The Ninth 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 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, 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) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within 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 domains (e.g., energy);
• 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;
• 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 2014 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 11st, 2014) through the workshop submission site at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om14

Contributors to the OAEI 2014 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2014/.

• July 11, 2014: CLOSED
  Deadline for the submission of papers.
  
• August 1, 2014: Notifications have been sent out
  Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
  
• August 15, 2014: CLOSED
  Workshop camera ready copy submission.
• September 5, 2014: CLOSED
  Early ISWC'14 registration deadline.
• October 20th, 2014:
  OM-2014, Riva del Garda Congress Center, Sala 1000A, Trentino, Italy.

Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. The extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop will be invited to the Journal on Data Semantics.

In order for the paper to appear in the workshop proceedings, one of the authors must register both for the conference and the workshop by the EARLY registration deadline.

Technical Papers:

• A categorical approach to ontology alignment*
  Mihai Codescu, Till Mossakowski, Oliver Kutz
• The properties of property alignment*
  Michelle Cheatham, Pascal Hitzler
• Completeness and optimality in ontology alignment debugging
  Jan Noessner, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christian Meilicke, Mathias Niepert
• Time-efficient execution of bounded Jaro-Winkler distances
  Kevin Dreßler, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
• A two-step blocking scheme learner for scalable link discovery
  Mayank Kejriwal and Daniel P. Miranker
  
  * Authors have been invited to submit an extended version of the paper to be considered by the Journal on Data Semantics.

Organizing Committee:

• Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact)
  TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
  E-mail: pavel [dot] shvaiko [at] infotn [dot] it
• Jérôme Euzenat
  INRIA & LIG, France
  
• Ming Mao
  Electronic Arts, USA
• Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
  University of Oxford, UK
• Juanzi Li
  Tsinghua University, China
• Axel Ngonga
  University of Leipzig, Germany

Program Committee:

• Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany
• Michele Barbera, Spazio Dati, Italy
• Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France
• Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Michelle Cheatham, Write State University, USA
• Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy
• Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK
• Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
• Jérôme David, INRIA & LIG, France
• Stefan Dietze, L3S, Germany
• Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
• Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel
• Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
• Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
• Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK
• Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
• Nico Lavarini, Expert System, Italy
• Tatiana Lesnikova, INRIA, France
• Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
• Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK
• Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA
• Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Yefei Peng, Google, USA
• Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy
• Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Alessandro Solimando, University of Genova, Italy
• Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy
• Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
• Cássia Trojahn, IRIT, France
• Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy
• Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy
• Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
• Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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