WD2I 2009The first International Workshop on Data Integration and Interoperability.

In conjunction with AICCSA 2009

May 9-13 2009, Rabat, Morocco

Submission deadline: January 10th, 2009

Overview

During the last decade, data integration has gained more and more attention because it is a crucial task in complex applications. Hence, data integration is a key challenge not only for industrials in order to achieve interoperability between heterogeneous systems but also for end-users who want to retrieve combined and meaningful information from the growing web.Dealing with semantics has brought new issues in data integration research area. Ontology and knowledge-based approaches are constantly proposed as part of solutions to such a challenge, but new architectures and techniques facilitating interoperability of already existing systems are also strongly required.The goal of this workshop is to have an interactive gathering of researchers and practitioners in the field of data integration. The workshop aims to encourage researchers to present novel issues and techniques related to information integration and interoperability.Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Data Integration
XML data and schema integration
XML data models, query processing and data management
Ontology creation, searching, extraction, and evolution
Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
Web Semantics integration and interoperability
Web Semantics content creation, annotation, and extraction
Web Semantics search, query, and visualization
Web Semantics middleware and services
Orchestration, choreography and composition of web services
Grid and P2P architectures for service and information integration
Information integration applications in areas such as e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Payment, e-government, e-Learning, e-science, e-communities, Digital libraries, etc.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers (word or pdf ) for the workshop through E-mail at wdii2009@emi.ac.ma by January 10th, 2009.

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop. Submissions should not exceed 6 two-column, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts.

Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal, e-mail address, fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. To meet the formatting requirements, use the template given by the following link http://congreso.us.es/aiccsa2009/template-word.doc

Proceedings

Papers selected for presentation will appear along with the main conference proceedings (AICCSA-2009), which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: January 10th, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: January 29th, 2009
Camera-Ready Copy Due: March 2nd, 2009 (HARD)
Author registration: March 2nd, 2009 (HARD)

Workshop Chairs

Dalila Chiadmi (Department of Computer Engineering, Mohammadia school of engineer EMI, Morocco).
Laila Benhlima (Department of Computer Engineering, Mohammadia school of engineer EMI, Morocco).

Program Committee

José F. Aldana Montes (University of Málaga, SPAIN).
Abdelghani Belaachia (University of Georges Washington, USA).
Zohra Bakkoury (EMI, Morocco).
Kamel Barkaoui (Cedric-CNAM, France).
Fatima-zohra Belouadha (EMI, Morocco).
Omar Boucelma (University of Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille 3, France).
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (CNRS University of Versailles, France).
Atika Cohen (EHTP, Morocco and ULB, Belgium).
Ouafae Diouri (EMI, Morocco).
Mohcine Eleuldj (EMI, Morocco).
Mounia Fredj (ENSIAS, Morocco).
Jean-Pierre Giraudin (LIG, France).
Mounir Maouene (ENSAT, Morocco).
Ounsa Roudies (EMI, Morocco).
Jef Wijsen (University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium).