CfP: Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2006 @ECAI)

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

C&O-2006 submission deadline is approaching: 20 days left
* *  The Second International Workshop on
   Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications=20
* * * *    (C&O-2006)
* * *  http://www.c-and-o.net/
  August 28, 2006, ECAI Workshop Program, Riva del Grada, Italy.

OBJECTIVES
The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the context =
and
ontology communities and to discuss the approaches they use for =
information
integration. Therefore, the workshop will push the cross-fertilization =
and
exchange of ideas (e.g., which of the methods from the ontology =
community
can be successfully adopted in the context community, and vice versa), =
and,
hence, make their meeting mutually beneficial.

TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to:
Foundations:=20
* Information interoperability and reuse via multiple contexts and =
ontologies;
* Coordination of multiple contexts and ontologies;=20
* Languages for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies;=20
* Logics for combination of multiple contexts and ontologies.=20
Theory & Practice:=20
* Techniques and tools for matching contexts and ontologies;
* Techniques and tools for merging contexts and ontologies;
* Techniques and tools for transforming contexts and ontologies;
* Techniques and tools for translating contexts and ontologies;=20
* Techniques and tools for reconciling contexts and ontologies;=20
* Techniques for query answering based on multiple contexts and =
ontologies;
* Evaluation of tools for combination of contexts and ontologies;
* Scalability of techniques for combination of contexts and ontologies;
* Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies.
Applications:
* Semantic Web;
* Information Retrieval;
* E-commerce;
* Knowledge management solutions for large organizations;=20
* Computer graphics and multimedia;=20
* Grid and P2P;
* Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence.

INVITED TALKS:
1. Frank van Harmelen,=20
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2. Selene Makarios,=A0=20
Stanford University, USA.

FORMAT, ATTENDANCE AND SUBMISSIONS
The schedule assumes a one day workshop. The workshop will consist of =
the
following components: keynote presentations, technical presentations,
posters, and general discussion.

The audience is assumed to consist of both academia and industry. Thus, =
the
workshop can 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.

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers =
or=20
statements of interest. Technical papers should be not longer than 5 =
pages=20
using the ECAI'06 =
Style(http://ecai2006.itc.it/cda/aree/index.php?section=3D33&area=3D10). =

Statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled =
according=20
to the guidelines for technical papers. Please make clear if your paper =
is meant=20
to be a statement of interest. All contributions should be prepared in =
PDF=20
format and should be sent (no later than April 15, 2006) by email to =
Pavel Shvaiko at:=20
pavel@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers and statements of interest will be published in the=20
workshop proceedings. Also authors of the best technical papers will=20
be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for possible=20
publication in a special issue on=20
"Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications"=20
in the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal",
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=3D=
ALPHA&mnemonic=3DKER

IMPORTANT DATES
April 15, 2006: Deadline for the submissions.=20
May 10, 2006: Notification of acceptance/rejection.=20
May 24, 2006: Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers.=20
Aug 28, 2006: C&O-2006, Riva del Grada, Italy.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1.Jerome Euzenat
INRIA Rhone-Alpes
2.Alain Leger
France Telecom R&D Rennes
3.Deborah L. McGuinness
Stanford University
4.Pavel Shvaiko (Chair)
University of Trento
pavel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
5.Holger Wache
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Raffaele de Amicis, GraphiTech, Italy=20
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA=20
Patrick Brezillon, University Paris, France
Doina Caragea, Iowa State University, USA=20
Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA=20
Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel=20
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France=20
Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA=20
Aykut Firat, Notheastern University, USA=20
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy=20
Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands=20
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA=20
Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK=20
Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA =

Ruediger Klein, DaimlerChrysler, Germany=20
David Leake, Indiana University, USA=20
Alain Leger, France Telecom R&D, France=20
Selene Makarios, Stanford University, USA=20
Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy=20
Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA=20
Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA=20
Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA=20
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece
Michel Plu, France Telecom R&D, France=20
Fano Ramparany, France Telecom R&D, France=20
Chantal Reynaud, Universite Paris-Sud, France=20
David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK=20
Aviv Segev, Technion, Israel=20
Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy=20
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany=20
York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany=20
Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands=20
Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA=20

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http://www.c-and-o.net/Pictures/C&O2006-flyer.pdf

Pavel Shvaiko
University of Trento
Dept. of Information and Communication Technology
Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY
Tel:=A0 +39 (0461) 883386; Fax: +39 (0461) 882093
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/