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The Eleventh International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2016) http://om2016.ontologymatching.org/ October 17th or 18th, ISWC Workshop Program, Kobe, Japan BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes 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, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2016 campaign. Besides real-world specific matching tasks, involving e.g., large biomedical ontologies, OAEI-16 will introduce the process model matching track as well as a desease-phenotype track supported by the Pistoia Alliance Ontologies Mapping project ( http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/ontologies-mapping-plans-participate-oaei-2016/ ) within a specific matching scenario. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine new uses, similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to OAEI), and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching; Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS 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 2016 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 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 through the workshop submission site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20160 Contributors to the OAEI 2016 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2016/. Authors of the best biology-themed papers, system papers with competitive results in the OAEI biology-themed tracks, biology-themed dataset descriptions will be invited to submit an extended version of their contributions to be considered by the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBMS): http://jbiomedsem.biomedcentral.com/ DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 15, 2016: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 1, 2016: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. August 15, 2016: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 17th or 18th, 2016: OM-2016, Kobe, Japan. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK 4. Michelle Cheatham Wright State University, USA 5. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 6. Ryutaro Ichise National Institute of Informatics, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Warith Eddine Djeddi, LIPAH & LABGED, Tunisia Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Zlatan Dragisic, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Valentina Ivanova, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Axel Ngonga, University of Leipzig, Germany Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Dominique Ritze, University of Mannheim, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel
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