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Applied Ontology ---

  --- Special Issue on Modularity in Ontologies ---

              --- Call for Papers ---

   Abstract Submission deadline: 31 December 2010

     Paper Submission deadline: 31 January 2011

  http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~okutz/womoAO/

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Applied Ontology - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis

and Conceptual Modeling

IOS Press, ISSN: 1570-5838

Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino, Mark A. Musen

MODULARITY, as studied for many years in software engineering, allows

mechanisms  for easy and flexible reuse, generalisation, structuring,

maintenance, design patterns, and comprehension. Applied to ontology

engineering, modularity is central not only to reduce the complexity of

understanding ontologies, but also to facilitate ontology maintenance

and ontology reasoning. Recent research on ontology modularity shows

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substantial progress in foundations of modularity, techniques of

modularisation and modular development, distributed reasoning and

empirical evaluation. These results provide a solid foundation and

exciting prospects for further research and development.

This special issue invites submission of high quality original work that

has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.

Submissions must be formatted according to IOS Press style

( www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html ) and should be prepared

in PDF format. Contributions must be received not later than December

2010 through the EasyChair Submission System

( www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=aowomo11 ).

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission: till 31st December 2010

Paper Submission: closes 31st January 2011

Notification (expected): March/April 2011

Revised Version due: June 2011

Publication (expected): Fall 2011

GUEST EDITORS
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Oliver Kutz, Joana Hois

(Research Center on Spatial Cognition (SFB/TR 8), Bremen, Germany)

http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de