CFP: Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94)
C a l l F o r P a p e r s ------------------------------ C I K M ' 9 4 Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94) November 29 - December 2, 1994 National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ACM SIGART and SIGIR, in cooperation with: AAAI, NIST, NSF, UMBC, Purdue University, and Rutgers University. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Conference ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CIKM provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the con ference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. An important part of the conference is the Workshops program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. Focus ~~~~~ The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: o Application of knowledge representation techniques to semantic modeling o Development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases o Automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases (especially raw text) o Object-oriented DBMS o Optimization techniques o Transaction management o High performance OLTP systems o Security techniques o Performance evaluation o Hypermedia o Unconventional applications o Parallel database systems o Physical and logical database design o Data and knowledge sharing o Interchange and interoperability o Cooperation in heterogeneous systems o Domain modeling and ontology-building o Knowledge discovery in databases o Information storage and retrieval and interface technology o Concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing o Digital Libraries o Multimedia Databases. Paper and Workshop Submission ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors are invited to submit papers and workshop proposals to the Program Chair at the following address: Nabil R. Adam, Professor and Chair Dept. of MS/CIS GSM - Rutgers University 180 University Ave. Newark, NJ 07102 E-mail: cikm94@adam.rutgers.edu Tel: (201) 648-5239 All papers and workshop proposals should reach the program chair by May 1, 94. Authors must send eight (8) DOUBLE-SIDED copies of each paper, not exceeding 5,000 words, accompanied by a cover let ter containing a list of all authors, their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and fax numbers. All submissions will be reviewed and judged with respect to quality and relevance. Important Dates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers & Workshop Submission: ................. May 1, 1994. Notification of acceptance: ................... July 1, 1994. Camera Ready Copies Due: ...................... September 1, 1994. Steering Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bruce Blum Tim Finin David Jefferson Keith Humenik Charles Nicholas E. K. Park Yelena Yesha General Co-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University Yelena Yesha, UMBC Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University Program Vice-Chairs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ R. Ashany, NSF T. Finin, UMBC E. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic S. Hurwitz, NIST C. Kulikowski, Rutgers University K. Makki, UNLV S. Naqvi, Bellcore E. K. Park, U.S. Naval Academy N. Pissinou, SW Luisiana U.niversity M. Singhal, Ohio State University P. Sokolove, UMBC S. Spaccapietra, EPFL Lausanne M. Stonebraker, UC-Berkeley B. Wah, University of Illinois, UC Publicity Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. Helal, University of Texas at Arlington Local Arrangements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E. Fong, NIST European Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ G. Schlageter, Fern University Workshop Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ G. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU Exhibit Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M. Masulo, IBM Watson Research Center Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. El Abbadi, UC-Santa Barbara Y. Arens, USC/ISI R. Alonso, MITL B. Badrinath, Rutgers University E. Bertino, University of Genoa G. Belford, UIUC M. Brodie, GTE Labs A. Buchmann, Tech. Hochschule Dramstadt W. Chu, UCLA J. Clifford, NYU S. Davidson, University of Pennsylvania K. Dittrich, Universitat Zurich R. Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington S. Gadia, Iowa Satate University N. Gehani, At&T Bell Labs. J. Geller, NJIT J. Gowens, Army Research Lab M. Halem, NASA D. Harman, NIST K. Humenik, Indiana University P. Kanellakis, Brown University M. Kohli, Bellcore D. Lewis, At&T Bell Labs R. MacGregor, USC/ISI R. Martin, NIST D. McKay, Unisys J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto S. Navathe, Georgia Tech. E. Neuhold, GMD P. Ng, NJIT T. Nguyen, IBM Watson Research Center C. Nicholas, UMBC C. Overton, University of Pennsylvania M. Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University M. Papazoglou, Queensland University of Technology R. Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsen-Madison S. Ray, NIST P. Scheurmann, Northwestern University T. Seidman, UMBC I. Song, Drexel University K. Sycara, RI/CMU P. Vassallo, NIST L. Welch, NIST W. Wong, DISA X. Wu, James Cook University V. Zwass, FDU