ADVIS'2004, Call for Papers

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ADVIS 2004
Third Biennial International Conference on Advances in Information Systems
20-22 October, 2004
Izmir, Turkey

"To the memory of Professor Dr. Esen OZKARAHAN" http://www.deu.edu.tr/advis

This is the third conference to be held to honor the late Professor Esen Ozkarahan (1940 1999) and his outstanding contributions to databases and information systems and it draws on the success of ADVIS 2000 and ADVIS 2002 that was held in a beautiful Aegean city of Izmir that is in close proximity to many archeological sites.

AIMS AND SCOPE
Information Systems are rapidly evolving and involve a broad range of technologies such as IS development, Databases, Workflow management, Information Retrieval, Networks, Decision Support, Knowledge Discovery, and others. ADVIS 2004 aims at bringing together researchers in different fields of Information Systems who have a common interest in interdisciplinary research. The Conference will provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of current research results, original IS applications as well as bridging research and development in various fields of Information Systems.

Papers presenting original research results and original implementations in the topics of interest listed below are solicited. We strongly encourage submission of papers bridging the research in different fields and promoting mutual exchange and understanding of cross-field research results.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
Topics of interest for the conference are:

• Information Systems (IS) Development and Management
• Advanced Programming Paradigms for IS
• IS Tools and Environments
• Ergonomics of Information Systems
• Web Information Systems
• Multimedia IS
• Information Retrieval
• Digital Libraries
• Business Process Models and Reengineering
• Cooperative Information Systems
• Workflow Management Systems
• New Applications of IS Technology
• Information Privacy and Security
• Data Models and Database Design
• Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
• Temporal and Spatial Databases
• Constraint Databases
• Impreciness and Uncertainty in Databases
• Data Warehousing and Warehouse DBMS
• Parallel and Distributed Data Processing
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Knowledge Bases and Expert Systems
• Intellectual Databases and IS
• Decision Support Systems
• Planning and Scheduling
• Intelligent Agent Technology
• Bio-Informatics
• Evolutionary Algorithms
• Network Management
• Network Applications
• Network Performance Analysis
• Mobile Computing

COMMITTEES Honorary Chair
Irem Ozkarahan, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey

Program Committee Chair
Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey

Program Committee Secretary
Emine Ekin, Dokuz Eylul Univ., Turkey

Program Committee
Sibel Adali, USA
Adil Alpkocak, Turkey
Farhad Arbab, Netherlands
Cemal Ardil, Turkey
Frederic Benhamou, France
Cem Bozsahin, Turkey
Ufuk Caglayan, Turkey
Fazli Can, USA
Yalcin Cebi, Turkey
Paolo Ciaccia, Italy
Cihan Dagli, USA
Mehmet E. Dalkilic, Turkey
Dursun Delen, USA
Oguz Dikenelli, Turkey
Yakov Fet, Russia
Dan Grigoras, Ireland,
Fabio Grandi, Italy
Ugur Gudukbay, Turkey
Cuneyt Guzelis, Turkey
Malcolm Heywood, Canada
Alp Kut, Turkey
Victor Malyshkin, Russia
Eric Monfroy, France
Erich Neuhold, Germany
Selmin Nurcan, France
Irem Ozkarahan, Turkey
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, USA
Tamer Ozsu, Canada
Marcin Paprzycki, USA
Torben Bach Pedersen, Denmark
Dana Petcu, Romania
Ilias Petronias, UK
Malcolm Rigg, UK
Ozgur Ulusoy, Turkey
Krzysztof Wecel, Poland
Adnan Yazici, Turkey
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Canada

SUBMISSIONS DETAILS
Proceedings of the previous conferences ADVIS 2000 and ADVIS 2002 were published by Springer
 in LNCS ( Vol.1909 and Vol. 2457, respectively).  Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding 5000 words (10 pages) representing original, previously unpublished work. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) using the on-line paper submission or by e-mail to the following address:

        advis_at_deu.edu.tr

All manuscripts will be reviewed by three members of the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

CONFERENCE LOCATION The conference will be held in Izmir, a major city located in the West Coast of Turkey. Izmir is in close proximity to well known ancient historical sites such as Ephesus, Bergama as well as vacation resorts such as Kusadasi, Cesme, and Foca.

Conference will be organized in Dokuz Eylul University Convention Center.

COMMUNICATION AND FOR MORE INFORMATION Mail Address : ADVIS'2004
Dokuz Eylul University
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Bornova 35100
IZMIR - TURKEY

E-Mail	: advis_at_deu.edu.tr
WWW	: http://www.deu.edu.tr/advis
Phone & Fax	: +90 (232) 373 60 40 - 388 03 73

IMPORTANT DATES

April 1, 2004	: Submission deadline of full papers
June 1,  2004	: Notification of acceptance (by e-mail)
July 1,  2004	: Camera ready copies 
October  20-22, 2004	: Conference dates

• Professor Ozkarahan was one of the pioneers of database machine research as well as the founder of database systems research in Turkey. Moreover, his studies centered on database machines to which he made significant contributions. Professor Ozkarahan is well known for his pioneering work on the RAP (Relational Associative Processor) database machine. He designed RAP to provide hardware implementations of relational databases. RAP includes all the relational algebra operations, and an implicit form of the semi join operation that later became the cornerstone of query optimization in relational databases. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Esen Ozkarahan and working with him will always remember his great vision, eminent achievements, and generous friendship.