CIKM'95 Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

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Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
November 29 - December 2, 1995
Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sponsored by ACM SIGART* and ACM SIGIR*, in cooperation with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI*, IEEE Computer Society*, SIGLINK, CACS/USL, UMBC

Here is the official home page of CIKM'95.
You can look at the DRAFTCall for Participation (postscript). The postscript and plain text versions of the call for papers are also available. Papers were due May 1, 1995.
Visit the entire University of Maryland System, which includes the sponsor University UMBC.

CIKM'95 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 an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental recent advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities.

Scope of Conference

Submission Guidelines

Important Dates

Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

General and Program Chairs

Program Committee

Scope

The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation, and applications of information and knowledge management. We solicit the submission of 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 areas as they relate to information and knowledge management:

Mobile Databases & Wireless Computing

Digital Libraries

Knowledge Resource Discovery

Multimedia

Information Representation & Modeling

Modeling Database Dynamics

Information Structures & Interaction

Hypertext & Hypermedia

Distributed Object Management

Query Languages

Transaction and Workflow Management

Data and Knowledge Sharing

Heterogeneous & Distributed Systems

High Performance Algorithms

Design Techniques for Object Databases

Intelligent Agents & Network Mediators

Temporal/Spatial Databases

Active and Extensible Databases

Engineering, Scientific and Design Databases

Intelligent Search and Data Mining

Time, Event Management & Monitoring

User & Application Interfaces

Consistency, Integrity and Security

Tuning, Benchmarking & Performance

New Experimental, Commercial & Educational Systems

Integrating Databases & Information Retrieval

Cooperating & Interoperable Federated Systems

Parallelism & Distribution

Object Storage and Servers

Imprecise & Uncertain Information

Submission

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, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long, short or poster presentation. Of particular interest are papers that address experiences with concrete applications. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, special issues of journals containing extended versions of outstanding papers from the conference have been planned. 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, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included.
Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by May 1, 1995 to:

    Dr. Niki Pissinou & Dr. Avi Silberschatz
    c/o CIKM'95
    The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
    2 Rex Street, P.O. Box 44330
    Lafayette, LA 70504, USA
    e-mail: cikm95@cacs.usl.edu, Tel: (318) 482-6604, Fax: (318) 482-5791

For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions) please contact Dr. Charles Nicholas at nicholas@cs.umbc.edu or Tel: (410) 455-2594.

Important Dates

    Paper submission deadline    :  May   1, 1995
    Notification of acceptance   :  June 28, 1995
    Camera ready papers due      :  July 31, 1995

Workshops and Tutorials

An important part of the conference is the workshop program, which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. Proposals are solicited for organizing workshops and tutorials. Please send your proposal by May 1, 1995 to:

    Professor K. Makki
    Workshop Tutorial Chair
    Department of Computer Science
    The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA 
    email: kia@unlv.edu, Tel: (702)895-4024, Fax: (702) 895-4156)

General Chair:

C. Nicholas, UMBC

Program Chairs:

A. Silberschatz, AT&T Bell Lb
N. Pissinou, CACS, USL
E.K. Park, Naval Academy (410-293-6806; eun@usna.navy.mil)

Program Committee:

A. Aho, Bellcore
P. Apers, U. Twente, Neth
R. Ashany, NSF
F. Bastani, U. of Houston
P. Bergougnouxx, Univ. Toulouse
E. Bertino, U. Milano, Italy
N. Bourbakis, SUNY, Bingh.
O. Bukhres, Purdue Univ.
S.S. Chen, NSF
B. Cheng, Michigan State U.
K.S. Choi, KAIST, Korea (ASIAN Coordinator)
S. Chung, Wright State Univ.
K. Dittrich, Univ. Zurich
A. Elmagarmid, Purdue Univ.
O. Etzion, Technion-Israel
C. Faloutsos, Univ. Maryland
T. Finin, UMBC
E. Fox, VPI State U.
O. Frieder, George Mason U.
H. Garcia-Molina, Standford U.
J. Geller, NJIT
M. Halem, NASA
J. Han, Simon Fraser, CA
K. Humenik, Indiana U.
Y. Ioannidis, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
S. Jajodia, George Mason U.
W. Jones, Univ. of Alabama
P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ.
J. Kim, Bellcore
M. Liu, Ohio State Univ.
D. Miranker, UT Austin
J. Mylopoulos, U. of Toronto
E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, GR
S. Oh, U. of Washington
T. Ozsu, Univ. of Alberta, CA
M. Papazouglou, QUT, AU
C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Inst.
V. Raghavan, CACS, USL
L. Reeker, NSF
C.V. Ramamoorthy, UC Berk.
E. Rundensteiner, U. Michigan
P. Scheuermann, Northw. U.
A. Segev, UC Berkeley
T. Sellis, Nat.Tech.Un. Athens
S. Shapiro, SUNY Buffalo
A. Sheth, U. of Georgia
S. Shin, South Dakota State Univ.
M. Siegel, MIT
M. Singhal, Ohio State Univ.
M. Stonebraker, UC Berkeley
S. Su, Univ. of Florida
J. Tsai, U. Illinois, Chicago
J. Ullman, Stanford Univ.
P. Valduriez, INRIA, FR
M. Vardi, Rice Univ.
A. Waksman, AFORSR
M. Winslett, U. Illin., Urbana
X. Wu, Monash Univ., AU
C. Yu, U. of Illinois, Chicago
P. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson
L. Zhao, W & M, VA

Workshop Tutorial Chair:

K. Makki, UNLV

Publicity Chair:

R. Peters, U. Manitoba, CA (email: randal@cs.umanitoba.ca)

Treasurer & Registration Chair:

I.Y. Song, Drexel Univ.

Local Arrangement Chair:

C. Nicholas, UMBC

CIKM Steering Committee:

T. Finin, K. Humenik, D. Jefferson, C. Nicholas, E.K. Park.

* pending approval

Please address questions, comments, etc. concerning this document to Randal Peters (randal@cs.umanitoba.ca)