The Fifth International Workshop on Ontology Matching

collocated with the 9th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2010
November 7, 2010: Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China

Submission deadline is approaching: September 1st, 2010

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with the emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. On the one side, we expect representatives from industry and user organizations to present business cases and their requirements for ontology matching. On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches vis-a-vis those requirements. The workshop provides an informal setting for researchers and practitioners from different related initiatives to meet and benefit from each other's work and requirements.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open linked data);
• Requirements to matching from specific domains;
• Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
• Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching;
• Ontology matching patterns;
• Instance matching;
• Large-scale ontology matching evaluation;
• Performance of matching techniques;
• Matcher selection and self-configuration;
• Uncertainty in ontology matching;
• User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
• Explanations in matching;
• Social and collaborative matching;
• Alignment management;
• Reasoning with alignments;
• Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
• Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services).

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2010 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than September 1, 2010) through the workshop submission site at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20100

Contributors to the OAEI 2010 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2010/.

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
  E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA & LIG, France
  
• Fausto Giunchiglia
  University of Trento, Italy
  
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt
  University of Mannheim, Germany
• Ming Mao
  SAP Labs, USA
• Isabel Cruz
  The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Program Committee:

• Paolo Besana, Universite de Rennes 1, France
• Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
• Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
• AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin and Kosmix Corp., USA
• Alfio Ferrara, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
• Tom Heath, Talis, UK
• Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Bin He, IBM, USA
• Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
• Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome - Sapienza, Italy
• Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
• Augusto Mabboni, Business Process Engineering, Italy
• Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
• Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Luca Mion, Informatica Trentina, Italy
• Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Filippo Nardelli, Cogito, Italy
• Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
• Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Yefei Peng, Yahoo Labs, USA
• Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany
• François Scharffe, INRIA, France
• Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy
• Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Andrei Tamilin, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IRST), Italy
• Cassia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA, France
• Lorenzino Vaccari, EC DG Environment, Italy
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
• Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Italy
• Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA
• Rui Zhang, Jilin University, China
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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