Registration for ORE 2013 and DL 2013 now open!

May 14, 2013 • Updates • by

Registration for the Description Logic workshop is now open, and the same registration system is used to register for the OWL Reasoner Evaluation workshop. To register for ORE (or both DL and ORE):

  • Visit https://www.conftool.net/dl2013/ and sign up for an account.
  • Continue to the registration page  “Step 2 of 4: Event and Item Selection” and select the appropriate checkboxes.
  • Complete the registration and payment.

The registration fees for the ORE workshop day on the 22nd July are as follows:

  • Early (before June 25th): 50 EUR regular / 30 EUR students
  • Late (on or after 25th June): 70 EUR regular / 50 EUR students
Registration fees include coffee breaks and lunch.
If you would like to additionally register for the DL workshop, the early fees are 250 EUR regular / 150 EUR students, late fees 300 EUR regular / 200 EUR students. DL also has a limited number of student grants available for attending the DL workshop. Please check the DL website for details.

We’re looking forward to seeing you in Ulm!

Deadline extended (to 12th May)

May 3, 2013 • Updates • by

We have had some requests for deadline extensions, so the deadline for paper submissions has been extended to Sunday the 12th May. 

We invite submission of short papers (6 pages) describing:

  • System descriptions describing the architecture, implementation, and expected performance of the reasoner.
  • Reasoner implementation details, usage reports, implementation “tips and tricks”.
  • Challenging ontologies and/or benchmark proposals for OWL reasoners.

For more information, please see the full Call for Papers.

Benchmarking framework available for testing

April 29, 2013 • Updates • by

We’ve released a test-ready version of the benchmarking framework we’re planning to use for the reasoner evaluation competition. Reasoner developers may download the scripts, jars and examples from our repository.

In order to use the benchmarking framework, participates need to create a simple reasoner wrapper and edit the execReasoner shell script in the framework to execute various reasoner tasks. More information can be found along with the code on https://bitbucket.org/spbail/ore-benchmark. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact the organisers.

Please note that the internals of the benchmarking framework may change. The purpose of the current release is mainly to test the interface and ensure that the reasoners can be executed from the framework.

System description submissions

If you are planning to participate in the competition, we strongly encourage you to submit a system description of your system. Please submit via Easychair by 3rd May 2013 (extension is possible if requested). Details about paper submissions can be found on the Call for papers page.

System submissions

The submission deadline for the reasoner competition is the 27th June 2013. Details can be found on the Competition page.

Call for Papers and Competition Submissions

February 13, 2013 • Updates • by

Call for Systems (Challenge)

We invite reasoner developers to submit their reasoners for participation in the OWL reasoner performance competition. The outline for the competition is as follows:
The test sets will include OWL ontologies from all OWL 2 profiles and of varying sizes, randomly sampled from the NCBO BioPortal, a web crawl, and user-submitted hard ontologies. The tested tasks will include consistency checking, classification, entailment checking, and query answering. Developers should send a JAR file of their systems to the competition organizers who will then carry out the benchmarks.

More information about the competition can be found on the competition page.

We also strongly encourage challenge participants to submit a system description paper, describing

  • architecture
  • implementation
  • expected performance

of their system.

Details of the competition and the submission procedure can be found on the ORE 2013 website: http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/competition/

In parallel with the OWL Reasoner Competition, we invite submission of papers describing:

  • System descriptions describing the architecture, implementation, and expected performance of the reasoner.
  • Reasoner implementation details, usage reports, implementation “tips and tricks”.
  • Challenging ontologies and/or benchmark proposals for OWL reasoners.

Submissions and review process

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not be longer than 6 pages.

Submissions must be in PDF through the EasyChair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ore2013.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Selected papers will be presented during the workshop and published as a volume of CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/).

Important dates

  • Paper submission deadline: May 3rd, 2013
  • Notification of acceptance: May 31st, 2013
  • System submission deadline for competition: June 27th, 2013
  • Workshop: July 22nd, 2013
  • Competitions: July 22-26, 2013

For enquiries, please contact the organisers at ore2013@easychair.org

ORE 2013 announced

December 6, 2012 • Updates • by

ORE 2013 will be collocated with the 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL). The workshop will take place on the 22nd July 2012 in Ulm, Germany. More information about the workshop and the reasoner competition will be announced here soon.