Second International KRUSE Symposium
___ Knowledge Retrieval, Use, and Storage for Efficiency ___
Coast Plaza Hotel, Vancouver, Canada
August 11-13th, 1997
IMPORTANT DATES
submission deadline March 1st, 1997
notification of acceptance May 1st, 1997
camera-ready copy June 1st, 1997
THEME: EFFICIENCY
The symposium will provide a forum for exploring current research in
artificial intelligence, cognitive science, knowledge bases and databases
that pertains to the organization, encoding, inference and retrieval of
logical and complex objects from a knowledge base. The efficiency aspects
of these functions will be of the outmost importance to this year's symposium.
The symposium will draw together researchers from diverse disciplines
as well as practitioners engaged in developing real knowledge-based systems.
Mathematical and graph-theoretic approaches will be favoured over those
approaches based on analogy with human cognitive processes, though mathematical
discussions of such processes would be appropriate. The basic questions
to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:
o classification of objects in a taxonomy: systemic classification,
semantic indexing, partial-order sorting, description identification,
and taxonomy maintenance;
o efficient order, lattice, graph, and code theoretic operations on objects:
subsumption, generalization, specialization, least common generalization,
and greatest common specialization;
o advanced uses of taxonomies: knowledge compression, knowledge compilation,
and knowledge evolution;
o using classified knowledge: classification as problem solving,
classification as constraint satisfaction, and exploiting abstractions;
o scalable techniques for large object databases;
o integration of data and knowledge base technologies.
The symposium will maintain a balance between theoretical issues and
descriptions of implemented systems, providing a balance between theory and
practice. Nevertheless, the focus of the symposium is definitely on the
efficiency of retrieval, use and storage of knowledge in large knowledge bases.
AUTHORS' INFORMATION
Papers may be submitted in three formats: long, short or research proposal.
Each paper must be identified with one of these categories. Long papers may not
exceed 15 pages, including title page, figures and references. Accepted papers
will be considered for publication in the Lecture Notes in AI series or in
the International Journal of Conceptual Systems.
Shorter, substantive papers of a maximum of 8 pages are also welcome. They
will be published in in-house proceedings given at the symposium, along
with research proposals (minimum of 4 pages). Authors must indicate under
which category they wish their paper to be reviewed. Papers rejected as
long may be accepted as short; papers rejected as short may be accepted
as research proposal.
At any stage of the reviewing process, before the final version of a paper
is received by the program chair, the authors may withdraw their paper.
Registration of one of the authors will be required with the final copy of
an accepted paper, no matter what category the paper was accepted in. This
registration fee is not refundable.
Authors are requested to submit their paper in postscript format, through
electronic mail only, to: mineau@ift.ulaval.ca . In cases where electronic
mail utilities are not appropriate for this, anonymous ftp will be available
upon request to the program chair. Please make sure that your paper is
entirely printable from the postscript file that you will submit.
For the final version of the paper, the authors will be required to follow
as closely as possible the instructions to authors of Springer-Verlag's
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, which will then be
provided to them. For the first submission (March 1st 1997), the authors
are required to use a 12pt font, simple interline, and a 1 inch margin of
right, left, bottom and top of each page.
The title page of each paper must contain the names of all authors, their
affiliation, their complete postal and email addresses, telephone and fax
numbers. Communication with the authors will be done solely through email.
In addition, the title page must include an abstract of approximately
twenty (20) lines, and a list of short phrases or keywords descriptive
of the content (no more than 5). It must also bare the category for which
the paper should be reviewed: long, short, or research proposal. Accordingly,
the number of pages must absolutely not go over the 15, 8 or 4 pages limit.
PAPERS MUST BE RECEIVED AT THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS BEFORE OR ON SATURDAY
MARCH 1ST, 1997. ALL SUBMISSIONS ARRIVING LATER THAN 11H59 PM (EASTERN
STANDARD TIME) ON MARCH 1ST 1997 WILL BE DISCARDED!
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Veronica Dahl (General Chair) Guy W. Mineau (Program Chair)
Director, Logic and Functional Associate Professor
Programming Group Computer Science Dept.
Professor, School of Computing Science Universite Laval
Simon Fraser University Quebec City, Quebec
Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6 Canada, G1K 7P4
veronica@cs.sfu.ca mineau@ift.ulaval.ca
Phone: (604) 291-3372 Phone: (418) 656-5189
Fax: (604) 291-3045 Fax: (418) 656-2324
Andrew Fall (Local Arrangements Chair)
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6
fall@cs.sfu.ca
Phone: (604) 291-4302
Fax: (604) 291-3045
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE:
Michel Chein (France)
Fritz Lehmann (USA)
Deborah McGuinness (USA)
Rudolf Wille (Germany)
Lin Padgham (Australia)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Hassan Ait-Kaci (Canada)
Franz Baader (Germany)
Yves Caseau (France)
Jim Delgrande (Canada)
Peter Eklund (Australia)
Gerard Ellis (Australia)
Robert Godin (Canada)
Michel Habib (France)
Robert Levinson (USA)
Dickson Lukose (Australia)
Robert McGregor (USA)
Marie-Laure Mugnier (France)
Peter Patel-Schneider (USA)
Gerd Stumme (Germany)
SYMPOSIUM LOCATION
The symposium will be held at the Coast Plaza Hotel in downtown Vancouver,
Canada. Vancouver is a beautiful city where nature and civilization
blend into a perfect postal card scenery. Its location allows for easy
access from Asia, Australia and North America; it provides the best settings
for any kind of outdoor activity.
This CFP and the latest information regarding KRUSE-97 are available
on the World Wide Web under http://www.cs.sfu.ca/cs/conf/kruse97.
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