CIKM'98 will bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in improving information and knowledge management technologies. Its objective is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of recent advances in the area, and to foster collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities.
The Program Committee has been appointed.
The focus of the conference is new and original research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation, and applications of information and knowledge management. We solicit papers that address novel, challenging and innovative results. We also solicit short papers that challenge the field with new technologies or applications and open new horizons of research. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Intelligent Search and Data Mining | Data Cleaning and Noise Modeling |
Uncertainty Management | Data Mining Methods |
Automated Discovery Agents | Privacy and Security Issues |
Interactive Data Exploration | Knowledge and Resource Discovery |
Multimedia Database Systems | Mobile Databases and Wireless Computing |
Digital Libraries | Information Representation and Modeling |
Modeling Database Dynamics | Information Structures and Interaction |
Hypertext and Hypermedia | Distributed Object Management |
Query Languages Transaction and Workflow Management | Data and Knowledge Sharing |
Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems | High Performance Algorithms |
Design Techniques for Object Databases | Intelligent Agents and Network Mediators |
Temporal/Spatial Databases | Active and Extensible Databases |
Engineering, Scientific and Design Databases | Intelligent Information Systems |
User and Application Interfaces | Time, Event and Change Management and Monitoring |
Dynamic Databases | Tuning, Benchmarking and Performance |
New Experimental, Commercial and Educational Systems | Integrating Databases and Information Retrieval |
Cooperating and Interoperable Federated Systems | Parallelism and Distribution |
Object Storage and Servers | Imprecise and Uncertain Information |
Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may be submitted for consideration include those that have not previously been published in another forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, originality and relevance. Of particular interest are papers which address experiences with concrete applications. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, to be published by ACM Press, provided at least one author attends the conference to present the paper.
Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by May 12, 1998 to either of the Program Co-Chairs:
Dr. James French | Dr. Georges Gardarin |
c/o CIKM'98 (IR track) | CIKM'98 (DBMS track) |
Computer Science Department | PRiSM Laboratory (& INRIA) |
University of Virginia | University of Versailles SQ |
Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA | 78035 Versailles Cedex, France |
french@cs.virginia.edu | georges.gardarin@prism.uvsq.fr |
804-982-2213 | 33 1 39254054/56 |
Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 10, 1998, and
camera-ready copies for the proceedings will be due the end of August.
For more information about the conference, please visit the CIKM web site; or contact
either of the General Chairs, Niki Pissinou
Workshops and Tutorials: An important part of the conference is the
workshop program, which focuses on timely research challenges and
initiatives. Workshop proposals may be sent to Professor Kia Makki
kia@usl.edu. Tutorial proposals may be sent to Professor Il-Yeol
Song songiy@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu