Final Call for paper : DNIS'03 (deadline April 15)

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  *                           CALL FOR PAPERS                               *
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  *                     3nd International Workshop on                       *
  *          Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS 2003)         *
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  *          Sessions on  User Interactions and Web Based Services          *
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  *                      September  22 - 24,  2003                          *
  *            The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan                *
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  *            http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/labs/sw-db/DNIS2003.html             *
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  *                Submission Deadline:   April 15, 2003                    *
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  *                  Sponsored by the University of Aizu                    *
  *                in the occasion of its 10th Anniversary                  *
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  *            The Workshop Proceedings will be published in the            * 
  *          Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer.          *
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Knowledge of Data semantics in Web-based Information systems is an important 
research issue at present times. The need for accessing the semantic contents 
of the information derives from the large amount of data available on the 
Internet. There is a need to personalize its search and integration to the 
various types of users. Two possible approaches have been recently addressed: 
integration of the Web technology with Database technology and the use of 
Meta-Languages such as XML, the eXtensible Markup Language. These solutions 
offer semi- or highly structured data that allow users to perform queries at 
a higher semantic level and facilitate the dynamical personalization of 
Web-based applications. It has hence become important to address the question 
of how one can efficiently query and search large collections of XML documents, 
as well as the question of finding new solutions, both to support dynamic 
architectures for Web-based applications and to understand how to model user 
criteria for content and data presentation.

Contributions will cover new requirements, concepts for implementation, 
management of meta-data, system architecture and experience gained in 
information systems, DBMSs and XML modeling.

Attendance at DNIS is limited to 30-40 active researchers. The workshop is 
organized as a gathering of invited presentations and peer-reviewed paper 
presentations. Few internationally known experts on Web technology and 
related areas are being invited.  The format of the workshop will encourage 
everyone to participate actively in discussions. Keynote discussions will 
be used to focus the debate onto current research issues. Pre-printed papers 
will be available to all participants and discussion is expected to lead to 
improvement of the papers and a record of their inter-relationships. The 
workshop will publish its proceedings in Springer Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science series.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
The objective of this workshop is to enable presentation and exchange of 
ideas on various aspects of Web Personalization Systems. Our desire is to 
facilitate communication among researchers and practitioners from related 
and complementary research areas, who are working on similar problems but 
with possibly different focus and problem solving approaches. These include: 
Database Modeling and Web Technology, User Profiling and Web Personalization 
and Web visualization.  Particular topics of interest for the workshop 
include but are not limited to:

Web Databases:
Data Models and Transformation
Data Interchange Languages
High-Level Dynamical Interfaces
Architecture and Systems
Semi-structured Data

Web Personalization:
Data models for Web usage, content, and structure data
Integration of content, structure and usage data for personalization
Knowledge representation issues 
Effective techniques for personalization based on anonymous data
Cognitive models for Web navigation
Multimedia Data Semantics
Metrics for personalization effectiveness

Applications:
Governmental Digital Libraries
Information systems in Health Care
Web GIS Systems
Electronic Commerce, and Data Security
Personalized Multimedia data Retrieval System
Others

Papers addressing these and closely related issues are invited. We strongly 
encourage papers that report experimental work and results.



IMPORTANT DATES 
Paper Submission (deadline extended):   15 April 2003
Author notifications:        25 May 2003
Camera-ready version due:    25 June 2003
Workshop opening:            22 September 2003


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 
The manuscripts (5000 words, maximum 16 pages) should be submitted by 15 
April 2003. Each paper should contain a short abstract of approximately 
200 words. The address, e-mail and fax numbers of the authors should be 
included on the cover page.  Authors are invited to send PDF or Postscript 
files by Email (using standard compression and encoding, with details). 
Please see instructions for authors at the workshop web page. Alternatively, 
4 copies of the paper can be sent by post. 



PROGRAM CHAIR 
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze
University of Aizu, Japan
nadia-P2GrUuHSao/tP0S62TOXqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* D. Agrawal, University of California, USA 
* E. Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
* P.C.P. Bhatt, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India 
* J. Biskup, University  of Dortmund, Germany 
* P. Bottoni, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
* L. F. Capretz, University of Western Ontario, Canada
* M. Capretz, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
* B. Chidlovskii, Rank-Xerox, France 
* U. Dayal, HP Laboratories, USA 
* S. Grumbach, INRIA, France
* J. Herder, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
* S. Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
* Q. Jin, University of Aizu, Japan
* R. Khosla, La Trobe University, Australia
* M. Kitsuregawa, University of  Tokyo, Japan
* A. Kumar, Pen State University, USA
* J. Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
* G. Mansfield, Tohoku University, Japan
* K. Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany
* P.K. Reddy, International Institute of Information Technology, India 
* O. Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada


INQUIRIES
University of Aizu, Tsuruga Ikki Machi
Aizu Wakamatsu 965-8580, Japan
fax: +81-242-37-2753   tel.:+81-242-37-2790
E-mail: dnis03-P2GrUuHSao/tP0S62TOXqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HomePage: http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/labs/sw-db/DNIS2003.html

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