From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 18 05:55:10 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:55:10 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Final CFP: ISWC'07 Ontology Matching (OM-2007) workshop Message-ID: <712DDACCE2324A55ABEFF4ECCF0197C4@PCAdmin> Apologies for cross-postings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: submission deadline is approaching: 17 days left ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2007) http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/ November 11, 2007, ISWC'07 + ASWC'07 Workshop Program, Busan, Korea BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, since it takes the ontologies as input and determines as output correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, query answering, data translation, or for navigation on the Semantic Web. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has two goals: 1. To bring together academic and industry leaders dealing with ontology matching in order to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their business needs. 2. To conduct an extensive evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2007 campaign. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world matching tasks from specific domains, e.g., medicine, food. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: Requirements to ontology matching from specific domains; Application of ontology matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Social and collaborative ontology matching; Interaction design for ontology matching; Interactive ontology matching; Background knowledge in ontology matching; Uncertainty in ontology matching; Formal foundations and frameworks for ontology matching; Performance of ontology matching techniques; Ontology matching evaluation methodology; Ontology matching for information integration; Ontology matching for dynamic environments; Systems and infrastructures. FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS The schedule assumes one day workshop. The workshop will consist of the following components: technical presentations, OAEI'07 results presentations, posters, workshop on consensus building (of reference alignments) and wrap-up discussion. Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of (i) technical papers addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as (ii) participating in the OAEI 2007 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. For complete style details, see Springer's Author Instructions http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html These should be prepared in PDF format and and should be submitted (no later than August 3, 2007) through the workshop submission site at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ISWC2007/ Technical papers will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Contributors to the OAEI 2007 campaign have to follow the contest conditions at: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS August 3, 2007: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 7, 2007: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 28, 2007: Workshop camera ready copy submission. November 11, 2007: OM-2007, BEXCO, Busan, Korea. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento, Italy e-mail: pavel at dit dot unitn dot it 2. Jerome Euzenat INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France 3. Fausto Giunchiglia University of Trento, Italy 4. Bin He IBM Almaden Research Center, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Wei Hu, Southeast University, China Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Todd Hughes, DARPA, USA Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Southampton, UK Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, USA Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Meenakshi Nagarajan, Wright State University, USA Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (ITC-IRST), Italy Marco Schorlemmer, IIIA-CSIC, Spain Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany Petko Valtchev, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA Mikalai Yatskevich, University of Trento, Italy Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2007 flyer: http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2007_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.ontologymatching.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jul 18 06:34:06 2007 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:34:06 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] OAEI-2007: call for ontology matching systems Message-ID: <2CF701D84F2D48828F8D6AE943C08DCB@PCAdmin> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for ontology matching systems participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2007 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop November 11, 2007 - Busan, Korea http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ontology matching is an important task for semantic system interoperability. Yet it is not easy to assess the respective qualities of available matching systems. The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is a coordinated international initiative set up for evaluating ontology matching systems. OAEI campaigns consist of applying matching systems to ontology pairs and evaluating their results. OAEI-2007 is the fourth OAEI campaign. It will consist of four tracks gathering six data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series); (ii) expressive ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy domain); (iii) directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo); (iv) consensus workshop. Anyone developing ontology matchers can participate by evaluating their systems and sending the results to the organizers. Tools for evaluating results and preliminary test bench tuning are available. Final results of the campaign will be presented at the Ontology Matching workshop and published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES May 15th, 2007: First publication of test cases June 15th, 2007: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 2nd, 2007: Final publication of test cases Sept. 3rd, 2007: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Oct. 1st, 2007: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 11th, 2007: Organizers publish results for comments Nov. 11th, 2007: OM-2007 workshop, Busan, KR + OAEI-2007 final results ready. More about OAEI-2007: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2007: http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2007 flyer: http://om2007.ontologymatching.org/Pictures/CfP_OM2007_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko University of Trento Dept. of Information and Communication Technology Sommarive 14, POVO, 38050, TRENTO, ITALY Web: http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.ontologymatching.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Jul 24 15:29:55 2007 From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (Dan Bothell) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:29:55 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Software for Advanced ACT-R Tutorial at ICCM Message-ID: There is a special version of the ACT-R 6.0 software available from the ACT-R web site. It has the "extras" which will be used during the tutorial already enabled (the BOLD prediction module and the new vision module), and it includes the demo models which will be shown. You can find it on the ACT-R 6.0 software page: or you can download it directly from one of these links: Dan From frank.ritter at psu.edu Tue Jul 24 16:29:29 2007 From: frank.ritter at psu.edu (Frank Ritter) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:29:29 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] risk driven spiral model book with models in its core Message-ID: Dear all, I helped write a book this past year on human-system design, and I thought you should know about it. It's an engineering book about reducing risk in system design by knowing users and their tasks, and ways to know users and tasks. We thought this book and its recommendations can even be helpful in improving system design. It is sympathetic to work on user modeling in ACT-R and Soar, and cites some of that work, and uses user models (both runable and static) as a central but not always named construct -- where it says 'shared representation', we sometimes mean cogntive user model or user model. I thought you might like to know about it as an extension of modeling and a nice survey about how to study users. Citation: Committee Human-System Design Support for Changing Technology. (2007). A new approach to system design using risk in human-system integration Richard W. Pew and Anne S. Mavor, editors. National Research Council, National Academy Press. Washington D.C. An Executive summary is at http://books.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11893.pdf I attach a summary with the blank pages removed, and a paragraph summary that I've just written to hold this together. I believe that if you write to Anne, she can get people in the US government copies of the book "Mavor, Anne" , otherwise you can either buy it or read it a page a time for free from http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11893 cheers, Frank "A new approach to system design using risk in human-system integration", by Richard W. Pew and Anne S. Mavor, editors, proposes a new approach to system design based on reducing risks in design and use, broadly described. It reduces risk through an iterated design process, that attempts to identify risks, and then reduce them through greater understanding of the process or that part of the system. The report provides details on this process, and also details on tools and methodologies for increasing understanding of system use, users, and context. It concludes with recommendations to improve system development. These recommendations include easier to use tools and methods, better shared representations of users and their tasks,and better education for people involved in the system and system development, including education for system designers about the wide range of risks. The book should be useful to designers of large systems that can take time to study the design process (this book may make suggestions to their practice), managers of designers, broadly defined, including chief technical officers and military officers at the flag level (who may wish to suggest changes to design processes in their organizations, and may wish to be aware of a wider range of risks and ways to reduce them, and may wish to implement some of the recommendations for practice), researchers and educators of design (who may find areas to extend, refine, and improve this work), and research funders interested in design (who may wish to support work addressing the research recommendations). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: %pewM07-executive-summary-revised 1 3.pdf Type: application/applefile Size: 141 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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