ESTEEM Dissemination

The International Workshop on Semantic Data and Service Integration (SDSI) is focused on the semantic integration of data and services. Existing data integration techniques enable the interaction between clients and data sources through a centralized access point, and uniform query interfaces that give users the illusion of querying a homogeneous system. However, these techniques work under certain hypotheses, including moderately static scenarios, shared understanding of the domain of interest (in the form of a global schema or ontology), and a closed, or at least access-controlled, set of participating sources. All these hypotheses do not hold anymore in the current Web comprising millions of autonomous peers, having no centralized control. Research is still needed in the direction of providing techniques for schema matching, mapping discovery, query processing, quality and trust management in such environments. Like data integration, service integration has the purpose of providing the final user with a single unied service, hiding the distribution and heterogeneity of the services provided by the single peers. Distributed service oriented architectures are indeed becoming more and more widespread in open information systems. Several techniques need to be developed that serve the purpose of service integration, addressing issues like semantic service discovery, service semantic description, ontology-based matching, service composition and orchestration. We seek research papers describing on-going innovative work as well as case studies on the mentioned data and service integration issues.

S. Castano, S. Montanelli. Enforcing a Semantic Routing Mechanism based on Peer Context Matching, In Proc. of the 2nd Int. ECAI Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications (C&O-2006), Riva del Garda (TN), Italy, August 2006

S. Montanelli. Emergent Communities for Semantic Collaboration in Multi-Knowledge Environments: Methods and Techniques, In Proc. of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium, Luxembourg, June 2006

S. Castano, A. Ferrara, G. Messa. Results of the HMatch Ontology Matchmaker in OAEI 2006, In Proc. of Int. Workshop on Ontology Matching, co-located with the 5th Int. Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), Athens, Georgia, USA, 2006

Cristiana Bolchini and Elisa Quintarelli. Context-Driven Data Filtering: A Methodology, Proc. OTM Workshops 2006, Montpellier, F, Springer-Verlag, LNCS 4278, pp. 1986–1995, 2006

D. Bianchini, V. De Antonellis, M. Melchiori and D. Salvi. Lightweight Ontology-based Service Discovery in Mobile Environments, IEEE DEXA Fifth Int. Workshop on Web Semantics (WebS 2006), Krakow, Poland, 2006

D. Bianchini, V. De Antonellis , M. Melchiori, D. Salvi. Semantic-Enriched Service Discovery, IEEE ICDE Workshop 2006, Atlanta, USA, 2006

D. Bianchini, V. De Antonellis , M. Melchiori. Hybrid Ontology-Based Matchmaking for Service Discovery, ACM SAC 2006, Dijon, France, 2006

D. Bianchini, V. De Antonellis , M. Melchiori. Matchmaking by Difference in Service Discovery, Portonovo (AN), SEBD 2006

D. Milano, M. Scannapieco and T. Catarci. Structure-Aware XML Object Identification, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, vol. 29, n.2, June 2006

R. Baldoni, S. Bonomi, L. Querzoni, A. Rippa, S. Tucci Piergiovanni, A. Virgillito. Fighting Erosion in Dynamic Large-Scale Overlay Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 07), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007