Workshop Description

One of the crucial tasks to be performed towards the realization of the vision of the Semantic Web is the encoding of human knowledge in ontologies using formal representation languages. Simply creating an ontology is not enough though; ontologies, just like any structure holding knowledge, need to be updated for several reasons, including a change in the world being modeled, a change in users' needs, the acquisition of knowledge previously unknown, classified or otherwise unavailable or a design flaw in the original conceptualization. In all these cases, the representation of our knowledge in the ontology should be modified so as to form a more accurate or adequate conceptualization of the domain. Such a modification presents several difficulties from both the practical and the theoretical point of view, as it is not always clear what the expected, or desired, result of any particular modification should be, nor how such a result can be determined.

Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest. This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in the field of ontology dynamics in order to discuss and analyze important characteristics, open research issues and recent research developments on the field. We encourage submissions on all topics related to ontology dynamics, including theoretical work on the issues involved directly or indirectly with change as well as applications or implemented systems related to such issues. We are particularly (but not exclusively) interested in the following topics:

• Ontology evolution
• Ontology versioning
• Formal aspects of ontology dynamics
• Foundational issues
• Extensions to ontology languages to better support change
• Belief revision for ontologies and the Semantic Web
• Inconsistency handling in evolving ontologies
• Change propagation in ontologies and metadata
• Ontologies for dynamic environments
• Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation
• Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications
• Open problems

Program and Papers

The program as well as the proceedings of the workshop are also available in a pdf format:

• Program of IWOD 2007 in pdf
• Proceedings of IWOD 2007 in pdf

• Natalya Keberle, Yuriy Litvinenko, Yuriy Gordeyev, Vadim Ermolayev: Ontology Evolution Analysis with OWL-MeT
• Vıt Novacek, Loredana Laera, and Siegfried Handschuh: Semi-automatic Integration of Learned Ontologies into a Collaborative Framework
• Diana Maynard, Wim Peters, Mathieu d’Aquin, and Marta Sabou: Change Management for Metadata Evolution
• Silvana Castano, Sofia Espinosa, Alfio Ferrara, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Atila Kaya, Sylvia Melzer, Ralf Moller , Stefano Montanelli, Georgios Petasis: Ontology Dynamics with Multimedia Information: The BOEMIE Evolution Methodology
• Rokia Bendaoud, Mohamed Rouane, Hacene, Yannick Toussaint, Bertrand Delecroix, and Amedeo Napoli: Text-based ontology construction using relational concept analysis

• Marcio Moretto Ribeiro and Renata Wassermann: Base Revision in Description Logics - Preliminary Results
• Guilin Qi, Jeff Z. Pan: A Stratification-based Approach for Inconsistency Handling in Description Logics
• Peter Haase, Guilin Qi: An Analysis of Approaches to Resolving Inconsistencies in DL-based Ontologies

Workshop Venue

The workshop is open to all members of the Semantic Web community. It will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, as part of the ESWC 2007 conference (http://www.eswc2007.org), on 7 June 2007. All workshop participants must pay the ESWC 2007 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference fee.

Submission Guidelines

Only electronic submissions will be considered. All submissions should be submitted in pdf format, as an email attachment to Giorgos Flouris (flouris ‘at’ isti.cnr.it). Submissions should not exceed 14 pages and should be formatted according to the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0).
All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the IWOD 2007 program committee and at least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop.

Important Dates

Committees

Organizing Committee

Giorgos Flouris (CNR, Italy)
Mathieu d’Aquin (The Open University, United Kingdom)
Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH, Greece)
Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece)

Program Committee

Peter Haase
Christian Halaschek-Wiener
Andreas Herzig
Zhisheng Huang
Yarden Katz
Thomas Meyer
Enrico Motta
Wim Peters
Peter Plessers
Guilin Qi
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Holger Wache
Renata Wassermann