LINGUIST List 10.909

Tue Jun 15 1999

Confs: Knowledge Representations and Databases

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

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1. Enrico Franconi, KRDB'99: early bird registration deadline approaching

		 6th International Workshop on 
		 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES
				(KRDB'99)

			 Linkoeping (Sweden)
			 July 29-30, 1999

			 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 6th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual 
international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between 
the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in 
1994. 

KRDB'99 is an affiliate event with IJCAI'99 (Stockholm, 3-6 August 1999),
and the International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'99, Linkoeping,
July 30 - August 1 1999).

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 INVITED SPEAKERS

- MOSHE VARDI (Rice University, TX, USA): Model Checking and Finite Model
 Theory in the different contexts of Computational Logics, Knowledge
 Representation, and Database Theory.

- RAY REITER (University of Toronto, Canada): Modelling Transactions for
 Incomplete Relational Databases.

- NATASHA ALECHINA (University of Nottingham, UK): Tutorial on (Modal)
 Logics for Semi-Structured Data.

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 INFORMATION

For detailed information on program, registration and accommodation check
the web page of the workshop at:

< http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/img/krdb99/ >.

Early bird registration deadline: June 15.

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Workshop Chairs

 Enrico Franconi
 University of Manchester, UK
 < franconics.man.ac.uk >

 Michael Kifer
 University at Stony Brook, USA
 < kifercs.sunysb.edu >

Program Committee

Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France
Jan Van den Bussche, University of Limburg, Belgium
Diego Calvanese, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy
Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA
Jan Chomicki, Monmouth University, USA
Rick Hull, Lucent Technologies, USA
Mathias Jarke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg, Germany
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Werner Nutt, DFKI, Germany
Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy

Local Chair

Patrick Lambrix, Linkoeping University, Sweden
< patlaida.liu.se >

Executive Committee

Franz Baader, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
Manfred Jeusfeld, KUB Tilburg, The Netherlands
Werner Nutt, DFKI, Germany