C A L L F O R P A P E R S 14th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2003 http://www.dexa.org September 1-5, 2003 Prague, Czech Republic The aim of DEXA 2003 is to present both research contributions in the area of data base and expert systems and a large spectrum of already implemented or just being developed applications. DEXA will offer the opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in the field. Suggested Topics The main topics of DEXA 2003 will include, but are not limited to: * Active and Deductive Databases * CIM - Applications * Client Server and Open Network Databases * Connectionist Models * Constraint Based Reasoning * CSCW * Databases in the Humanities * Digital Libraries * Distributed and Parallel Database Systems * Expert Systems Architecture * Hypertext / Hypermedia * Information Modelling * Information Retrieval * Interoperable Databases * Knowledge Acquisition * Knowledge Engineering * Legal Information Systems * Mobile Information Systems * Multimedia Databases * Natural Language Interfaces/Processing * Object-Oriented Databases * Office Information Systems * Qualitative Reasoning * Realtime Databases * Reverse Engineering * Scientific/Engineering Applications * Security * Social/Governmental Information Systems * Statistical Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Uncertainty Handling * Uncertainty Reasoning * User Interfaces to Databases * Workflow and Process Automation * WWW Interfaces General Chairperson: Valdimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Conference Program Chairpersons: Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Werner Retschitzegger, University of Linz, Austria Workshop Chairpersons: A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria Paper Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (i.e. 10 LNCS formatted pages). Paper submission in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) would be highly appreciated. For paper registration and electronic submission please see http://www.dexa.org Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by February 21, 2003 and to submit their paper electronically before February 28, 2003. For further inquiries, please contact: Prof. Dr. Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria rwagner@faw.uni-linz.ac.at or the Conference Organisation Office (gabriela@faw.uni-linz.ac.at) All accepted conference papers will be published in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: February 21, 2003 * Submission of full papers: February 28, 2003 * Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2003 * Camera-ready copies due: June 1, 2003 Program Committee Members: Michel Adiba, IMAG - Laboratoire LSR, France Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ala Al-Zobaidie, University of Greenwich, UK Bernd Amann, CNAM, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland Trevor Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Alfs Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, USA Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Jon Bing, University of Oslo, Norway Christian Böhm, UMIT, Austria Alex Borgida; Rutgers University, USA Omran Bukhres, Purdue University, USA Luis Camarinah-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal Antonio Cammelli, IDG-CNR, Italy Fabio Casati, HP Laboratories, USA Wojciech Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan, Poland Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Panos Chrysanthis, Univ. of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA Paolo Ciaccia, University of Bologna, Italy Rosine Cicchetti, IUT, University of Marseille, France Carlo Combi, University of Udine, Italy John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Misbah Deen, University of Keele, United Kingdom Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Nina Edelweiss, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Thomas Eiter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany Peter Fankhauser, GMD-IPSI, Germany Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA Simon Field, IBM Research Division, Switzerland Burkhard Freitag, University of Passau, Germany Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Antonio L. Furtado, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Georges Gardarin, University of Versailles, France Alexander Gelbukh, CIC, IPN, Mexico Parke Godfrey, York University, Canada Paul Grefen, University of Twente, The Netherlands William Grosky, Wayne State University, USA Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Igor T. Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan Magdi N. Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Nabil Kamel, American University in Cairo, Egypt Gerti Kappel, University of Linz, Austria Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria Randi Karlsen, University of Tromsö, Norway Rudolf Keller, Zühlke Engineering AG, Switzerland Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan Gary J. Koehler, University of Florida, USA Donald Kossmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany Petr Kroha, Technical University Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany John Krogstie, SINTEF, Norway Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria Lotfi Lakhal, University of Marseille, France Jiri Lazansky, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Michel Leonard, University of Geneve, Switzerland Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada Fred Lochovsky, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Peri Loucopoulos, UMIST, United Kingdom Sanjai Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Subhasish Mazumdar, New Mexico Tech, USA Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA Robert Meersman, Free University Brussels, Belgium Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM of Paris, France Zoran Milosevic, University of Queensland, Australia Mukesh Mohania, IBM-IRL, India Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Noureddine Mouaddib, University of Nantes, France Günter Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany Erich J. Neuhold, Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA Francois Pacull, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France Georgios Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Stott Parker, University of Los Angeles (UCLA), USA Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Marco Patella, University of Bologna, Italy Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Günter Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia Isidro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain P. Krishna Reddy, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz, Germany Norman Revell, Middlesex University, UK Sally Rice, Unversity of South Australia, Australia John Roddick, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Colette Rolland, University Paris I, Sorbonne, France Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Domenico Sacca, University of Calabria, Italy Simonas Saltenis,Aalborg University, Denmark Marinette Savonnet, University of Bourgogne, France Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria Ming-Chien Shan, HP Laboratories, USA Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Michael H. Smith, University of California, USA Giovanni Soda, University of Florence, Italy Harald Sonnberger, CEC Brussels, Belgium Günther Specht, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Uma Srinivasan, CSIRO, Australia Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Zbigniew Struzik, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan Zahir Tari, University of Melbourne, Australia Stephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Germany Jukka Teuhola, University of Turku, Finland Bernd Thalheim, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany Jean Marc Thevenin, University of Toulouse, France Helmut Thoma, IBM Global Services Basel, Switzerland A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece Susan Urban, Arizona State University, USA Genovena Vargas-Solar, LSR-IMAG, France Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada Pavel Vogel, Technical University of Munich, Germany Roland R. Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea Michael Wing, Middlesex University, UK Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, France Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Aidong Zhang, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA Conference Organisation Office: Gabriela Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria