EFIS 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Engineering Federated Information Systems

Engineering Federated Information Systems covers all aspects of integrating heterogeneous information systems, (database) schemata, as well as data. The permanent need to integrate existing systems in order to get a homogeneous access to data in different systems developed for different purposes results in ever new research efforts to provide better integration techniques and methods. Here, we can already rely on research results from several decades in this research area. Progress in other areas, like the development of new software and system architectures (e.g. SOA, Cloud) or new applications, e.g. In social media, renew and strengthen the need for further research.
Continuing the successful EFIS workshop series of 5 international workshops from 1997 to 2003 this workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on different aspects of Engineering Federated Information Systems. 10 years after the (for the time being) last EFIS workshop we resume the idea of intensively discussing current work in this area in a nice and fruitful workshop atmosphere.
Beside submissions on current work we also welcome survey submissions covering the progress in the field (or some particular area) over time. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Data and schema integration
Data integration in the cloud
Architectures for federated information systems
Matching and Mapping of heterogeneous data sources
Generic data models (EAV, NoSQL)
Object identification in heterogeneous data sources
Schema matching based on ontologies
Ontology matching
Data Cleaning
Data quality in integrated systems
Data warehouses as integrated system
ETL process for Data Warehouses
Applications data and information integration
Eventual Consistency among Federated Information Systems
Long-term Operation of Federated Information Systems
PC: (not yet complete)
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel, Germany
Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, Berlin, Germany
Ralf Schenkel, Saarbrücken, Germany
Irena Mlýnková, Prague, Czech Republic
Eike Schallehn, Magdeburg, Germany
Mark Roantree, Dublin, Irelans