Journal on Data Semantics

NEW Springer Journal on Data Semantics

Important Notice:
For better serving the targeted communities, JoDS has now ceased its publication as LNCS volumes. It continues to exist as a regular Springer journal, run by a new editorial team. Please refer to the new JoDS website for all details. Below is the information about the JoDS LNCS Volumes that have been published in the period 2003-2011.

LNCS Journal on Data Semantics

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Published Issues:
JoDS I: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2002 Conferences, LNCS 2800, December 2003
JoDS II: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2003 Conferences, LNCS 3360, December 2004
JoDS III: Special Issue on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems, LNCS 3534, August 2005
JoDS IV: Normal Issue, LNCS 3730, December 2005
JoDS V: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2004 Conferences, LNCS 3870, February 2006
JoDS VI:Special Issue on Emergent Semantics, LNCS 4090, September 2006
JoDS VII:Normal Issue, LNCS 4244, November 2006
JoDS VIII: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2005 Conferences, LNCS 4830, February 2007
JoDS IX: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2005 Conferences (continued), LNCS 4601, September 2007
JoDS X: Normal Issue, LNCS 4900, February 2008
JoDS XI: Special Issue on Extended Papers from 2006 Conferences, LNCS 5383, December 2008
JoDS XII: Normal Issue, LNCS 5480, July 2009
JoDS XIII: Special Issue "Semantic Data Warehouses", LNCS 5530, August 2009
JoDS XIV: Normal Issue, LNCS 5880, November 2009 - online information
JoDS XV: Normal Issue, LNCS 6720, August 2011

The journal aimed to provide a highly visible dissemination channel for remarkable work that in one way or another addressed research and development on issues related to data semantics. The target domain ranged from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge. We expect these volumes to be of highest interest to researchers and advanced practitioners working on the Semantic Web, interoperability, mobile information services, data warehousing, knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelligence.

Topics of relevance to this journal include:

  • Semantic interoperability, semantic mediators
  • Ontologies
  • Ontology, schema and data integration, reconciliation and alignment
  • Multiple representations, alternative representations
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning
  • Conceptualization and representation
  • Multimodel and multiparadigm approaches
  • Mappings, transformations, reverse engineering
  • Metadata
  • Conceptual data modeling
  • Integrity description and handling
  • Evolution and change
  • Web semantics and semistructured data
  • Semantic caching
  • Data warehousing and semantic data mining
  • Spatial, temporal, multimedia and multimodal semantics
  • Semantics in data visualization
  • Semantic services for mobile users
  • Supporting tools
  • Applications of semantic-driven approaches
These topics are to be understood as specifically related to semantic issues.


Past Editor-in-Chief: Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
Past Co-Editor-in-Chief: Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA

Past Editorial Board
Carlo Batini, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center, USA
Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
David W. Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria and National University of Ireland, Galway
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Italy
Jean-Luc Hainaut, FUNDP Namur, Belgium
Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK
Arantza Illarramendi, Basque Country University, Spain
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Antoni Olive, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Christine Parent, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Information Science Research Centre Palmerston North, New Zealand
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Univesitaet Mannheim, Germany
Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina, Italy
Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada
Esteban Zimanyi, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium