OWL: Experiences and Directions 2012

9th OWL: Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED 2012)

Heraklion, Crete, 27th-28th May, 2012

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The aim of the OWL:Experiences and Directions Workshop (OWLED) is to establish an international forum for the OWL community, where practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers and others interested in OWL can describe real and potential applications, share experience and discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshops aim at bringing all these groups together in order to pool their expertise, measure the state of need against the state of the art, and set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications.

This year, OWLED will be co-located with ESWC 2012 in Heraklion Crete. As usual, the workshop will try to encourage participants to work together and will give space for discussions of various topics as well as having presentation of submissions.

Latest news

23rd April, Early registration now ends on the 26th April at 10:00am Central European Time (CET). Some people have contacted us saying that they were unable to get the early bird rate on the registration website even though they should have been able to. We've therefore extended the deadline by a couple of days to make sure that people can get this rate. (Note early registration rates should still be available even though the dates that appear on the ESWC registration website might not immediately reflect this - 26th April 10:00am CET is the cut off.)
22rd April, Accepted papers online More informations about the tutorials and links to the final versions will be available within the next couple of weeks.
18th April, Notifications are Out! Congratulations, authors of the accepted papers! The competition this year was tougher than usual. In the end we accepted 12 technical papers for long (25mins) presentations, 6 technical papers for short (15 mins) presentations, 8 system description papers, 2 hands-on tutorials, and 2 statement of interests. The list of accepted papers will be made available in the next couple of days.
Camera-ready papers are due April 27th. The instructions are the same.
3rd April, Notification Date Changed and Early Registration Deadline Extended Due to the extension of the paper deadline we have had to push back the notification of acceptance date to the 17th April. We've also decided to push back the early registration deadline to the 22nd April to give people time to register after notification.
8th March, Deadline Extended to the 24th of March Due to several requests, and close proximity of deadlines for other workshops and conferences, we have decided to extend the paper submission deadline for OWLED 2012. The new deadline will be the 24th March 2012. This new deadline applies to any potential submissions, regardless of whether an abstract and title have already been submitted or not. If you have not already submitted an abstract, we would be grateful if you could submit one as soon as possible to assist with planning and review assignments. Please see the revised call for papers below.
23rd February, 2nd Call for Papers Sent Out Today we sent out the 2nd Call for Papers. Note that, the paper length limit has been increased slightly from the limit set in the first call. Technical papers may now be up to 12 pages in length, and System Description papers may now be up to 8 pages in length.
Student support Limited student support may be available and we encourage interested students to apply for it. The application should contain a letter from the supervisor plus an informal statement from the student explaining the need of funding. While we try to support as many students as possible, we will give preference to those with accepted papers. Please email your application to Pavel Klinov (pavel@clarkparsia.com) or Matthew Horridge (matthew.horridge@stanford.edu).
1 Feb, Invited Talk: This year we are fortunate to have Markus Krötzsch as our invited speaker. Markus is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 2010. His research interest is the intelligent automatic processing of information, ranging from the foundations of formal knowledge representation to application areas like the Semantic Web. He is the lead developer of the successful Semantic Web application platform Semantic MediaWiki , co-editor of the W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL 2) specification, chief maintainer of the semanticweb.org community portal, and co-author of the textbook Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies. The title and abstract will be made available later.
1 Feb, Twitter Follow us on Twitter to stay informed

Topics

Papers about all aspects of OWL and extensions, applications, theory, methods and tools, are welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

Application driven requirements for OWL
Applications of OWL
Experience of using OWL, in particular the OWL 2 Profiles
OWL and OBO issues and tools.
Evaluation of OWL tools e.g. reasoners
Benchmarks for OWL tools
Performance and scalability issues and improvements
Extensions to OWL
OWL and Rules
Implementation techniques and experience reports
Non-standard reasoning service (implementation and requirements for)
Explanation
Ontology comprehension
Tools, including editors, visualisation, parsers and syntax checkers
Collaborative editing of ontologies
Versioning of OWL ontologies
Modularity
Query answering with OWL
SPARQL and OWL
Linked Data and OWL

Important Dates

Submissions due:	~~24th March~~
Acceptance Notifications:	~~17th April~~
Final papers due:	27th April
OWLED Workshop:	27th - 28th May

Submissions

This year we would like to invite submissions of the following sorts:

Technical papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style).These papers should present research, implementation experience, and reports on the above topics and related topics. Space will be reserved for authors to present their work at the workshop.

System description papers (maximum 8 pages LNCS style). These papers should present and publicise (novel) implemented systems that are of interest to OWLED attendees that can be demonstrated at the workshop.

Statements of interest (maximum 4 pages LNCS style). Statements of interest will not receive full reviewing and might not be included in the archives of the workshop. They will be available to participants of the workshop and may be used to schedule the workshop. If you need an official invitation to the workshop you should at least submit a statement of interest.

Tutorials proposal (maximum 4 pages LNCS style) . We also invite proposals for 90 minute tutorials that cover basic, intermediate and advanced OWL-related topics of interest to the OWLED community. Proposals should provide the title, intended audience, motivation, objectives, outline, and instructor biography.

All submissions must be made online using the EasyChair Conference System. More information regarding the LNCS templates for LaTeX is available at the Springer Web site.

Venue

The workshop will be co-located with ESWC 2012 in Heraklion, Crete. The venue for the workshop is the Royal Knossos Village. Rooms may be booked via the ESWC 2012 website.