[dbjapan] CFP: LKR2008

[Haruo Yokota <yokota [at] cs.titech.ac.jp>]

日本データベース学会の皆様、

本メーリングリストをお借りして、東京工業大学21世紀COE「大規模知識資源
の体系化と活用基盤構築」主催の国際シンポジウム LKR2008 の CFP を流させ
て頂きます。日本データベース学会他多くの学会に協賛頂いております。また、
Springer-Verlag LNAI よりプロシーディングスが出る予定です。奮ってご投
稿下さいますようお願い致します。


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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd International Conference on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2008)

3-5 March, 2008, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Japan
  http://www.coe21-lkr.titech.ac.jp/lkr2008

Sponsored by: 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program 
  "Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale 
   Knowledge Resources", Tokyo Institute of Technology 
  (http://www.coe21-lkr.titech.ac.jp)
In corporation with:
  IEEE Japan Council
  ACM Japan Chapter
  Japan Society for Software Science and Technology
  Information Processing Society of Japan
  The Database Society of Japan
  The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
  National Institute of Multimedia Education (under negotiation)
  Japan Society for Educational Technology
  Acoustical Society of Japan

In the 21st century, we are now on the way to the knowledge-intensive
society in which knowledge plays ever more important roles. Research
interest should inevitably shift from information to knowledge, namely
how to build, organize, maintain and utilize knowledge are the central
issues in a wide variety of fields. The 21st Century COE program,
"Framework for Systematization and Application of Large-scale
Knowledge Resources (COE-LKR)" conducted by Tokyo Institute of
Technology is one of the attempts to challenge these important
issues. Inspired by this project, LKR2008 aims at bringing together
diverse contribution in cognitive science, computer science, education
and linguistics to explore design, construction, extension,
maintenance, validation, and application of knowledge.

Topics of Interest to the conference includes:

  Infrastructure for Large-scale Knowledge
    Grid computing
    Network computing
    Software tools and development environments
    Database and archiving systems
    Mobile and ubiquitous computing
  Systematization for Large-scale Knowledge
    Language resources
    Multi-modal resources
    Classification, Clustering
    Formal systems
    Knowledge representation and ontology
    Semantic Web
    Cognitive systems
    Collaborative knowledge
  Applications and Evaluation of Large-scale Knowledge
    Archives for science and art
    Educational media
    Information access
    Document analysis
    Multi-modal human interface
    Web applications

Organizing committee
  General conference chair: Furui, Sadaoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Program co-chairs: Ortega, Antonio (University of Southern California)
		     Tokunaga, Takenobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Publication chair: Yonezaki, Naoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Publicity chair:   Yokota, Haruo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Local organizing chair: Shinoda, Koichi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Program committee
  Calzolari, Nicoletta (ILC-CNR, Italy)
  Harman, Donna (NIST, USA)
  Huang, Chu-Ren (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  Ishizaki, Syun (Keio University, Japan)
  Juang, Biing-Hwang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  Kusumi, Takashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
  Matsumoto, Yuji (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  Nakazawa, Jin (Keio University, Japan)
  Nilsson, Jorgen Fischer (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
  Rigoll, Gerhard (Munich University of Technology, Germany)
  Russell, Stuart (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  Sakamoto, Takashi (JAPET, Japan)
  Sekine, Satoshi (New York University, USA)
  Shibano, Koji (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
  Sugiura, Masatoshi (Nagoya University, Japan)
  Sugiyama, Shinya (Keio University, Japan)
  Theeramaunkong, Thanuruk (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, 
    Thailand)
  Thompson, Henry (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Tobe, Yoshito (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
  Tomimori, Nobuo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
  Washio, Takashi (Osaka University, Japan)
  Yamada, Tuneo (National Institute of Multimedia Center, Japan)
  Yano, Tamaki (Doshisha University, Japan)

Submission
  Since we are aiming at an interdisciplinary conference covering wide
  range of topics concerning large-scale knowledge resources, authors
  are requested to add general introductory description in the
  beginning of the paper so that readers of other research area can
  understand the importance of the work. Note that one of the
  reviewers of each paper is assigned from other topic area to see if
  this requirement is fulfilled.

  There are two categories of paper presentation: oral and poster. The
  category of the paper should be stated at submission. Authors are
  invited to submit original unpublished research papers, in English,
  up to 12 pages for oral presentation and 4 pages for poster
  presentation, strictly following the LNCS/LNAI format guidelines
  available at the Springer LNCS Web page:
  http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 
  Details of the submission procedure will be announced later on.

Reviewing
  The reviewing of the papers will be blind and managed by an
  international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs
  and associated Program Committee Members. Final decisions on the
  technical program will be made by a meeting of the Program Co-Chairs
  and Area Chairs. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three
  program committee members, and one of the reviewers is assigned from
  a different topic area.

Publication
  The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in  
  their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), which will be  
  available at the conference.

Important dates
  Paper submission deadline: 30 August, 2007
  Notification of acceptance: 10 October, 2007
  Camera ready papers due: 10 November, 2007

for e-mail correspondence:
  lkr2008 [at] coe21-lkr.titech.ac.jp
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