Aims and Goals

The recent developments of Computer and Telecommunications technology, such as the expansion of the Internet and the World Wide Web, enable accessing a huge number of information sources, including databases, semi-structured data sources, knowledge bases. Although a lot of useful information is made available, users are not properly supported in effectively gathering data relevant to achieve their aims. As a consequence, information integration has emerged as a crucial issue in many organizations that need to access information available both inside and outside the organization. Furthermore, it is one of the core problems in distributed databases, cooperative information systems, and data warehousing, which are key areas in the software development industry.

The use of logic-based methods seems particularly promising to address the many aspects and problems which arise in information integration, since they are helpful in giving formal semantics, in comparing the expressiveness of approaches, as well as in computation and establishing properties of data integration systems.

In order to advance the research, the CoLogNET Network of Excellence in Computational Logic organizes a one-day workshop on logic-based methods for information integration, which will take place in Vienna, Austria, on August 23, 2003, in conjunction with ESSLLI 2003, the European Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information, and CSL 2003, the Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic.

The workshop is intended to be a forum bringing together researchers to discuss recent developments and new research directions in logic-based information integration.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Logical Foundations of Information Integration
• Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases Technologies for Integration
• Query Planning, Processing, and Optimization
• Data Cleaning and Reconciliation
• Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Information Integration Systems
• Data Exchange
• Ontologies and Models for Semantic Data Integration
• Data Integration on the Web
• Data and Information Extraction
• Wrapper Learning
• Automatic Wrapper Generation
• Web Service Composition
• Ontology Integration
• Systems and Applications
• Agent-based Integration of Heterogeneous Data

with an emphasis on logic based methods and approaches.

Workshop Program and Proceedings

The workshop program will comprise invited talks and further presentations, where the latter are intended to be short position statements of research results and projects. Full papers of the talks will be collected for a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.

Workshop Venue

The workshop will take place down-town Vienna in the new building of the TU Vienna:

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Technical Program

Attendance

Persons who are interested in attending the workshop, and in particular to give a position statement, should contact the organizers. Participation is basically not limited but pre-registration required for organizational matters. There will be no workshop fee except for a small contribution (about 20 Euros) to overhead fees in case the number of participants requires this.

Accommodation

A limited number of rooms will be reserved for participants to the workshop in hotels close to the workshop venue, which will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis. Details for booking will be provided by the organizers.

Further Information

For any further information, please contact the workshop organizers

Useful Links

• Travel and Local Information
• City of Vienna