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Contexts and Ontologies:Theory, Practice and Applications: "General Information and Workshop Goals
Ontologies are shared models of a domain that explicitly encode a view which is common to a set of different parties. Contexts are local models which explicitly encode one party's subjective view of a domain.
During the last decade, there has been a line of successful series of workshops and conferences on the development and application of contexts and ontologies. Early workshops were focused mostly on identifying what contexts and ontologies are, and how they can be formalized and exploited. In more recent years with the emergence of distributed systems (e.g., P2P systems, Semantic Web) the focus of workshops shifted towards questions of practical applications, such as semantic integration, coordination, and meaning negotiation among information sources, where both contexts and ontologies were applied as promising solutions. However, few, if any, of these meetings have focused on combining the themes of ontologies and contexts and discussed them as complementary disciplines."