CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on
Interoperability through Semantic Data and Service Integration
Camogli (Genova), Italy
June 25, 2009
Co-located with SEBD 2009
Workshop web site
http://sebd09.disi.unige.it/satellite-events.html
The problem of how to provide transparent access to heterogeneous information sources, while maintaining their autonomy, already appeared decades ago and has been addressed by data integration techniques. Those techniques enable the interaction between clients and data sources
through a centralized access point and uniform query interfaces that give users the illusion of querying a homogeneous system. Recently, the research community has been focusing on investigating about the integration of multimedia data sources. Several approaches for representing and managing multimedia data, mainly based on either specific representation models or on the development of common ontologies, have been proposed. Besides data, services are another kind of resources that need to be shared and used to ensure application level interoperability in open information systems. Web services and service-oriented architectures are rather new technologies with the common goal of making software components and business applications available via standardized interfaces. Service discovery differs from data query, since a discovery engine is based on a different description of web-services made of inputs, outputs, preconditions, effects, ...
The research on data integration and service discovering involved in the last years different, not overlapping communities. As a consequence, data and services are described with different models, and different techniques to retrieve data and services have been developed. But from a
user perspective, the border between data and services is often not so definitive: data and services provide a complementary vision about the domain they refer to.
The impact of this topic is very high. Let us consider for example web information systems, where the information about the same topic is provided with different kinds of knowledge: unstructured textual contents, deep web data sources, web services, images and other multimedia files. In this scenario, a new goal has to be pursued: providing users with a uniform way to represent and search for data and services with a unique technology. Multiple and challenging research issues have to be addressed for achieving it: the mediation among different models for representing information, the development of techniques for extracting and mapping relevant information from such heterogeneous kinds of data, the development of new paradigm for formulating and processing queries and the investigation of new models for visualizing the results.
Another important challenge of this scenario where very different information sources are involved (from data sources to services, from traditional data to multimedia data) is the quick development of systems starting from the collection of the different tools that manage these
different kind of information sources. Finally, the process of integration need to be dynamic, in order to deal with the modification of the sources, and automatic, to reduce the time required to generate a unified view and to obtain shared knowledge from the current web comprising millions of autonomous sources.
Research papers and software demonstrations of interest for this Workshop will show and highlight the different models, tools and practical experience in which techniques for integrating structured, multimedia data, and services have been developed and applied to support
any relevant business process, and assess their degree of success, the difficulties which were addressed, the solutions which have been found, the new tools which have been implemented. Moreover, extended abstract containing descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results
already published are also welcome.
Topics:
- Unified modelling of Data and Services
- Mapping and Integration of Data, Multimedia Documents and Services
- Retrieving of Data and Services
- Service integration in multimedia
- Light and flexible approaches to integration
- Peer-to-peer data integration
- Light and flexible approaches to integration
- Ontology-based integration of data and services
- On-the-fly integration
- Data quality and Duplicate detection in data integration
- Real cases and application scenarios of integration of data and services in business environment
Important Dates
10 May 2009: Deadline for paper submission
30 May 2009: Notification of acceptance
10 June 2009: Camera ready deadline
21-24 June 2009: SEBD conference
25 June 2009: workshop
Paper Submission
Research papers presenting original works should be at most 12 pages long whereas extended abstract should be at most 8 pages long. Papers can be written in English or Italian. In order to allow a meaningful assignment of your paper to the most suitable reviewers, it is important that you indicate the content of the paper with a suitable set of keywords from the provided list. Submissions must be in electronic form in Portable Document Format (PDF) format.
Papers must be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Papers should be submitted as a pdf file through the conference management system, at the following url:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isdsi09
Co-Chairs
Tiziana Catarci
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "A. Ruberti"
Sapienza Ð UniversitaÕ di Roma
Via Ariosto 25, 00185 Roma
ITALY
Phone: +39-0677274007
Fax: +39-0677274007
email: catarci@dis.uniroma1.it
Sonia Bergamaschi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Vignolese 905, 41125 Modena
ITALY
Phone: +39-0592056132
Fax: +39-0592056129
email: sonia.bergamaschi@unimore.it
Carlo Batini
Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione
Universita' di Milano-Bicocca
Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milano
ITALY
Phone: +39-0264487826
Fax: +39-0264487805
email: batini@disco.unimib.it <mailto:batini@disco.unimib.it>
Domenico Beneventano
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Vignolese 905, 41125 Modena
ITALY
Phone: +39-0592056141
Fax: +390592056129
email: domenico.beneventano@unimore.it
Organizing Committee
Carola Aiello
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica A.Ruberti
Sapienza Ð UniversitaÕ di Roma
via Ariosto, 25 - 00185 Roma
tel. +39 06 77274 013 - int. 35013
fax. +39 06 77274002
email: caiello@dis.uniroma1.it
Serena Sorrentino
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Via Vignolese 905, 41125 Modena
ITALY
Phone: +39-0592056242
Fax: +390592056129
email: serena.sorrentino@unimore.it
Program Commitee
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Andrea Maurino, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Axel Hahn, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Claudio Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy
Dario Cerizza, CEFRIEL, Milano, Italy
Fausto Rabitti, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Maurizio Vincini, University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy
Michele Missikof, LEKS-IASI CNR, Roma, Italy
Piero De Sabbata, ENEA, SIC-UDA-PMI Bologna, Italy
Omar Boucelma, UniversitŽ Aix-Marseille, France
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