[esip-semanticweb] Fwd: [iaoa-general] 2nd CfP: 4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2010)]

[Peter Fox]

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> From: Stefano Borgo <stefano.borgo at gmail.com>
> Date: 8 January 2010 8:11:55 AM
> To: iaoa-general at ontolog.cim3.net
> Subject: [iaoa-general] 2nd CfP: 4th Int. Workshop on Modular  
> Ontologies (WoMO 2010)]
>
> =========================================================
>    4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO)
>             Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010
>           held in conjunction with FOIS 2010
>
>              --- 2nd Call for Papers ---
>          Submission deadline: January 29, 2010
> =========================================================
>
> http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo4
>
> INVITED SPEAKERS
>
> Simon Colton, Imperial College London
> Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute,  
> Barcelona
>
>
> MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows
> mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring,
> maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology
> engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity  
> of
> understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance
> and ontology reasoning.
>
> Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in
> foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular
> development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These
> results provide a foundation for further research and development.
>
> The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an
> excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest  
> work
> and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite  
> workshop
> of FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant
> events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL.
>
> TOPICS include, but are not limited to:
>
> - What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules  
> vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation;
>
> - Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity; modular ontology  
> languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling  
> inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules;  
> heterogeneity;
>
> - Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and  
> module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and  
> importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization  
> approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems;
>
> - Applications: Semantic Web; Life Sciences; Bio-Ontologies; Natural  
> Language Processing; ontologies of space and time; Ambient  
> Intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Paper Submission: January 29, 2010
> Notification:  March 1, 2010
> Camera ready: March 11, 2010
> Workshop day: May 11, 2010
>
> SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
>
> The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and  
> previously
> unpublished papers.
>
> Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be  
> formatted
> according to IOS Press style (see
> http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ).
> Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later
> than January 29 2010 through the EasyChair Submission System (see
> http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2010 ).
>
> Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program
> committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and will be
> published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the series 'Frontiers in
> Artificial Intelligence and Applications'.
>
> The authors of accepted papers are also welcome to submit  
> substantially
> extended versions to a planned special issue on 'Modularity in
> Ontologies' of the international journal 'Applied Ontology' (IOS  
> Press).
>
> WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
>
> Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8),  
> Bremen, Germany)
> Joana Hois (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen,  
> Germany)
> Jie Bao (Tetherless World Constellation & Department of Computer  
> Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
> Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK)
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE
>
> Mathieu d'Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of  
> Milton Keynes, UK)
> Alex Borgida (Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA)
> Stefano Borgo (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy)
> Martin Dzbor (Knowledge Media Institute, Open University of Milton  
> Keynes, UK)
> Faezeh Ensan (Faculty of Computer Science, University of New  
> Brunswick, Canada)
> Fred Freitas (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
> Silvio Ghilardi (Department of Computer Science, University of  
> Milan, Italy)
> John Goodwin (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, UK)
> Peter Haase (fluid Operations GmbH, Germany)
> Heinrich Herre (Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and  
> Epidemiology, University of Leipzig, Germany)
> Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA)
> Vasant Honavar (Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, Iowa  
> State University, USA)
> Roman Kontchakov (School of Computer Science and Information  
> Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK)
> Carsten Lutz (Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen,  
> Germany)
> Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial  
> Intelligence, Lab Bremen, Germany)
> Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK)
> Anne Schlicht (KR & KM Research Group, University of Mannheim,  
> Germany)
> Thomas Schneider (School of Computer Science, University of  
> Manchester, UK)
> Luciano Serafini (Centro Per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica,  
> Trento, Italy)
> Stefano Spaccapietra (School of Computer and Communication Sciences,  
> Lausanne, Switzerland)
> Heiner Stuckenschmidt (KR & KM Research Group, University of  
> Mannheim, Germany)
> Andrei Tamilin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy)
> Dirk Walther (Department of Computer Science, Universidad  
> Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
> Frank Wolter (Department of Computer Science, University of  
> Liverpool, UK)
> Michael Zakharyaschev (School of Computer Science and Information  
> Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK)
> Antoine Zimmermann (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway,  
> Ireland)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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