[DL] CfP: Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003)

[York Sure]

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Call for papers

 Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2003)
 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003

 Workshop at the 
 2nd International Semantic Web Conference 
 (ISWC 2003)
 
 20 October 2003

 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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*** OBJECTIVES ***

In the Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools workshop we intend to bring 
together researchers and practitioners from the fastly developing 
research areas Ontologies and Semantic Web. Currently the semantic 
web attracts researchers from all around the world. Numerous tools 
and applications of semantic web technologies are already available 
and the number is growing fast. However, deploying large scale 
ontology solutions typically involves several separate tasks and 
requires applying multiple tools. Therefore pragmatic issues such as 
interoperability are key if industry is to be encouraged to take up 
ontology technology rapidly. The main aim of this workshop is 
therefore to encourage and stimulate discussions about the evaluation 
of ontology-based tools. 

The large visibility of the semantic web, it’s tools and applications 
already attract industrial partners . In particular, as tools move 
from academic institutions into commercial environments they have to 
fulfil stronger requirements and in some cases new requirements (e.g. 
concerning scalability and multi-user access). Different tools from 
different sources need to interoperate. Typically tools are not 
anymore standalone solutions but integrated into a framework. This 
framework must be open to other commercialapplications and provide 
connectors and interfaces to industrial standards. Larger 
applications need also larger ontologies and therefore require 
substantially more performance and scalability. 

A systematic evaluation of the tools might lead to a consistent level 
of quality and thus acceptance by industry. For the future this might 
lead into certification efforts for such tools. 


*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 
- Interoperability of tools (e.g. turnaround abilities) 
- Integration of tools into frameworks 
- Performance benchmarks 
- Scalability of tools 
- Certification of tools 

Tools include e.g.: 
- Annotation tools 
- Inference engines 
- Ontology editors and browsers 
- Ontology servers 
- Ontology mapping tools 
- Repositories 
- Retrieval tools 
- Semantic search engines 


*** PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS ***

The first workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2002) 
was celebrated in conjunction with the 13th International Conference 
on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2002), in 
September 30th, 2002.

EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002


*** SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ***

We invite three types of submissions for this workshop: 
- Technical papers (10 pages) 
  in any of the topics of interest of the workshop 
  (but not limited to them) 
- Short position papers (2 pages) 
  in any of the topics of interest of the workshop 
  (but not limited to them) 
- Experiment papers (10 pages) 
  describing the results of the experiment proposed. 

  The experiment description can be found in the following URL:
  http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/experiment.pdf

If you are interested in participating in the experiment we encourage 
you to send us an expression of interest until the 15th.

More details on the workshop submissions can be found at the workshop 
website:

  http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003/

 
*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Experiment expression of interest: May 15th, 2003
Deadline paper submissions: July 14th, 2003
Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2003
Camera ready deadline: September 22nd, 2003
Workshop: October 20th, 2003 
 

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*** WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***

York Sure (Contact Person)
 Institute AIFB
 University of Karlsruhe
 sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de

Oscar Corcho
 Ontology Group
 Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial 
 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
 ocorcho at fi.upm.es

Jürgen Angele
 Ontoprise GmbH
 angele at ontoprise.de


*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***

Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US)
Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US) 
Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Université P. Sabatier (FR) 
Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK) 
Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES)
John Davies, BT (UK) 
Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK) 
Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) 
Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University (US) 
Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText Lab / Sirma AI, Ltd. (BG) 
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP) 
Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US)
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, Information Semantics (US) 
Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE) 
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US) 
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) 
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE) 
Mike Uschold, Boeing (US)

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 York Sure
 eMail: sure at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
 phone: +49 (0) 721 608 6592
 http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ysu

 Institute AIFB
 University of Karlsruhe (TH)
 D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)