On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops

This two-volume set LNCS 4805/4806 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 10 international workshops and papers of the OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium held as part of OTM 2007 in Vilamoura, Portugal, in November 2007. The 126 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 241 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 23 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2007 main conferences.

Posters of the 2007 DOA (Distributed Objects and Applications) International Conference.- A Deterministic Database Replication Protocol Where Multicast Writesets Never Get Aborted.- AWSM: Infrastructure for Adaptive Web Service Migration.- Generic Proxies—Supporting Data Integration Inside the Database.- Collaborative Data Synchronization in an Instance-Mapped P2P Data Sharing System.- Posters of the 2007 ODBASE (Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics) International Conference.- Translating XPath Queries into SPARQL Queries.- Validating a Tool for Evaluating Automatically Lexical Triples Mined from Texts.- Semi-automatic Semantic Enrichment of Raw Sensor Data.- Ontology Modelling for Ambient Intelligent Home Environments.- Implementing OCL as a Database Query Language.- Improving Scalability in Pub-Sub Knowledge-Based Networking by Semantic Clustering.- A Model for Fuzzy Multidimensional Spaces.- Capturing Ontology Evolution Processes by Repeated Sampling of Large Document Collections.- Information Systems Development: A Trust Ontology.- Automatic Annotation in Data Integration Systems.- Posters of the 2007 GADA (Grid Computing, High Performance and Distributed Applications) International Conference.- Volunteer Computing, an Interesting Option for Grid Computing: Extremadura as Case Study.- Replication Heuristics for Efficient Workflow Execution on Grids.- Network-Aware Grid Scheduling.- Implementing a P2P Network Through Updatable Database Views.- A Group Selection Pattern Optimizing Job Scheduling in Decentralized Grid Markets.- A Conceptual Model for Grid Learning Services Automatic Composition.- Posters of the 2007 IS (Information Security) International Conference.- A Multi-party Rational Exchange Protocol.- A Texture Based Image Signature Using Second Order Statistics Characterisation.- Expert System for Business Decisions on Security Requirements.- Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AweSOMe).- AWeSOMe 2007 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- DyMRA: Dynamic Market Deployment for Decentralized Resource Allocation.- An Agents-Based Cooperative Awareness Model to Cover Load Balancing Delivery in Grid Environments.- TV Navigation Agent for Measuring Semantic Similarity Between Programs.- Engineering an MAS Platform for Semantic Service Integration Based on the SWSA.- A Planner Infrastructure for Semantic Web Enabled Agents.- From a Goal-Oriented Methodology to a BDI Agent Language: The Case of Tropos and Alan.- A Human-Like SOA-Based Interdisciplinary Framework for Intelligent Virtual Agents.- Semantically Resolving Type Mismatches in Scientific Workflows.- A Group Selection Pattern for Agent-Based Virtual Organizations Coordination in Grids.- Web Services System for Distributed Technology Upgrade Within an e-Maintenance Framework.- WSBL: Web Service Architecture for Financial Products.- Workflow Management in Grid Era: From Process-Driven Paradigm to a Goal-Driven One.- BPEL for Semantic Web Services (BPEL4SWS).- Workshop on Context Aware Mobile Systems (CAMS).- CAMS 2007 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Context-Awareness in the Wild: An Investigation into the Existing Uses of Context in Everyday Life.- ’Guess A Who, Why, Where, When?’: The Visualization of Context Data to Aid the Authoring and Orchestration of a Mobile Pervasive Game.- Browsing Semantics in Context-Aware Mobile Hypermedia.- Context, Data and Queries.- Issues in Location-Based Indexing for Co-operating Mobile Information Systems.- A Peer-to-Peer Based Infrastructure for Context Distribution in Mobile and Ubiquitous Environments.- Doctoral Consortium.- The 2007 Academy Doctoral Consortium PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Elaborating a Decentralized Market Information System.- COPA-CASE: Methodological Environment for the Generation, Application and Validation of Coordination Patterns.- Providing Support for Data Replication Protocols with Multiple Isolation Levels.- Market Driven Product Ontologies.- Smart Distribution of Bio-signal Processing Tasks in M-Health.- Towards a Service-Oriented Methodology: Business-Driven Guidelines for Service Identification.- Collaborative Management of Distributed Business Processes - A Service-Based Approach.- Semantic Web Service Offer Discovery.- Top-Down Modeling Methodology for Model-Driven SOA Construction.- Workshop on Mobile and Networking Technologies for Social Applications (MONET).- MONET 2007 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Social Knowledge Building in a Mobile Learning Environment.- Improving Collaboration and Interaction in Distributed B-Learning Environment.- Re-experiencing History in Archaeological Parks by Playing a Mobile Augmented Reality Game.- A Hybrid Grammar-Based Approach to Multimodal Languages Specification.- Enabling Rapid Development of Multimodal Data Entry Applications.- An Approach for Managing Ambiguities in Multimodal Interaction.- Supporting Social Networks by Event-Driven Mobile Notification Services.- Realising Context-Sensitive Mobile Messaging.- The Mobile Interfaces for Geo-hypermedia Databases.- Personalized Information Access in a Wiki Using Structured Tagging.- A Collection-Oriented Framework for Social Applications.- A Virtual Shopper Customer Assistant in Pervasive Environments.- Profiling Nomadic Users Considering Preferences and Context of Use.- ANN-Agent for Distributed Knowledge Source Discovery.- P2P Routing-by-Content on a Lightweight Community Basis.- Towards a Society of Peers: Expert and Interest Groups in Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Self-organization of Wireless Networks Through Declarative Local Communication.- Workshop on Ontology Content and Evaluation in Enterprise (OntoContent).- OnToContent 2007 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Evaluation Framework for Automatic Ontology Extraction Tools: An Experiment.- Ontology Design Risk Analysis.- On Conducting a Decision Group to Construct Semantic Decision Tables.- Ontological Modeling for Interactive Question Answering.- Federated Ontology Search for the Medical Domain.- An Ontology-Based Technique for Validation of MRI Brain Segmentation Methods.- Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM).- ORM 2007 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Business Process Modeling and ORM.- Fact-Oriented Modeling in the Data-, Process- and Event Perspectives.- Declarative Process Modeling with Business Vocabulary and Business Rules.- A NIAM2007 Conceptual Analysis of the ISO and OMG MOF Four Layer Metadata Architectures.- A Meta-model for Ontologies with ORM2.- Object Role Modeling Enabled Metadata Repository.- Using ORM in an Ontology Based Approach for a Common Mapping Across Heterogeneous Applications.- Modeling Data Federations in ORM.- Promising Chance of Innovation for Conceptual Modeling in Commerzbank.- Industrial Experience with Fact Based Modeling at a Large Bank.- Is There Fact Orientation Life Preceding Requirements?.- Reduction Transformations in ORM.- Visualizing Formalisms with ORM Models.- Advances in FCO-IM (2): A Shorter Algorithm for Determining Intra Fact Type Uniqueness Constraints.- Mapping ORM into the SHOIN/OWL Description Logic.- Mapping OWL-DL into ORM/RIDL.