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News
10/09: The programme is now avalaible
28/07: the invited speakers are announced: Dirk van Gucht, Indiana University and Jef Wijsen, Unv. Mons-Hainaut
18/07: the review process ended: 7 papers are accepted
18/06: the review process started
6/06: the post-proceedings will be published in Elsevier ENTCS
5/06: deadline extension
18/03: Web site online
Proceedings
Included in the CD of the
VLDB proceedings
Post-proceedings to be
published in Elsevier ENTCS
Best Papers
Invitation to submit their
extended
version to the LNCS Journal of Data Semantics
Organizers
Program Committee
Eugene Agichtein, Emory Univ., USA
Sonia Bergamaschi, Univ. of Modena and
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Paris, France
Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria
George Fletcher, Indiana University,
USA
Karl Michael Göschk, TU Vienna, Austria
M-S Hacid, Lyon 1 Univ., France
Jan Hidders, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium
Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State Univ., USA
Witold Litwin, Paris University, France
Brahim Medjahed, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Aris M. Ouksel, Northwestern Univ., USA
A. Poulovassilis, Birbeck College, UK
Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden
H. Stuckenschmidt, Univ. of Mannheim,
Germany
Jef Wijsen, Mons-Hainaut Univ. Belgium
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
K. Yetongnon, Bourgogne Univ., France
Julie Yu-Chih Liu, Yuan Ze Univ.,
Taiwan
Previous workshops
InterDB 2005
co-located with COORDINATION
April 23, Namur, Belgium
InterDB 2006
co-located with ICDE 2006
April 3, Atlanta, USA
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Programme
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9:15 – 9:30
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Opening
Philippe Thiran
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9:30 – 10:30
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Invited talk
Reflection: a Tool for
Interoperability
Dirk Van Gucht
(Indiana University)
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10:30 – 11:00
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 12:30
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First Session
Chair: Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)
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Morpheus 2.0: A Data Transformation Management
System by Pete Dobbins,
Tiffany Dohzen, Christan Grant, Joachim Hammer, Malachi Jones1, Dev
Oliver, Mujde Pamuk, Jungmin Shin, Mike Stonebraker (University of
Florida and MIT, USA)
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Query Translation on Heterogeneous Sources in
MOMIS Data Transformation Systems by D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, M. Vincini, M. Orsini, R.
Carlos Nana (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
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Update Propagation and Data Synchronization in
Instance Mapped Peer Data Sharing Systems by Md Mehedi Masud Iluju Kiringa and Hasan Ural (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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12:30 – 14:00
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Lunch
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14:00 – 15:00
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Invited Talk
Computing Consistent Query Answers from
Inconsistent Data
Jef
Wijsen (University
Mons-Hainaut)
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15:00 – 15:30
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Coffee Break
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15:30 – 17:30
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Second
Session
Chair: Karl M.
Goeschka (TU Vienna)
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A Web Protocol, Data Model and Calculus for
Data Management and Information Retrieval by Francisco AlvarezCavazos, Juan C. Lavariega, Jose I. Icaza
(ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico)
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Towards an Interoperable Solution for Pattern
Management by Anna
Maddalena, Barbara Catania (University of Genoa, Italy)
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Database-to-Ontology Mapping Generation for Semantic
Interoperability by Raji Ghawi and Nadine Cullot (Université de Bourgogne, France)
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A probabilistic Framework for Information
Integration and Retrieval on the Semantic Web by Livia Predoiu, Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
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Accepted papers
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Morpheus 2.0: A Data Transformation Management
System by Pete Dobbins, Tiffany
Dohzen, Christan Grant, Joachim Hammer, Malachi Jones1, Dev Oliver, Mujde
Pamuk, Jungmin Shin, Mike Stonebraker (University of Florida and MIT,
USA)
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Database-to-Ontology Mapping Generation for
Semantic Interoperability by Raji Ghawi and Nadine Cullot (Université de Bourgogne, France)
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Update Propagation and Data Synchronization in
Instance Mapped Peer Data Sharing Systems by Md Mehedi Masud Iluju Kiringa and Hasan Ural (University of Ottawa, Canada)
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A Web Protocol, Data Model and Calculus for Data
Management and Information Retrieval by Francisco AlvarezCavazos, Juan C. Lavariega, Jose I. Icaza
(ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico)
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Towards an Interoperable Solution for Pattern
Management by Anna Maddalena, Barbara
Catania (University of Genoa, Italy)
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Query Translation on Heterogeneous Sources in
MOMIS Data Transformation Systems by D. Beneventano, S. Bergamaschi, M. Vincini, M. Orsini, R.
Carlos Nana (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
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A probabilistic Framework for Information
Integration and Retrieval on the Semantic Web by Livia Predoiu, Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Invited Speakers
Dirk Van Gucht
Indiana University, USA
Reflection: a Tool for Interoperability
Reflection in
programming languages is the ability, within the run of a program, to inspect
the program in the current environment, and also generate and execute
other programs. If we replace in
this sentence the word "program" by "query" and the
word "environment" by "database", we get that
reflection in query languages is the ability, within the run of a query,
to inspect the query in the current database, and also generate and
execute other queries. When the
database contains data, meta-data, schema and ontological information,
queries, constraints, wrappers, mappings, etc., we get that query
languages with reflection become a powerful tool for interoperability in
databases. In this talk, I will give an overview of research on
reflection in query languages and in particular show that it is relative
straightforward to extend current query languages, such as SQL and
XQuery, with this mechanism.
Jef Wijsen
University
of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Computing Consistent Query Answers from
Inconsistent Data
Database integrity
constraints express properties that, ideally, should be satisfied at all
times. Nevertheless, data inconsistency is a phenomenon that often occurs
in practice. The most common reason for inconsistency is
the need to integrate
distributed, independent data sources: different databases that are
consistent by themselves can contain conflicting tuples. The conflicts
are revealed only when the tuples are brought
together in an integrated
database. At that time, it may be impossible or impractical to clean up
data sources. However, we can
still try to prevent query answers from containing incorrect information.
This idea is
known as consistent query
answering (CQA). This talk will give an introduction to questions and
solutions that have emerged in the domain of CQA.
Description
Databases, modern communication
technology, and emerging infrastructures (such as WWW, Semantic Web,
Grid, and P2P) are driving forces behind our increasingly interconnected
information society. Underpinning the infrastructures is massive and heterogeneous
data sets, ranging from classical relational data, to multimedia data, to
marked up, unstructured or metadata-rich text. The availability and
utility of these data sets necessitates the engineering and maintenance
of powerful and intelligent interoperability mechanisms for facilitating
large-scale transparent access.
Following the successes of InterDB
2005 and 2006, the 3rd edition of InterDB will focus on interoperability
issues related to the integration of structured and unstructured data sources. This is an area of information
management with growing importance.
Examples include the integration of archival articles (e.g.,
PubMed) with laboratory data for bioinformatics research, of business
memorandums with OLAP cubes to enhance business intelligence, and of news
reports with survey data to forecast political elections. In each case,
unstructured data informs structured data (and vice versa) by adding
relationship, extending context, bringing clarification, and providing
validation.
While the benefits of bridging
structured and unstructured data are many and well understood, efforts to
tackle the problem have not been widely shared. Consequently, there is a
lack of a general understanding of effective approaches and techniques.
The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from
academia and industry actively engaged in all aspects of integrating
structured and unstructured data to exchange and explore ideas.
Submissions that identify new issues and focused directions for future
work in the area are also welcome.
Topics
A non-exhaustive list
of topics for the workshop is as follows.
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Languages, tools,
models, and methodologies for unstructured and structured data
integration
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Facilitating
large-scale heterogeneous data sharing and mass collaboration
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Ontology-based
integration
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Information
extraction and text mining for data integration
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Probabilistic
integration and record-linkage
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Web services for
unstructured data
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Semantic Web / Grid /
P2P infrastructures
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Model mapping and metadata
management
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Maintenance of
integrated data
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Reuse, sharing, and
maintenance of mappings/wrappers for integration
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Agent-oriented
architectures for database interoperability
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Domain specific
interoperability issues in advanced applications (spatial databases,
medical databases, biological
databases, e-Learning, etc.)
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Personalized
approaches to integration of heterogeneous data.
Submission Details
Authors are invited
to submit electronically original full papers in PDF format to pthiran@fundp.ac.be. Papers length
should not exceed 10 pages and should be formatted with the same rules as
VLDB papers. Please make sure to meet these guidelines.
Submitted papers will
be evaluated by three reviewers. Acceptance will be based on relevance,
technical soundness, originality, and clarity of presentation. Accepted
papers will be included in the CD of the VLDB proceedings. Moreover,
revised versions of the accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings
in the Elsevier ENTCS.
The authors of the best papers will be invited
to submit an extended version of their paper to the LNCS Journal of Data Semantics.
Important Dates
Abstract submission June
5, 2007 June 15, 2007[extended deadline]
Paper submission June 10, 2007
June 15, 2007 [extended deadline]
Acceptance notification July 15, 2007
Camera ready paper submission July 25, 2007
Workshop September 24,
2007
Registration, Accommodation and Travel Information
See the official Web site of
the main conference VLDB 2007
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