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9th
IFIP 2.6 WORKING CONFERENCE ON DATABASE SEMANTICS (DS-9)
E-commerce systems have been capturing the popular imagination and purse in recent times. They involve a complex interaction between Web Based Internet related software, application software and databases. It is clear that the success of e-commerce systems is going to be dependent not only on the technology of these systems but also on the quality of the underlying databases and supporting processes. To date insufficient attention has been focussed on such issues. Whilst database studies have achieved considerable success in the wider market place, the main effort has been on tools and techniques for high volume but fairly simplistic record management. These modern advanced e-commerce systems require a paradigm shift to allow the representation and manipulation of complex information on the Web and Internet. This requires the development of complex methodologies, environments and tools to allow one to easily understand the underlying structure to facilitate access, manipulation and modification of such information. An essential characteristic to gain understanding is a clearly defined semantics for e-commerce systems and databases.Therefore, in this ninth Data Semantics Working Conference, the focus is on those issues of e-commerce systems that involve the semantics of the information represented, stored and manipulated by these systems. This not only includes methodologies for application domain modeling, formal representations of e-commerce aspects of knowledge, the role of semantics, Internet based transmission and display of data, etc. but also issues in user interfacing and process modeling, architectures that better enable integrity, consistency, interoperation reuse of components, or reports on prototypes illustrating new aspects of such systems from a semantically relevant viewpoint.The purpose of the DS-9 International IFIP Working Conference, as its predecessors since 1985, is to provide an active forum for researchers and practitioners for presentation and exchange of research results and practical management of databases, this time applied to systems containing e-commerce information. By organizing this conference, we want to encourage researchers and practitioners to submit original contributions and case studies that elucidate semantic issues.
Conference Chair: Tutorial Chair: Organising Chair: Publicity Chair: Finance Chair: Industrial Chairs: Joseph Fong Registration Chair: Webmaster: AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE November 30, 2000 December 8, 2000 February 1, 2001 March 5, 2001 April 23 - 24, 2001 April 25 - 28, 2001
Authors are invited to submit contributions in English that are directly relevant to the issues. Four copies of the submission (from 6000 to 8000 words, not including abstract and references) must be sent to: Karl Aberer(DS-9 Working Conference) Each copy should have a cover page with the name, title, and address (including e-mail address) of authors, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Electronic submissions will be accepted. However a hardcopy must also be sent. The conference will publish both local proceedings to be delivered at the conference, as well as a post-conference proceedings in the form of a book. Deadline for submissions is December 8th, 2000. Proposals for panels should include a one-page description of the subject matter and should be submitted electronically to Prof. Robert Meersman (meersman@vub.ac.be). Proposals for tutorials should include a one-page description of the subject matter and should be submitted electronically to Prof. Peter Fankhauser (fankhauser@darmstadt.gmd.de).
Qing Li Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Ave Hong Kong Email: csqli@cs.cityu.edu.hk Tel: (852)-2788-9695 Fax: (852)-2788-8614 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
