[CfP] ODBASE 2018 -- second call for papers

ODBASE 2018 - The 17th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems

23-24 October 2018, Valletta, Malta

http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/odbase-2018

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag.

Approaching submission deadlines:
    Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: July 3, 2018 (recommended)
    Conference Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2018


CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE’18) provides a forum on the use of ontologies, rules and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to ODBASE are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as artificial intelligence and Semantic Web, databases, data science, data analytics and machine learning, human-computer interaction, social networks, distributed and mobile systems, data and information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and computational linguistics.

ODBASE’18 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners by being part of the Federated conferences Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2018 (OnTheMove'18)" that co-locates three conferences: ODBASE'18, C&TC'18 (International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures), and CoopIS'18 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems).

ODBASE 2018 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience.
•    Research papers must contain novel, unpublished research results.
•    Experience papers must describe performance or usability of existing real-world systems, empirical studies, business / industry cases with (proven) solutions / systems for applied technological challenges, and concrete results demonstrating real-world importance and impact; preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in use in the community and/or the industry.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE’18 include but are not limited to:

Management of Semantically Expressive Information and Knowledge

•    Data governance
•    Knowledge representation and semantic knowledge management
•    Data modeling
•    Data integration, including transformation rules, ontology matching, merging, etc.
•    Ontology-based data management, ontology-based data access (OBDA), linked data management, semantic big data management
•    Ontology and rule engineering and metadata management
•    Governance aspects such as workflows, roles and responsibilities in semantic information and knowledge management
•    Synergy between ontologies & modern databases and business intelligence

Large Scale and Complex Information Management and Analysis

•    Semantic indexing, search, and query answering and formulation in large volumes of data
•    Semantic digital curation, semantic annotation, extraction, enrichment, summarization, and integration
•    Semantic (smart/big) data analytics, data mining, data visualization, and machine learning (incl. semantic deep learning)
•    Semantic social network analysis
•    Semantic information extraction and text mining
•    Semantics in event-driven architectures, streaming analytics, and semantic complex event processing (SCEP)

Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences of applying ontology, rule, and database techniques, standards, and tools including but not limited to the following domains:

•    Semantic technology standards and tools
•    Semantic Web and Linked Data
•    Corporate Semantic Web (CSW)
•    Semantic enterprise information systems  and knowledge management
•    Semantic business process management (SBPM) and decision models
•    Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT)
•    Semantic Web and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
•    Crowdsourcing, human computation, and the People Web
•    Pragmatic Web
•    Semantic services and semantic Multi Agent Systems (MAS)
•    Online social networks and social Semantic Web
•    Personalisation and digital content interaction
•    Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia
•    Semantic story telling and corporate smart content
•    Ubiquitous and mobile information systems
•    Information/data governance, information assurance, security, compliance
•    Semantic cloud computing, edge computing, fog computing
•    Semantic Web applications and tools for, e.g., biomedical and healthcare domain, eCommerce, eScience, virtual organizations, Industry 4.0
•    Legal ontologies, rules, and reasoning
•    Distributed ledger / blockchain databases, e.g. for rule-based smart contracts
•    Role of mutual impact of society on/by IT (with focus on ontologies and databases)



IMPORTANT DATES

    Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: July 3, 2018 (recommended)
    Conference Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2018
    Acceptance Notification:  Aug 20, 2018
    Camera Ready Due:  Aug 30, 2018
    Author Registration Due:  Aug 30, 2018



SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to ODBASE’18 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English.

Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.

Paper submission site: http://otmconferences.org/index.php/paper-submission

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

•    Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
•    Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

PC Chair: Dr. Dumitru Roman, SINTEF / University of Oslo, Norway
PC Vice-chairs:
•    Ontologies: Dr. Elena Simperl, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
•    DataBases: Dr. Ahmet Soylu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) / DNV GL, Norway
•    Applications: Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

PC Members (confirmed, to be extended):
Alessandra Mileo, INSIGHT, Ireland
Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Anna Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Annika Hinze, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK
Axel Ngonga, Universität Leipzig,  Germany
Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Christoph Benzmüller, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA
Christophe Debruyne, Odisee University College, Belgium
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Cristina Feier, Universität Bremen, Germany
Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dietrich Rebholz, Insight, Ireland
Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece
Divna Djordjevic, Cerved, Italy
Evgenij Thorstensen, University of Oslo, Norway
Flavio De Paoli, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany
George Konstantinidis, University of Southampton, UK
George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece
Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Giorgos Stoilos, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece
Grigoris Antoniou, University of Huddersfield, UK
Guido Governatori, Data61, Australia
Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
Harry Halpin, Ibiblio, USA
Ioan Toma, Onlim, Austria
Irene Celino, Cefriel, Italy
Irini Fundulaki, FORTH, Greece
Jacek Kopecky, University of Portsmouth, UK
James Hodson, AI4Good, USA
Jan Jürjens, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Juan Miguel Gómez Berbis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Luis Ibanez Gonzalez, University of Southampton, UK
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Marko Tadic, University Zagreb, Croatia
Markus Luczak-Roesch, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, Australia
Martin Hepp, Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Matteo Palmonari, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Mihhail Matskin, KTH, Sweeden
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Nikolay Nikolov, SINTEF, Norway
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Paul Fodor, Stony Brook University, USA
Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University/imec, Belgium
Simon Krek, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Simon Scerri, Fraunhofer / University of Bonn, Germany
Sören Auer, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Stefano Modafieri, IT Innovation, UK
Stefano Pacifico, Elemental Cognition, USA
Steffen Lamparter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
Sung-Kook Han, Wonkwang University, South Korea
Till C. Lech, SINTEF, Norway
Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Uli Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext, Bulgaria
Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University of Economics, Poland?