- From: Enrico Franconi <franconi@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:54:54 +0000 (GMT)
- To: franconi@acm.org
------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. You're receiving this message since you are a subscriber of a relevant mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on FOUNDATIONS OF MODELS FOR INFORMATION INTEGRATION ------------------------------------------------- (FMII-2001) as the 10th Workshop in the Series Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (FMLDO) Viterbo (near Rome), Italy 16-18 September, 2001 (immediately after VLDB-2001) http://www.fmldo.org/FMII-2001/ CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The 10th FMLDO workshop continues the tradition started in 1989 of a series of international workshops devoted to the Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects. The main principle of this workshop series is to focus on one selected theme different from year to year, and to offer the opportunity for in-depth exchange of ideas and experiences between the best database researchers in the area. This year research papers on the Foundations of Models for Information Integration are solicited. Papers emphasising foundations of emerging topics within the theme are especially welcome. Information about past workshops in the FMLDO series can be found at <http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/fmldo/>. FMII-2001 will last three days, and in order to stimulate extensive discussions the time for the presentation of a long (short) paper will be 60 (30) minutes followed by about 30 (15) minutes of discussion. Furthermore, participants will be asked in advance to prepare a response to the work presented. In addition to the talks, there will be working groups which concentrate on current research topics and try to develop a common understanding of the problems involved. Participation to the workshop will be by invitation only. The proceedings will be printed by Springer-Verlag within the Lecture Notes in Computer Science <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs> series. The workshop will enjoy the talks of three invited speakers: * Amr El Abbadi, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA * Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France * Tamer Ozsu, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada FMII-2001 will be held in Viterbo (near Rome), Italy, 16-18 September, 2001, as an affiliate event with the 27th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB-2001, Rome, Italy, 11-14 September, 2001). FMII-2001 will be in cooperation with the 8th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases (KRDB-2001, 15 September, 2001, chaired by Maurizio Lenzerini, see <http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~lenzerin/krdb01/home.html>). The workshop will take place in Viterbo, one of the most famous medieval towns of Italy. Still enclosed within its walls, Viterbo has preserved a medieval appearance surprisingly unaltered and is even more colourful due to the survival of the ancient artisan traditions. Churches, edifices, towers, fountains, and the quarter of Saint Pellegrino, are all immersed together with its ancient construction of rock in an extraordinary captivating atmosphere. Viterbo was once the chief town of Tuscia, an area once possessed by the Etruscans, and boasts of archeological findings of this ancient and mysterious civilisation found within its vicinity. Viterbo is 80 Km at North of Rome (with its airport, Fiumicino FCO), 150 Km at South of Florence, 90 Km at South of Siena, and 40 Km at West of Orvieto. The city is easily reachable from Rome and Florence by train or by bus. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUGGESTED TOPICS (the order does not reflect priorities): * Views and Data Warehousing * Loading and Maintaining the Data Warehouse * World-Wide and Mobile Data Services * Database and Agent Support for Ubiquitous and Continuous Operations * Distributed and Integrated Data Semantics * Large Scale Data Distribution * Data Integration and Interoperability * Fusion of Heterogeneous Data Sources * Methodologies for Data Extraction * Methodologies for Data Cleaning and Reconciliation * Dealing with Data Inconsistencies * Ontologies and Models for Semantic Data Integration * Logic in Information Integration * Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases Technologies for Integration * Verification and Validation of Distributed Information Systems * Federations of Engineering and Scientific Databases * On-Line Analytical Processing * Agent-based Integration of Heterogeneous Data * Query Answering and Query Processing on the Web * Role of Metadata and Semistructured Data in Integration * Paradigms for Global Information Processing on the Web and Web Warehousing * Quality Factors and Metrics in Information Integration ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alberto Mendelzon, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Alex Borgida, Rutgers Univ., USA Dan Suciu, Univ. of Washington, USA David Toman, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Divesh Srivastava, ATT Labs - Research, USA Elisa Bertino, Univ. of Milano, Italy Giuseppe De Giacomo, Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy Gosta Grahne, Concordia Univ., Canada Gottfried Vossen, Univ. of Munster, Germany Gunter Saake, Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany Ioana Stanoi, IBM, USA Jan Chomicki, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Jan Van den Bussche, Univ. of Limburg, Belgium John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Luigi Palopoli, Univ. di Reggio Calabria, Italy Marie-Christine Rousset, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France Mary Fernandez, ATT Labs - Research, USA Matthias Jarke, Aachen Univ. of Technology, Germany Maurizio Rafanelli, IASI-CNR, Italy Michele Missikoff, CNR, Italy Oliver Duschka, McKinsey & Company Inc., Germany Ralf Kuesters, Univ. of Kiel, Germany Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Silvana Castano, Univ. of Milano, Italy Sonia Bergamaschi, Univ. of Modena, Italy Stefan Brass, Univ. of Giessen, Germany Tova Milo, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA Werner Nutt, Heriot-Watt Univ., United Kingdom Yannis Ioannidis, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA FMII-2001 WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Enrico Franconi, Chair, Univ. Manchester, UK <franconi@cs.man.ac.uk> Ken Barker, Univ. Manitoba, Canada <barker@cs.umanitoba.edu> Diego Calvanese, Univ. Rome 1, Italy <calvanese@dis.uniroma1.it> FMLDO STANDING COMMITTEE: Stefan Conrad (Chair), Univ. of Munich, Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions: 27 May 2001 Notification: 2 July 2001 Camera Ready: 28 July 2001 Workshop: 16-18 September 2001 SUBMISSION FORMAT: Extended abstracts of up to 15 pages (LaTeX article 12pt, US letter or A4 paper) for long presentations and 5 pages for short presentations. Check the workshop web page for the submission procedure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP LOCATION AND REGISTRATION The workshop venue is the Mini Palace Hotel, situated at walking distance from the historical center of Viterbo, near Porta Romana. Each room is equipped with air conditioning, bathroom, telephone, mini-bar, TV and radio. Information regarding registration and travel will be announced closer to the date of the workshop. Check the workshop page for updates. Participation to the workshop will be by invitation only. Enquiries about the workshop can be made by mailing to the FMII-2001 workshop chair. The FMII-2001 web page is at <http://www.fmldo.org/FMII-2001/> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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