Semantics of a Networked World. Semantics for Grid Databases

The explosion in data exchange fostered by the success of the Web has restated semantics as a kernel issue in the development of services providing data and - formationtousersandapplicationsworldwide.Thisnewlydesignatedconference serieson SemanticsfortheNetworkedWorld uni?esintoasingleframework the previous series on Database Semantics and Visual Database Systems that the IFIP WG 2.6 has been o?ering since 1985. Whereas the intent of the conferenceseriesistoexploreinterestingresearchissuesrelatedtosemantics,the themeforthe2004editionis SemanticsforGridDatabases .Gridcomputing,a new ?eld concentrating on ?exible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources (also referred to as virtual organizations) , has gathered momentum in the context of providing shared infrastructures for large-scale scienti?c computations and data analysis. Similarly, P2P computing has attracted substantial attention. Currently, attention is devoted to the provision of middleware services to makecomputationalresourcesinteroperableatthetechnicallevelandtoincrease the e?ciency of use of physical resources. However, as Grid and P2P computing infrastructures are being increasingly adopted, they are likely to have typical problems of information overload that manifest themselves in any large-scale infrastructure for information and application sharing (e.g., the WWW). The need for resource discovery, application and service interoperability, integration and composition manifest themselves in these infrastructures. The ability to interoperate at the semantic level will largely determine the continued success and utilization of these infrastructures.

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Autorentext
Vipul Kashyap, PhD is a Senior Medical Informatician in the Clinical Informatics Research&Development group at Partners HealthCare System. He plays the role of a systems and information architect in the content of a platform for Clinical Knowledge Management Platform and creating of clinical information models in the context of the Enterprise Clinical Services architecture at Partners Healthcare System. Vipul has received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick that investigated the use of metadata and ontologies for information and knowledge management. He was a co-project manager of a Knowledge Management effort at Telcordia Technologies (formerly known as Bellcore) focused on knowledge sharing and reuse across Telcordia's Professional Services Units. He was a fellow at the National Library of Medicine, and has held positions at Micro-electronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Vipul has published 2 books on the topic of Semantics in Information Brokering and Integration, 40-50 articles in prestigious conferences andjournals. He serves on the editorial boards of 3 journals and sits on the technical advisory board of an early stage companies developing semantics-based products. He also represents Partners on the W3C Advisory Committee and the EHR Technical Committee of the HealthCare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).

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Invited Talks.- Databases and the Grid: JDBC in WSDL, or Something Altogether Different?.- Emergent Semantics Systems.- Integration.- User-Specific Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data: The SIRUP Approach.- Towards a Mediation System Framework for Transparent Access to Largely Distributed Sources.- Null Values Revisited in Prospect of Data Integration.- Peer to Peer.- Semantic-Based Query Routing and Heterogeneous Data Integration in Peer-to-Peer Semantic Link Networks.- Peer Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks with Semantic Topologies.- Autonomous Gossiping: A Self-Organizing Epidemic Algorithm for Selective Information Dissemination in Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Hyper: A Framework for Peer-to-Peer Data Integration on Grids.- Semantics for Scientific Applications.- Semantically Linking and Browsing Provenance Logs for E-science.- Emergent Semantics: Towards Self-Organizing Scientific Metadata.- Semantic Visualization of Biochemical Databases.- Interoperability and Mediation.- Semantic Information Interoperability in Open Networked Systems.- A New Mechanism for the Interoperability of Data Systems.- An Architecture for Recommendation Based Service Mediation.- Global Services and Schemas.- StaticDynamic Integration of External Services into Generic Business Processes.- Knowledge Sifter: Agent-Based Ontology-Driven Search over Heterogeneous Databases Using Semantic Web Services.- Managing Grid Schemas Globally.- Posters.- Relational Graphical Models of Computational Workflows for Data Mining.- InfoGrid: Information Resource Integration.- Semantic Annotation of Classification Data for KDD Support Services.- Role of the Ontologies in the Context of Grid Computing and Application for the Human Disease Studies.- Cluster Entries for Semantic Organization ofPeer-to-Peer Network.- A Peer-to-Peer Service Supporting Data Quality: Design and Implementation Issues.- Analysis Patterns for the Geographic Database Conceptual Schema: An Ontology Aided Approach.