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The Journal of Web Semantics invites submissions for a special issue on Ontology Engineering to be edited by Valentina Tamma, Matthew Horridge, and Bijan Parsia. Submissions are due by 13 November, 2017.<br class="">
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The Web Ontology Language (OWL) became a World Wide Web Consortium standard in 2004. It has since been used in many diverse domains from geography to medicine where many people, groups, and consortia build, maintain and regularly publish high-quality, production-level
ontologies. In this time ontology engineering has evolved considerably with the development of new methodologies, techniques, tools, and processes for ontology creation and maintenance. The actual process of creating ontologies has begun to shift from being
a small scale, completely manual process to a combination of manual, semi-automated, and programmatic techniques and from single-person or small-group efforts to large-scale collaborative efforts. Concurrently, ontology engineering research, often drawing
inspiration from the increasing empirical rigor of the software engineering community, has grown more sophisticated.<br class="">
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The goal for this special issue is to provide a venue to showcase the breadth and depth of ontology engineering and ontology engineering research. We are particularly interested in empirical papers which aim to explore or demonstrate the benefits of ontologies
to larger efforts or of some technique or tooling on the development of ontologies. We encourage principled methodological diversity and welcome papers with significant methodological interest even if the results are null or negative. In addition to standard
research papers, we welcome submission of short case studies or system/ontology/method/application descriptions, though we would encourage more general reviews where possible, reserving short papers for cases with some special focus, novelty, or clear interest.
We recommend consulting with the Guest Editors before submission of such papers.<br class="">
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We are happy to receive pre-submission of an experimental plan especially if the risk of null results is high and will provide feedback.<br class="">
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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<br class="">
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Ontology Engineering Research Methodology<br class="">
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Ontology Engineering Methodologies<br class="">
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Ontology Learning (from text, data, or other sources)<br class="">
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Ontology Visualisation<br class="">
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Quality Assurance<br class="">
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Ontology Debugging<br class="">
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Collaborative Ontology Engineering practices<br class="">
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Ontology Engineering workflows<br class="">
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Document based ontology engineering<br class="">
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Continuous Integration for Ontology Engineering<br class="">
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Ontology Testing<br class="">
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Explanation of Entailments in Ontologies<br class="">
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Ontology Comprehension<br class="">
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Ontology Design Patterns<br class="">
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Ontology Versioning, Change, and Evolution<br class="">
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Ontology Engineering Case Studies<br class="">
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Agile Practices in Ontology Engineering<br class="">
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User Studies on Ontology Engineering<br class="">
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Ontology Modularisation<br class="">
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Programmatic Approaches to Ontology Engineering<br class="">
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Problems and Challenges of Reusing Ontologies<br class="">
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Ontology Publishing Strategies<br class="">
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Application of Software Engineering Techniques to Ontology Engineering<br class="">
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Metrics for Ontology Engineering<br class="">
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Guest Editors<br class="">
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Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, v.tamma@liverpool.ac.uk<br class="">
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Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, matthew.horridge@stanford.edu<br class="">
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Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, bijan.parsia@manchester.ac.uk<br class="">
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Important Dates<br class="">
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Submission deadline: 13 November 2017<br class="">
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Author notification: 5 February 2017<br class="">
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Final version: 16 April 2018<br class="">
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Final notification: 14 May 2018<br class="">
Publication: 3rd Quarter 2018<br class="">
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Dr Valentina Tamma<br class="">
Department of Computer Science | http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~valli<br class="">
University of Liverpool | tel. +44-151-795 4246<br class="">
Ashton Building | fax +44-151-795 4235<br class="">
Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK | email: V.Tamma@liverpool.ac.uk<br class="">
| skype: valentinatamma<br class="">
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