European Japanese Conference
  on
Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases

General Principles

Purpose of the conference

Originally started as a co-operation initiative between Japan and Finland. The practical operations were organized by professor Ohsuga in Japan and professors Hannu Kangassalo and Hannu Jaakkola in Finland (Nordic countries). Geographical scope has expanded to cover Europe and also other countries. Workshop characteristic - discussion, time enough for presentations and limited number of participants (50) / papers (30) - is typical to the conference. The papers presented in the conference are published in the Series of "Frontiers in Arificial Intelligence" by IOS Press (Amsterdam). The books "Informaton Modelling and Knowledge Bases Vol. n" are edited by the Editing Committee of the conference.

 

Working Principles of the Conference

• The total number of participants is limited to 50.
• The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers  (both full and short) and position papers  are  included in the preprints.
• The final text of the papers can be polished for publication after the conference. Only actually presented papers will be published in the book.
• The final book will be published through an international publisher.

 

Permanent Organisation Structure

Program Committee:
Responsible for the contents of the conference; nominated per conference. Programme committee has two operating co-chairs and a permanent General Programme Chairman (Professor Hannu Kangassalo, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Members will be nominated per conference (see Call for Papers).

Organizing Committee:
Responsible for the practical arrangements of the conference; nominated per conference (see Call for Papers). Organizing committee has a permanent General Organizing Chairman (Professor Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland).

Editing committee:
Responsible for the editing work of the conference book; nominated by the steering committee.

Steering Committee:
Responsible for the continuation and working principles of the conference.

• permanent members
  • Professor Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan
  • Professor Takeiro Tokuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Professor Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland
  • Professor Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland 
• organizer of the last conference
• organizer of the forthcoming conference
• Programme Committee Chairmen of the next conference
• Honorary Member: Professor Setsuo Ohsuga (Tokyo University and Waseda University, Japan)

 

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