[Dbworld] EON2004: Extended Deadline

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Call for papers

 3rd International Workshop on Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON2004)
 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2004

 Workshop at the  3rd International Semantic Web Conference
 (ISWC 2004)

 8th November 2004

 Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan

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 EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 28th of July 2004
 
 Deadline for Experiment submissions: 15th of September 2004

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NOTE: In this year's workshop, we propose an experiment on ontology alignment 
tools


*** 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, its 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 commercial 
applications 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
- 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 ***
EON2003: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/eon2003
EON2002: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/eon2002


*** SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ***
We invite two types of technical paper submissions for this workshop:
- Technical papers (10 pages)
- Short position papers (2 pages)

Besides, we invite experiment paper submissions, as follows:

*** EXPERIMENTS ****
For this workshop we propose to experiment on ontology alignment tools. The 
objective of this experiment is to qualify algorithms and tools for ontology 
alignment, and to get feed back on the experiment protocol.

The experiment consists in:
- Run ontology alignment tools on the sample ontologies
- Compare the results and provide the precision/recall results
- Propose new measures to be used

Details can be found at:
http://co4.inrialpes.fr/align/Contest/



*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Deadline paper submissions: July 28th, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 7th, 2004
Camera ready deadline: October 1st, 2004

EXPERIMENTS
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Deadline for ontology alignment experiment submissions: September 15th
Camera ready deadline: October 1st, 2004



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*** WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***
York Sure (AIFB)
Oscar Corcho (Intelligent Software Components)
Jerôme Euzenat (INRIA)
Todd Hughes (Lockheed Martin)

*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***
Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant, Inc. (US)
Bill Anderson, Ontology Works, Inc. (US)
Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK)
Richard Benjamins, Intelligent Software Components, S.A. (ES)
Christian Fillies, SemTalk (DE)
John Davies, BT (UK)
Carole Goble, University of Manchester (UK)
Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)
Kouji Kozaki, Osaka University (JP)
Natasha F. Noy, Stanford University (US)
Henrik Oppermann, Ontoprise (DE)
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
Raphael Troncy, INA (France), for Institute National of Audiovisual
Mike Uschold, Boeing (US)
Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University (JP)
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