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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0000CC'>Apologies for Duplications!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Kathryn B Laskey
[mailto:klaskey@gmu.edu] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Kathryn B Laskey (co-chair)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS NOV 11: ONTOLOGY FOR THE INTELLIGENCE
COMMUNITY (OIC 2008)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Call for
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OIC 2008: ONTOLOGY FOR THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-family:Courier'>Toward Effective Exploitation and Integration of
Intelligence Resources</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC08"><span
style='font-family:Courier'>http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC08</span></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Keynote Speakers: </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>
Deborah McGuinness</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>
Michael Gruninger</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia<br>
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December 3-4, 2008<br>
(Classified session December 5 for those with TS/SCI clearances only. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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For further information contact: </span><a
href="mailto:oic-2008-ts-sci@cox.net"><span style='font-family:Courier'>oic-2008-ts-sci@cox.net</span></a><span
style='font-family:Courier'>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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The tasks of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence grow more
complex with every year, the emergence of new technologies and new types of
threats. New approaches are required to enable greater flexibility, precision,
timeliness and automation of analysis in response to rapidly evolving
threats. Ontology-based technology as applied in areas such as
bioinformatics has demonstrated the possibility of gains along all of these
dimensions. The time is ripe to extend these gains to other spheres.<br>
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This conference will bring together experts on ontology-based technology with
particular experience in the problems facing the intelligence community. It
will feature invited talks from prominent ontologists and intelligence
community leaders, as well as submitted papers focusing especially on the
creation of public-domain ontology resources to support the work of
intelligence analysts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Registration
is now open at </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-family:
Courier'><a href="http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC08">http://c4i.gmu.edu/OIC08</a>. Register
soon - earlybird rate ends November 11.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Accommodations
at Hyatt Fairlakes: special rate of $129 per night for OIC
attendees, <a
href="http://www.fairlakes.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/group-booking.jsp?_requestid=6128">http://www.fairlakes.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/group-booking.jsp?_requestid=6128</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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PAPERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*
Eric Little and Kedar Sambhoos: Improving Situational Awareness <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> with Ontologically-enhanced
Graph Matching<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*
Kristo Miettinen: The Ontology of Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*
Pontus Svenson and Christian Mårtenson: Information Model for
Non-hierarchical <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Information
Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*
Kathryn Laskey, David Schum and Paulo Costa: Ontology of Evidence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Mihai
Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci and David Schum: Intelligence Analysis
Ontology <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> for
Cognitive Assistants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Dru
McCandless and Steve Matechik: An Ontology Based Approach
to Flexible <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Automated
Video Analysis and Retrieval<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Mithun
Balakrishna and Munirathnam Srikanth: Automatic Ontology Creation
from <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Text for
National Intelligence Priorities Framework (NIPF)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Martin
Thurn and Terry Patten: Ontologies and Discovery in the Intelligence
Community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Fabian
Neuhaus: Ontology-based Technologies--Technology Transfer from
Bioinformatics? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>*
Jim Starz, Jason Losco, Brian Kettler, Rachel Hingst and Christopher
Rouff: Leveraging <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Emergent
Ontologies in the Intelligence Community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Ian
Bailey: Working with Extensional Ontology for Defence Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Daniel
Reininger, Jeff Mershon, Jef Armstrong, Ray Kulberda, Andrew
Cohen, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> P.
Robert Bullard and David Ihrie: Semantic Wiki for Tactical
Intelligence Applications: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> A
Demonstration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Dean
Brown and Dominick Profico: ICD Wiki - Framework for Enabling Semantic
Web <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Service Definition
and Orchestration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Patrick
Cassidy: Toward an Open-Source Foundation Ontology Representing the
Longman's <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Defining
Vocabulary: The COSMO Ontology OWL Version<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Bob
MacGregor and Craig Norvell: Common Logic for an RDF Store<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Mohamed
Keshk and Sally Chambless: Model Driven Ontology: A New Methodology
for <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> Ontology
Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Jans
Aasman and Craig Norvell: Unification of Geospatial Reasoning,
Temporal Logic, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'> &
Social Network Analysis in an RDF Database<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>* Brock
Stitts: Intelligence Analysis and the Semantic Web<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>For
inquiries please write to the conference co-chairs:<br>
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Kathryn Blackmond Laskey<br>
C4I Center and SEOR Department<br>
4400 University Drive, MS 4B5<br>
George Mason University<br>
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444<br>
</span><a href="mailto:klaskey@gmu.edu"><span style='font-family:Courier'>klaskey@gmu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Duminda
Wijesekera</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Department
of Computer Science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>4400
University Drive, MS 4A5</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>George
Mason University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Fairfax,
VA 22030-4444</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="mailto:dwijesek@gmu.edu"><span
style='font-family:Courier'>dwijesek@gmu.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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Scientific Committee<br>
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Bill Andersen (Ontology Works)<br>
Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic University)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Dennis
Buede (Innovative Decisions, Inc.)<br>
Werner Ceusters (University at Buffalo)<br>
Randall Dipert (University at Buffalo)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Katherine
Goodier (US Department of Defence/NCI)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Kathleen
Stewart Hornsby (University of Iowa)<br>
Terry Janssen (Lockheed Martin Corporation)<br>
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey (George Mason University, co-chair)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Nancy
Lawler (US Department of Defense)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Kevin
Lynch (CIA)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Dan
Maxwell (Innovative Decisions, Inc.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Fabian
Neuhaus (NIST)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Leo
Obrst (MITRE Corporation)<br>
Steven Robertshaw (UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)<br>
Barry Smith (University at Buffalo)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Duminda Wijesekera
(George Mason University, co-chair)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Innovative
Decisions, Inc.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>Saab
Technologies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>National
Center for Ontological Research</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:Courier'>George
Mason University Center of Excellence in Command, Control, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Communications, Computing and Intelligence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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