Audience:

The workshop encourages participation from academia, industry and user institutions with the emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of ontology matching. On the one side, we expect representatives from industry and user organizations to present business cases and their requirements for ontology matching. On the other side, we expect academic participants to present their approaches vis-a-vis those requirements. The workshop provides an informal setting for researchers and practitioners from different related initiatives to meet and benefit from each other's work and requirements. 

This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) datasets, benchmarks and replication studies, services, software, methodologies, protocols and measures (not necessarily related to OAEI), and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big and open data);
• Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., energy, public sector);
• Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps);
• Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
• Matching and big data;
• Matching and linked data;
• Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
• 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;
• Reasoning with alignments;
• Alignment coherence and debugging;
• Alignment management;
• Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration);
• Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services).

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 2018 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted (no later than July 28th, 2018) through the workshop submission site at: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2018

Contributors to the OAEI 2018 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule athttp://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2018/.