OWL: Experiences and Directions

programme
Preliminary Schedule:

Note: All presentations are scheduled for 10 minutes, including setup and questions, and should be targetted towards the discussion topics for the session. At the end of each technical session there will be a discussion period.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11

8:30 - 9:30
Introduction to the Workshop
Technical Session 1: Subsets of OWL

    Tailoring OWL for data intensive ontologies.
    Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini and Riccardo Rosati

    Logical reconstruction of normative RDF
    Enrico Franconi, Jos de Bruijn and Sergio Tessaris

    DLP is not so bad after all
    Pascal Hitzler, Peter Haase, Markus Kroetzsch, York Sure and Rudi Studer

    OWL FA: A Metamodeling Extension of OWL DL
    Jeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks and Guus Schreiber

9:30-10:00 Break

10:00 - 12:00
Technical Session 2: Extensions to OWL (datatypes, rules, fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions)

    Introducing Customised Datatypes and Datatype Predicates into OWL
    Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks

    Fuzzy OWL: Uncertainty and the Semantic Web
    Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos Stamou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks

    Modeling Fuzzy Rules with Description Logics
    Sudhir Agarwal and Pascal Hitzler

    What reasoning support for Ontology and Rules? the brain anatomy case study
Christine Golbreich

Pushing the limits of OWL, Rules and Protege. A simple example
Anne Cregan, Malgorzata Mochol, Denny Vrandecic and Sean Bechhofer

Open vs Closed world, Rules vs Queries: Use cases from Industry
Gary Ng.

    Closed World Reasoning in the Semantic Web through Epistemic Operators
Stephan Grimm and Boris Motik.

Towards a Nonmonotonic Extension to OWL
Yarden Katz and Bijan Parsia

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:30
Technical Session 3: Extensions to OWL (other extensions and uses of OWL)

    The Irresistible SRIQ
Ian Horrocks, Oliver Kutz and Ulrike Sattler

Extending OWL with Maximal Subproperties: An Approach to Define Qualified Cardinality Restrictions and Reflexive Properties
Stanislav Pokraev and Rogier Brussee

    Representing Qualitative Spatial Information in OWL-DL
Yarden Katz and Bernardo Cuenca Grau.

Using OWL at the Ordnance Survey
John Goodwin

    The Foundational Model of Anatomy in OWL: experience and perspectives
Christine Golbreich, Songmao Zhang and Olivier Bodenreider

    The Protege OWL Experience
H. Knublauch, M. Horridge, M. Musen, A. Rector, R. Stevens, N. Drummond, P. Lord, N. F. Noy, J. Seidenberg, H. Wang.

    Protein Ontology Development using OWL
    Amandeep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, and Baldev S. Sidhu

    Using OWL DL for the Exchange of Biological Pathway Information
    Alan Ruttenberg, Jonathan A. Rees, and Joanne S. Luciano

15:30 - 16:00
Break

16:00 -18:00
Discussion Session: The Next OWL

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12

8:30 - 10:00
Invited Talk and Technical Session 5: Web Services

    On Developing a Distributed CBR Framework through Semantic Web Services
B. Diaz-Agudo, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero, P. P. Gomez-Martin and M. A. Gomez-Martin

Experiences with OWL-S, Directions for Service Composition: The Cashew Position
Barry Norton

    An OWL-Based Semantic Web Service Discovery Framework
Xinqi Wang and Xueli

    Building and Using an Ontology of Tasks
Fatma Mili, Sangiv Dungrani and Swapna Ghanekar

10:00 - 10:30
Break

10:30 - 12:00
Technical Session 6: Tools

What Have Ontologies Ever Done For Us: Potential Applications at a National Mapping Agency
    John Goodwin

    A Tool for Storing OWL Using Database Technology
Maria del Mar Roldan-Garcia and Jose F. Aldana-Montes.

    Benchmarking DL Reasoners Using Realistic Ontologies
    Zhengxiang Pan

    Towards an Object-Oriented Reasoning System for OWL
Georgios Meditskos and Nick Bassiliades

    Building Applications and Tools for OWL -- Experiences and Suggestions
    Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Olaf Noppens, Massimo Paolucci and Matthias Wagner

    Experiences Using OWL in Military Applications
    Lee Lacy and Robert Gaskill

12:00 - 13:30
Working Lunch: Tool Demos

13:30 - 15:00
Discussion Session: The Future of OWL

15:00 - 15:30
Wrap-up

8:30 - 9:30	Introduction to the Workshop Technical Session 1: Subsets of OWL Tailoring OWL for data intensive ontologies. Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini and Riccardo Rosati Logical reconstruction of normative RDF Enrico Franconi, Jos de Bruijn and Sergio Tessaris DLP is not so bad after all Pascal Hitzler, Peter Haase, Markus Kroetzsch, York Sure and Rudi Studer OWL FA: A Metamodeling Extension of OWL DL Jeff Z. Pan, Ian Horrocks and Guus Schreiber
9:30-10:00	Break
10:00 - 12:00	Technical Session 2: Extensions to OWL (datatypes, rules, fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions) Introducing Customised Datatypes and Datatype Predicates into OWL Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks Fuzzy OWL: Uncertainty and the Semantic Web Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos Stamou, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Jeff Z. Pan and Ian Horrocks Modeling Fuzzy Rules with Description Logics Sudhir Agarwal and Pascal Hitzler What reasoning support for Ontology and Rules? the brain anatomy case study Christine Golbreich Pushing the limits of OWL, Rules and Protege. A simple example Anne Cregan, Malgorzata Mochol, Denny Vrandecic and Sean Bechhofer Open vs Closed world, Rules vs Queries: Use cases from Industry Gary Ng. Closed World Reasoning in the Semantic Web through Epistemic Operators Stephan Grimm and Boris Motik. Towards a Nonmonotonic Extension to OWL Yarden Katz and Bijan Parsia
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:30	Technical Session 3: Extensions to OWL (other extensions and uses of OWL) The Irresistible SRIQ Ian Horrocks, Oliver Kutz and Ulrike Sattler Extending OWL with Maximal Subproperties: An Approach to Define Qualified Cardinality Restrictions and Reflexive Properties Stanislav Pokraev and Rogier Brussee Representing Qualitative Spatial Information in OWL-DL Yarden Katz and Bernardo Cuenca Grau. Using OWL at the Ordnance Survey John Goodwin The Foundational Model of Anatomy in OWL: experience and perspectives Christine Golbreich, Songmao Zhang and Olivier Bodenreider The Protege OWL Experience H. Knublauch, M. Horridge, M. Musen, A. Rector, R. Stevens, N. Drummond, P. Lord, N. F. Noy, J. Seidenberg, H. Wang. Protein Ontology Development using OWL Amandeep S. Sidhu, Tharam S. Dillon, Elizabeth Chang, and Baldev S. Sidhu Using OWL DL for the Exchange of Biological Pathway Information Alan Ruttenberg, Jonathan A. Rees, and Joanne S. Luciano
15:30 - 16:00	Break
16:00 -18:00	Discussion Session: The Next OWL

8:30 - 10:00	Invited Talk and Technical Session 5: Web Services On Developing a Distributed CBR Framework through Semantic Web Services B. Diaz-Agudo, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero, P. P. Gomez-Martin and M. A. Gomez-Martin Experiences with OWL-S, Directions for Service Composition: The Cashew Position Barry Norton An OWL-Based Semantic Web Service Discovery Framework Xinqi Wang and Xueli Building and Using an Ontology of Tasks Fatma Mili, Sangiv Dungrani and Swapna Ghanekar
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 12:00	Technical Session 6: Tools What Have Ontologies Ever Done For Us: Potential Applications at a National Mapping Agency John Goodwin A Tool for Storing OWL Using Database Technology Maria del Mar Roldan-Garcia and Jose F. Aldana-Montes. Benchmarking DL Reasoners Using Realistic Ontologies Zhengxiang Pan Towards an Object-Oriented Reasoning System for OWL Georgios Meditskos and Nick Bassiliades Building Applications and Tools for OWL -- Experiences and Suggestions Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Olaf Noppens, Massimo Paolucci and Matthias Wagner Experiences Using OWL in Military Applications Lee Lacy and Robert Gaskill
12:00 - 13:30	Working Lunch: Tool Demos
13:30 - 15:00	Discussion Session: The Future of OWL
15:00 - 15:30	Wrap-up