WOP2018: Call for papers and patterns

Dear colleagues,

The 9th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP2018) will be held 
on October 8-9, 2018 in Monterey, CA, USA, in conjunction with the 17th 
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018). The workshop website 
is at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2018

*Call for papers: *
We invite you to submit high-quality *research papers *(maximum 15 pages 
LNCS style) and *short papers* (maximum 5 pages LNCS style). The main 
topics include:

  * Ontology design patterns, analyses of ODP use, and analyses of
    pattern-based ontologies
  * Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration
  * Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns
  * Antipatterns and their relations to ODPs
  * Methods and tools for developing high-quality ontologies, including
    ontology engineering by domain experts
  * Analyses of quality attributes in ontologies and ontology
    engineering, and quality assurance approaches for ontology engineering
  * Pattern-based ontology design and knowledge engineering
  * Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection
  * Ontology pattern extraction
  * Pattern-based information extraction, ontology learning, and
    relation to NLP
  * Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, pattern-driven
    data publishing, etc.)
  * Quality assurance for Linked Data vocabularies
  * Web semantics from a pattern perspective
  * Reasoning with, or using, patterns
  * Contextual reasoning and patterns as context
  * Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic
    applications
  * Patterns for streaming data and evolving knowledge, as well as
    processes and services
  * Patterns for Big Data integration, data lakes, conceptual modeling,
    ontology-based data access, and business intelligence
  * Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs
  * ODPs development and use in specific domains including geosciences,
    life sciences, digital humanities, cultural heritage, e-history,
    IoT, smart homes & cities, smart agriculture etc.


*Call for Patterns:*
We invite you to submit research results in the form of *ontology design 
patterns *(ODPs; 5-12 pages LNCS style), such as:

  * Content patterns
  * Structural patterns: logical and architecture patterns
  * Correspondence patterns: re-engineering and alignment patterns


Submissions should be made via the WOP 2018 EasyChair page: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wop2018  . Instructions on 
submission can be found in: 
http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2018/Submission


*Important dates:*

  * Abstract submission (required): May 25th, 2018
  * Submission date: June 1st, 2018
  * Author notifications: June 27th, 2018
  * Workshops will be held on: 8th or 9th of October, 2018


*WOP2018 Chairs:*
Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland (general 
chair)
Martin G. Skjæveland, University of Oslo, Norway (papers co-chair)
Yingjie Hu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA (papers co-chair)
Karl Hammar, Jönköping University, Sweden (patterns co-chair)
Vojtěch Svátek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic 
(patterns co-chair)
(For general inquiries, please contact Agnieszka Ławrynowicz)


*Steering Committee:*

The Board of the Association of Ontology Design and Patterns:
Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University (chair)
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (vice chair)
Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (vice chair)
Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR
Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology
Adila Krisnadhi, Wright State University

Members with special appointments:
Andrea Nuzzolese, ISTC-CNR
Karl Hammar, Jönköping University


*Program Committee:*
Luigi Asprino University of Bologna and STLab (ISTC-CNR)
Gary Berg-Cross Ontolog
Marilena Daquino University of Bologna
Mauro Dragoni Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK-IRST
Chen-Chieh Feng National University of Singapore
Krzysztof Janowicz University of California, Santa Barbara
Tomi Kauppinen Department of Computer Science, Aalto University School 
of Science
Adila A. Krisnadhi Universitas Indonesia
Johan Wilhelm Kluewer Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
Piotr Kulicki John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Jose Emilio Labra Gayo Universidad de Oviedo
Agnieszka Lawrynowicz Poznan University of Technology
Steffen Lohmann Fraunhofer
Raul Palma Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
María Poveda-Villalón Ontology Engineering Group. Departamento de 
Inteligencia Artificial. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Cogan Shimizu Wright State University
Alexandre Sorokine ORNL
Gem Stapleton University of Brighton
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Monika Solanki University of Oxford
Vladimir Tarasov Jönkoping University
Evgenij Thorstensen Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
Samson Tu Stanford University
Dalia Varanka U.S. Geological Survey
Charles Vardeman Ii University of Notre Dame