DEXA - Call for Papers Preliminary Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2006 http://www.dexa.org September 4-8, 2006 Krakow, Poland The aim of DEXA 2006 is to present both research contributions in the area of data base and intelligent 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 2006 will include, but are not limited to: * Applications of Database Systems and Information Systems * Applications of Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems * Constraint Modelling and Processing * Data and Information Modelling * Data and Information Integration * Data and Information Networks * Data and Information Privacy and Security * Data and Information Quality * Data and Information Semantics * Data and Information Streams * Database and Information System Architecture and Performace * Data Mining * Digital Libraries * Distributed Data and Distributed Databases * Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems * Interoperability * Knowledge Acquisition * Knowledge Management * Knowledge Modelling * Knowledge Processing * Mobile Data and Information * Multimedia Databases * Natural Language Interfaces * Natural Language Processing * Object, Object Relational, and Deductive Databases * Pervasive Data and Information * Process Modelling * Process Support and Automation * Query Processing and Optimisation * Real-Time Databases * Semantic Web and Ontologies * Temporal and Spatial Databases * User Interfaces to Databases and Information Systems * WWW and Databases * Workflow Management and Databases * XML and Databases * XML Query Processing and Optimisation Conference Program Chairpersons: * Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Josef Küng, FAW, 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 Local Arrangement Chairperson: * Janusz Wielki, Opole University of Technology, Poland Program Committee: Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland Michel Adiba, IMAG - Laboratoire LSR, France Hamideh Afsarmanesh , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ala Al-Zobaidie, University of Greenwich, UK Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA Ramazan S. Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan Kurt Bauknecht, Universität Zürich, Switzerland Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, IBM T.J Watson Research Center, USA Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Luis Camarinah - Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Antonio Cammelli, CNR, Italy Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Barbara Catania, Universita' di Genova, Italy Wojciech Cellary , University of Economics at Poznan, Poland Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University, Australia Sudarshan S. Chawathe, University of Maryland, USA Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark Rosine Cicchetti, IUT, University of Marseille, France Carlo Combi, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy Tran Khanh Dang , HoChiMinh City University of Technology, Vietnam John Debenham , University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Misbah Deen, University of Keele, United Kingdom Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, Australia Johann Eder , University of Klagenfurt, Austria Amr El Abbadi, University of California, USA Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany Ling Feng, University of Twente, The Netherlands Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA Simon Field, Matching Systems Ltd., Switzerland Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Antonio L. Furtado , Pontificia Universidade Catolica do R.J., Brazil Manolo Garcia-Solaco, IS Consultant, USA Georges Gardarin , University of Versailles, France Alexander Gelbukh, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion (CIC), Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico Jan Goossenaerts, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Abdelkader Hameurlain , University of Toulouse, France Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea Igor T. Hawryszkiewycz , University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Wynne Hsu , National University of Singapore, Singapore Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK Rudolf Keller, Zühlke Engineering AG, Switzerland Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea Stephen Kimani, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan Gary J. Koehler, University of Florida, USA John Krogstie, SINTEF, Norway Petr Kroha , Technische Universität Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany Lotfi Lakhal, University of Marseille, France Christian Lang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Jiri Lazansky , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Thomas Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Young-Koo Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea Tok Wang Ling , National University of Singapore, Singapore Volker Linnemann, University of Luebeck, Germany Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada Peri Loucopoulos, UMIST, United Kingdom Sanjai Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Vladimir Marik , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Subhasish Mazumdar, New Mexico Tech, USA Elisabeth Metais, CNAM, France Mukesh Mohania, IBM-IRL, India Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Günter Müller, Universität Freiburg, Germany Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Wilfred Ng, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Matthias Nicola , IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA Gultekin Ozsoyoglu , University Case Western Research, USA Georgios Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Verónika Peralta, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Gerald Quirchmayr , University of Vienna, Univ. of South Australia, Austria, Australia Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University,, Australia Isidro Ramos , Technical University of Valencia, Spain P. Krishna Reddy, International Institute of Information Technology, India Werner Retschitzegger, University of Linz, Austria Norman Revell , Middlesex University, UK Sally Rice, University of South Australia, Australia John Roddick, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Domenico Sacca, University of Calabria, Italy Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark Marinette Savonnet, Université de Bourgogne, France Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Darunee Smavatkul , Chiangmai University, Thailand Giovanni Soda, University of Florence, Italy Uma Srinivasan, University of Western Sydney, Australia Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical university, Czech Repuplic Zbigniew Struzik, The University of Tokyo, Japan Makoto Takizawa , Tokyo Denki University, Japan Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Stephanie Teufel , University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jukka Teuhola, University of Turku, Finland J.M. Thevenin, University of Toulouse, France A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece Genoveva Vargas-Solar, LSR-IMAG, France Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar , Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada Jesus Vilares Ferro, University of Coruna, Spain Pavel Vogel, TU München, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Michael Wing, Middlesex University, UK Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Jeffrey Yu , The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, France Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore * to be completed on confirmation Paper Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. %G•%@ The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. %G•%@ Papers should not exceed 10 pages in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) %G•%@ Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review. For paper registration and electronic submission see http://www.dexa.org starting in December 2005. 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, 2006, and to submit their paper electronically before February 28, 2006. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if, at any time during the time when the submission is under consideration, there is another paper with the following properties: 1. the paper and the DEXA, DaWaK, EC-Web, TrustBus submission have at least one author in common; 2. the paper is more than 4 pages long, when formatted in the DEXA format; 3. the main technical content of the paper substantially overlaps that of the DEXA, DaWaK, EC-Web, TrustBus submission; and 4. the paper is published or under consideration for publication in a refereed journal or proceedings (electronic or printed) that is generally available (e.g., not limited to conference attendees). Authors are expected to agree to the following terms: "I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are covered prominently in this submission." Duplicate submissions will be rejected. Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be directed to the PC-chairs. For further inquiries, please contact: Prof. Dr. Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria (rrwagner@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, 2006 * Submission of full papers: February 28, 2006 * Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2006 * Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2006 Conference Organization Office: Gabriela Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria (gabriela@faw.uni-linz.ac.at)