[ ARCHIVE ] The 7th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 11 - 13, 2008

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 2008 conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE'08) 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, semantic web, or data extraction. Also, ODBASE'08 encourages the submission of papers that examine the information needs of various applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, bioinformatics, or emergency response.

ODBASE'08 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 Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results.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'08 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 2008" that co-locates five conferences: ODBASE'08, DOA'08 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications), CoopIS'08 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems), GADA'08 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications), and IS'08 (International Symposium on Information Security).


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'08 include but are not limited to:

  • 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

   
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs

Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia

Program Committee Chairs

Malu Castellanos, HP, USA
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Feng Ling, Tsinghua University, China
  

Program Committee Members

Harith Alani - University of Southampton, UK
Franz Baader - University of Dresden, Germany
Renato Barrera - UNAM, Mexico
Sonia Bergamaschi - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mohand Boughanem - Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France
Francisco Cantu-Ortiz - ITESM-Monterrey , Mexico
Edgar Chavez - Universidad de Michoacan, Mexico
Oscar Corcho - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Umesh Dayal - HP, USA
Benjamin Habegger - Nirva Systems Ltd, France
Bin He - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Andreas Hotho - University of Kassel, Germany
Farookh Hussain - Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Vipul Kashyap - Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA
Phokion Kolaitis - IBM, USA
Manolis Koubarakis - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Maurizio Lenzerini - Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Juanzi Li - Tsinghua University, China
Alexander Löser - SAP Research, Dresden
Riichiro Mizoguchi - Osaka University, Japan
Peter Mork - The MITRE Corporation , USA
Wolfgang Nejdl - University of Hannover, Germany
Erich Neuhold - Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Wenny Rahayu - La Trobe University, Australia
Rajugan Rajagopalapillai - Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Arnon Rosenthal - The MITRE Corporation, USA
Pavel Shvaiko - TasLab, Informatica Trentina, Italy
Stefano Spaccapietra - EPFL, Switzerland
Umberto Straccia - ISTI-CNR, Italy
Eleni Stroulia - University of Alberta , Canada
Heiner Stuckenschmidt - University of Mannheim, Germany
York Sure - SAP, Germany
Michael Uschold - The Boeing Company, USA
Yannis Velegrakis - University of Trento, Italy
Guido Vetere - IBM, Italy
Kevin Wilkinson - HP Labs, UK
Jose Luis Zechinelli - CENTIA , Mexico
Yanchun Zhang - Victoria University, Australia
Baoshi Yan - Bosch Research, USA
Jingshan Huang - University of South Carolina, USA
Laura Zavala - University of South Carolina, USA
Octavian Udrea - University of Maryland College Park, USA
Li Ma - IBM, USA
Maurizio Marchese - U. Trento, Italy
Vijayan Sugumaran - Oakland University, USA
Veda C. Storey - Georgia State University, USA
Leopoldo Bertossi - Carleton University, Canada
Lois M. L. Delcambre - Portland State University, USA
Sudha Ram - University of Arizona , USA
Il-Yeol Song - Drexel University , USA
Satya Sahoo - Wright State University, USA
Matthew Perry - Wright State University, USA
María Auxilio Medina - Polythechnic University of Puebla, Mexico
Jon Atle Gulla - Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Norway