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<div class=""><b class="">Call for Papers: 8th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns - WOP2017. </b></div>
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<div class="">To be held at ISWC 2017 in Vienna, Austria. Saturday 21st October 2017.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Submission deadline: July 21st.</b> (Please submit abstracts by July 18th).</div>
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<div class="">The Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns targets topics relating to high quality <b class="">ontology design</b> as well as <b class="">ontology design patterns (ODP)</b> in Semantic Web data and ontology engineering. <b class="">This year
we particularly welcome contributions considering how one can develop high-quality ontologies in general, with or without the help of ODPs. </b>As usual, we also welcome pattern descriptions of all sorts, including patterns geared towards applications in
specific domains, such as geosciences, biomedical science, as well as digital humanities. </div>
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<div class="">We invite the submission of original research results related to the focus areas of the workshop. There are three types of submissions: </div>
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<div class="">- <b class="">Research papers</b> (maximum 15 pages LNCS style) should present mature work and document established results. </div>
<div class="">- <b class="">Short papers</b> (maximum 5 pages LNCS style) may present proposed research directions, novel ideas, or more general positions or discussions. </div>
<div class="">- <b class="">Ontology Design Pattern Descriptions </b>(between 5 and 12 pages LNCS style) may present new ontology design patterns.</div>
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<div class="">Detailed submission instructions can be found at: <b class=""><a href="http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2017/Submission" class="">http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2017/Submission</a></b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Topics of interest:</b></div>
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<div class="">- Methods and tools for developing high-quality ontologies, including ontology engineering by domain experts (*new*)</div>
<div class="">- Analyses of quality attributes in ontologies and ontology engineering, and quality assurance approaches for ontology engineering (*new*)</div>
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<div class="">- Quality assurance for Linked Data vocabularies (*new*)</div>
<div class="">- Ontology design patterns, analyses of ODP use, and analyses of pattern-based ontologies</div>
<div class="">- Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration</div>
<div class="">- Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns</div>
<div class="">- Antipatterns and their relations to ODPs</div>
<div class="">- Pattern-based ontology design and knowledge engineering</div>
<div class="">- Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic applications</div>
<div class="">- Ontology pattern extraction</div>
<div class="">- Pattern-based information extraction, ontology learning, and relation to NLP</div>
<div class="">- Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection</div>
<div class="">- Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, pattern-driven data publishing, etc.)</div>
<div class="">- Patterns for streaming data and evolving knowledge, as well as processes and services</div>
<div class="">- Data mining patterns and Semantic Web design</div>
<div class="">- Web semantics from a pattern perspective</div>
<div class="">- Reasoning with, or using, patterns</div>
<div class="">- Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs, as well as in related fields such as business intelligence and conceptual modelling</div>
<div class="">- ODPs development and use in specific domains including geosciences, life sciences, digital humanities, cultural heritage, e-history, etc.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Important Dates:</b></div>
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<div class="">- Abstract submission (required): July 18th, 2017</div>
<div class="">- <b class="">Submission date: July 21st, 2017</b></div>
<div class="">- Author notifications: August 24th, 2017</div>
<div class="">- Camera-ready papers: September 11th, 2017</div>
<div class="">- Workshops will be held on: 21st or 22nd of October, 2017 (TBD)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Submission guidelines:</b></div>
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<div class="">Paper submission is via EasyChair. Please see <a href="http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2017/Submission" class="">http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2017/Submission</a> for more details.</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Eva Blomqvist</b>, Linköping University, Sweden (general chair)</div>
<div class=""><b class="">Oscar Corcho</b>, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (papers co-chair)</div>
<div class=""><b class="">Matthew Horridge</b>, Stanford Center for Bio-Medical Informatics Research, Stanford University, US (papers co-chair)</div>
<div class=""><b class="">Rinke Hoekstra</b>, Elsevier B.V., the Netherlands (patterns co-chair)</div>
<div class=""><b class="">David Carral</b>, International Center For Computational Logic, TU Dresden, Germany (patterns co-chair)</div>
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