NEWS: Excited to start a new project funded by WASP and WISE on using semantic technologies for processes in additive manufacturing together with Johan Moverare.

NEWS: Our journal paper 'Ontology-Based GraphQL Server Generation for Data Access and Data Integration' by Huanyu Li, Olaf Hartig, Rickard Armiento, and Patrick Lambrix, has been accepted to the Semantic Web Journal. Link to preprint.

NEWS: Bo Fu, Patrick Lambrix, Huanyu Li, Susana Nunes and Catia Pesquita organized VOILA 2023 - 8th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies, Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs 2023, co-located with the 22th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023). Proceedings are avaialble at CEUR.

NEWS: Issue (2023 - Nr 4) of the Swedish sports science magazine "Idrott och Kunskap" features an article on hockey analytics based on interviews at LINHAC 2023.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix gave an invited talk about our research on data integration for materials science at the 5th Materials Chain International Conference, August 31, 2023, Bochum, Germany.

NEWS: The paper 'Shared Metadata for Data-Centric Materials Science', a community effort with co-author Patrick Lambrix, has been accepted to Scientific Data. doi.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson from our group together with Mikael Vernblom from Linköping Hockey Club organized LINHAC 2023 - Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference on June 7-9, 2023. Read about LINHAC 2023: LiU news - Swedish, LiU news - English.
The proceedings are available at: doi.

NEWS: Our journal paper 'Completing and Debugging Ontologies: State of the Art and Challenges in Repairing Ontologies' by Patrick Lambrix has been accepted to the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality. doi.

NEWS: Bo Fu, Patrick Lambrix, Huanyu Li, Susana Nunes and Catia Pesquita will organize VOILA 2023 - 8th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, co-located with the 22th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023).

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson from our group together with Mikael Vernblom from Linköping Hockey Club organize LINHAC 2023 - Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference on June 7-9, 2023.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix gave a talk about our research on data integration for materials science at the 20th Research Data Aliance, March 21-23, 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden. Link to talk (38:12 - 45:55).

NEWS: Our paper 'Repairing EL Ontologies Using Weakening and Completing' by Ying Li and Patrick Lambrix, has been accepted to ESWC 2023. Link to preprint of the paper, systems, and experimental results.

NEWS: Our journal paper 'The Materials Design Ontology' by Patrick Lambrix, Rickard Armiento, Huanyu Li, Olaf Hartig, Mina Abd Nikooie Pour and Ying Li, has been accepted to the Semantic Web Journal. doi.

NEWS: The latest issue (2022 - Nr 6) of the Swedish sports science magazine "Idrott och Kunskap" features an article on sports analytics based on interviews with Patrick Lambrix (ice hockey), Anton Kalén (golf), David Sumpter (football) and Daniel Svensson (history).

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix was honored as 'Markante Tongenaar 2022' (Remarkable citizen of Tongeren 2022) for his scientific contributions on November 4, 2022 in Tongeren, Belgium. Invitation.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix gave an invited talk on our work on performance metrics for ice hockey players at the Skövde Sports Analytics Summit, October 27-28, 2022.

NEWS: The EU FP7-IP-608142 project VALCRI (Visual Analytics for Sense-making in CRiminal Intelligence analysis) in which we participated, received the 2022 Security Innovation Commercialisation Award from DG HOME of the European Commission. Award ceremony on October 5, 2022. News from EC DG HOME.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix gave an invited talk on our work on semantic and integrated access to materials databases at Psi-k 2022, August 22-25, 2022. The Psi-k conference, which is held every 5 years (but due to covid-19, it was 7 years ago), is the largest conference in electronic structures.

NEWS: Read about Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference - LINHAC 2022: in the LiU news and LHC news (in Swedish).

NEWS: My student Huanyu Li will present his PhD thesis on May 19, 2022. Opponent: assoc prof Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa. Examination Committee: prof Harald Sack, Dr Luca Ghiringhelli, prof Marco Kuhlmann, (prof Patrik Thollander).

NEWS: Bo Fu, Patrick Lambrix and Catia Pesquita will organize VOILA 2022 - 7th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, co-located with the 21th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2022).

NEWS: Our group participates in Onto-DESIDE, a EU-funded Horizon Europe project on circular economy. Eva Blomqvist from our Semantic Web group leads the project with start mid 2022. From our division, Olaf Hartig, Niklas Carlsson and Patrick Lambrix participate as PIs.

NEWS: The call for contributions for LINHAC 2022 - Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference, co-organized by Patrick Lambrix, Niklas Carlsson, Nanna Holm Glaas, Kim Martin Hasson and Mikael Vernblom, is now available. Deadline for submission of contributions: April 1, 2022 (extended). Link to call for contributions

NEWS: Bo Fu, Patrick Lambrix and Catia Pesquita are guest editors for a special issue of the Semantic Web Journal on Interactive Semantic Web. Deadline for submission of contributions: June 30, 2022. Link to call for contributions

NEWS: The proceedings of the VOILA 2021 - 6th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, co-organized by Patrick Lambrix, Catia Pesquita and Vitalis Wiens, are now available at CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Link to proceedings

NEWS: The poster teaser video for 'An Approach for Repairing Incoherent Ontologies Repairing' by Ying Li and Patrick Lambrix was selected as best teaser video at ISWC - the International Semantic Web Conference 2021. youtube video

NEWS: Mina Abd Nikooie Pour and Ying Li gave talks about systems for extending and completing ontologies at VOILA 2021 - 6th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data which was co-organized by Patrick Lambrix.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson from our group together with Nanna Holm Glaas, Kim Martin Hasson and Mikael Vernblom from Linköping Hockey Club will organize LINHAC 2022 - Linköping Hockey Analytics Conference on June 6-8, 2022.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix talked at Vetenskapsdagen on October 7, 2021 about ice hockey performance metrics. youtube video

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix and Huanyu Li gave talks about our work on debugging and completing ontologies, and on the Materials Design Ontology, respectively, at the Workshop on Ontologies for Materials-Databases Interoperability, October 5-7, 2021. video on debugging and completing ontologies

NEWS: Rickard Armiento, Welzel Andersen, Gareth Conduit, Luca Ghiringhelli, Patrick Lambrix and Cormac Toher organized a Workshop on Ontologies for Materials-Databases Interoperability on October 5-7, 2021.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix gave a talk on October 1, 2021 on our work on extending ontologies at the FAIR-DI Workshop 2021 on a FAIR data infrastructure for materials science. youtube video

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix presented our paper 'Predicting Season Outcomes for the NBA' by Teno Gonzalez dos Santos, Chunyan Wang, Niklas Carlsson and Patrick Lambrix at MLSA 2021, the 8th Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, September 13, 2021. Link to paper, youtube video

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix presented our paper 'Not all goals are equally important - a study for the NHL' by Jon Vik, Min-Chun Shi, Rabnawaz Jansher, Niklas Carlsson and Patrick Lambrix at the 8th MathSport International Conference, June 24-25, 2021. Link to paper.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix is invited to speak at the FAIR-DI workshop on a FAIR data infrastructure for materials science, September 28-October 1, 2021.

NEWS: Mina Abd Nikooie Pour presented our paper 'A First Step towards Extending the Materials Design Ontology' by Mina Abd Nikooie Pour, Huanyu Li, Rickard Armiento and Patrick Lambrix at the ESWC Workshop on Domain Ontologies for Research Data Management in Industry Commons of Materials and Manufacturing - DORIC-MM 2021 on June 7, 2021. Link to paper.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix, Catia Pesquita and Vitalis Wiens will organize VOILA 2021 - 6th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, on October 25, 2021, co-located with the 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021).

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson will speak at Vetenskapsdagen on October 7, 2021 on 'Which ex-LHC player played in a top defender pair in the NHL?'

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix presented MDO, the Materials Design Ontology at the 3rd EMMC International Workshop, Virtual, March 2-4, 2021. Link to ontology.

NEWS: The proceedings for VOILA 2020 - 5th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, organized by Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Catia Pesquita and Vitalis Wiens are now available as CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2778.

NEWS: Huanyu Li presented our paper 'An ontology for the materials design domain' by Huanyu Li, Rickard Armiento and Patrick Lambrix at ISWC 2020. Link to paper. Link to ontology.

NEWS: Universitetsläraren published a short article (in Swedish) on our sports analytics work based on an interview with Patrick Lambrix.

NEWS: Our EKAW18 paper on conducting and reporting on empirical user studies in Semantic Web contexts has been a major influence on the guidelines of ISWC 2020's reproducibility track.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix will be invited speaker at Psi-k 2020, September 14-17, 2020. The Psi-k conference, which is held every 5 years, is the largest conference in electronic structures and brings together researchers that work on developing fundamental theory, algorithms, and programs in order to understand, predict, and design materials properties and functions.
UPDATE: The 6th Psi-k conference is delayed until August 22-25, 2022.

NEWS: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann, Catia Pesquita and Vitalis Wiens will organize VOILA 2020 - 5th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, on November 2 or 3, 2020 in Athens, Greece, co-located with the 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020).

NEWS: LiU magasin published an article (in Swedish) on our sports analytics work based on an interview with Patrick Lambrix and Niklas Carlsson. Swedish and English versions were published on the LiU web.

NEWS: Our journal article 'User validation in ontology alignment: functional assessment and impact' by Huanyu Li, Zlatan Dragisic, Daniel Faria, Valentina Ivanova, Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz, Patrick Lambrix and Catia Pesquita in The Knowledge Engineering Review is now available open access. Link to paper.

NEWS: Our journal article 'A Method for Extending Ontologies with Application to the Materials Science Domain' by Huanyu Li, Rickard Armiento and Patrick Lambrix in the Data Science Journal is now available open access. Link to paper.

NEWS: Articles about our project on visualization of ice hockey data in cooperation with Linköping Hockey Club (LHC) were posted on LHC's web page and hockeysverige.se. (In Swedish.)

NEWS: Our group teaches in LiU's overview course on AI and digitalization (May/June 2019).

NEWS: Our journal article 'Drivers for the development of an Animal Health Surveillance Ontology (AHSO)' by Fernanda Dorea, Flavie Vial, Karl Hammar, Ann Lindberg, Patrick Lambrix, Eva Blomqvist, and Crawford Revie in Preventive Veterinary Medicine is now available open access. Link to paper.

NEWS: Prof Jesse Davis will give a talk on Wednesday 2019/04/24 15:15 on "Evaluating the Performance of Soccer Players".

NEWS: Our group organizes the Anatomy track and co-organizes the Interactive track of the 2019 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.

NEWS: CANCELLED: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann, Catia Pesquita and Vitalis Wiens will organize VOILA 2019 - 5th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, on October 26 or 27, 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand, co-located with the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019).

NEWS: The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) provides funding for the project CoDeLON - Completing and Debugging Large Ontologies and their Networks for 2019-22.

NEWS: Our group joins the EU project SPIRIT - Scalable privacy preserving intelligence analysis for resolving identities.

NEWS: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann and Catia Pesquita will organize VOILA 2018 - 4th International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, on October 8, 2018, in Monterey, CA, USA, co-located with the 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018). The proceedings are available as CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 2187.

NEWS: Our group organizes the Anatomy track and co-organizes the Interactive track of the 2018 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.

NEWS: Our first papers on sports analytics will be presented at MLSA18 on September 10, 2018. For our papers on player valuation in European football and on player pair valuation in ice hockey, see the publications of the sports analytics group.

NEWS: Prof Fabien Gandon will give a talk on Friday 2018/01/26 9:30 on "Adding Missing Links to bridge Natural and Artificial Intelligence on the Web".

NEWS: Prof Oscar Corcho will give a talk on Thursday 2018/01/25 9:00 on "A history of ontology-based data integration at the Ontology Engineering Group".

NEWS: We have started a group on sports analytics with people from different groups at the university.

NEWS: My student Valentina Ivanova will present her PhD thesis on January 26, 2018. Opponent: prof Fabien Gandon. Examination Committee: prof Oscar Corcho, prof Mathieu d'Aquin, docent Claes Lundström, (docent Mattias Arvola).

NEWS: My student Zlatan Dragisic will present his PhD thesis on September 26, 2017. Opponent: prof Erhard Rahm. Examination Committee: prof Jérome Euzenat, prof Asunción Gómez Pérez, prof Graham Kemp, (docent Magnus Bång).

NEWS: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann and Catia Pesquita will organize VOILA 2017 - 3rd International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, on October 22, 2017, in Vienna, Austria, co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017).

NEWS: Our group organizes the Anatomy track and co-organizes the Interactive track of the 2017 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.

NEWS: We have started a cooperation with the Swedish National Veterinary Institute regarding the development of ontologies for animal health surveillance.

NEWS: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann and Catia Pesquita are guest editors for a special issue in the Journal of Web Semantics on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data. Submissions are due by February 15, 2017.

NEWS: Our group organizes the Anatomy track and co-organizes the Interactive track of the 2016 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative.

NEWS: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann and Catia Pesquita will organize VOILA 2016 - 2nd International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data, on October 17, 2016, in Kobe, Japan, co-located with the 15th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016).

NEWS: Matthew Horridge, Patrick Lambrix, Bijan Parsia and Heiko Paulheim will organize CoDeS 2016 - International Workshop on Completing and Debugging the Semantic Web, on May 30, 2016, in Heraklion, Greece, co-located with the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016).

NEWS: Since 2013 our group has been organizing the Anatomy track of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative. From 2015, we are also involved in the organization of the Interactive track.

NEWS: Valentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Steffen Lohmann and Catia Pesquita will organize VOILA 2015 - Visualizations and User Interfaces for Ontologies and Linked Data, workshop on October 11 or 12, 2015, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015).

NEWS: The satellite events proceedings for EKAW 2014 are available online (LNAI 8982).

NEWS: CANCELED: Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi, Matthew Horridge and Bijan Parsia will organize WoDOOM15 - Fourth International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings on May 31 or June 1, 2015, in Portoroz, Slovenia, co-located with the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference.

NEWS: Our group joins the EU project VALCRI - Visual Analytics for sense-making in Criminal Intelligence Analysis.

NEWS: Prof Guilin Qi will give a talk on December 2, 2014, 10:15 in room Alan Turing with title "Reasoning with Imprecise Knowledge on the Semantic Web Using MapReduce".

NEWS: The preliminary program for EKAW 2014 is available. The proceedings for the main conference are available online (LNAI 8876). EKAW 2014, the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management will be held in Linköping, November 24-28, 2014 with Patrick Lambrix and Eero Hyvönen as general chairs.

NEWS: My student Zlatan Dragisic will present his Licentiate thesis on December 1, 2014. Opponent: prof Guilin Qi.

NEWS: The results of the Anatomy track of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2014, organized by our group, are available.

NEWS: The proceedings of WoDOOM14 - Third International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings organized by Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi, Matthew Horridge and Bijan Parsia on May 26, 2014, in Anissaras/Hersonissou, Greece are available as CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 1162.

NEWS: My student Valentina Ivanova will present her Licentiate thesis on March 7, 2014. Opponent: prof Eero Hyvönen.

NEWS: Prof Eero Hyvönen will give a talk on March 7, 2014, 10:15 in room Alan Turing with title "Semantic Web Infrastructure in Finland: National ONKI Ontology Service and Linked Data Finland Portal".

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi, Matthew Horridge and Bijan Parsia will organize WoDOOM14 - Third International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings on May 26, 2014, in Anissaras/Hersonissou, Greece, co-located with the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2014).

NEWS: EKAW 2014, the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management will be held in Linköping, November 24-28, 2014 with Patrick Lambrix and Eero Hyvönen as general chairs.

NEWS: The proceedings of WoDOOM13 - Second International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings, organized by Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi, Matthew Horridge and Bijan Parsia, are now available as CEUR Workshop Proceedings Volume 999.

NEWS:Our group will take over the organization of the Anatomy track of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative from 2013.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix speaks at the Ontology Summit 2013 on the March 7 session.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix is invited speaker at the 2nd Linked Data in Sweden event, Linköping, Sweden, April 16, 2013.

NEWS: Our group published a festschrift in honor of prof Nahid Shahmehri: Advances in Secure and Networked Information Systems - The ADIT Perspective. (December 2012)

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi, Matthew Horridge and Bijan Parsia will organize WoDOOM13 - Second International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings in May 2013, in Montpellier, France, co-located with the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013).

NEWS: EKAW 2014, the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management will be held in Linköping in Fall 2014 with Patrick Lambrix and Eero Hyvönen as general chairs.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi and Matthew Horridge will organize WoDOOM 2012 - First International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings on October 8, 2012, in Galway, Ireland, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012).

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix is faculty member of SeRC, the Swedish e-Science Research Centre since January 2012.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix is invited speaker at the Laboratory Protocol Standards Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden, November 15, 2011.

NEWS: Patrick Lambrix, Guilin Qi and Christian Meilicke gave a tutorial on Debugging ontologies and mappings in ontology networks at the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011).

NEWS: We have started a project together with the National Food Agency in aligning and debugging ontologies. (October 2011)

NEWS: The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) provides funding for the project Debugging networked ontologies for 2011-13.

NEWS: DILS 2010, the Seventh International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, August 25-27, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden, was co-organized in Sweden by Graham Kemp and Patrick Lambrix.

NEWS: Our SAMBO and SAMBOdtf systems for aligning ontologies obtained first and second place, respectively, in the anatomy track at the 2008 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI).