The 7th International Workshop on Modular Ontologies WoMO-13 +++ DEADLINE EXTENDED +++

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     7th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO)

            Corunna, Spain, September, 2013

           held in conjunction with LPNMR 2013

             --- Final Call for Papers ---

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      +++ STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS AVAILABLE +++

   +++ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 12, 2013 +++

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+++ Following requests, we have extended the submission deadline to July 12, 2013. +++

INVITED SPEAKERS:

* Till Mossakowski, University of Bremen, Germany

Till Mossakowski is extraordinary professor of computer science at the University of Bremen. He is a leading international figure in modular and heterogeneous specification of logical theories and ontologies.

* George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece

George Vouros is a professor in the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus. His research work spans from knowledge representation and reasoning, focusing on the engineering, acquisition, evolution, alignment, and coordination of ontologies, to multi-agent systems, focusing on agent organizations and their adaptation, agents' collaboration and coordination, and architectures of collaborative agents.

http://www.iaoa.org/womo/2013.html

MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration.

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 solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development.

The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work. The most recent WoMOs were held at ESSLLI 2011 and FOIS/ICBO 2012. This time WoMO is organised as a workshop of LPNMR 2013: the 12th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning. LPNMR is well-established as the main conference in the field. 

The workshop will be open to all attendants of LPMNR'13 and its workshops. Workshop speakers will be required to register for WoMO via the LPMNR'13 website. Registration for WoMO only will be possible.

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: With the generous support of the IAOA, we are happy to provide funding to students. Priority will be given to student presenters and authors of accepted papers. More details will be published at a later date.

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: modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; hybrid theories; intertheory relations (conservativity, interpretability, strong equivalence, inseparability, etc.)

- Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; 

- Evaluation of modularizations: case studies or other analyses of ontology modularizations (why it is modularized in a certain way, what does it address, how can it be improved); how to measure the adequacy of a modularization; comparison of modularizations with respect to philosophical, logical, reasoning, cognitive, or social aspects;

- Applications: semantic web; life sciences; earth sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; technology and engineering; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission: July 12, 2013 (extended)

Notification:  August 19, 2013

Camera ready: September 2, 2013

Workshop: September 15, 2013

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature from various disciplines. Submissions can be long papers (11 pages) or short papers (5 pages), formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than the submission deadline, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2013).

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org). Proceedings of WoMO 2011 and 2012 can be found at http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 and at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-875/.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

Torsten Hahmann, University of Toronto, Canada

David Pearce, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Chiara Del Vescovo, University of Manchester, UK

Dirk Walther, TU Dresden, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Kenneth Baclawski, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA 

Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden

Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA

Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig, Germany

Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Pawel Garbacz, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Dagmar Gromann, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada

Robert Hoehndorf, University of Cambridge, UK

Dieter Hutter, DFKI GmbH, Bremen, Germany

Tomi Janhunen, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Pavel Klinov, University of Ulm, Germany

Christoph Lange, University of Birmingham, UK

Thomas Meyer, CSIR Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

Leo Obrst, MITRE, McLean, VA, USA

Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Dmitry Tsarkov, The University of Manchester, UK