KRDB'03 Second Call for Papers

                     10th International Workshop on
                KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES
                               (KRDB-2003)

                http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/

                 Hamburg (Germany), September 15-18, 2003

                             With a focus on:
                  Knowledge Representation and Databases
                           for the Semantic Web

                         In conjunction with:
       KI 2003 (26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

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• Call for papers

The 10th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in 1994. KRDB-2003 will be held in Hamburg (Germany), September 2003, as a workshop of the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), see http://www.ki2003.de/.

KRDB is a forum for exchanging ideas between DB and KR researchers. Equally important is the KRDB tradition of stimulating the discussion between researchers and practitioners. As every year, KRDB 2003 focusses on a selected topic.

• Topic

Databases have always been a very important issue for the World Wide Web, and, conversely, the WWW has stimulated interesting research on databases, for example in the area of semi-structured data. Due to the recent and immense interest in the semantic web initiative, knowledge representation has also gained a considerable amount of attention by the WWW community, and the pollinating impact of this fact on research in knowledge representation is already clearly visible. For these reasons, the focus of KRDB-2003 is on

     Knowledge Representation and Databases for the World-Wide Web.

For the workshop, we thus solicit contributions that address the interplay between knowledge representation and databases, particularly in contexts related to the World-Wide Web. Specific issues we would like to discuss are:

• Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web
• Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW
• Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval
• Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems
• Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data
• Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data

We also solicit submissions that concern the relationship of knowledge representation and databases, but do not fall inside this year's selected topic.

• Program Committee
  • Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
  • Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)
  • Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
  • Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, Germany)
  • Bertin Klein (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • Ralf Kuesters (Stanford University, USA)
  • Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
  • Massimo Marchiori (University of Venice, Italy)
  • David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  • Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany)
• Organizing Committee

Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany)

       Francois.Bry_at_informatik.uni-muenchen.de

Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany)

       lutz_at_lat.inf.tu-dresden.de

Ulrike Sattler (TU Dresden, Germany)

       sattler_at_lat.inf.tu-dresden.de

Mareike Schoop (RWTH Aachen and University of Muenster, Germany)

       schoop_at_informatik.rwth-aachen.de

• Important Dates

       Paper Submission Deadline June 23, 2003
       Acceptance Notification July 18, 2003
       Final Version Due  August 15, 2003
       The Workshop  September 15-18, 2003 (one day only)

• Proceedings

The workshop proceedings will be electronically published in the CEUR series of workshop proceedings at

          http://www.CEUR-WS.org/

At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants.

• Information for authors

Your submission should be no longer than 12 pages formatted according to the example LaTeX file available at

           http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/

Please avoid headers, footers, and page numbering.

Submissions should be sent by June 23, 2003 as self-contained standard Postscript attachments to:

          lutz_at_lat.inf.tu-dresden.de

• Registration Information

Participants can choose to register for KRDB-2003 and the main KI-2003 Conference (210,- Euros) or to register only for the KRDB workshop (60,- Euros). In either case, registration is via the official KI-2003 webpage, and the official KI-2003 deadlines apply.

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