CfP: ODBASE 2017 - The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ODBASE 2017 - The 16th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and
Applications of Semantics

24-25 October 2017, Rhodes, Greece

http://www.otmconferences.org/index.php/conferences/odbase-2017

The conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large
Scale Information Systems (ODBASE’17) provides a forum on the use of ontologies,
rules and data semantics in novel applications. Of particular relevance to
ODBASE are papers that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as
artificial intelligence and Semantic Web, databases, data analytics and machine
learning, social networks, distributed and mobile systems, information
retrieval, knowledge discovery, and computational linguistics.

This year, we emphasis the special topics of smart data analytics, Corporate
Semantic Web, and Pragmatic Web. The Corporate Semantic Web focuses on the
application of semantic methods and technologies in corporate environments and
enterprise information systems. The Pragmatic Web consists of the tools,
practices and theories describing why and how people use information. In
contrast to the Syntactic Web and Semantic Web the Pragmatic Web is not only
about form or meaning of information, but also about interaction which brings
about e.g. understanding or commitments. Under the Pragmatic Web label we
subsume both the pragmatics of ontologies (e.g. ontology development in
communities) and the ontology of pragmatics (e.g. semantics of communicative
action and context). Pragmatic Web technologies include e.g., distributed
ontology- and rule-based systems, tools for knowledge interchange and social
interaction, semantic agent technologies with communication (e.g. speech acts),
coo rdination, and negotiation protocols. We also encourage the submission of
research and practical experience papers concerning software (e.g. scalability)
and knowledge engineering issues in semantic ontology and rule management,
information/knowledge integration, and extraction, as well as papers that
examine the information and knowledge needs of various applications.

ODBASE’17 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners
by being part of the Federated conferences Event "On the Move to Meaningful
Internet Systems 2017 (OnTheMove'17)" that co-locates three conferences:
ODBASE'17, C&TC'17 (International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures),
and CoopIS'17 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems).

ODBASE 2017 will consider two categories of papers: research and experience.
Research papers must contain novel, unpublished research results. Experience
papers must describe performance or usability of existing real-world systems,
empirical studies, business / industry cases with (proven) solutions / systems
for applied technological challenges, and concrete results demonstrating real-
world importance and impact; preference will be given to papers that describe
software products or systems that are in use in the community and/or the
industry.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Specific areas of interest to ODBASE’17 include but are not limited to:

Management of Semantically Expressive Information and Knowledge


• Knowledge representation and semantic knowledge management
• Semantic data modeling
• Semantic integration, including transformation rules, ontology matching,
merging, etc.
• Ontology and rule engineering and metadata management
• Ontology-based data management, linked data management, semantic big data
management
• Governance aspects such as workflows, roles and responsibilities in
semantic information and knowledge management

Large Scale and Complex Information Management and Analysis

• Semantic indexing, search and query answering in large volumes of data
• Semantic digital curation, semantic annotation, extraction, enrichment,
summarization, and integration
• Semantic (smart/big) data analytics, data mining, and machine learning
(incl. semantic deep learning)
• Semantic social network analysis
• Semantic information extraction and text mining
• Semantics in event-driven architectures, streaming analytics, and semantic
complex event processing (SCEP)

Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences of applying ontology, rule, and
database techniques, standards, and tools including but not limited to the
following domains:

• Semantic technology standards and tools
• Semantic Web and Linked Data
• Corporate Semantic Web (CSW)
• Semantic enterprise information systems and knowledge management
• Semantic business process management (SBPM) and decision models
• Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Crowdsourcing, human computation, and the People Web
• Pragmatic Web
• Semantic services and semantic Multi Agent Systems (MAS)
• Online social networks and social Semantic Web
• Personalisation and digital content interaction
• Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia
• Semantic story telling and corporate smart content
• Ubiquitous and mobile information systems
• Information/data governance, information assurance, security, compliance
• Semantic cloud computing, edge computing, fog computing
• Semantic Web applications and tools for, e.g., biomedical and healthcare
domain, eCommerce, eScience, virtual organizations, Industry 4.0
• Legal ontologies, rules, and reasoning
• Distributed ledger / blockchain databases, e.g. for rule-based smart
contracts


IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Abstract Submission Deadline: July 17, 2017 (recommended)
Conference Paper Submission Deadline: July 24, 2017
Acceptance Notification: Aug 28, 2017
Camera Ready Due: Sept 4, 2017
Author Registration Due: Sept 4, 2017


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to ODBASE’17 must not have been accepted for publication
elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be
refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two
will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions
must be in English.

Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style.
Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting
instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.

Paper submission site: http://otmconferences.org/index.php/paper-submission

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
Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers for consideration for publication in a special issue of
the Springer Journal on Data Semantics (JoDS).

• Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers
will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
• Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes
a paper from the proceedings.

CHAIRS

Adrian Paschke
Freie Universitaet Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Nick Bassiliades
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Hans Weigand
Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Netherlands