9th International Workshop on
Knowledge Representation meets Databases
(KRDB-2002)


with focus on
Modeling, Querying, and Managing Incomplete Information



Toulouse, France, April 21, 2002
affiliate event of KR 2002 (8th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning) ,
colocated with DL 2002 (15th International Workshop on Description Logics)


The 9th 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-2002 will be held in Toulouse (France), on April 21, 2002, as a workshop of the 8th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. The new deadline for submission is January 27, 2002.




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Topics

Databases and knowledge bases are both used to model application domains and to facilitate access to stored information. Research in KR originally concentrated around formalisms that are typically tuned to deal with relatively small knowledge bases, but provide powerful reasoning services, and are highly expressive. In contrast, DB research mainly dealt with efficient storage, retrieval, and sharing large amounts of data. However, data representation and query languages were relatively simple, and reasoning played only a minor role. This distinction between the requirements in KR and DB is vanishing rapidly. On the one hand, to be useful in realistic applications, a modern KR system must be able to handle large data sets. This suggests that techniques developed in the DB area could be useful for knowledge bases. On the other hand, the information stored in DBs is becoming more complex, thus requiring more intelligent retrieval and reasoning techniques. The goal of the workshop is to bring together people from the Database and the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning communities, in order to compare different points of views and various sets of techniques that can be used for the tasks related to Modeling, Querying and Managing Incomplete Information .


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Program Committee

Organizing Committee

Marie-Christine Rousset
University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
mcr@lri.fr
Alex Borgida
Rutgers University, USA
borgida@cs.rutgers.edu
Diego Calvanese
Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
calvanese@dis.uniroma1.it
Laurence Cholvy
ONERA Centre de Toulouse, France
cholvy@cert.fr

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline January 27, 2002
Acceptance Notification March 1, 2002
Final Version Due  March 20, 2002
The Workshop  April 21, 2002

Invited Speaker

  • Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy.

    • Technical Program

    Proceedings

    Accepted papers are printed in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be electronically published as CEUR-Workshop Proceedings at http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/. At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants.

    Information for authors

    The final version should be no longer than 12 pages formatted according to this example LaTeX file (the same as for KRDB 2000). You can also view a compiled version of this example file which contains some more explanations concerning the requested style. Finally, you can view an example of paper formatted with the above style (taken from KRDB 2000). Please avoid headers,footers, and page numbering.

    Final versions should be sent by electronic mail as standard postscript or .pdf file attachments to cholvy@cert.fr and must arrive before March 20, 2002.

    Registration Information

    Workshop participants should register using the KR2002 Registration form. Note that registration to KR2002 is not mandatory.

    Accepted Papers

    List of titles and authors .

    Previous Editions

    The 9th 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. Previous workshops were held in conjunction with various AI or database conferences: KRDB'94, Saarbruecken, Germany; KRDB'95, Bielefeld, Germany; KRDB'96, Budapest, Hungary (in conjunction with ECAI'96); KRDB'97, Athens, Greece (in conjunction with VLDB'97); KRDB'98, Seattle, WA, USA (in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS'98), KRDB'99, Linkoeping, Sweden (affiliate event of IJCAI'99), and KRDB 2000, Berlin, Germany (in conjunction with ECAI-2000); KRDB'01, Roma, Italy (in conjunction with VLDB'01). Researchers in the two areas of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB) develop techniques for the same fundamental problem, namely, to define in a declarative way representations of relevant aspects of an application domain, to provide methods to query such representations, and to support their evolution. KRDB is a forum for exchanging ideas between DB and KR researchers. Equally important is the KRDB tradition of stimulating the discussion between researchers and practitioners. The home page of the KRDB workshop series is at http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Societies/KRDB.


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