SDSI's focus

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.

	SDSI's topics:		Application Areas:
	Interoperability as emergent semantics		E-science
	Mapping discovery and management		Sensor networks
	Service clustering around communities		Ubiquitous computing
	Semantic-based service discovery and composition		Social networks
	Quality-driven data and service integration		Semantic Web
	Semantic integration of XML data		Geo-spatial data management
	Semantic query processing		E-health
	Privacy preserving data and service integration		E-government
	Semantic peer data management		Quality management
	Accessing legacy databases via semantic services		Personal information systems
			Business processes

The workshop is an initiative within the conference series on "Semantics for the Networked World" promoted by the IFIP WG 2.6 on "Databases"