OWLED 2009 - Schedule

Day 1 - Friday 23 October - Grand Dominion I


(Registration in Grand Dominion V, VI Foyer)
Time Title Type Duration
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast (Fairfax Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction
09:15 - 10:30 Tools
A Reasoning Broker Framework for OWL (slides)
Juergen Bock, Tuvshintur Tserendorj, Yongchun Xu, Jens Wissmann and Stephan Grimm
short 0:15
A platform for reasoning with OWL-EL knowledge bases in a Peer-to-Peer environment (slides)
Alexander De Leon and Michel Dumontier
short 0:15
The OWLlink Protocol
Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther and Olaf Noppens
short 0:15
The OWL API: A Java API for Working with OWL 2 Ontologies
Matthew Horridge and Sean Bechhofer
long 0:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Extensions to OWL
Mechanisms for Importing Modules (slides)
Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler and Thomas Schneider
long 0:30
Reasoning in Metamodeling Enabled Ontologies
Nophadol Jekjantuk, Gerd Gröner and Jeff Z. Pan
long 0:30
From Justifications to Proofs for Entailments in OWL
Matthew Horridge, Bijan Parsia and Ulrike Sattler
long 0:30
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Extensions to OWL
PelletSpatial: A Hybrid RCC-8 and RDF/OWL Reasoning and Query Engine
Markus Stocker and Evren Sirin
long 0:30
Processing OWL2 ontologies using Thea: An application of logic programming
Vangelis Vassiliadis, Jan Wielemaker and Chris Mungall
long 0:30
A Solution for the Man-Man Problem in the Family History Knowledge Base (slides)
Dmitry Tsarkov, Ulrike Sattler and Robert Stevens
long 0:30
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:00 Extensions to OWL
Suggestions for OWL 3
Pascal Hitzler
long 0:30
16:00 - 17:30 The Future of OWL
Minutes can be found here (thanks to Kendall Clark)
17:30 End of Day 1
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Fairfax Dining Room)

Day 2 - Saturday 24 October - Grand Dominion I


(Registration in Grand Dominion V, VI Foyer)
Time Title Type Duration
07:00 - 08:00 Breakfast (Fairfax Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:30 OWL Full and Rules
A Conformance Test Suite for the OWL 2 RL/RDF Rules Language and the OWL 2 RDF-Based Semantics (slides)
Michael Schneider and Kai Mainzer
short 0:15
Towards Integrity Constraints in OWL
Evren Sirin and Jiao Tao
long 0:30
A Syntax for Rules in OWL 2
Birte Glimm, Matthew Horridge, Bijan Parsia and Peter Patel-Schneider
long 0:30
Axiomé: a Tool for the Elicitation and Management of SWRL Rules (slides)
Saeed Hassanpour, Martin O’Connor and Amar Das
short 0:15
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:25 Experiences
Developing an Ontology from the Application Up (slides)
James Malone, Tomasz Adamusiak, Ele Holloway, Misha Kapushesky and Helen Parkinson
demo/position 0:05
A JC3IEDM OWL-DL Ontology
Steven Wartik
demo/position 0:05
BestMap: Context-Aware SKOS Vocabulary Mappings in OWL 2 (slides)
Rinke Hoekstra
long 0:30
Unifying SysML and OWL (slides)
Henson Graves
short 0:15
A Semantic Web Approach to Represent and Retrieve Information in a Corporate Memory
Ana B. Rios-Alvarado, R. Carolina Medina-Ramirez and Ricardo Marcelin-Jimenez
short 0:15
Task Representation and Retrieval in an Ontology-Guided Modelling System
Yuan Ren, Jens Lemcke, Andreas Friesen, Tirdad Rahmani, Srdjan Zivkovic, Boris Gregorcic,
Andreas Bartho, Yuting Zhao and Jeff Z. Pan
short 0:15
12:25 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:50 Experiences, Queries and Databases
Using Ontologies for Medical Image Retrieval - An Experiment
Jasmin Opitz, Bijan Parsia and Ulrike Sattler
short 0:15
Conjunctive Query Answering in Distributed Ontology Systems for Ontologies with Large OWL ABoxes (slides)
Xueying Chen and Michel Dumontier
demo/position 0:05
Practical Aspects of Query Rewriting for OWL 2 (slides)
Héctor Pérez-Urbina, Ian Horrocks and Boris Motik
short 0:15
SQWRL: A Query Language for OWL (slides)
Martin O'Connor and Amar Das
short 0:15
A Database Backend for OWL (slides)
Jörg Henss, Joachim Kleb and Stephan Grimm (presented by Juergen Bock)
short 0:15
Classifying ELH Ontologies In SQL Databases
Vincent Delaitre and Yevgeny Kazakov (presented by Rob Shearer)
short 0:15
Improving the Data Quality of Relational Databases using OBDA and OWL 2 QL
Olivier Cure
short 0:15
14:50 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:25 Change, Time and Visualization
Change Representation For OWL 2 Ontologies
Raul Palma, Peter Haase, Oscar Corcho and Asunción Gómez-Pérez
short 0:15
Semantically Enabled Temporal Reasoning in a Virtual Observatory
Patrick West, Eric Rozell, Stephan Zednik, Peter Fox and Deborah L. McGuinness
demo/position 0:05
Temporal Classes and OWL (slides)
Natalya Keberle
short 0:15
Node-Link and Containment Methods in Ontology Visualization
Julia Dmitrieva and Fons J. Verbeek
demo/position 0:05
CSage: Use of a Configurable Semantically Attributed Graph Editor as Framework for Editing and Visualization
Lawrence Levin
short 0:15
Towards a Graphical Notation for OWL 2 (slides)
Elisa Kendall, Roy Bell, Roger Burkhart, Mark Dutra and Evan Wallace
short 0:15
16:25 - 17:00 OWLED Business Meeting