Information management in enterprises

 
Scope

A key factor of competitivity and performance of manufacturing systems
consists in the ability to capitalize the information used daily: data
on the products, the processes to build them, as well as all the
commerce (orders, mails, client and prospects, ..) etc. More and more
of this information is available digitally, in fact we are swamped
with information. Therefore there is a need for solutions to manage
this information in different ways: structuring, browsing and
searching.

This session will highlight the tools, models and techniques to manage
documents and information in enterprises. The knowledge carried in
these documents could be either fully structured with languages such
XML, or flat as plain text, or containing structured information in an
unstructured framework. The focus is either on the integration of
known techniques, or the presentation of new ideas, models, or
algorithms. Papers describing experiments or deployment of solutions
are more than welcome. Moreover, the session's key points are about
retrieval, mining, or extraction. In addition, heterogeneity and
interoperability are problems in themselves and will be addressed.

Topics

* Information retrieval
* Information extraction
* Text mining
* Document structuration
* Document exchange
* Databases and document interoperabiblity

Submission

Invited papers (6 pages in IFAC double column format) will be reviewed
by at least two referees. As to regular papers, both academic and
industrial oriented communications will be considered. Scientific
contributions will be compiled into several volumes of INCOM06's
proceedings. Further submission instructions are available on the
symposium website (http://www.emse.fr/incom2006 ).

Important Deadlines

Please express your intention of submission now to the chairs.

Papers submission deadline: November 15th, 2005
Acceptance notification: January 6th, 2006
Final papers due: March 1st, 2006

Chairs

Michel BEIGBEDER (ENSM-SE, Saint-Etienne), mbeig@emse.fr
Jian-Yun NIE (Université de Montréal, Canada),nie@iro.umontreal.ca