Information for Authors

A n n o u n c e m e n t
and
CALL FOR PAPERS

The 3rd International Workshop on Computer Science and Information Technologies (CSIT)

September 21-26, 2001
Ufa, Russia
Yangantau Resort

Home page: http://csit.ugatu.ac.ru

The Workshop is supported by:

- Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU)
- State Committee of Science and Education of Republic Bashkortostan
- Ufa Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciencies
- Bashkirian Regional Center of Novative Information Technologies
- Russian Federal Program "Integration"
- Institute for Contemporary Education "JurInforR-MSU" (Moscow)

In collaboration with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)

IMPORTANT DATES April 20, 2001 Paper submission May 20, 2001 E-mail Notification of acceptance June 5, 2001 Postscript and LaTeX Version of Paper

Description:

CSIT will be a forum for presentation of new results in research, development, and applications in computing and information. The organizers expect both practitioners and theorists to attend. The workshop will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, invited talks by leading experts, tutorials, and special sections like industrial programs and posters on ongoing research projects in Eastern European countries.
Workshop provides special sections to Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) contributions as well as Ph.D. students contributions. Selected presentations and contributions are to be identified for development into full proceeding papers. Papers with student as a primary author will be specially considered.
The submissions will be judged not only for scientific quality but also for suitability as a basis for broader discussion.

Place of Workshop:

The workshop will take place in Yangantau - one of the most attractive resort of Baskortostan, situated among picturesque Ural hills.
September is the most favourable time for rest in Yangantau.
The average temperature in September is 15-25 C.
The guests are accommodated in comfortable rooms of international level.

The topics are but not limited to:

-  Meta Logics
-  Knowledge Representation
-  Belief Networks
-  Description Logics
-  Relevance Theory

-  AI Methodologies
-  Expert Systems
-  Knowledge Engineering
-  Conceptual Modeling
-  WWW, WISs

-  Data models for the Web
-  XML and semistructured data management
-  Languages for the Web and XML
-  Query processing and systems for the Web and XML
-  Warehousing of Web data
-  Data-intensive applications on the Web

-  Emerging Web techniques 
-  E-business and e-commerce Web Applications
-  B2B and B2C e-commerce solutions
-  Web Community Systems
-  Distance Education and Distance Learning

-  Distributed and mobile agents
-  Database services
-  Integration of distributed object and Web technologies
-  Design of CORBA, COM- and Java-based broker applications
-  Wrapper libraries and wrapper implementation strategies

-  Image, Video, Audio Content Analysis and Indexing/Retrieval 
-  Multimedia data access over internet 
-  Distributed multimedia applications 
-  Multimedia Storage Management 

-  Information systems and telecommunication
-  Component based information systems
-  Enterprise and business-process modeling
-  Agent technology
-  Security issues in information systems
-  Agent oriented information retrieval
-  Foundations of Intelligent Information agents

-  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
-  Enterprise Modeling and Business Process Re-engineering
-  Workflow Modeling
-  Knowledge Management
-  Component Engineering
-  Metamodeling
-  Information Modeling (ER, ORM, etc.)
-  Software Engineering
-  Requirement Engineering
-  Database Modeling
-  Geographical Information Systems

-  Advanced applications of databases 
-  Agent technology and information management 
-  Cooperative information systems 
-  Parallel and distributed database systems 
-  Performance and benchmarking 
-  Query processing and optimization 
-  Semi-structured data 
-  Storage management and access methods 
-  Spatial and temporal database systems 
-  Text database and information retrieval 
-  Transaction management 
-  Visualizing the structure and content of databases 
-  Web and database technology 

-  Conceptual Modeling in Information System
-  Theoretical Foundations for Conceptual Modeling
-  Models for cooperation and integration of information systems
-  Databases integrators and wrappers
-  Digital libraries

-  DataBase Systems
-  Software and Data Engineerng and CASE Methodology
-  Data Models
-  Data Mining
-  Data Warehousing
-  Internet and Databases
-  Persistent Systems
-  Heterogeneous and Federated Databases
-  Active Databases
-  Database Design
-  Object Oriented Databases
-  Mobile Database
-  Engineering Databases
-  Temporal Databases
-  Multimedia Databases
-  Query Languages, Query Processing, Query Optimization
-  Data security

Authors are invited to submit manuscript to the address

csit2001@ugatu.ac.ru
by the submission deadline. Papers should be original work, which has not been submitted previously or concurrently to another location.

Submission Guidelines:

Submitted papers must clearly describe new ideas or experimental results, which have not been previously published in refereed journals of conferences. Papers should clearly explain the significant contributions and their relationship to previous work. Papers will be judged on originality, clarity, relevance, and soundness of methodology.
Each paper should include a short abstract and a list of keywords indicating subject classification. Authors names and institutions should be identified on a cover page.
Papers should be written in English. Authors may submit drafts of full papers or extended abstracts. Submissions are limited to 12 A4-size pages, with 1 inch margins and 11 point or larger font.
Authors who feel that more details are necessary may include a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. If available, e-mail addresses and fax numbers of the authors should be included.

Electronic Submissions:

Electronic submission is strongly encouraged.
Self-contained gzipped Postscript versions of the paper may be sent by E-mail to:

csit2001@ugatu.ac.ru

In addition, the following information in ASCII format should be sent to this address in a separate e-mail: Title; authors; communicating author's name, address, and e-mail address and fax number if available, abstract of paper.

Workshop Proceedings:

The Workshop Proceedings will be published both in a hard copy and electronically. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the workshop. The proceedings will be available via WWW Site and Anonymous FTP over the Internet.

Communications:

Our primary communication medium will be electronic - either via the web or by email. Therefore, it is critical that you provide an email address with your submission so we can contact you quickly.
Please ensure that your address is present, current and correct in all correspondence.