The 8th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2009)

Vilamoura, Algarve-Portugal, Nov 03 - 04 - 05, 2009

 

http://www.onthemove-conferences.org
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

Chaired by:

Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Annika Hinze, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington, US

 

About ODBASE

The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'09) provides a forum on the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2009 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, networking, mobile systems, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and computational linguistics. We also encourage the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information integration, and data mining, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various applications.

This year, in addition to its traditional focus on the management of semantically-rich information, ODBASE will have a special theme on "Semantics in Complex Event Processing."

We encourage submissions in areas that connect semantics with event processing and sub-pub systems. ODBASE'09 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 2009 (OnTheMove'09)" that co-locates five conferences: ODBASE'09, DOA'09 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications), CoopIS'09 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems), GADA'09 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications), and IS'09 (International Symposium on Information Security).

ODBASE 2009 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale 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'09 include but are not limited to:

Semantic Management of Complex Event Processing

  • Semantic event-driven architectures
  • Semantic profile and event processing for pub-sub systems
  • Extending event algebras, event schemas and type systems with ontologies
  • Semantic event dissemination
  • (Self-)Management using ontologies
  • Use cases and applications of semantic event-based systems
  • Event-driven business process management

Management of Semantically-Expressive Information

  • Semantic data models and semantic querying
  • Semantic dataspaces
  • Ontology engineering
  • Semantic integration, including ontology matching, merging, etc.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Emergency Response
  • Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems


 
IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline:  June 15, 2009   DEADLINE EXTENSION June 22, 2009
Acceptance Notification:  August 05, 2009
Camera Ready Due:  August 15, 2009
Registration Due:  August 20, 2009
OTM Conferences:  November 1 - 6, 2009
  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to ODBASE'09 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:
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/odbasesub/

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

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.


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs

  • Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
  • Tharam Dillon, Curtin University Perth, Australia

ODBASE'09 Program Committee Chairs

  • Avigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  • Annika Hinze, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
  • Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington, US

ODBASE'09 Program Committee Members

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
María Auxilio Medina, Polythechnic University of Puebla, Mexico
Renato Barrera, UNAM, Mexico
Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University
Mohand Boughanem, Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Silvana Castano, University of Milano
Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli studi di Milano
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Aldo Gangemi, CNR, Italy
Benjamin Habegger, Nirva Systems Ltd, France
Mounira Harzallah, University of Nantes, France
Bin He, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Prateek Jain, Kno.e.sis,Wright State University, USA
Maciej Janik, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Vana Kalogeraki, University of CA at Riverside, USA
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Uladzimir Kharkevich, University of Trento, Italy
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Maurizio Lenzerini, Universita di Roma \La Sapienza\, Italy
Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
Alexander Löser,Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Li Ma, IBM, USA
Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy
Maurizio Marchese, U. Trento, Italy
Gregoris Metzas, National University of Athens, Greece
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Ullas Nambiar, IBMA, India
Anne Ngu, Texas State University
Sandeep Pandey, Yahoo! Research, USA
Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
Peter R. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
Axel Polleres, DERI, National University of Ireland
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Rajugan Rajagopalapillai, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA
Satya Sahoo, Wright State University, USA
Pavel Shvaiko, TasLab, Informatica Trentina S.p.A., Trento, Italy
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Veda C. Storey, Georgia State University, USA
Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USAֲ
York Sure, SAP, Germany
Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Susan Urban, Texas Tech University
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
Guido Vetere, IBM, Italy
Kevin Wilkinson, HP Labs, UK
Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA
Laura Zavala, University of South Carolina, USA
Jose Luis Zechinelli, CENTIA,  Mexico
Roberto Zicari, Goethe University, Germany