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Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering

Special Issue on Advances in Ontologies

NOTE: THE NOTIFICATION DATE HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 31 MAY 2007.

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. This special issue of Expert Systems on the theme of Advances in Ontologies is intended to present the recent advances in ontology research and its applications to a general audience, to provide an opportunity for the broader Expert Systems community to become aware of recent ontology research.

The special issue will seek submissions of papers dealing with all aspects of ontology research, including the theoretical foundations, design, implementation and prototype development issues, ontologies in multi-agent systems and the Semantic Web, comparative studies, and applications, as well as those describing new challenges arising out of applications.

Topics of Interest:

Topic include, but are not limited to the following:

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

Paper Submission:

As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them from: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/submit.asp?ref=0266-4720. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Each paper will go through a rigorous review process.

Interested authors should submit digital copies (PDF preferred) of their papers, including all tables, diagrams, and illustrations, to Guest Editors by email. Manuscripts should not exceed 15 pages in the journal's style (roughly, in double-column format in font size 11). A free sample issue is available from here; please have a look at a couple of papers in that issue to familiarize yourself with the journal style.

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: January 31, 2007
• Completion of First-Round Reviews: May 31, 2007
• Revised Papers: June 30, 2007
• Publication Materials Due: July 31, 2007
• Publication: late 2007

Contact Details:

Dr. Mehmet A. Orgun	Dr. Thomas Meyer
Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISG) Department of Computing Division of Information and Communication Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Email: Mehmet.Orgun AT mq.edu.au	Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Program Kensington Laboratory, Sydney National ICT Australia, 223 Anzac Parade Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia Email: Thomas.Meyer AT nicta.com.au

Contributors are also welcome to contact the Journals Editor, Dr. Lucia Rapanotti, for further information:

Dr. Lucia Rapanotti

Computing Department The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. Phone: +44 (0)1908 654125 Email: l.rapanotti AT open.ac.uk