gabriele kernisberner cbzllrjaiadfsizpcbzlcsunidortmundde apologies receive multiple copies c l l f r p p e r fifth international symposium foundations information knowledge systems foiks 2008 february 1115 2008 pisa italy http2008foiksorg foiks symposia provide biennial forum presenting discussing theoretical applied research information knowledge systems goal bring together researchers interest subject share research experiences promote collaboration identify new issues directions future research foiks 2008 solicits original contributions dealing foundational aspect information knowledge systems including submissions researchers working fields discrete mathematics logic algebra model theory information theory complexity theory algorithmics computation statistics optimisation interested applying ideas theories methods research information knowledge systems previous foiks symposia held budapest hungary 2006 vienna austria 2004 schloss salzau near kiel germany 2002 burgspreewald near berlin germany 2000 foiks took tradition conference series mathematical fundamentals database systems mfdbs initiated eastwest collaboration field database theory former mfdbs conferences held rostock germany 1991 visegrad hungary 1989 dresden germany 1987 foiks symposia forum intensive discussions speakers given sufficient time present results expound relevant background information put research context furthermore participants asked advance prepare correspondents contribution another author suggested topics include limited database design formal models dependency theory schema translations desirable properties dynamics information knowledge systems models transactions models interaction updates consistency preservation concurrency control information integration heterogeneous data views schema dominance equivalence integrity constraint management verification validation enforcement consistency triggers intelligent agents multiagent systems autonomous agents foundations software agents cooperative agents knowledge discovery information retrieval machine learning data mining text mining information extraction knowledge representation planning reasoning techniques description logics knowledge belief belief revision update nonmonotonic formalisms uncertainty logics databases ai nonclassical logics spatial temporal logics probabilistic logics deontic logic logic programming mathematical foundations discrete structures algorithms graphs grammars automata abstract machines finite model theory information theory security risk management information knowledge systems privacy trust cryptography steganography information hiding semistructured data xml data modelling data processing data compression data exchange semantic web knowledge management languages ontologies agents adaption intelligent algorithms www models web databases web dynamics web services web transactions negotiations submission papers papers must typeset using springerverlag latex2e style llncs lecture 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august 8 2007 paper submission deadline august 15 2007 author notification october 15 2007 camera ready paper due november 12 2007 early registration due january 31 2008 late registration february 01 2008 symposium pisa italy february 1115 2008 conference chairs program committee cochairs sven hartmann massey university new zealand gabriele kernisberner university dortmund germany local arrangements chair carlo meghini istituto di scienza e tecnologie dellinformazione italy publicity chair markus kirchberg massey university new zealand program committee rudolf ahlswede university bielefeld germany catriel beeri hebrew university jerusalem israel leopoldo bertossi carleton university canada joachim biskup university dortmund germany stefan brass university halle germany cristian calude university auckland new zealand john cantwell royal institute technology sweden samir chopra city university new york usa james p delgrande simon fraser university canada juergen dix clausthal university technology germany rod downey victoria university wellington new zealand thomas eiter vienna university technology austria lluis godo lacasa institut dinvestigacioen intelligencia artificial spain stephen j hegner umea university sweden anthony hunter university college london uk hyunchul kang chungang university seoul korea odej kao berlin university technology germany gyula h katona hungarian academy sciences hungary hansjoachim klein university kiel germany dexter kozen cornell university usa jerome lang institut de recherche en informatique de toulouse france uwe leck university wisconsin usa mark levene birbeck university london uk sebastian link massey university new zealand yue lu east china normal university shanghai china thomas lukasiewicz universita di roma la sapienza italy carlo meghini istituto di scienza e tecnologie dellinformazione italy peter mika yahoo research barcelona spain wilfred h ng hong kong university science technology china beng chin ooi national university singapore jeff b paris university manchester uk henri prade universite paul sabatier france attila sali hungarian academy sciences hungary vladimir sazonov university liverpool uk klausdieter schewe massey university new zealand karl schlechta universite de provence france dietmar seipel university wuerzburg germany guillermo r simari universidad nacional del sur argentina nicolas spyratos university parissouth france ernest teniente universitat politecnica de catalunya spain bernhard thalheim university kiel germany yannis theodoridis university piraeus greece miroslav truszczynski university kentucky usa jose maria turulltorres massey university wellington new zealand dirk van gucht indiana university usa marina de vos university bath uk jef wijsen university monshainaut belgium ian h witten university waikato new zealand jeffrey xu yu chinese university hong kong china information information refer foiks 2008 website http2008foiksorg prof dr gabriele kernisberner university dortmund dept computer science chair vi information engineering 44221 dortmund germany phone 492317552045 fax 49231755 2405 email cbzllrjaiadfsizpcbzlcsunidortmundde fri 08 aug 2008 042002 0000 uai cfp foiks 2008