DESWEB 2011 - 2nd International Workshop on Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb 2011)

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Deadline: November 08, 2010 | Date: April 11, 2011

Venue/Country: Hannover, Germany

Updated: 2010-11-01 01:51:04 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb2011)

(Towards semantic-based data engineering for the Web)

Co-located with ICDE 2011

http://DESWeb2011.unimore.it

Modern web applications like Wiki’s, social networking sites and

mashups, are radically changing the nature of modern Web from a

publishing-only environment into a vivant place for information

exchange. The successful exploitation of this information largely

depends on the ability to successfully communicate the data semantics,

which is exactly the vision of the Semantic Web. In this context, new

challenges emerge for semantic-aware data management systems.

The contribution of the data management community in the Semantic Web

effort is fundamental. RDF has already been adopted as the

representation model and exchange format for the semantics of the data

on the Web. Although, until recently, RDF had not received

considerable attention, the recent publication in RDF format of large

ontologies with millions of entities from sites like Yahoo! and

Wikipedia, the huge amounts of microformats in RDF from life science

organizations, and the gigantic RDF bibliographic annotations from

publishers, have made clear the need for advanced management

techniques for RDF data.

On the other hand, traditional data management techniques have a lot

to gain by incorporating semantic information into their

frameworks. Existing data integration, exchange and query solutions

are typically based on the actual data values stored in the

repositories, and not on the semantics of these values. Incorporation

of semantics in the data management process improves query accuracy,

and permit more efficient and effective sharing and distribution

services. Integration of new content, on-the-fly generation of

mappings, queries on loosely structured data, keyword searching on

structured data repositories, and entity identification, are some of

the areas that can benefit from the presence of semantic knowledge

alongside the data.

The goal of DESWeb is to bring together researchers and practitioners

from both fields of Data Management and Semantic Web. It aims at

investigating the new challenges that Semantic Web technologies have

introduced and new ways through which these technologies can improve

existing data management solutions. Furthermore, it intends to study

what data management systems and technologies can offer in order to

improve the scalability and performance of Semantic Web applications.

*Topics of Interest*

DESWeb welcomes papers on topics related, but not limited, to:

Semantic Data Integration:

* Semantic-aware matching and mapping

* Management of incomplete information on the Semantic Web

* Dataspaces and the Semantic Web

* Semantic-aware search engines

* Role of ontologies in data integration and data exchange

* Semantic-based keyword searching in databases

* Probabilistic data and query answering

* Data Management for Social Networking

* Semantic-based lifecycle management

* Database support for social Web2.0 applications

* Entity identification on the Semantic Web

* Tool support for developing and deploying data intensive Semantic

Web applications

* Publishing relational data on the Semantic Web

* Semantic annotation

* Semantic evolution

* Understanding and managing Wiki/Blog data

* Semantic Web technologies for cooperation and collaboration

* Business processes on the Semantic Web

* Semantic-based service discovery and composition

* Interoperation via Semantic Web services

* Query languages for RDF and the Semantic Web

* Multimedia management on the Semantic Web

* Social Networking and the Semantic Web Technologies

Core Database Technologies for RDF Data:

* Data models and query languages for RDF

* RDF querying processing and optimization

* Indexing and access methods for RDF data

* RDF storage and compression

* Update management and maintenance of RDF data

* Query answering techniques on RDF databases

* Benchmarking RDF Systems and applications

*Submission Guidelines*

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers

that are not being considered for publication in any other

forum. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files, be

formatted according to the standard ICDE format and be at most 6 pages

in length.

All accepted papers will be included in the ICDE proceedings and will

also become publicly available through the IEEE Xplore.

Papers should be submitted at the following web site:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DESWeb2011

Important dates

* Submission deadline: (Nov 1st, 2010) extended Nov 8th, 2010

* Notification to authors: Dec 15th, 2010

* Camera Ready version: Jan 1st 2011

Workshop Chairs

* Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

* Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento

Panel Chair:

Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Program Committee

Paolo Atzeni, Università di Roma Tre, Italy

Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece

Denilson Barbosa, University of Alberta, Canada

Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford, UK

Omar Boucelma, Université Aix-Marseille, France

Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR CNR and Università della Calabria, Italy

Roberto De Virgilio, Università di Roma Tre, Italy

Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

George Giannakopoulos, Università di Trento, Italy

Fausto Giunchiglia, Università di Trento, Italy

Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA

Arantza Illarramendi, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM Watson, USA

John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada

Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany

Stelios Paparizons, Microsoft Research, USA

Flavio Rizzolo, University of Ottawa, Canada

Alkis Simitsis Hewlett-Packard Co, USA

Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy

Peter Spyns, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Armando Stellato, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza, Spain