The 1st international Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise

October  31, 2005 

Montpellier, France

  Welcome to Welcome to OnToContent 2006OnToContent 2006

Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Claude Ostyn, IEEE-LTSC, USA

Werner Ceusters, University of Buffalo ,USA

Andreas Persidis, Biovista, Greece

(Organizers and Co-chairs)

OAOOThe Ontology Outreach Advisory

This workshop is organized by :This workshop is organized by :

OAOOThe Ontology Outreach Advisory

The OOA:

An international not-for-profit organization (will be registered next month, in Belgium).

Consists of industry, government, and research leaders and innovators with respect to ontology development, use, or education.

An initiative in KnowledgeWeb (FP6-507482 NoE).

The mission:• Develop strategies for ontology recommendation and standardization, • Promote the ontology technology to industry. • It is mainly content-oriented rather than only technology-oriented. • Organized as a number of domain chapters (HR, eHealth, financial, legal,

etc.) and working groups (Ontology Evaluation, Upper-Level)

• Previous activities: (Workshops: Oxford’06, Crete’05, Crete’04…..), Ontology Quality Guidelines, etc.

Paper Submission & SelectionPaper Submission & Selection 34% acceptance rate. 36 papers were submitted. 12 papers were selected (8 full papers, 4 position papers).

Papers were judged according to :originality, validity, significance to theory and practice, readability and organization, and relevancy to the workshop topics and beyond.

(2-4) reviewers were assigned for each paper: (At least 1 ontology expert, at least 1 HR/HLS expert, etc.).

OnToContent’07: will be part of the OTM’07, call for papers soon, suggestions are very welcomed.

Acknowledgement Acknowledgement

Adil Hameed, Alain Leger,

Aldo Gangemi, André Valente,

Andrew Stranieri, Avigdor Gal, Barry Smith,

Bill Andersen, Bob Colomb,

Christiane Fellbaum, Christopher Brewster,

Ernesto Damiani, Fausto Giunchiglia, Francesco Danza,

Mohand-Said Hacid, Nikolay Mehandjiev, Paolo Bouquet, Paul Piwek, Robert Meersman, Robert Tolksdorf, Sergio Tessaris, Silvie Spreeuwenberg, Simon White, Stephen McGibbon, Theo Mensen, Yannick Legré, Yannis Charalabidis, Yaser Bishr.

Francky Trichet, Giancarlo Guizzardi,Giorgos Stamou, Hans Akkermans, Harith Alani, Jeff Pan, Jens Lemcke, John Sowa, Joost Breuker, Karl Stroetman,Kewen Wang, Luk Vervenne, Lina Al-Jadir, Miguel-Angel Sicilia,

Program committee:

ProgramProgram

Session 1: Ontology Quality and Consensus -Chair: Mustafa Jarrar

Session 2: Ontology construction and eHealth ontologies -Chair: Esteban Zimanyi

Session 3: Competence Ontologies -Chair: Damiani Ernesto