CIMS 2007 Program

9:00-10:00 eScience Applications

Opening Remarks

1. Peter Fox, Deborah McGuinness, Robert Raskin, Patrick West, Stephan Zednik and James Benedict. A Volcano Erupts: Semantically Mediated Integration of Heterogeneous Volcanic and Atmospheric Data.

2. Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, Bingjun Sun, Ying Liu. ChemXSeer: A Digital Library and Data Repository for Chemical Kinetics.

10:30-12:00 Workflow & Data Preservation

3. Pierpaolo Vittorini, Stefano Necozione and Ferdinando di Orio. Towards a SOA infrastructure for statistically analysing public health data.

4.Stefan Jablonski, Bernhard Volz and M. Abdul Rehman. A Conceptual Modeling and Execution Framework for Process Based Scientific Applications.

5. Mark Hedges, Adil Hasan and Tobias Blanke. Management and Preservation of Research Data with iRODS.

1:30-3:00 Metadata Management and Information Retrieval

6. Carlos Ordonez, Zhibo Chen, Javier Garcia-Garcia.

Metadata Management for Federated Databases

7. Leon Deligiannidis, Krys Kochut and Amit Sheth. RDF Data Exploration and Visualization.

8. Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun and Roger H.L. Chiang. SLOQUE:Slot-based Query Expansion for Complex Questions.

3:30-5:10 Databases and Dictionaries

9. Carlos Ordonez, Javier Garcia-Garcia, Zhibo Chen.

Measuring Referential Integrity in Distributed Databases

10. Amjad Daoud. Effective Ranked Conceptual Retrieval.

11. Amjad Daoud. Perfect Hash Functions for Large Dictionaries.

Closing