1st International Workshop on Benchmarking of XML and Semantic Web Applications (BenchmarX)
Venue: Brisbane
Event Date/Time: Apr 20, 2009 | End Date/Time: Apr 20, 2009 |
Abstract Submission Date: Jan 04, 2009 | |
Paper Submission Date: Jan 11, 2009 |
Description
It is very common, however, that suitable testing data are not easily available and, hence, they need to be synthesized. Therefore, not only predefined fixed XML and semantic data sets but also methods for their synthesis on the basis of user-specified constraints are essential. They can involve physical parameters such as size, depth, fan-out etc. as well as more complex ones such as integrity constraints.
Another problem related to XML and semantic data processing is that the techniques often require a kind of structural or semantic description of the processed data, such as XML schema or ontology. However, in real-world situations the schema is often missing or, if it exists, the data are not fully valid. Hence, the techniques must be accompanied with methods for inferring schemas as well as integrity constraints.
And, finally, a true benchmark involves not only data, but also respective operations, such as queries, XSL transformations etc. Therefore another set of open problems related to specification of reasonable benchmarking operations opens.
We invite submission from research communities dealing with different theoretical and applied aspects of XML and semantic data benchmarking. The papers can cover results and experiences with benchmarking selected applications, proposals of benchmarking projects, approaches to synthesis of data sets and/or operations, as well as other related topics such as analyses of real-world data collections, schema inference, integrity constraints inference etc.
Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:
* XML benchmarking projects
* Synthesis of XML data
* Inference of XML schemas
* Inference of XML integrity constraints
* Analysis of real-world XML data, schemas and queries
* Analysis and/or performance comparison of XML-related applications (parsers, validators, XML managements systems, query engines, XSLT processors, XML archivers, ...)
* Semantic web benchmarking projects
* Synthesis of semantic web data (RDF, OWL, ...)
* Ontology inference
* Analysis of real-world semantic web data, ontologies and queries
* Analysis and/or performance comparison of semantic web-related applications (reasoners, semantic data management systems, mappers, query engines, ...)
* Benchmarking and testing of (semantic) web services