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Fourth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (2009) 25 October 2009, Virginia, USA. 1 Background and Purpose Ontology Matching (OM) is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks. 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 and data translation. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. Since 2006, the OM Workshop is collocated with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). This year, the Fourth OM Workshop will be collocated with the 8th ISWC, in Virginia, USA, October 25, 2009. The Ontology Matching workshop has as main goals: 1) To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing realworld requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2) To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2009 campaign. This year's OAEI campaign introduces two new tracks about oriented alignments and about instance matching (a timely topic for the linked data community). Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3) To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. 2 Contributions Contributions to the workshop are made in terms of technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2009 campaign. Paper submission is closed. 3 Audience The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with its 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 visavis 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. 4. Registration To attend the workshop, registrations can be done at the registration site of ISWC.
5. Agenda See OM site (http://om2009.ontologymatching.org/) |
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