OWLED 2006

OWLED2006 is the second international workshop on "OWL: Experiences and Directions", colocated with ICCS2006 in Athens, Georgia. It starts at November 10 2006 and ends at November 11 2006. For more information, see web site:=http://owl-workshop.man.ac.uk/OWLWorkshop06.html.

The deadline of this workshop has been extended.

Description
The W3C OWL Web Ontology Language has been a W3C recommendation since 2004. OWL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of experience with OWL means that the community is now in a good position to discuss how OWL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfill current and future application demands.

The aim of the OWLED workshop series is to establish a forum for practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others interested in OWL to describe real and potential applications, to share experience, and to discuss requirements for language extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to incorporate OWL-based technologies into new applications.

Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:


 * Applications of and experience with OWL
 * Application-driven requirements for OWL
 * Extensions to OWL, including:
 * non-monotonic extensions
 * rules extensions
 * extensions for representing temporal and spatial information
 * extended property constructors
 * keys
 * extended class constructors
 * extended datatype constructors
 * probabilistic and fuzzy extensions
 * Implementation techniques for OWL and related languages
 * Performance and scalability issues
 * Non-standard inference services, including explanations
 * Security and Trust for OWL-based information
 * Tools for OWL, including:
 * editors
 * visualisation tools
 * parsers and syntax checkers
 * versioning frameworks

The workshop shall, in particular:


 * further the interaction between theoreticians, tool builders, and implementors
 * help consolidating OWL 1.1
 * initiate the development of OWL 2.0
 * aid in clarifying the relationships between OWL and rules

Submissions on any of the following topics are especially encouraged:


 * Experiences with OWL 1.1
 * Implementation issues with OWL 1.1
 * Demos of OWL 1.1 implementations
 * Requirements for a potential OWL 2.0 revision
 * Modeling and reasoning with OWL and rules
 * Survey papers
 * System descriptions

Submissions can be either technical papers or short "position" papers. Submissions that base their conclusions on application experience are especially encouraged.

The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers (grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion.

Workshop Organisers

 * has OC member::Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK)
 * has OC member::Pascal Hitzler, AIFB Karlsruhe (Germany)
 * has OC member::Connor Shankey, (USA)
 * has OC member::Evan Wallace, NIST (USA)

Steering Committee
The OWLED Steering Committe at the time of that workshop was:


 * Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK)
 * Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA)
 * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)

Program Committee

 * has PC member::Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA)
 * has PC member::Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA)
 * has PC member::Kendall Clark, University of Maryland (USA)
 * has PC member::Giuseppe DeGiacomo, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy)
 * has PC member::Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton (UK)
 * has PC member::Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA)
 * has PC member::Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France)
 * has PC member::Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada)
 * has PC member::Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA)
 * has PC member::Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany)
 * has PC member::Ashok Malhotra, Oracle (USA)
 * has PC member::Massimo Marchiori, W3C at MIT (USA)
 * has PC member::Boris Motik, University of Manchester (UK)
 * has PC member::Enrico Motta, Open University (UK)
 * has PC member::Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA)
 * has PC member::Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA)
 * has PC member::Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA)
 * has PC member::Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA)
 * has PC member::Terry Payne, University of Southampton (UK)
 * has PC member::Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (USA)
 * has PC member::Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy)
 * has PC member::Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
 * has PC member::Andrew Schain, NASA (USA)
 * has PC member::Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (UK)
 * has PC member::Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano (Italy)