CFP: Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWEB) @ICDE 2010

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1st Int’l Workshop on
Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb2010)
(Towards semantic-based data engineering for the Web)
Co-located with ICDE 2010
http://DESWeb2010.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

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 published in the ICDE proceedings and will
also become publicly available in IEEE Xplore.

Papers should be submitted at the following web site:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DESWeb2010

Important dates
* Submission deadline: Nov 15th, 2009
* Notification to authors: Dec 22nd, 2009
* Camera Ready version: Jan 5th 2010

Workshop Chairs
* Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento
* Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Panel Chair
* Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Program Committee
* Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, USA
* Paolo Atzeni, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
* Michael Benedikt, Oxford University, UK
* Omar Boucelma, Université Aix-Marseille, France
* John Breslin, DERI, Ireland
* Nieves Brisaboa, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
* Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
* Vassilis Christophides, University of Crete & ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and Università della Calabria, Italy
* Roberto De Virgilio, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
* AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
* Alfio Ferrara, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece
* Ramanathan Guha, Google Inc, USA
* Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA
* Arantza Illarramendi, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
* Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM Watson, USA
* Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece
* Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
* Ahsan Morshed, FAO, Italy
* John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
* Felix Naumanm, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany
* Stelios Paparizons, Microsoft Research, USA
* Flavio Rizzolo, Carleton University, Canada
* 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
* James Terwilliger, Microsoft Research, USA
* Raquel Trillo Lado, University of Zaragoza, Spain
* Cong Yu, Yahoo!, USA


dott. ing. Francesco Guerra
Researcher in Computer Engineering, Ph. D.
Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Phone: +39  059  205 6264 / +39  059  205 6869
Fax:   +39  059  205 6129
Web: www.dbgroup.unimo.it/~guerra
Email: francesco.guerra@unimore.it

Received on Saturday, 31 October 2009 14:55:28 UTC