Workshop on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS)

Friday & Saturday April 11-12, 2008
In conjunction with ICDE 2008


 
description Information integration continues to play a mission critical role in a diversity of applications from E-Commerce to life sciences to ecology to disaster management. These applications rely on the ability to integrate information from multiple heterogeneous sources. The requirements range from robust well engineered and reliable solutions to on-the-fly best effort integration. While there has been much progress in formalizing a research framework and developing methodologies and architectures, the emergence of Web 2.0, distributed sensor networks, data streams, P2P networks, etc., continue to raise new challenges. This 1.5 day workshop will bring together a diverse group of researchers from the database, AI and WWW communities. The topics to be addressed include the methods, architectures, and systems to support information integration. We solicit research papers and experience papers as well as (short) demonstration papers and position papers.
topics Topics will include but are not limited to the following:
  • Scalability of schema matching
  • Schema matching under uncertainty
  • Best effort schema matching
  • Visualizing, composing and understanding schema mappings
  • Architectures and systems for integration
  • Engineering issues in information integration
  • Best effort and on-the-fly integration
  • Mash-Ups and Web2.0
  • Dataspaces
  • Pay-As-You-Go integration approaches
  • Domain specific integration approaches, e.g., geo-spatial integration
  • Integration of scientific data
  • Semantic Web and information integration
  • Data and workflow provenance
  • Quality, security and privacy challenges
  • Economic incentives and ownership
  • Emerging applications
  • Record Linkage
dates
Paper submission: Friday, December 7, 2007
Notification to authors: Monday, January 7, 2008
Final copies: Monday, January 14, 2008
Workshop: April 11-12, 2008
organizers Jens Dittrich, ETH Zurich
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University
Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis
David Maier, Portland State University
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland
submissions We welcome ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED manuscripts of 8 pages inclusive of all references and figures. Vision papers, descriptions of work-in-progress and demonstration papers are also welcomed as short paper submissions of 4 pages. Papers must be written in English and be compliant with the IEEE/ICDE Proceedings format (Cick here for LATEX and WORD two-column templates). An electronic version of the workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE.

Papers can be submitted through the CMT website.

program committee Philip Bohannon, Yahoo Research
Shawn Bowers, University of California Davis
Sarah Cohen Boulakia, LRI
AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin
Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania
Ariel Fuxman, Microsoft Research
Avi Gal, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Bill Howe, Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction
Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California
Nicholas Kushmerick, QL2 Software, Inc
Felix Naumann, University of Potsdam
Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia
Khashayar Rohanimanesh, University of Amherst
Anthony Tomasic, Carnegie Mellon University
Marcos Vaz Salles, ETH Zurich
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, IBM
Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar