CFP: ODBASE 2002

Ugur Cetintemel ugur at cs.brown.edu
Sat Mar 30 17:24:25 EST 2002


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                       C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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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 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 at kub.nl
           Belgium               Australia
           meersman at vub.ac.be    zahirt at 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 at epfl.ch   lingliu at cc.gatech.edu  


Tutorial Chair

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

Organising Chair

          Douglas Schmit
          University of
          California, Irvine

Publicity Chair

           Ugur Cetintemel
           Department of
           Computer Science
           Brown University,
           USA
           ugur at 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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