K-Cap Workshop on

Integrating Ontologies

October 2, 2005 in Banff, Canada
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/intont2005

Objectives

The Integrating Ontologies workshop will bring together researchers and application developers from the area of ontology software interoperability. Its goal is to promote the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and future challenges for handling multiple competing ontologies. The workshop will facilitate methodological and technical discussions.
For many domains, a variety of ontologies have been engineered, learned, and extended. Each is an interface for a similar purpose yet uses different nomenclatures. To enable collaboration within and across application domains, software agents require transparency between the various formalisms. This requires both semantic alignment and syntactical translation. Purely manual approaches are error-prone, onerous, and insufficient to support the vision of dynamic systems interoperability. However, recent research in data model alignment exploits "meaning" that is explicit and implicit in ontologies and schemas. Consequently, if heterogeneity can be mitigated with minimal use of standards by way of partially or fully automated alignment, then the interoperability of and for commercial, non-profit, military, and government systems will be simplified and improved. This workshop will exhibit new approaches to alignment, translation, and other methods that promise to help fulfil the vision of the Semantic Web.

Organization

The one-day workshop will consist of the two components:

Research presentations will feature the latest efforts for ontology alignment and mapping described in reviewed papers;
Ontology alignment contest results will be presented. The contest will benchmark tools against prearranged ontology pairs. Some pairs will be synthesized by the organizers of this workshop and some will be taken from the real world. Collectively, they will challenge the limits of the alignment algorithms. Details for the contest are provided at the botton of this page and at http://oaei.inrialpes.fr/2005.

Topics

The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

ontology/schema alignment and matching
ontology/schema mapping and transformation
ontology/schema merging and integration
ontology/schema mediation and reconciliation
reuse of knowledge from disparate sources (text, user input, etc.) for ontology alignment
automatic and semi-automatic approaches
mapping languages
applications for and tools based on alignment
integration within larger applications
evaluation approaches
translation of information between heterogeneous sources

Program

October 2, 2005
9:00	Welcome
9:05	Paper Presentations (20 min presentation + 5 min questions) Akkermans: Reverse Leibniz, and then Bend It Like Beckham Choi, Hatala: Towards Browsing Distant Metadata Using Semantic Signature Chu, Chow, Chen: Semantic Association of Taxonomy-based Standards Using Ontology Ehrig, Euzenat: Relaxed Precision and Recall
10:45	Coffee Break
11:10	Paper Presentations, continued Gasevic, Hatala: Searching Web Resources Using Ontology Mappings Hu, Jian, Qu, Wang: GMO: A Graph Matching for Ontologies
12:00	Lunch Break
1:30	Paper Presentations, continued Lamsfus: Towards Semantic Based Information Exchange and Integration Standards Silva, Maio, Rocha: An approach to ontology mapping negotiation
2:20	Euzenat, Stuckenschmidt: Introduction to the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative
3:00	Coffee Break
3:30	Individual Evaluation Results and Discussions (short presentations à 15 min) Ehrig: Results of University of Karlsruhe Valtchev: Results of University of Montreal / INRIA Hu: Results of University of Southhampton Nsjian: Results of Southeast University Nanjin
4:50	Wrap-Up
5:00	End of Workshop
7:30	Evening Reception of K-Cap

Dates

~~Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2005~~
~~Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2005~~
~~Camera ready deadline: September 2, 2005~~
Workshop: October 2, 2005

Proceedings

Interested authors should submit an electronic PDF version of their papers to Marc Ehrig (email: ehrig -at- aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de) prior to the submission deadline. The first page of submitted papers should include: title, author names, affiliations, and electronic mail addresses for all authors. Full-paper submissions should not exceed eight pages, including title page and abstract. Alternatively, people can submit a two-page short paper describing the technology they would like to demonstrate, or a two-page position paper on current ongoing research. Papers should be formatted according to the guidelines of the main conference (http://www.kcap05.org/).

The proceedings have been published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings volume 156. Alternatively you can download them directly as intontProceedings.pdf (3.3 MB).

The research presentations from the workshop are found at intontPresentationsResearch.pdf (6.2 MB) and the presentations from OAEI at intontPresentationsOAEI.pdf (2.9 MB).

Organizing Committee

Benjamin Ashpole, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Lab
Marc Ehrig (main contact), University of Karlsruhe
Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Program Committee

Dean Allemang (TopQuadrant Inc.)
Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck)
Oscar Corcho (University of Manchester)
Christine Golbreich (University Rennes 1)
Lewis Hart (Applied Minds)
Todd Hughes (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs)
Ryutaro Ichise (NII, Tokyo)
Yannis Kalfoglou (University of Southampton)
Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University)
Natasha Noy (Stanford University)
Amit Sheth (University of Georgia and Semagix)
Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento)
Michael Sintek (DFKI, Kaiserslautern)
Umberto Straccia (CNR)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe)
Mike Uschold (Boeing Corp.)
Petko Valtchev (DIRO, Université de Montréal)

Acknowledgement

This workshop is partially supported by the Knowledge Web
European network of excellence (IST-2004-507482).