SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue March 2007 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: 'bergmann' or 'minor' at 'uni-trier.de' TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" (http://www.fgwm.de/) Held in Conjunction with WM 2007 (Potsdam, 28.-30.3.07) 2. Final Call for Papers: Special Session on Case-Based Reasoning, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies at IICAI-07 3. Call for Workshop Papers: 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ICCBR 2007 4. Call for Papers: Fourth International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context to be held at CONTEXT 07 5. Call for Papers: HICSS-41 minitrack on Knowledge Management/ Organizational Memory Success and Performance Measurements 6. Call for Papers: The 19th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI-2007) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Reminder: The annual meeting of the "Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement der GI" will take place at the Kongresshotel in Potsdam: (http://www.kongresshotel-potsdam.de) ************************************* THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007, at 4 p.m. ************************************* in conjunction with the Wissensmanagement 2007 (www.wm-tagung.de) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Final call for papers : Paper submission deadline: April 2nd 2007 Special Session on Case-Based Reasoning, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies at The 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07) December 17-19, 2007, Pune, India http://www.iiconference.org/iicai07/cbr.html A Special Session on Case-Based Reasoning, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies will be held during the 3rd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-07). This session is intended to gather AI researchers and practitioners with an interest in Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) to present and discuss the developments in CBR theory and applications. Several issues in knowledge representation and ontologies are closely related to CBR due to the fact that CBR is richer not only in the complexity of case-base design but also in the background knowledge representation. Submissions are solicited on CBR topics, Knowledge Representation and Ontologies including but not limited to: CBR Foundations: * Indexing, retrieval, adaptation, explanations. * Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualization, maintenance and management for CBR. CBR Architectures, Methodologies and Applications: * CBR in the semantic web, web services and grid computing. * CBR and education. * Textual CBR. * CBR and creativity. * CBR and design. * Case-based planning. * CBR and Human Computer Interaction: adaptive interfaces, user modeling, customization and personalization. Ontology Methodologies and Applications: * Ontology-driven CBR and information systems design. * Semantic web, web services and grid computing. * Requirements engineering and knowledge engineering. * Role of reference ontologies; ontology integration and alignment. * Ontology foundational issues: top-level vs. application ontologies, cognition, epistemology and text. Paper Submission and Publication: Authors are encouraged to submit the papers for this session as an email attachment to the Session Chairs given below. The papers should be in MSWORD, PDF, or PS format and should be formatted according to the Springer Lecture Notes instructions. The length of a paper should not exceed 20 pages. Shorter papers or papers on the work currently in progress are also welcome. The first page of the paper should contain the title, name(s) of the authors, affiliations, the postal and email addresses, and at least 3 keywords appropriate to the content of the paper. Further information regarding the paper submission can be obtained from the conference website too. Each paper will be peer reviewed by at least two experts in the topical area. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under the title of the session. You may contact the General Chair of the conference for any additional information. Deadlines: April 2nd 2007: Paper manuscripts due. May 18th 2007: Notification of acceptance. June 25th 2007: Camera ready papers and Pre-registration due. December 17-19, 2007: Special Session and the IICAI-07 Conference. Session Chair: Prof. Hector Gomez Gauchia, Ph.D. Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Universidad Complutense 28040 - Madrid, Spain Phone: (34) 91 394 76 44 Fax: (34) 91 394 75 29 Web: http://gaia.fdi.ucm.es/people/hector Email: iicai07cbr@aol.com ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ICCBR 2007 Call for Workshop Papers http://www.iccbr.org/iccbr07/workshopp.html Submission deadline: April 30, 2007 Case Based Reasoning and Context-Awareness Context-sensitive processing has a key role in many modern intelligent IT applications, with context-awareness and context-reasoning being essential not only for mobile, pervasive, and ubiquitous computing, but also for a wide range of other areas such as recommender systems, collaborative software, web engineering, information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, adaptive games, autonomic systems, and e-Learning solutions. Context awareness in case-based reasoning (CBR) systems has also become a topic of increased research. In CBR, context serves as a major source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation. Consequently, achieving desired behaviors from CBR systems in these areas will depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual factors. These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task environment, but many other aspects such as the knowledge states (of both the application and user), and user beliefs and emotions. The representation and reasoning problem therein presents research challenges to which numerous methods and techniques derived from artificial intelligence and knowledge management (e.g., logical reasoning, object relationship models, ontologies, similarity measures, and intelligent retrieval mechanisms) are now being brought to bear. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring issues and approaches for context-sensitive systems involving CBR to share their problems and techniques. It will examine mechanisms and techniques for structured storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve, reuse, and adapt it, as well as methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge. Case Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences This workshop is the fifth in a series of exciting workshops held at previous ECCBR and ICCBR conferences. It focuses on the applications of case-based reasoning to the health sciences, and proposes to provide a forum for identifying and discussing important contributions and opportunities for research in this area. A special issue of Computational Intelligence journal will feature the best papers submitted to the workshop. Textual Case-Based Reasoning: Beyond Retrieval Textual CBR (TCBR) applies the CBR problem-solving methodology to situations where experiences are predominantly captured in text form. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for the discussion of trends, research issues and practical experience in TCBR. We are especially interested in issues that go beyond retrieval, such as solution adaptation, explanation, case base maintenance, and other issues. We have made this the workshop 'theme'. But, in order to encourage discussion of these issues, alongside the invitation to submit 'conventional' research and application papers, we also invite papers that address a common problem, which we refer to as the workshop challenge. The challenge that we propose consists in analysing the corpus of Air Investigation Reports available from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. We are asking people to imagine that they are to use this corpus to build a TCBR system that supports human investigators. We hope that the combination of a `theme' and the challenge of analysing a common problem will lead to a lively, enjoyable and informative workshop! Uncertainty and Fuzziness in Case-Based Reasoning As a general problem solving methodology intended to cover a wide range of real-world applications, CBR must face the challenge to deal with uncertain, incomplete, and vague information. Correspondingly, recent years have witnessed an increased interest in formalizing parts of the CBR methodology within different frameworks of reasoning under uncertainty and, moreover, in building hybrid approaches by combining CBR with methods of uncertain and approximate reasoning, such as probability or fuzzy set theory. The objective of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for exchanging ideas related to the application of uncertainty techniques in CBR, for discussing advances in this field as well as open problems for future research. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Call for Papers MRC 2007 Fourth International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context To be held at CONTEXT 07, Roskilde, Denmark, 20-24 August 2007 Submission deadline: May 15, 2007 http://mrc2007.workshop.hm/ ================================================================================ Context sensitive processing plays a key role in many modern IT applications, with context-awareness and context-based reasoning essential not only for mobile and ubiquitous computing, but also for a wide range of other areas such as collaborative software, web engineering, personal digital assistants, information sharing, health care workflow and patient control, adaptive games,and e-Learning solutions. From an intelligent systems perspective, one of the challenges is to integrate context with other types of knowledge as an additional major source for reasoning, decision-making, and adaptation and to form a coherent and versatile architecture. There is a common understanding that achieving desired behaviour from intelligent systems will depend on the ability to represent and manipulate information about a rich range of contextual factors. These factors may include not only physical characteristics of the task environment, but many other aspects such as the knowledge states (of both the application and user), emotions, etc. This representation and reasoning problem present research challenges to which methodologies derived amongst others from artificial intelligence, knowledge management, human-computer interaction, and psychology can contribute solutions. One specific problem is to deal with uncertainty on different levels, from interpretation of uncertain sensor input data up to identification of contexts with fuzzy borders. Another issue is how to integrate findings from the social sciences and psychology into the design of context aware systems and how to build psychologically plausible knowledge models. A third aspect is the ability of the system to use explanations, both as a part of its reasoning and as a means of communication with the user. ================================================================================ Workshop Objectives ================================================================================ The major goal of the workshop is to bring researchers from both industry and academia, and representatives from different communities together to study, understand, and explore issues of development and application of IT systems utilising context. MRC aims to provide a forum for scientists and practitioners exploring modelling and reasoning issues and approaches for context sensitive systems, from a broad range of areas, to share their problems and techniques across different research and application areas. The workshop will examine mechanisms and techniques for structured storage of contextual information, effective ways to retrieve it, and methods for enabling integration of context and application knowledge. Besides contributed papers, this workshop will offer organised and open spaces for targeted discussions. We note that the previous MRC meetings were all held in conjunction with conferences on artificial intelligence and computer science. Holding MRC 2007 at CONTEXT 2007 has the additional goal of reaching out to other relevant disciplines and will facilitate collaboration between different fields. ================================================================================ Topics of Interest ================================================================================ Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Generic and specific context models - Explicit representations - Representation of and reasoning with uncertainty - Retrieval of context and context information - Context-based retrieval and reasoning - Socio-technical issues - Context awareness and context-sensitivity - Context awareness in applications - Evaluation of context-aware applications - Explanation and context - Mobile context - Information aging - Context focusing and context switching - Context management ================================================================================ Submissions ================================================================================ Workshop submissions will be electronic, in PDF format only, using the EasyChair submission system. Paper submission will be opened in the middle of March 2007. Paper length should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS format. Guidelines and templates are available on the web at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers will be published in accompanying proceedings. Provided that the quantity and quality of submissions justifies a book or special journal issue on context aware systems, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions for such a publication. All workshop participants must register both for this workshop and the main CONTEXT 07 conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. ================================================================================ Organisation ================================================================================ Workshop Organisers Contact: mrc2007@idi.ntnu.no Anders Kofod-Petersen Department of Computer and Information Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology Joerg Cassens Department of Computer and Information Science Norwegian University of Science and Technology David B. Leake Computer Science Department Indiana University, USA Stefan Schulz The e-Spirit Company, Germany Program Committee - Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Steven Bogaerts, Indiana University, USA - Patrick Brezillon, University Paris 6, France - Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany - Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland - Mehmet H. Goeker, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA - Dominik Heckmann, Saarland University, Germany - Eyke Huellermeier, University of Magedeburg, Germany - Ana G. Maguitman, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina - Marius Mikalsen, SINTEF, Norway - Sven Schwarz, DFKI, Germany - Enric Plaza, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Catalonia, Spain - Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany - Santtu Toivonen, VTT, Finland ================================================================================ Submission deadline: May 15, 2007 http://mrc2007.workshop.hm/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Knowledge Management / Organizational Memory Success and Performance Measurements CALL FOR PAPERS Part of the Knowledge Management Systems Track of the Forty-First Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41) January 7 - 10, 2008 (Monday-Thursday) Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort and Spa on the Big Island 425 Waikoloa Beach Drive Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738 Tel: 1-808-886-1234 Fax: 1-808-886-2900 www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Mirror site: http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/ Research into knowledge management, organizational memories, and organizational learning has been affected by investigations such as implementation aspects, system developments, or knowledge flows during a number of years. Therefore, a high maturity level of knowledge management research has been achieved. However, organizational knowledge management initiatives are increasingly faced with budget cuts and justification demands due to intense competition in today’s business environments. The influences of the rapid pace of globalization and the ongoing liberalization of national and international markets has lead to the emergence of increased pressure on existing companies. Project managers of knowledge management initiatives and Chief Knowledge Officers need to justify their budgets and thus are in need of qualitative and quantitative evidence of the initiatives’ success. This minitrack explores research into strategies, methodologies, and stories that relate to measure this success. In addition, this minitrack will be used to explore the bodies of performance measurements that define the current state of research in measuring knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning success. Possible Paper Topics: - Frameworks and models for assessing knowledge management and/or organizational memory systems - Methodologies and processes for measuring knowledge management and/or organizational memory success and performance - Impact of knowledge management strategy, organization, systems, culture, and other issues on knowledge management/organizational memory success - Organizational effectiveness/efficiency due to knowledge management/organizational memory/organizational learning, knowledge and organizational memory use - Knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning metrics - Knowledge management, organizational memory, and organizational learning success factors and key performance indicators - Benchmarking of knowledge management/organizational memory initiatives - Case studies of knowledge management and organizational memory success and performance measurements - Measuring knowledge management and/or organizational memory performance in global organizations and globally dispersed communities - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of knowledge management/organizational memory systems - Modeling and measuring the impact of social software on knowledge management performance - Defining knowledge management and organizational memory success MINITRACK COORDINATORS Stefan Smolnik (Primary Contact) Information Systems 2 European Business School (EBS) International University Schloss Reichartshausen Rheingaustr. 1 65375 Oestrich-Winkel GERMANY Phone: +49-6723-991-246 Fax: +49-6723-991-259 E-mail: stefan.smolnik@ebs.edu WWW: http://www.ebs.edu/is2 Murray E. Jennex Information and Decision Science San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182 Phone: 760-966-0548 Fax: 760-722-2668 E-mail: mjennex@mail.sdsu.edu E-mail: Murphjen@aol.com IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstracts: Authors are encouraged to contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at any time. Manuscripts are not accepted based on abstracts. Full manuscripts must be submitted by June 15. June 15: Authors submit full manuscripts to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All manuscripts will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Since manuscripts will undergo a double-blind review, author names and affiliations must not be included on the original manuscript. This information will be collected later through the system. August 15: Acceptance notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. At this time, at least one author of an accepted paper should begin fiscal and travel arrangements to attend the conference to present the paper. September 15: Authors submit Final Version of accepted papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee applies. (General Registration fee applies Oct 02-Dec 15.) December 1: Deadline to guarantee your hotel reservation at conference rate. Conference rate will be granted after this date, only if rooms are available. December 15: Deadline to receive conference registration refund. Late registration fee applies. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - HICSS manuscripts must contain original material not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. - Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing and description of Minitracks for HICSS-41. - Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and verification of appropriate content. (Optional but strongly encouraged) - Manuscripts may not be submitted to more than one Minitrack Chair. (One will be summarily rejected.) If unsure which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair for guidance. - An Individual may be listed as author or co-author on a maximum of 6 submitted papers. - Authors may not be added after submission, unless approved by the appropriate Track Chair. - HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper. Therefore, author name(s) must not be included directly on the manuscript during the June 15 submission process. - Submit according to detailed Author Instructions posted on the HICSS web site http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_41/apahome41.html. Submit your full manuscript by June 15, and if accepted, submit the Final Version by Sept 15. CONFERENCE TRACKS Collaboration Systems and Technology Robert O. Briggs rbriggs@mail.unomaha.edu Jay Nunamaker jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu Decision Technologies and Service Sciences Dan Dolk drdolk@nps.edu Digital Media: Content and Communication Michael Shepherd shepherd@cs.dal.ca E-Government H. Jochen Scholl jscholl@u.washington.edu Electric Power Systems: Engineering, Economics and Policy Robert J. Thomas rjt1@cornell.edu Information Technology in Health Care William Chismar chismar@hawaii.edu Internet & the Digital Economy David King david.king@jda.com Alan Dennis ardennis@indiana.edu Knowledge Management Systems Murray Jennex murphjen@aol.com Dave Croasdell davec@unr.edu Organizational Systems & Technology Hugh Watson hwatson@terry.uga.edu Software Technology Gul Agha agha@cs.uiuc.edu Rick Kazman kazman@hawaii.edu CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION Ralph Sprague, Conference Chair sprague@hawaii.edu Sandra Laney, Conference Administrator hicss@hawaii.edu Eileen Robichaud, Track Administrator eidennis@indiana.edu ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... The 19th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on TOOLS with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ICTAI-2007) October 29-31, 2007 Patras, Greece Conference site: http://ictai07.ceid.upatras.gr ---------------------------------------------------------- ---- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Rudolf Kruse, Univesrity of Magdeburg, Germany Constantine D. Spyropoulos, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece ---------------------------------------------------------- ---- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all the technical aspects of specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI based components of computer tools (i.e. algorithms, methodologies, architectures or languages). TOPICS OF INTEREST include (but are not limited to) the following: AI Algorithms AI in Software Engineering AI in Bioinformatics AI in Games AI in Multimedia Systems AI in Real-time and Embedded Applications AI in E-commerce AI in Databases and Data Mining AI in Medicine AI in Computer Security and Information Assurance AI in Robotics AI in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Case-Based Reasoning Cognitive Modelling Constraint Programming Collaborative Software Agents Reasoning Under Fuzziness or Uncertainty Evolutionary Computing Hybrid Intelligent Systems Information Retrieval Intelligent Tutoring/Training Systems Intelligent Internet Agents Intelligent Interface Agents Knowledge-based Systems Knowledge Discovery Knowledge Extraction Knowledge Management and Sharing Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Machine Learning Natural Language and Speech Processing and Understanding Neural Networks Planning and Scheduling Qualitative Reasoning Search and Heuristics Vision and Image Processing and Understanding. SUBMISSION The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. The accepted papers will be included in the ICTAI-07 proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed). IMPORTANT DATES Papers submission: 1 June 2007 Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2007 Camera ready paper: 5 August 2007 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nikolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University, USA LOCAL CO-CHAIRS Constantinos Koutsojannis, University of Patras, Greece Spiros Sirmakessis, RACTI, Patras, Greece PC CHAIR Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece AREA CHAIRS Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete & FORTH, Greece Rudiger Brause, J.W. Goethe-Universitat, Germany Paola Campadelli, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Silvia Coradeschi, Orebro University, Sweden Nikolaos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece Eric Gregoire, University d'Artois, France Susan Haller, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University, USA Manolis Koubarakis, University of Athens, Greece Spiros Likothanasis, University of Patras, Greece Luigi Portinale, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada Chen-Yu (Phillip) Sheu, University of California at Irvine, USA Paolo Traverso, Trentino Cultural Institute, Italy Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece Du Zhang, California State University, USA PC MEMBERS Plamen Agelov, Lancaster University, UK Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Grigorios Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA Stefano Bistarelli, Univ `G. d'Annunzio', IIT-CNR, Italy Basilis Boutsinas, University of Patras, Greece Enhong Chen, University of Science & Technology, China Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, China Berthe Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Yannis Dimopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus George Dounias, University of the Aegean, Greece Anna Esposito, Second Naples University and IIASS, Italy Andres Folleco, Florida Atlantic University, USA Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA Ulrich Furbach, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany Artur Garcez, City University, UK Bogdan Gabrys, Bournemouth University,UK John Gallagher, Wright State University, USA Joao Gama, University of Porto, Portugal John Garofalakis, University of Patras, Greece Stratos Georgopoulos, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Marco Gori, Universita di Siena, Italy Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Praveen Kakumanu, Wright State University, Dayton OH, USA Dimitris Kalles, Hellenic Open University, Greece Alexandros Kalousis, University of Geneva, Switzerland Nikos Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece Vangelis Karkaletsis, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece, Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey Elpida Keravnou-Papaeliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Michail Lagoudakis, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece Edmund Lam, Univ of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Huey-Ming Lee, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan Aristeidis Likas, University of Ioannina, Greece Amy Loutfi, University of Orebro, Sweden Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech, USA George Magoulas, University of London, UK Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece Amol Mali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, South Carolina, USA Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA Florent Masseglia, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Barry McCollum, Queens University, Northern Ireland Paul McMullan, Queens University, Northern Ireland Stefania Montani, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Antonio Moreno, University Rovira i Virgilli, Spain Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Canada Amedeo Napoli, CNRS-INRIA-University of Nancy, France Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford, UK Vassilis Plagianakos, University of Patras, Greece George Potamias, FORTH, Greece Jim Prentzas, Technological Educational Institute of Lamia, Greece Vitorino Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Mario Refice, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Han Reichgelt, Georgia Southern Univ, USA Bob Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA Michel Rueher, Universite de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis, USA Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Naeem Seliya, University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA Sabrina Senatore, University of Salerno, Italy Kyriakos Sgarbas, University of Patras, Greece Victor R. L. Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Andreas Stafylopatis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Kostas Stergiou, University of the Aegean, Greece Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Vincent Tam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece Michael Vrahatis, University of Patras, Greece Christel Vrain, LIFO - Universite d'Orleans, France Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Xingquan Zhu, Florida Atlantic University, USA FURTHER INFORMATION Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (PC Chair) Dept of Computer Engineering & Informatics University of Patras 26500 Patras HELLAS (GREECE) Email: ihatz@ceid.upatras.gr URL: http://mmlab.ceid.upatras.gr/aigroup/ihatz/ ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* .........................................................................