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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS
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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 IEEE Press
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 displines, 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 IEEE Press. 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 Robert A. Meersman
LSIR (Distributed College of VUB (Vrije
Information Systems Computing, Universiteit
Laboratory) Georgia Tech Brussel)
EPFL, CH-1015 801 Atlantic Dr. Department of
Lausanne, Atlanta, GA Computer Science
Switzerland 30332-0280, USA STARlab, Building
karl.aberer@epfl.ch lingliu@cc.gatech.edu F-G/10
Pleinlaan 2 B-1050
Brussels Belgium
meersman@vub.ac.be
Tutorial Chair
Vipul Kashyap
Telcordia, USA
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 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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