WL: EXPERIENCES AND DIRECTINS
Second International Workshop
Athens, GA, USA, 10-11 November 2006
Co-located with ISWC06 and RuleML06.
Registration is now open!
Authors of accepted papers plus programme committee members are invited
to participate in the workshop. The registration is also open for other
interested people. Prospective participants that have not received an
invitation should send an email to owl-ws-organizers (AT) mindswap (DOT) org with a
one-paragraph statement on their rationale to attend prior to registration.
registration can be done at
Call for Participation
The W3C WL Web Language has been a W3C recommendation since
2004. WL is playing an important role in an increasing number and range
of applications, and is the focus of research into tools, reasoning
techniques, formal foundations, language extensions etc. This level of
experience with WL means that the community is now in a good position
to discuss how WL be applied, adapted and extended to fulfill current
and future application demands.
The aim of the WLED workshop series is to establish a forum for
practitioners in industry and academia, tool developers, and others
interested in WL to describe real and potential applications, to share
experience, and to discuss requirements for language
extensions/modifications. The workshop will bring users, implementors
and researchers together to measure the state of need against the state
of the art, and to set an agenda for research and deployment in order to
incorporate WL-based technologies into new applications.
Characteristics of WLED06
The 2006 WLED workshop shall in particular
- further the interaction between theoreticians, tool builders, and
implementors;
- help consolidating WL 1.1;
- initiate the development of WL 2.0; and
- aid in clarifying the relationships between WL and rules.
For WLED06, we focus particularly on the following topics:
- Experiences with WL 1.1
- Implementation issues with WL 1.1
- Demos of WL 1.1 implementations
- Requirements for a potential WL 2.0 revision
- Modeling and reasoning with WL and rules
- Survey papers
- System descriptions
Workshop Format
The goal of the workshop will be to maximise discussion. The technical
sessions will therefore consist of short presentations of papers
(grouped by topic area) followed by directed discussion. Further
presentations and system demonstrations will be made as part of a poster
session. The workshop may also have one session in common with the
Second International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for
the Semantic Web (RuleML06) in which the integration of WL with rules
languages will be discussed.
List of Accepted Papers for WLED-2006
- Long Papers
Carsten Lutz. Reasoning Support for Design
Sean Bechhofer, Thorsten Liebig, Marko Luther, Noppens, Peter
Patel-Schneider, Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn, Anni-Yasmin Turhan and Timo
W DIG 2.0 -- Towards a Flexible Interface for Description Logic
Reasoners
Guohua Shen, Zhiqiu Huang, Xiaodong Zhu and Xiaofei Zhao. Research on
the Rules of Mapping from Relational Model to WL
Ammar Mechouche, Christine Golbreich and Bernard Gibaud. Towards an
hybrid system for brain MRI images description
Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond, John Goodwin, Alan Rector, Robert
Stevens and Hai Wang. The Manchester WL Syntax
Raul Garcia-Castro, Asuncion Gomez-Perez and Stefano David. Defining a
Benchmark Suite for Evaluating the Import of WL Lite
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Bijan Parsia, Peter Patel-Schneider
and Ulrike Sattler. Next Steps for WL
Nick Drummond, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens and Georgina Moulton. Putting
WL in : Patterns for Sequences in WL
Boris Motik and Ian Horrocks. Problems with WL Syntax
Deborah McGuinness and Peter Fox. Semantically-Enabled Virtual
Matthew Horridge and Dmitry Tsarkov. Supporting Early Adoption of WL
1.1 with PWL and FaCT++
Markus K, Sebastian Rudolph and Pascal Hitzler. the Complexity
of Horn Description Logics
Christian Halaschek-Wiener and Yarden Katz. Belief Base Revision For
Expressive Description Logics
Vladimir Kolovski, Bijan Parsia and Yarden Katz. Implementing WL Defaults
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe DeGiacomo, Domenico Lembo, Maurizio Lenzerini,
Antonella Poggi and Riccardo Rosati. Linking Data to : The
Description Logic DL-Lita_A
Corinna Elsenbroich, Kutz and Ulrike Sattler. A Case for
Abductive Reasoning over
Yolanda Gil, Jihie Kim, Varun Ratnakar and Ewa Deelman. Wings for
Pegasus: A Semantic Approach to CreatingVery Large Scientific Workflows
Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta, Carlos Buil, Jose Manuel Gomez,
Goerlitz and Holger Lewen. Developing ontologies in WL: An
observational study
Vinay Chaudhri, Bill Jarrold and John Pacheco. Exporting Knowledge Bases
into WL
- Position Papers
Catherine Dolbear, Glen Hart and John Goodwin. What WL has done for
geography and why we dont need it to map read
Robert Stevens, Phillip Lord and Andrew Gibson. Something nasty in the
woodshed: the public knowledge model
Aaron Kershenbaum, Achille Fokoue, Chintan Patel, Christopher Welty,
Edith Schonberg, James Cimino, Li Ma, Kavitha Srinivas, Robert Schloss
and J William Murdock. A View of WL from the Field: Use-cases and
Experiences
Adrian Paschke. WL2Prova: An Integration Approach Combining Rules and
Semantic Web
Jie Bao and Vasant Honavar. Adapt WL as a Modular Language
Qing Lu and Volker Haarslev. KBEval: DL-based Evaluation of WL
Rinke Hoekstra, Jochem Liem, Bert Bredeweg and Joost Breuker.
Requirements for Representing Situations
Amineh Fadhil and Volker Haarslev. GL: A Graphical Query Language for
WL
Anita C. Liang, Boris Lauser and Margherita sini. From AGRVC to the
Agricultural Service / Concept Server - An WL model for
creating ontologies in the agricultural domain
Venue
The Workshop will take place at the Classic Center
(http://classiccenter.com/) in Athens, Georgia, U. S. A. (about two
miles away from the location of ISWC 2006). For more venue information,
including how to reach Athens, see the General Information section of
the ISWC 2006 web site (). There will be
shuttle services between ISWC and WLED locations.
Steering Committee
Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK)
Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA)
Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (USA)
Workshop Committee
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Manchester (UK)
Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Conor Shankey, Visual Knowledge Software Inc. (USA)
Evan Wallace, NIST (USA)
Programme Committee
Dean Allemang, TopQuadrant (USA)
Michael Champion, Microsoft (USA)
Kendall Clark, University of Maryland (USA)
Giuseppe DeGiacomo, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy)
Nick Gibbins, University of Southampton (UK)
Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (USA)
Christine Golbreich, University Rennes 2 (France)
Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (Canada)
Joanne Luciano, Harvard Medical School (USA)
Carsten Lutz, TU Dresden (Germany)
Ashok Malhotra, (USA)
Massimo Marchiori, W3C at MIT (USA)
Boris Motik, University of Manchester (UK)
Enrico Motta, University (UK)
Ryusuke Masuoka, Fujitsu Laboratories of America (USA)
Gary Ng, Cerebra (USA)
Natasha Noy, Stanford University (USA)
Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland (USA)
Terry Payne, University of Southampton (UK)
Alan Ruttenberg, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, (USA)
Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma ``La Sapienza'' (Italy)
Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester (UK)
Andrew Schain, NASA (USA)
Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universitat Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool (UK)
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bolzano (Italy)