13th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2005) -- Semantic Matching: Algorithms and Implementation -- Semantics-Guided Clustering of Heterogeneous XML Schemas -- A Formal Framework for Adaptive Access Control Models -- C&O-2005: The AAAI'05 Workshop on Contexts and Ontologies -- Putting Things in Context: A Topological Approach to Mapping Contexts to Ontologies -- 4th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2005) -- Creating Ontologies for Content Representation-The OntoSeed Suite -- Security Ontology to Facilitate Web Service Description and Discovery.

• 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. Contributions submitted to the journal and dealing with semantics of data will be considered even if they are not from the topics in the list. While the physical appearance of the journal issues is like the books from the we- known Springer LNCS series, the mode of operation is that of a journal. Contributions can be freely submitted by authors and are reviewed by the Editorial Board. Contributions may also be invited, and nevertheless carefully reviewed, as in the case for issues that contain extended versions of best papers from major conferences addressing data semantics issues. Special issues, focusing on a specific topic, are coordinated by guest editors once the proposal for a special issue is accepted by the Editorial Board. Finally, it is also possible that a journal issue be devoted to a single text.