1997 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'97)

September 27 - 29, 1997
Gif sur Yvette (Paris), France

Preliminary Call for Papers

The 1997 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'97) continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics.
In addition to the traditional panels and paper presentations, the first day of the workshop will be dedicated working group discussions of small groups of participants. A working group will spend the day discussing a specific set of problems identified ahead of time.
Demonstrations of systems will be possible and people interested are encouraged to get in touch with the organizers.

We call for two types of contributions: proposals for working groups and paper submissions.

CALL FOR PROPOSAL OF WORKING GROUPS

A working group proposal should contain a short description of the problem being addressed by the group. In particular, it should identify the possible accomplishments the group can obtain. The objective should be one that can be reasonably met in a one-day meeting. The proposal should name a group leader (or co-leaders),who will be responsible for setting the agenda, and participants who may possibly be interested in the group. We encourage group leaders to contact at least a few of participants before submitting the proposal. Three brief examples of working-group topics are given in the end of the call for paper.
The deadline for proposals of working groups is March 30.
The acceptance of working groups will be notified by April 30.

SCOPE

PAPER SUBMISSION

Interested parties should prepare a short paper on some aspect of their current work in Description Logics for inclusion in the proceedings (no more than 5 LaTeX 12-point article-style pages), or a short position paper indicating interest in description logics and the workshop.

Please prepare a version of your submission (preferably as a self-contained LaTeX 12-point article style file) and send it to dl97@dl.kr.org by e-mail, to arrive by May 30th 1997.
We will determine participation in the workshop by June 30th 1997 based on the proceedings papers, position papers, and contributions to working groups.
Revised versions of accepted proceedings papers should be sent by September 1st 1997 . The revised position papers will be electronically distributed to participants. The proceedings consisting of revised versions of the position papers will be produced and distributed after the workshop, and made available to other researchers.

IMPORTANT DATES

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

RESOURCES

Enquiries about the workshop can be made by mailing to dl97@dl.kr.org.

Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the WWW page of the workshop at http://dl.kr.org/dl/dl97/ for updates.

The postscript leaflet of the workshop;
the ASCII text Call for Papers of the workshop.

The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/dl/.

EXAMPLE WORKING GROUPS

• WORKING GROUP "Description Logics and Object-Oriented Databases"
  The goal of this working group is to study the question of increasing the modeling power of object-oriented schemas by importing techniques of description logics. Traditionally, object-oriented schemas have enforced very considerable restrictions on the structure of the class hierarchy. The main reasons for these restrictions are in order to allow efficient access to objects and to guarantee a unique representation for objects. The working group will try to identify ways in which we can relax some of the restrictions on object-oriented schemas while still keeping in mind the efficiency considerations. This discussion should also shed light on the issue of defining object-oriented views.

• WORKING GROUP "Description Logics as a modeling tool for applications"
  This working group will study the effectiveness of description logics in real applications. Of particular interest will be the use of description logics in ontological engineering, an application area which has seen a recent growth in interest and one which seems naturally amenable to description logics. Topics to be considered will include the practical aspects of modeling, such as methodologies, tools and environments, as well as the relevant benefits and restrictions of description logics. The working group will try to identify key application requirements and how they might influence future description logic research.

• WORKING GROUP "Coordinated effort towards an Open Architecture for KR systems based on DL"
  Presently, a KR-DL system is a somewhat monolithic object: a part of an existing KR-DL system can not be taken out of the system and used in another system, and adding new modules in a principled way - e.g., enriching some reasoning capabilities - is almost impossible. The group will constructively discuss on a coordinated effort for building "next-generation" modular DL systems. Developers, theoreticians, users, experienced people can discuss how should be the functionalities, the modules, the services that next generation systems should have. The group may then suggest some common architectures and - perhaps - protocols, in the spirit of enriching the KRSS specifications. The effort of developing a good DL system is enormous - and still it does not satisfy many potential users. A goal of this group is to better satisfy the different points of view of the community. Moreover, this can lead to some common effort in really developing together a common system.

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