The Eleventh International Workshop on Ontology Matching

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes 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, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate.

Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with the 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 vis-a-vis 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.

This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to OAEI), and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big and open data);
• Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., energy, public sector);
• Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps);
• Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
• Matching and big data;
• Matching and linked data;
• Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
• Process model matching;
• Large-scale and efficient matching techniques;
• Matcher selection, combination and tuning;
• User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
• Explanations in matching;
• Social and collaborative matching;
• Uncertainty in matching;
• Reasoning with alignments;
• Alignment coherence and debugging;
• Alignment management;
• Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
• Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services).

Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2016 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 15th, 2016) through the workshop submission site at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om20160

Contributors to the OAEI 2016 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2016/.

Technical Papers:

• Towards best practices for crowdsourcing ontology alignment benchmarks
  Reihaneh Amini, Michelle Cheatham, Pawel Grzebala, Helena B. McCurdy
• Analysing top-level and domain ontology alignments from matching systems
  Daniela Schmidt, Cassia Trojahn, Renata Vieira
• Ontology alignment evaluation in the context of multi-agent interactions
  Paula Chocron, Marco Schorlemmer
• Tableau extensions for reasoning with link keys
  Maroua Gmati, Manuel Atencia, Jérôme Euzenat
• Rewriting SELECT SPARQL queries from 1:n complex correspondences
  Élodie Thiéblin, Fabien Amarger, Ollivier Haemmerlé, Nathalie Hernandez, Cassia Trojahn
• Identifying and validating ontology mappings by formal concept analysis
  Mengyi Zhao, Songmao Zhang

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
  E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA & LIG, France
  
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
  University of Oxford, UK
• Michelle Cheatham
  Wright State University, USA
• Oktie Hassanzadeh
  IBM Research, USA
• Ryutaro Ichise
  National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Program Committee:

• Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany
• Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM, France
• Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
• Valerie Cross, Miami University, USA
• Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Warith Eddine Djeddi, LIPAH & LABGED, Tunisia
• Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France
• Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
• Zlatan Dragisic, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
• Valentina Ivanova, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
• Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
• Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
• Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
• Axel Ngonga, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Dominique Ritze, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
• Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
• Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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