[ ARCHIVE ] The 5th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2006)

Montpellier, France, Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2006

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

As in previous years, the 2006 conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE'06) provides a forum for exchanging the latest research results on ontologies, data semantics, and other areas of computing involved in developing the Semantic Web.

ODBASE'06 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 2006" that co-locates four conferences: ODBASE'06, DOA'06 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications), CoopIS'06 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems), and GADA'06 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications).

Of particular relevance to ODBASE'06 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial intelligence, networking, computational linguistics, and mobile computing. ODBASE'06 also encourages the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scalability issues in ontology management, information integration, and data mining, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, and bioinformatics.

ODBASE'06 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, realistically large systems. Preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental use.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'06 include but are not limited to:

  • Knowledge acquisition, extraction and representation
  • Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
  • Ontology evolution
  • Semantic Web Services
  • Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia semantics
  • Semi-structured data
  • Management of Large Ontology Bases
  • Ontology modularization
  • Data and ontology integration, merge, alignment, fusion
  • Semantic Middleware
  • Ontological support in location-aware services and mobile information systems
  • Information Dissemination
  • Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents
  • Self-organization in Information Systems
  • Emergent semantics in peer-to-peer architectures
  • Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarization
  • Metadata Management

Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in the following domains:

  • Media Archives and Digital Libraries
  • Enterprise-wide Information Systems
  • Web-based Information Systems
  • Web Services
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronic Government
  • Scientific Databases
  • Bioinformatics
  • Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Program Committee Co-Chairs ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

Maurizio Lenzerini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Erich Neuhold, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
VS Subrahmanian, University of Maryland College Park, USA


Program Committee Members

Sibel Adali (Rensselaer Polytechnic Univ., USA)
Maristella Agosti (University of Padova, Italy)
Bill Andersen (Ontology Works, USA)
Juergen Angele (Ontoprise GmbH, Germany)
Franz Baader (University of Dresden, Germany)
Sonia Bergamaschi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA)
Christoph Bussler (Cisco Systems, USA)
Marco Antonio Casanova (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Silvana Castano (University of Milan, Italy)
Tiziana Catarci (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Stefan Decker (DERI Galway, Ireland)
Rainer Eckstein (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
Johann Eder (University of Vienna, Austria)
Mohand Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, France)
Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA)
Jim Hendler (University of Maryland, College Park)
Edward Hung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Arantza Illarramendi (Basque Country University, Spain)
Vipul Kashyap (Partners HealthCare Systems, USA)
Ross King (Research Studios Austria - DME, Austria)
Roger (Buzz) King (University of Colorado, USA)
Harumi Kuno (HP Labs)
Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Michele Missikoff (CNR, Italy)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover, Germany)
Christine Parent (Universite de Lausanne Switzerland)
Thomas Risse (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany)
Heiko Schuldt (University Basel, Switzerland)
Peter Schwarz (IBM, USA)
Peter Spyns (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
York Sure (University Karlsruhe, Germany)
Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Guido Vetere (IBM, Italy)
Chris Welty (IBM, USA)