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.
Keynote Talk:
Dr Kerry Taylor from the ICT Centre CSIRO will provide useful insights
into why ontologies are an important part of the water information management
solution, in addressing the pressing need for responsible management of
Australia's scarce water resource. She will also touch on the ongoing work
in the ICT Centre which is the host to the Australian Office for
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C Australia 2006).
Further details are available from here.
Program and Accepted Papers:
The workshop program is available from here.
The list of accepted papers and their abstracts are available from here.
Workshop Organisers:
Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University)
Thomas Meyer (NICTA)
Program Committee:
Mehmet Orgun (Macquarie University) (co-chair)
Thomas Meyer (NICTA) (co-chair)
Mike Bain (UNSW)
Robert Barta (Bond University)
Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University)
Werner Ceusters (SUNY Buffalo)
Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago)
Anne Cregan (UNSW)
Costas Mantratzis (University of Westminster)
Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie University)
Bhavna Orgun (Macquarie University)
Maurice Pagnucco (UNSW)
Debbie Richards (Macquarie University)
Abdul Sattar (Griffith University)
Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University)
Barry Smith (SUNY Buffalo)
Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia)
Kerry Taylor (CSIRO)
Mary-Anne Williams (UTS)
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The workshop will seek submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of ontology research, including, but not limited to: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.
Publication:
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 will also be published in
Volume 72 of the CRPIT Series
with an ISBN as well as an ISSN.
Journal Special Issue:
The authors of selected papers from the Workshop will also be 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.
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.Each paper will go through a rigorous review process to the standards of Expert Systems. The special issue is scheduled to appear in late 2007.
Further details including paper submission and important dates are available from http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/conferences/aow/EXSY_CFP.html.
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