Call for Papers: IJCAI-01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing 4th/5th August 2001, Seattle, USA For details see http://www.semantic-translation.com/IJCAIwp/ Topics of interest of include, but are not limited to: Foundations of Ontologies: - Ontology languages and tools - Design and Engineering of top-level and domain ontologies - Merging, mapping, adapting and translating ontologies - Reasoning Support for Ontology Specifications Information Sharing with Ontologies: - Semantic Annotations, Extensions of XML and RDF - Ontology-based search and retrieval of information - Integration of heterogeneous and weakly-structured information - Semantic interoperability between information systems Applications and Products: - Reports on experiences using existing large-scale ontologies - Intelligent middleware components and information brokers - Product data modeling and intelligent marketplaces - Knowledge management solutions for large organizations Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers or statements of interest. Statements of interest should not exceed 3 Pages and shoul be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. Please make clear if your paper is meant to be a statement of interest. Technical Papers should be formated according to the IJCAI style which is available from the main conference site and must not exceed 12 papes. In order to submit a paper, the link to a PDF or Postcript version of the paper should be send to heiner@tzi.de. Please indicate, whether you want to present you paper in the joint session "Ontologies and e-commerce systems" with the E-Business and the Intelligent Web" Workshop. Important Dates: 10-Feb-01 - Sumission of Papers and Statements 15-Mar-01 - Notification of Acceptance 15-Apr-01 - Camera-Ready Papers 30-Apr-01 - Deadline for Workshop Notes Organising Committee: Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Facultad de Informatica, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. Phone: +34-91-3367439, Fax: +34-91-3524819, E-Mail: asun@fi.upm.es Michael Gruninger, Enterprise Integration Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 phone: +1 416-978-6347, Fax: +1 416-971-2479, E-Mail: gruninger@ie.utoronto.ca Heiner Stuckenschmidt (main contact), Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen, Germany. P.O.B.: 33 04 40 D-28334 Bremen, Phone: +49 421 218 4554, Fax: +49 421 218 7196, E-Mail: heiner@tzi.de Michael Uschold, Mathematics and Computing Technology, The Boeing Company, Seattle, USA. Phone: +1 425 865-3605, Fax: +1 425 865-2965, E-Mail: michael.f.uschold@boeing.com Program Committee: Mike Brown, Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Dieter Fensel, Department of Business Informatics, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nicola Guarino, LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy Frank van Harmelen, AI Department, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jim Hendler, DARPA, USA Ora Lassila, Nokia Research Center, Boston, USA Deborah McGuiness, KSL, Stanford University, USA Enrico Motta, KMI, Open University, UK Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA Christoph Schlieder, Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen, Germany Steffen Staab, AIfB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Rudi Studer, AIfB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Ubbo Visser, Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen, Germany Holger Wache, Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen, Germany ============================== Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Dipl.-Inf.) Intelligent Systems Group Center for Computing Technologies University of Bremen, Germany Phone: +49 421 218 7091 Fax: +49 421 218 7196 E-Mail: heiner@tzi.de www: http://www.tzi.de/~heiner/ Also have a look at: http://www.semantic-translation.com --------------------------------------- Be careful what you wish - it might come true !