1st International Workshop on Data Semantics (DataSem 2010): **Last Call For Papers**

1^st International Workshop on Data Semantics (DataSem 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS

March 22, 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland

Workshop Web Site: http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/datasem10/

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Computerized information handling has changed its focus from centralized data management systems to decentralized data exchange facilities. Modern distribution channels, such as high-speed Internet networks and wireless communication infrastructure, provide reliable technical support for data distribution and data access, materializing the new, popular idea that data may be available to anybody, anywhere, anytime. However, providing huge amounts of data on request often turns into a counterproductive service, making the data useless because of poor relevance or inappropriate level of detail. Semantic knowledge is the essential missing piece that allows the delivery of information that matches user requirements. Semantic agreement, in particular, is essential to meaningful data exchange.

Semantic issues have long been open issues in data and knowledge management. However, the boom in semantically poor technologies, such as the Web and XML, has boosted renewed interest in semantics. Conferences on the Semantic Web, for instance, attract big crowds of participants, while ontologies on their own have become a hot and popular topic in the database and artificial intelligence communities.

The DataSem workshop is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and users working on issues related to the semantics of data. The target domain ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific application of semantic knowledge. The workshop should be of interest to researchers and advanced practitioners working on the Semantic Web, interoperability, mobile information services, data warehousing, stream data, knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelligence.

The workshop will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical experiences of data semantics, fostering interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of this field, and will highlight future trends in this area. The workshop will be organized in a way to highly stimulate interaction amongst the participants.

Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to Springer's LNCS Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We invite submissions that address theoretical, technical, and practical topics of data semantics. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Semantic interoperability, semantic mediators
• Ontologies
• Ontology, schema and data integration, reconciliation and alignment
• Multiple representations, alternative representations
• Knowledge representation and reasoning
• Conceptualization and representation
• Multimodel and multiparadigm approaches
• Mappings, transformations, reverse engineering
• Metadata
• Conceptual data modeling
• Integrity description and handling
• Evolution and change
• Web semantics and semi-structured data
• Stream Data
• Semantic caching
• Data warehousing and semantic data mining
• Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics
• Semantics in data visualization
• Semantic services for mobile users
• Supporting tools
• Applications of semantic-driven approaches

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be formatted according to ACM guidelines. Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract (about 100 words) before submitting the paper. The length of a submission should not exceed 12 pages in ACM double-column format. Papers not conforming to these requirements may be rejected without further consideration. A paper submitted to DataSem 2010 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the workshop.

Paper submission will be electronic. The online submission system will be available from October 1st, 2009 at the address http://cs.ulb.ac.be/conferences/datasem10. The deadline for abstract submissions is October 18, 2009. The deadline for paper submission is October 25, 2009. Both deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 8, 2009; accepted papers formatted for the proceedings will be due by January 10, 2010.

Papers will be made available in online conference proceedings, possibly hosted within the ACM Digital Library (subject to approval). To enable conference attendees and the general community to glimpse at the content a bit ahead of the conference, we plan to make the papers electronically available before the conference, on March 15, 2010. Authors are thus encouraged to make sure the necessary patent issues are solved and enable publication by this date.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper abstract submission:         Full paper submission:         Notification to authors:         Camera-ready paper submission:         Workshop:

October 18, 2009 October 25, 2009 December 8, 2009 January 10, 2010 March 22, 2010

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA
Esteban Zimányi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carlo Batini, Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Shawn Bowers, University of California Davis, USA
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, National Research Council & University of Calabria, Italy
Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jérôme Euzenat, INRIA Alpes, France
Cécile Favre, Université Lyon 2, France
George Fletcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherland
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Italy
Giancarlo Gizzardi, National Research Council, Italy
Jean-Luc Hainaut, FUNDP Namur, Belgium
Arantza Illarramendi, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Christine Parent, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy
Stijn Vansummeren, Université Libre de Bruxelles