From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue Aug 12 14:21:02 2008 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (pavel) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:21:02 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] OAEI-2008: 3rd call for ontology matching system participation Message-ID: <002501c8fca8$9f42a770$c8bca8c0@serverigtpdszq> Apologies for cross-postings +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for ontology matching system participation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ OAEI-2008 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in cooperation with the ISWC Ontology Matching workshop October 26, 2008 - Karlsruhe, Germany http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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-2008 is the fifth OAEI campaign. It will consist of four tracks gathering eight data sets and different evaluation modalities. The tracks cover: (i) comparison track (systematic benchmark series); (ii) expressive ontologies (e.g., from the anatomy and environment domains); (iii) directories and thesauri (e.g., Google, Yahoo and crosslingual resources); (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 19th, 2008: First publication of test cases June 15th, 2008: Comments on test cases (any time before that date) July 1st, 2008: Final publication of test cases Sept. 1st, 2008: Preliminary results due (for interoperability-checking) Sept. 26th, 2008: Participants send final results and supporting papers Oct. 10th, 2008: Organizers publish results for comments Oct. 26th, 2008: OM-2008 workshop, Karlsruhe, DE + OAEI-2008 final results ready. More about OAEI-2008: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/ More about OAEI: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/ More about OM-2008: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/ More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Download the OM-2008 flyer: http://om2008.ontologymatching.org/CfP_OM2008_flyer.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy Web: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone with relevant qualifications who is interested in applying should send his/her vita and names of referees to my attention. Thanks for your help. --Lynne Reder ================================== Lynne Reder Professor Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-3792 (office) 412-268-2844 (fax) reder at cmu.edu (email) http://memory.psy.cmu.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com Tue Aug 26 10:56:38 2008 From: hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com (Hiran Ekanayake) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:26:38 +0530 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Aging problem in ontology modeling Message-ID: Hi, I am not a very active user in this list. May be my question is too general and I would be apologizing if I disturbed your interests. Recently when I was thinking about dynamic ontology modeling, I got the perception that there should be a growing aging problem associated in such models. The reason is that when the network grows over the time, the concepts should be from a spectrum of time frames from past to present. If such a model is used for future decision making, there should be a possibility that the decisions are bit outdated for the current time. I have seen this problem in many aged people. I'm very happy if someone can point me references for this. Hiran Ekanayake Department of Computation and Intelligent Systems University of Colombo School of Computing Colombo, Sri Lanka. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com Wed Aug 27 06:27:54 2008 From: hiran.ekanayake at gmail.com (Hiran Ekanayake) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:57:54 +0530 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Aging problem in ontology modeling In-Reply-To: <9a69fa4f0808261502j3f57d64fh780703a93868854@mail.gmail.com> References: <9a69fa4f0808261502j3f57d64fh780703a93868854@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I think I haven't elaborated the problem properly. In hypothetical levels, if you compare knowledge modeling in children, they are able to grasp concepts (more declarative) quickly because their knowledge networks are small in scale. However, with their development, they start to inference based on their existing knowledge and selectively attend to things. Again, since the existing knowledge networks are getting bigger and bigger, these agents should become inefficient in using their knowledge effectively as a whole. In this effort, I see some people are more reluctant in absorbing changes to whatever they believed earlier even they wanted to do so (may be because of knowledge conflicts at cognitive levels). I see this as one major problem which creates differences between generations. Here what I would like to know is whether someone has looked into this problem before. Hiran On 8/27/08, Susan Chipman wrote: > > I am curious what examples of such problems you think you have > observed in aged people. It does not seem to me that ontological relations > are likely to change over time, as contrasted to things like ideas about > what things should cost. > > Susan Chipman > > > On 8/26/08, Hiran Ekanayake wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am not a very active user in this list. May be my question is too >> general and I would be apologizing if I disturbed your interests. >> >> >> >> Recently when I was thinking about dynamic ontology modeling, I got the >> perception that there should be a growing aging problem associated in such >> models. The reason is that when the network grows over the time, the >> concepts should be from a spectrum of time frames from past to present. If >> such a model is used for future decision making, there should be a >> possibility that the decisions are bit outdated for the current time. I have >> seen this problem in many aged people. >> >> >> >> I'm very happy if someone can point me references for this. >> >> >> >> Hiran Ekanayake >> >> Department of Computation and Intelligent Systems >> >> University of Colombo School of Computing >> Colombo, Sri Lanka. >> _______________________________________________ >> ACT-R-users mailing list >> ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu >> http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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