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Current group: comp.infosystems.
EJC2005 May16th-19th, Tallinn, Estonia
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| | From: | Jaak Henno | | Subject: | EJC2005 May16th-19th, Tallinn, Estonia | | Date: | 17 Nov 2004 07:05:37 -0800 |
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 | [Apologies if you receive this CfP more than once and please,
distribute this among colleagues]
Dear colleagues,
Enclosed please find the Call-For-Papers to THE 15th EUROPEAN -
JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES
(15th-EJC 2005) held in Tallinn, Estonia, May 16-19, 2005.
http://www.ttu.ee/infoinst/conference/
http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/
We are announcing it as a continuous and important conference for the
progress of the research fields in the information modelling and
knowledge bases. Please distribute this CFP to researchers and
scientists around your scientific society. We are expecting this
conference to give good opportunities for discussing future direction
of INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES.
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IMPORTANT DATE
Paper Submission: Dec. 15th, 2004
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OBJECTIVE: Information modelling is coming more and more important
topic for researchers, designers, and users of information systems.
The amount and complexity of information itself, the number of
abstraction levels of information, and the size of databases and
knowledge bases are continuously growing. Conceptual modelling is one
of the sub-areas of information modelling. The aim of this conference
is to bring together experts from different areas of computer science
and other disciplines, who have a common interest in understanding and
solving problems on information modelling and knowledge bases, as well
as applying the results of research to practice. We also aim to
recognize and study new areas on modelling and knowledge bases to
which more attention should be paid. Therefore philosophy and logic,
cognitive science, knowledge management, linguistics and management
science are relevant areas, too. In the conference, there will be four
categories of presentations, i.e. full papers, short papers, position
papers and poster presentations.
TOPICS: Modelling of information is necessary in developing
information systems. Information is acquired from many sources, by
using various methods and tools. It must be recognized,
conceptualized, and conceptually organized efficiently so that users
can easily understand and use it. Modelling is needed to understand,
explain, organise, predict, and reason on information. It also helps
to master the role and functions of components of information systems.
Modelling can be performed with many different purposes in mind, at
different levels, and by using different notions and different
background theories. It can be made by emphasising users' conceptual
understanding of information on a domain level, on an algorithmic
level, or on representation levels. On each level, the objects and
structures used on them are different, and different rules govern the
behaviour on them. Therefore the notions, rules, theories, languages,
and methods for modelling on different levels are also different. It
will be useful if we can develop theories and methodologies for
modelling, to be used in different situations, because databases,
knowledge bases, and repositories in knowledge management systems,
developed on the basis of models and used to technically store
information, are growing day by day. In this conference the interest
is focused on modelling of information, and one of central topics
might be modelling of time. Scientific or technical papers of high
quality are sought on topics including, but not limited to the
following. The highest priority will be given to papers which are
strongly related to different aspects of modelling.
1. Theoretical and Philosophical Basis of Concept Modelling and
Conceptual Modelling
Information recognition, conceptualisation, and concept
formation
Properties of concepts, systems of concepts, and theories of
concept systems
Subjective concepts and collective concepts
Conceptual change and time, ontology of time
Concept integration and integration of modeling paradigms
Description of concepts, views, and viewpoint dynamics
2. Conceptual Modelling and Information Requirements Specification
(IRS)
Ontologies, conceptual modelling, and natural language in IRS
Conceptual information requirements specification for
information systems
Conceptual modelling for knowledge management
Languages, tools and methods for conceptual modelling
Methods and systems for developing and using conceptual
information
Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and
integration
Conceptual modelling of time
3. Conceptual Models in Intelligent Activity
Cognitive strategies for model construction
Conceptual modelling and problem solving
Conceptual modelling of temporal constructs, identity and
change
Meta-modelling in the model building process
Relationships between knowledge management and problem solving
The ontology of social reality and the modelling process of
social reality
4. Collections of Data, Knowledge, and Descriptions of Concepts
Knowledge management for conceptual modelling and IRS
Conceptual modelling in spatial or temporal databases, or both
Active database systems and active knowledge base systems
Modelling methods, design methodologies and tools
Collaborative knowledge management
5. Human-Computer Interaction and Modelling
Conceptual models as interfaces of systems, data bases and
knowledge bases,
Ontology for human-computer interaction, including time
Metadata and knowledge management for human-computer
interaction
Cognition problems in large conceptual schemata
Modelling in multimedia information systems
6. Software Engineering and Modelling
Design and use of concept definition libraries, design
patterns, frameworks
Architectures of meta-models for information systems,
Modelling software engineering processes
UML, ORM, Petri-nets, and other formalisms as modelling tools
Modelling of multi-agent systems - modelling in multi-agent
systems
7. Applications
Enterprise modelling and strategic concept development
Business-process modeling
Modelling global information systems
Modelling for mobile information systems
Conceptual modeling of information systems for virtual
organisations
Modelling in the WWW, semantic web, XML, RDF, OWL
FORMAT OF THE SUBMISSION: Send the paper electronically, in PDF format
recommended) or PS format (as the last alternative).
Instructions for the format of your paper are under title "Author
Guidelines" on the page: http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/
Please use only "English fonts" in your paper, and include all the
fonts you used. No extra hidden codes, nor any other features that are
specific to a special computer (or language) environment should be
included in any form. Otherwise reviewers may not be able to open and
read your paper. Once a submitted paper is found to be unreadable, the
reviewing process may be stopped automatically without asking the
second submission.
Instructions for uploading your paper for evaluation:
http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/ejc-newpapersubmission.html
The submission must be original, and must not be submitted anywhere
else, or already accepted by any other conference or journal. The
selection of papers is made on the basis of review, by the program
committee. Acceptance of papers will be based on the originality of
work, on the suitability of the topic to the conference, and on the
overall quality of your submission.
SCIENTIFIC / TECHNICAL PAPER: You may submit your paper either as a
full paper, (max. 20 double spaced pages), or as a short paper (of
max. 8 pages).
POSITION PAPER: Research projects of any scale are invited to
illustrate innovative concepts, theories, prototypes, or experiences.
Your position paper (work-in-progress) should be no longer than 5
pages.
POSTER: Send your poster hand-out material (max. 2 pages) and draft
drawings of your poster. Research projects of any scale are invited to
illustrate innovative concepts, theories, or prototypes.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline Dec. 15th, 2004.
The acceptance letters for all types of contributions will be sent by
email by February 28th, 2005. In the case of acceptance, you are
expected to send your final paper for inclusion in the pre-proceedings
to
arrive no later than March 20th, 2005.
WORKING PRINCIPLES OF THE CONFERENCE:
The total number of participants is limited to 50.
The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers
(both full and short), position papers and poster outlines are
included in the preprints.
The final text of the papers can be polished for publication
after the conference. Only actually presented papers will be
published in the book.
The final book will be published through an international
publisher.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE Co-chair:
Hannu Kangassalo (co-chair), University of Tampere, Finland
Yasushi Kiyoki,(co-chair), Keio University, Japan
(PC members will be accounced.)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Jaak Henno, (Organizing Committee chair), Tallinn University of
Technology, Estonia
Hannu Jaakkola, (Organizing Committee Co-Chair), Tampere University
of Technology (Pori), Finland
Eiji Kawaguchi, (Steering Committee member), Japan
Ulla Nevanranta (Publication), Tampere University of Technology(Pori),
Finland
Information on previous European-Japanese conferences:
http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/
Information of conference books (previous conferences):
http://www.cs.uta.fi/~hk/euro-japan.html#1992.
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