OWL: Experiences and Directions (original) (raw)
November 10-11 2006
Paper submission site: http://www.easychair.org/OWL2006
ONLINE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/2006/Nov/10/rule.phtml
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE: <programme06.html>
The workshop has received generous support from:
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The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation since 2004. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfill current and future application demands.
The OWL: Experiences and Direction (OWLED) workshop series is a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience, and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications.
Building on the success of the 2005 OWLED workshop, the 2006 OWLED workshop will again be immediately after theISWC conference, this year held in Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
Topics of interest for OWLED 2006 include, but are not limited to the following:
- Applications of and experience with OWL
- Application-driven requirements for OWL
- Extensions to OWL, including:
- non-monotonic extensions
- rules extensions
- extensions for representing temporal and spatial information
- extended property constructors
- keys
- extended class constructors
- extended datatype constructors
- probabilistic and fuzzy extensions
- Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages
- Performance and scalability issues
- Non-standard inference services, including explanations
- Security and Trust for OWL-based information
- Tools for OWL, including:
- editors
- visualisation tools
- parsers and syntax checkers
- versioning frameworks
The workshop shall, in particular:
- further the interaction between theoreticians, tool builders, and implementors
- help consolidating OWL 1.1
- initiate the development of OWL 2.0
- aid in clarifying the relationships between OWL and rules
Submissions on any of the following topics are especially encouraged:
- Experiences with OWL 1.1
- Implementation issues with OWL 1.1
- Demos of OWL 1.1 implementations
- Requirements for a potential OWL 2.0 revision
- Modeling and reasoning with OWL and rules
- Survey papers
- System descriptions
Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application experience are especially encouraged.
The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion.
Workshop Format
The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion. Further presentations and system demonstrations will be made as part of a poster session. The workshop may also have one session in common with the Second International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML06) in which the integration of OWL with rules languages will be discussed.
Submission Details
Submissions must be in PDF, and will not be accepted in any other format. It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submission displays and prints correctly on common PDF viewers. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details seehttp://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html. All papers must be submitted online using the submission website .
Technical paper submissions must be no longer than 10 pages, and shorter submissions are welcome. Position paper submissions must be no longer than 4 pages. All submissions must be received before 11:59 PM PST 31 July 2006. Submission will be via the workshop web site.
All relevant submissions will be made available from the workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing process. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the web site.
The submission site is now up at http://www.easychair.org/OWL2006
All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Decisions on the acceptance of papers will be communicated to authors no later than 11th September 2006.
Important Dates
Submissions due: | 31st July, 2006Extended deadline: August 7th 2006 |
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Notification of acceptance: | 11th September, 2006 |
Final versions due: | 9th October, 2006 |
Workshop: | 10-11 November, 2006 |
Participation and Registration
Authors of accepted papers plus programme committee members will be invited to participate in the workshop. The registration is also open for other interested people. Prospective participants that have not received an invitation should send an email toowl-ws-organizers@mindswap.orgwith a one-paragraph statement on their rationale to attend prior to registration.
Registration : Online registration is now open at http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/conferences/2006/Nov/10/rule.phtml
The workshop will have a session for software demos and "posters" (formal or informal) describing work in progress. All participants, even those without a paper in the program, are invited and encouraged to demo their tools and/or present a poster. Interested parties may send the organizers a one page description of the demo/poster before October 20th. Such a description is not required, but descriptions submitted prior to October 20th will be considered for inclusion in the proceedings.
Venue
The Workshop will take place at theClassic Center in Athens, Georgia, U. S. A. (about two miles away from the location of ISWC 2006). For more venue information, including how to reach Athens, see the General Information section of the ISWC 2006 web site. There will be shuttle services between ISWC and OWLED locations.
Venue information specific to OWLED 2006 will be available later.
Workshop Organisers
OWLED 2006 Committee
- Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK)
- Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Connor Shankey, (USA)
- Evan Wallace, NIST (USA)
OWLED 2006 Program Committee
- Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA)
- Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA)
- Kendall Clark, University of Maryland (USA)
- Giuseppe DeGiacomo, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy)
- Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton (UK)
- Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA)
- Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France)
- Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada)
- Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA)
- Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany)
- Ashok Malhotra, Oracle (USA)
- Massimo Marchiori, W3C at MIT (USA)
- Boris Motik, University of Manchester (UK)
- Enrico Motta, Open University (UK)
- Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA)
- Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA)
- Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA)
- Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK)
- Terry Payne, University of Southampton (UK)
- Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (USA)
- Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy)
- Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
- Andrew Schain, NASA (USA)
- Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (UK)
- Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano (Italy)
OWLED Steering Committee
- Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK)
- Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester (UK)
- Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)