text_combined: sofia pinto xkauxvinciinescidpt building applying ontologies semantic web december 2005 covilhã portugal httpbaoswepia05diubipt held conjunction 12th portuguese conference artificial intelligence sponsored appia portuguese association ai httpepia05diubipt ontologies promise shared common understanding domain communicated people application systems therefore emerged important research area since 1990s ontologies used different purposes natural language processing ecommerce elearning knowledge management semantic web information retrieval etc different research communities knowledge engineering database software engineering etc emergence semantic web marked another stage evolution ontology field according bernerslee semantic web extension current web information given welldefined meaning better enabling computers people work cooperation cooperation achieved using shared knowledgecomponents therefore ontologies become key instrument developing semantic web interweave human understanding symbols machine processability workshop addresses problems building applying ontologies semantic web areas listed well theoretical practical challenges arising applications invite contributions enhance stateoftheart creating managing using ontologies topics interest topics interest include limited ontology engineering methodologies capture learning evaluation management evolution ontology learning semantic interoperability composition modularity combining merging mapping alignment translating transforming ontology language interoperability ontologies information sharing ontologybased information integration mediators brokers agents ontologies ontology applications semantic web knowledge management ecommerce egovernment elearning escience information retrieval p2p networks web services annotation invited speaker christoph bussler science foundation ireland professor executive director digital enterprise research institute deri national university ireland ireland 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information body paper references would identify authors institutions information added final cameraready version publication workshop full papers higher quality selected publication main volume conference proceedings lectures notes artificial intelligence lnai remaining accepted papers published local workshop proceedings hardcopy web least one authors accepted papers register epia 2005 otherwise paper included proceedings submission process available conference site format allowed electronic submission pdf submitted papers peerreviewed least three program committee members andor additional reviewersreferees important dates 27may05 paper submission 15jul05 notification paper acceptance 28jul05 cameraready paper submission 05dec05 conference begins program committee aldo gangemi institute cognitive sciences technologies italy andreas hotho kassel university germany boris motik fzi germany christopher brewster sheffield university uk christopher welty knowledge structures group ibm usa eugénio oliveira porto university portugal heiner stuckenschmidt vrije university netherlands john domingue open university england jorge santos porto superior engineering institute portugal jose iria sheffield university uk leo obrst mitre corporation usa ljiljana stojanovic fzi germany luis camarinhamatos new university lisbon portugal maria vargasvera open university england mariano fernandezlopez polytechnical university madrid spain marta sabou vrije university netherlands michael gruninger national institute standards technology usa oscar corcho isoco spain peter mika vrije university netherlands philipp cimiano aifb karlsruhe university germany rose dieng inria france siegfried handschuh ontoprise germany stefano borgo institute cognitive sciences technology italy steffen staab koblenz university germany ubbo visser bremen university germany virginia brilhante federal university amazonas brazil virginia dignum utrecht university netherlands ying ding deri insbruck university austria york sure aifb karlsruhe university germany organizing committee hsofia pinto istinescid portugal andreia malucelli porto universitypucpr portugal fred freitas federal university alagoas brazil christoph tempich karlsruhe university germany workshop venue epia 2005 held city covilhã city snow wool serra da estrela national park lies east portugal hosted department computer science university beira interior details registration accommodation available conference site helena sofia pinto phone 351 21 3100388 instituto superior tecnico email njcfhtrrbqdeiistutlpt departamento de eng informatica av rovisco pais 1049001 lisboa portugal inescid algos group email xkauxalgosinescidpt rua alves redol 9 1000029 lisboa portugal email delivered nzvoqintuclausthalde moderated list runned computational intelligence group technical university clausthal germany event announcements sent list also listed conference planner httpcigintuclausthaldeindexphpid case requests questions comments hesitate 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