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First International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases
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Industrial Sponsors | Keynote Talks | ||||||
If you are interested in sponsoring this workshop, please contact one of the Program Committee Chairs. |
Anatole Gershman Director of Research, Accenture Technology Labs Philip Bernstein Microsoft Research Amit Sheth University of Georgia and Semagix, Inc. |
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Program | Important Dates and Registration | ||||||
The program will be posted by August 18. | Important Dates Submission Deadline: June 25, 2003 (extended from May 15) Notification of Acceptance: Aug 12, 2003. Camera Ready Papers Due: Aug 18, 2003 Registration Please register on the VLDB web site. |
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Organization | Objectives | ||||||
Program Committee Chairs Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ifc@cs.uic.edu Vipul Kashyap National Library of Medicine, NIH, USA kashyap@nlm.nih.gov Proceedings and Publicity Chair Stefan Decker USC Information Sciences Institute, USA stefan@isi.edu Organization Chair Rainer Eckstein Humboldt University, Germany Rainer. Eckstein@informatik.hu-berlin.de Program Committee Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic I., USA Paolo Atzeni, U. Rome Tre, Italy Alex Borgida, Rutgers U., USA Olivier Bodenreider, NLM-NIH, USA Stéphane Bressan, National U. of Singapore Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA Isabel Cruz, U. of Illinois at Chicago, USA Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA Stefan Decker, USC-ISI, USA Max Egenhofer, U. Maine, USA Rainer Eckstein, Humboldt U., Germany Dieter Fensel, Institut für Informatik, Austria Mary Fernandez, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Susan Gauch, U. Kansas Carole Goble, U. Manchester, UK Rick Hull, Lucent Technology, USA Vipul Kashyap, NLM-NIH, USA Maurizio Lenzerini, U. Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Aris Ouksel, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA Dimitris Plexousakis, U. Crete, Greece Steve Ray, NIST, USA Amit Sheth, U. Georgia and Semagix, USA Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA Munindar Singh, N. Carolina U., USA V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA Rudi Studer, U. Karlsruhe, Germany Ram Sriram, NIST, USA Clement Yu, U. Illinois at Chicago, USA |
The Semantic Web is a key initiative being promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) as the next generation of the current web. Machine-understandable metadata is emerging as a new foundation
for component-based approaches to application development. Within the context of reusable distributed components,
Web services represent the latest architectural advancement. Such concepts can be synthesized providing powerful
new mechanisms for quickly modeling, creating and deploying complex applications that readily adapt to real world
need. The objective of this workshop is to present database and information system research as they relate to the Semantic Web and more broadly, to gain insight into the Semantic Web technology as it relates to databases and information systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Infrastructure: component models (e.g., J2EE, .NET); distributed object-based architectures; scalability, extensibility and robustness of applications; algebras for modeling and ontology management; creation, maintenance and versioning of annotations, metadata and mappings; tools (including visual tools) for creating components (e.g., ontologies, mappings, views, etc.); workflow systems, web services and quality of service contracts; support for negotiation and trust; security. Semantics: conceptual clustering and statistical approaches; social networks and consensus analysis approaches; information analysis accuracy (e.g., precision, recall, false positives); ontologies, conceptual models, taxonomies; semantic interoperability and integration; semantic composition of web services; view definition and transformations (e.g., global/local as view); query algebras for combined data and metadata queries; semantics-based query relaxation techniques, loss of information; logic based (centralized and distributed) inferences; intensional query answering; emergent semantics. Applications: Semantic Web applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on XML, RDF, and various variants; web services based applications (prototypes, pilots, deployed) based on WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, ebXML and other related standards; natural language processing; semantics-based integration of data/applications within enterprises; geographical information systems; bio-informatics; business aspects for Semantic Web applications (e.g., return of investment, sustainable business models). |
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Previous Related Workshops | Paper Submission | ||||||
We invite the submission of short (up to six pages) and long papers (up to twenty pages) on:
The submitted papers should be formatted as close as possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section "Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting instructions). Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to Isabel Cruz (ifc@cs.uic.edu) and Stefan Decker (stefan@isi.edu). |