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2006 International Workshop on Description Logics - DL2006 The Lake District of the UK, May 30-June 1, 2006

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Registration is open!

The deadline for early registration is May 15th which is quite soon. Also, consider securing accomodations as soon as possible, as many hotels are filling up.

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.pdf. To submit your paper, please login to Easy Chair and follow the instructions for submission. In case you have problems with electronic submissions, please contact the organizers.

Proceedings

Accepted papers are printed in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be electronically published as as a CEUR workshop proceedings 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

There were 9 long papers, 16 regular papers, and 12 posters accepted. See the entire list.

Thanks to all who submitted and reviewed!

Workshop Program

Invited Speakers

Registration Information

In keeping with registration last year, and in contrast to DL workshops before that, registration is open to everyone, and not by invitation only. We encourage attendance by all interested parties.
Registration fees:

The registration fee includes coffee breaks, three lunches and a social dinner at Broadoaks Country House.

Please register by filling out the registration form and faxing it to Uli Sattler (the number is on the form).

Student Travel Awards

Typically we offer a limited number of student travel awards to help young researchers attend DL. Details about applications will appear in this space.

Local Information and Accommodation

The DL06 workshop will be held in the beautiful Lake District of the United Kingdom at the Hydro Hotel (see a map of the location or another map which shows the Hydro in relation to the closest train station and the KR location).

The closest international airport is Manchester Airport. The easiest way to get to the workshop location from Manchester is by train (the nearest train station is Windermere Railway Station). If you are driving, it is about a 2 hour trip from the airport. (See the KR travel page, as well.)

The Lake District has quite a range of accomodations (from bed and breakfasts to hotels to cottages). NOTE: You may want to consider alternatives to the conference venue itself, the Hydro, as it has mixed reviews.

The Tourist information center is a good source of information.

Note: Accomodations may be scarce! Book now.

See also the list of auxiliary reviewers who made the program committee's job much easier.

• Enquiries about the DL'06 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.
• Uli Sattler maintains a page about current DL reasoners at: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~sattler/reasoners.html.