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Date(s)		EventType	Location
03/22/2010	AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence ********************************************************************** AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence March 22-24, 2010, Stanford, CA http://www.foaf-project.org/events/linkedai ********************************************************************** The goal of Linked Data is to enable people to share structured data on the Web as easily as they can share documents today. The basic assumption behind Linked Data is that the value and usefulness of data increases the more it is interlinked with other data. Linked Data is simply about using the Web to create typed links between data from different sources. Today, this emerging Web of Data includes data sets as extensive and diverse as DBpedia, Geonames, US Census, EuroStat, MusicBrainz, BBC Programmes, Flickr, DBLP, PubMed, UniProt, FOAF, SIOC, OpenCyc, UMBEL, Virtual Observatories, and Yago. The availability of this linked data creates a new opportunity for the exploitation of AI techniques that have historically played central role in knowledge representation, information extraction, information integration, and cognitive agents. The symposium is aimed at bringing together the researchers working on Linked Data and AI. Our hope is to create a new community interested in utilizing AI techniques such as ontologies, machine learning, data fusion, etc. in exploring the linked open data. Successful submissions will address at least some aspect of both areas. The symposium will cover topics such as: * Light Weight Ontologies for Linked Data * Lightweight representation languages for capturing linked data * Lightweight ontologies to specify semantics in linked data * Conceptual modeling techniques for representing linked data * Ontology community evolution and maintenance environments for use with linked data * Ontology-enabled environments and tools for Linked Data Semantic Publishing * Tools for publishing large data sources using light weight ontologies on the Web (e.g. relational databases, XMrepositories) * Curating policies and approaches for linked data * Embedding linked data with semantics into classic Web documents (e.g. GRDDL, RDFa, Microformats) * Licensing and provenance tracking issues in Linked Data publishing Provenance languages and tools for Linked Data * Business models for Linked Data publishing and consumption Exploiting Linked Data * User interaction and usability issues surrounding linked data * Visualization techniques for exploring linked data * Evidence-weighing techniques for socially-grounded claims (FOAF, OpenID) * Use of machine learning algorithms for linking and identity resolution * Inference and techniques for answering questions using linked data * Exploiting rich knowledge bases in conjunction with the linked data Linked Data Application Architectures * Crawling, caching and querying Linked Data on the Web; optimizations, performance * Linked Data browsers * Linked Data search engines and search interfaces * Building intelligent agents that exploit linked data The symposium will feature contributed papers, invited talks, and panels, and will include "self-organized" sessions in the barcamp / un-conference style. Email contact: linkedai.admin@gmail.com Keynote: R.V. Guha (Google) Submissions: We welcome short and long papers, position statements, videos, panel, and demo proposals. Please submit your paper of 2-8 pages in PDF AAAI submission format (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php) to the Linked Data and AI submission site on Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=linkedai2010 Important Dates * October 2, 2009: Submissions due to organizers * November 6, 2009: Notification of acceptance sent by organizers * January 22, 2010: Accepted camera-ready copy due to AAAI	Conference	Stanford, CA
05/11/2010	4th Int. Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) 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 further 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 FOIS 2010, as well as being co-located with several other relevant events, namely KR, AAMAS, ICAPS, NMR, and DL. 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; modular ontology languages (e.g., DDL, E-Connections, P-DL); reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules;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. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: January 29, 2010 Notification: March 1, 2010 Camera ready: March 11, 2010 Workshop day: May 11, 2010	Workshop	Toronto, Canada
05/30/2010 - 05/31/2010	ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web (ORES 2010 Workshop) The ORES 2010 Workshop is co-located with ESWC 2010 conference in Heraklion, Crete, Greece (May, 30^th- June,3^rd, 2010). The Extended Semantic Web Conference (EWSC 2010) brings together researchers and practioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. == Topics == We would also like to announce the invited talk as part of the workshop, which will be given by Nigam Shah from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. The growing number of online ontologies makes the availability of ontology repositories, in which ontology practitioners can easily find, select and retrieve reusable components, a crucial issue. The recent emergence of several ontology repository systems is a further sign of this. However, in order for these systems to be successful, it is necessary to provide a forum for researchers and developers to discuss features and exchange ideas on the realization of ontology repositories in general and to consider explicitly their role in the ontology lifecycle. In addition, it is now critical to achieve interoperability between ontology repositories, through common interfaces, standard metadata formats, etc. ORES10 intends to provide such a forum. Illustrating the importance of the problem, significant initiatives are now emerging. One example is the Open Ontology Repositories (OOR) working group set up by the Ontolog community. Within this effort regular virtual meetings are organized and actively attended by ontology experts from around the world; The Ontolog OOR 2008 meeting was held at the National Institute for Standards in Technology (NIST), generating a joint communiqué outlining requirements and paving the way for collaborations. Another example is the Ontology Metadata Vocabulary (OMV) Consortium, addressing metadata for describing ontologies. Despite these initial efforts, ontology repositories are hardly interoperable amongst themselves. Although sharing similar aims (providing easy access to Semantic Web resources), they diverge in the methods and techniques employed for gathering these documents and making them available; each interprets and uses metadata in a different manner. Furthermore, many features are still poorly supported, such as modularization and versioning, as well as the relationship between ontology repositories and ontology engineering environments (editors) to support the entire ontology lifecycle. We would like to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the design, development and application of ontology repositories, repository-aware editors, modularization techniques, versioning systems and issues around federated ontology systems. We therefore encourage the submission of research papers, position papers and system descriptions discussing some of the following questions: * How can ontology repositories “talk” to each other? * How can the abundant and complex knowledge contained in an ontology repository be made comprehensible for users? * What is the role of ontology repositories in the ontology lifecycle? * How can branching and versioning be managed in and across ontology repositories? * How can ontology repositories interoperate with ontology editors, and other applications and legacy systems? * How can connections across ontologies be managed within and across ontology repositories? * How can modularity be better supported in ontology repositories and editors? * How can ontology repositories and editors use distributed reasoning? * How can ontology repositories support corporate, national and domain specific semantic infrastructures? * How do ontology repositories support novel semantic applications? * What measurements for describing and comparing ontologies can we use? How could ontology repositories use these? == Submission == Research papers are limited to 12 pages and position papers to 5 pages. For system descriptions, a 5 page paper should be submitted. All papers and system descriptions should be formatted according to the LNCS format. Proceedings of the workshop will be published online. Depending on the number and quality of the submission, authors might be invited to present their papers during a poster session. Submissions can be realized through the easychair system at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ores2010 == Important Dates == Papers and demo submission: March 7, 2010 (23:59 Hawaii Time) Notification: April 5, 2010 Camera ready version: April 18, 2010 Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010	Workshop	Heraklion, Crete, Greece
07/09/2010 - 07/10/2010	Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences at the 18th annual conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2010 Recognizing the increasing synergy in medical and biological ontology research and development, biomedical Knowledge Representation Working Group (KR-WG) of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has chosen the Bio-Ontologies SIG as the venue of the KR-WG's biannual knowledge representation in medicine meetings (KR-MED, www.kr-med.org). Bio-Ontologies 2010 will serve as host to KR-MED 2010 in the biannual meeting series. In order to attend the biannual KR-MED meeting, please register for the Bio-Ontology SIG. Bio-Ontologies: Knowledge in Biology provides a forum for discussion of the latest and most cutting-edge research in ontologies and more generally the organization, presentation and dissemination of knowledge in biology and life sciences. It has existed as a SIG at ISMB (http://www.iscb.org/ismb2010) for 12 years. == Topics == We are interested in approaches to organizing, presenting and disseminating knowledge in life sciences. We invite papers and poster submissions in traditional areas, such as the biological and medical applications of ontologies, newly developed biomedical ontologies, and the use of ontologies in data sharing standards. In addition, we invite submissions on a wide range of topics including, but not limited to: - Semantic and/or Scientific Wikis. - Collaborative curation platforms - Collaborative ontology authoring and peer-review mechanisms - Automated ontology learning - Ontology design patterns and guidelines - Ontology evaluation - Mapping between ontologies - Biological and medical applications of ontologies - "Flash updates" on newly developed or existing ontologies - Use of ontologies in data standards - Semantic Web enabled applications (such as for enhanced publishing and for capturing scientific discourse) - Research in ontology languages and its effect on biomedical ontologies == Submission == We are inviting three types of submissions. - Short papers, up to 4 pages. - Poster abstracts, up to 1 page. - Flash updates, up to 1 page. Following review, successful papers will be presented at the meeting. Posters will be exhibited during the 2 days for at least one poster session. Flash updates are for short talks (5 min) giving the salient new developments on existing public ontologies (e.g. the Foundational Model of Anatomy). Posters authors can also indicate a desire to provide a flash update. Unsuccessful papers will automatically be considered for poster presentation; there is no need to submit both on the same topic. Submissions are now open and can be submitted through easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bioontologies2010). Submission templates are available from the website (http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/submissions). == Important Dates == Submissions Due: April 16th (Friday) Notifications: May 7th (Friday) Final Version Due: May 14th (Friday) Workshop: July 9th-10th (Friday and Saturday) == Program == The SIG will run for two days this year. On each day, the morning session will have an invited keynote and selected papers; while the afternoon session will have a panel session and selected talks. One of the talks session will have "flash updates" from groups developing bio-ontologies as part of large international, collaborative consortia and from selected poster presenters. 09:00-10:00 Keynote 10:00-12:00 Research Talks (with coffee break) 12:00-13:30 Lunch and Poster Session 13:30-16:00 Research Talks (with coffee break) 16:00-17:30 Panel Session 17:30-close and Poster Session This year's keynote speakers will by Tim Clark (July 9th) and Andrew Rzhetsky (July 10th). == Organizers == Nigam Shah, Stanford University Larisa Soldatova, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Susanna-Assunta Sansone, EBI Susie Stephens, Johnson & Johnson The programme committee is confirmed. See: http://www.bio-ontologies.org.uk/reviewers	Workshop	Boston, MA

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