Robert Meersman Libri

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the following 9 international workshops: OTM Academy, OTM Industry Case Studies Program, Cloud and Trusted Computing, C& TC, Enterprise Integration, Interoperability, and Networking, EI2N, Industrial and Business Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, INBAST, Information Systems, om Distributed Environment, ISDE, Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society, META4eS, Mobile and Social Computing for collaborative interactions, MSC, and Ontology Content, OnToContent 2014. These workshops were held as associated events at OTM 2014, the federated conferences „On The Move Towards Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing“, in Amantea, Italy, in October 2014. The 56 full papers presented together with 8 short papers, 6 posters and 5 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 96 submissions. The focus of the workshops were on the following subjects models for interoperable infrastructures, applications, privacy and access control, reliability and performance, cloud and configuration management, interoperability in (System-of-)Systems, distributed information systems applications, architecture and process in distributed information system, distributed information system development and operational environment, ontology is use for eSociety, knowledge management and applications for eSociety, social networks and social services, social and mobile intelligence, and multimodal interaction and collaboration.

The 2002 edition in Irvine aimed to foster cross-pollination among missions by featuring renowned keynote speakers, including Sycara, Soley, and Mylopoulos. To encourage broader participation, authors were granted free access to another conference or workshop of their choice. This initiative resulted in a significant increase in submissions, totaling 360 for the three conferences and 170 for the workshops. This surge indicates a measurable success in attracting a diverse array of scientific papers, enabling the program committees to curate a high-quality selection of global research in the relevant fields. Despite the increased submissions, the Program Chairs for the main conferences chose to maintain a similar acceptance rate as in 2002, approving approximately one paper for every four to five submitted. In contrast, the workshops had a higher acceptance rate of about one in two. Consequently, the decision was made to split the proceedings into two volumes, each with distinct titles, and we extend our gratitude to Springer-Verlag for their support in producing these publications. The review process was thorough, with each paper in the main conferences evaluated by at least three referees, ensuring a professional standard throughout.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of nine international workshops, EI2N+NSF ICE, ICSP, INBAST, ISDE, MONET, ORM, SeDeS, SWWS, and VADER 2011, held as part of OTM 2011 in Hersonissos on the island of Crete, Greece, in October 2011. The 64 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 104 submissions. The volume also includes three papers from the On the Move Academy (OTMA) 2011 and five ODBASE 2011 poster papers. Topics of the workshop papers are enterprise integration and semantics, information centric engineering, interoperability, industrial and business applications of semantic Web applications, information systems in distributed environments, process management in distributed information system development, distributed information systems: implementation issues and applications, industrial applications of fact-oriented modeling, data warehouse modeling, extensions to fact-oriented modeling, model validation procedures, schema transformations and mapping, semantic Web and Web semantics, ontology development, deployment and interoperability, data access and efficient computation, efficient information processing, exchange and knowledge synthesis algorithms, mobile and networking technologies for social applications, semantic and decision support, variability in software architecture, and dynamic and adaptive architectures.

The annotation includes a comprehensive overview of various workshops and conferences from 2005, highlighting key themes and topics. It covers the CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE conferences, alongside workshops focused on merging agents, web services, and ontologies. Key areas of discussion include security, semantics, context-aware mobile systems, and query techniques. The annotation also addresses grid computing, emphasizing web services, applications, security, and performance enhancement within grid environments. Further, it explores inter-organizational systems, service modeling, choreography, and interoperability of enterprise applications. The Object-Role Modeling workshop focuses on schema management and industry perspectives, while the Ph.D. student symposium provides insights into future directions and applications in data modeling. Additionally, the annotation mentions the IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 workshop on web semantics, featuring invited papers on trust and regulatory ontologies. It delves into applications of the semantic web, modeling techniques, and the integration of schemata, alongside workshops on geographical information systems, which cover geovisualization, spatial semantics, and algorithms. Lastly, the e-learning workshop discusses ontology technology and its applications in virtual reality.

A special mention for 2004 highlights the new Doctoral Symposium Workshop, where three postdoc researchers created an innovative setup to connect PhD students and allow them to submit research proposals for evaluation. A select number of submissions were assessed by a panel of senior experts at the conference, with students presenting their work to a broader audience. Participants enjoyed free access to other parts of the OTM program and paid a significantly reduced fee for the Doctoral Symposium, largely sponsored by other attendees. If deemed successful, the General Chairs aim to expand this model in future OTM conferences to attract more young researchers to the OnTheMove forum. The three main conferences and associated workshops focus on the distributed aspects of modern computing systems and the application pull from the Internet and Semantic Web. DOA 2004 emphasized distributed object infrastructure, ODBASE 2004 concentrated on knowledge bases and formal semantics, while CoopIS 2004 addressed the interaction of these technologies with management issues in networked organizations. These areas naturally overlap, with many submissions exploring their mutual impacts.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2013), Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA-Trusted Cloud 2013), and Ontologies, Data Bases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2013) held as part of OTM 2013 in September 2013 in Graz, Austria. The 47 revised full papers presented together with 6 short papers and 5 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 137 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business process management; process modelling; service management; social networking; models and schemas; technical advances in cloud computing; towards trusted cloud computing; privacy for the cloud; querying and mining semantic information; semantic matching and mapping; semantic information management; semantics in use.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of 11 international workshops held as part of OTM 2010 in Hersonissos, Greece in October 2010. The 68 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 127 submissions to the workshops. The volume starts with 14 poster papers of the OTM 2010 main conferences COOPIS 2010, DOA 2010 and OSBASE 2010. Topics of the workshop papers are adaption in service-oriented architectures, ambient intelligence and reasoning, data integration approaches, modeling in ADI, web and enterprise data visualization, enterprise integration and semantics, industrial enterprise interoperability and networking, process management in distributed information system development, improving social networking, ontology engineering, master data management and metamodeling, extensions to fact-oriented modeling, logic and derivation, patterns in input data models.

The text discusses the integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources to create a global computing space, emphasizing a framework that includes theory, conceptual design, and applications, particularly through case studies and industrial solutions. Building on a model from 2003, the initiative sought quality workshop proposals to complement the main conferences with cutting-edge research in Web-based distributed computing. Notably, the rise of the Semantic Web has led to new research areas that blend linguistics, information systems technology, and artificial intelligence, including the modeling of regulatory systems. In 2008, ten successful workshops from previous years returned for additional editions, often collaborating with newly emerging workshops. Additionally, three new independent workshops—ISDE, ODIS, and Beyond SAWSDL—were selected and hosted. The workshops fostered productive interactions among participants and had significant overlap with the main conference audiences, enhancing the overall collaborative research environment.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of 13 international workshops held as part of OTM 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico, in November 2008. The 106 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 171 submissions to the workshops. The volume starts with 19 additional revised poster papers of the OTM 2008 main conferences CoopIS and ODBASE. Topics of the workshop papers are ambient data integration (ADI 2008), agents and web services merging in distributed environment (AWeSoMe 2008), community-based evolution of knowledge-intensive systems (COMBEK 2008), enterprise integration, interoperability and networking (EI2N 2008), system/software architectures (IWSSA 2008), mobile and networking technologies for social applications (MONET 2008), ontology content and evaluation in enterprise & quantitative semantic methods for the internet (OnToContent and QSI 2008), object-role modeling (ORM 2008), pervasive systems (PerSys 2008), reliability in decentralized distributed systems (RDDS 2008), semantic extensions to middleware enabling large scale knowledge (SEMELS 2008), and semantic Web and Web semantics (SWWS 2008).

The 2002 edition in Irvine aimed to foster cross-pollination among missions through a program featuring renowned keynote speakers, including Sycara, Soley, and Mylopoulos. To encourage broader participation, authors were granted free access to another conference or workshop of their choice. This year, we received an impressive total of 360 submissions for the three conferences and 170 for the workshops, surpassing last year's numbers. This influx allowed the program committees to curate a high-quality representation of global research in the relevant fields. Despite the increased submissions, the Program Chairs opted to maintain a similar acceptance rate as in 2002, accepting about 1 in 4–5 papers for the main conferences, while workshops had a higher acceptance rate of approximately 1 in 2. Consequently, we decided to publish the proceedings in two separate volumes, thanks to the collaboration with Springer-Verlag. The review process was thorough and professional, with each main conference paper evaluated by at least three referees, ensuring a rigorous selection of high-quality contributions.