Past Events

Co-located with 2010 Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2010)
http://www.semantic-conference.com/

Close to W3C Workshop RDF Next Steps
http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/

The adoption of the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language in real-world applications continues to grow as the research and tools for OWL mature.
The new version OWL 2 -- becoming a W3C recommendation late last year --has been a positive factor in this direction. As the experience in using OWL in different applications and domains increases, the strengths and weaknesses of the language are discovered, resulting in new research and development that further extends its reach.

The OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED) workshop series aims at bringing users, implementors and researchers from academia and industry together to describe applications of OWL, to share experience, and to discuss extensions to the language for satisfying application requirements. The workshop will allow the OWL community to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications.

The Third International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW2010) is part of International Provenance and Annotation Workshop Series (IPAW). It will further investigate the issues of data provenance, process documentation, data derivation, and data annotation.

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

The fifteenth Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, will be held January 4-8, 2010 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. PSB 2010 is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance.

The 1st Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP2009)

provides an arena for proposing and discussing good practices, patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc. The aim is to broaden the pattern community that will develop its own “language” for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions. The workshop will be held in conjunction with ISWC2009 on October 25th. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts: papers, posters, and “pattern writing” sessions.

The 5th Intl. Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2009), will be held September 1-4, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel, California. K-CAP 2009 will provide a forum that brings together members of disparate research communities that are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a variety of sources and in creating representations that can be useful for reasoning, analysis, and other forms of machine processing.

The First International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology and design automation communities. The broad focus will be on concepts, methodologies and software tools for the automated synthesis of novel biological functions. A specific focus will be on the application of computational expertise from electronic circuit design to these areas. Abstracts submissions due May 22, 2009.

A two-day course organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.

A two-day course organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.

DILS 2009 is the sixth in a workshop series that aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data management for the life sciences. Paper Submission Deadlines: February 13, 2009 (abstracts); February 20, 2009 (full papers).

A two-day course organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.

A two-day course organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology.

This conference will bring together researchers developing or using

Protégé

methodologies and tools. The conference provides a great opportunity to appreciate the breadth of applications of the technology, to share new developments in the field, and to find out how to leverage these developments in practice.

Please see http://bioontology.stanford.edu/upcomingtalks for more information.

Please see http://bioontology.stanford.edu/upcomingtalks for more information

The Shared Names initiative has as its mission to assign URIs as names for publicly available biomedical information records and establish a community managed shared infrastructure for providing durable access to documentation about these names. The first workshop will take place April 29, 2009 at the Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. For more information, inclluding instructions for registering, please see the Meeting Information Site.

Toward Ontology-based Standards: This summit will address the intersection of two active communities, namely the technical standards world, and the community of ontology and semantic technologies. This intersection is long overdue because each has much to offer the other. Ontologies represent the best efforts of the technical community to unambiguously capture the definitions and interrelationships of concepts in a variety of domains. Standards - specifically information standards - are intended to provide unambiguous specifications of information, for the purpose of error-free access and exchange....

Please see link for more information.

The deadline for submission of papers to ICBO has been extended to March 7, 2009 (midnight EST). ICBO has received major funding support from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH/NHGRI). This will allow for an expanded number of student and early career fellowships at the ICBO conference. Please see their website for the Call for Papers.

The ontological methodology has been developed in computer science and related fields in recent years and has proven very useful in areas such as biomedical informatics, intelligence analysis, information retrieval, and natural language processing. It also serves as basis for the Semantic Web initiative and for a number of innovative experiments in text- and literature-mining and in journal publishing.

The BioPortal User Group aims to improve bi-directional communication between the Center's developers and the user community of Bioportal.

Please see the link for more information.

For more information, please contact Benjamin Dai

Overview: The workshop is organized in sessions and open discussions. Invited speakers will present state-of-the-art, provocative lectures on the workshop's main topic, while a number of submissions will be accepted as oral presentations and posters on all workshop's topics.

FOIS 2008 is the 5th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems.

This will be held as a tutorial at ISMB 2008.

2-Day Training Event

See their brochure for more information.