From: marinos@gmd.de (Louis Marinos)
Subject: ICICIS 93 : Final Call for Papers
Keywords: Distributed AI, Intelligent Information Systems, Distributed KBs
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:09:57 GMT


                          Call for Papers

      First International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative
                    Information Systems (ICICIS)

                          May 12-14 1993
            Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

   IN COOPERATION WITH: AAAI, ACM SIGART, IEEE, IFIP DC. 12, NGI

Aims of the Conference Purpose of the International Conference on
Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems  (ICICIS)  is to
provide a forum within which both the AI and DB research communities
can come to understand the intricacies of intelligent cooperative
work.  The existence of such a forum would contribute towards the
evolution of Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems (ICIS),
thereby leading to its appreciation by the wider computer science
community and its integration into the next generation of information
systems.

ICICIS  addresses a two-sided problem: how can the information
systems technology of the future benefit from AI, and what can
information technology offer to contemporary and future AI systems.
ICIS represents the broad area where the fields of information
systems (in particular data/knowledge representation and modeling in
distributed databases) and distributed AI systems overlap.
Specifically, the conference will provide a platform for the exchange
of ideas and for the identification of the potential roles and nature
of the emerging notion of ICIS and will examine a wide spectrum of
issues related to  interdisciplinary research and development in
ICIS. It will help assess the state-of-the-art and future prospects
of ICIS.

ICICIS will solicit papers describing original ideas and new results
on the foundations and role of intelligent and cooperative
information systems.

Suggested Topics
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

o Novel Architectures for ICIS,
o Advanced Modeling and Reasoning Techniques for Intelligent
Information Processing,
o Knowledge Engineering Techniques in ICIS,
o Higher Level Descriptive Programming Languages for ICIS,
o Data/Knowledge Representation and Management Techniques for
Coordinating Multiple Cooperating Agents,
o Interoperability Issues in Distributed, Heterogeneous Knowledge
Bases,
o Techniques for Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving,
o Techniques for Partitioning and Composing Data and Knowledge,
o Effective Techniques for Cooperative Problem Solving,
o Active Decision Support Systems,
o Cooperative User Interfaces for Problem Solving and Effective
Decision Making,
o Transaction Scheduling Models for Cooperative Information Systems,
o Models for Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

The Conference welcomes methodology oriented, practical contributions,
solid theoretical results, and empirical studies that are expected to
have a potential impact on the emerging field of ICIS.

Authors Information
Contributions should be submitted in a double-spaced format, not
exceeding the length of 5000 words.

European Chairman       		American Chairman
Guenther Schlageter     		Michael Huhns
Fern Univ. Hagen        		MCC
Praktische Informatik I			3500 West Balcones Center Dr.
Feithstrasse 140			Austin TX 78759
D-5800 Hagen				USA
Germany					e-mail: huhns@mcc.com
e-mail: schlageter@dhafeu11.bitnet

			Far East Chairman
			Mike Papazoglou
			QUT School of Information Systems
			Faculty of Information Technology
			GPO Box 2434
			Brisbane QLD 4001
			Australia
			e-mail: mikep@stoney.fit.qut.edu.au

For further information and/or enquiries about the conference please
contact the above mentioned addresses or write to
ICICIS@fac.fbk.eur.nl

Important Dates
Papers submissions due: October 19th 1992
Notification of Acceptance: January 10th 1993
Camera-ready copies: February 20 1993.

All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Press in the Conference
Proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of
the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information
Systems.

General Conference Chairman
Mike Papazoglou (QUT, Australia)

Program Chairs
Michael Huhns (MCC, TX),
Guenther Schlageter (Fern Univ. Hagen)

Program Committee
Bruce Blum (John Hopkins Univ.),
Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY),
Patrick Bobbie (Univ. of Florida),
Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs),
David Broe (Univ. of Manchester),
Michael Brodie (GTE Labs Inc. MA),
Edward Durfee (Univ. of Michigan),
Les Gasser (USC, Los Angeles),
Jaap van den Herik (Univ. of Limburg, Netherlands),
John Hughes (Univ. of Ulster),
Matthias Jarke (Univ. of Aachen),
Peter de Jong (IBM Cambridge Labs),
Yahiko Kambayashi (Univ. of Koyoto),
Dimitris Karagiannis (FAW - Ulm),
Stefan Kirn (Fern Univ. Hagen),
Bernd Kraemer (GMD, Bonn),
Steven Laufmann (US West Advanced Technologies),
Frederick Lochovsky (Hong-Kong UST),
Vince Lum (Naval Postgraduate School),
Frank Manola (GTE Labs Inc. MA),
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Robert Meersman (Univ. of Tilburg, Netherlands),
John Mylopoulos (Univ. of Toronto),
Moira Norrie (Univ. of Glasgow),
Marek Rusinkiewicz (Univ. of Huston),
Jos Schreinemakers (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam),
Timos Sellis (Univ.  of Maryland),
Susan Urban (Arizona State Univ.),
Joe Urban (Arizona State Univ.),
John Vittal (GTE-Labs Inc. MA),
Ben Wah (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana),
Jay Weber (EITECH, Palo Alto),
Keith Werkman (IBM, Owengo Labs),
John Zeleznikow (La Trobe Univ. Australia),
Noshihiko Yoshida (Kuyshu Univ. Japan)

Organizing Committee
Chairman:
Louis Marinos (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)
Publicity Chairman:
Nick Bourbakis (SUNY, Binghamton, NY)
Local Organization:
Joyce Bokhoven (Erasmus Forum),
E.K. Park (U.S Naval Academy),
Ruud Smit (Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam)
Conference Office:
Erasmus Forum
Burg. Oudlaan 50
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Organization:
AI-Lab, Erasmus University Rotterdam

In cooperation with: AAAI, ACM SIGART, IEEE, IFIP DC.12, NGI