OWLED 2009
OWL: Experiences and Directions
Fifth International Workshop
Chantilly, Virginia, USA
23-24 October 2009
Co-located with ISWC 2009
Call for papers
Topics
The workshop will have a special emphasis on the new features brought by OWL 2, its profiles, and topics related to the OWLED Task Forces. Papers related to either of these, including reports from the task forces, are particularly welcome.
Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, application, theory, method, and tools, are welcome at the workshop; including but not limited to the following topics:
- Applications of OWL, particularly from industry
- Combinations of OWL with other Semantic Web efforts, particularly
- RIF,
- SKOS, and
- linked data.
- Ontologies built using OWL, particularly large scale efforts
- Application driven requirements for OWL
- Experience reports on using OWL
- Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages
- Performance and scalability issues
- Bridges between knowledge engineering and OWL
- Non-standard inference services, including:
- explanations,
- static verification,
- modularity
- Enriching ontologies with rules
- Query answering and data integration
- Tools for OWL, including:
- editors,
- visualisation tools,
- parsers and syntax checkers,
- versioning frameworks,
- Extensions to OWL, including:
- extended datatype constructors, property constructors,
- class constructors,
- keys, constraints, rules,
- probabilistic and fuzzy extensions, non-monotonic extensions,
- temporal and spatial extensions,
Submissions
We invite the submission of three kinds of papers:
Technical papers |
Technical papers can be up to 10 pages, LNCS style, can be submitted to the workshop and space will be reserved for authors of accepted papers. |
Short system descriptions |
We welcome systems demonstrations and invite interested parties to submit a short description (maximum 4 pages) of their system. |
Statements of interest |
These statements will not received full reviewing and might not be included in the archives of the workshop, but will be available to attendees of the workshop, and will be used to help schedule the workshop. Potential attendees who need official invitations to the workshop should submit at least such short statement of interest (maximum 4 pages). |
General
Accepted papers will be made available to attendees before the workshop. There will also be open registration for the workshop. Attendees who are not submitting a technical paper are encouraged to submit a statement of interest.
All statements of interest and papers must be submitted online using the conference submission website Easychair. All submissions must be in PDF. All submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Important dates
July 31st 2009 |
Titles and Abstract due |
Subscribe to the iCal calendar. |
August 7th 2009 |
Paper Submissions due |
September 7st 2009 |
Paper acceptances sent out |
October 9th 2009 |
Camera ready versions of papers due |
October 23-24th 2009 |
OWLED 2009 Workshop |
People
Program Chair
Local Organizer
Program Committee
- Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic (USA)
- Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester (UK)
- Sebastian Brandt, University of Manchester (UK)
- Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant (USA)
- Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Oxford (UK)
- Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
- Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (USA)
- Achille Fokoue, IBM Watson Research Center (USA)
- Andrew Gibson, Universiteit van Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Glen Hart, Ordnance Survey (UK)
- Tom Heath, Talis (UK)
- Szymon Klarman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
- Martin Knechtel, SAP Research CEC Dresden (Germany)
- Stasinos Konstantopoulos, NCSR Demokritos (Greece)
- Markus Kroetzsch, Universität Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Oliver Kutz, Universität Bremen (Germany)
- Thorsten Liebig, Universität Ulm (Germany)
- Chimezie Ogbuji, Cleveland Clinic (USA)
- Ignazio Palmisano, University of Liverpool (UK)
- Antonella Poggi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy)
- Valentina Presutti, ISTC/CNR (Italy)
- Michael Schneider, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe (Germany)
- Michael Smith, Clark & Parsia (USA)
- Alex Tucker, FLOOP (UK)
- Tania Tudorache, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BIR) (USA)
- Zhe Wu, Oracle (USA)
Steering Committee