Calendar of Relevant Open Events in 2006 that may be of Professional Interest to the Ontolog Community

Year 2007 Events - see: RelevantEventsOfInterest2007

December 12, 2006, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #56, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Towards A Transparent Acquisiton Marketplace for Increased Mission Agility with Open Technology Development" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/TowardsTransparentAcquisitonMarketplace_OpenTechnologyDevelopment_12_12_06

November 30 - December 1, 2006 - Ontology for the Intelligence Community: Towards Effective Exploitation and Integration of Intelligence Resources, at Columbia, Maryland, US - ($) - see: http://ncor.us/oic

November 23-25, 2006 - Semantics 2006: International Conference on Semantics, at Vienna, Austria - ($) - see: http://www.semantics2006.net/

November 10-11, 2006 - OWLED2006: OWL Experiences and Directions 2006, in Athens, Georgia, USA (after ISWC, co-located with RuleML-2006) - ($) - see: http://owl-workshop.man.ac.uk/OWLWorkshop06.html

November 10-11, 2006 - RuleML-2006 : Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, Second International Conference, in Athens, Georgia, USA (after ISWC, co-located with OWLED2006) - ($) - see: http://2006.ruleml.org

November 9-11, 2006 - FOIS-2006: International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) - ($) - see: http://www.formalontology.org/fois-2006/fois-2006.htm/
- November 9, 2006, 8:00pm EST, Thursday - Second Plenary Meeting of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR), at Johns Hopkins University, Ballroom - (Co-located with FOIS-2006)

November 6-10, 2006 - OASIS UBL TC F2F Meeting: OASIS Universal Business Language Technical Committee Face-to-face Meeting, in Singapore - see: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200610/msg00015.html

November 6-9, 2006 - OIS-2006: First International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards, at Tucson, Arizona, USA - Co-located with the 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006) - see: http://events.deri.at/ois2006/

November 5-9, 2006 - ISWC2006: The 5th International Semantic Web Conference, at Athens, Georgia, USA - ($) - see: http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/
- November 6, 2006 - SWESE06: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering, at Athens, Georgia, USA (co-located with ISWC2006 lised above) - see: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/swese2006
- November 5 or 6, 2006 - Workshop for W3C Semantic Web Health Care & Life Sciences, at Athens, Georgia, USA (co-located with ISWC2006 lised above) - see: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC/Workshop
- November 5 / 6, 2006 - URSW: Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web, at Athens, Georgia, USA (co-located with ISWC2006 lised above) - see: http://www.iet.com/iswc/2006/ursw/
- November 5, 2006 - OM-2006: International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with the 5th International Semantic Web Conference at Athens, Georgia, USA - see: http://www.om2006.ontologymatching.org/

October 24, 2006, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #55, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Open Collaboration: Revisiting Rules, Roles, and Relationships for High Performance" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_RevisitingRulesRolesRelationshipsForHighPerformance_2006_10_24

Moving Toward Interoperability] - Technologies for Accessible, Affordable Healthcare Conference, at NIST (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA) - ($) - see: http://www.itl.nist.gov/Healthcare%20Summit/registration.htm

October 12-13, 2006 - WoMM2006 2nd International Workshop on Meta-modelling and Ontologies in Karlsruhe, Germany - see: http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/ws/womm2006/

September 20-21, 2006- ESAS 2006: International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems, being held in conjunction with the 30th IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2006) at Hyatt Regency O'Hare, Chicago, Illinois, USA - ($) - see: Registration menu tab at http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2006/

September 19, 2006, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #54, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Open Collaboration: Networking Financial Management Communities to Advance Information-Sharing and Best Practices for Business Performance Excellence" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingFinancialManagementCommunities

September 4, 2006 - semantics4ws'06: Advances in Semantics for Web services 2006 Workshop, at Vienna, Austria - ($) - see: http://www.semantics2006.net/

Beijing, China - ($) - see: http://www.aswc2006.org/

August 15, 2006, Tuesday - Collaborative Expedition Workshop #53, at NSF (Arlington, Virginia, USA; with remote attendance support) - "Open Collaboration: Networking Semantic Interoperability Across Distributed Organizations and Their Ontologies" - (Free) - see: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExpeditionWorkshop/OpenCollaboration_NetworkingSemanticInteroperability_2006_08_15

(US) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/calendar.cfm