Background and Objectives
Representing
knowledge and reasoning in a distributed and heterogeneous environments
is becoming more and more important with the advent of the web and of
ubiquitous connectivity. In the last decade, in many application areas
such as, "Information Integration", "Distributed Knowledge Management",
"Semantic Web", "Multi Agents Systems", "Distributed Reasoning", "Data
Grid and Grid Computing", and "Peer to Peer cooperation systems", we
assisted to the growing need of using knowledge which is not organized
as a unique, homogeneous and coherent knowledge base, but is scattered
in a large set of local and autonomous inter-related contexts.
Representing and Reasoning on context is therefore becoming a
necessity in many application areas, as most of the results in
knowledge representation and automated reasoning are based on the
assumption that knowledge is stored in an unique homogeneous block.
In more recent years, a number of approaches to context representation
and reasoning have been proposed in the different application areas,
possibly under different names. This workshop has the main objective
to allow the exchange of these experiences among expert in the
different application areas.
Research Topics
The
topics of the
workshop include, but are not limited to:
- logic of context
- logics for distributed knowledge
- distributed/contextual reasoning algorithms
- reasoning with multiple ontologies
- complexity of distribute/contextual reasoning
- knwledge modularization
- information integration
- ontology/schema mapping
- ontology composition and combination
- ontologies and/vs contexts
- contextual reasoning and Semantic Web
- applications of contextual reasoning in semantic-based
(distributed) systems (e.g., peer-to-peer networks, federated
databases, distributed database)
Organisation
Luciano Serafini
ITC-IRST - Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento,
Italy
serafini at
itc
dot it
and
Paolo Bouquet
Department of
Information and Telecommunication - University of
Trento, Italy
bouquet at dit dot unitn dot it
Program
Committee
- Alex Borgida - Rugers University (USA)
- Andrei Tamillin - DIT, University of Trento (I)
- Carsten Lutz - Dresden University of Technology (D)
- Chiara Ghidini - ITC-IRST, Trento (IT)
- Eyal Amir - University of Illinois, Urbana (USA)
- Fausto Giunchiglia - University of Trento (I)
- Floris Roelofsen - ILLC, Amsterdam (NL)
- Frank Wolter - University of Liverpool (UK)
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt - VU Amsterdam (NL)
- Holger Wache - VU Amsterdam (NL)
- Massimo Benerecetti - Universita di Napoli Federico II (I)
- Natasha Alechina - University of Nottingham (UK)
- Rich Thomason - University of Michigan (USA)
- Rolf Nossum - Høgskolen i Agder Christiansen (N)
- Stefano Zanobini - University of Trento (I)
- Valeria De Paiva - Xerox PARC (USA)
- Ramanathan V. Guha - IBM Research (USA)
Submission and Publication
For CRR 2005 we are soliciting high quality technical papers that
describe both research results and system implementationsand
expermients on the relevant topic areas. All papers will be
peer-reviewed by members of the CRR 2005 program committee and by
additional expert reviewers from relevant research communities. Papers
for CRR 2005 should be maximum 12 pages formatted according to the
Springer-Verlag LNCS style. Paper can be submitted through the Context-05 web site
Workshop
Format
The
workshop
will be a full day event, in which oral presentations
will be integrated with plenary discussions. Depending on the
availability of space we will organize also a poster/demo session
Important
Dates
Submission
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March 25, 2005
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Acceptance notification
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April 15, 2005
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Camera ready
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May 30, 2005
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Workshop
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July 05, 2005
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