C&O-2006: Riva del Garda, Italy

Organizing Committee

Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France Alain Léger, France Telecom R&D, France Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR), University of Trento, Italy Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Program Committee

Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Patrick Brézillon, University Paris, France Doina Caragea, Iowa State University, USA Raffaele de Amicis, GraphiTech, Italy Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Aykut Firat, Notheastern University, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Ruediger Klein, DaimlerChrysler, Germany David Leake, Indiana University, USA Alain Léger, France Telecom R&D, France Selene Makarios, Stanford University, USA Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Michel Plu, France Telecom R&D, France Fano Ramparany, France Telecom R&D, France Chantal Reynaud, Université Paris-Sud, France David Robertson, University of Edinburgh, UK Aviv Segev, Technion, Israel Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA

Accepted Technical Papers

Corpus-Driven Contextualized Categorization * Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao Towards a Separation of Pragmatic Knowledge and Contextual Information Robert Porzel, Hans-Peter Zorn, Berenike Loos, Rainer Malaka Enforcing a Semantic Routing Mechanism based on Peer Context Matching * Silvana Castano, Stefano Montanelli Classification-based Situational Reasoning for Task-oriented Mobile Service Recommendation * Marko Luther, Yusuke Fukazawa, Bertrand Souville, Kunihiro Fujii, Takefumi Naganuma, Matthias Wagner, Shoji Kurakake Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Framework Adrian K. Clear, Stephen Knox, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon A Context Information Manager for Pervasive Environments * Jérôme Euzenat, Jérôme Pierson, Fano Ramparany Semantic Interoperability in Multi-Disciplinary Domain. Applications in Petroleum Industry * Jon Atle Gulla, Darijus Strasunskas, Stein L. Tomassen A Contextual Personalization Approach Based on Ontological Knowledge * David Vallet, Miriam Fernandez, Pablo Castells, Phivos Mylonas, Yannis Avrithis Ontology Based Shape Annotation and Retrieval Olga Symonova, Minh-Son Dao, Giuliana Ucelli, Raffaele De Amicis

* Authors have been invited to submit an extended version of the paper for possible publication in the special issue on Contexts and Ontologies of the Knowledge Engineering Review Journal.

Accepted Posters and Statements of Interest

Mapping Contexts to Vocabularies to Represent Intentions Rallou Thomopoulos, Marie-Laure Mugnier, Michel Leclère Combining Contexts and Ontologies: A Case Study and a Conceptual Proposal Mariela Rico, Ma. Laura Caliusco, Omar Chiotti, Ma. Rosa Galli Ontology Verification Using Contexts Aviv Segev, Avigdor Gal Mapping Ontologies and Contexts: From Theory to a Case Study Dmitry Kudryavtsev Engineering a Brokering Framework for Providing Semantic Services to Agents on Lightweight Devices Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis On the Modeling of Context-Rules with WSML Reto Krummenacher, Holger Lausen, Thomas Strang Quality Extensions and Uncertainty Handling for Context Ontologies Davy Preuveneers, Yolande Berbers Combining Ontology Alignment Metrics Using the Data Mining Techniques Babak Bagheri Hariri, Hassan Sayyadi, Hassan Abolhassani, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili Refining Ontologies via Pattern-based Clustering Francesca A. Lisi, Floriana Esposito Reasoning with Fuzzy Ontologies Yanhui Li, Baowen Xu, Jianjiang Lu, Dazhou Kang Background Knowledge for Ontology Construction Blaz Fortuna, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic Online Ontological Reasoning for Context-Aware Internet Services Alessandra Agostini, Claudio Bettini, Daniele Riboni Reasoning with Temporal Context in News Analysis Igor Mozetič, Damjan Bojadžiev Ontologies and Context for Educational Process Modeling in IMS Learning Design Colin Knight, Dragan Gašević, Griff Richards

Schedule (August 28, 2006) --PDF version--

8:00-8:15	Poster Setup - Palameeting
8:15-8:30	Welcome and Workshop Overview Organizers
8:30-9:15	Invited Talk Ontology mapping needs context Frank van Harmelen
9:15-10:15	Paper Presentation Session: Foundations
9:15-9:45	Corpus-Driven Contextualized Categorization Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
9:45-10:15	Towards a Separation of Pragmatic Knowledge and Contextual Information Robert Porzel, Hans-Peter Zorn, Berenike Loos, Rainer Malaka
10:15-11:00	Coffee Break / Poster Session - Palameeting
11:00-12:30	Paper Presentation Session: Pervasive Computing
11:00-11:30	Classification-based Situational Reasoning for Task-oriented Mobile Service Recommendation Marko Luther, Yusuke Fukazawa, Bertrand Souville, Kunihiro Fujii, Takefumi Naganuma, Matthias Wagner, Shoji Kurakake
11:30-12:00	Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Framework Adrian K. Clear, Stephen Knox, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, Paddy Nixon
12:00-12:30	A Context Information Manager for Pervasive Environments Jérôme Euzenat, Jérôme Pierson, Fano Ramparany
12:30-13:45	Lunch
13:45-14:30	Invited Talk Sorting Out Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Contexts: An Outsider's View Selene Makarios
14:30-15:30	Paper Presentation Session: Peer-to-Peer and Information Retrieval
14:30-15:00	Enforcing a Semantic Routing Mechanism based on Peer Context Matching Silvana Castano, Stefano Montanelli
15:00-15:30	Semantic Interoperability in Multi-Disciplinary Domain. Applications in Petroleum Industry Jon Atle Gulla, Darijus Strasunskas, Stein L. Tomassen
15:30-16:15	Coffee Break / Poster Session - Palameeting
16:15-17:15	Paper Presentation Session: Multimedia
16:15-16:45	A Contextual Personalization Approach Based on Ontological Knowledge David Vallet, Miriam Fernandez, Pablo Castells, Phivos Mylonas, Yannis Avrithis
16:45-17:15	Ontology Based Shape Annotation and Retrieval Olga Symonova, Minh-Son Dao, Giuliana Ucelli, Raffaele De Amicis
17:15-17:30	Discussion and Wrap-up

	C&O-2005: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Organizing Committee

Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France Alain Léger, France Telecom R&D, France Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA Pavel Shvaiko (CHAIR), University of Trento, Italy Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

Program Committee

Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy AnHai Doan, University of Illinois, USA Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France Richard Fikes, Stanford University, USA Timothy W. Finin, University of Maryland, USA Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Michael Gruninger, NIST, USA Ramanathan Guha, IBM Research, USA Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Alain Léger, France Telecom R&D, France Maurizio Marchese, University of Trento, Italy Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Natalya Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, MITRE, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece Michel Plu, France Telecom, France Fano Ramparany, France Telecom, France Luciano Serafini, ITC-IRST, Italy Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Uschold, Boeing, USA Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Christopher Welty, IBM Research, USA

Additional Reviewers

Ahsan-Ul Morshed, University of Trento, Italy Maxym Mykhalchuk, University of Trento, Italy Andrei Tamilin, University of Trento, Italy Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy

Accepted Technical Papers

Multi-dimensional ontology views via contexts in the ECOIN semantic interoperability framework* Aykut Firat, Stuart Madnick, Frank Manola Putting things in context: a topological approach to mapping contexts and ontologies* Aviv Segev, Avigdor Gal Context-driven disambiguation in ontology elicitation* Pieter De Leenheer, Aldo de Moor Towards a theory of formal classification* Fausto Giunchiglia, Maurizio Marchese, Ilya Zaihrayeu First-orderized ResearchCyc: expressivity and efficiency in a common-sense ontology* Deepak Ramachandran, Pace Reagan, Keith Goolsbey Workspaces in the Semantic Web Shawn R. Wolfe, Richard M. Keller Contexts as abstraction of grouping Christo Dichev, Darina Dicheva Application-oriented context pre-fetch method for improving inference performance in ontology-based context management Jaeho Lee, Insuk Park, Dongman Lee, Soon J. Hyun An automatic ontology-based approach to enrich tables semantically Hélène Gagliardi, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Pernelle, Fatiha Saïs A schema-based approach combined with inter-ontology reasoning to construct consensus ontologies Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Benito Mendoza García, Michael N. Huhns A bayesian methodology towards automatic ontology mapping Zhongli Ding, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, Yang Yu

* Authors have been invited to submit an extended version of the paper for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics.

Accepted Posters and Statements of Interest

Privacy-preserving ontology matching Prasenjit Mitra, Peng Liu, Chi-Chun Pan Contexts in dynamic ontology mapping Paolo Besana, Dave Robertson Measuring similarity of elements in OWL DL ontologies Thanh-Le Bach, Rose Dieng-Kuntz Enhance reuse of standard e-Business XML schema documents Buhwan Jeong, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Hyunbo Cho, Albert Jones What is ontology merging? - a category-theoretical perspective using pushouts - Pascal Hitzler, Markus Krötzsch, Marc Ehrig, York Sure Reasoning about multi-contextual ontology evolution Maciej Zurawski Default reasoning with contexts Daniel B. Hunter, Daniel F. Bostwick Architecting a search engine for the Semantic Web David E. Goldschmidt, Mukkai Krishnamoorthy SWARMS: a tool for exploring domain knowledge on Semantic Web Liang Bangyong, Tang Jie, Wu Gang, Zhang Peng, Zhang Kuo, Xu Hui, Zhang Po, Yan Xuedong, Li Juanzi Context-driven information demand analysis in information logistics and decision support practices Magnus Lundqvist, Kurt Sandkuhl, Tatiana Levashova, Alexander Smirnov Legal ontology of contract formation: application to eCommerce John W. Bagby, Tracy Mullen Context and ontologies: contextual indexing of ontological expressions Leo Obrst, Deborah Nichols Explaining question answering systems with contexts Deborah L. McGuinness Statement of interest for AAAI-2005 workshop on Contexts and Ontologies Nestor Rychtyckyj Context-aware policy matching in event-driven architecture Shao-you Cheng, Wan-rong Jih, Jane Yung-jen Hsu Application of Semantic Web technologies to UML based air force DoDAF efforts Dru McCandless

Schedule (July 9, 2005) --PDF version--

8:00-8:30	Poster Setup
8:30-8:45	Welcome and Workshop Overview Organizers
8:45-9:30	Invited Talk C-OWL: contexts meet ontologies Fausto Giunchiglia
9:30-10:30	Technical Session: Foundations
9:30-10:00	Multi-dimensional ontology views via contexts in the ECOIN semantic interoperability framework Aykut Firat, Stuart Madnick, Frank Manola
10:00-10:30	Putting things in context: a topological approach to mapping contexts and ontologies Aviv Segev, Avigdor Gal
10:30-11:30	Coffee Break / Poster Session
11:30-13:00	Technical Session: Language and Reasoning
11:30-12:00	Context-driven disambiguation in ontology elicitation Pieter De Leenheer, Aldo de Moor
12:00-12:30	Towards a theory of formal classification Fausto Giunchiglia, Maurizio Marchese, Ilya Zaihrayeu
12:30-13:00	First-orderized ResearchCyc: expressivity and efficiency in a common-sense ontology Deepak Ramachandran, Pace Reagan, Keith Goolsbey
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	Invited Talk Ontologies meet contexts: past, present and future Christopher Welty
14:45-15:30	Technical Session: Information Retrieval
14:45-15:15	Workspaces in the Semantic Web Shawn R. Wolfe, Richard M. Keller
15:15-15:30	Contexts as abstraction of grouping Christo Dichev, Darina Dicheva
15:30-16:30	Coffee Break / Poster Session
16:30-17:30	Technical Session: Information Retrieval (cont'd)
16:30-17:00	Application-oriented context pre-fetch method for improving inference performance in ontology-based context management Jaeho Lee, Insuk Park, Dongman Lee, Soon J. Hyun
17:00-17:30	An automatic ontology-based approach to enrich tables semantically Hélène Gagliardi, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Pernelle, Fatiha Saïs
17:30-18:00	Technical Session: Ontology Matching
17:30-17:45	A schema-based approach combined with inter-ontology reasoning to construct consensus ontologies Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutiérrez, Benito Mendoza García, Michael N. Huhns
17:45-18:00	A bayesian methodology towards automatic ontology mapping Zhongli Ding, Yun Peng, Rong Pan, Yang Yu
18:00-19:00	Discussion and Wrap-up

Acknowledgements
We appreciate support from the FP6 Network of Excellence project KnowledgeWeb