[ ARCHIVE ] The 6th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 27-29, 2007

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

    

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 Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results.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


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