The 11th International Conference on
Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2012)

10-14 Sept 2012, Roma, Italy

http://www.onthemove-conferences.org
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

About ODBASE

The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'12) provides a forum on the use of ontologies and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2012 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, networking, 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 data mining, 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 on large scale information management and analysis. We encourage submissions in areas that connect semantics with the entire data flow cycle: data acquisition e.g. from sensors and mobile devices, data stream processing, e.g., filtering and event contextualization, to dissemination, e.g., publish/subscribe.

ODBASE'12 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 2012 (OnTheMove'12)" that co-locates three conferences: ODBASE'12, DOA-SVI'12 (International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures), and CoopIS'12 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems).

ODBASE 2012 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 Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results.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 use.
 


 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'12 include but are not limited to:

Large Scale Information Management and Analysis
         Semantic indexing and search in large volumes of data
         Annotation, summarization, integration and analysis of extremely large data resources
         Semantic services based on big data

Semantic Management of Complex Event Processing
         Semantics in event-driven architectures
         Semantic profile and event processing for pub-sub systems
         Event algebras, event schemas and type systems
         Semantic event dissemination
         Use cases and applications of semantic event-based systems
         Event-driven business process management
         Social sensing

Management of Semantically-Expressive Information
         Semantic data models
         Semantic information retrieval and querying
         Heterogeneous dataspaces
         Semantic integration, including ontology matching, merging, etc.
         Ontology engineering and metadata management
         Management of large ontology-driven data and knowledge bases
         XML and Semantics
         Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia semantics
         Semantic middleware and SOA
         Searching and managing dynamic knowledge
         Ontological support for location-aware services and mobile information systems
         Applications of Ontology Reasoning
       
Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in the following domains:
         Web 2.0 and Social Systems
         Real-world Internet (IoT, Internet-connected objects)
         Linked Data
         Personal Information Management
         Enterprise-wide Information Systems
         Web-based Information Systems and Services
         eCommerce, eScience, and  Virtual Organizations
         Emergency Response and Disaster Management
         Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems
 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: May 11, 2012
Conference Paper Submission Deadline: May 18, 2012
Acceptance Notification:  TBA
Camera Ready Due:  TBA
Author Registration Due:  TBA
 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to ODBASE'12 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.
 The paper submission site is located at:
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper  

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 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.
 

Chaired by:

Sonia Bergamaschi – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Isabel Cruz – University of Illinois at Chicago

Publicity Chair:
Francesco Guerra - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
 

Program Committee

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Harith Alani, The Open University, UK
Marcelo Arenas, PUC, Chile
Sören Auer, Leipzig University, Germany
Denilson Barbosa , University of Alberta, USA
Payam Barnaghi, University of Surrey, UK
Zohra Bellahsene, University of Montpellier II, France
Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, France
Domenico Beneventano, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, China
Omar Boucelma, LSIS, France
Nieves Brisaboa, University of A Coruna, Spain
Andrea Cali, University of Oxford, UK
Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Sunil Choenni    minjus.nl
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Francisco Couto, IST, Portugal
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Fribourg University, Switzerland
Roberto De Virgilio, Roma Tre University, Italy
Emanuele Della Valle, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Prasad Deshpande, IBM, India
Dejing Dou, University of Oregon, USA
Johann Eder, Universität Wien, Austria
Tanveer Faruquie, IBM, India
Walid Gaaloul    it-sudparis.eu
Aldo Gangemi, CNR, Italy
Mouzhi Ge    unibw
Giancarlo Guizzardi    inf.ufes.br
Peter Haase, fluidOps, Germany
Mohand-Said Hacid, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Harry Halpin    ibiblio.org
Takahiro Hara    ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
Cornelia Hedeler, University of Manchester, UK
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
Prateek Jain
Krzysztof Janowicz    psu.edu
Matthias Klusch    dfki.de
Manolis Koubarakis    di.uoa.gr
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, IBM, USA
Shonali Krishnaswamy    infotech.monash.edu.au
Steffen Lamparter, SIEMENS
Wookey Lee
Sanjay Madria    mst.edu
Frederick Maier
Massimo Mecella    uniroma1.it
Eduardo Mena    unizar.es
Paolo Missier, Newcaste University, UK
Anirban Mondal    iiitd.ac.in
Felix Naumann    uni-potsdam.de
Matteo Palmonari    unimib.it
Jeff Z. Pan, abdn.ac.uk
Hervé Panetto, University of Lorraine, France
Paolo Papotti    uniroma3.it
Josiane Xavier Parreira    deri.org
Dino Pedreschi    di.unipi.it
Dimitris Plexousakis    ics.forth.gr
Ivana Podnar Zarko    fer.hr
Axel Polleres    polleres.net
Guilin Qi    seu.edu.cn
Christoph Quix, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Benedicto Rodriguez    unibw
Prasan Roy, IBM, India
Satya Sahoo 
Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy
Kai-Uwe Sattler    tu-ilmenau.de
Christoph Schlieder    wiai.uni-bamberg.de
Michael Schrefl    dke.uni-linz.ac.at
Wolf Siberski    l3s.de
Yannis Sismanis, IBM Almaden Tresearch
Srinath Srinivasa    iiitb.ac.in
Divesh Srivastava, AT & T Labs - Research, USA
Yannis Stavrakas, Institute for the Management of Information Systems
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Goce Trajcevski    ece.northwestern.edu
Kunal Verma    accenture.com
Johanna Völker    informatik.uni-mannheim.de
Christian von der Weth    deri.org
Wei Wang    cse.unsw.edu.au
Guo-Qiang Zhang