From: Adam Pease (apease@ks.teknowledge.com)
Date: 03/05/02
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*** Papers are due March 15 ***
Call for Participation
AAAI-2002 Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Description of workshop: the main objectives
This workshop will address ontologies for the semantic web. The
notion of the semantic web as promoted by Tim Berners-Lee and by Jim
Hendler as the focus of a major DARPA-funded research effort, is to
transform the current World Wide Web so that the information and services
are understandable and useable by computers as well as humans. The Semantic
Web will create an environment where software agents can readily perform
sophisticated tasks and help humans find, understand, integrate, and use
information. The key distinguishing feature of the Semantic Web will be
ontologies which will enable software agents to find the meaning of the
information on Web pages by following hyperlinks to definitions of key
terms and rules for reasoning about them logically.
The aim of this workshop will be to make progress on addressing what
ontology languages, tools, methodologies, and content are needed to support
the Semantic Web.
Topics
* Ontological Content
Papers are solicited that discuss issues related to the content of
ontologies with respect to either presenting particular ontological
content that is believed to be of general interest, or discussing the
more general issue of how a body of formal ontology content can be
extended or employed in some application. Papers may present ontologies
and discuss their value or discuss issues in the standardization of
ontological content.
* How can the quality of ontologies be evaluated?
Papers are particularly encouraged that provide methodologies and test
cases.
* How can ontologies developed for the Semantic Web be shared and
combined?
Papers are particularly encouraged that contain specific use
scenarios in which sharing, merging, translating, etc. are
critical.
* Use cases for ontological content on the web
A great effort is going into languages for defining, and tools for
manipulating, ontologies on the web. Papers are encouraged that
describe either implemented applications that make use of web
ontologies, or vision papers that describe how ontological content will
change the web.
Workshop Format
Subject to a sufficient response to our call for participation, we
are planning on a two-day workshop. The agenda will consist of position
statements by the program committee, invited talks, paper presentations,
and panel-led discussions.
Attendance
Attendance will be limited to authors of accepted papers and invited
presenters. Others will be allowed to attend only if space permits. There
will be a total of 25-65 participants.
Submission requirements
Papers of 4-10 pages will be accepted by email in PDF (preferrred),
Postscript or .rtf formats to (apease@ks.teknowledge.com). Papers must
conform to AAAI format.
Schedule
March 15, 2002 - papers due
April 19 - Notification of acceptances sent
May 3 - Camera-ready copies due along with optional Permission to
Distribute Form
July 28-August 1 - AAAI Conference
Organizing Committee
Adam Pease (apease@ks.teknowledge.com), Jim Hendler
(hendler@cs.umd.edu), Richard Fikes (fikes@ksl.stanford.edu).
Web site: <http://reliant.teknowledge.com/AAAI-2002/>
Adam Pease
Teknowledge
(650) 424-0500 x571
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