Submission Details

All papers submitted to DL 2009 must be

• formatted in the Springer LNCS style,
• at most 11 pages long, including title, abstract (can be omitted if necessary), but excluding references (i.e., the length of the paper without the references must be at most 11 pages),
• in PDF format, and
• submitted via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl2009) no later than April 20, 2009 (see important dates).

In order to keep the reviwers' workload manageable as well as ensuring fairness to all submitting authors, all submissions not comforming to these requirements will be rejected without review.

The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings series. Accepted submissions will be selected for either oral or poster presentation; however, no distinction will be made in the workshop proceedings.

Workshop Scope

We invite contributions on all aspects of description logics, such as

• foundations of description logics, including expressive power, decidability and complexity of reasoning, novel inference problems, and reasoning techniques for solving these problems;
• extensions of description logics, including, but not limited to, closed-world and nonmonotonic reasoning, defaults, epistemic reasoning, temporal and spatial reasoning, procedural knowledge, and query languages;
• integration of description logics with other formalisms, such as object-oriented representation languages, database query languages, constraint-based programming, logic programming, and rule-based systems;
• use of description logics in applications or areas such as ontology engineering, ontology languages, databases, semi-structured data, document management, natural language, learning, planning, semantic web, and grid computing;
• building systems based on description logics, with special emphasis on optimization and implementation techniques; and
• tools that exploit description logic reasoning, such as ontology editors, database schema design, query optimization, and data integration tools.