[ARCHIVE] 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AMBIENT DATA INTEGRATION
 

Workshop theme

Data integration is one of the most outstanding data management tasks and is becoming a crucial issue in computer-based applications. It is a legacy from independent, uncoordinated threads of system development on one side. On the other side it is a direct result of the tendency to integrate formerly separated data sources since the value of integrated analysis has been recognized.

One of the challenging issues of data integration is to maintain consistent mappings between source and target data schemata. Especially – and this might become the normal case – this issue is gaining complexity when these schemata are evolving and are geographically distributed over computerized systems. In such complex settings, data integration solutions may exploit background knowledge to match elements of the sources to the target.  A kind of background knowledge that is getting more and more important in emerging data integration solutions is the notion of ontology. Often, the notion of knowledge bases is tightly coupled with ontologies since the latter are regarded as the conceptual backbone of the former. Especially since the advent and the dissemination of ontology description languages like RDF(S) and OWL ontologies are most relevant for data integration.
Conceptual modeling becomes more and more important for data integration but surprisingly this relationship has not been studied in-depth by the research community. However it is needed to build target schemata, e.g. databases and ontologies. A special case of this approach is to build up local ontologies – for applications to be integrated – and to derive from them integrated, shared ontologies. Without the proper and clean application of conceptual modeling techniques neither local nor shared ontologies gain adequate quality and expressiveness. In this workshop we want to focus on aspects which are dominant for the success of data integration systems like distribution and conceptualization.
Finally, we would like to consider the peculiarities of data integration into everyday objects and activities. This aspect needs to consider those devices that grow smaller, are more connected and more integrated into our environment. Thus data integration solutions have to adapt to some limitations such as CPU and memory capacities, network bandwidth, graphical user interface, privacy and contexts such time and space.

This OTM workshop should bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of data integration to exchange ideas of how to benefit from each other's techniques experiences. We want to include conceptual, technical and application-oriented solutions in the workshop program.


Topics of interest

  • Application of conceptual modeling techniques for data integration
  • Distributed and Peer to Peer data integration systems
  • Ambient intelligence and data integration
  • Cooperative data integration systems
  • Data spaces and data integration
  • Ontology-supported data integration systems
  • Data integration under uncertainty
  • Innovative underlying formalisms for data integration.
  • Usability of data integration systems
  • Privacy in data in integration systems

Applications, evaluations and implementations in the following domains are of major interest:

  • Health care
  • Life sciences
  • Biodiversity informatics

However, presentations of generally applicable concepts from any application domain are also welcome.
 

Important dates

  • Abstracts Submission Deadline:  June 22, 2009   EXTENDED DEADLINE July 2, 2009 - 23:59 CET
  • Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2009   EXTENDED DEADLINE July 5, 2009 - 23:59 CET
  • Acceptance Notification: August 05, 2009
  • Camera ready received: August 15, 2009
  • Registration Deadline: August 20, 2009
  • OTM 2009 event: November 1-6, 2009

  
Submission guidelines

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format.

Papers submitted to ADI’09 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. Failure to comply with the 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.

Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/adisub
 

Organisation of the workshop

We plan to have an invited talk on the workshop's core topic. After that we aim at 2-3 sessions with about 8-10 paper presentations. The workshop will be concluded with a discussion forum which will be constituted by the presenters of the papers. This panel will preferably be organized as a so-called Advocatus Diaboli Forum in order to better stimulate discussion.

In order to establish a "common thread" throughout the workshop each presenter will be asked to additionally provide his/her individual view on the state of the art in data integration and especially on their experience of the application of conceptual modeling techniques in that domain. To share this experience is a very effective way to better shape a perspective on the state of the art in data integration.
 

Organisation committee

Stefan Jablonski
  University of Bayreuth
  Chair for Databases and Information Systems
  Universitaetsstrasse 30, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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Olivier Curé
  Université Paris Est
  5 bd Descartes, 77454 Marne la Vallée, France
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Christoph Bussler
  Merced Systems, Inc.
  Redwood Shores, CA, USA
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Program committee members (to be extended)

Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA (Co-chair)
Olivier Curé, University of Paris East, France (Co-Chair)
Mathieu D'aquin, Open University, England
Wolfgang Deiters, ISST Fraunhofer, Germany
Stefan Jablonski, University of Bayreuth, Germany (Co-Chair)
Robert Jeansoulin, Université Paris Est, France / LSIS CNRS Marseille, France
Fabrice Jouanot, Université de Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France
Roland Kaschek, KIMEP, Kazakhstan
Myriam Lamolle, Université de Paris 8, France
Richard Lenz, University of Erlangen, Germany
Sascha Mueller, Applied University of Ansbach, Germany
Erich Ortner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Gaëtan Rey, Université de Nice, France
Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University, Sweden
Pierre Senellart, Telecom ParisTech, France