Workshop
on Ontologies in Peer-to-Peer Communities
Held as part of ESWC 2005
May 30, 2005
Heraklion, Greece
Deadline Extension
The deadline for the ESWC2005 Workshop on Ontologies in P2P Communities
has been extended to March 24, 2005. Due to the many requests stemming
from people being currently involved in project reviews and proposal
writing we welcome also submissions of abstracts (1-2 pages) which can
be expanded to full submissions until 15th of April 2005. See new
"Important Dates" section below for details.
Recently, a lot of research has been aimed at bringing together and
mutually augmenting the benefits of SemanticWeb technologies on the
one hand and P2P systems on the other. Ontologies are a vital part of
the SemanticWeb vision, providing machine-understandable, shared
conceptualizations of the respective domains of interest within
communities. Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are a means for communities to
establish communication among their members, foster collaboration and
provide an infrastructure in which peers can share and create
knowledge. The use of ontologies for and within P2P systems is expected
be a crucial part of creating P2P communities that go beyond
file-sharing. While most existing P2P systems are used for
exchanging objects such as data files, which are described by few
simple attributes such as a file name or a hash code,
ontology-based P2P systems will open up new possibilities. They can
enable richer, potentially more useful descriptions of peers, services,
and shared artifacts, thus facilitating new ways of querying, sharing,
and organizing knowledge within communities. The goal of the intended
workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the
P2P, Semantic Web and Knowledge Management fields to present their work
done within one or more of the topics of interest. We believe that at
the present time, discussions about a common understanding of the area,
models for distributed knowledge management systems, and novel ways of
using, creating, and sharing ontologies in P2P communities are
essential for the progress of the field.
We invite two types of submissions for this workshop:
Technical papers (maximum 12
pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but not
limited to them)
Short position papers
(maximum 6 pages) in any of the topics of interest of the workshop (but
not limited to them)
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of
these reviews. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. All
submissions should be made electronically if possible, by email
attachment and preferably in Postscript or PDF format.
All submissions must be sent to the workshop contact, Christoph Schmitz
at .
Although not required for the initial
submission, we recommend to follow the format guidelines of ESWC
(Springer LNCS -- LaTeX Style File), as this
will be the required format for accepted
papers.