CALL FOR PAPERS

FIRST CALL for PAPERS ADVIS 2000 First Biannual International Conference on Advances in Information Systems 25 - 27 October 2000 Izmir, Turkey "To the memory of Professor Dr Esen OZKARAHAN" This is the first conference to be held to honor the late Professor Esen Ozkarahan (1940-1999) and his outstanding contributions to databases and information systems. Professor Ozkarahan was one of the pioneers of database machine research as well as the founder of database systems research in Turkey. Moreover, his studies centered on database machines to which he made significant contributions. Professor Ozkarahan is well known for his pioneering work on the RAP (Relational Associative Processor) database machine. He designed RAP to provide hardware implementations of relational databases. RAP includes all the relational algebra operations, and an implicit form of the semi join operation that later became the cornerstone of query optimization in relational databases. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Esen Ozkarahan and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship. AIMS AND SCOPE The aim of the Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of current research directions in Information Systems as a developing science. It is important to continue consolidating ideas, concepts and models in Information Systems, where movement in this direction is one of the goals of the Conference. In addition to papers in the list of topics, papers both bridging the gap between different directions, and promoting mutual exchange and understanding of researchers in related areas are welcome. CONFERENCE TOPICS The main topics to be covered during conference as follows: * Information Systems (IS) Development and Management * Advanced Programming Paradigms for IS * IS Tools and Environments * Multimedia IS * Information Retrieval * Digital Libraries * Enterprise Knowledge Development * Business Process Models and Reengineering * Cooperative Information Systems * Workflow Management systems * New Applications of IS Technology * Information Privacy and Security * Data Models and Database Design * Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Constraint Databases * Multimedia Databases * Data warehousing and warehouse DBMS * Parallel and Distributed Data Processing * Support for Non-Traditional Data * Applications of Databases * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery * Knowledge Bases and Expert Systems * Intellectual Interfaces to Data Bases and IS * Decision Support Systems * Intelligent Agent Technology * Neural Networks * Genetics Algorithms * Network Management * Network Applications * Network Performance Analysis LOCATION The conference will be held in Izmir, a major city located in the West Coast of Turkey. Izmir is in close proximity to well known ancient historical sites such as Efesos, Pergamon as well as vacation resorts such as Kusadasi, Cesme, and Foca. COMMITTEES Honorary Chair Irem Ozkarahan, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Program Committee Co-Chairs: Abdullah Uz Tansel, City University of New York, USA Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Conference Secretary Adil Alpkocak, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Local Organizing Committee Erbug Celebi, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Emine Ekin, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Bora Kumova, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Tanzer Onurgil, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Cagdas Ozgenc, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Tugba Taskaya, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Evren Tekin, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Aytekin Vargun, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Serife Yilmaz, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Program Committee Varol Akman, Bilkent Univ., Turkey Adil Alpkocak, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Erden Baser, East Mediterranean Univ., Cyprus Frederic Benhamou, Univ. of Nantes, France Cem Bozsahin, METU, Turkey Ufuk Caglayan, Bogazici Univ., Turkey Fazli Can, Miami Univ. USA Yalcin Cebi, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Paolo Ciaccia, Univ. of Bologna, Italy Oguz Dikenelli, Ege Univ., Turkey Asuman Dogac, METU Turkey Opher Etzion, IBM Research Lab., Israel Yakov Fet, Academy of Science, Russia Lloyd Fosdick, Colorado Univ., USA Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State Univ., USA Malcolm Heywood, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Alp Kut, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey Victor Malyshkin, Academy of Science, Russia Mario A. Nascimento, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Erich Neuhold, GMD - IPSI, Germany Selmin Nurcan, Univ. of Sorbonne, France Kemal Oflazer, Bilkent Univ. Turkey Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve Univ., USA Tamer Ozsu, Univ. Of Alberta, Canada Yusuf Ozturk, San Diego State Univ., USA George Angelos Papadopoulos, Univ. Of Cyprus, Cyprus Marcin Paprzycki, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, USA Malcolm Rigg, Word Systems, Luxembourg Surya Sripada, Boeing, USA Martti Tienari, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland Turhan Tunali, Ege Univ., Turkey Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent Univ., Turkey Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey COMMUNICATION Mail Address : ADVIS'2000 Dokuz Eylul University Dept. of Computer Engineering Bornova 35100 IZMIR - TURKEY E-Mail : advis@cs.deu.edu.tr WWW : http://advis.cs.deu.edu.tr Phone & Fax : +90 (232) 373 60 40 - 388 03 73 INVITED SPEAKERS Brian Mayoh, Aarhus University Computer Science Department, "Multi Agent Systems: Modeling Animal Behavior" SUBMISSIONS DETAILS Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding 5000 words (10 pages) representing original, previously unpublished work. Paper submission in LNCS format would be highly appreciated. For more information please refer to web pages at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Electronic submission by e-mail to following address is highly encouraged advis@cs.deu.edu.tr Alternatively, submit 5 hard copies of your paper to the following addresses: ADVIS'2000 Dokuz Eylul University Department of Computer Engineering Bornova 35100 IZMIR - TURKEY All manuscripts will be reviewed by three members of the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES April 30, 2000 : Submission deadline of extended abstracts June 15, 2000 : Notification of acceptance (by e-mail) July 15, 2000 : Camera ready due October 25-27 : Conference dates