Appel: IJCAI-11 Workshop ARCOE

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ARCOE-11 at IJCAI-11

Date: July 17-18 2011
Barcelona, Spain

*** Deadline: 6 April 2011 ***
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The IJCAI-11 Workshop on

Automated Reasoning about Context and Ontology Evolution (ARCOE-11)
http://www.arcoe.org/2011

held on 17 and 18 July 2011

at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-11)

-- Description of the workshop --

Methods of automated reasoning have solved a large number of problems
in Computer Science by using formal ontologies expressed in
logic-based languages. Over the years, though, each problem or class
of problems has required a different ontology, and sometimes a
different version of logic.  Moreover, the processes of designing,
controlling and maintaining an ontology as well as its different
versions have turned out to be inherently complex. All this has
motivated much investigation in a wide range of disparate disciplines
-- from logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning to Software
Engineering, from Databases to Multimedia -- about how to relate
ontologies to one another.

ARCOE-11 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from
core areas of Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation and
Reasoning, Contexts, and Ontologies) and related disciplines to
discuss these kinds of problems and relevant results. Historically,
there have been at least three different, yet interdependent
motivations behind this type of research: defining the relationship
between an ontology and its context; providing support to ontology
engineers; enhancing problem solving and communication for software
agents.

Ontology and Context.  Most application areas have recognised the need
for representing and reasoning about knowledge that is distributed
over many resources. Such knowledge, as well as its intrinsic
relevance and usability, depends on its context. The latter is
determined by the syntactic and/or semantic structure of the
resources, the scope of the underlying language, among other
things. Research on information integration, distributed knowledge
management, the semantic web, multi-agent and distributed reasoning
have pinned down different aspects of how ontologies relate to and/or
develop within their context.

Ontology Engineering.  Ontology engineers are not supposed to succeed
right from the beginning when (individually or collaboratively)
developing and maintaining an ontology. Despite their expertise and
any assistance from domain experts, revision cycles are the
rule. Moreover quite often different ontologies have to be integrated
in such a way for them to be operable together (merging). Research on
the automation of the process of engineering an ontology has improved
efficiency and reduced the introduction of unintended meanings by
means of interactive ontology editors that provide support for
ontology change (debugging, updates and repair), maintenance
(versioning) and integration (merging). Moreover, ontology matching
has studied the process of manual, off-line alignment of two or more
known ontologies.

Problem Solving and Communication for Agents.  Agents that communicate
with one another without having full access to their respective
ontologies or that are programmed to face new non-classifiable
situations must change their own ontology dynamically at run-time --
they cannot rely solely on human intervention. Research on this
problem has either concentrated on techniques borrowed from the
non-monotonic reasoning and belief revision communities or on changes
of signature, i.e., of the grammar of the ontology's language, with a
minimal disruption to the original theory. This is also an important
issue in the emerging area of General Game Playing.

ARCOE-11 will provide a multi-disciplinary forum, where differences in
methodologies, representation languages and techniques are over-arched
and hopefully overcome. Accordingly, the workshop will be structured
into four tracks: three of them will focus on specific areas, the
fourth one will foster links and integration.

Track 1:  Context and Ontology
This track will consist of presentations and discussions around the
theme of Context and Ontology, a well-established research area that
has mainly concentrated on the relationship between contexts and
ontologies for distributed information and for the enhancement of
software agents.

Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Ontologies 
This track will consist of presentations and discussions around the
theme of Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning in logic-based
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for ontologies. These are
classic areas of AI, which since their origins have produced
remarkable results on logic-based methods for supporting knowledge
engineers and for enhancing software agents.

Track 3:  Automated Ontology Evolution
This track will consist of presentations and discussions around the
theme of Automated Ontology Evolution for agents and general problem
solving, an area which in recent years has been drawing the attention
of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
on the assessment of change impact and the automation of ontology
evolution.

Track 4: Links and integration
This track will foster links and integration by means of invited talks
and (panel) discussions. Topics that are likely to be covered are: the
formalisation of software engineering concepts for ontology
development; the relationship between automated reasoning and
information retrieval; relationships between representation languages;
relationships between canonical domains; relationships between
contexts and ontology evolution and between non-monotonic reasoning
and ontology evolution.

ARCOE-11 will bring the participants to position the various
approaches with respect to one another. Hopefully, though, the
workshop will also start a process of cross-pollination and set out
the constitution of a truly interdisciplinary research community
dedicated to automated reasoning about contexts and ontology
evolution.

-- Topics --

ARCOE-11 welcomes submissions on the tracks below as well on their
intersection. (The division in tracks is only for organizational
purposes during the workshop. Authors are not required to assign
themselves to a specific track at the time of submission.)

Track 1: Context and Ontology
Submissions are welcome on the role of context and ontology in areas
that include but are not limited to the following ones:

- Information integration
- The role of context and ontology in distributed reasoning and
  knowledge management
- The role of context and ontology in the Semantic Web
- Multi-agent systems
- Data grid and grid computing
- Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence
- Peer-to-peer information systems
- Comparison of uses of contexts and ontologies

Track 2: Common Sense and Non-Monotonic Reasoning
Submissions are welcome on the role of common sense and non-monotonic
reasoning for ontologies in areas that include but are not limited to
the following ones:

- Ontology debugging, update and merging
- Non-classical belief revision
- Inconsistency handling, belief revision and theory change for DL
  ontologies
- Uncertainty handling, defeasible reasoning and argumentation in
  ontologies
- Heuristic and approximate reasoning
- Planning and reasoning about action and change on the Semantic Web
- Rules and ontologies
- Temporal and spatial reasoning

Track 3: Automated Ontology Evolution
Submissions are welcome on the role of automated ontology evolution in
areas that include but are not limited to the following ones:

- Ontology fault diagnosis and repair
- Ontology versioning
- Adaptive systems and reconfiguration
- General problem solving
- Agent communication
- Persistent agents in changing environment
- Multimedia on the Web
- IT and automated reasoning

-- Attendance --

Authors and submissions will be selected on the significance of the
contribution, on how the work positions itself with respect to Tracks
1-3 above, and on the submission's potential to foster discussions and
integration. Also, authors will be preferred to simple
attendees. Attendees are welcome, but will be selected on a
first-come-first-served basis.  Please check the IJCAI-11 website for
registration procedure, fees as well as cancellation policies.

-- Submission Requirements and Dates --

ARCOE-11 will accept submissions of long abstracts, for both long
presentations and poster presentations. The distinction during the
selection-phase will be based on

1) Relevance, significance and quality of the submission;

2) Degree of interdisciplinarity of the contribution with respect to
   Tracks 1-3 above, i.e., the contribution's potential to foster
   cross-pollination and discussions on ARCOE main themes during the
   event.

In an effort to integrate this relatively new research area,
submissions to ARCOE-11 should be able to explicitly and uniformly
introduce their work relative to the call for papers and to other
approaches. For instance, given specific approaches such as DL-based
belief revision, or Context Logic integrated by Natural Language
Processing (NLP), or Higher-Order Logic (HOL) or Machine Learning
(ML), the authors are expected to introduce their proposals by clearly
positioning themselves relative to:

1) Specific canonical problems in their respective area;
2) Paradigms, tools and applications within their own approach;
3) ARCOE's list of canonical problems in Tracks 1-3, i.e., the
   contribution should be able to make clear how it is positioned
   relative to ontology and context, ontology engineering and/or
   general problem solving and communication for agents.

All selected abstracts will be included in the Working Notes. Authors
are kindly requested to provide keywords upon submission. The format
for submissions is the same as that of IJCAI-11. Please check the
IJCAI author instructions website for the style files. Submissions
should be no longer than 5 pages and in PDF format. The possibility is
being considered of publishing extended versions of the best works
from the workshop in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.

Submission deadline: April 6, 2011
Notification: May 10, 2011
Camera ready: May 24, 2011
Early registration: [TBA]
Late registration: [TBA]
Workshop dates: 17 and 18 July 2011

-- Submit to --

Please submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcoe11

-- Special Issue on ARCOE-related Themes --

There has recently been an agreement with the Journal of Web Semantics
for a Special Issue on Reasoning with context in the Semantic Web. The
Call for Papers is open to anyone and it certainly is an opportunity
to submit for publication quality work about ARCOE-like themes.

The special issue aims at bringing together work on reasoning with
context in the Semantic Web as seen from various perspectives, e.g.,
ontology integration, ontology development, ontology evolution
etc. Submitted articles, which may describe either theoretical results
or applications, must clearly pertain to the Semantic Web and/or to
semantic technologies. They should present either Semantic Web
specific approaches to reasoning with context, or approaches that have
characteristics that are interesting for the Semantic Web (e.g.,
scalability, bounded reasoning), or approaches that are of value to a
larger community containing a non-trivial Semantic Web sub-community
(e.g. revision/update techniques and error pin-pointing).

Have a look at the Call for Papers on:
http://www.arcoe.org/specialissue.html

For further details please send requests to: organization [at] arcoe
[dot] org

-- Workshop Co-Chairs --

Alan Bundy - http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK.
Tel: +44-131-650-2716, Fax: +44-131-650-6899

Jos Lehmann - http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Jos_Lehmann.html
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK.
Tel: +44-131-650-2725, Fax: +44-131-650-6899

Ivan Varzinczak (primary contact) - http://en.varzinczak.net16.net
CSIR Meraka Institute
Meiring Naude Road, CSIR, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa.
Tel: +27-12-841-2594, Fax: +27-12-841-4720

-- Program Committee --

- Franz Baader (TU Dresden, Germany)
- Christoph Benzmueller (Articulate Software, USA)
- Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg and Mahasarakham University,
  Thailand)
- Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento, Italy)
- Jim Delgrande (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Jerome Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France)
- Nicola Fanizzi (University of Bari, Italy)
- Giorgos Flouris (FORTH, Greece)
- Chiara Ghidini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
- Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)
- Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
- Alessandra Mileo (Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland)
- Amedeo Napoli (LORIA CNRS, France)
- Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Valeria de Paiva (Cuil Inc., USA)
- Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
- Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH, Greece)
- Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China)
- Marcio Ribeiro (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Luciano Serafini (FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
- Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

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