Second Call for Papers NGITS '97 The Third International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems June 30 - July 3, 1997 Neve Ilan (near Jerusalem), ISRAEL Main sponsors: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology The next generation information systems will be complex, intelligent, and cooperative, and will utilize various multimedia-media technologies. The goal of the NGITS Workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing issues and solutions related to next generation information systems and the technologies that would make them possible. Following the success of the two previous workshops that were held in 1993 and 1995, a third workshop will take place in 1997. The workshop will feature paper sessions, panel discussions and talks by invited speakers. All accepted papers will appear in a workshop proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering. Workshop Topics ================= The scope of the workshop includes (not exclusively) the following topics: o Decision Support Systems: data warehousing; data mining; web querying. o Electronic Commerce and Interoperability: security and privacy; brokering; information integration (especially on the web); cooperation among heterogeneous information systems; information mediation. o Data and knowledge base systems: advanced models and languages; data integrity and quality; management of spatial and temporal data. o Data modeling: conceptual and logical design; modeling methods and tools; schema integration; forward and reverse data engineering. o Information retrieval: document and multimedia information systems; information extraction, indexing and filtering; digital libraries. o Human-computer interaction: user interface design, human-computer cooperation. o AI techniques: knowledge management; knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge discovery; coordination technologies and agent architectures. o Software engineering and information systems development: analysis and design methods and techniques; CASE tools; object- and process-oriented approaches; project management, software metrics and estimation. o Management information systems: decision support systems; executive information systems; office automation; value of information; evaluation of information systems. o Advanced applications: services and tools to support information infrastructure, scientific and geographical databases; advanced manufacturing systems; health care (medical) information systems. We solicit contributions of three kinds: * Full research papers * Short position papers * Proposals for panel discussions All contributions must emphasize their relevance to issues of next generation information technologies and systems, and must be addressed to an audience of diverse background and interests. - The category of "research papers" is intended for technical papers describing research accomplishments. - The category of "short position papers" is intended for papers that discuss new challenges and visionary solutions. - Proposals for panels should include an abstract of the subject and likely participants. Program Committee Chairs ======================== Avi Silberschatz Peretz Shoval Information Sciences Research center Information Systems Program Bell Laboratories Dept. of Industrial Engin. & Manage. 700 Mountain Ave Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel avi@bell-labs.com shoval@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Fax: 908 582-5809 Fax: +972 7-647-2958 Organizing and Local Arrangement Chairs ======================================= Opher Etzion and Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000, Israel ngits@ie.technion.ac.il Fax: + 972 4-8235194 Invited Talks ============= Invited takls will be given by the following speakers: - David Harel, Weitzman Institute of Science, Israel - Arne Solvberg, Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology, Norway - Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Information For Authors ======================= A research papers should not exceed 5000 words (approx. 10 LateTex pages, or 20 double-spaced pages) - including figures, tables and references. Short position papers are limited to 2000 words. We shall attempt to handle the submission and review processes by electronic mail and request that you submit your contributions by mailing a PostScript or RTF or MS-WORD or ASCII text file containing your paper to Peretz Shoval at the above e-mail address. Otherwise, please send 3 copies of your paper to BOTH co-chairs at the above postal addresses. Full-paper and Short-paper submissions must include the following: a) title; b) names and affiliations of authors; c) e-mail and address of the corresponding author; d) abstract; e) a list of 4-6 keywords/phrases that characterize the paper f) body of the paper; g) references/bibliography. Important Dates =============== 31 January 1997: Submissions of papers due 15 March 1997: Notification of acceptance 15 April 1997: Camera-ready manuscripts due June 30 - July 3, 1997: The workshop Location ======== The workshop will take place in Nave-Ilan, a resort village not far from Jerusalem. The workshop will include sightseing tours in the Jerusalem area. Steering Committee ================== + Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA + Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA + Noshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel + Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Program Committee ================= + Nabil Adam , Rutgers University, USA + Barbara Blaustein, NSF, USA + Yuri Breitbart, Univ of Kentuky, USA + Cartiel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel + Dan Berry, Technion, Israel + Ron Brachman, AT&T Research, USA + Olga De Troyer, Tilburg University, The Nederlands + Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey + Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel + Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel + Avigdor Gal, University of Toronto, Canada + Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel + Hans Hansen, Viena U. of Economics & Business Admin., Austria + Haim Kilov, IBM at Watson, USA + Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Belgium + Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University, Israel + Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA + Doron Rotem, LBL, USA + Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel + S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India + Bernhard Thalheim, Cotbus Technical University, Germany + Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA + Doug Tygar, CMU, USA + Jeff Ullman, Stanford University, USA + Riend Van De Riet, Vrije University, The Netherlands + Yelena Yesha, University of Mariland, USA + Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA + Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA UPTODATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WWW SITE: http://iew3.technion.ac.il:8080/Home/NGITS97.phtml