<div dir="ltr"><div>CALL FOR PAPER: 12th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED)</div><div>Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (USA), October 9th - 10th, 2015 co-located with ISWC 2015</div><div><a href="http://www.w3.org/community/owled/workshop-2015">http://www.w3.org/community/owled/workshop-2015</a></div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates (All deadlines are Hawaii time)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Paper submission due: August 5, 2015 (EXTENDED)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Acceptance notifications: September 4, 2015</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Final papers due: September 18, 2015</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* OWLED workshop: 9-10 October, 2015</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>——————————————————————————————————————————————————</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div> 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>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><br></div><div>We invite submissions of the following types of papers:</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div> </div><div>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><br></div><div>Papers can be submitted online using the Easychair Conference system: </div><div><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2015">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=owled2015</a> (tbc)</div><div><br></div><div>Papers related to any aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome. </div><div>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Application driven requirements for (extensions of) OWL</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Applications of OWL, particularly</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- from industry or</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- for data integration</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- for service interoperability</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- for sophisticated/non-obvious inference</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- for knowledge discovery</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* and within specific domains such as</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- law</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- biology and biomedicine</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- eLearning</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Experience of using OWL: notably, highly expressive ontologies or the OWL 2 Profiles</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Evaluation of OWL tools (e.g., ontology editors, versioning tools, reasoners)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Benchmarks for OWL tools</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Performance and scalability issues and improvements</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Extensions to OWL</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* OWL and Rules</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Ontology engineering techniques and experience reports</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Non-standard reasoning services (implementation and requirements for)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Explanation</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Translating natural language into OWL (and vice-versa, i.e., verbalisation)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Ontology comprehension and visualisation</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Multilingual OWL</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Modelling issues</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Reuse of OWL ontologies</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Tool descriptions and experience reports, including editors, visualisation, parsers and syntax checkers</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Collaborative editing of ontologies</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Comparison of OWL ontologies (diff)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Versioning of OWL ontologies</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Alignment of OWL ontologies</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Ontology modularity and views</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Query answering with OWL</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* SPARQL and OWL</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Linked Data and OWL</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Ontology-based data access (e.g., ontologies for big data, data integration, data fusion)</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>* Cognitive aspects of ontology engineering</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Programme committee to be confirmed.</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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