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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany 4623 Martine Collard (Ed.) Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems First and Second VLDB Workshops, ODBIS 2005/2006 Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006 Revised Papers 13 Volume Editor Martine Collard Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis Laboratoire I3S Les Algorithmes, 2000 route des Lucioles, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2007936205 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2.1, H.2.4, H.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 0302-9743 3-540-75473-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-75473-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 12162703 06/3180 543210 Preface This volume constitutes the joint post-proceedings of the two international VLDB workshops on Ontologies-based Techniques for DataBases and Information Systems, ODBIS 2005 and ODBIS 2006, co-located with the 31st and 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). It is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the workshops. Ontologies are generally used to specify and communicate domain knowledge in a generic way. While in a formal sense “ontology” means study of concepts, one can use the word “ontology” as a concept repository about a particular area of interest. Ontologies are very useful for structuring and defining the meaning of