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Ontologies,
DataBases, and Applications of Semantics |
Scale of use, ease of use, breadth of use and choice of use have earmarked the most important transitions of semantic technologies in the years since the first ODBASE conference in 2002. Recent methods allow for scaling of semantic technologies to handling dozens of millions of triples; they allow for composing intriguing semantic applications within a few days; they address target applications from the sciences up to eCommerce; and they allow to chose among plenty of existing ontologies and half a dozen of RDF stores, inferencing engines, or ontology mapping systems.
While these developments greatly contribute to the success of semantic technologies, for enterprise-wide and Web-scale applications the envelope needs to be pushed much higher, faster, wider and broader. The 2007 conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE'07) solicits original research papers that push the current boundaries.
As in recent years, the focus of the conference lies in addressing research issues that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial intelligence, networking, data extraction, or mobile computing. Also, ODBASE'07 encourages the submission of papers that examine the information needs of various applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, or bioinformatics.
ODBASE'07 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, realistically large systems. In the latter case, preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide (experimental) use.
ODBASE'07 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners by being part of the Federated conferences Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007" that co-locates five conferences: ODBASE'07, DOA'07 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications), CoopIS'07 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems), GADA'07 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications), and IS'07 (International Symposium on Information Security).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'07 include but are not limited to:
- Semantic data models and semantic querying
- Semantic dataspaces
- Ontology management including development, integration, mapping, maintenance and evolution of ontologies
- Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
- Management of large ontology-driven data and knowledge bases
- Semantic information retrieval
- Emergent semantics
- Social semantic systems
- Semantic multimedia management
- Metadata management
- XML and Semantics
- Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia semantics
- Data and ontology integration, merging, alignment, and fusion
- Semantic middleware
- Semantic SOA
- Ontological support for location-aware services and mobile information systems
- Searching and managing dynamic knowledge
Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in the following domains:
- Web 2.0
- Personal Information Management
- Media Archives and Digital Libraries
- Enterprise-wide Information Systems
- Web-based Information Systems
- Web Services
- eCommerce
- eScience
- eOrganizations (virtual organizations, virtual marketplaces, etc.)
- Bioinformatics
- Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
| Abstract Submission Deadline | |||
| Paper Submission Deadline | |||
| Acceptance Notification | August 10, 2008 | ||
| Camera Ready Due | August 25, 2008 | ||
| Registration Due | August 25, 2008 | ||
| OTM Conferences | November 9 - 14, 2008 |
Papers submitted to ODBASE'07 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.
The paper submission site is located at:
The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:
Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
General Co-Chairs
- Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
- Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia
Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Tharam Dillion, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Michele Missikoff, CNR, Italy
- Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Publicity Chair
- Jean-Marc Petit, INSA, Lyon, France
Program Committee Members
- Andreas Abecker, FZI, Germany
- Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
- Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany
- Franz Baader, University of Dresden, Germany
- Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
- Mohand Boughanem, Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France
- Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento
- Jean-Pierre Bourey, Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
- Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA
- Silvana Castano, University of Milano, Italy
- Paolo Ceravolo, Universita' degli studi di Milano, Italy
- Vassilis Christophides, ICS Forth, Greece
- Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Oscar Corcho, University of Manchester, UK
- Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
- Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
- Asuncion Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Benjamin Habegger, Nirva Systems Ltd, France
- Mounira Harzallah, University of Nantes, France
- Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
- Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna
- Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg, Geramy
- Maurizio Lenzerini, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
- Alexander Löser, IBM USA
- Gregoris Metzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
- Boris Motik, University of Manchester, UK
- John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
- Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
- Eric Neuhold, Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Yves Pigneur, University of Lausanne
- Axel Polleres, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Li Qing, City University of Hong Kong
- Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
- Rajugan Rajagopalapillai, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
- Rainer Ruggaber, SAP Research
- Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
- Eva Soderstrom, University of Skövde, Sweden
- Wolf Siberski, L3S, Germany
- Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- Chantal Soule-Dupuy, Université Toulouse, France
- Umberto Straccia, ISTI, Italy
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
- VS Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Francesco Taglino, CNR, Italy
- Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
- Guido Vetere, IBM, Italy
- Roberto Zicari, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany