Date:
September 1-5, 1997
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Location:
IRIT,Universit Paul Sabatier
Toulouse, France
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The aim of DEXA 97 is to present both research contributions in the area of
data and expert systems and a large spectrum of already implemented or just
being developed applications. DEXA will offer the opportunity to extensively
discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and
conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in
practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in
the field.
Suggested Topics
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The main topics of DEXA 97 will include, but are not limited to:
Active and Deductive Databases
CIM - Applications
Client Server and Open Network Databases
Connectionist Models
Constraint Based Reasoning
CSCW
Data Mining
Databases in the Humanities
Datawarehouses
Digital Libraries
Distributed and Parallel Database Systems
Expert Systems Architecture
Hypertext / Hypermedia
Information Modelling
Information Retrieval
Interoperable Databases
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Engineering
Legal Information Systems
Mobile Information Systems
Multimedia Databases
Natural Language Interfaces/Processing
Object-Oriented Databases
Office Information Systems
Qualitative Reasoning
Realtime Databases
Reverse Engineering
Scientific/Engineering Applications
Security
Social/Governmental Information Systems
Statistical Databases
Temporal and Spatial Databases
Uncertainty Handling
Uncertainty Reasoning
User Interfaces to Databases
Workflow and Process Automation
WWW Interfaces
General Chairperson:
V. Marik, Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic
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Panel Chairperson:
H. Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Conference Program Chairpersons:
A. Hameurlain, Universit Paul Sabatier, France
A M. Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
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Workshop Chairperson:
R.R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria
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Program Committee Members:
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H. Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
H.J. Appelrath, University of Oldenburg, Germany
K. Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland
P. Bazex, IRIT, Universit Paul Sabatier, France
T. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK
B. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
J. Bing, NRCCL Oslo, Norway
J. Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
L. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
S. Christodoulakis, University of Crete, Greece
B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
W.S. Cellary, Technical University of Poznan, Poland
J. Debenham, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia
P. Drazan, RIKS Maastricht, The Netherlands
D. Dubois, CNRS, IRIT, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
J. Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
T. Eiter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
G. Gardarin, INRIA, France
S. Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California, USA
F. Golshani, Arizona State University, USA
G. Gottlob, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
I. Hawryszkiewycz, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia
S. Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
M. Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
N. Kamel, City University of Hongkong, Hong Kong
Y. Kambayashi, IMEEL, Japan
G. Kappel, University of Linz, Austria
D. Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
M.A. Ketabchi, Santa Clara University, USA
M.H. Kim, KAIST, Korea
W. Klas, University of Ulm, Germany
J. Kouloumdjian, LISI-INSA, Lyon, France
P. Kroha, Technical Univ. of Chemnitz, Germany
J. Lazansky, Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic
T.W. Ling, University of Singapore, Singapore
V. Lum, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
R. Marty, IFA, Switzerland
A. Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada
J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany
T.W. Olle, T.W. Olle & Associates, UK
G. Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA
G. Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
M. Papazoglou, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia
B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
G. Pernul, University of Essen, Germany
H. Prade, CNRS, IRIT, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France
G. Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria
I. Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
N. Revell, Middlesex University, UK
C. Rolland, University Paris I, France
N. Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA
R. Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
M. Scholl, CNAM&INRIA, Paris, France
A. Sernadas, University of Lisbon, Portugal
M. Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA
A. Smeth, University of Georgia, USA
J.C. Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada
H. Sonnberger, European University Institute, Italy
R.B. Stanton, ANK, Australia
M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
K. Tanaka, Kobe University, Japan
Z. Tari, RMIT, Australia
S. Teufel, University of Zurich, Switzerland
H.W. Thimbleby, Middlesex University, UK
C.H. Thoma, Ciba-Geigy, Switzerland
R. Traunm=FCller, University of Linz, Austria
K. Vidyasankar, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada
S. Zdonik, Brown University, USA
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Conference Organization Office:
G. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria
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Local Organization:
J.P. Arcangeli, P. Bazex, S. Bonneau, P. Maurice, J.M. Thvenin
all from the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT),=
France
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*C o n f e r e n c e*
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Information for Conference Authors:
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Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience
reports in English. Papers should be double-spaced and no longer than 5.000
words. A separate cover sheet must be included which provides the following
information: title, name of author(s), postal and electronic mail addresses,
telephone and fax numbers.
Authors are invited to send 4 copies of their paper to the Conference
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Program Chair:
Dr. A. Hameurlain
IRIT
Universit Paul Sabatier
118 route de Narbonne
F-31062 Toulouse Cedex
France
Phone: ++33 05 61 55 82 48
Fax: ++33 05 61 55 62 58
e-mail: hameur@irit.fr
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The Program Committee will assign accepted papers to the workshop if they
are better suited for the workshop.
All accepted conference papers will be published in =84Lecture Notes in
Computer Science=93 (LNCS) by Springer Verlag.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due: March 21, 1997
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 1997
Camera-ready copies: June 15, 1997
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*8th International Conference on *
*Database and Expert Systems Applications *
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*in cooperatin with: *
*- IRIT, Universit Paul Sabatier, France *
*- DEXA Association *
*- Austrian Computer Society *
*- GI (Gesellschaft f=FCr Informatik) *
*- FAW - University of Linz, Austria *
*- Swiss Informaticians Society *
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