Subject: KDEX-97 Final Call for Papers
From: Honghua Dai <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:27:34 +1000

1997 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX-97)
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      Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and Co-located with
      the 9th IEEE Tools with Artificial Intelligence Conference

          November 4, 1997, Newport Beach, California, U.S.A.
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Call for Papers

The   1997 IEEE  Knowledge  and  Data  Engineering Exchange   Workshop
(KDEX-97)   will provide   an  international forum   for  researchers,
educators and practitioners to  exchange and evaluate information  and
experiences related to state-of-the-art issues and trends in the areas
of  artificial intelligence and databases.  The  goal of this workshop
is to expedite technology  transfer from researchers to practitioners,
to  assess the impact   of emerging technologies  on  current research
directions,   and  to   identify   emerging  research   opportunities.
Educators   will  present  material   and  techniques for  effectively
transferring   state-of-the-art   knowledge    and  data   engineering
technologies to students and professionals.  The workshop is currently
scheduled for an one-day duration,  but depending on the final program
it might be extended to a second day.

Submissions can be  in the form of  survey papers, experience reports,
and educational material  to facilitate technology transfer.  Accepted
papers  will be  published in  the workshop  proceedings  by the  IEEE
Computer  Society.  A  selected number   of  the accepted papers  will
possibly be expanded   and   revised  for  publication   in  the  IEEE
Transactions  on Knowledge and  Data  Engineering (IEEE-TKDE) and  the
International Journal of Artificial  Intelligence Tools.   Educational
material related to papers published  in the IEEE-TKDE will be  posted
on the IEEE-TKDE home page.

The theme of the workshop is "AI MEETS DATABASES".  Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

  - Computer supported cooperative processing and interoperable
    systems
  - Data sharing, data warehousing and meta-data management
  - Distributed intelligent mediators and agents
  - Distributed object management
  - Dynamic knowledge
  - Evaluation and measurement of knowledge and database systems
  - High-performance issues (including architectures, knowledge
    representation techniques, inference mechanisms, algorithms and
    integration methods)
  - Information structures and interaction
  - Intelligent search, data mining and content-based retrieval
  - Knowledge and data engineering systems
  - Quality assurance for knowledge and data engineering systems
    (correctness, reliability, security, survivability and
    performance)
  - Software re-engineering and intelligent software information
    systems
  - Spatio-temporal, active, mobile and multimedia data
  - Emerging applications (biomedical systems, decision support,
    geographical databases, Internet technologies and applications,
    digital libraries, etc.)

All submissions  should be  limited to a  maximum of  5,000 words. Six
hardcopies should be forwarded to the following address.
 
     Xindong Wu (KDEX-97)
     Department of Software Development
     Monash University
     900 Dandenong Road
     Caulfield East, Melbourne 3145
     Australia

     Phone: +61 3 9903 1025
     Fax: +61 3 9903 1077
     E-mail: [email-masked]

Please include a cover  page   containing the title,  authors  (names,
postal and email  addresses,   telephone and   fax numbers), and    an
abstract.  This cover page must accompany the paper.

    ************ I m p o r t a n t   D a t e s *****************
    * 6 copies of full papers received by:    June 15,    1997 *
    * acceptance/rejection notices:           July 31,    1997 *
    * final camera-readies due by:            August 31,  1997 *
    * workshop:                               November 4, 1997 *
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Honorary Conference Chair: 
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      Benjamin W. Wah         University of Illinois, Urban

Steering Committee:
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      C.V. Ramamoorthy        UC Berkeley (Chair)
      Farokh Bastani          University of Houston
      Nikolaos Bourbakis      SUNY at Binghamton
      Jeffrey J.P. Tsai       University of Illinois, Chicago
      Benjamin W. Wah         University of Illinois, Urban

Conference Chair:
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      Jeffrey J.P. Tsai       University of Illinois, Chicago

Program Chair:
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      Niki Pissinou           University of Southwestern Louisiana

Program Co-Chairs:
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      Xindong Wu              Monash University
      Kia Makki               University of Nevada

KDEX-97 Publicity Chair:
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      Honghua Dai             Monash University

Program Committee
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      Chaitan Baru            San Diego Supercomputer Center
      Sharma Chakravarthy     University of Florida
      Wesley Chu              UCLA
      Honghua Dai             Monash University
      John Debenham           University of Technology, Sydney
      Asuman Dogac            Middle East Technical University
      Ahmed Elmagarmid        Purdue University
      Opher Etzion            Technion
      Ophir Frieder           Florida Tech University
      Matjaz Gams             Jozef Stefan Institute
      D Georgakopoulos        GTE Laboratories Incorporated
      Angela Goh              Nanyang Technological University
      Forouzan Golshani       Arizona State University
      Abdelsalam Helal        MCC
      Howard Ho               IBM
      Louis J Hoebel          USAF Rome Laboratory
      Angelika Kokkinaki      University of Cyprus
      Jonathan Lee            National Central University, Taiwan
      K S Leung               Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
      Huan Liu                National University of Singapore
      Fred Lochovsky          Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology
      Hongjun Lu              National University of Singapore
      Richard Marciano        San Diego Supercomputer Center
      Hiroshi Motoda          Osaka University
      Mike Mulder             University of Nebraska
      Raymond Ng              UBC
      Tamer Ozsu              University of Alberta
      Eun Kyo Park            UMKC
      Dave Robertson          Edinburgh University
      Hayri Sever             Hacettepe University
      Peter Scheuermann       Northwestern University
      Heinz Schmidt           Monash University
      Il-Yeol Song            Drexel University
      Leon Sterling           University of Melbourne
      V.S. Subrahmanian       University of Maryland
      X. Sean Wang            George Mason University
      Joe Wigglesworth        IBM
      Suk-Chung Yoon          Widener University
      Philip Yu               IBM
      John Zeleznikow         La Trobe University
      Chengqi Zhang           University of New England
      Ning Zhong              Yamaguchi University

Further Information
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      WWW: http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/kdex-97