text_combined: cfp workshop intelligent information integration ecai 98 please forward message colleagues might interested apologise receive multiple copies call papers international interdisciplinary workshop intelligent information integration http www tzi org grp i3 wsecai 98 25 august 1998 european conference artificial intelligence ecai 98 brighton centre brighton uk submission deadline 27 march 1998 technical description due intranets internets information sources become technically available include knowledge bases data bases semistructured data e g html pages increasing number users either wishes integrate different information sources uniform view consequence integration heterogeneous information sources become field investigation growing importance schematic semantic heterogeneity one difficulties integration heterogeneous knowledge data bases normally information every information source stored regards users requirements e g application disregarding access sites integration semantically similar information thus may stored different structures e g name may stored either one string two strings split first name last name different information representations e g ranking values represented either numbers symbols several distinct research development areas explicitly implicitly addressing semantic heterogeneity approaches reconcile semantic conflict implicitly federated databases example integrate local databases one virtual global database time preserving autonomy local database looselycoupled systems like multidatabases query languages extended access different information systems however help user heterogeneity problem groups want exchange knowledge data via standards e g kif step etc different semantics standard information source correlated approaches take semantics knowledge data closely account represent semantics explicitly darpa intelligent information integration initiative approaches developed represent meaning ontologies meta data contexts ontologies may used reconcile conflicts act global domain specification however still great number disciplines whose subtask least integration information although research development community view integration information sources basic problems concerning example semantic schematic heterogeneity remain interesting aspect different groups tackle problem different ways aim workshop bring together heterogeneous groups order create forum participants compare individual approaches theme interdisciplinary workshop intelligent information integration covers topics related integration heterogeneous data information knowledge sources workshop bring together researchers developers practitioners discuss research development directions intelligent integration information topics interest include limited wrappers mediators integration approaches using ontologies contexts design principles ontologies used integration languages information integration advanced integration architectures semantic schematic vocabulary data heterogeneity information sources internet intranet classification schemes mediators semantic heterogeneity etc tools supporting information integration reviews evaluation existing integration approaches practical experience integration approaches theoretical perspectives information integrations ontology mapping ontology algebras context logic intelligent information retrieval security aspects change management federated databases multidatabases integration uncertain inaccurate sources submission procedure authors invited submit original research contributions experience reports english submitted papers must unpublished substantially different papers review papers presented small workshops symposia whose proceedings available attendees may submitted papers doublespaced longer 12 pages text formats latex microsoft word 6 0 higher accepted papers sent electronically later march 27 1998 holger wache wache tzi org authors submit papers electronically please send 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stefan conrad university magdeburg germany adam faquar stanford university usa enrico franconi irst italy james hendler university maryland usa manfred jeusfeld kub tilburg university netherlands craig knoblock university southern california usa alon levy university washington usa eduardo mena university basque country spain robert meersman vrije universiteit brussel belgium werner nutt hebrew university jerusalem israel mike papazoglou kub tilburg university netherlands john sowa binghamton university usa