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 ***** Call for Participation ********** * * * Schedule available at: * http://km.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/DBFusion2002/schedule.html * * ***** Call for Participation ********** 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: ==================== Alexander Maedche (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies and Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Kai-Uwe Sattler (Institut f�r Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme, Otto-von-Guericke-Universit�t Magdeburg, Germany; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Gerd Stumme (contact person; Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Program Committee: ================== Hans Chalupsky (University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, USA) William W. Cohen (Whizbang!, Pittsburgh, USA) Stefan Conrad (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit�t M�nchen, 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 (Universit� Paris Sud, France) Nathasha F. Noy (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA) Gunter Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universit�t Magdeburg, Germany) Amit Sheth (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) Rudi Studer (Universit�t Karlsruhe, Germany) Natasha F. Noy (Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA) Gunter Saake (Otto-von-Guericke-Universit�t Magdeburg, Germany) Rudi Studer (Universit�t Karlsruhe, Germany) -- Gerd Stumme, Institut f�r Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universit�t Karlsruhe (TH) ++49-721-608-4754; http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/gst ------------------- MLnet community list http://www.mlnet.org/mlnet2/services/mlnet-community.html
