kersh@gmu90x.UUCP (Larry Kerschberg) (08/03/87)
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Call for Papers and Participation
Second International Conference on Expert Database Systems
April 25-27, 1988
The Sheraton Premiere Hotel,
Tysons Corner, Virginia
Sponsored by:
George Mason University
In Cooperation With:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Association for Computing Machinery -- SIGART and SIGMOD
IEEE Computer Society -- T. C. on Data Base Engineering
Conference Objectives
The International Conference on Expert Database Systems has
established itself as a leading edge forum that explores the
theoretical and practical issues in making database systems
more intelligent and supportive of Artificial Intelligence
(AI) applications. Expert Database Systems represent the
confluence of R&D activities in Artificial Intelligence,
Database Management, Logic, Information Retrieval, and Fuzzy
Systems Theory. It is precisely this synergism among dis-
ciplines which makes the Conference both stimulating and
unique.
Expert Database Systems will play an ever-increasing role in
scientific, governmental and business applications. The key
is to provide expertise to all facets of database systems,
including:
% providing knowledge-based access to large shared databases
through intelligent user-interfaces and natural-language
question-answering facilities,
% endowing database systems with reasoning, planning, and
justification capabilities,
% defining new classes of knowledge/data models supporting
diverse viewpoints and capable of both temporal and spatial
reasoning,
% creating architectures to support both loose- and tight-
coupling of knowledge base and database systems,
% creating tools and techniques to support the specifica-
tion, manipulation, indexing, adaptation, and evolution of
large knowledge/data bases, and
% integrating AI and DB functional requirements into new
software and hardware environments for the specification,
prototyping, testing and debugging of knowledge/data based
applications.
In order to foster the interchange of ideas from these
diverse fields, the conference will be composed of tutorial
sessions, paper sessions, and panel discussions. Several
invited keynote lectures are planned.
Topics of Interest
The Program Committee invites original theoretical and
application papers (of approximately 5000 words) addressing
(but not limited to) the following areas:
Theory of Knowledge Bases (including knowledge representa-
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tion, knowledge models, knowledge indexing and transforma-
tion, knowledge servers, and formal semantics of
knowledge/data bases).
Object-Oriented Systems (including object-oriented data
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models, query languages, transaction management, version
control, and modeling applications for enterprises, CAD/CAM,
VLSI, Materials Properties knowledge/data bases, etc.).
Reasoning on Knowledge/Data Bases (including reasoning under
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uncertainty, sensor fusion, non-monotonic reasoning, analog-
ical reasoning, deductive databases, logic-based query
languages, semantic query optimization and constraint-
directed reasoning).
Knowledge Management (including methodologies for knowledge
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acquisition, the knowledge engineering process, constraint
and rule management, knowledge-based requirements gathering
and specification, and knowledge administration).
Distributed Knowledge/Data Bases (including loosely- and
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tightly-coupled architectures, intelligent query decomposi-
tion and processing, federated architectures, distributed
problem-solving, and blackboard techniques for distributed
control and problem solving).
Intelligent Database Interfaces (including expert system --
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database communication, knowledge gateways, knowledgeable
user agents and browsers).
Natural Language Interaction (including question-answering,
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extended responses, cooperative behavior, explanation and
justification).
Conference proceedings will be available at the conference.
Please send five copies of papers by October 14, 1987 to
Professor Larry Kerschberg
Dept. of Information Systems and Systems Eng.
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
USA
Important Dates
Submission Deadline October 14, 1987
Acceptance Notification: December 15, 1987
Camera-Ready Version: February 1, 1988
Conference Dates: April 25-27, 1988
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EDS'88 Organizing Committee
Conference General Chairman
Edgar H. Sibley,
George Mason University
Program Chairman
Larry Kerschberg,
George Mason University
Program Committee
Robert Abarbanel, USA Matthew Morgenstern, USA
Hideo Aiso, Japan John Mylopoulos, Canada
Antonio Albano, Italy Sham Navathe, USA
Stephen J. Andriole, USA Erich Neuhold, FRG
Robert Balzer, USA Setsuo Ohsuga, Japan
Francois Bancilhon, France D. Stott Parker, Jr., USA
Don Batory, USA Alain Pirotte, Belgium
Alex Borgida, USA W. Don Potter, USA
Michael L. Brodie, USA Larry Reeker, USA
Janis Bubenko, Sweden Nick Roussopoulos, USA
Peter Buneman, USA Erik Sandewall, Sweden
Stefano Ceri, Italy Timos Sellis, USA
Umesh Dayal, USA John Miles Smith, USA
Mark Fox, USA Reid Smith, USA
Antonio L. Furtado, Brasil Arne Solvberg, Norway
Herve Gallaire, FRG John Sowa, USA
Barbara Hayes-Roth, USA Jacob Stein, USA
Yannis Ioannidis, USA Michael Stonebraker, USA
Sushil Jajodia, USA Adrian Walker, USA
Matthias Jarke, FRG Andrew B. Whinston, USA
Jonathan King, USA Gio Wiederhold, USA
Roger King, USA Eugene Wong, USA
Robert Meersman, Netherlands Carlo Zaniolo, USA
Tim H. Merrett, Canada
Tutorial and Panel Coordinator
Lucian Russell, USA
Conference Coordinator
Nancy D. Joyner, USA
Exhibits Coordinator
Diane Entner, USA
Publicity Chairman
Jorge Diaz-Herrera, USA
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