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* [[WOP:2012/Submission | Submission instructions]] (Submission deadline: '''July 31st 2012''') | * [[WOP:2012/Submission | Submission instructions]] (Submission deadline: '''July 31st 2012''') | ||
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This is the third edition in a series of workshops addressing the emerging topic of ontology patterns as best practices, related to the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative. Patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language and stimulate pattern usage and development. Hence, the aim of this workshop is twofold; both providing an arena for proposing and discussing good practices, 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.
It will be a half-day workshop consisting of two parts; paper presentations and posters. The poster session will feature pattern posters, i.e. presentations of patterns submitted through ontologydesignpatterns.org.
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The third edition of WOP will be held in conjunction with ISWC 2012 in Boston, US (for previous editions, see the main WOP website in the menu on the left).
As interest in the Semantic Web increases and technologies for realizing the semantic web become more mature, the need for high-quality and reusable semantic web ontologies increases. To address the quality and reusability issues, different types of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have emerged. Patterns can supply ontology designers with several kinds of benefits, including a direct link to requirements, reuse, guidance, and better communication. ODPs are well on their way to providing those benefits. ODPs have been proposed by the W3C and are currently being collected in various repositories, such as the catalogue maintained by the University of Manchester and the ODP portal at ontologydesignpatterns.org. However, pattern catalogues are still small and do not cover all types of patterns and all domains. Semantic Web applications could also benefit from additional types of patterns, such as knowledge patterns and specialized software patterns for semantic applications. In addition, to achieve communication benefits, patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language for discussing and understanding modeling problems. The workshop can leverage the activities conducted in the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative, and aims to use the portal as its main means of communication, e.g. for pattern submission, reviewing and discussions outside the workshop schedule.
Reuse has been an important research subject in ontology engineering for many years, and this is also true for the semantic web community. Patterns are an approach to knowledge reuse that has proved feasible and very profitable in many other areas such as software engineering and data modeling. During the past few years, patterns for semantic web ontologies and ontology-based applications have been introduced, e.g. a complete session of ISWC2011 was devoted to ontologies and patterns. An earlier workshop, Ontology Patterns for the Semantic Web , was arranged at ISWC2005, however at that time the community was considerably smaller. The focus then was on discussing reusable OWL and RDF ontologies addressing general open problems. The WOP series broadens this scope to include all patterns related to ontology design and knowledge engineering for the Semantic Web. This is in line with the successful EKAW2008 conference (with the sub-title Knowledge Patterns). Topics of this conference included ontology engineering patterns but also patterns for re-engineering of knowledge resources, process knowledge, social and cognitive aspects of semantics. The first workshop was held in conjunction with ISWC 2009, and a second edition at ISWC 2010.
Submission instruction for research papers, posters, demos, and position papers will be found at the submission page as the deadline approaches.
The main aim of the workshop is to discuss and collect solutions to recurrent problems i.e. ontology patterns, that matter to researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web field, and that impact on ontology design and engineering. Original research papers and poster papers are invited to consider the following (non exhaustive) list of topics:
Submission instructions for patterns will be found at the submission page when deadline is approaching.
Pattern submissions for the poster session will be collected both through the ODP portal and by a submitting a description of the pattern (pattern abstract), and templates for submission of the pattern itself are provided for the following types of patterns (see general typology for explanation of the types):
For other types of patterns, the author is welcome to submit only a pattern abstract. A paper submission can be accompanied by a pattern submission, however the submissions will be reviewed separately.
Accepted research papers, and pattern abstracts will be published online in the CEUR-Workshop Proceedings.
For details on how to submit to WOP2012 see the submission page.
Important dates
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:
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