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Subject: CFP: ODBASE 2002 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:47:14 -0500 From: Ugur Cetintemel ugur@CS.BROWN.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

C A L L F O R P A P E R S =============================

International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE)

October 29 - November 1, Irvine, California http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2002

Proceedings to be published by Springer Verlag

A key challenge in making the Internet and the Web a more friendly and productive place is to fill more meaning to the vast and continuously growing amount of data on the Net. This is a vision that is shared both by the Worl Wide Web community, incarnated by the notion of the ôSemantic Webö coined by Tim Berners Lee, and researchers from a number of areas including data and knowledge engineering, databases, intelligent agent systems, information retrieval, information sciences and linguistics. The claim is that the emergence of meaning that is associated with data and documents found on the Internet will boost diverse applications such as e-commerce, enterprise and information integration, knowledge engineering, geographic information systems, digital libraries, ubiquitous computing, and intelligent information access. Data semantics and ontologies for large-scale information systems have become an important topic in research communities across several disciplines, research funding agencies, as well as various industries.

The international conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics intends to create a forum to exchange views, ideas and experiences on ontologies and data semantics from different disciplines. A goal of the ODBASE conference is to bring researchers from databases, Semantic Web, and knowledge management together to discuss specific problems and promising approaches to providing more meaning for the growing amount of data on the Internet and in ubiquitous computing. A unique character of the ODBASE conferences is its specialization on data semantic issues for very large ontology and Internet systems, and its strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity and practical applicability of systems, tools and methods for supporting semantics in large-scale information systems. The program committee of ODBASE 2002 consists of leading experts from diverse discplines including formal ontology, databases, geographic information systems, library science, logic, and knowledge management. We have special interest in papers that bridge traditionally separated areas such as databases, intelligent systems, and knowledge engineering, and papers that address issues of scalability in data semantics on the Internet and ubiquitous computing systems.

ODBASE'02 is part of the Federated Symposium Event that is organized within the global theme "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing 2002". This federated event co-locates three related and complementary successful conferences in the areas of Intelligent Networked Information Systems, covering key issues in Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'02), Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'02), and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'02), as required for the deployment of Internet- and Intranet-based systems in organizations and for e-business. More details about this federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.

Areas of interest of ODBASE'02 include but are not limited to:

* Representation and Storage: Information, Data and Knowledge Modeling Ontology Languages Hypertext and Hypermedia Semi-Structured Data Multimedia Data and Metadata Semantics of E-Services Management of Large Knowledge Repositories Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases Metadata Repositories Semantic Middleware

* Construction and Methodologies: Database Integration E-Service Integration Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents Data and Web Mining Intelligent Information Agents Information Retrieval Filtering and Summarization Multimedia Metadata Annotation Ontology Extraction and Learning Self-organization in Information Systems

* Applications and Evaluation: Semantic Web Domain/Application Ontology Ontology of Information Processing Electronic Commerce Digital Libraries Media Archives Enterprise-wide Information Systems Web-based Information Systems Location-dependent information services Web Services and Service Interoperability Information Dissemination Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2002 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2002 Final Version Due: August 20, 2002 Conference: October 30 - November 1, 2002

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Papers that bridge two or more areas should be marked as BRIDGE papers. They will be reviewed jointly by the appropriate PC sub-areas. All submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed 8,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf format and should be done through the following URL

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html

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 commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs

Robert Meersman Zahir Tari Mike Papazoglou STARLab RMIT University Tilburg University Free University of Department of Infolab Brussels Computer Science PO Box 90153 Building F-G 10, City Campus, GPO Box NL-5000 LE TILBURG Pleinlaan 2 2476V The Netherlands B-1050 Brussels Melbourne, VIC 3001 mikep@kub.nl Belgium Australia meersman@vub.ac.be zahirt@cs.rmit.edu.au

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Karl Aberer Ling Liu LSIR (Distributed College of Information Systems Computing, Laboratory) Georgia Tech EPFL, CH-1015 801 Atlantic Dr. Lausanne, Atlanta, GA Switzerland 30332-0280, USA karl.aberer@epfl.ch lingliu@cc.gatech.edu

Tutorial Chair

Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH kashyap@nlm.nih.gov

Organising Chair

Douglas Schmit University of California, Irvine

Publicity Chair

Ugur Cetintemel Department of Computer Science Brown University, USA ugur@cs.brown.edu

Program Committee Members

Christoph Bussler Oracle, USA Tiziana Catarci University of Rome, Italy Arbee Chen National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Vassilis Christophides FORTH, Greece Terence Critchlow LLNL, USA Stefan Decker Stanford University, USA Tharam Dillon Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China Jérôme Euzenat INRIA, France Dieter Fensel Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands Avigdor Gal Technion, Israel James Geller NJIT, USA Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Telcordia, USA Nicola Guarino CNR, Italy Terry Halpin Microsoft, USA Kamal Karlapalem IIIT, India Vipul Kashyap Telcordia, USA Manolis Koubarakis Technical University of Crete, Greece Maurizio Lenzerini University of Rome, Italy Tok Wang Ling Ling Univ. of Singapore, Singapore Alexander Maedche FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Leo Mark Georgia Tech, USA Luigi Mazzucchelli University of Rome, Italy Alberto Mendelzon University of Toronto, Canada Michele Missikoff CNR, Italy John Mylopoulos University of Toronto, Canada Sham Navathe Georgia Tech, USA Erich Neuhold FHG-IPSI, Germany Maria Orlowska University of Queensland, Australia Aris Ouksel University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mike Papazoglou Tilburg University, Netherlands Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, China Michel Scholl CNAM Paris, France Amit Sheth University of Georgia, USA Keng Siau University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA John Sowa USA Rudi Studer University Karlsruhe, Germany Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University, USA Changjie Tang Tang Sichaun University, China Hans Weigand Tilburg University, Netherlands John Zeleznikow University of Edinburgh, UK

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