CFP - 20th European Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC 2010)

* CALL FOR PAPERS * EJC-2010 THE 20th EUROPEAN-JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES. To be held in: Maribor, Slovenia May 31 - June 4, 2010 IMPORTANT Information Paper submission deadline: January 18th, 2010. Acceptance notification: March 22nd, 2010. Final paper: April 19th, 2009. Details: http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/ http://www.ejc2010.jyu.fi/ The EJC conferences constitute a world-wide research forum for the exchange of scientific results and experiences achieved in computer science and other related disciplines using innovative methods and progressive approaches. A platform has been established drawing together researches as well as practitioners dealing with information modelling and knowledge bases. 20th EJC Organizers: Hannu Kangassalo, General PC chair, University of Tampere, Finland Yasushi Kiyoki, PC co-chair,Keio University, Japan Takeiro Tokuda, PC co-chair,Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Hannu Jaakkola, General Organizing Chair,Tampere University of Technology, Finland Anneli Heimbürger, Local Organizing Chair, University of Jyväskylä, Finland THE 19th EUROPEAN - JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES (EJC2009) Maribor, Slovenia May 31 - June 4, 2010 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 18th, 2010. The acceptance letters for all types of contributions will be sent by email by March 22nd, 2010. 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 19th, 2010. Final papers will be published as journal papers by IOS in the Series of the "Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence". Improved papers for this book must be sent by Aug. 31st in 2010, after the conference. FORMAT OF THE SUBMISSION: Send the paper electronically, in PDF format(recommended) or PS format by January 18th, 2010. You will find instructions for formatting, registering and submitting your paper for evaluation 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 international 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 (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. *IMPORTANT:* Please use only ANSI/ASCII or utf-3 fonts in your paper. 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 total number of participants is limited to 50. The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers (both full and short), position papers and poster outlines are included in the preprints. The final text of the full and short papers can be polished as journal papers for publication after the conference. The final text of the papers can be polished for publication after the conference. Only actually presented papers will be published as journal papers in the book (journal). The final book (journal) will be published byIOS Press after the conference in the Series of the "Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence". Only actually presented papers will be published as journal papers in the book (journal). The final book (journal) will be published * IOS* Press after the conference in the Series of the "Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence". ORGANIZATION General Program Chair: Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland Program committee Cairs: Yasushi Kiyoki (co-chairman), Keio University, Japan Takehiro Tokuda (co-chairman), Tokyo Institute of Technology Program committee Members (Tentative): Maria Bielikova, Slovak Univeristy of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Bostjan Brumen, University of Maribor, Slovenia Pierre-Jean CHARREL, Univesity of Toulouse and IRIT, France Xing Chen, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan Daniela Durakova, VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic Marie Duží, VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR Institute and University of Calabria, Italy Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Roland Hausser, Erlangen University, Germany Anneli Heimbürger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Jaak Henno, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Yoshihide Hosokawa, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland Ahto Kalja, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland Eiji Kawaguchi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Mauri Leppänen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Sebastian Link, Massey University, New Zealand Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Techinical University of Denmark, Denmark Jari Palomäki, Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland Hideyasu Sasaki, Ritsumeikan University, Japan Tetsuya Suzuki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Peter Vojtas, Charles University Pragu, Czech Republic Benkt Wangler, Skoevde University, Sweden Yoshimichi Watanabe, University of Yamanashi, Japan Naofumi Yoshida, Komazawa University, Japan Programme Coordination Team: ukka Aaltonen, University of Lapland, Finland 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 Organizing Committee: Anneli Heimbürger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Xing Chen, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan Ulla Nevanranta (Publication), Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland More information: See http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/ 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-chair 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 2 630 0911 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 2 630 0911 Email: ulla.nevanranta[..at..]tut.fi