International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics

In collaboration with ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

/ Programme

09.00 — 09.05

Opening and Introduction (Jeff Pan, Dimitris Plexousakis)

09.05 — 10.05
Invited Talk: Ontology Dynamics Meets Belief Change Dr. Thomas Meyer, Knowledge Systems Group, Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

Logic-based representations of ontologies, and description logics in particular, have been of enormous benefit for the ontological community. The main advantage this approach has provided, is a clear formal semantics with efficient and practical reasoners. The growing popularity in the use of ontologies has identified the need for dealing in appropriate ways with changing ontologies. While some interesting and useful results have already been obtained, the approach so far has been somewhat ad hoc. In this talk I will argue that a systematic logic-based approach will have similar advantages for ontology dynamics than that brought about by the use of description logics in ontological representations. The approach I will focus is the body of work on Belief Change developed over the past 20-25 years.

10.05 — 10.30
Using Background Knowledge for Ontology Evolution [slides] F. Zablith, M. Sabou, M. d'Aquin, E. Motta
10.30 — 10.50

Break

10.50 — 11.15
Supporting the Evolution of SHIQ Ontologies with Inductive Logic Programming - a Preliminary Study [slides] F. Lisi, F. Esposito
11.15 — 11.40
A Theoretical Model to Handle Ontology Debugging and Change Through Argumentation M. Moguillansky, N. Rotstein, M. Falappa
11.40 — 12.05
An Ontology Creation Methodology: a Phased Approach [slides] J.A. Gulla, V. Sugumaran
12.05 — 12.30
Controlled Ontology Evolution through Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation [slides] R. Dividino, D. Sonntag
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