1. 15.12.04 revised 20.12.06CmpE 583 Fall 2006Discussion: OWL- 1 CmpE 583- Web Semantics: Theory and Practice DISCUSSION: OWL Atilla ELÇİ Computer Engineering Department Eastern Mediterranean University

2. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 2 CASE STUDIES The Guide Q & A.

3. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 3 Midterm Exam Q&A

4. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 4 Levels of OWL: Why 3? Why not a single OWL? 2 or 4 levels of OWL? Why more than one level? Why 3 levels?  Levels defined: capability completeness.

5. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 5 FOISFOIS, International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Check Topics of FOIS 2006FOIS 2006

6. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 6 Complexity Complexity issue:  If OWL Lite and OWL DL ontologies are integrated, would the resultant case be more complex than both put together? In other words, do we need to resort to OWL Full in that case?

7. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 7 Future Ontologies What does the future hold in its store for ontologies:  Talks on OO-oriented ontologies: when OWL++ ?  A framework for ontologies:.OWL Framework?

8. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 8 ISWC 2007: 6th Int’l Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2007 ISWC 2007 solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with both analytical theoretical and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Nov. 11-15,2007, Bexco, Busan, Korea. Proceedings by Springer Publications in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Important Dates:  May 18, 2007: Research Track paper submissions due  July 18, 2007: Research Track paper acceptance notification  August 24, 2007: Research Track camera-ready papers due  November 11-15, 2006: ISWC 2006 Technical Program Formatted papers must be no longer than 14 pages Topics include, but are not limited to: >next page

9. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 9 ISWC 2007: 6th Int’l Semantic Web Conference Applications of the Semantic Web  Applications with clear lessons learned; Evaluation of Semantic Web technologies  Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, e-learning, and other application domains  Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content; Personal Information Management Management of Semantic Web Data  Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data  Database technologies for the Semantic Web  Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web  Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web  Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web  Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction Ontologies  Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution; Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment  Evaluation and ranking of ontologies; Ontology search Semantic Web Architecture  Semantic Web middleware; Semantic Web services  Agents on the Semantic Web; Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids Social Semantic Web  Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web  Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation  Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security

10. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 10 WI-IAT'05: IEEE/WIC/ACM Intnl. Joint Conf. On Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology September 19-22, 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, France High quality papers are sollicited in all Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology related topics. The conference homepages:  Web Intelligence (WI'05): http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05  Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05): http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05 WI/IAT'05 also welcomes Industry / Demo Track submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. Important Dates:  Electronic submission of full papers: ** April 3, 2005 **  Notification of paper acceptance: June 9, 2005  Workshop and tutorial proposals: June 9, 2005

11. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 11 INISTA 2007: Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications International Symposium on organized by Yıldız Technical University in cooperation with IEEE Turkey Section.  www.inista.org www.inista.org 20-23 June 2007, Istanbul, Turkey. The topics: innovations in theory and applications of intelligent systems covering Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Expert Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Machine Learning, Smart Electronic Systems, etc. Submission of papers is due by January 29, 2007.

12. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 12 PM4W: Policy Management for the Web One day workshop on Tuesday 10 May 2005 in Chiba, Japan.  http://www.cs.umbc.edu/pm4w/ http://www.cs.umbc.edu/pm4w/ At the 14th Intl. WWW Conference WWW2005.  http://www2005.org/ http://www2005.org/ Consists of invited talks, paper presentations, a panel and discussions. Two kinds of papers are sought:  Long papers reporting the results of original research, and  Short papers that articulate a position, describe an application or demonstrate a working language or system. Papers must be submitted electronically by 1 Feb. 2005.

13. 15.12.04 revd 20.12.06 CmpE 583 Fall 2006 Discussion: OWL- 13 NGWSP'05: Intl. Work Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices August 23-26, 2005, Seoul, Korea: http://archi.cse.cau.ac.kr/ or http://ngwsp.softcomputing.nethttp://archi.cse.cau.ac.kr/ http://ngwsp.softcomputing.net In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society (Pending approval) Conference themes:  Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation, merging, linking and reconciliation)  Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design  Database Technologies for Web Services  Customization, Reusability, Enhancements  Information Security Issues  Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance  User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling  Web Services Standards  Autonomic Computing Paradigms  Web Based e-Commerce, e-learning applications  Grid Based Web Services Paper submission due date: March 01, 2005.