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We invite the submission of short and long papers on:
- research, focusing on foundational or technological aspects
- experience, describing industrial aspects
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Semantics-aware data models and query languages
- Change management of large scale distributed ontologies
- Semantic and statistical approaches for query optimization
- Ontology elicitation from structured and semi-structured databases
- Ontology-based views, mappings, transformations, and query
reformulation
- Data and ontology merge, alignment, and fusion
- Semantic search of voluminous multimedia collections
- Collaboration on the semantic web and emergent semantics
- Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids
- Storing and indexing semantic web data and schemas
- Benchmarks for combined data and metadata queries
- Synthetic data and schema generation for the semantic web
- Data mining and semi-automatic ontology construction and refinement
- Data Filtering, cleansing, and summarization using ontologies
- Semantic annotations and ontology quality evaluation
- Social networks analysis for the semantic web
- Industrial-strength DBMS support for the semantic web
- Applications, evaluations, and experiences in Geographic IS,
Scientific Databases, Bioinformatics, Web-based Information Systems
Submissions must generally be in electronic form using Portable Document Format (.pdf) or PostScript. They must not exceed 6 pages for full length papers or 4 pages for research-in-progress proposals and they must be formatted using the VLDB format.
Selected papers will be publishedin a LNCS volume
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