From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: CFP: CIKM-93 - 2nd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:07:33 -0500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cujo.cs.umbc.edu
Summary: papers due April 1
Keywords: Database, Knowledge Base, Information Retrieval, AI

				      
			       CALL FOR PAPERS
				      
		     Second International Conference on
		    Information and Knowledge Management
				      
			    November 1 - 5, 1993
				      
			      Double Tree Hotel
			    Washington D.C., USA
				      
	Sponsored by ISCA and University of Maryland Baltimore County
	in cooperation with AAAI (SIGART and SIGIR) and ACM (Pending)
				      

The conference provides an international forum for presentation and
discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as
recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Authors are invited to submit
papers, proposals for tutorials and proposals for exhibits concerned with
theory or practice or both. The focus of the conference includes, but is not
limited to, the following: Application of knowledge representation techniques
to semantic data modeling; development and management of heterogeneous
knowledge bases; automatic acquisition of data and knowledge bases especially
from raw text; object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques; transaction
management; high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; performance
evaluation; hypermedia; unconventional applications; parallel database
systems; physical and logical database design; data and knowledge sharing;
interchange and interoperability; cooperation in heterogeneous systems; domain
modeling and ontology-building; knowledge discovery in databases; information
storage and retrieval, information filtering and interface technology.

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

All submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter containing a list of
all authors, their affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail
addresses, and fax telephone numbers. Papers should be at most 20 double
spaced pages and must include an abstract of 100-150 words with five
keywords. All submissions will be reviewed and will be judged with respect
to quality and relevance.  Authors must submit 7 copies of each paper,
tutorial or exhibit proposal to the program chairman:

     Professor Bharat Bhargava
     Department of Computer Science 
     Purdue University 
     West LaFayette, Indiana, 47907 
     Email: bb@cs.purdue.edu
     Telephone: +1 (317) 494-6013
     Fax: +1 (317) 494-0739

For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions),
send e-mail to cikm@cs.umbc.edu.

STUDENT PAPER AWARD

  The author of the best student paper will receive an award for his/her
  submission.  To be eligible, the student must be the first author and
  primary contributor to the paper.  The cover letter must identify the paper
  as a candidate for this competition.

IMPORTANT DATES

  April 1, 1993  Deadline for paper/tutorial/exhibit submission.
  July 15, 1993  Notification of acceptance
  Sept. 1, 1993  Camera ready papers due


STEERING COMMITTEE                   GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
  Bruce Blum                           Tim Finin 
  Tim Finin                            Yelena Yesha 
  Keith Humenik
  David Jefferson                    PROGRAM CHAIR
  E. K. Park                           Bharat Bhargava 
  Yelena Yesha

PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS                  EUROPEAN VICE CHAIR
  Nabil Adam                           Hans Schek 
  Rafael Alonso  
  Jay Gowens                         AWARD VICE CHAIR
  Sushil  Jajodia                      Stanley Su 
  P. A. D. De Maine 
  Kia Makki                          PUBLICITY VICE CHAIR
  Chris Overton                        Arie Segev 
  Niki Pissinou  

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS VICE CHAIR        TUTORIAL CHAIR 
  Keith Humenik                        Charles Nicholas  

TREASURER
  E. K. Park