Second International Workshop on
Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings
May 27, 2013
Montpellier, France

WoDOOM13 is an ESWC 2013 workshop.

Proceedings

Motivation and objectives

Developing ontologies is not an easy task and, as the ontologies grow in size, they are likely to show a number of defects. Such ontologies, although often useful, also lead to problems when used in semantically-enabled applications. Wrong conclusions may be derived or valid conclusions may be missed. Defects in ontologies can take different forms. Syntactic defects are usually easy to find and to resolve. Defects regarding style include such things as unintended redundancy. More interesting and severe defects are the modeling defects which require domain knowledge to detect and resolve such as defects in the structure, and semantic defects such as unsatisfiable concepts and inconsistent ontologies. Further, during the recent years more and more mappings between ontologies with overlapping information have been generated, e.g. using ontology alignment systems, thereby connecting the ontologies in ontology networks. This has led to a new opportunity to deal with defects as the mappings and other ontologies in the network may be used in the debugging of a particular ontology in the network. It also has introduced a new difficulty as the mappings may not always be correct and need to be debugged themselves.

Topics of interest

This workshop intends to be a forum where issues in debugging ontologies and mappings between ontologies are discussed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• detecting and repairing semantic defects in ontologies
• detecting and repairing modeling defects in ontologies
• detecting and repairing defects in the structure of ontologies
• detecting and repairing defects in mappings between ontologies
• debugging ontology networks
• debugging modular ontologies
• debugging defects in linked data
• justifications
• belief revision for debugging
• ontology patterns for debugging
• interactive ontology debugging
• visualization for ontology debugging
• connection of ontology debugging with other ontology engineering tasks (e.g. ontology development, ontology alignment, ontology comprehension, ontology sense making, ontology evolution, ontology enrichment)
• case studies

Papers

Invited talk:

• Heiner Stuckenschmidt.
  Debugging weighted Ontologies.

Full papers:
The papers marked with * were selected for republication in the ESWC13 supplementary proceedings.

• * Maria Copeland, Rafael S. Goncalves, Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler and Robert Stevens.
  Finding fault: Detecting issues in a versioned ontology.
• Peter Haase, Ian Horrocks, Dag Hovland, Thomas Hubauer, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Evgeny Kharlamov, Johan Kluwer, Christoph Pinkel, Riccardo Rosati, Valerio Santarelli, Ahmet Soylu and Dmitriy Zheleznyakov.
  Optique System: Towards Ontology and Mapping Management in OBDA Solutions.
• Patrick Lambrix, Fang Wei-Kleiner, Zlatan Dragisic and Valentina Ivanova.
  Repairing missing is-a structure in ontologies is an abductive reasoning problem.
• Catherine Roussey and Ondrej Zamazal.
  Antipattern Detection: How to Debug an Ontology without a Reasoner.
• * Alessandro Solimando and Giovanna Guerrini.
  Ontology Adaptation upon Updates.
• Ondrej Zamazal, Lorenz Buhmann and Vojtech Svatek.
  Checking and Repairing Ontological Naming Patterns using ORE and PatOMat.

Final manuscripts

Accepted papers will be included in CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Submit final manuscripts via easychair. Use 'proceedings author'.

Copyright form.

Submission Guidelines

Paper submission and reviewing for this workshop will be electronic via EasyChair. The papers should be written in English, follow Springer LNCS format, and be submitted in PDF.

We invite the following types of submissions:

• Research papers (up to 12 pages).
• Experience papers (up to 12 pages).
• Poster papers (up to 8 pages).
• System/demonstration (up to 8 pages).

Important dates

• Submission: March 11, 2013 (extended)
• Notification: April 8, 2013 (extended)
• Camera-ready: April 22, 2013 (extended)

Attendance

Organization

Workshop Organizers

• Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
• Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China.
• Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA
• Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK

Programme Committee

• Samantha Bail, University of Manchester, UK
• Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, University of Oxford, UK
• Jianfeng Du, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
• Peter Haase, fluid Operations, Germany
• Aidan Hogan, DERI, Ireland
• Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, USA
• Maria Keet, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Patrick Lambrix, Linköping University, Sweden
• Yue Ma, TU Dresden, Germany
• Christian Meilicke, Mannheim University, Germany
• Bijan Parsia, University of Manchester, UK
• Rafael Penaloza, TU Dresden, Germany
• Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
• Uli Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
• Stefan Schlobach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Baris Sertkaya, SAP Research Dresden, Germany
• Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
• Peng Wang, Southeast University, China
• Renata Wassermann, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Fang Wei-Kleiner, Linköping University, Sweden

Past workshops