======================================================== 6th Int'l Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO) Graz, Austria, July 24, 2012 held in conjunction with FOIS 2012 --- First Call for Papers --- ======================================================== Submission deadline: May 11, 2012 ======================================================== http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~ts/womo2012 MODULARITY, studied for years in software engineering, allows mechanisms for easy and flexible reuse, generalization, structuring, maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. In formal and applied ontology, modularity is central to reducing the complexity of designing and understanding ontologies, and to facilitating ontology verification, reasoning, development, maintenance and integration. Recent research on ontology modularity shows substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of modularization and modular development, distributed reasoning and empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and exciting prospects for further research and development. The workshop continues a series of successful events that have been an excellent venue for practitioners and researchers to discuss latest and current work; the most recent WoMOs were held at FOIS 2010 and ESSLLI 2011. TOPICS include, but are not limited to: - What is modularity?: kinds of modules and their properties; modules vs. contexts; design patterns; granularity of representation; - Logical/foundational studies: conservativity; modular ontology languages; reconciling inconsistencies across modules; formal structuring of modules; heterogeneity; - Algorithmic approaches: distributed and incremental reasoning; modularization and module extraction; sharing, linking, reuse; privacy; evaluation of modularization approaches; complexity of reasoning; implemented systems; - Applications: semantic web; life sciences; bio-ontologies; natural language processing; space and time; ambient intelligence; social intelligence; collaborative ontology development and ontology versioning. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: May 11, 2012 Notification: June 12, 2012 Camera ready: July 1, 2012 Workshop: July 24, 2012 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We welcome submissions on modularity in a broad sense. The workshop is open to papers of theoretical or practical nature. Submissions should be of up to 11 pages in length, formatted according to Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html ), prepared in PDF format and submitted no later than May 11, 2012, through the EasyChair Submission System (see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=womo2012 ). Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be made available in the proceedings to be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series (see http://www.ceur-ws.org ). (Find the WoMO 2010 and 2011 proceedings here http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=16268 and http://www.booksonline.iospress.nl/Content/View.aspx?piid=20369 ) WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Thomas Schneider, University of Bremen, Germany Dirk Walther, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TBA INVITED SPEAKERS: TBA