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2005 International Workshop on Description Logics - DL2005 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK July 26-28, 2005 Ian Horrock's photos from DL and IJCAI Uli Sattler's photos from DL

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Call for Participation

The 2005 International Workshop on Description Logics continues the tradition of international workshops devoted to discussing developments and applications of knowledge representation formalisms based on Description Logics. It is the 18th in the series of international workshops.

DL2005 will be co-located with IJCAI 2005 (the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 July to 5 August 2005), and will take place from the 26th to 28th July 2005 in the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Call for Papers

We invite submissions of technical papers of 8 pages. Authors of accepted technical and position papers will be invited to present their papers at the workshop. Accepted technical papers will be included in the informal conference proceedings as normal papers (8 pages) or long papers (12 pages). We plan to make the conference proceedings available electronically via CEUR.

Important Dates

Scope

We invite contributions on all aspects of Description Logics, including but not limited to:

• Foundations of Description Logics, including distinguishing features of Description Logics with respect to other formalisms, expressive power of Description Logics, decidability and complexity of reasoning, and novel inference problems and reasoning techniques for solving these problems.
• Extensions of Description Logics, including, but not limited to, closed world reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, fuzzy operators, temporal and spatial knowledge, procedural knowledge, and query languages.
• Integration of Description Logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems.
• Use of Description Logics in applications or areas such as natural language, planning, learning, databases, document management, semistructured data, ontology design and engineering, e-Science, semantic web, and grid computing.
• Building systems based on Description Logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques.
• Tools that exploit Description Logic reasoning, such as ontology editors and database schema design and integration tools.

Submission Details

Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper not exceeding 8 pages that has been prepared according to the instructions found in submission.tex. In case you cannot use LaTeX, you can use the instructions found in submission.ps. To submit your paper, please follow the instructions at the Submission Page for DL 2005. In case you have problems with electronic submissions, please contact one of the workshop organizers.

Proceedings

Accepted papers are printed in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be electronically published as CEUR-Workshop Proceedings Volume 147 at http://CEUR-WS.org/. At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants.

Accepted Papers and Posters

Accepted papers and posters can be found here.

Workshop Program

Invited Speakers

Registration Information

Please note that, in contrast to previous DL workshops, registration is open to everybody, and not by invitation only.
Registration fees:

The registration fee includes coffee breaks, three lunches and a social dinner at Howies Waterloo Place.

Please register online here. The registration is a two-stage process carried out by the National e-Science Centre, where in the first step you can have your hotel booked. A confirmation of this booking is, however, only possible after payment in the second step.

Student Travel Awards

We offer a limited number of student travel awards to help young researchers attend DL2005. We invite full time students with an accepted DL paper to apply for this grant before June 15, 2005. Applications should include a brief CV, a student ID or other evidence of professional status, and a letter of support from their supervisor. Please send your application to Uli Sattler, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, to arrive by June 15, 2005.

Local Information and Accommodation

The DL'05 workshop will be held in National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Please notice that accommodation can be arranged with the National e-Science Centre when registering online; please cf. the registration information above.

• Information regarding costs, travel information, hotels, etc. will be distributed later. Check the home page of DL 2005 for updates.
• Enquiries about the DL'05 workshop can be made by mailing to the organizing committee: [email protected].
• The official Description Logics WWW home page is at http://dl.kr.org/.
• Patrick Lambrix has a nice collection of DL references, researchers, etc. at: http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/people/patla/DL/index.html.