Conference on Info. and Knowledge Management (CIKM-92)
finin@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 00:51:51 EST
From: finin@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
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Subject: Conference on Info. and Knowledge Management (CIKM-92)
X-Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
X-Address: UMBC, Baltimore MD 21228. 410-455-3522, fax: -3969
I thought that you might find this conference of interest, since its
scope includes heterogeneous KBs, interoperability and knowledge
sharing. Tim
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
First International Conference on
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
November 8 - 11, 1992 Radisson Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sponsored by ISMM
in cooperation with AAAI, SIGART, SIGIR, IEEE, ACM
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 and proposals for tutorials con-
cerned 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 acquistion 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; uncon-
ventional applications; parallel database systems; physical and logical
database design; data and knowledge sharing; interchange and interopera-
bility; cooperation in heterogenous systems; domain modeling and ontology-
building; knowledge discovery in databases; information storage and
retrieval and interface technology.
Instructions to Authors
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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
most 20 double-spaced pages and must include an abstract of 100-150
with five keywords. All submissions will be reviewed and will be
judged with respect to quality and relevance.
Authors must submit five copies of each paper or tutorial proposal to
the program chairman.
Program Chair: Dr. Yelena Yesha
------------- Computer Science Department
University of Maryland Telephone: +1 410-455-3000
5401 Wilkens Ave Fax: +1 410 455-3969
Baltimore, Maryland, 21228-5398 Email: cikm@cs.umbc.edu
For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions)
submissions), send e-mail to cikm@cs.umbc.edu
Student Paper Award
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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
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Deadline for paper and/or tutorial submission: May 31, 1992
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 1992
Camera ready papers due: August 10, 1992
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
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Tim Finin (USA) A. F. Norcio (USA)
PROGRAM CHAIR
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Yelena Yesha
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Bruce Blum Keith Humenik
John Meisenbacher E. K. Park
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Rafael Alonso (USA) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA)
Ed Fox (USA) Mark Fox (Canada)
George Gardarin (France) Larry Kerschberg (USA)
Mike Liu (USA) Peter Matthews (USA)
James Mayfield (USA) Don McKay (USA)
Daniel Menasce (USA) Shamkant B. Navathe (USA)
Bob Neches (USA) Charles Nicholas (USA)
Chris Overton (USA) Mike Papazouglou (AUS)
Yun Peng (USA) Larry Reeker (USA)
Karen Ryan (USA) Ralph Semmel (USA)
Stu Shapiro (USA) Amit Sheth (USA)
Deepinder Sidhu (USA) Mukesh Singhal (USA)
Il-Yeol Song (USA) John Sowa (USA)
Brooke Stephens (USA) Alex Thomasian (USA)
Patrick Valduriez (France) Lawrence A. Welsch (USA)