 38123, Povo, Trento, Italy</div><div>Tel. 0461-314053</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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