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                                                            ECAI'2000

Workshop on  Applications of ontologies and problem-solving methods


http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html

                   Submission deadline (electronic):  March 29,2000
                   Notification of acceptance:  May 2, 2000
                   Camera-ready copies:  June 3, 2000.

                        Contact Person: asun@fi.upm.es
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A short description of the CFP:


Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods (PSMs) are widely used
instruments for knowledge sharing and reuse.  The aim of this
workshop is to promote a deep understanding of how ontologies and PSMs
may be used in real applications, and how they should cooperate.

Submissions are *not* limited to these topics.

* Actual Applications *

Papers should describe an implemented application which clearly
illustrate how ontologies and/or and PSMs are used to provide specific
benefits.  Applications of any sort in any domain are welcome. For
example, e-commerce, molecular biology, knowledge management,
intelligent information integration, information retrieval/extraction,
natural language processing, information systems design, etc.

* Frameworks, Overviews and Analyses *

Papers should address one or more themes or technical issuse important
in the end-to-end process of developing and deploying applications of
ontologies and PSMs.  Different applications should be compared and
contrasted and an assessement of the state of the art for one or more
particular techniques or methods should be described.  Focus may be on
applications that achieve specific kinds of goals, such as
inter-operability, or information integration.  Or the focus might be on

particular techniques that are useful for a variety of kinds of
applications: e.g. mapping functions, translation, distributed
management and maintenance of ontologies.

* New Techniques and Methods *

Papers should introduce a novel technique or method, or a novel
combination of techniques and methods.


* Other Topics of Interest *

Communication between people and organisations, knowledge discovery in
databases and data-mining, interoperability between systems (data bases,

digital libraries), knowledge elicitation from text and the web , etc.
Experiences on the use of ontologies on the WWW and Intranets and its
relationship with web content-encoding standards (e.g. DTD, XML, RDF,
etc), as well as the technology needed to build, publish and retrieve
knowledge models on the WWW. The role of (multiple) ontologies in
intelligent information
integration. The design, construction, and use of tools for building and

reusing ontologies or problem-solving methods.  Methodologies and tools
for reusing PSMs and ontologies to configure new applications.


Richard Benjamins, University of Amsterdam
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (contact person), Universidad Politecnica de
Madrid;
Nicola Guarino, National Research Council LADSEB-CNR
Mike Uschold, Mathematics and Computing Technology: The Boeing Company