ER2004 CALL FOR PAPERS
23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
November 8-12, 2004, Shanghai, China
http://www.cs.fudan.edu.cn/er2004
Mirror site at National University of Singapore
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~er2004/
Scope of Conference
Conceptual modeling is fundamental to real world abstraction and can foster
communication between technology experts and those who would benefit from
the application of those technologies. It has become a major mechanism
for understanding and representing organizations, including new e-worlds,
and the information systems that support them. ER 2004 encompasses the
entire spectrum of conceptual modeling. It addresses research and practice
in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual
modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual
models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective
information system implementations.
The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
provides a central forum for presenting and discussing current research
and applications in which conceptual modeling is the major emphasis. We
invite researchers and practitioners from both computer sci-ences and
management information systems. Reports of new ideas and approaches, useful
experiences and informative experiments are all welcome. Regular and industrial
papers are solicited along with proposals for workshops, tutorials, panel
sessions and posters.
Topics of Interest
The relevant topics of ER2004 include, but are not limited
to, the following specific examples:
- information modeling concepts, including ontologies
- ontological and conceptual correctness in modeling
- e-business and Web-based information systems
- mobile information systems
- the Semantic Web
- semistructured data and XML
- information and database integration
- information retrieval, organization, summarization, visualization
- design methodologies and their evaluation
- software engineering and tools
- reuse, patterns, and object oriented design
- quality and metrics
- conceptual change and schema evolution
- spatial, temporal, and multimedia aspects in conceptual models
- metadata, its interpretation and usage
- distance learning systems
- reverse engineering and reengineering
- knowledge management systems
- user interfaces
- groupware and workflow management
- data warehousing and data mining
- advanced and cross-disciplinary applications
- web services
Submission Guidelines
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in parallel
with the printed version, so the electronic source of accepted papers
will be required (LaTeX 2e format is preferred). Authors of selected papers
will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication
in Data & Knowledge Engineering.
Authors should submit original manuscripts via the ER2004
Web site, as PostScript or PDF files by 19 April 2004. Papers may not
exceed 5000 words. Use at least an 11-point font and no more than 20 double-spaced
pages. Typically published papers are 14 pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged
to submit papers in the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
Best Paper Awards
The Prof. Kambayashi best paper award will be given to the best paper. A
separate Prof. Kambayashi best student paper award will be given to the best
student paper. Papers eligible for this award must have a (graduate or
undergraduate) student listed as the first author, and the
majority of the authors must be students. Such submissions must be marked as
student papers at the time of submission.
Industrial Papers
Please submit papers for the industry track to one of the Industrial Co-Chairs,
Philip S. Yu (psyu@us.ibm.com), Jian Pei (jianpei@cse.buffalo.edu) or Jiansheng Feng (fengjiansheng@baosight.com)
by 19 April 2004. We invite both full papers and short papers. Please
visit our Web site for full details.
Workshops
Workshops Co-Chairs are
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, Katsumi Tanaka (ktanaka@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp) and Shan Wang (suang@public.bta.edu.cn). Please send workshop |
proposals
to either of the Co-Chairs by 1 March, 2004. For workshop information,
see the separate call for workshop proposals on our Web site.
Tutorials
Please submit tutorial proposals to one of the Tutorial Co-Chairs, Jianzhong
Li (lijz@mail.banner.com.cn) or Stefano Spaccapietra (Stefano.Spaccapietra@epfl.ch)
by 10 May 2004. Identify the pre-senter, the intended audience, and the
scope of the topic. Tutorials may be presented as a 90-minute tutorial
inside the conference, or as a half day (3 hour) or a full day (6 hour)
pre-conference tutorial. Suggested tutorial topics include, but are not
limited to: Semantic Web, Web knowledge management, and data mining process
mod-eling.
Panels
We solicit proposals for panel sessions related to the conference topics
about which there is controversy and thus a need for public discussion.
Please send panel proposals to one of the Panel Co-Chairs, Chin-Chen Chang
(ccc@cs.ccu.edu.tw) or Erich Neuhold (neuhold@ipsi.fhg.de) by 7 June 2004.
See our Web site for more detailed instructions.
Demonstrations and Posters
ER2004 provides a forum for ongoing work: poster reports on projects
in progress, demonstrations of alpha- and beta-versions of software tools
and products, invitations to cooperate on new project ideas, etc. These
should stimulate a highly interactive and future-oriented added value
to ER2004. Please send poster and demonstration proposals to the Demonstration
and Poster Chair, Mong-Li Lee (leeml@comp.nus.edu.sg) by 19 July 2004.
Important Dates
Workshop proposals: 1 March 2004
Paper abstracts (soft deadline): 12 April 2004
Full papers (firm deadline): 19 April 2004
Tutorial proposals: 10 May 2004
Panel proposals: 7 June 2004
Poster & demo proposals: 19 July 2004
Notification: 5 July 2004
Camera-ready papers: 5 August 2004
Organizers
Honorary Conference Chairs
Peter P. Chen (Louisiana University, USA)
Ruqian Lu (Fudan University, China)
Conference Co-chairs
Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Coordinators
(China) Zhongzhi Shi (China Academy of Science, China)
(Asia) Yoshifumi Masunaga (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
(Europe) Elisa Bertino (U. of Milano, Italy)
(North America) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA, USA)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Shan Wang (Renmin University of China, China)
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Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Stefano Spaccapietra (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Panel Co-Chairs
Chin-Chen Chang (Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, China)
Erich Neuhold (IPSI, Fraunhofer, Germany)
Industrial Co-Chairs
Philip S. Yu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Jian Pei (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Jiansheng Feng (Shanghai Baosight Software Co., Ltd., China)
Demos and Posters Chair
Mong-Li Lee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Publicity Chair
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Publication & Local Arrangements Chair
Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Treasurer
Xueqing Gong (Fudan University, China)
Registration
Xiaoling Wang (Fudan University, China)
Steering Committee Liaison
Arne Solvberg (Norwegian University of Sci. and Tech., Norway)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
PC Co-chairs
Hongjun Lu (HKUST, China)
Wesley Chu (UCLA, USA)
Paolo Atzeni (Universit¨¤ Roma Tre, Italy)
PC Members
Jacky Akoka (CNAM &INT, France)
Hiroshi Arisawa (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Sonia Bergamaschi (Universit¨¤ di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (Universit¨¦ de Versailles, France)
Diego Calvanese (Universit¨¤ di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
Cindy Chen (University of Massachusetts at Lowell, USA)
Shing-Chi Cheung (HKUST, China)
Roger Chiang (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Stefan Conrad (Heinrich-Heine-Universität D¨¹sseldorf, Germany)
Bogdan Czejdo (Loyola University New Orleans, USA)
Lois Delcambre (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA)
Johann Eder (Universität Klagenfurt, Austria)
Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
David W. Embley (Brigham Young University, USA)
Johann-Christoph Freytag (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Antonio L. Furtado (PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Andreas Geppert (Credit Suisse, Switzerland)
Shigeichi Hirasawa (Waseda University, Japan)
Arthur Ter Hofstede (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Matthias Jarke (Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany)
Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg Universitet, Denmark)
Manfred Jeusfeld (Universiteit van Tilburg, Netherlands)
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Hannu Kangassalo (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kamalakar Karlapalem (Int¡¯l Institute of Information Technology, India)
Vijay Khatri (Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
Dongwon Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mong-Li Lee (NUS, Singapore)
Wen Lei Mao (UCLA, USA)
Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
Stephen W. Liddle (Brigham Young University, USA)
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Mengchi Liu (Carleton University, Canada)
Victor Zhenyu Liu (UCLA, USA)
Ray Liuzzi (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Bertram Ludäscher (San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA)
Ashok Malhotra (Microsoft, USA)
Murali Mani (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Fabio Massacci (Universit¨¤ di Trento, Italy)
Sergey Melnik (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China, China)
Renate Motschnig (Universität Wien, Austria)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
Sham Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Jyrki Nummenmaa (University of Tampere, Finland)
Maria E. Orlowska (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Oscar Pastor (Universidad Polit¨¦cnica de Valencia, Spain)
Jian Pei (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan University, China)
Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Dimitris Plexousakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Sandeep Purao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
Colette Rolland (U. Paris 1 Panth¨¦on-Sorbonne, France)
Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA)
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Janice C. Sipior(Villanova University,USA)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Nicolas Spyratos (Universit¨¦ de Paris-Sud, France)
Veda C. Storey (Georgia State University, USA)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ernest Teniente (Universitat Polit¨¨cnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Juan C. Trujillo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece)
Dongqing Yang (Peking University, China)
Jian Yang (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Ge Yu (Northeastern University, China)
Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua University, China)
Longxiang Zhou (China Academy of Science, China)
Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)
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