13th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2002 http://www.dexa.org September 2 - 6, 2002 C A L L F O R P A P E R S Aix en Provence near Marseille, France The aim of DEXA 2002 is to present both research contributions in the area of data base and expert systems and a large spectrum of already implemented or just being developed applications. DEXA will offer the opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in the field. Suggested Topics The main topics of DEXA 2002 will include, but are not limited to: * * Active and Deductive Databases * CIM - Applications * Client Server and Open Network Databases * Connectionist Models * Constraint Based Reasoning * CSCW * Databases in the Humanities * Digital Libraries * Distributed and Parallel Database Systems * Expert Systems Architecture * Hypertext / Hypermedia * Information Modelling * Information Retrieval * Interoperable Databases * Knowledge Acquisition * Knowledge Engineering * Legal Information Systems * Mobile Information Systems * Multimedia Databases * Natural Language Interfaces/Processing * Object-Oriented Databases * Office Information Systems * Qualitative Reasoning * Realtime Databases * Reverse Engineering * Scientific/Engineering Applications * Security * Social/Governmental Information Systems * Statistical Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Uncertainty Handling * Uncertainty Reasoning * User Interfaces to Databases * Workflow and Process Automation * WWW Interfaces General Chairperson: Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France Conference Program Chairpersons: Lofti Lakhal, University of Marseille, France Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria Workshop Chairpersons: A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria Publication Chairperson: Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Paper Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (i.e. 10 LNCS formatted pages). Paper submission in LNCS format ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) would be highly appreciated. For paper registration and electronic submission please see http://www.dexa.org Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by February 21, 2002 and to submit their paper electronically before February 28, 2002. For further inquiries, please contact: Prof. Dr. Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria rwagner@faw.uni-linz.ac.at or the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela@faw.uni-linz.ac.at) All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of Abstracts: February 21, 2002 Papers due: February 28, 2002 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2002 Camera-ready copies: June 1, 2002 Program Committee Members: Michel Adiba, IMAG - Laboratoire LSR, France Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jens Albrecht, Oracle GmbH, Germany Ala Al-Zobaidie, University of Greenwich, UK Bernd Amann, CNAM, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Alfs Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Jon Bing, University of Oslo, Norway Omran Bukhres, Purdue University, USA Luis Camarinah-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Antonio Cammelli, IDG-CNR, Italy Wojciech Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan, Poland Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Panos Chrysanthis, Univ. of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Paolo Ciaccia, University of Bologna, Italy Rosine Cicchetti, University of Marseille, France Christine Collet, LSR-IMAG, France Carlo Combi, University of Udine, Italy William Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Misbah Deen, University of Keele, United Kingdom Nina Edelweiss, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany Peter Fankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA Simon Field, IBM Research Division, Switzerland Peter Funk, Mälardalen University, Sweden Antonio L. Furtado, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Georges Gardarin, University of Versailles, France Parke Godfrey, York University, Canada Paul Grefen, University of Twente, The Netherlands William Grosky, Wayne State University, USA Igor T. Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan Magdi N. Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Nabil Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt Gerti Kappel, University of Linz, Austria Kamalar Karlapalem, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Randi Karlsen, University of Tromsö, Norway Rudolf Keller, University of Montreal, Canada Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan Gary J. Koehler, University of Florida, USA Donald Kossmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany Jaques Kouloumdjian, INSA, France Petr Kroha, Technical University Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria Jiri Lazansky, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Michel Leonard, University of Geneve, Switzerland Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mengchi Liu, University of Regina, Canada Fred Lochovsky, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Peri Loucopoulos, UMIST, United Kingdom Sanjai Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy Subhasish Mazumdar, New Mexico Tech, USA Robert Meersman, Free University Brussels, Belgium Elisabeth Metais, University of Versailles, France Mukesh Mohania, IBM-IRL, India Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Noureddine Mouaddib, University of Nantes, France Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany Erich J. Neuhold, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA Georgios Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Stott Parker, University of Los Angeles (UCLA), USA Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Marco Patella, University of Bologna, Italy Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günter Pernul, University of Essen, Germany Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy Isidro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany Norman Revell, Middlesex University, UK Sally Rice, Unversity of South Australia, Australia John Roddick, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Colette Rolland, University Paris I, Sorbonne, France Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Domenico Sacca, University of Calabria, Italy Marinette Savonnet, University of Bourgogne, France Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Michael H. Smith, University of California, USA Giovanni Soda, University of Florence, Italy Harald Sonnberger, EUROSTAT, Luxembourg Günther Specht, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO, Australia Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Zbigniew Struzik, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Zahir Tari, University of Melbourne, Australia Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Germany Jukka Teuhola, University of Turku, Finland Bernd Thalheim, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany Jean Marc Thevenin, University of Toulouse, France Helmut Thoma, IBM Global Services Basel, Switzerland A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece Susan Urban, Arizona State University, USA Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada Pavel Vogel, Technical University of Munich, Germany Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Michael Wing, Middlesex University, UK Werner Winiwarter, EC3, Austria Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, France Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Aidong Zhang, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA Conference Organisation Office: Gabriela Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria