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- From: finin@cs.umbc.edu (Timothy Finin)
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- Subject: CFP: CIKM-93 - 2nd Int. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:00:30 -0500
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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- Summary: papers due April 1
- Keywords: Database, Knowledge Base, Information Retrieval, AI
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- CALL FOR PAPERS
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- Second International Conference on
- Information and Knowledge Management
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- November 1 - 5, 1993
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- Double Tree Hotel
- Washington D.C., USA
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- Sponsored by ISCA and University of Maryland Baltimore County
- in cooperation with AAAI (SIGART and SIGIR) and ACM (Pending)
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- 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.
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- 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 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:
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- 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
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- For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions),
- send e-mail to cikm@cs.umbc.edu.
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- 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.
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- IMPORTANT DATES
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- April 1, 1993 Deadline for paper/tutorial/exhibit submission.
- July 15, 1993 Notification of acceptance
- Sept. 1, 1993 Camera ready papers due
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- 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
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- 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
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- LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS VICE CHAIR TUTORIAL CHAIR
- Keith Humenik Charles Nicholas
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- TREASURER
- E. K. Park
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