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       C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n -- ODBIS 0 8
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VLDB Workshop on Ontologies-based techniques for DataBases in Information Systems and Knowledge Systems
ODBIS 2008
http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/odbis08/
Saturday, August 23rd

Contact : odbis2008@sophia.inria.fr

Co-located with VLDB 2008 (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/conferences/vldb08/index.php/VLDB_08)

REGISTRATION *****

Registration and payment are handled on the VLDB 2008 website
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/conferences/vldb08/index.php/Registration

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******* AIMS AND SCOPE *******

Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating
knowledge in any context. Ontologies can be very useful for a community as a way of structuring and
defining the meaning of the metadata that are currently collected and standardized. Applications using
ontologies become more intelligent since they can more deal with human background
knowledge. More generally, ontologies are critical for applications which want to merge information
from diverse sources. They become a major conceptual backbone for a broad spectrum of activities
dealing with databases either in information systems (IS) or in knowledge systems (KS).
IS professionals and researchers have traditionally dealt with issues of identifying, capturing, and
representing domain knowledge within information systems. In the structural dimension, ontologies
can provide mechanisms for organizing and storing items including database schemes, user interface
objects, and application programs. In the temporal dimension, ontologies can guide the development
of new information systems by helping analysts and designers to choose appropriate processes,
algorithms, rules, and software components depending upon their needs. The "ontology-driven
information systems" approach proposes new ways of thinking about ontologies and IS in conjunction
with each other and covers both the structural and the temporal dimensions of information systems.

A key point in databases is the ability to make data available semantically, that is, to find an automated
and meaningful way of expressing their structure and semantics. Indeed schemes as sets of rules
represent complex agreements made by designers with domain experts about data and so constitute a
potentially valuable basic resource for eliciting ontologies. For instance, relational schemes are purely
lexical, often obtained from more conceptual ones which are flattened into tables with a loss of
information about roles and concepts. Within this perspective, an approach is to search for a tool
which will automatically create ontologies corresponding to the content of the database and make
them available for humans and machines.
On the other hand, due to their independence from lower level models, ontologies are used for
integrating heterogeneous databases enabling interoperability and specifying interfaces to knowledge
systems. Availability of the background knowledge stored in ontologies increases significantly the
support which can be given for indexing as well as for searching. Ontologies may be useful too for
conducting extraction tasks for discovering patterns, interpreting rules or conceptual clustering.

Furthermore ontologies can be used to provide semantic annotations for collections of images, audio
or other non-textual objects.

The objective of this workshop is to present researches on databases in information systems and
knowledge systems as they relate to ontologies and more broadly, to gain insight into ontologies as
they relate to databases. It is meant to cover foundations, methodologies and applications of ontology-
driven design, integration and management of databases in information systems and knowledge
systems.

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******* PROGRAM *******

9:00AM: INVITED TALK (common with the NTII workshop)
Data access and integration with global constraints: why is it hard?
Enrico Franconi (University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

10:15AM: Welcome Note by Workshop Chairs

10:30AM: Morning Tea Break

11:00AM: SESSION I - Ontologies and Data Interoperability

Structure- and Extension-Informed Taxonomy Alignment
K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University, USA), Mario Cataldi, Maria Luisa Sapino, Claudio Schi-fanella (University of Torino, Italy)

Ontologies And Databases: Going Back And Forth
Paolo Atzeni, Stefano Paolozzi, Pierluigi Del Nostro (University of Roma, Italy)

Ontology Enrichment and Automatic Population From XML Data
Christophe Cruz, Christophe Nicolle (University of Bourgogne, France)

12:30AM: Lunch Break

2:00:PM SESSION II - Ontology-based Data Processing

Toward Public Opinions Detection: Measuring the Similarity between Instant Messages
Le Wang, Ying-Wen Chen, Yan Jia (Computer college National University of Defense Technology Changsha, China)

Ontology-Assisted Data Transformation and Integration
Lucas Zamboulis, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Jianing Wang (University of London,UK)

3:00:PM Afternoon Tea Break

3:30:PM SESSION III - Ontology-based Representation

A Methodology for Building and Querying an Ontology representing Data and Multimedia Sources
Domenico Beneventano (University of Modena, Italy), Claudio Gennaro (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy), Francesco Guerra (University of Modena, Italy)

Accessing heterogeneous databases on the semantic Web: A distributed description logics-based approach
Mourad Ouziri (University of Paris Descartes, France)

Towards a Context Ontology to Enhance Data Integration Processes
Damires Souza, Rosalie Belian, Ana Carolina Salgado, Patricia Tedesco (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)

5:00:PM CLOSING DISCUSSION

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******* VENUE *******

The workshop will be hosted at the University of Auckland, about 15 minutes by foot from the conference venue; a free bus is running from 8am to 6pm between the conference hotel and the university.

Workshop address:
University of Auckland,
School of Engineering,
20 Symonds Street
Auckland

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******* ORGANIZING COMMITTEE *******
Program chairs :
Martine Collard, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, FRANCE
Rose Dieng-Kuntz, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, FRANCE

Publicity and Proceedings Chairs :
Laurent Brisson, TELECOM Bretagne, FRANCE
Khaled Khelif, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, FRANCE

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******* PROGRAM COMMITTEE *******
Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, Baltimore, USA
Paolo Bouquet, University of Trento, Italy
Stéphane Bressan, School of Computing (SoC) of the National University of Singapore, Singapore
Saartje Brokmans, Ontoprise, Karlsruhe, Germany
François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
Hacene Cherfi, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France
Olivier Corby, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France
Peter W. Eklund, University of Wollongong, Australia
Catherine Faron-Zucker, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Fabien Gandon, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, France
Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland, Ireland
David Hansen, e-Health Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia
Geoff Holmes, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Carl-Chritian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany
Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg, Germany
Sebastian Link, Massey University, New Zealand
Tatiana Malyuta, New York City College of Technology, USA
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Michele Missikoff, Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI-CNR, Italy
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, CNRS, France
Claire Nedellec, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Mads Nygard, University of Trondheim, Norway
Oscar Pastor University of Valencia, Spain
Philippe Picouet, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Yuzhong Qu, Southeast University, China
Domenico Rosaci, University "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic
Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster, Germany
Wei Wang, University of South Wales, Australia