[fg-arc] [OM-2025][1st CfP] 20th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC2025

[Cassia TROJAHN]

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     ***************         1st Call for Papers           ***************

 The 20th International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2025)
                    November 2nd or 3rd, 2025, Nara (Japan)

collocated with the 24th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2025
                  https://om.ontologymatching.org/2025/

Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks
dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies
as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of
correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies.
These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology
merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
with the matched ontologies to interoperate.

The workshop has three goals:
1.
To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions
to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial
and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user
representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their
requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology
matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to
data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks.

2.
To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching
and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through
the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2025 campaign:
https://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2025/

3.
To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging,
techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.

TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
    Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data);
    Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios;
    Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
    Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access;
    Matching and knowledge graphs;
    Matching and deep learning;
    Matching and embeddings;
    Matching and big data;
    Matching and linked data;
    Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
    Privacy-aware matching;
    Process model matching;
    Large-scale and efficient matching techniques;
    Matcher selection, combination and tuning;
    User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
    Explanations in matching;
    Social and collaborative matching;
    Uncertainty in matching;
    Expressive alignments;
    Reasoning with alignments;
    Alignment coherence and debugging;
    Alignment management;
    FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) alignments;
    Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science);
    Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs).

SUBMISSIONS
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2024 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages. References and appendix are excluded from the page limits and the submissions are single blind. All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style. 

Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw, while offline version with the style files is available from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. 

Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format through the workshop submission site at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2025

DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
    August 2nd, 2025: Deadline for the submission of papers.
    August 29th, 2025: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
    September 26th, 2025: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
    November 2nd or 3rd 2025: OM-2025 Nara, Japan.

Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway

Oktie Hassanzadeh
IBM Research, USA

Cássia Trojahn
INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

Sven Hertling
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany

Huanyu Li
Linköping University, Sweden

Pavel Shvaiko
Trentino Digitale, Italy

Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany
Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK
Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France
Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
Daniel Faria, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
Marko Gulić, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland
Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia
George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece
Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile
Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
Giorgos Stoilos, University of Oxford, UK
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Olivier Teste, IRIT, FR
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China
Ondřej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA