While the use of knowledge bases is rapidly gaining industrial interest, ontologies are by and large still a fringe technology in most industries. A major impedi9 ment for industrial uptake is often attributed to the lack of scalable knowledge engineering tools and methodologies. Moreover, the development, maintenance, and use of knowledge bases and the tools and methods that are built to support these tasks usually require considerable specialist training. Enterprises that wish to explore the benefits of using semantic technologies will likely lack the necessary competence and will find that there are a few off-the-shelf ontologies, tools, and methodologies that fit their existing system architecture and information flow. The SKALE workshop wants to attract and stimulate novel research and innovative advances of semantic technologies with the aim of making these technologies more easily accessible to and useful for modern data-driven industries. The workshop also wants to investigate where the real world problems are, and where and what are the current show-stoppers for efficient large-scale deployments of ontology-based information systems?

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MAINTAINING MODULAR SEPARATION

In the area of ontologies for Knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge is rarely considered as a monolithic and static structure: partitioning knowledge into distinct modular structures is central to organize knowledge bases, from their design to their management, from their maintenance to their use in knowledge sharing.

Moreover, keeping knowledge in separate modules is essential for representing and for reliable and effective reasoning in changing situations. Finally, evolution of knowledge resources, in terms of updates by newly acquired knowledge, is an important factor influencing the meaningfulness of stored knowledge over time.

Considering these emerging needs, the International Workshop on Ontology Modularity, Contextuality, and Evolution (WOMoCoE) offers the ground to practitioners and researchers to discuss current work on practical and theoretical aspects of modularity, contextuality and evolution of ontology based knowledge resources.

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2708/preface.pdf

Fri, Apr 23, 2021