WOP:2012
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Welcome to the 3rd Workshop on Ontology Patterns - WOP2012
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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Venue and dates
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).
Workshop Focus and Relevance
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.
Call for Papers - Topics
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:
- Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) and pattern-based ontology design
- ODPs for specific knowledge domains e.g. multimedia, fishery and agriculture, user profiling, business modeling, etc.
- Anti-patterns and their relations to ODPs
- ODPs for interacting with data
- ODPs for expressing relevance of data in context
- Collaborative ontology design and collaboration patterns in ontology design and engineering
- Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration
- Lexico-syntactic patterns
- Reasoning patterns (workflows made of reasoning steps for addressing specific goals)
- Processes and services - process patterns
- Re-engineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri
- Problem solving methods and patterns
- Ontology Design Patterns and Linked Data
- Ontology Patterns and Microformats
- Patterns for using different vocabularies together e.g. FOAF, SIOC, DC, etc.
- Web semantics from a pattern perspective
- Good practices of ontology design
- Good practices for Linked Data and related applications
- Good practices for hybridization of semantic web and NLP techniques
- Good Practices and Patterns of semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs
- Good Practices of Semantic Web in general
- Software patterns for Semantic Web applications
- Interaction patterns and the Semantic Web
- Pattern-based methodologies for Semantic Web ontologies and software engineering
- Application Profiles
- Domain specific applications based on patterns and success-stories
- Pattern-based ontologies
- Tools support for pattern-based knowledge engineering
- Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection
- Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on patterns
- Contextual reasoning and patterns as context
- Knowledge patterns and knowledge re-engineering based on patterns
- Pattern-based information extraction
- Quality evaluation of patterns
- Benefits of ontology patterns and knowledge patterns
Call for Patterns and Problem Proposals
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):
- Content patterns
- Structural patterns: logical and architecture patterns
- Correspondence patterns: re-engineering and alignment patterns
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.
Proceedings
Accepted research papers, and pattern abstracts will be published online in the CEUR-Workshop Proceedings.
Submission and Important Dates
For details on how to submit to WOP2012 see the submission page.
Important dates
- Submission deadline (research papers and patterns) - July 31st (11:59 Hawaii time)
- Notification of acceptance (research papers and patterns) - TBD
- Camera ready deadline (research papers and pattern abstracts) - TBD
- Online proceedings published (research papers and pattern abstracts) - TBD
- Workshop date - TBD
WOP Organisation
WOP2010 Chairs
- Paper chairs: Aldo Gangemi, STLab ISTC-CNR (IT) contact, and Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University (SE) contact
- Pattern chairs - Karl Hammar, Jönköping University (SE) [http:// contact] and Marie Carmen Suarez , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) [http:// contact]
Steering Committee
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)
- Natasha Noy, Stanford University (US)
- 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)
Paper Program Committee
TBD
Pattern Program Committee
TBD
Program
TBD
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