[CFP] ODBASE 2003

[Guillaume Pierre]

(Please excuse me if you received this Call for Participation several times.)

                       C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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                       2nd International Conference on
                 ONTOLOGIES, DATABASES, AND APPLICATIONS OF
           SEMANTICS FOR LARGE SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ODBASE)

                         3-7 November 2003, Sicily
               http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2003
             Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag


                   ** 2002 acceptance rate is 1/4 **

The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics
for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'03) provides a forum on
ontologies and data semantics that is inclusive of the many computing
disciplines involved in developing the "semantic" web. The program
committee of ODBASE 2003 reflects this wide diversity.

In order to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and
practitioners, ODBASE'03 is part of the Federated Symposium Event "On
the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003ö that co-locates three
conferences: Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'03); Distributed Objects,
Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing
(DOA'03); and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability
(CoopIS'03)."

Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2003 are papers that bridge
traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases,
artificial intelligence, networking, and mobile computing. ODBASE 2003
also encourages the submission of research and practical experience
papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information
integration, and data mining, as well as papers that examine the
information needs of various Web and knowledge applications, including
electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, and
bioinformatics.

ODBASE 2003 will consider three categories of papers: research,
application experience, and position.  Research papers must contain
novel, unpublished results.  Application experience papers must
describe existing, real-world scale systems (and not "academic" or
small scale prototypes); preference will be given to papers that
describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental
use.  Position papers will be accepted only if they contain
potentially controversial opinions of experts, and most importantly,
highlight important and new research issues.  The number of accepted
position papers is expected to be small.  Authors of accepted position
papers will be invited to present their opinions during a panel
session and will be given a modest amount of proceedings space (see
word limits below).

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'03 include but are not limited
to:

Management of Semantically-Expressive Information
   * Knowledge Modelling
   * Ontology Languages and Specification
   * Ontology Extraction, Learning and Evolution
   * Hypertext, Multimedia, and Hypermedia Data Management
   * Semi-Structured Data
   * Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases
   * Data Integration
   * Semantic Middleware
   * Information Dissemination
   * Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents
   * Self-organization in Information Systems
   * Information Retrieval
   * Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarisation
   * Multimedia Metadata Annotation
   * Data and Web Mining
   
Applications, Evaluations, and Experience
   * Media Archives and Digital Libraries
   * Enterprise-wide Information Systems
   * Web-based Information Systems
   * Location-Dependent Information Services
   * Web Services
   * Intelligent Information Agents
   * Electronic Commerce
   * Electronic Government
   * Bioinformatics
   * Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems


IMPORTANT DATES

     Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2003
     Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2003
     Final Version Due: August 20, 2003
     Conference: November 3-7, 2003

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression.  All
submissions must be in English. Research and application experience
submissions must not exceed 8,000 words, and position papers must not
exceed 2,000 words. Submissions must clearly identify the nature of
the paper as research, experience, or position.  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.


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS (fedconf at cs.rmit.edu.au)
Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, Belgium
Douglas Schmidt, University of California at Irvine, USA
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS (coopis2003 at cs.rmit.edu.au)
Roger (Buzz) King, University of Colorado, USA
Maria Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia
Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
TBA