InterDB 2005 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DATABASE INTEROPERABILITY

http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/InterDB05/

In conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages

April 23, 2005
University of Namur, Belgium

The post-proceedings will be published in the ELSEVIER ENTCS.
NEW: Best Papers will be invited for submission to the LNCS Journal of Data Semantics.


INVITED SPEAKER

Witold Litwin
ACM Fellow
Université Paris Dauphine, France


SCOPE

Most large organizations maintain their data in many distinct independent databases that have been developed at different times on different platforms and data management systems. This explosion of massive and heterogeneous data sets necessitates powerful and intelligent interoperability mechanisms so that users can access these data. Databases, modern communication technology and infrastructures (like the WWW, Grid and P2P) are the driving force behind the highly interconnected information society. This requires a need for efficient and flexible cooperation mechanisms over multiple heterogeneous databases.

Database interoperability key challenges in Classical/Web/Grid/P2P systems are:

1/ The need of platform interoperability to overcome the heterogeneity of hardware and database management systems, and of the services that transport data between the nodes.
2/ The need of a semantic interoperability to reconcile disagreements among databases on the structure, representation or interpretation of the data they wish to exchange. The disagreements often reflect differences in universe of discourses, perceptions, attitudes and goals. Typical effects are different or even incompatible data models, data types, database schemas or terminologies.
3/ The need of coordination mechanism to impose discipline on the interaction between databases. This is usually expressed by common access method and specific network architecture (e.g., P2P)

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers who are actively engaged both in theoretical and practical aspects of database interoperability. The goal is to provide an effective forum for researchers in the area of database interoperability to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experience and to debate new issues and directions for research and development work in the future.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

- Languages, tools and methodologies for semantic data interoperability
- Semantic integration of heterogeneous data
- Ontology-based integration
- Semantic web-enabled database interoperability
- Models mappings
- Mediators, query processing and optimization
- Ontology and metadata for semantic data interoperability
- Database interoperability and Web/Grid/P2P infrastructures
- Emerging semantics for data interoperability
- Web databases interoperability
- Wrappers for legacy databases
- Agent-oriented architectures for database interoperability
- Data interoperability issues in advanced applications: spatial databases, medical databases, biology databases, etc.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit electronically original full papers in PDF format to ph.thiran@tue.nl. Papers length should not exceed 15 pages and must be in ELSEVIER ENTCS submission format (http://www.authors.elsevier.com/JournalDetail.html?PubID=681021&Precis=DESC).
Submitted papers will be evaluated by three reviewers. Acceptance will be based on relevance, technical soundness, originality, and clarity of presentation. Selected papers will be published as post-proceedings as a special issue of ELSEVIER Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. At least one author should attend the Workshop to present the paper. For more information, contact one of the workshop chairs at
- ph.thiran@tue.nl
- Tore.Risch@it.uu.se
- djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr

The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the LNCS Journal of Data Semantics.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission:                       February 25, 2005
Acceptance notification:                March 20, 2005
Camera ready paper submission:          April 10, 2005
Workshop :                              April 23, 2005


WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Philippe Thiran (ph.thiran@tue.nl)
Eindhoven University, The Netherlands

Tore Risch (Tore.Risch@it.uu.se)
Uppsala University, Sweden

Djamal Benslimane (djamal.benslimane@liris.cnrs.fr)
Lyon 1 University, France


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ad Aerts, The Netherlands
Zohra Bellahsene, France
Lionel Brunie, France
Athman Bouguettaya, USA
Anne Doucet, France
Alvaro Fernandes, Great-Britain
Jean-Luc Hainaut, Belgium
Mohand-Said Hacid, France
Ralf-D. Kutsche, Germany
Domenico Lembo , Italy
Zakaria Maamar, UAE
Peter McBrien, Great-Britain
Aris M. Ouksel, USA
Alexandra Poulovassilis, Great-Britain
Thomas Risse, Germany
Marc Roantree, Ireland
Kai-Uwe Sattler, Germany
York Sure, Germany
Kokou Yetongnon, France


SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT

Section Information Systems at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/)
Laboratory of Database Application Engineering (LIBD) at the University of Namur, Belgium (http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/libd/)