Welcome July 9, 2005 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA W1 - Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications C&O-2005 Pavel Shvaiko Deborah McGuinness Jérôme Euzenat Alain Lèger Holger Wache

C&O-2005 July 9, 2005 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Goals  Discuss how the semantic heterogeneity problem can be tackled with the help of approaches for combination of multiple contexts and multiple ontologies  Proceed with further analysis and understanding of the technical problems related to integration/coordination of contexts and ontologies from theoretical, practical and application perspectives

C&O-2005 July 9, 2005 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Statistics 30 submissions received 11 accepted as technical papers 16 accepted as posters and statements of interest Submission’s geography

C&O-2005 July 9, 2005 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Schedule 8:45 - 9:30 Invited Talk: Fausto Giunchiglia C-OWL: contexts meet ontologies 9: :30Paper Presentation Session: Foundations 10: :30Coffee Break / Poster Session 11: :00Paper Presentation Session: Language and Reasoning 13: :00Lunch 14: :45 Invited Talk: Christopher Welty Ontologies meet contexts: past, present and future 14: :30 16: :30 Paper Presentation Session: Information Retrieval 15: :30Coffee Break / Poster Session 17: :00Paper Presentation Session: Ontology Matching 18: :00Discussion and Wrap-up 45 minutes – invited talks and questions 30 minutes – long presentations and questions 15 minutes – short presentations and questions

C&O-2005 July 9, 2005 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Acknowledgements We thank all the members of the program committee, additional reviewers, authors, invited speakers and local organizers for their efforts We appreciate support from the Knowledge Web FP6 Network of Excellence

C&O-2005 July 9, 2005 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Thank you