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Due to numerous requests,
THE DEADLINE FOR THE 12th EUROPEAN - JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES
has been extended to
February 22nd 2002.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 12th EUROPEAN - JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES
Krippen, Swiss Saxony, Germany
28 - 31 May, 2002
OBJECTIVE: Information modelling is coming more and more important topic
for researchers, designers, and users of information systems. The amount
and complexity of information itself, the number of abstraction levels of
information, and the size of databases and knowledge bases are continuously
growing. Conceptual modelling is one of the sub-areas of information
modelling. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from
different areas of computer science and other disciplines, who have a
common interest in understanding and solving problems on information
modelling and knowledge bases, as well as applying the results of research
to practice. We also aim to recognise and study new areas on modelling and
knowledge bases to which more attention should be paid. Therefore
philosophy and logic, cognitive science, knowledge management, linguistics
and management science are relevant areas, too. In the conference, there
will be four categories of presentations, i.e. full papers, short papers,
position papers and poster presentations.
TOPICS: Modelling of information is necessary in developing information
systems. Information is acquired from many sources, by using various
methods and tools. It must be recognised, conceptualised, and conceptually
organised efficiently so that users can easily understand and use it.
Modelling is needed to understand, explain, organise, predict, and reason
on information. It also helps to master the role and functions of
components of information systems. Modelling can be performed with many
different purposes in mind, at different levels, and by using different
notions and different background theories. It can be made by emphasising
users' conceptual understanding of information on a domain level, on an
algorithmic level, or on representation levels. On each level, the objects
and structures used on them are different, and different rules govern the
behaviour on them. Therefore the notions, rules, theories, languages, and
methods for modelling on different levels are also different. It will be
useful if we can develop theories and methodologies for modelling, to be
used in different situations, because databases, knowledge bases, and
repositories in knowledge management systems, developed on the basis of
models and used to technically store information, are growing day by day.
In this conference the interest is focused on modelling of information, and
one of central topics might be modelling of time. Scientific or technical
papers of high quality are sought on topics including, but not limited to
the following. The highest priority will be given to papers which are
strongly related to different aspects of modelling.
1. Theoretical and Philosophical Basis of Concept Modelling and Conceptual
Modelling
- Information recognition, conceptualisation, and concept formation
- Properties of concepts, systems of concepts, and theories of concept
systems
- Subjective concepts and collective concepts
- Conceptual change and time, ontology of time
- Concept integration and integration of modeling paradigms
- Description of concepts, views, and viewpoint dynamics
2. Conceptual Modelling and Information Requirements Specification (IRS)
- Ontologies, conceptual modelling, and natural language in IRS
- Conceptual information requirements specification for information systems
- Conceptual modelling for knowledge management
- Languages, tools and methods for conceptual modelling
- Methods and systems for developing and using conceptual information
- Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration
- Conceptual modelling of time
3. Conceptual Models in Intelligent Activity
- Cognitive strategies for model construction
- Conceptual modelling and problem solving
- Conceptual modelling of temporal constructs, identity and change
- Meta-modelling in the model building process
- Relationships between knowledge management and problem solving
- The ontology of social reality and the modelling process of social reality
4. Collections of Data, Knowledge, and Descriptions of Concepts
- Knowledge managemet for conceptual modelling and IRS
- Conceptual modelling in spatial or temporal databases, or both
- Active database systems and active knowledge base systems
- Modelling methods, design methodologies and tools
- Collaborative knowledge management
5. Human-Computer Interaction and Modelling
- Conceptual models as interfaces of systems, data bases and knowledge bases,
- Ontology for human-computer interaction, including time
- Metadata and knowledge management for human-computer interaction
- Cognition problems in large conceptual schemata
- Modelling in multimedia information systems
6. Software Engineering and Modelling
- Design and use of concept definition libraries, design patterns, frameworks
- Architectures of meta-models for information systems,
- Modelling software engineering processes
- UML, ORM, Petri-nets, and other formalisms as modelling tools
- Modelling of multi-agent systems - modelling in multi-agent systems
7. Applications
- Enterprise modelling and strategic concept development
- Business-process modeling
- Modelling global information systems
- Modelling for mobile information systems
- Conceptual modeling of information systems for virtual organisations
- Modelling in the WWW systems and conceptual models for web data
FORMAT OF THE SUBMISSION: Send the paper electronically, in PS format
(recommended) or MS-Word format (as the last alternative). Send your
submission by February 22, 2002. You will find instructions for uploading
your paper for evaluation on the page:
http://www.pori.tut.fi/~hj/ejc/ejc-newpapersubmission.html
Instructions for the format of your paper are under title "Author
Guidelines" on the page:
http://www.pori.tut.fi/~hj/ejc/index.html
The submission must be original, and must not be submitted anywhere else,
or already accepted by any other conference or journal. The selection of
papers is made on the basis of review, by the program committee. Acceptance
of papers will be based on the originality of work, on the suitability of
the topic to the conference, and on the overall quality of your submission.
SCIENTIFIC / TECHNICAL PAPER: You may submit your paper either as a full
paper, (max. 20 double spaced pages), or as a short paper (of max. 8
pages).
POSITION PAPER: Research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate
innovative concepts, theories, prototypes, or experiences. Your position
paper (work-in-progress) should be no longer than 5 pages.
POSTER: Send your poster hand-out material (max. 2 pages) and draft
drawings of your poster. Research projects of any scale are invited to
illustrate innovative concepts, theories, or prototypes.
The acceptance letters for all types of contributions will be sent by 1st
April, 2002. In the case of acceptance, you are expected to send your final
paper for inclusion in the preprints to arrive no later than 2nd May, 2001.
The text must be ready for final publication in the book by the end of
August 2001.
Important!
Please use only "English fonts" in your paper, and include all the fonts
you used. No extra hidden codes, nor any other features that are specific
to a special computer (or language) environment should be included in
any form. Otherwise reviewers may not be able to open and read your
paper. Once a submitted paper is found to be unreadable, the reviewing
process may be stopped automatically without asking the second submission.
WORKING PRINCIPLES OF THE CONFERENCE:
- The total number of participants is limited to 50.
- The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers (both full
and short), position papers and poster outlines are included in the
preprints.
- The final text of the papers can be polished for publication after the
conference. Only actually presented papers will be published in the book.
- The final book will be published through an international publisher.
CONFERENCE SITE:
Hotel Erbgericht, Krippen, Swiss Saxony, Germany.
More detailed information can be found on:
http://OLDWeb.Informatik.TU-Cottbus.DE/~ejc/.
CONFERENCE FEE: The registration fee of approx. USD 400 will include the
preprints, lunches and dinners during the conference, refreshments in
coffee breaks, and the cost for the final book. The room and breakfast is
to be paid to the hotel directly by the participants.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Eiji Kawaguchi (co-chairman), Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Hannu Kangassalo (co-chairman), University of Tampere, Finland
Alfs Berztis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Pierre-Jean Charrel, Universite Toulouse 1, France
Valeria De Antonellis, Politecnico di Milano, Universita' di Brescia, Italy
Olga De Troyer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Marie Duzi, Silesian University, Czech Republic
Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jaak Henno, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia
Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
Seiji Ishikawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Yukihiro Itoh, Shizuoka University, Japan
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan
Isabelle Mirbel, I3S Laboratory, Sophia Antipolis, France
Yasuaki Nakano, Shinshu University, Japan
Björn Nilsson, Astrakan Strategic Development, Sweden
Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
Yoshihiro Okada, Kyushu University, Japan
Antoni Olivé, Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain
Jari Palomäki, University of Tampere, Finland
Alain Pirotte, University of Louvain, Belgium
Veikko Rantala, University of Tampere, Finland
Colette Rolland, University of Paris I, France
Michael Schrefl, University of Linz, Austria
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Massey University, New Zealand
Cristina Sernadas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Arne Soelvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Yuzuru Tanaka, University of Hokkaido, Japan
Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburgian Technical University, Germany
Takehiro Tokuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Benkt Wangler, University of Skövde, Sweden
Esteban Zimanyi, Université Libre de Bruxelles(ULB), Belgium
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Thomas Feyer, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Karla Kersten, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Vojtech Vestenicky, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Heiko Wolf, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Roberto Kockrow, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Thomas Kobienia, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland
Ulla Nevanranta (Publication), Tampere University of Technology (Pori),
Finland
ADDRESSES:
Eiji Kawaguchi, PC co-chairman
Kyushu Institute of Technology
Dep. of E.E. and Computer Engineering
1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata, Kitakyushu, 804-8550
Japan
Tel: +81-93-884-3254 Fax: +81-93-871-5835
E-mail: kawaguch@know.comp.kyutech.ac.jp
Hannu Kangassalo, PC co-chairman
University of Tampere
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
Tel: +358-3-2156778 Fax: +358-3-2156070 E-mail: hk@cs.uta.fi
Bernhard Thalheim
Computer Science Insitute
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
PostBox 101344
03013 Cottbus, Germany
Phone: +49 355 692700, Fax: +49 355 692766,
Email: kk@informatik.tu-cottbus.de
Secretariat: Ulla Nevanranta
Tampere University of Technology (Pori)
P.O. Box 300, FIN-28101 PORI, Finland
tel. +358 2 627 2710
fax. +358 2 630 0911
email: ullan@pori.tut.fi
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Preliminary information about the conference can be seen on the page (will
be given soon) . Information on previous European-Japanese conferences is
on the page http://www.pori.tut.fi/~hj/ejc/index.html. Information of
conference books are on the page
http://www.cs.uta.fi/~hk/euro-japan.html#1992.
__________________________________________________________
Hannu Kangassalo
Tel: +358-3-2156778
E-mail: hk@cs.uta.fi
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