CFP: ICDE Workshop on Data Engineering meets the Semantic Web (DESWeb'11)

2st Int’l Workshop on
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
* 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
Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete, GR
Denilson Barbosa, University of Alberta, CA
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 Naumanm, 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


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, 9 October 2010 07:25:45 UTC