OnToContent 2006, Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise Workshop, (Submission, June 30), call1

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                       - OnToContent 2006 -
     Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise
           -With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources-

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***  Proceedings published by Springer LNCS                      ***
***  Invited Speaker: To be announced                            ***
***  Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006                          ***
***  Topics: Ontology Content, Evaluation, standardization       ***
***               Enterprise, eHealth, Human Resources           ***
***  http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent06    ***
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   In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '06)
                  3-4 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France

This workshop is organized by the Ontology Outreach Authority OOA=20
(Knowledge Web NoE). The OOA is devoted to develop strategies for ontolog=
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recommendation and standardization, thereby promoting and providing=20
outreach for verifiable quality ontological content.

Current trends within the Semantic Web research are mainly concerned with=
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technological issues, such as language capabilities, inference services,=20
etc. Yet less attention has been given to ontology content and its=20
quality.This workshop aims to focus on content issues, such as=20
methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies,=20
approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology=20
content management (e.g. metadata,libraries, and registration), ontology=20
documentation, etc. The workshop also aims to give a special attention to=
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ontology content issues in two industrial sectors: human resources and=20
employment, and healthcare and life sciences.

We welcome papers and (past/planned) project descriptions that discuss=20
ontology modeling and evaluation aspects, particularly:
* Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear
  illustration on how these solutions can be applied in industry.
* Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice=
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  or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature t=
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  warrant attention.
* Business experience and case studies specifying requirements,=20
  challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in=20
  industry.

Workshop Structure
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The workshop consists of three tracks: Ontology Evaluation, Ontologies in=
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Human Resources and Employment, and ontologies in Healthcare and life=20
sciences:

Methods and tools for ontology evaluation:
      * Ontological evaluation.
      * Logical evaluation.
      * Usability/usefulness evaluation.
      * Ontology compliance to standards.
      * Ontology standardization and recommendation scenarios.
      * Ontology metadata, and libraries.
      * Ontology documentation.
      * Ontology registration and certification.
      * Ontology interoperability.
      * Consensus reaching.
      * Business cases studies.

Ontologies in Human Resources=20
      * Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills,=20
         Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc.
      * HR upper level concepts.
      * Semantics of HR-XML.
      * Semantic metadata for HR applications.
      * Semantics in job matching.
      * Semantics in learning technologies.
      * Multilinguality in human resources ontologies.
      * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and=20
        evaluation.=20

Ontologies for Healthcare and Life sciences
      * Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics.
      * Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc.
      * Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies.
      * Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange.
      * Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies.
      * Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies.
      * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and=20
        evaluation=20

Submissions
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We invite (A) research papers describing original studies of no more than
12 pages; (B) Position papers presenting opinions or work in progress of=20
no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case studies of no=20
more than 8 pages. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the=20
originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on=20
technical aspects. Each paper will be reviewed by at least one expert fro=
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academia, and at least one expert from industry. The final proceedings=20
will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer=20
Science). Author instructions can be found at:=20
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html=20
The paper submission site is located at:=20
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ontocontent/2006/papers

Important Dates
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      * June 23, 2006 : Abstract Submission Deadline=20
      * June 30, 2006: Paper Submission Deadline=20
      * August 10, 2006 : Acceptance Notification=20
      * August 20, 2006 : Final Version Due=20
      * November 3-4, 2006: Workshop=20

Organizers and program chairs=20
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      * Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium=20
      * Claude Ostyn, IEEE, USA=20
      * Werner Ceusters, University of Buffalo ,USA=20
      * Andreas Persidis, Biovista, Greece=20

Program Committee
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      * Andrew Stranieri , JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia
      * Alain Leger, FranceTelecom, France
      * Aldo Gangemi, LOA, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
      * Andr=E9 Valente , Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA
      * Avigdor Gal , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ilsrael
      * Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
      * Bill Andersen , Ontology Works, USA
      * Bob Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia
      * Christiane Fellbaum , Princeton University, USA
      * Christopher Brewster, University of Sheffield, UK
      * Ernesto Damiani, Milan University, Italy
      * Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
      * Francesco Danza, Expert System SpA, Italy
      * Franckie Trichet, IRIN - CS Research Institute, France
      * Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
      * Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
      * Hans Akkermans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      * Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
      * Jens Lemcke, SAP, Germany
      * John Sowa, IBM, USA
      * Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      * Karl Stroetmann, Empirica, Germany
      * Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
      * Luk.Vervenne, Synergetics, Belgium
      * Miguel-Angel Sicilia   , University of Alcal?, Spain
      * Mohand-Said Hacid, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 LIRIS, France
      * Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
      * Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
      * Paul Piwek , Open university, UK
      * Robert Meersman, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
      * Robert Tolksdorf, Free university of Berlin, Germany
      * Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
      * Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
      * Stephen McGibbon, Microsoft, UK
      * Theo Hensen, CWI, The Netherlands
      * Yannick Legr=E9 , CNRS, France
      * Yannis Charalabidis, National Tech.University of Athens, Greece
      * Yaser Bishr, Image Matters, USA

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 Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
 STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
 Tel: +32 2 6293487 , Fax :+32 2 6293819
 [email protected]  [email protected]
 http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa
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