[ ARCHIVE ] 1st International Workshop On Ambient Data Integration

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag

  
WORKSHOP THEME

Nowadays, data integration has gained more attention and is one of the most crucial tasks in complex 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.

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;

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.


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 b d 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

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
Roland Kaschek, Massey University, New Zealand
Myriam Lamolle, Université de Paris 8, France
Richard Lenz, University of Erlangen, Germany
Sascha Mueller,Ansbach Universiy of Applied Sciences, Germany
Erich Ortner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University, Sweden