During the past two years, the notion of Ontology Patterns has clearly become more mainstream within the Semantic Web eld. We have for instance noted that in last years ISWC one full paper session, entitled Ontologies and Patterns, was devoted almost entirely to patterns. This emerging role of patterns is also evident from the number of paper submissions for this years edition of WOP (see further below), which has broken all previous records.
Further information about the Workshop on Ontology Patterns can be found at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2012. We appreciate support from the DEON project (funded by STINT) and send special thanks to all members of the steering committee, program committee, authors and local organizers for their e orts and support.
Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa and Karl Hammar