17th International Conference on
Database and Expert Systems Applications
DEXA 2006
http://www.dexa.org

September 4-8, 2006
Krakow, Poland

The aim of DEXA 2006 is to present both research contributions in the area of data base and intelligent 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 2006 will include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of Database Systems and Information Systems
• Applications of Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems
• Constraint Modelling and Processing
• Data and Information Modelling
• Data and Information Integration
• Data and Information Networks
• Data and Information Privacy and Security
• Data and Information Quality
• Data and Information Semantics
• Data and Information Streams
• Database and Information System Architecture and Performace
• Data Mining
• Digital Libraries
• Distributed Data and Distributed Databases
• Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems
• Interoperability
• Knowledge Acquisition
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Modelling
• Knowledge Processing
• Mobile Data and Information
• Multimedia Databases
• Natural Language Interfaces
• Natural Language Processing
• Object, Object Relational, and Deductive Databases
• Pervasive Data and Information
• Process Modelling
• Process Support and Automation
• Query Processing and Optimisation
• Real-Time Databases
• Semantic Web and Ontologies
• Temporal and Spatial Databases
• User Interfaces to Databases and Information Systems
• WWW and Databases
• Workflow Management and Databases
• XML and Databases
• XML Query Processing and Optimisation

Conference Program Chairpersons:

• Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Josef Küng, FAW, University of Linz, Austria

Workshop Chairpersons:

• A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
• Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria

Publication Chairperson:

• Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

Local Arrangement Chairperson:

• Janusz Wielki, Opole University of Technology, Poland

Program Committee:
Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Michel Adiba, IMAG - Laboratoire LSR, France
Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ala Al-Zobaidie, University of Greenwich, UK
Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA
Ramazan S. Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan
Kurt Bauknecht, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, IBM T.J Watson Research Center, USA
Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Omran Bukhres, Purdue University School of Science, USA
Luis Camarinah - Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Antonio Cammelli, ITTIG-CNR, Italy
Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Barbara Catania, Universita' di Genova, Italy
Aaron Ceglar, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
Wojciech Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan, Poland
Elizabeth Chang, Curtin University, Australia
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, University of Maryland, USA
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Rosine Cicchetti, IUT, University of Marseille, France
Frans Coenen, The University of Liverpool, UK
Carlo Combi, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Tran Khanh Dang , HoChiMinh City University of Technology, Vietnam
John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Misbah Deen, University of Keele, United Kingdom
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, Australia
Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria
Amr El Abbadi, University of California, USA
Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan
Peter Fankhauser, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Ling Feng, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Simon Field, Matching Systems Ltd., Switzerland
Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Antonio L. Furtado, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do R.J., Brazil
Manolo Garcia-Solaco, IS Consultant, USA
Georges Gardarin, University of Versailles, France
Alexander Gelbukh, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion (CIC),
Instituto Politecnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico
Parke Godfrey, The College of William and Mary, Canada
Jan Goossenaerts, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA
Le Gruenwald, University of Oklahoma, USA
Abdelkader Hameurlain, University of Toulouse, France
Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Igor T. Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Wynne Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Randi Karlsen, University of Tromsö, Norway
Rudolf Keller, Zühlke Engineering AG, Switzerland
Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea
Stephen Kimani, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo University, Japan
Gary J. Koehler, University of Florida, USA
John Krogstie, SINTEF, Norway
Petr Kroha, Technische Universität Chemnitz-Zwickau, Germany
Lotfi Lakhal, University of Marseille, France
Christian Lang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jiri Lazansky , Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Thomas Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Young-Koo Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Michel Leonard, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Volker Linnemann, University of Luebeck, Germany
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Peri Loucopoulos, UMIST, United Kingdom
Feng Luo, Clemson University, USA
Sanjai Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Simone Marinai, University of Florence, Italy
Heinrich C. Mayr, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Subhasish Mazumdar, New Mexico Tech, USA
Pietro Mazzoleni, Università di Milano, Italy
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
Elisabeth Metais, CNAM, France
Mukesh Mohania, IBM-IRL, India
Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Noureddine Mouaddib, University of Nantes, France
Günter Müller, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
Wilfred Ng, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Matthias Nicola, IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA
Georgios Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Stott Parker, University of Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Verónika Peralta, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Günter Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Gerald Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Univ. of South Australia, Austria, Australia
Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University,, Australia
Isidro Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
P. Krishna Reddy, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Werner Retschitzegger, University of Linz, Austria
Norman Revell, Middlesex University, UK
Sally Rice, University 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, Université de Bourgogne, France
Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Darunee Smavatkul, Chiangmai University, Thailand
Giovanni Soda, University of Florence, Italy
Uma Srinivasan, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia
Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical university, Czech Repuplic
Zbigniew Struzik, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Makoto Takizawa , Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Katsumi Tanaka , Kyoto University, Japan
Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Stephanie Teufel , University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Jukka Teuhola, University of Turku, Finland
Bernd Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany
J.M. Thevenin, University of Toulouse, France
A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Roland Traunmüller, University of Linz, Austria
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, University of Athens, Greece
Genoveva Vargas-Solar, LSR-IMAG, France
Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar , Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada
Jesus Vilares Ferro, University of Coruna, Spain
Pavel Vogel, TU München, Germany
Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Jeffrey Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gian Piero Zarri, CNRS, France
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Paper Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English.
• The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings.
• Papers should not exceed 10 pages in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
• Any submission that exceeds length limits or deviates from formatting requirements may be rejected without review.
For paper registration and electronic submission see http://www.dexa.org starting in December 2005.

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, 2006, and to submit their paper electronically before February 28, 2006.

NEW DEADLINE:
* abstract: February 28, 2006
* paper: March 7, 2006

Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if, at any time during the time when the submission is under consideration, there is another paper with the following properties:

1. the paper and the DEXA, DaWaK, EC-Web, TrustBus submission have at least one author in common;
2. the paper is more than 4 pages long, when formatted in the DEXA format;
3. the main technical content of the paper substantially overlaps that of the DEXA, DaWaK, EC-Web, TrustBus submission; and
4. the paper is published or under consideration for publication in a refereed journal or proceedings (electronic or printed) that is generally available (e.g., not limited to conference attendees).

Authors are expected to agree to the following terms:
"I understand that the paper being submitted must not overlap substantially with any other paper that I am a co-author of and that is currently submitted elsewhere. Furthermore, previously published papers with any overlap are covered prominently in this submission."

Duplicate submissions will be rejected. Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be directed to the PC-chairs.

For further inquiries, please contact:
Prof. Dr. Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria (rrwagner@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, 2006 ==>> extended deadline February 28, 2006
* Submission of full papers: February 28, 2006 ==>> extended deadline March 7, 2006
* Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2006
* Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2006

Conference Organization Office:
Gabriela Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria (gabriela@faw.uni-linz.ac.at)