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Welcome to WOP2009!

This is the first edition in a series of yearly workshops addressing the emerging topic of ontology patterns, related to the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative. Patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language, hence the aim of this workshop is twofold; both providing an arena for proposing and discussing patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc., and broadening the pattern community that will develop its own “language” for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions.

The first workshop will be held at ISWC on October 25th 2009. It will be a full-day workshop consisting of three parts; paper presentations, posters, and “pattern writing” sessions. For the pattern writing sessions ontology design patterns will be submitted and reviewed at ontologydesignpatterns.org, including the assignment of an advisor for each accepted pattern submission.

WOP Organisation

The workshop series is arranged by a fixed steering committee, appointing the chairs and adjusting the focus of the workshop on a yearly basis. The WOP Steering committee consists of:

• Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT)
• Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT)
• Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (IT)
• Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK)
• Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR)
• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz (DE)
• Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (US)

WOP2009 Chairs:

• Paper chair - Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University (SE) contact
• Poster chair - Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, (CZ) contact
• Pattern chairs - Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT) contact and Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR) contact

Topics

Original research papers and poster papers are invited to consider the following (non exhaustive) list of topics:

• Ontology design patterns (ODPs) and pattern-based ontology design
• Tools and applications for pattern-based knowledge engineering
• Collaborative ontology design and collaboration patterns
• Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection
• Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration
• Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on patterns
• Web semantics from a pattern perspective
• Patterns of semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs
• Contextual reasoning and patterns as context
• Knowledge patterns and knowledge re-engineering based on patterns
• Reengineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri
• Pattern-based information extraction
• Processes and services - process patterns
• Problem solving methods and patterns

Pattern proposals for the “pattern writing” sessions will be collected through the ODP portal, and templates for submission are provided for the following types of patterns (see general typology for explanation on the types):

• Content patterns
• Structural patterns (logical and architecture patterns)
• Correspondence patterns (re-engineering and matching patterns)

For other types of patterns, or if the author wishes to elaborate on theoretical rather than practical aspects, a pattern description may be submitted as either a research paper or poster paper.

Important Dates and Submission

For details on how to submit to WOP2009 see the submission page.

Important dates

• Research paper and poster paper submission deadline - August 9
• Pattern submission deadline - August 16
• Paper/poster notification of acceptance - September 4
• Pattern notification of acceptance - September 11
• Camera ready deadline (paper/poster submission) - September 25
• Upload of final pattern version (pattern submission) - October 9
• Online proceedings published - October 9
• Workshop date - October 25