2012
CALL FOR PAPERS
THE 21ST EUROPEAN - JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES
Prague, Czech Republic
June 4-8, 2012
Local www-pages: http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/ejc/
OBJECTIVE: Information modelling is becoming
more and more important topic for researchers, designers, and users of
information systems. The amount and complexity of information itself,
the number of abstraction levels of information, and the size of
databases and knowledge bases are continuously growing. Conceptual
modelling is one of the sub-areas of information modelling. The aim of
this conference is to bring together experts from different areas of
computer science and other disciplines, who have a common interest in
understanding and solving problems on information modelling and
knowledge bases, as well as applying the results of research to
practice. We also aim to recognize and study new areas on modelling and
knowledge bases to which more attention should be paid.
Therefore
philosophy and logic, cognitive science, knowledge management,
linguistics and management science are relevant areas, too. In the
conference, there will be three categories of presentations, i.e. full
papers, short papers and position papers..
TOPICS: Modelling of information is
necessary in developing information systems. Information is acquired
from many sources, by using various methods and tools. It must be
recognized, conceptualized, and conceptually organized efficiently so
that users can easily understand and use it. Modelling is needed to
understand, explain, organize, predict, and reason on information. It
also helps to master the role and functions of components of
information systems. Modelling can be performed with many
different purposes in mind, at different levels, and by using different
notions and different background theories. It can be made by
emphasising users' conceptual understanding of information on a domain
level, on an algorithmic level, or on representation levels. On each
level, the objects and structures used on them are different, and
different rules govern the behavior on them. Therefore the notions,
rules, theories, languages, and methods for modelling on different
levels are also different. It will be useful if we can develop theories
and methodologies for modelling, to be used in different situations,
because databases, knowledge bases, and repositories in knowledge
management systems, developed on the basis of models and used to
technically store information, are growing day by day. In this
conference the interest is focused on modelling of information, and one
of the central topics might be modelling of time. Scientific or
technical papers of high quality are sought on topics including, but
not limited to the following. The highest priority will be given to
papers which are strongly related to different aspects of modelling.
1. Theoretical and Philosophical Basis of Concept Modelling and Conceptual Modelling
- Information recognition, conceptualisation, and concept formation
- Properties of concepts, systems of concepts, and theories of concept systems
- Subjective concepts and collective concepts
- Conceptual change and time, ontology of time
- Concept integration and integration of modeling paradigms
- Description of concepts, views, and viewpoint dynamics
2. Conceptual Modelling and Information Requirements Specification (IRS)
- Ontologies, conceptual modelling, and natural language in IRS
- Conceptual information requirements specification for information systems
- Conceptual modelling for knowledge management
- Languages, tools and methods for conceptual modelling
- Methods and systems for developing and using conceptual information
- Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration
- Conceptual modelling of time
3. Conceptual Models of Intelligent Activities
- Cognitive strategies for model construction
- Conceptual modelling and problem solving
- Conceptual modelling of temporal constructs, identity and change
- Meta-modelling in the model building process
- Relationships between knowledge management and problem solving
- The ontology of social reality and the modelling process of social reality
4. Collections of Data, Knowledge, and Descriptions of Concepts
- Knowledge managemet for conceptual modelling and IRS
- Conceptual modelling in spatial or temporal databases, or both
- Active database systems and active knowledge base systems
- Modelling methods, design methodologies and tools
- Collaborative knowledge management
- Modelling, Using and Managing Context
- Context Computing
5. Human-Computer Interaction and Modelling
- Conceptual models as interfaces of systems, data bases and knowledge bases,
- Ontology for human-computer interaction, including time
- Metadata and knowledge management for human-computer interaction
- Cognition problems in large conceptual schemata
- Modelling in multimedia information systems
- Cross-cultural multimedia systems
6. Software Engineering and Modelling
- Design and use of concept definition libraries, design patterns, frameworks
- Architectures of meta-models for information systems,
- Modelling software engineering processes
- UML, ORM, Petri-nets, and other formalisms as modelling tools
- Modelling of multi-agent systems - modelling in multi-agent systems
7. Applications
- Enterprise modelling and strategic concept development
- Business-process modeling
- Modelling global information systems
- Modelling for mobile information systems
- Conceptual modeling of information systems for virtual organizations
- Modelling in the WWW systems and conceptual models for web data
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission deadline January 20th, 2012.
- The acceptance letters for all types of contributions will be sent by email by March 22nd, 2012.
- In the case of acceptance, you are expected to send your final paper for inclusion in the conference pre-proceedings to arrive no later than April 20th, 2012.
- Final version of the papers will be published after the conference as book of journal papers by IOS Press (Amsterdam) in the Series of the "Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence" for international distribution. Improved papers must be sent by Sept. 14th in 2012, after the conference. Each of the position papers is reviewed in the presentation and the improved version by Program Committee, whether or not it can be accepted as the final journal print
FORMAT OF THE SUBMISSION:
Send the paper electronicallyaccording to the instructions
for registering, formatting and submitting on the page:
http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/author_information.html
The submission must be original, and must not be submitted anywhere
else, or already accepted by any other conference or journal. The
selection of papers
is made on the basis of review, by the program committee. Acceptance of
papers will be based on the originality of
work, on the suitability of the topic to the conference, and on the
overall quality of your submission. Papers may be submitted in the
following categories:
SCIENTIFIC / TECHNICAL PAPER: You may submit your
paper either
as a full paper, (max. 20 pages), or as a short paper (of max. 8 pages).
POSITION PAPER: Research projects of any scale are
invited to
illustrate innovative concepts, theories, prototypes, or experiences.
Your position paper
(work-in-progress) should be no longer than 5 pages.
The pre-print will be distributed in the conference. The
final
proceedings including the papers presented in the conference will be
distributed after the conference and published by IOS Press (Amsterdam)
for international distribution.
IMPORTANT
Please use only "English fonts" (ANSI/ASCII or UTF-3) in your paper, and include
all the
fonts you used. No extra hidden codes, nor any other features that are
specific to a special computer (or language) environment should be
included in any form. Otherwise reviewers may not be able to open and
read your paper. Once a submitted paper is found to be unreadable, the
reviewing process may be stopped automatically without asking the
second submission.
WORKING PRINCIPLES OF THE CONFERENCE:
- The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers are included in the conference (local) preprint.
- The final text of the papers can be polished for publication after the conference. Only actually presented papers will be published in the final journal print.
- The final journal papers will be published by an international publisher.
- The total number of participants is limited to 50.
- Only actually presented papers will be published in the final journal print.
- The final text of the full and short papers can be polished as journal papers for publication after the conference.
- Each of the position papers are proposed to improve to take into account the comments in the conference (if any) and the statement of the reviewers.
- Programme committee has right to withdraw the paper from the final journal publication, if the proposed improvements are not implemented or if the paper is not technically prepared according to the formatting rules.
- The final journal papers will be published by an
international publisher (IOS Press, Amsterdam) after the conference.
More information: See http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/
ORGANISATION
General Program Chair: Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland
Program committee:
Yasushi Kiyoki (co-chairman), Keio University, Japan
Takehiro Tokuda (co-chairman), Tokyo Institute of Technology
Programme Committee Members (tentative):
To be nominated
Programme Coordination Team:
Naofumi Yoshida, Komazawa University, Japan (Chairman)
Members:
Anneli Heimbürger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Jari Palomäki, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Tomoya Noro, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Turkka Näppilä, University of Tampere, Finland
General Organizing Chair: Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology(Pori)
Organizing Committee:
Peter Vojtas, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Xing Chen, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Ulla Nevanranta (Publication), Tampere University of Technology (Pori),
Finland
ADDRESSES:
Hannu Kangassalo, Programme General Chair
University of Tampere
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
Tel: +358-3-2156778; Fax: +358-3-2156070
E-mail: hk[..at..]cs.uta.fi
Yasushi Kiyoki, PC co-chairman
Keio University
Faculty of Environmental Information
5322 Endoh Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520
Japan
Tel: +81-466-47-5111; Fax: +81-466-49-1047
E-mail: kiyoki[..at..]sfc.keio.ac.jp
Takehiro Tokuda, PC co-chair,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dept. of Computer Science
2-12-1-W8-71 Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5734-3213; Fax: +81-3-5734-2912
E-mail: tokuda[..at..]cs.titech.ac.jp
Hannu Jaakkola, Organizing General Chair,
Tampere University of Technology (Pori),
P.O. Box 300, FI-28101 PORI, Finland
Tel. +358 2 627 2712; Fax. +358 2 627 2727
Email:
hannu.jaakkola[..at..]tut.fi
Yukio Chen, Organizing Committee,
Department of Information & Computer Sciences,
Kanagawa Institute of Technology,
1030 Simo-Ogino, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0292, Japan
Email: chen[..at..]ic.kanagawa-it.ac.jp
Ulla Nevanranta, Publication secretary
Tampere University of Technology (Pori)
P.O. Box 300, FIN-28101 PORI, Finland
Tel. +358 2 627 2710; Fax. +358 2 627 2727
Email:
ulla.nevanranta[..at..]tut.fi
Information of the previous European-Japanese conferences
and books are available on the page http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/
(Conferences by Year).