Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2005 International Conference (continued) -- Evaluation of Three Approaches for CORBA Firewall/NAT Traversal -- On the Design of Access Control to Prevent Sensitive Information Leakage in Distributed Object Systems: A Colored Petri Net Based Model -- Offline Business Objects: Enabling Data Persistence for Distributed Desktop Applications -- Middleware Support for Dynamic Component Updating -- Two Ways of Implementing Software Connections Among Distributed Components -- On the Notion of Coupling in Communication Middleware -- A Task-Type Aware Transaction Scheduling Algorithm in J2EE -- Application Object Isolation in Cross-Platform Operating Environments -- Garbage Collection in the Presence of Remote Objects: An Empirical Study -- Peer-to-Peer Distribution Architectures Providing Uniform Download Rates -- JXTA Messaging: Analysis of Feature-Performance Tradeoffs and Implications for System Design -- An Aspect-Oriented Communication Middleware System -- Using AOP to Customize a Reflective Middleware -- Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2005 International Conference -- ODBASE 2005 PC Co-Chairs’ Message -- Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings Between Relational Tables and Ontologies from Simple Correspondences -- Ontology Transformation and Reasoning for Model-Driven Architecture -- Multidimensional RDF -- GeRoMe: A Generic Role Based Metamodel for Model Management -- Probabilistic Iterative Duplicate Detection -- Efficient Processing of XPath Queries with Structured Overlay Networks -- Community Based Ranking in Peer-to-Peer Networks -- Ontology–Based Representation and Query Colour Descriptions from Botanical Documents -- Creating Ontologies for Content Representation—The OntoSeed Suite -- Fully Automatic Construction of Enterprise Ontologies Using Design Patterns: Initial Method and First Experiences -- Automatic Ontology Extraction from Unstructured Texts -- Metadata Management in a Multiversion Data Warehouse -- Metadata Management for Ad-Hoc InfoWare – A Rescue and Emergency Use Case for Mobile Ad-Hoc Scenarios -- Managing Petri Nets in MOF Repositories -- A Meta-ontological Architecture for Foundational Ontologies -- Web Image Semantic Clustering -- Biomedical Retrieval: How Can a Thesaurus Help? -- Hybrid Model for Semantic Similarity Measurement -- Ontology-Based Spatial Query Expansion in Information Retrieval -- Security Ontology for Annotating Resources -- An Ontology for Mobile Agents in the Context of Formal Verification -- Evaluating Ontology Criteria for Requirements in a Geographic Travel Domain -- A Self-monitoring System to Satisfy Data Quality Requirements -- An Ontology- and Resources-Based Approach to Evolution and Reactivity in the Semantic Web -- Automatic Web Service Composition Based on Graph Network Analysis Metrics -- ODBASE 2005 Short Papers -- Two Reasoning Methods for Extended Fuzzy ALCH -- Expressing Preferences in a Viewpoint Ontology -- Architecting Ontology for Scalability and Versatility -- OWL-Based User Preference and Behavior Routine Ontology for Ubiquitous System -- Reasoning on Dynamically Built Reasoning Space with Ontology Modules -- An Efficient Branch Query Rewriting Algorithm for XML Query Optimization -- Automated Migration of Data-Intensive Web Pages into Ontology-Based Semantic Web: A Reverse Engineering Approach.