From: ieretzn@techunix.technion.ac.il (Opher Etzion)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: NGITS- Final Call for Papers
Date: 24 Dec 92 01:00:06 GMT
Expires: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 08:00:00 GMT
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Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology


             FINAL CALL FOR  PAPERS
                    NGITS '93
           The International Workshop on
  Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems

               June 28 - 30  1993
     Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
                 HAIFA, ISRAEL

General Information:

A current view in the research community is that next generation
information and systems  will be complex, intelligent,
cooperative and will utilize various multi-media technologies.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussing
issues related to the realization of these next generation systems.
These issues include but are not limited to:
- Architecture of NGITS systems.
- Paradigms for the design and implementation of NGITS (software
  repositories, application generators, and object orientation).
- Knowledge and Data management issues in NGITS.
- Multi-Media technologies.
- Intelligent Information Systems.
- Cooperation and Collaboration in NGITS.
- Computer Vision and its use in NGITS.
- The user's perspectives: NGITS interfaces.
- Inter-Disciplinary Research required for NGITS.
- Industrial Applications of NGITS.

The workshop will feature keynote speakers (Professor John
Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, and Professor Robert Haralick,
University of Washington), paper presentations, and panel
sessions. Attendence will be limited to authors of accepted papers
and a limited number of participants based on their position statements.

Consequently, we solicit submissions of two types:

- Research papers (extended abstracts limited to 10 double-spaced  pages)
- Position statements (limited to 3 double-spaced  pages).

All accepted research papers will appear in the conference proceedings.
Selected papers will be published (subject to an expedited review of
a full paper) in a special issue of the Journal of Intelligent Information
Systems. Pending formal commitments, funds may be available for travel
and/or lodging support.

Information For Authors:

In order to promote the paperless society,  we shall strive to handle
the submission and review processes by electronic mail.  All electronic
contributions (latex, tex, or postscript) should be submitted to:
ngits@ie.technion.ac.il  AND  ngits@isr.berkeley.edu

If your electronic submission is not in one of the above formats, please
send e-mail to the above addresses for further instructions.

Important Dates:

January 24, 1993:  Research and Position Paper Due.
March    5, 1993:  Notification of Acceptance.
April   15, 1993:  Camera-Ready Copies Due.
June    28-30, 1993: The Workshop.

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Opher  Etzion                   Arie Segev
Technion- Israel Institute      University of California at Berkeley
of Technology, Haifa,           and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
ISRAEL                          U.S.A

Steering Committee:

Daniel Berry
Dov Dori
Opher Etzion
Bezalel Gavish
Shimon Nof
Arie Segev
Peretz Shoval


Program Committee:

Daniel Berry, Software Engineering Institute, CMU, USA and Technion, Israel
Alfred Bruckstein, Technion, Israel
Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA
Dov Dori, Technion, Israel
Frank Eliassen, University of Tromso, Norway
Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel
Frank Friedman, Temple University, USA
Bezalel Gavish, Vanderbilt University, USA
Matthias Jarke, Rwth Aachen, Germany
Shimon Nof, Purdue University, USA
Tamer M. Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada
Shmuel Peleg, Hebrew University, Israel
Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
Hanan Samet, University of Maryland, USA
Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
Yannis Vassiliou, University of Crete, Greece
Haim Wolfson, Tel-Aviv University, Israel