Journal on Data Semantics XI

1. Front Matter

   PDF

2. Second SWESE Workshop

   1. Experiences in the Design of Semantic Services Using Web Engineering Methods and Tools

      • Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Irene Celino, Dario Cerizza, Emanuele Della Valle, Federico M. Facca et al.

      Pages 1-31

   2. Automatic Generation and Evolution of Model Transformations Using Ontology Engineering Space

      • Stephan Roser, Bernhard Bauer

      Pages 32-64

3. Second International Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2006)

   1. The Harmony Integration Workbench

      • Peter Mork, Len Seligman, Arnon Rosenthal, Joel Korb, Chris Wolf

      Pages 65-93

4. International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM 2006)

   1. Using ORM-Based Models as a Foundation for a Data Quality Firewall in an Advanced Generation Data Warehouse (Extended Version)

      • Baba Piprani

      Pages 94-125

5. 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management – Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (EKAW 2006)

   1. Discovering Groups of Sibling Terms from Web Documents with XTREEM-SG

      • Marko Brunzel, Myra Spiliopoulou

      Pages 126-155

6. International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006)

   1. Exploring the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Matching

      • Marta Sabou, Mathieu d’Aquin, Enrico Motta

      Pages 156-190

7. ER 2006 Workshops

   1. Time-Aggregated Graphs for Modeling Spatio-temporal Networks

      • Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar

      Pages 191-212

   2. An Architecture for Emergent Semantics

      • Sven Herschel, Ralf Heese, Jens Bleiholder, Christian Czekay

      Pages 213-234

8. Back Matter

   PDF

Papers were invited based on their quality, relevance and significance, and the - ability of extending their results. Extended versions prepared by authors were subject to the traditional two-round scholarly review process, and the authors were required to respond to all concerns expressed by the reviewers before papers were accepted. Eight papers were eventually accepted for publication in this issue. The selection of SWESE best papers eventually resulted in the acceptance of two papers. The first paper “Experiences in the Design of Semantic Services Using Web En- neering Methods and Tools,” by Brambilla, Ceri, Celino, Cerizza, Della Valle, Facca, Turati, and Tzviskou, shows how classical software engineering methods (such as formal business process development and automatic code generation) combine with semantic methods and tools (i.e., ontology engineering, semantic service annotation and discovery) to forge a new approach to software development for the Semantic Web. In the paper, the authors present their experience in the participation to the - mantic Web Service Challenge 2006, where the proposed approach achieved very good results in solving the proposed problems. The second paper “Automatically Generated Model Transformations Using Ont- ogy Engineering Space,” by Roser and Bauer, presents an approach to using the - mantic technologies to improve cross-organizational modeling by automated gene- tion of model transformations. By automated generation of mappings it offers new possibilities for the integration of domain specific languages and ‘legacy’ models in a plug&play manner, making it easier for new organizations to join collaborations.

• Data Warehouse
• Firewall
• artificial intelligence
• data integration
• database
• emergent semantics
• metadata
• multi-model
• multi-paradigm
• ontology
• reasoning
• representations
• semantic services
• semantic web
• visualization

From the reviews:

"This collection consists of extended versions of selected papers from 2006 conferences and workshops on the semantics of data. … The workshops and conferences from which the selections are drawn are relatively specialized; therefore, wider dissemination of the most interesting results presented is a useful service to the data semantics research community." (R. M. Malyankar, ACM Computing Reviews, April, 2009)

• EPFL-IC-IIF-LBD, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Stefano Spaccapietra

• The University of Aberdeen, UK

  Jeff Z. Pan

• Namur University, Belgium

  Philippe Thiran

• Neumont University, Salt Lake City, USA

  Terry Halpin

• Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

  Steffen Staab

• University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

  Vojtech Svatek

• TasLab, University of Trento, Povo, Italy

  Pavel Shvaiko

• Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

  John Roddick

Policies and ethics