Scheduling for OWLED 2008 DC
OWL: Experiences and Directions

Here is the schedule for OWLED2008DC, as it happened. If you gave a talk, and it is not linked to from this page, please mail in your talk to pfps@research.bell-labs.com.

Tuesday 1 April 2008

8:00-9:00 - Breakfast

9:00-9:05 - Welcome and Introduction

9:05-11:05 - Session 1: Application Experience

• Michel Dumontier and Natalia Villanueva-Rosales. Modeling Life Science Knowledge with OWL 1.1 (presentation)
• Szymon Klarman, Rinke Hoekstra and Marc Bron. Versions and Applicability of Concept Definitions in Legal Ontologies (presentation)
• Colin Puleston, James Cunningham and Alan Rector. A Generic Software Framework for Building Hybrid Ontology-Backed Models for Driving Applications (presentation)
• Matt Fisher, Mike Dean and Gregory Joiner. Use of OWL and SWRL for Semantic Relational Database Translation (presentation)
• Joanne Luciano and Robert Stevens. OWL: PAX of mind or the AX that caused the split?

11:05-11:30 - Morning Break (no food)

11:30-12:30 - Session 2: Interface Languages

• Rolf Schwitter, Kaarel Kaljurand, Anne Cregan, Catherine Dolbear and Glen Hart. A Comparison of three Controlled Natural Languages for OWL 1.1 (presentation)
• Matthew Horridge and Peter Patel-Schneider. Manchester Syntax for OWL 1.1
• Mikel Egaña, Robert Stevens and Erick Antezana. Transforming the Axiomisation of Ontologies: The Ontology Pre-Processor Language (presentation)

12:30-1:30 - Lunch

1:30-3:15 - Session 3: Session 1 overflow then Languages and Theory

• Ian Horrocks and Henson Graves. Application of OWL 1.1 to Systems Engineering (Statement of Interest) (presentation)
• Rinke Hoekstra. Use of OWL in the Legal Domain (Statement of Interest) (presentation)
• Franz Baader, Carsten Lutz and Sebastian Brandt. Pushing the EL Envelope Further
• Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Dirk Walther and Frank Wolter. CEX and MEX: Logical Diff and Logic-based Module Extraction in a Fragment of OWL (presentation)
• Clay Fink, Tim Finin, Jim Mayfield and Christine Piatko. OWL as a Target for Information Extraction Systems (Statement of Interest) (presentation)

3:15-3:15 - Afternoon Break

3:45-5:00 - Session 4: Self-Organizing Session

Wednesday 2 April 2008

8:00-9:00 - Breakfast

9:00-11:00 - Session 5: Implementation and Tools

• Petr Kremen and Evren Sirin. SPARQL-DL Implementation Experience (presentation)
• Francis Gasse and Volker Haarslev. DLRule: A Rule Editor plug-in for Protege
• Alex DeLeon and Michel Dumontier. Publishing OWL Ontologies with Presto (presentation)
• Mike Dean. Annotation Classes: A Structuring Mechanism for OWL Ontologies (presentation)
• Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider and Rafael Berlanga. Safe and Economic Re-Use of Ontologies: A Logic-Based Methodology and Tool Support (presentation)
• Li Ding, Jiao Tao and Deborah McGuinness . OWL Instance Data Evaluation (Statement of Interest) (presentation)

11:00-11:30 - Morning Break (no food)

11:30-12:30 - Session 6: Demos

• Ronald Denaux, Ian Holt, Vania Dimitrova, Catherine Dolbear and Anthony Cohn. Supporting the Construction of Conceptual Ontologies with the ROO Tool (Demo Description) (presentation)
• Pavel Klinov and Bijan Parsia. Demonstrating Pronto: a Non-Monotonic Probabilistic OWL Reasoner (Demo Description)
• Antonella Poggi, Mariano Rodriguez and Marco Ruzzi. Ontology-based database access with DIG-Mastro and the OBDA Plugin for Protégé (Demo Description)

12:30-1:30 - Lunch

1:30-2:00 - Session 7: Session 1 overflow then Other

• Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi, Lalana Kagal, Jianwei Niu, Ravi Sandhu, William Winsborough and Bhavani Thuraisingham. Role Based Access Control and OWL
• Peter Patel-Schneider. Safe Rules for OWL 1.1 (Statement of Interest)

2:00-3:15 - Session 8: Self-Organizing Session

3:15-3:15 - Afternoon Break

3:45-5:00 - Session 9: SOS Reports then Next Steps for OWL and OWLED

• Quick reports from the Self-Organizing Sessions
• What is Happening with OWLED
• What is Happening with OWL 1.1 in the W3C OWL WG