国際学会「The 23rd European Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC2013), June 3-7, 2013 in 奈良」の参加募集（投稿期限が延期されました）

["Hao Han" <han [at] nii.ac.jp>]

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Important information:
New Paper submission deadline is January 26th, 2013 [Extended]
Results of the review is announced in March 22, 2013
Accepted papers must be submitted by April 23, 2013

 

http://www.tt.cs.titech.ac.jp/EJC2013/
 
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             CALL FOR PAPERS

 

THE 23rd EUROPEAN - JAPANESE CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASES

 

              Nara, Japan
            June 3-7, 2013
Local www-pages: http://www.tt.cs.titech.ac.jp/EJC2013/

 

OBJECTIVE: Information modelling is becoming more and more important
topic for researchers, designers, and users of information systems. The
amount and complexity of information itself, the number of abstraction
levels of information, and the size of databases and knowledge bases are
continuously growing. Conceptual modelling is one of the sub-areas of
information modelling. The aim of this conference is to bring together
experts from different areas of computer science and other disciplines,
who have a common interest in understanding and solving problems on
information modelling and knowledge bases, as well as applying the
results of research to practice. We also aim to recognize and study new
areas on modelling and knowledge bases to which more attention should be
paid.  Therefore philosophy and logic, cognitive science, knowledge
management, linguistics and management science are relevant areas, too.
In the conference, there will be three categories of presentations, i.e.
full papers, short papers and position papers..

 

TOPICS: Modelling of information is necessary in developing information
systems. Information is acquired from many sources, by using various
methods and tools. It must be recognized, conceptualized, and
conceptually organized efficiently so that users can easily understand
and use it. Modelling is needed to understand, explain, organize,
predict, and reason on information. It also helps to master the role and
functions of components of information systems.  Modelling can be
performed with many different purposes in mind, at different levels, and
by using different notions and different background theories. It can be
made by emphasizing users' conceptual understanding of information on a
domain level, on an algorithmic level, or on representation levels. On
each level, the objects and structures used on them are different, and
different rules govern the behavior on them. Therefore the notions,
rules, theories, languages, and methods for modelling on different
levels are also different. It will be useful if we can develop theories
and methodologies for modelling, to be used in different situations,
because databases, knowledge bases, and repositories in knowledge
management systems, developed on the basis of models and used to
technically store information, are growing day by day. In this
conference the interest is focused on modelling of information, and one
of the central topics might be modelling of time. Scientific or
technical papers of high quality are sought on topics including, but not
limited to the following. The highest priority will be given to papers
which are strongly related to different aspects of modelling.

 

1.  Theoretical and Philosophical Basis of Concept Modelling and Conceptual Modelling

 

Information recognition, conceptualization, and concept formation
Properties of concepts, systems of concepts, and theories of concept systems
Subjective concepts and collective concepts
Conceptual change and time, ontology of time
Concept integration and integration of modeling paradigms
Description of concepts, views, and viewpoint dynamics

 

2.  Conceptual Modelling and Information Requirements Specification (IRS)

 

Ontologies, conceptual modelling, and natural language in IRS
Conceptual information requirements specification for information systems
Conceptual modelling for knowledge management
Languages, tools and methods for conceptual modelling
Methods and systems for developing and using conceptual information
Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration
Conceptual modelling of time

 

3.  Conceptual Models of Intelligent Activities

 

Cognitive strategies for model construction
Conceptual modelling and problem solving
Conceptual modelling of temporal constructs, identity and change
Meta-modelling in the model building process
Relationships between knowledge management and problem solving
The ontology of social reality and the modelling process of social reality

 

4.  Collections of Data, Knowledge, and Descriptions of Concepts

 

Knowledge management for conceptual modelling and IRS
Conceptual modelling in spatial or temporal databases, or both
Active database systems and active knowledge base systems
Modelling methods, design methodologies and tools
Collaborative knowledge management
Modelling, Using and Managing Context
Context Computing

 

5.  Human-Computer Interaction and Modelling

 

Conceptual models as interfaces of systems, data bases and knowledge bases,
Ontology for human-computer interaction, including time
Metadata and knowledge management for human-computer interaction
Cognition problems in large conceptual schemata
Modelling in multimedia information systems
Cross-cultural multimedia systems

 

6.  Software Engineering and Modelling

 

Design and use of concept definition libraries, design patterns, frameworks
Architectures of meta-models for information systems,
Modelling software engineering processes
UML, ORM, Petri-nets, and other formalisms as modelling tools
Modelling of multi-agent systems - modelling in multi-agent systems

 

7.  Applications

 

Enterprise modelling and strategic concept development
Business-process modeling
Modelling global information systems
Modelling for mobile information systems
Conceptual modeling of information systems for virtual organizations
Modelling in the WWW systems and conceptual models for web data

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Submission deadline January 26th, 2013.

 

The acceptance letters for all types of contributions will be sent by
email by March 22nd, 2013.

 

In the case of acceptance, you are expected to send your final paper for
inclusion in the conference pre-proceedings to arrive no later than
April 23rd, 2013. Final version of the papers will be published after
the conference as book of journal papers by IOS Press (Amsterdam) in the
Series of the "Frontiers on Artificial Intelligence" for international
distribution.  Improved papers must be sent by Sept. 17th in 2013, after
the conference. Each of the position papers is reviewed in the
presentation and the improved version by Program Committee, whether or
not it can be accepted as the final journal print FORMAT OF THE
SUBMISSION:

 

Send the paper electronically according to the instructions for
registering, formatting  and submitting on the page:
http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/author_information.html  The submission must
be original, and must not be submitted anywhere else, or already
accepted by any other conference or journal. The selection of papers is
made on the basis of review, by the program committee. Acceptance of
papers will be based on the originality of work, on the suitability of
the topic to the conference, and on the overall quality of your
submission. Papers may be submitted in the following categories:
SCIENTIFIC / TECHNICAL PAPER: You may submit your paper either as a full
paper, (max. 20 pages), or as a short paper (of max. 8 pages). POSITION
PAPER: Research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate
innovative concepts, theories, prototypes, or experiences. Your position
paper (work-in-progress) should be no longer than 5 pages.

 

The pre-print will be distributed in the conference. The final
proceedings including the papers presented in the conference will be
distributed after the conference and published by IOS Press (Amsterdam)
for international distribution.

 

IMPORTANT

 

Please use only "English fonts" (ANSI/ASCII or UTF-3) in your paper, and
include all the fonts you used. No extra hidden codes, nor any other
features that are specific to a special computer (or language)
environment should be included in any form. Otherwise reviewers may not
be able to open and read your paper. Once a submitted paper is found to
be unreadable, the reviewing process may be stopped automatically
without asking the second submission.

 

WORKING PRINCIPLES OF THE CONFERENCE:

 

The authors present their papers at the conference. The papers are
included in the conference (local) pre-print. The final text of the
papers can be polished for publication after the conference. Only
actually presented papers will be published in the final journal print.
The final journal papers will be published by an international publisher.
The total number of participants is limited to 50. Only actually
presented papers will be published in the final journal print. The final
text of the full and short papers can be polished as journal papers for
publication after the conference. Each of the position papers are
proposed to improve to take into account the comments  in the conference
(if any) and the statement of the reviewers. Programme committee has
right to withdraw the paper from the final journal publication, if the
proposed improvements are not implemented or if the paper is not
technically prepared according to the formatting rules. The final
journal papers will be published by an international publisher (IOS
Press, Amsterdam) after the conference. More information: See
http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/

 

ORGANIZATION

 

General Program Chair: Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere, Finland

 

Program committee:

 

Yasushi Kiyoki (co-chairman), Keio University, Japan
Takehiro Tokuda (co-chairman), Tokyo Institute of Technology

 

Programme Committee Members (tentative):
To be nominated

 

Programme Coordination Team:

 

Naofumi Yoshida, Komazawa University, Japan (Chairman)

 

Members:
To be nominated

 

General Organizing Chair: Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology(Pori)

 

Organizing Committee:

 

Takehiro Tokuda, Tokyp Institute of Technology, Japan
Xing Chen, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Ulla Nevanranta (Publication), Tampere University of Technology (Pori), Finland

 

ADDRESSES:

 

Hannu Kangassalo, Programme General Chair
University of Tampere
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33014 University of Tampere
Finland
Tel:  +358-3-2156778; Fax:  +358-3-2156070
E-mail:  hk[..at..]cs.uta.fi

 

Yasushi Kiyoki, PC co-chairman
Keio University
Faculty of  Environmental Information
5322 Endoh Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520
Japan
Tel:  +81-466-47-5111; Fax: +81-466-49-1047
E-mail: kiyoki[..at..]sfc.keio.ac.jp

 

Takehiro Tokuda, PC co-chair,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dept. of Computer Science
2-12-1-W8-71 Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5734-3213; Fax: +81-3-5734-2912
E-mail: tokuda[..at..]cs.titech.ac.jp

 

Hannu Jaakkola, Organizing General Chair,
Tampere University of Technology (Pori),
P.O. Box 300, FI-28101 PORI, Finland
Tel. +358 2 627 2712; Fax. +358 2 627 2727
Email: hannu.jaakkola[..at..]tut.fi
Yukio Chen, Organizing Committee,
Department of Information & Computer Sciences,
Kanagawa Institute of Technology,
1030 Simo-Ogino, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0292, Japan
Email: chen[..at..]ic.kanagawa-it.ac.jp

 

Ulla Nevanranta, Publication secretary
Tampere University of Technology (Pori)
P.O. Box 300, FIN-28101 PORI, Finland
Tel. +358 2 627 2710; Fax. +358 2 627 2727
Email: ulla.nevanranta[..at..]tut.fi

 

Information of the previous European-Japanese conferences and books are
available on the page  http://www.pori.tut.fi/ejc/  (Conferences by Year).
 

 

Dr Hao Han
Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics,
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, Japan