[SEM-GRD] 3rd CfP: 5th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2011)

[Thomas Schneider]

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      5th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO)
           Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 8-12, 2011
            held in conjunction with ESSLLI 2011

                --- Third Call for Papers ---
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       *UPDATED* Submission deadline: April 1, 2011
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http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womo5

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Stefano Borgo (Laboratory of Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy)
Modularity in foundational ontologies

Stefan Schulz (Medical University Graz, Austria)
Modularity in medical ontologies

Michael Zakharyaschev (Birkbeck College London, UK)
Logical approaches to modularity

(Topics are tentative.)

MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows  
mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring,  
maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology  
engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity  
of understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology  
maintenance and ontology reasoning.

Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in  
foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular  
development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These  
results provide a foundation for ongoing multi-disciplinary research  
and development.

The workshop follows a series of successful events that have been an  
excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest  
work and current problems, and is this time organised as a satellite  
workshop of ESSLLI 2011 (week 2, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/? 
p=306 ), following an introductory ESSLLI course on notions of  
modularity in ontologies (week 1, see http://esslli2011.ijs.si/?p=310 ).

TOPICS include, but are not limited to:

- What is Modularity: Kinds of modules and their properties; modules  
vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation;

- Logical/Foundational Studies: Conservativity and syntactic  
approximations for modules; modular ontology languages; reconciling  
inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules;  
networks of ontologies; heterogeneity;

- Algorithmic Approaches: distributed reasoning; modularization and  
module extraction; (selective) sharing and re-using, linking and  
importing; hiding and privacy; evaluation of modularization  
approaches; complexity of reasoning; reasoners or implemented systems;

- Applications: Semantic Web; life sciences; bio-ontologies; natural  
language processing; ontologies of space and time; ambient  
intelligence; collaborative ontology development; etc.

The workshop is open to all members of the ESSLLI community. Workshop  
speakers will be required to register for the Summer School; however,  
they will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by  
the Local Organizers. Participants can attend any other ESSLLI courses  
and workshops of their choice.


IMPORTANT DATES (Updated)

Paper Submission: April 1, 2011
Notification:  May 2, 2011
Camera ready: June 1, 2011
Workshop: August 8-12, 2011

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

The workshop welcomes submission of high quality original and  
previously unpublished papers.

Contributions should not exceed 13 pages in length and must be  
formatted according to IOS Press style (see http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html 
  ).
Contributions should be prepared in PDF format and submitted not later  
than February 15, 2011, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2011 
  ).

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program  
committee. Accepted papers may be extended up to 16 pages and are  
expected to be published as chapters in an IOS Press book in the  
series 'Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications'.

(Find the WoMO 2010 proceedings here http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=16268 
  )

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:

Oliver Kutz (Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen,  
Germany)
Thomas Schneider (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Jie Bao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA)
Simon Colton (Imperial College, London, UK)
Melanie Courtot (BC Cancer Care & Research, Vancouver, Canada)
Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK)
Faezeh Ensan (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Fred Freitas (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
Silvio Ghilardi (University of Milan, Italy)
Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Robert Hoehndorf (University of Cambridge, UK)
Joana Hois (University of Bremen, Germany)
C. Maria Keet (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck College, London, UK)
Frank Loebe (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Till Mossakowski (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence,  
Bremen, Germany)
Leo Obrst (MITRE, McLean, VA, USA)
Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester, UK)
Daniel Pokrywczynski (University of Liverpool, UK)
Anne Schlicht (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Marco Schorlemmer (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute,  
Barcelona, Spain)
Andrei Tamilin (FBK-IRST, Trento, Italy)
Dirk Walther (Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain)