EJC 2010 - THE 20th EUROPEAN - JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES

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Category EJC 2010

Deadline: January 18, 2010 | Date: May 31, 2010

Venue/Country: Jyväskylä, Finland

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES

Jyväskylä, Finland

May 31 - June 4, 2010

Local www-pages: http://www.ejc2010.jyu.fi/

OBJECTIVE: Information modelling is becoming more and more important topic for researchers, designers, and users of information systems. The amount and complexity of information itself, the number of abstraction levels of information, and the size of databases and knowledge bases are continuously growing. Conceptual modelling is one of the sub-areas of information modelling. The aim of this conference is to bring together experts from different areas of computer science and other disciplines, who have a common interest in understanding and solving problems on information modelling and knowledge bases, as well as applying the results of research to practice. We also aim to recognize and study new areas on modelling and knowledge bases to which more attention should be paid. Therefore philosophy and logic, cognitive science, knowledge management, linguistics and management science are relevant areas, too. In the conference, there will be three categories of presentations, i.e. full papers, short papers and position papers..

TOPICS: Modelling of information is necessary in developing information systems. Information is acquired from many sources, by using various methods and tools. It must be recognized, conceptualized, and conceptually organized efficiently so that users can easily understand and use it. Modelling is needed to understand, explain, organize, predict, and reason on information. It also helps to master the role and functions of components of information systems. Modelling can be performed with many different purposes in mind, at different levels, and by using different notions and different background theories. It can be made by emphasising users' conceptual understanding of information on a domain level, on an algorithmic level, or on representation levels. On each level, the objects and structures used on them are different, and different rules govern the behavior on them. Therefore the notions, rules, theories, languages, and methods for modelling on different levels are also different. It will be useful if we can develop theories and methodologies for modelling, to be used in different situations, because databases, knowledge bases, and repositories in knowledge management systems, developed on the basis of models and used to technically store information, are growing day by day. In this conference the interest is focused on modelling of information, and one of the central topics might be modelling of time. Scientific or technical papers of high quality are sought on topics including, but not limited to the following. The highest priority will be given to papers which are strongly related to different aspects of modelling.

1. Theoretical and Philosophical Basis of Concept Modelling and Conceptual Modelling

Information recognition, conceptualisation, and concept formation

Properties of concepts, systems of concepts, and theories of concept systems

Subjective concepts and collective concepts

Conceptual change and time, ontology of time

Concept integration and integration of modeling paradigms

Description of concepts, views, and viewpoint dynamics

2. Conceptual Modelling and Information Requirements Specification (IRS)

Ontologies, conceptual modelling, and natural language in IRS

Conceptual information requirements specification for information systems

Conceptual modelling for knowledge management

Languages, tools and methods for conceptual modelling

Methods and systems for developing and using conceptual information

Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration

Conceptual modelling of time

3. Conceptual Models of Intelligent Activities

Cognitive strategies for model construction

Conceptual modelling and problem solving

Conceptual modelling of temporal constructs, identity and change

Meta-modelling in the model building process

Relationships between knowledge management and problem solving

The ontology of social reality and the modelling process of social reality

4. Collections of Data, Knowledge, and Descriptions of Concepts

Knowledge managemet for conceptual modelling and IRS

Conceptual modelling in spatial or temporal databases, or both

Active database systems and active knowledge base systems

Modelling methods, design methodologies and tools

Collaborative knowledge management

Modelling, Using and Managing Context

Context Computing

5. Human-Computer Interaction and Modelling

Conceptual models as interfaces of systems, data bases and knowledge bases,

Ontology for human-computer interaction, including time

Metadata and knowledge management for human-computer interaction

Cognition problems in large conceptual schemata

Modelling in multimedia information systems

Cross-cultural multimedia systems

6. Software Engineering and Modelling

Design and use of concept definition libraries, design patterns, frameworks

Architectures of meta-models for information systems,

Modelling software engineering processes

UML, ORM, Petri-nets, and other formalisms as modelling tools

Modelling of multi-agent systems - modelling in multi-agent systems

7. Applications

Enterprise modelling and strategic concept development

Business-process modeling

Modelling global information systems

Modelling for mobile information systems

Conceptual modeling of information systems for virtual organizations

Modelling in the WWW systems and conceptual models for web data

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline January18th, 2010.

The acceptance letters for all types of contributions will be sent by email by March 22nd, 2010.

In the case of acceptance, you are expected to send your final paper for inclusion in the conference pre-proceedings to arrive no later than April 19th, 2010.

Final version of the papers will be published after the conference as book of journal papers by IOS Press (Amsterdam) in the Series of the "Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence" for international distribution. Improved papers must be sent by Aug. 31st in 2010, after the conference. Each of the position papers is reviewed in the presentation and the improved version by Program Committee, whether or not it can be accepted as the final journal print

FORMAT OF THE SUBMISSION:

Send the paper electronicallyaccording to the instructions for registering, formatting and submitting on the page:

http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/author_information.html

The submission must be original, and must not be submitted anywhere else, or already accepted by any other conference or journal. The selection of papers is made on the basis of review, by the program committee. Acceptance of papers will be based on the originality of work, on the suitability of the topic to the conference, and on the overall quality of your submission. Papers may be submitted in the following categories:

SCIENTIFIC / TECHNICAL PAPER: You may submit your paper either as a full paper, (max. 20 pages), or as a short paper (of max. 8 pages).

POSITION PAPER: Research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate innovative concepts, theories, prototypes, or experiences. Your position paper (work-in-progress) should be no longer than 5 pages.

The pre-print will be distributed in the conference. The final proceedings including the papers presented in the conference will be distributed after the conference and published by IOS Press (Amsterdam) for international distribution.

IMPORTANT

Please use only "English fonts" (ANSI/ASCII or UTF-3) in your paper, and include all the fonts you used. No extra hidden codes, nor any other features that are specific to a special computer (or language) environment should be included in any form. Otherwise reviewers may not be able to open and read your paper. Once a submitted paper is found to be unreadable, the reviewing process may be stopped automatically without asking the second submission.

WORKING PRINCIPLES OF THE CONFERENCE:

The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers are included in the conference (local) preprint.

The final text of the papers can be polished for publication after the conference. Only actually presented papers will be published in the final journal print.

The final journal papers will be published by an international publisher.

The total number of participants is limited to 50.

Only actually presented papers will be published in the final journal print.

The final text of the full and short papers can be polished as journal papers for publication after the conference.

Each of the position papers are proposed to improve to take into account the comments in the conference (if any) and the statement of the reviewers.

Programme committee has right to withdraw the paper from the final journal publication, if the proposed improvements are not implemented or if the paper is not technically prepared according to the formatting rules.

The final journal papers will be published by an international publisher (IOS Press, Amsterdam) after the conference.

More information: See http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/

ORGANISATION

General Program Chair: Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland

Program committee:

Yasushi Kiyoki (co-chairman), Keio University, Japan

Takehiro Tokuda (co-chairman), Tokyo Institute of Technology

Programme Committee Members (tentative):

Maria Bielikova, Slovak Univeristy of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Bostjan Brumen, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Pierre-Jean CHARREL, Univesity of Toulouse and IRIT, France

Xing Chen, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan

Daniela Durakova, VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic

Marie Duží, VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR Institute and University of Calabria, Italy

Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Roland Hausser, Erlangen University, Germany

Anneli Heimbürger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Jaak Henno, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Yoshihide Hosokawa, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland

Ahto Kalja, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland

Eiji Kawaguchi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Mauri Leppänen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Sebastian Link, Massey University, New Zealand

Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Techinical University of Denmark, Denmark

Jari Palomäki, Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland

Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland

Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Tetsuya Suzuki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany

Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Peter Vojtas, Charles University Pragu, Czech Republic

Benkt Wangler, Skoevde University, Sweden

Yoshimichi Watanabe, University of Yamanashi, Japan

Naofumi Yoshida, Komazawa University, Japan

Programme Coordination Team:

Naofumi Yoshida, Komazawa University, Japan (Chairman)

Members:

Jukka Aaltonen, University of Lapland, Finland

Anneli Heimbürger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Jari Palomäki, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Tomoya Noro, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Turkka Näppilä, University of Tampere, Finland

General Organizing Chair: Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology(Pori)

Organizing Committee:

Anneli Heimbürger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Xing Chen, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan

Ulla Nevanranta (Publication), Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland