The Third International Workshop on
ONTOLOGY MATCHING
(OM-2008)
http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/

October 26 or 27, 2008, ISWC'08 Workshop Program, Karlsruhe, Germany


BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
since 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, query answering, data translation, or for
navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables
the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.


The workshop has two goals:

1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology
matching in order to assess how academic advances are addressing
real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic
awareness of industrial needs, and therefore, direct research towards
those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry
representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their
business needs.

2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching
approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative)
2008 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on
real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine.
Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide
a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are
meeting business needs.


TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:
Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains;
Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
Social and collaborative ontology matching;
Interactive ontology matching;
Alignment management;
Background knowledge in ontology matching;
Reasoning for ontology matching;
Uncertainty in ontology matching;
Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching;
Performance of ontology-matching techniques;
Ontology matching evaluation methodology;
Ontology matching for information integration;
Ontology matching for query answering;
Ontology matching for dynamic environments;
Systems and infrastructures.


FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS
The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the
following components: technical presentations, OAEI'08 results presentations,
posters, workshop on consensus building (of reference alignments) and
wrap-up discussion.

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i) technical papers
addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as (ii) participating
in the OAEI 2008 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages
using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see Springer's Author Instructions
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html
These should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted
(no later than July 25, 2008) through the workshop submission site at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2008

Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Contributors to OAEI 2008 have to follow the campaign's conditions at:

http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/


IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS
July 25, 2008: Deadline for the submission of papers.
September 8, 2008: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 25, 2008: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
October 26 or 27, 2008: OM-2008, Congress Center, Karlsruhe, Germany.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko
TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
e-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it

2. Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France

3. Fausto Giunchiglia
University of Trento, Italy

4. Heiner Stuckenschmidt,
University of Mannheim, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK
Isabel Cruz, University Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jerome David, INRIA, France
Wei Hu, Southeast University, China
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antoine Isaak, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA
Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Patrick Lambrix, Linkopings Universitet, Sweden
Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy
Ivan Pilati, TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
York Sure, SAP, Germany
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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Download the OM-2008 flyer:
http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf
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Pavel Shvaiko
TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/
http://www.taslab.eu/
http://www.infotn.it/