DISWeb’06 Programme
Monday June 5^th, Luxembourg.

   9.00 am Opening Remarks

   9.15 am  Session 1  Invited Speaker

 “Some results and open problems in service-oriented information integration on the web”
By Bernd Amann, Professor at the University of Paris VI.

Abstract:
Information integration has become a central task in many science & business applications.
This talk presents some research results and open issues in information integration on the web. 
The presentation is based on the description of several research projects exploiting web services
and semantic web technologies for building distributed web information systems.

10.30 am Coffee Break

11am Session 2  “Schema Mapping and Transformation”

·         Information Sharing for the Semantic Web - a Schema Transformation Approach,
by Lucas Zamboulis and Alexandra Poulovassilis

·         A Tool for Semi-Automated Semantic Schema Mapping: Design and Implementation,
by Dimitris Manakanatas and Dimitris Plexousakis

12.30 am Lunch

2 pm Session 3 “Data Integration and Exchange”

·         Inter Model Data Exchange of Type Information via a Common Type Hierarch,
by Andrew Smith and Peter McBrien

·         Integrated vision of  federated data warehouses, by Michel Schneider

3.30 pm Coffee Break

4 pm Session 4 “Web Applications”

·         User Profile Interchange in a Service-oriented Architecture,
by Daniela Leal Musa, Renata de Matos Galante, Mariusa Warpechowski and José P. Moreira de Oliveira

·         An Architecture for a Semantic Portal, by Gerald Reif and Harald Gall

   6 pm Close

  7 pm Workshop Dinner