Fw: First CFP: NGITS 2006

> ===============
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> ===============
>
> NGITS 2006
> 6th International Workshop on
> Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems
> July 4-6, 2006
> Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel
> http://mis.haifa.ac.il/~ngits
>
> NGITS 2006 is the sixth workshop in a series that was launched in 1993 to
> promote research on new technologies in information systems. Information
> on
> the previous five NGITS workshops may be found at
> http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/ngits/index.html.
>
> The NGITS workshop is a 3-day event that combines keynote addresses,
> presentations of research papers, discussion panels, technical
> demonstrations,
> and social events.
>
> Authors are invited to submit papers that describe original research
> results
> ("research papers"). In addition, authors may submit papers that outline
> new
> viewpoints and challenges ("vision papers"), or describe the
implementation
> or
> deployment of a novel technology in an actual setting ("experience
> papers").
> Submissions may be either full papers or extended abstracts. Proposals
for
> panels and demonstrations are also solicited.
>
> Proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer-Verlag's LNCS
> series, and will be distributed to all participants at the conference.
>
> =======================================
> 1. OVERALL THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
> =======================================
>
> We solicit papers on all aspects of information systems. Of particular
> interest are works that combine multiple disciplines of computer science
to
> develop new technologies for information systems. To illustrate the scope
> of
> NGITS, a list of topics is given below, but note that submissions are not
> limited to these topics.
>
> - Information systems design and development
> - Workflow management
> - Information integration
> - Cooperative information systems
> - Information quality
> - Information security and privacy
> - Data warehousing and OLAP
> - Data mining and knowledge discovery
> - Information retrieval, filtering, and extraction
> - Knowledge management and ontologies
> - The semantic web
> - Web services
> - Semi-structured data
> - User interfaces to information and information visualization
> - New challenges for database technology
> (e.g., multimedia information, biological information)
> - Information systems for specific domains
> (e.g., health, education, commerce, government)
>
> ===================
> 2. INVITED SPEAKERS
> ===================
>
> The workshop will feature three keynote addresses by well-known speakers.
> Full details will be provided soon.
>
> ==================
> 3. IMPORTANT DATES
> ==================
>
> - Title and abstract (encouraged): January 1, 2006
> - Full or brief papers: February 1, 2006
> - Panel and demonstration proposals: February 1, 2006
> - Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2002
> - Camera-ready papers: April 15, 2006
> - NGITS 2006 Workshop: July 4-6, 2006
>
> =================
> 4. WORKSHOP VENUE
> =================
>
> The workshop venue is the hotel and conference center at Kibbutz Shefayim,
> located near the Mediterranean coast about 10 miles (16 km) north of Tel
> Aviv,
> http://www.h-shefayim.co.il.
>
> =============
> 5. ORGANIZERS
> =============
>
> PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
> Opher Etzion, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
> Amihai Motro, George Mason University, USA
>
> GENERAL CHAIR:
> Tsvi Kuflik, Haifa University, Israel
>
> LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
> Nilly Schnapp, Israel
>
> STEERING COMMITTEE:
> Opher Etzion, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
> Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel
> Alon Halevy, University of Washington, USA
> Amihai Motro, George Mason University, USA
> Ron Pinter, Technion, Israel
> Avi Silberschatz, Yale University, USA
> Peretz Shoval, Ben Gurion University, Israel
> Shalom Tsur, USA
>
> ====================
> 6. PROGRAM COMMITTEE
> ====================
>
> Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France
> Nabil Adam, Rutgers University
> Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
> Irit Askira-Gelman, University of Arizona, USA
> Iris Berger, Haifa University, Israel
> Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University, Israel
> Dan Berry, Waterloo University, Canada
> Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
> Martin Bichler, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
> Andrei Broder, Yahoo Research, USA
> Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson, USA
> Alessandro D'Atri, Luiss University, Italy
> Vijay Dialani, IBM Almaden Center, USA
> Anhai Doan, University of Illinois - Urbana, USA
> Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
> Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA
> Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
> Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
> Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
> Alfons Kemper, Technische Universität München, Germany
> Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
> Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
> Yossi Matias, Tel Aviv University, Israel
> Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
> Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India
> Felix Naumann, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany
> George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
> Norman Paton, University of Manchaster, UK
> Francesco Ricci, L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
> Naphtali Rishe, Florida International University, USA
> Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
> Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
> Pnina Soffer, Haifa University, Israel
> Carlo Strapparava, L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura, Italy
> Steve Schach, Vanderbilt University, USA
> Yuval Shahar, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
> Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois - Chicago, USA
> Carlo Zaniolo, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
>
> ===================
> 7. PAPER SUBMISSION
> ===================
>
> All papers should be submitted via the workshop's Web site at
> http://mis.haifa.ac.il/~ngits. Submissions must be in PDF format and in
> Springer's LNCS format. Full papers are limited to 12 pages, and extended
> abstracts are limited to 4 pages. Authors should indicate their type of
> submission by noting under the paper title (1) whether its primary
> contribution is "Research", "Vision" or "Experience", and (2) whether it
is
> a
> "Full Paper" or an "Extended Abstract". Additional details on the
> submission
> procedure may be found at the workshop's Web site.
>
> ====================================
> 8. PANEL AND DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS
> ====================================
>
> Suggestions for panels and demonstrations should be sent to one of the
> program
> co-chairs by February 1, 2006. Panel proposals should include a title, an
> abstract and a list of 4-8 participants. Proposal for demonstrations
> should
> include a brief description.
>
> ========================================
>
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Received on Wed Oct 26 09:34:22 2005