The WOP workshop series covers issues related to quality in ontology design and ontology design patterns (ODPs) for data and knowledge engineering in Semantic Web. The increased attention to ODPs in recent years through their interaction with emerging trends of Semantic Web such as knowledge graphs can be attributed to their benefit for knowledge engineers and Semantic Web developers. Such benefits come in the form of a direct link to requirements, reuse, guidance, and better communication. The workshop’s aim is thus not just: 1) providing an arena for discussing patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems, datasets, but also 2) broadening the pattern community by developing its own “discourse” for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should be made via the WOP 2023 EasyChair page. Detailed instructions can be found at the submission page. Note that design pattern submissions also need to be submitted to the ontologydesignpatterns.org community portal, as described on that page.

List of Topics

1. Use of ontology design patterns for any kind of knowledge engineering, including
   • Pattern-based ontology design, conceptual modeling or knowledge engineering broadly
   • Pattern Use in knowledge graphs or linked data settings (including pattern-driven linking or data publishing)
   • Pattern-based information extraction, ontology learning, and relation to NLP
   • Pattern use in streaming, ingesting or evolving knowledge
   • Use of patterns for ontology evaluation, quality assurance, ontology selection, integration or alignment
   • Pattern-based development of semantic applications
   • Reasoning with patterns (including automated reasoning, verification, or contextual reasoning)
2. Methods and tools for developing high-quality ontologies (with or without the help of patterns), including
   • Ontology engineering by domain experts
   • Quality attributes or metrics in ontologies and ontology engineering
   • Quality assurance approaches for ontology engineering
3. Development or analysis of ontology design patterns, including
   • Pattern extraction
   • Analyses of ontology design patterns or their uses
   • Antipatterns and their relation to ODPs
4. Development and use of patterns in specific domains, including
   • Data lakes, business intelligence, or Big Data integration
   • Geosciences, life sciences, engineering, digital humanities, cultural preservation
   • IoT, smart homes & cities, smart agriculture
   • Semantic technology, including social networks, semantic wikis and blogs

Committees

Program Committee

• María Poveda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Adila A. Krisnadhi, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
• Christian Kindermann, University of Oslo, Norway
• Hande Küçük McGinty, Kansas State University, USA
• Shirly Stephen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
• Nidhi Goyal, Mahindra University, India
• Monika Jain, IIIT-Delhi, India
• Valentina Anita Carriero, University of Bologna, Italy
• Stefano De Giorgis, University of Bologna, Italy
• Giorgia Lodi, National Research Council, Italy
• Bruno Sartini, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany
• Aaron Eberhart, Kansas State University, USA

Organizing Committee

• Raghava Mutharaju, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India (general chair)
• Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Faculty of Computing, Poznan University of Technology, Poland (papers co-chair)
• Pramit Bhattacharyya, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India. (papers co-chair)
• Eva Blomqvist, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden (patterns co-chair)
• Luigi Asprino, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna, Italy (patterns co-chair)
• Gunjan Singh, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India (proceedings and website chair)

Publication

Accepted research papers and pattern descriptions will be published online as CEUR-Workshop Proceedings. However, the authors can opt-out and choose not to publish their paper(s) on CEUR.

Venue

The conference will be held in Athens, Greece. It is co-located with the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to raghava.mutharaju@iiitd.ac.in