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Call For Participation

The 2nd International workshop on
Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW 2008) on Oct 30, 2008
http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/hhan/onisw2008/
in conjunction with ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
http://www.cikm2008.org/index.php
Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa: Napa Valley, California
October 26-30, 2008

Rigistration site:
http://www.cikm2008.org/registration.php

Early registration deadline: August 22nd (23:59 EDT(GMT-5)) 2008

Accepted papers:

• Fault-tolerant Semantic Mappings Among Heterogeneous and Distributed Local Ontologies
• An FCA-based solution for Ontology Mediation
• Merging Taxonomies under RCC-5 Algebraic Articulations
• Semantic Web for Net-Enabled Decision Making

• Metric-Based Ontology Learning
• An Interactive Ontology Learning Workbench for Non-Experts
• Learning the Distance Metric in a Personal Ontology
• Incorporation of Corpus-Specific Semantic Information into Question Answering Context

• Data Integration for the Semantic Web with Full Preferences
• Resolving Semantic Data Schema Heterogeneity on the Web
• Frequent Pattern-Growth Approach for Document Organization
• Toward Generic, Immersive, and Collaborative Solutions to the Data Interoperability Problem which Target End-Users

• MashQL: A Query-by-Diagram Language -Towards Semantic Data Mashups
• Aggregate Queries over Ontologies
• Personalized Cluster-based Semantically Enriched Web Search in E-learning
• Conflict Ontology Enrichment Based on Triggers

Description and Scope of ONISW Workshop:

The main objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers
in Information Management interested in the relation
between ontology and information models, to present results and
to discuss theoretical aspects and good practice.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to participate in theoretical, technical
and practical research discussions that directly or indirectly address
the following issues:

1. What is the difference and relation between information models and ontologies?
Which criteria must ontologies match in order to provide a sound basis
for an information system? How to interact and relate the ways of knowing and
what can be known with the form of knowledge in information systems?
Are there systematic kinds of information elements associated
with information management processes that are not of ontological nature?
What is the epistemological impact on ontologies?

2. How should we construct ontologies from information models
for semantic interoperability, and create and manage mapping specifications
for mediators, data transformation systems, Web service wrappers via ontologies.
What are the characteristic cases of heterogeneity and how can they
be managed generically. What are the languages and tools for mapping
and transformation algorithm generators?

3. How can we effectively enable domain experts to specify the semantics
of their information systems in order to exploit Semantic Web technology?
How can we visualize the ontology and mapping information
in a user-friendly way?

4. How can we make effective information models, i.e. database schemata,
data entry forms, Web service interfaces, and simplified query interfaces
from ontologies? Ontologies can help to objectively describe the loss of
information and reasoning capabilities due to necessary simplifications
in information structures. What are the problems, mechanisms, and
rules in order to preserve semantic interoperability?

5. How should we utilize ontologies and conceptual modelling
for data management, integration and interoperability in Semantic web applications,
particularly in e-science, life sciences, e-business and cultural applications?
What are architectures and models of good practice?
Are there domain-overarching global core ontologies? What are their characteristics?

6. What is semantics? Are semantics logical formulae?
Is ontological commitment a set of formulae or an interpretation function
to real world things and phenomena in the user’s mind?
What role does ontological commitment play in conceptual modelling
and database integration?

Topics:

• Ontology and epistemology in information systems
• Ontologies and conceptual modelling
• Ontology learning
• Semantic interoperability
• Ontology-based schema mapping/matching and integration
• Ontology mapping tools and languages
• Ontology mapping and ontology visualization
• Schema transformation
• User friendly semantic system integration tools
• Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools.
• Domain specific heterogeneity analysis between data structures and ontologies
• Ontology-based query mediation
• Conceptual modelling for the Semantic Web
• Querying the Semantic Web
• Ontology-driven application system and Web service design
• Conceptual and logical models for Web data sources and applications
• Ontology design and maintenance for conceptual model integration
• Reverse engineering of ontologies from conceptual models
• Ontology harmonization and merging: Methods and tools.
• Core ontologies and global models, applications and limitations
• Ontology-enabled interoperability in e-science, life sciences, e-business, culture
• Lessons learnt and experience from large-scale integration projects.
• Global ontologies and Local as View (LAV) integration methods, problems and practice
• Architectures and good practice of ontology-based integrated application environments
• Applications of above topics to e-science, e-business, and life sciences

Organizers:
General Chair:
Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington, USA (elmasri@cse.uta.edu)

Program Chairs:
Mathias Brochhausen, European Center of Ontological Research (ECOR),
Institute of Formal Ontology (IFOMIS), Saarbrücken, Germany
(mathias.brochhausen@ifomis.uni-saarland.de)

Martin Doerr, Institute of Computer Science,
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
(martin@ics.forth.gr)

Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA
(hhan@ischool.drexel.edu)

Program Committee:
Stefania Costache, L3S Research Center, Germany
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Yihong Ding, Brigham Young University, USA
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Gerald Gannod, Miami University, USA
Raul Garcia-Castro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland / DERI, Ireland
Peter Haase, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Kenji Hatano, Doshisha University, Japan
Ralf Heese, Humboldt-Universitšat Berlin, Germany
Ramón Hermoso Traba, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
Stijn Heymans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Uwe Keller, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Haklae Kim, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab., India
Steffen Lamparter, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Sang-Goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA
Jiangang Ma, Victoria University, Australia
Yuxin Mao, Zhejiang University, China
Jun Miyazaki, Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
JungHwan Oh, University of North Texas, USA
Feng Pan, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), USA
Fabio Porto, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Delip Rao, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Dumitru Roman, University of Innsbruck / DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Melike Sah, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Sangsoo Sung, Google Inc., USA
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA
Xian Wu, IBM China Research Lab., China
Suk-Chung Yoon, Widener University, USA
Lei Zhang, IBM China Research Lab, China

Contact Us:
For further information on this Workshop, please contact program chairs (hhan@ischool.drexel.edu).