International Workshop Data Integration and the Semantic Web

(DISWeb'06)

June 5, 2006, Luxembourg      Programme

in Conjunction with CAiSE'06

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In cooperation with the ERCIM Working Group on the Semantic Web

CAiSE'06

Information integration has been a long standing challenge for the database community. The investigation of this problem in the two last decades led to a great piece of fundamental theory together with many pragmatic work concerned with implementation and testing of a variety of information integration systems as well as the development of applications in several areas. However, today, under the driving force of new application areas and Internet, there is a need in leveraging traditional integration techniques in order to tackle new challenges such as on-the-fly or web-scale integration in open and highly dynamic information space.

DisWeb’06  is the fifth workshop in a successful series of annual workshops on Data Integration and Semantic Web, which have been held in conjunction with the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE). DISWeb'06 aims at continuing the tradition of the previous four workshops in fostering the debate on new issues and research directions in the information integration and the semantic web.

•    Semantic integration
•    Web semantics 
•    Data sharing in P2P 
•    Integrated data management for mobile applications
•    Ontologies for data integration
•    Ontology-based information sharing
•    Schema  mapping
•    Managing metadata for semantic integration
•    Distributed data warehouses
•    New architectures for data integration
•    Web services
•    Web querying: planning and optimization
•    Storage structures and indexing techniques for web data
•    Web data visualization


IMPORTANT DATES

•    Papers due:   extended deadline March 8, 2006
•    Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2006
•    Camera ready : April 11, 2006
•    Workshop: June 5, 2006

PROGRAM  COMMITTEE   

• Bernd Amann (LIP6, University Paris 6, France)
• Andrea Cali (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) 
• Tiziana Catarci (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (EPFL Switzerland)
• Mohand Said Hacid (LIRIS, Université Lyon 1, France)
• Giovanna Guerrini (DISI, Universita' di Genova)
  
• Michael Grossniklaus (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
  
• Ela Hunt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)  
• Zoubida Kedad ( PRiSM, Université Versailles St-Quentin, France)
  
• Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) 
• Ramon Lawrence (University of Iowa, USA) 
• Thibaud Latour (CRP-Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)
• Thérèse Libourel (LIRMM- CNRS/Université Montpellier 2, France)
  
• Maurizio Lenzerini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) 
• Bertram Ludäscher (University of California at Davis, USA) 
• Peter McBrien (Imperial College of London, UK) 
• Marco Mesiti (University of Milano, Italy)
• Pierre pompidor (LIRMM,-CNRS/Université Montpellier 2, France)
  
• Mark Roantree (Dublin City University, Ireland) 
• Nicolas Spyratos (LRI, Université d'Orsay, France)
• Santtu Toivonen  (VTT Information Technology, Finland)
  
• Huiyong Xiao (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
  
  

  ORGANIZATION CHAIRS 

• Zohra Bellahsène                                                           
  LIRMM 161 rue Ada                                                    
  34392 Montpellier Cedex 5, France                             
  bella@lirmm

• Dimitris Plexousakis
  

         Institute of Computer Science,
         Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
        Science and Technology Park of Crete
        Vassilika Vouton, P.O.Box 1385
        dp@csd.uch.gr

• Farouk Toumani

        LIMOS, ISIMA-campus des ceseaux BP 125
        63173 AUBIERE Cedex
        ftoumani@isima.fr