ODBASE 2014 - The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems

The 13th International Conference on
Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2014)
27-31 October 2014, Amantea, Italy
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag
Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Data Semantics
ODBASE 2014
Chairs:
Alfredo Cuzzocrea
ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria
Italy
Timos Sellis
RMIT University, VIC
Australia
Keynote:
Domenico Saccà, University of Calabria, Italy
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'14) provides a forum on the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2014 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, social networks, mobile systems, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and computational linguistics. We also encourage the submission of research and practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology management, information integration, and information extraction, as well as papers that examine the information needs of various applications.
This year, in addition to its traditional focus on the management of semantically rich information, ODBASE will have special themes captured by specific sessions.
We encourage submissions in areas that connect semantics with the entire data flow cycle: data acquisition e.g. from social networks and mobile devices, data stream processing, e.g., filtering and event contextualization, data analysis, e.g., pattern and knowledge discovery, to dissemination, e.g., publish/subscribe.
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ODBASE'14 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners by being part of the Federated conferences Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2014 (OnTheMove'14)" that co-locates three conferences: ODBASE'14, DOA-SVI'14 (International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures), and CoopIS'14 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems).
ODBASE 2014 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale systems; preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental and industry use.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'14 include but are not limited to:?
Management of Semantically Expressive Information?
? Semantic data modeling? ?
? Semantic integration, including ontology matching, merging, etc.?
? Ontology engineering and metadata management
? Ontology-based data management? ?
? Governance aspects such as workflows, roles and responsibilities in semantic information management ?
Large Scale and Complex Information Management and Analysis?
? Semantic indexing, search and query answering in large volumes of data?
? Annotation, extraction, summarization, and integration of heterogeneous data resources?
? Semantic data mining
? Semantic social network analysis
? Semantic services for big data??
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Semantic Management of Complex Event Processing?
? Semantics in event-driven architectures?
? Event algebras, event schemas and type systems? ?
? Event-driven business process management?
? Events in social sensing&Collective Intelligence?
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Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in the following domains:?
? Web 2.0 and Semantic Web?
? Linked Data Web?
? Online Social Networks?
? Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia ?
? Enterprise-wide Information Systems??
? eCommerce, eScience, and Virtual Organizations?
? Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems??
? Information Governance
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014
Conference Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2014
Acceptance Notification: Aug 06, 2014
Camera Ready Due: Aug 20, 2014
Author Registration Due: Aug 20, 2014
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers submitted to ODBASE'14 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.
All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English.
Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.
Paper submission site: TBA
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
Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue of a high-quality international journal.
Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.
Program Committee
Harith Alani (The Open University, UK)
Yuan An (Drexel University)
Marie-Aude Aufaure (Ecole Centrale de Paris)
Payam Barnaghi (University of Surrey)
John Bateman (University Bremen)
Zohra Bellahsene (University of Montpellier II)
Ladjel Bellatreche (ENSMA, France)
Sonia Bergamaschi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
Andrea Cali (University of Oxford)
Kit Yan Chan (Curtin University)
Sunil Choenni (WODC and Rotterdam University)
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (University of Fribourg)
Christophe Debruyne (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Prasad Deshpande (IBM - India)
Alicia Diaz (La Plata University)
Johann Eder (University of Klagenfurt)
Walid Gaaloul (TELECOM & Management SudParis)
Mouzhi Ge (Bundeswehr University Munich)
Michael Grueninger (University Toronto)
Christophe Gueret (Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))
Peter Haase (Fluid Operations)
Mohand-Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
Harry Halpin (World Wide Web Consortium)
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University)
Andreas Harth (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Fedja Hadzic (Curtin University)
Rinke Hoekstra (VU University Amsterdam)
Prateek Jain (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Amit Joshi (Wright State University)
Christian Kop (University of Klagenfurt)
Manolis Koubarakis (University of Athens)
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Steffen Lamparter (Siemens)
Paea LePendu (Stanford University)
Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
Lior Limonad (IBM Research)
Frederick Maier (University of Georgia)
Davor Meersman (iMinds VUB)
Eduardo Mena (University of Zaragoza)
Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen)
Herve Panetto (University of Lorraine)
Josiane Xavier Parreira (DERI Galway)
Dimitris Plexousakis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas)
Ivana Podnar Zarko (FER, University of Zagreb)
Geert Poels (University Ghent)
Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China)
Christoph Quix (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
Benedicto Rodriguez (Bundeswehr University Munich)
Prasan Roy (IBM - India)
Satya Sahoo (Case Western Reserve University)
Kai-Uwe Sattler (The Ilmenau University of Technology)
Christoph Schlieder (University of Bamberg)
Michael Schrefl (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Elena Simperl (University of Southhampton)
Srinath Srinivasa (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore)
Yannis Stavrakas (Institute for the Management of Information Systems)
Yizhou Sun (Northeastern Univeristy)
Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano)
Christian von der Weth (DERI Galway)
Yanghua Xiao (Fudan University)
Guo-Qiang Zhang (Case Western Reserve University)
Kenny Zhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Lei Zou (Peking University)