ODBASE 2008

Scale of use, ease of use, breadth of use and choice of use have earmarked the most important transitions of semantic technologies in the years since the first ODBASE conference in 2002. Recent methods allow for scaling of semantic technologies to handling dozens of millions of triples; they allow for composing intriguing semantic applications within a few days; they address target applications from the sciences up to eCommerce; and they allow to chose among plenty of existing ontologies and half a dozen of RDF stores, inferencing engines, or ontology mapping systems.

While these developments greatly contribute to the success of semantic technologies, for enterprise-wide and Web-scale applications, the envelope needs to be pushed much higher, faster, wider, and broader. The 2008 conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE'08) solicits original research papers that push the current boundaries.

As in recent years, the focus of the conference lies in addressing research issues that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial intelligence, semantic web, or data extraction. Also, ODBASE'08 encourages the submission of papers that examine the information needs of various applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, bioinformatics, or emergency response.

ODBASE'08 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Experience papers must describe existing, realistically large systems. In the latter case, preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide (experimental) use.

ODBASE'08 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 2008" that co-locates five conferences: ODBASE'08, DOA'08 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications), CoopIS'08 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems), GADA'08 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications), and IS'08 (International Symposium on Information Security).

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IMPORTANT DATES

 * Abstract Submission Deadline 	 	June 8, 2008
 * Paper Submission Deadline 	June 15, 2008
 * Acceptance Notification 	August 10, 2008
 * Camera Ready Due 	August 25, 2008
 * Registration Due 	August 25, 2008
 * OTM Conferences 	November 9 - 14, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers submitted to ODBASE'08 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.

The paper submission site will be announced shortly

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.

General Co-Chairs

 * Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
 * Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia

Program Committee Co-Chairs

 * Feng Ling, Tsinghua University, China
 * Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
 * Malu Castellanos, HP, USA

Program Committee Members
This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP
 * has PC member::Harith Alani, University of Southampton, UK
 * has PC member::Franz Baader, University of Dresden, Germany
 * has PC member::Renato Barrera, UNAM, Mexico
 * has PC member::Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
 * has PC member::Mohand Boughanem, Université Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France
 * has PC member::Francisco Cantu-Ortiz, ITESM-Monterrey, Mexico
 * has PC member::Edgar Chavez, Universidad de Michoacan, Mexico
 * has PC member::Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
 * has PC member::Umesh Dayal, HP, USA
 * has PC member::Benjamin Habegger, Nirva Systems Ltd, France
 * has PC member::Bin He, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
 * has PC member::Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
 * has PC member::Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
 * has PC member::Vipul Kashyap, Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System, USA
 * has PC member::Phokion Kolaitis, IBM, USA
 * has PC member::Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
 * has PC member::Maurizio Lenzerini, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
 * has PC member::Juanzi Li, Tsinghua University, China
 * has PC member::Alexander Löser, SAP Research, Dresden
 * has PC member::Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
 * has PC member::Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::Erich Neuhold, Universität Darmstadt, Germany
 * has PC member::Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
 * has PC member::Rajugan Rajagopalapillai, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
 * has PC member::Arnon Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation, USA
 * has PC member::Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
 * has PC member::Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::York Sure, SAP, Germany
 * has PC member::Michael Uschold, The Boeing Company, USA
 * has PC member::Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Guido Vetere, IBM, Italy
 * has PC member::Kevin Wilkinson, HP Labs, UK
 * has PC member::Jose Luis Zechinelli, CENTIA, Mexico
 * has PC member::Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
 * has PC member::Baoshi Yan, Bosch Research, USA
 * has PC member::Jingshan Huang, University of South Carolina, USA
 * has PC member::Laura Zavala, University of South Carolina, USA
 * has PC member::Octavian Udrea, University of Toronto, Canada
 * has PC member::Li Ma, IBM, USA
 * has PC member::Maurizio Marchese, U. Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
 * has PC member::Veda C. Storey, Georgia State University, USA
 * has PC member::Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
 * has PC member::Lois M. L. Delcambre, Portland State University, USA
 * has PC member::Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA
 * has PC member::Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
 * has PC member::Satya Sahoo, Wright State University, USA
 * has PC member::Matthew Perry, Wright State University, USA
 * has PC member::María Auxilio Mendina, Polythechnic University of Puebla, Mexico
 * has PC member::Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway