Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING NEXT WEEK, ON JULY 28TH, 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Twelfth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2017) http://om2017.ontologymatching.org/ October 21st, 2017, ISWC Workshop Program, Vienna, Austria BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique 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 interlinking, query answering or process mapping. 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, especially with respect to data interlinking, process mapping and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2017 campaign. 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 2017 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://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2017 Contributors to the OAEI 2017 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2017. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 28, 2017: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 24, 2017: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 15, 2017: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 21st, 2017: OM-2017, Vienna, Austria. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz University of of Oslo, Norway 4. Michelle Cheatham Wright State University, USA 5. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Valerie Cross, Miami University, 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 Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Valentina Ivanova, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Valentina Ivanova, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan 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 Peter Mork, Noblis, USA Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Axel Ngonga, University of Leipzig, 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 Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany ------------------------------------------------------- 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.infotn.it/ ____________________________________________ Cap. 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