CIKM'99 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 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 in the following areas, but are not limited to:
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 1, 1999 to the appropriate Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Dr. Susan Gauch
CIKM '99 (IR track)
ITTC, Nichols Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
sgauch@eecs.ukans.edu
785-864-7755
Dr. Il-Yeol Song
CIKM '99 (DBMS track)
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
song@drexel.edu
215-895-2489
For more information about the conference, please visit the CIKM web site
Send proposals to Dr. Konstantinos Kalpakis, CIKM'99 Workshops Chair, Dept. of CSEE, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA, kalpakis@cs.umbc.edu, 410-455-3143
Send proposals to Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis, CIKM'99 Tutorials Chair, ITTC, Nichols Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA, tsatsoul@eecs.ukans.edu
For more information about the conference, please visit the CIKM web site or contact the General Chairs Kia Makki or E.K. Park.
Karl Aberer, Germany Michael Halper, USA Calton Pu, USA Maristella Agosti, Italy Jiawei Han, Canada Rajeev Rastogi, USA James Allan, USA Donna Harman, USA Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Brazil Paolo Atzeni, Italy Lewis Hassell, USA Neil Rowe, USA Elisa Bertino, Italy Yannis Ioannidis, Greece/USA Fereidoon Sadri, USA Peter Buneman, USA Trevor Jones, USA Mark Sanderson, UK Jan Buzydlowski, USA Wolfgang Klas, Germany Peter Schauble, Switzerland Jamie Callan, USA Jin-Ho Kim, Korea Timos Sellis, Greece Arbee Chen, Taiwan Myung-Ho Kim, Korea Cyrus Shahabi, USA Su-Shing Chen, USA Bob Krovetz, USA Paraic Sheridan, USA Chin Whan Chung, Korea Sukhamay Kundu, USA Junho Shim, USA Sophie Cluet, France K.L. Kwok, USA Kyuseok Shim, USA Bruce Croft, USA Alberto H. Laender, Brazil Alan F. Smeaton, Ireland Karen Davis, USA Mounia Lalmas, UK Stefano Spaccapietra, Swizld Jim Dullea, USA Roger Lee, USA Amanda Spink, USA Susan Dumais, USA Suk-Kyun Lee, Korea Junping Sun, USA Ramez Elmasri, USA Stephen Liddle, USA Toby J. Teorey, USA David Embley, USA Xia Lin, USA Ulrich Thiel, Germany Peter Fankhauser, Germany Tok Wang Ling, Singapore Richard Tong, USA Reginald Ferber, Germany Chengwen Liu, USA Suk-Chung Yoon, USA Edward A. Fox, USA Kia Makki, USA Vassilios Verykios, USA Hans-Peter Frei, Switzerland Sam Makki, Australia Charles L. Viles, USA Jim French, USA Gail Michell, USA Ellen Voorhees, USA Norbert Fuhr, Germany Mukesh Mohania, Australia Philip Yu, USA George Gardarin, France Erich J. Neuhold, Germany Xiaoyang Sean Wang, USA Minos Garofalakis, USA Niki Pissinou, USA Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Forouzan Golshani, USA A. Steven Pollitt, UK