The Sixth International Workshop on Ontology Matching

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with the emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. On the one side, we expect representatives from industry and user organizations to present business cases and their requirements for ontology matching. On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches vis-a-vis those requirements. The workshop provides an informal setting for researchers and practitioners from different related initiatives to meet and benefit from each other's work and requirements.

This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data);
• Requirements to matching from specific domains;
• Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios;
• Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
• Matching patterns;
• Instance matching and data interlinking;
• Large-scale matching evaluation;
• Performance of matching techniques;
• Matcher selection and self-configuration;
• User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
• Explanations in matching;
• Social and collaborative matching;
• Alignment management;
• Reasoning with alignments;
• Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
• Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services).

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2011 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than August 15th, 2011) through the workshop submission site at:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2011

Contributors to the OAEI 2011 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/.

Technical Papers:

• A time-efficient hybrid approach to link discovery *
  Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
• Learning linkage rules using genetic programming
  Robert Isele and Christian Bizer
• RAVEN -- active learning of link specifications *
  Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Jens Lehmann, Sören Auer and Konrad Höffner
• Towards an automatic parameterization of ontology matching tools based on example mappings *
  Dominique Ritze and Heiko Paulheim
• Evolution of the COMA match system
  Sabine Maßmann, Salvatore Raunich, David Aümueller, Patrick Arnold and Erhard Rahm
• Using semantic similarity in ontology alignment
  Valerie Cross and Xueheng Hu
• Ontology matching benchmarks: generation and evaluation *
  Maria-Elena Roşoiu, Cássia Trojahn and Jérôme Euzenat
  
  * Authors have been invited to submit an extended version of the paper to be considered by the Journal on Data Semantics.

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
  E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA & LIG, France
  
• Tom Heath
  Talis Systems Ltd, UK
  
• Christoph Quix
  RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Ming Mao
  SAP Labs, USA
• Isabel Cruz
  The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Program Committee:

• Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Chris Bizer, Free University Berlin, Germany
• Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Paolo Bouquet, OKKAM, Italy
• Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
• Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
• Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
• Gabriele Francescotto, OpenContent, Italy
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Bin He, IBM, USA
• Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
• Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
• Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• Anja Jentzsch, Free University Berlin, Germany
• Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands
• Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
• Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
• Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Italy
• Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
• Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
• Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Matteo Palmonari, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
• Yefei Peng, Google, USA
• Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA
• François Scharffe, LIRMM, France
• Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
• Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
• Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France
• Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, France
• Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
• Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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