======================================================================== C I K M '9 5 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ======================================================================== 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*, ACM SIGMOD*, SIGLINK, CACS/USL, UMBC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional information on CIKM'95 is available at the following Web location: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~randal/CIKM95.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ~~~~~ 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 (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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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