CFP

2nd International Conference on
ONTOLOGIES, DATABASES, AND APPLICATIONS OF
SEMANTICS FOR LARGE SCALE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ODBASE)

3-7 November 2003, Sicily
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/odbase/2003
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

** 2002 acceptance rate is 1/4 **

The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE'03) provides a forum on ontologies and data semantics that is inclusive of the many computing disciplines involved in developing the "semantic" web. The program committee of ODBASE 2003 reflects this wide diversity.

In order to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners, ODBASE'03 is part of the Federated Symposium Event "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003� that co-locates three conferences: Data and Web Semantics (ODBASE'03); Distributed Objects, Infrastructure and Enabling Technology and Internet Computing (DOA'03); and Workflow, Cooperation, and Interoperability (CoopIS'03)."

Of particular relevance to ODBASE 2003 are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as databases, artificial intelligence, networking, and mobile computing. ODBASE 2003 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 Web and knowledge applications, including electronic commerce, electronic government, mobile systems, and bioinformatics.

ODBASE 2003 will consider three categories of papers: research, application experience, and position. Research papers must contain novel, unpublished results. Application experience papers must describe existing, real-world scale systems (and not "academic" or small scale prototypes); preference will be given to papers that describe software products or systems that are in wide experimental use. Position papers will be accepted only if they contain potentially controversial opinions of experts, and most importantly, highlight important and new research issues. The number of accepted position papers is expected to be small. Authors of accepted position papers will be invited to present their opinions during a panel session and will be given a modest amount of proceedings space (see word limits below).

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE'03 include but are not limited to:

Management of Semantically-Expressive Information

• Knowledge Modelling
• 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
• Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarisation
• Multimedia Metadata Annotation
• Data and Web Mining

• 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
• Bioinformatics
• Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2003
Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2003
Final Version Due: August 20, 2003
Conference: November 3-7, 2003

For SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and other information, please see the conference website.