------------------------------ Call for Papers

ICEIS 2003 - 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems in cooperation with ACM, AAAI, and ASTI (http://www.iceis.org)

To be held in: École Supérieure d' Électronique de l' Ouest, Angers - France 23-26 April, 2003.

______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Full Paper Submission: 15th October 2002 Author Notification: 17th December 2002 Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 14th January 2003

______________________________________________________________________ MAIN TOPIC AREAS / CONFERENCE TRACKS (please check detailed topic list below): 1. Databases and Information Systems Integration 2. Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems 3. Information Systems Analysis and Specification 4. Software Agents and Internet Computing

______________________________________________________________________ SATELLITE WORKSHOPS: (http://www.iceis.org/workshop.htm) - The 3rd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems (PRIS-2003) - The 3rd International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries (NDDL-2003) - The 2nd International Workshop on Wireless Information Systems (WIS-2003) - The 1st International Workshop on Business Information Technology Ethics (BITE-2003) - The 1st International Workshop on Web Services infrastructures (WSI-2003) (the call for workshop proposals is still open)

______________________________________________________________________ KEYNOTE LECTURES: - Thomas Greene (MIT, USA) - Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France) - Albert Cheng (Univ of Houston, USA ) - Michel Leonard (Univ. of Geneve, Swizerland) - Colette Rolland (Univ. of PARIS-1 Pantheon/Sorbonne, France) (the list of keynote lectures is not yet complete)

______________________________________________________________________ DETAILED TOPIC LIST: Each of the topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

AREA 1: Databases and Information Systems Integration Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources Enterprise Resource Planning Middleware Integration Legacy Systems Organisational Issues on Systems Integration Distributed Database Applications Object-Oriented Database Systems Enterprise-Wide Client-Server Architecture Database Security and Transaction Support Data Warehouses Multimedia Database Applications Web Databases Mobile Databases Software Engineering Software Validation and Verification Software Measurement

AREA 2: Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Intelligent Agents Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence Strategic Decision Support Systems Group Decision Support Systems Applications of Expert Systems Advanced Applications of Fuzzy Logic Advanced Applications of Neural Network Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems Bayesian Networks Evolutionary Programming Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications Intelligent Tutoring Systems Datamining Case-Based Reasoning Systems Verification and validation of knowledge-based systems Knowledge Management

AREA 3: Information Systems Analysis and Specification Systems Engineering Methodologies Information Engineering Methodologies Organisational Semiotics Semiotics in Computing Requirements Analysis Ontology Engineering Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations (e.g. UML, ER variants) CASE Tools for System Development Modelling of Distributed Systems Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools Groupware and CSCW Systems Specification Business Processes Re-engineering Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems Security, Freedom and Privacy

AREA 4: Software Agents and Electronic Commerce B2B and B2C Applications Process Design and Organisational Issues in e-Commerce E-Procurement and Web-based supply chain management Market-spaces: market portals, hubs, auctions E-Learning and e-Teaching Intranet and Extranet Business Applications Agents for Internet Computing Agent-Oriented Programming Web Information Agents Case studies on Electronic Commerce Public sector applications of e-Commerce Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications Network Implementation Choices Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing Internet and Collaborative Computing Wireless and mobile computing Semantic Web Technologies

______________________________________________________________________ TUTORIALS ICEIS 2003 will have several tutorials, as in previous editions, to be lectured the day before the conference opening. If you would like to propose a tutorial for ICEIS 2003, please contact the secretariat as soon as possible. Proposals should specify the topic and scope of the tutorial, the background knowledge expected of the participants, and a short CV of the instructor(s).

______________________________________________________________________ SECRETARIAT ICEIS-2003 Secretariat ESEO - École Supérieure d' Électronique de l' Ouest 4, rue Merlet de la Boulaye - BP926 - 49009 ANGERS CEDEX 01 - FRANCE Tel: +33 2 41 86 67 19 Fax: +33 2 41 87 99 27 E-mail for paper submission and proceedings: secretariat@iceis.org E-mail for local arrangements and registrations: iceis2003@eseo.fr Web: http://www.iceis.org/

______________________________________________________________________ VENUE Angers, the capital of the historic province of Anjou, is considered one of the most beautiful cities in France, with its old streets, museums, gardens, gastronomic restaurants, art festivals. Foremost among its many notable structures is the magnificent twin-spiraled Cathedral of Saint Maurice (12th-13th century) and the massive Castle of Angers (early 13th century), with its moat and soaring towers. Today the castle of Angers houses a tapestry museum that includes the famous 140 meters long Apocalypse series. The town has seen passing through it some of the greatest figures in the history of France: the Plantagenêts, King René, the writer François Rabelais, the poet Joachim du Bellay, as well as the composer Clément Janequin and the surgeon Ambroise Paré. Strategically located in the "Val de Loire", recently recognised by UNESCO as a world heritage for humanity, the site of the most beautiful French castles, near the Paris region and the western part of France, ANGERS is also at the heart of a knowledge-intensive region, offering a wide range of education centers and successful research institutes, and attracting many successful IT enterprises. The high-speed train (TGV) can easily reach Paris in only 1 1/2 hours.

______________________________________________________________________ HONORARY PRESIDENT Victor Hammon, École Supérieure d' Electronique de l' Ouest, France.

______________________________________________________________________ CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Joaquim Filipe, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, Portugal (jfilipe@iceis.org) Slimane Hammoudi, École Supérieure d' Electronique de l' Ouest, France (slimane.hammoudi@eseo.fr)

______________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Olivier Camp, École Supérieure d' Electronique de l' Ouest, France (olivier.camp@eseo.fr) Mario Piattini, E.S. Informática - Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain mpiattini@inf-cr.uclm.es)

______________________________________________________________________ SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE Luis Amaral, University of Minho, Portugal Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile, Chile Jean Bézivin, University of Nantes, France Enrique Bonsón, University of Huelva, Spain João A. Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal Albert Cheng, University of Houston and Rice University, USA Helder Coelho, FC - University of Lisbon, Portugal Miguel Delgado, University of Granada, Spain Jan Dietz, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Frank Dignum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands António Figueiredo, University of Coimbra, Portugal Thomas Greene, MIT, USA Nuno Guimarães, University of Lisbon, Portugal Jatinder Gupta, Ball State University, USA Jean-Paul Haton, University Henri Poincaré, France Alberto Laender, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Michel Leonard, University of Geneve, Switzerland Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK Paul Luker, Bournemouth University, UK Kalle Lyytinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece José Legatheaux Martins, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Masao Matsumoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan James Odell, James Odell Associates, USA Alain Pirotte, Catholique University of Louvain, Belgium Alexander Smirnov, St. Petersburg - SPIIRAS, Russia Ronald Stamper, University of Twente, The Netherlands Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain François Vernadat, European Commission, Luxembourg Merrill Warkentin, Mississippi State University, USA Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands (list not yet complete)

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