=============== CALL FOR PAPERS =============== NGITS 2006 6th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems July 4- 6, 2006 Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel http://mis.haifa.ac.il/~ngits NGITS 2006 is the sixth workshop in a series that was launched in 1993 to promote research on new technologies in information systems. Information on the previous five NGITS workshops may be found at http://www.informatik.uni- trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ngits/index.html. The NGITS workshop is a 3-day event that combines keynote addresses, presentations of research papers, discussion panels, technical demonstrations, and social events. Authors are invited to submit papers that describe original research results ("research papers"). In addition, authors may submit papers that outline new viewpoints and challenges ("vision papers"), or describe the implementation or deployment of a novel technology in an actual setting ("experience papers"). Submissions may be either full papers or extended abstracts. Proposals for panels and demonstrations are also solicited. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer- Verlag's LNCS series, and will be distributed to all participants at the conference. ======================================= 1. OVERALL THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST ======================================= We solicit papers on all aspects of information systems. Of particular interest are works that combine multiple disciplines of computer science to develop new technologies for information systems. To illustrate the scope of NGITS, a list of topics is given below, but note that submissions are not limited to these topics. - Information systems design and development - Workflow management - Information integration - Cooperative information systems - Information quality - Information security and privacy - Data warehousing and OLAP - Data mining and knowledge discovery - Information retrieval, filtering, and extraction - Knowledge management and ontologies - The semantic web - Web services - Semi-structured data - User interfaces to information and information visualization - New challenges for database technology (e.g., multimedia information, biological information) - Information systems for specific domains (e.g., health, education, commerce, government) =================== 2. INVITED SPEAKERS =================== The workshop will feature three keynote addresses by well- known speakers. Full details will be provided soon. ================== 3. IMPORTANT DATES ================== - Title and abstract (encouraged): January 1, 2006 - Full or brief papers: February 1, 2006 - Panel and demonstration proposals: February 1, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2006 - Camera-ready papers: April 15, 2006 - NGITS 2006 Workshop: July 4-6, 2006 ================= 4. WORKSHOP VENUE ================= The workshop venue is the hotel and conference center at Kibbutz Shefayim, located near the Mediterranean coast about 10 miles (16 km) north of Tel Aviv, http://www.h- shefayim.co.il. ============= 5. ORGANIZERS ============= PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Opher Etzion, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Amihai Motro, George Mason University, USA GENERAL CHAIR: Tsvi Kuflik, Haifa University, Israel LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Nilly Schnapp, Israel STEERING COMMITTEE: Opher Etzion, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Alon Halevy, University of Washington, USA Amihai Motro, George Mason University, USA Ron Pinter, Technion, Israel Avi Silberschatz, Yale University, USA Peretz Shoval, Ben Gurion University, Israel Shalom Tsur, USA ==================== 6. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ==================== Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France Nabil Adam, Rutgers University Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Irit Askira-Gelman, University of Arizona, USA Iris Berger, Haifa University, Israel Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University, Israel Dan Berry, Waterloo University, Canada Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Martin Bichler, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Andrei Broder, Yahoo Research, USA Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson, USA Alessandro D'Atri, Luiss University, Italy Vijay Dialani, IBM Almaden Center, USA Anhai Doan, University of Illinois - Urbana, USA Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Alfons Kemper, Technische Universität München, Germany Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Yossi Matias, Tel Aviv University, Israel Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India Felix Naumann, Humboldt- Universität Berlin, Germany George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Norman Paton, University of Manchaster, UK Francesco Ricci, L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy Naphtali Rishe, Florida International University, USA Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel Charles A. Shoniregun, University of East London Pnina Soffer, Haifa University, Israel Carlo Strapparava, L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy Steve Schach, Vanderbilt University, USA Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois - Chicago, USA Carlo Zaniolo, University of California - Los Angeles, USA =================== 7. PAPER SUBMISSION =================== All papers should be submitted via the workshop's Web site at http://mis.haifa.ac.il/~ngits. Submissions must be in PDF format and in Springer's LNCS format. Full papers are limited to 12 pages, and extended abstracts are limited to 4 pages. Authors should indicate their type of submission by noting under the paper title (1) whether its primary contribution is "Research", "Vision" or "Experience", and (2) whether it is a "Full Paper" or an "Extended Abstract". Additional details on the submission procedure may be found at the workshop's Web site. ==================================== 8. PANEL AND DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS ==================================== Suggestions for panels and demonstrations should be sent to one of the program co-chairs by February 1, 2006. Panel proposals should include a title, an abstract and a list of 4-8 participants. Proposal for demonstrations should include a brief description. ========================================