DB&IS'2004 Last Call for Paper (submission deadline February 1)

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixth International Baltic Conference on Data Bases and Information Systems 
(DB&IS'2004)
June 6-9, 2004 Riga, Latvia

Detailed information about the conference will be available at:
http://www.riti.lv/dbis2004
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Organised by:

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia 
Department of Computer Science, University of Latvia
Riga Information Technology Institute

Supported by:

Council of European Professional Informatics Association (CEPIS)
(pending)
IEEE Communications Society (pending)
Latvian Information Technology and Telecommunications Association (LITTA) 

Sponsored by:

The VLDB Baltic Fund 
Latvian Science Council 
University of Latvia
Other sponsors pending


Objective

The Baltic conference on databases and information systems is thought as an 
international forum for technical discussion among researchers and developers 
of database and information systems. The objective of the conference is to 
bring together researchers as well as practitioners and PhD students in the 
field of computing research that will improve the construction of future 
information systems. On the other hand, the conference is giving opportunities 
to developers, users and researchers of advanced IS technologies to present 
their work and to exchange their ideas and at the same time providing a 
feedback to database community.
This conference is continuing a series of successful bi-annual Baltic workshops 
on databases and information systems that have been held in Trakai (1994), 
Tallinn (1996, 2002), Riga (1998), and Vilnius (2000).
The conference will share some sessions and other events with the 16th 
Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering CAiSE'2004, June 7-11, 
also in Riga, Latvia.

Structure and Topics of Interest

The conference language is English (talks as well as publications). The 
conference is planned to include two main tracks: traditional research track 
and advanced application track. To activate and motivate PhD students the 
conference programme will include Doctoral Consortium chaired by invited 
professors.

Research Topics

Major research topics for the conference will include, but are not limited to:
* Data and Knowledge Management
* Data Integration Methods
* Data Mining
* Distributed Database Techniques and Interoperability
* Domain Ontologies and Concept-Based Search
* Information Systems and Security
* Information Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Knowledge  Discovery
* Information Systems, Mobile Computing, and Agents
* Integrated Information Systems
* Intelligent Information Agents
* Knowledge Engineering and Databases
* Knowledge Management and Information Systems
* Linguistic Components of Information Systems
* Logic and Databases
* Ontology Design Methods
* Ontology-Based Information Systems
* Quantum Computing
* Requirements Engineering for Information Systems
* Schema Induction
* Web and Databases
* XML and Databases
Strong research papers on information and communications technologies are 
encouraged even if topic does not exactly match those mentioned above.

Application Topics

Application topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Agent-Oriented Approaches to Data Integration 
* Agents and Knowledge Management 
* Business Information Systems
* Component-Based Systems Development
* Database Development Tools
* E-Commerce and Database Technology
* Geographic Information Systems
* Information Systems and AI Technologies
* Integrated and Interoperable Database Technologies
* Intelligent Information Access
* Legal Information Systems
* National Information Infrastructure Development
* Ontologies in Agent-Oriented Information Systems
* Regional Infrastructure Information Systems and Database Applications
* Web Information Systems
Strong papers on information and communications technologies are encouraged 
even if topic does not exactly match those mentioned above.


Doctoral Consortium

PhD students are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their current 
work. Topics will be in line with the main conference topics. 

Paper Submission 

Original research papers up to a maximum of 5000 words and application 
experience papers up to 2500 words should be submitted in electronic form 
(Standard Postscript, PDF, RTF) via Email to 
jbarzdin-9cdE/Ulv7+w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by the submission deadline (see below).
The conference proceedings will be published in the University of Latvia 
Research Report Series. As for the Baltic DB&IS 2000 and 2002, Kluwer Academic 
Publishers will publish post-conference proceedings of selected papers. 

Information

For general information, please send email to 
juris.borzovs-qrFpjMAh/Ns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with cc: to imcs@xxxxxxxxx
For further information on electronic submission, please send email to: 
jbarzdin-9cdE/Ulv7+w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Important Dates:

Deadline for papers:            February 1, 2004
Notification of acceptance:     March 15, 2004
Camera-ready papers:            April 15, 2004
Conference dates:               June 6-9, 2004

Conference Organisation

Organising Co-Chairs:

Juris Borzovs, Riga Information Technology Institute, Latvia 
Inara Opmane, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of 
Latvia, Latvia

Co-ordinators

Ahto Kalja, Institute of Cybernetics at TTU, Estonia 
Saulius Maskeliunas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuania

Programme Co-Chairs:

Janis Barzdins, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of 
Latvia, Latvia
Rusins Freivalds, Department of Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia 

Advisory Committee:

Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Arne Solvberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

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