Workshop Description

As the fields of Semantic Web and Ontologies continue to mature, exploring their relationships with the area of databases systems has become crucial. This year the organizers of SWDB and ODBIS Workshops have joined efforts in organizing a workshop whose objective is to present databases and information systems research as they relate to ontologies and semantic web.

We invite the submission of short and long papers on research, foundational or technological aspects and describing industrial aspects of creating, storing, managing and querying ontological databases. For a detailed list of topics of interest see http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/swdb-odbis07/

Submissions must generally be in electronic form using Portable Document Format (.pdf) or PostScript. They must not exceed 6 pages for full length papers or 4 pages for research-in-progress proposals and they must be formatted using the VLDB format.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: June 22, 2007		Notification of Acceptance: July 27, 2007
Camera Ready Papers Due: August 31, 2007		Workshop Date: September 23-24, 2007

Organizing Committee

General Chair		Program Chairs	Proceeding Chairs
Vassilis Christophides Computer Science Department, University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece christop “at” ics.forth.gr		Martine Collard I3S Laboratory University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Martine.Collard “at” unice.fr Claudio Gutierrez Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile cgutierr ”at” dcc.uchile.cl	Kemafor Anyanwu Department of Computer Science University of Georgia anyanwu ”at” cs.uga.edu Jean-Louis Cavarero University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France jlcava “at” aol.com

Program Committee -- (to be completed)

Bernd Amann, Universit de Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, Baltimore, USA Jurgen Angele, Ontoprise, Karlsruhe, Germany Jérôme Azé, University of Paris XI, France Leo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy Marcelo Arenas, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Laurent Brisson, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France François Bry, University of Munich, Germany. Bruno Cremilleux, University of Caen, France Carl-Chritian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA. Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, EPFL, Switzerland Stefan Decker, DERI National University of Ireland, Galway. Peter W. Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Irini Fundulaki, University of Edinburgh, UK. Vipul Kashyap, Partners Healthcare, USA. Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece.

Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy. Frederique Laforest, University of Lyon, France Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis Angela Maduko, University of Georgia Michele Missikoff, Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI-CNR, Italy Prasenjit Mitra, The Pennsylvania State University, USA John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada. Mads Nygard, University of Trondheim, Norway Nicolas Pasquier, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Oscar Pastor University of Valencia, Spain Alex Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece. Alexandra Poulovassilis, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Domenico Rosaci, University "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Italy Michel Scholl, CNAM Paris, France. Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Kevin Wilkinson, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA Peter Wood, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. M Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece.