AOW 2007 @ AI-2007  
The Third Australasian Ontology Workshop

Held in Conjunction with the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'07)

Workshop Date and Venue:

                      Sunday, 2nd December 2007;
                      Boulevard 2; Holiday Inn
                      Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Technical Program details

08:30 - 16:00 Registration (All day)

09:00 - 10:00 Invited talk
                      The Development, Evaluation and Application of Ontologies to eResearch
                      Jane Hunter

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:00 Learning from Ontological Annotation: an Application of Formal Concept Analysis to Feature Construction in the Gene Ontology
                      Michael Bain, Elma Akand and Mark Temple

11:00 - 11:30 Structure Based Semantic Measurement for Information Filtering Agents
                      Glenn Boardman and Hongen Lu

11:30 - 12:00 A Formalization of Subjective and Objective Time Ontologies
                      Philip H.P. Nguyen and Dan Corbett

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Extraction, evaluation and integration of lexical-semantic relations for the automated construction of a lexical ontology
                      Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Ulf Krumnack and Henrik Dittmann

14:00 - 14:30 An ontology-based approach for resolving semantic schema conflicts in the extraction and integration
                      of query-based information from heterogeneous web data sources
                      Abdolreza Hajmoosaei and Sameem Abdul Kareem

14:30 - 15:00 Enterprise Semantic Information Search System Based on New Music and Audio Ontology Integrating Existing Ontologies
                      Kiavash Bahreini and Atilla Elci

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:00 Dealing with the Formal Analysis of Information Security Policies through Ontologies: A Case Study
                      Geiza M.H. Silva, Alexandre Rademaker, Davi Romero de Vasconcelos, Fernando N. Amaral,
                      Carlos Bazilio, Vaston Costa and Edward Hermann Haeusler

16:00 - 16:10 Closing


Advances in Ontologies:

The use of formal ontologies in knowledge systems has many advantages. It allows for an unambiguous specification of the structure of knowledge in a domain, enables knowledge sharing and, as a result, makes it possible to perform automated reasoning about ontologies. In recent years there has been a worldwide increase in the use of ontologies, both in industry and in research laboratories. There is a growing community of researchers in Australia and New Zealand, working on various aspects of ontologies. The primary aim of this workshop is to bring together ontology researchers in the region.



Please see the Call for papers.

Key Dates :

Submission of papers: 21 September, 2007
Extended Submission Date: 30 September, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 19 October, 2007 Delayed; 22/23 October
Final camera ready copies: 9 November, 2007

Accepted Papers:

  1. Kiavash Bahreini and Atilla Elci. Enterprise Semantic Information Search System Based on New Music and Audio Ontology Integrating Existing Ontologies.
  2. Michael Bain, Elma Akand and Mark Temple. Learning from Ontological Annotation: an Application of Formal Concept Analysis to Feature Construction in the Gene Ontology.
  3. Abdolreza Hajmoosaei and Sameem Abdul Kareem. An ontology-based approach for resolving semantic schema conflicts in the extraction and integration of query-based information from heterogeneous web data sources.
  4. Hongen Lu and Glenn Boardman. Structure Based Semantic Measurement for Information Filtering Agents.
  5. Philip H.P. Nguyen and Dan Corbett. A Formalization of Subjective and Objective Time Ontologies.
  6. Geiza M.H. Silva, Alexandre Rademaker, Davi Romero de Vasconcelos, Fernando N. Amaral, Carlos Bazilio, Vaston Costa and Edward Hermann Haeusler. Dealing with the Formal Analysis of Information Security Policies through Ontologies: A Case Study.
  7. Tonio Wandmacher, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Ulf Krumnack and Henrik Dittmann. Extraction, evaluation and integration of lexical-semantic relations for the automated construction of a lexical ontology.

Keynote Speech:

The Development, Evaluation and Application of Ontologies to eResearch
by Professor Jane Hunter, University of Queensland (Australia). Professor Hunter has made seminal contribution to research in cognate areas including knowledge management, multimedia digital libraries, the semantic web and eResearch. Her speech will be based on her recent research work, soon to be published by Springer as a chapter in a book on semantic multimedia and ontologies. Details about her research work can be found at her web-page.

Program Committee:

Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa) (co-chair)
Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie University, Australia) (co-chair)

Jane Hunter (University of Queensland, Australia) (keynote speaker)

Mike Bain (UNSW, Australia)
Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Anne Cregan (UNSW, Australia)
Attila Elçi (Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey)
Joerg Evermann (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)
Aurona Gerber (CSIR, South Africa)
Manolis Gergatsoulis (Ionian University, Greece)
Dennis Hooijmaijers (University of South Australia, Australia)
Bo Hu (University of Southampton, UK)
Renato Iannella (NICTA, Australia)
Laurent Lefort (CSIRO, Australia)
Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster, UK)
Lars Mönch (University of Hagen, Germany)
Deshendran Moodley (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa)
Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia)
Bhavna Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia)
Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW, Australia)
Anet Potgieter (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Debbie Richards (Macquarie University, Australia)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
Rajan Shankaran (Macquarie University, Australia)
Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia)
York Sure (SAP Research, Germany)
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia)
Mary-Anne Williams (UTS, Australia)

Topics

The workshop will seek submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of ontology research, including, but not limited to:

  • ontology models and theories,
  • ontologies and the semantic web;
  • interoperability in ontologies;
  • multi-agent systems and ontologies;
  • description logics for ontologies;
  • reasoning with ontologies;
  • ontology harvesting on the web;
  • ontology of agents and actions;
  • ontology visualisation;
  • ontology engineering and management;
  • ontology-based information extraction and retrieval
  • ontology merging, alignment and integration;
  • web ontology languages;
  • formal concept analysis and ontologies.

Manuscript Formatting and Submission:

The camera ready version of the manuscripts must satisfy the formating requirements by CRPIT (10 pages, double-column format) .

Authors, please visit http://www.easychair.org/AOW2007 in order to submit your manuscript. You will need an easychair account for this purpose.

Publication:

The proceedings of AOW-07 will be published by the ACS as Volume 85, ISBN 1-920-68266-X, ISSN 1445-1336. in the CRPIT Series. The formatting requirements and resources for authors can be found on the CRPIT Authors Page together with a list of all upcoming volumes .

The Proceedings of AOW05 was published by the Australian Computer Society in Volume 58 of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series. The proceedings of AOW06 was also published in Volume 72 of the CRPIT Series with an ISBN as well as an ISSN. The authors of selected papers from the AOW-06 were invited to submit longer, extended versions of their papers to a Special Issue on Advances in Ontologies of Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering published by Blackwells.

We expect selected papers from the AOW-07 will similarly be published in a special issue of an appropriate journal.

Contact Details:

For further information about AOW2007, please contact workshop co-chairs by email:

Thomas Meyer: tommiemeyer [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Abhaya Nayak: abhaya [AT] ics [DOT] mq [DOT] edu [DOT] au

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