[DL] DBFusion 2002 - Call for Participation

[Gerd Stumme]

 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

 http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/DBFusion2002



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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



Workshop Organizers:
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Alexander Maedche (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies
and Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; email:
maedche at fzi.de)
Kai-Uwe Sattler (Institut für Technische und Betriebliche
Informationssysteme, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany;
email: kus at iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de)
Gerd Stumme (contact person; Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe,
Germany; email: gst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de)


Program Committee:
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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)
Claire Nedellec (Université Paris Sud, France)
Nathasha 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)
Natasha F. Noy  (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA)
Gunter Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
Rudi Studer (Universität Karlsruhe, Germany)



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Gerd Stumme, Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale
Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
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