[Corpora-List] CFP: ODBASE 2004

[Laura Bright]

                      C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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                      3rd International Conference on
                ONTOLOGIES, DATABASES, AND APPLICATIONS OF
           SEMANTICS FOR LARGE SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ODBASE)
                        Larnaca, Cyprus, Oct 25-29, 2004

                    http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf

              Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag


The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics
for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'04) provides a forum on
ontologies and data semantics that is inclusive of the many computing
disciplines involved in developing the "semantic" web.

In order to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners,
ODBASE'04 is part of the Federated Symposium Event "On the Move to
Meaningful Internet Systems 2004" that co-locates three conferences:
Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'04); Distributed Objects, Infrastructure
and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'04); and Workflow,
Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'04).

Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2004 are papers that bridge
traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial
intelligence, networking, computational linguistics, and mobile
computing. ODBASE 2004 also encourages the submission of research and
practical experience papers concerning scale issues in ontology
management, information integration, and data mining, as well as papers
that examine the information needs of various applications, including
electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, and
bioinformatics.

ODBASE 2004 will consider two categories of papers: research and
experience. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results.
Experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale systems;
preference will be given to papers that describe software products or
systems that are in wide experimental use.

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'04 include but are not limited to:

Management of Semantically-Expressive Information

    * Knowledge Acquisition and Representation
    * Ontology Languages and Specification
    * Ontology Extraction, Learning and Evolution
    * Hypertext, Multimedia, and Hypermedia Data Management
    * Semi-Structured Data
    * Management and Integration of Large Ontology Bases
    * Data Integration
    * Semantic Middleware
    * Information Dissemination
    * Searching and Managing Dynamic Contents
    * Self-organization in Information Systems
    * Information Retrieval
    * Terminology Management
    * Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarization
    * Metadata Management
    * Data and Web Mining
    * Security
    * Information Quality

Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences

    * Media Archives and Digital Libraries
    * Enterprise-wide Information Systems
    * Web-based Information Systems
    * Location-Dependent Information Services
    * Web Services
    * Intelligent Information Agents
    * Electronic Commerce
    * Electronic Government
    * Scientific Databases
    * Bioinformatics
    * Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems

IMPORTANT DATES

    * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2004
    * Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2004
    * Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2004
    * Final Version Due: August 20, 2004
    * Conference: October 25-29, 2004

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All
submissions must be in English. Research and experience submissions must
not exceed 8,000 words. Submissions must clearly identify the nature of
the paper as research or experience. Submissions can either be in
Postscript, MS Word, or Pdf format and should be done through the
following URL:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2004/papers/submit/

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically
excludes a paper from the proceedings.

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs (fedconf at cs.rmit.edu.au)

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

Program Committee Co-Chairs (odbase2004 at cs.rmit.edu.au)

    * Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
    * Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Local Organising Chair

    * Skevos Evripidou, University of Cyprus

Publicity Chair

    * Laura Bright, Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon, USA

Program Committee Members

    * Karl Aberer (EPFL Lausanne)
    * Sonia Bergamaschi (Univ. of Modena, Italy)
    * Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA)
    * Chris Bussler (DERI)
    * Isabel Cruz (Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
    * Mike Dean (BBN)
    * Stefan Decker (ISI)
    * Skevos Evripidou (Uni of Cyprus)
    * Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA)
    * Tim Finin (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County)
    * Avigdor Gal (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
    * Carole Goble (Univ. of Manchester)
    * Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR)
    * Mohamed-Said Hacid (Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France)
    * Ian Horrocks (U of Manchester)
    * Arantza Illaramendi (Basque Country University, Spain)
    * Vipul Kashyap (NIH)
    * Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University)
    * Roger (Buzz) King (University of Colorado, USA)
    * Wolfgang Klas (Univ. of Vienna)
    * Matthias Klusch (dfki)
    * Harumi Kuno (HP)
    * Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu, USA)
    * Maurizio Lenzerini (Università di Roma "La Sapienza")
    * Murali Mani (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
    * Leo Mark (Georgia Tech)
    * David Martin (SRI)
    * Michele Missikoff (CNR)
    * Pavlos Moraitis (University of Cyprus)
    * Maria Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia)
    * Massimo Paolucci (CMU)
    * Bijan Parsia (University of Maryland)
    * Adam Pease (Teknowledge)
    * Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland)
    * Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL, Switzerland)
    * Naveen Srinivasan (CMU)
    * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
    * Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
    * Sergio Tessaris (Free Univ. of Bozen)
    * Paola Velardi (Univ. of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
    * Guido Vetere (IBM, Italy)
    * Raphael Volz (University of Karlsruhe)
    * Kevin Wilkinson (HP)
    * Stuart Williams (HP Bristol)
    * Guizhen Yang (University at Buffalo, USA)