OnToContent 2007 (Call1)

[mustafa jarrar]

                        - OnToContent 2007 -
       Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise
             -With two tracks on eHealth and Human Resources-

       http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/OnToContent07   
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*** Proceedings published by Springer LNCS
*** Invited Speaker: To be announced
*** Submission Deadline: July 14, 2007
*** Topics: Ontology Content, Evaluation, standardization,  eHealth  
*** Enterprise, Human Resources                                          
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     In conjunction of the International Federated Conferences (OTM '07)
                    Oct 28 - Nov 2 2007, Algarve, Portugal

This workshop is organized by the Ontology Outreach Advisory (OOA). The
 OOA is an international not-for-profit association that consists of 
industry, government, and research leaders and innovators with respect to 
ontology development, use, or education. The general mission of the OOA is 
to develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, and 
promote the ontology technology to industry.

Current trends within the Semantic Web research are mainly concerned with
 technological issues, such as language capabilities, inference services,
 etc. Yet less attention has been given to ontology content and its 
quality. This workshop aims to focus on content issues, such as 
methodologies and tools concerned with modeling good ontologies, 
approaches to ontology content evaluation, quality measures, ontology 
content management (e.g. metadata, libraries, and registration), ontology 
documentation, etc. The workshop also aims to give a special attention to 
ontology content issues in two industrial sectors: human resources and 
employment, and healthcare and life sciences. We welcome papers and 
(past/planned) project descriptions that discuss ontology modeling and 
evaluation aspects, particularly:

* Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear 
illustration on how these solutions can be applied in industry.

* Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of ontology practice, 
or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention.
* Business experience and case studies specifying requirements, 
challenges, or opportunities of modeling and applying ontologies in 
industry.

Workshop Structure
The workshop consists of three tracks: Ontology Evaluation, Ontologies in
Human Resources and Employment, and ontologies in Healthcare and life 
sciences:

Methods and tools for ontology evaluation:
    * Ontological evaluation.
    * Logical evaluation.
    * Usability/usefulness evaluation.
    * Ontology compliance to standards.
    * Ontology standardization and recommendation scenarios.
    * Ontology metadata, and libraries.
    * Ontology documentation.
    * Ontology registration and certification.
    * Ontology interoperability.
    * Consensus reaching.
    * Business cases studies.

Ontologies in Human Resources
    * Modeling and representation of: Jobs, CVs, Competencies, Skills, 
        Employees, People, Organizations, Social Events, etc.
    * HR upper level concepts.
    * Semantics of HR-XML.
    * Semantic metadata for HR applications.
    * Semantics in job matching.
    * Semantics is learning technologies.
    * Multilinguality in human resources ontologies.
    * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and 
       evaluation.

Ontologies for Healthcare and Life sciences
    * Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics.
    * Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc.
    * Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies.
    * Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange.
    * Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies.
    * Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies.
    * Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and 
      evaluation

Submissions We invite (A) research papers describing original studies of 
no more than 12 pages; (B)Position papers presenting opinions or work in 
progress of no more than 6 pages; and (C) Business experience and case 
studies of no more than 8 pages. Submitted papers will be fully refereed 
based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well 
as on technical aspects. Each paper will be reviewed by at least one 
expert from academia, and at least one expert from industry. The final 
proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html 
The paper submission site is located at: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ontocontent/2007/papers 

Important dates
    * Abstract Submission Deadline: July 14, 2007
    * Paper Submission Deadline: July 22, 2007
    * Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2007
    * Camera Ready Due: September 10, 2007
    * OTM Conferences: November 25 - 30, 2007

Organizers and program chairs
    * Mustafa Jarrar, STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    * Andreas Schmidt, FZI, Germany
    * Claude Ostyn, IEEE-LTSC, USA
    * Werner Ceusters, University of Buffalo, USA

Program Committee (To be confirmed)
    * Adil Hameed, Catalysoft, UK
    * Alain Leger, FranceTelecom, France
    * Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
    * AlessandroOltramari, LAO, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
    * André Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA
    * Andrew Stranieri, JUSTSYS, Ballarat, Australia
    * Armando Stellato, University of Roma, Italy
    * Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ilsrael
    * Barry Smith, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
    * Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA
    * Bob Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia
    * Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
    * Christine Kunzmann, Kompetenzorientierte Personalentwicklung, Germany
    * Christopher Brewster, University of Sheffield, UK
    * ChristopheRoche, Université de Savoie, France
    * Ernesto Damiani,  Milan University, Italy
    * ErnestoDamiani, University of Milan, Italy
    * Ernst Biesalski, SAP AG, Germany
    * Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
    * Francesco Danza, Expert System SpA, Italy
    * Francky Trichet, IRIN - Computer Science Research Institute, France
    * Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
    * Hans Akkermans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    * Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
    * Jens Lemcke, SAP, Germany
    * John Domingue, The Open University, UK
    * John Sowa, IBM, USA
    * Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    * Karl Stroetmann, Empirica, Germany
    * KeithBaker, University of Reading, UK
    * Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
    * LukVervenne, Synergetics, Belgium
    * MichaelBrown, Skillsnet.Com
    * Miguel-Angel   Sicilia, University of Alcal?, Spain
    * Mohand-Said Hacid, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 LIRIS, France
    * Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
    * Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
    * Paul Piwek, Open university, UK
    * Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
    * Robert Meersman, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
    * Robert Tolksdorf, Free university of Berlin, Germany
    * Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
    * Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
    * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria
    * Stephen McGibbon, Microsoft, UK
    * StijnHeymans, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    * Theo Hensen, CWI, The Netherlands
    * Yannick Legré, CNRS, France
    * Yannis Charalabidis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    * Yaser Bishr, Image Matters, USA