From: Brandon Amundson ([email protected])
Date: 01/17/02
From: Adam Pease <[email protected]> Subject: AAAI-2002 Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Our apologies if you receive this notice more than once. 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 ([email protected]). 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 ([email protected]), Jim Hendler ([email protected]), Richard Fikes ([email protected]). Web site: <http://reliant.teknowledge.com/AAAI-2002/> Adam Pease Teknowledge (650) 424-0500 x571
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