ODBIS 2008: Auckland, New Zealand

Proceedings of the 4th International VLDB Workshop on Ontology-based Techniques for DataBases in Information Systems and Knowledge Systems, ODBIS 2008, Auckland, New Zealand, August 23, 2008, Co-located with the 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. 2008

Foreword.
Program Committee.

Session 1

K. Selçuk Candan, Mario Cataldi, Maria Luisa Sapino, Claudio Schifanella:
Structure- and Extension-Informed Taxonomy Alignment. 1-8
Paolo Atzeni, Stefano Paolozzi, Pierluigi Del Nostro:
Ontologies And Databases: Going Back And Forth. 9-16
Christophe Cruz, Christophe Nicolle:
Ontology Enrichment and Automatic Population From XML Data. 17-20

Session 2

Le Wang, Yingwen Chen, Yan Jia:
Toward Public Opinions Detection: Measuring the Similarity between Instant Messages. 21-28
Lucas Zamboulis, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Jianing Wang:
Ontology-Assisted Data Transformation and Integration. 29-36

Session 3

Domenico Beneventano, Claudio Gennaro, Francesco Guerra:
A Methodology for Building and Querying an Ontology representing Data and Multimedia Sources. 37-40
Mourad Ouziri:
Accessing heterogeneous databases on the semantic Web: A distributed description logics-based approach. 41-48
Damires Souza, Rosalie Belian, Ana Carolina Salgado, Patricia Azevedo Tedesco:
Towards a Context Ontology to Enhance Data Integration Processes. 49-56