DBFusion 2002 2nd International Workshop on Databases, Documents, and Information Fusion
Information Integration and Mining in Databases and on the Web
July 4-5, 2002 University of Karlsruhe, Germany FZI Research Center for Information Technologies
http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/DBFusion2002
***** Call for Papers **************************************
Despite major progress in recent years, the problem of information discovery and integration is still a significant challenge. It affects questions like ensuring actuality and credibility of data, efficient querying distributed sources, converting insufficient structured data as well as combining data from different sources and is addressed by various current research areas, ranging from data integration and mining to knowledge engineering and ontologies.
The combination of techniques from these areas, e.g., using domain knowledge in data integration or mining, could lead to new applications as well as to improvements of current approaches to data integration and fusion. To meet this challenge the workshop is designed to bring together researchers working in the areas of databases, ontologies and information fusion, and to foster collaboration among them.
The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Data integration and cleaning
- Ontology merging and aligning
- Cross-cultural ontologies
- Interaction between ontologies and lexicons (natural language)
- Foundations for cooperative & multi-user ontology engineering
- Architectures and performance
- Database-support for data mining
- Document and web content mining
- Relationship to research in similar research areas
- Emerging applications of information/integration/fusion/mining
Publication and Submission Details:
The workshop shall contain invited talks as well as reviewed submissions. The accepted papers will be published electronically as CEUR proceedings. Hardcopies of the proceedings will be available at the workshop.
We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions. Submit before April 28, 2002 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf to: stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de. The final layout of accepted papers will be in the Springer style format. Hence we suggest to use this format already for the initial submission.
Important dates:
Submission Deadline: April 28, 2002 Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2002 Camera-Ready version: June 16, 2002 Workshop: July 4-5, 2002
Workshop Organizers:
Alexander Maedche (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies and Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; email: maedche@fzi.de) Kai-Uwe Sattler (Institut für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany; email: kus@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de) Gerd Stumme (contact person; Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; email: gst@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Program Committee:
Hans Chalupsky (University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA) William W. Cohen (Whizbang!, Pittsburgh, USA) Stefan Conrad (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) Hasan Jamil (Mississippi State University, USA) Bertram Ludaescher (Diego Supercomputer Center, U.C. San Diego, USA) Mark Musen (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA) Natasha F. Noy (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA) Gunter Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany) Rudi Studer (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)
-- Gerd Stumme, Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universität Karlsruhe (TH) ++49-721-608-4754; http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/gst
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