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1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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The Seventh International Workshop on
ONTOLOGY MATCHING
(OM-2012)
http://om2012.ontologymatching.org/
November 11 or 12, 2012, ISWC Workshop Program, Boston, MA USA


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 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, 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
approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative)
2012 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/.
The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world
specific matching tasks involving, e.g., biomedical ontologies.
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 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) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed
(not necessarily within 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 (e.g., open government data);
Requirements to matching from specific domains;
Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
Matching patterns;
Instance matching and data interlinking;
Large-scale matching evaluation;
Performance of matching techniques;
Matcher selection and self-configuration;
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 emerging applications (e.g., linked data, search).


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 2012 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:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2012

Contributors to the OAEI 2012 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions
and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2012/.


IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
July 31, 2012: Deadline for the submission of papers.
August 31, 2012:Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 10, 2012: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
November 11th or 12th, 2012: OM-2012, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, Boston, MA USA.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy

2. J?r?me Euzenat
INRIA & LIG, France

3. Anastasios (Tasos) Kementsietsidis
IBM Research, USA

4. Ming Mao
SAP Labs, USA

5. Natasha Noy
Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, USA

5. Heiner Stuckenschmidt
University of Mannheim, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Michele Barbera, SpazioDati, Italy
Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France
Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Bin He, IBM, USA
Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, USA
Anja Jentzsch, Free University Berlin, Germany
Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, University of Oxford, UK
Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden
Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands
Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
Peter Mork, Noblis, USA
Nico Lavarini, Cogito - Expert System, Italy
Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, University of Leipzig, Germany
Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Yefei Peng, Google, USA
Fran?ois Scharffe, LIRMM, France
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
C?ssia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France
Rapha?l Troncy, EURECOM, France
Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China



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Download OM-2012 flyer:
http://om2012.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2012_flyer.pdf

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More about ontology matching:
http://www.ontologymatching.org/
http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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Best Regards,
Pavel



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Pavel Shvaiko, PhD
Innovation and Research Manager
TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy
http://www.ontologymatching.org/
http://www.taslab.eu/
http://www.infotn.it/
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel