DBFusion 2002

2nd International Workshop on Databases, Documents, and Information Fusion

 

Information Integration and Mining

in Databases and on the Web

 

July 4-5, 2002

University of Karlsruhe, Germany

FZI  Research Center for Information Technologies

 

Despite major progress in recent years, the problem of information discovery and integration is still a significant challenge. It affects questions like ensuring actuality and credibility of data, efficient querying distributed sources, converting insufficient structured data as well as combining data from different sources  and is addressed by various current research areas, ranging from data integration and mining to knowledge engineering and ontologies.

The combination of techniques from these areas, e.g., using domain knowledge in data integration or mining, could lead to new applications as well as to improvements of current approaches to data integration and fusion.

To meet this challenge the workshop is designed to bring together researchers working in the areas of databases, ontologies and information fusion, and to foster collaboration among them.

 

The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: 

 

  • Data integration and cleaning
  • Ontology merging and aligning
  • Cross-cultural ontologies
  • Interaction between ontologies and lexicons (natural language)
  • Foundations for cooperative & multi-user ontology engineering
  • Architectures and performance
  • Database-support for data mining
  • Document and web content mining
  • Relationship to research in similar research areas
  • Emerging applications of information/integration/fusion/mining

 

Publication and Submission Details:

The workshop shall contain invited talks as well as reviewed submissions. The accepted papers will be published electronically as CEUR proceedings. Hardcopies of the proceedings will be available at the workshop.

We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 6000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions. Submit before April 28, 2002 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf to: stumme@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de.  The final layout of accepted papers will be in the Springer style format. Hence we suggest to use this format already for the initial submission.

Alternatively, printed copies can be sent to:
Gerd Stumme
Institute AIFB
University of Karlsruhe
D-76128 Karlsruhe

Germany

 

Important dates:

Submission Deadline: April 28, 2002
Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2002
Camera-Ready version: June 16, 2002
Workshop: July 4-5, 2002



Registration:

Please send an email to Alexander Maedche maedche@fzi.de with your contact details to register for the workshop. Registration fees of the workshop are 35€ (covers coffee breaks and social event at July 4, 2002). Payment of the registration fees will be organized locally at the workshop.


Schedule:

A preliminary schedule of the workshop is available here..


Local Information:

A nice overview on hotels in Karlsruhe is provided by the Karlsruhe Tourism Office, see http://www.karlsruhe.de/Tourismus/ukv/. A detailed description how to get to FZI is available here.


 

Workshop Organizers:

 

Program Committee:

 

Hans Chalupsky (University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA)

William W. Cohen (Whizbang!, Pittsburgh, USA)

Stefan Conrad (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

Stefan Decker (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA)   

Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA)

Hasan Jamil (Mississippi State University, USA)

Bertram Ludaescher (San Diego Supercomputer Center, U.C. San Diego, USA)

Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, Chicago, USA)

Mark Musen (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA)   

Claire Nedellec (Université Paris Sud, France)

Natasha F. Noy (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA)

Gunter Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)  

Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)

Rudi Studer (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)

Stefan Wrobel (Universität Magdeburg, Germany)