The Second International Workshop on Ontology Matching

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output 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.

Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from both academia and industry with its emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. On the one side, we expect representatives from industry to present business cases and their requirements for ontology matching. On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches vis-a-vis those industrial requirements.

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;
• Interaction design for ontology matching;
• Interactive ontology matching;
• Background knowledge in 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.

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2007 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. These should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than August 3, 2007) through the workshop submission site at:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007/

Contributors to the OAEI 2007 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/.

Technical Papers:

• Solving semantic ambiguity to improve semantic web based ontology matching
  Jorge Gracia, Vanessa Lopez, Mathieu d'Aquin, Marta Sabou, Enrico Motta, Eduardo Mena
• Structure preserving semantic matching
  Fausto Giunchiglia, Mikalai Yatskevich, Fiona McNeill
• Analyzing mapping extraction approaches
  Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
• Towards semantics-based ontology similarity
  Rudi Araújo, H. Sofia Pinto
• Ontology mapping - a user survey
  Sean M. Falconer, Natalya F. Noy, Margaret-Anne Storey
• Multi-concept alignment and evaluation
  Shenghui Wang, Antoine Isaac, Lourens van der Meij, Stefan Schlobach
• Emerging consensus in-situ
  Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul Lewis
• In vitro study of mapping method interactions in a name pattern landscape
  Ondřej Šváb, Vojtěch Svátek

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  University of Trento, Italy
  E-mail: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
  
• Fausto Giunchiglia
  University of Trento, Italy
  
• Bin He
  IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

Program Committee:

• Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Wei Hu, Southeast University, China
• Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
• Todd Hughes, DARPA, USA
• Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
• Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK
• Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA
• Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Meenakshi Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA
• Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy
• Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy
• Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA
• Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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