First Announcement and Call for Papers --------------------------------------- JCKBSE'98 ============ Third Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Smolenice, Slovakia, September 9-11, 1998 Sponsored by: SIG on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (EICE), Japan Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia Russian Association for Artificial Intelligence Bulgarian Artificial Intelligence Association In cooperation with: Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Slovak Society for Informatics The Institution of Electrical Engineers - Slovak Centre Steering Committee: Christo Dichev, IIT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Morio Nagata, Keio University Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technology Vadim L. Stefanuk, IITP, Russian Academy of Sciences Haruki Ueno, Tokyo Denki University PROCEEDINGS ------------ All accepted papers will be published in the conference pro-ceedings and will be available at the conference. In addi-tion, se-veral of the highest quality papers will be selected for a special issue of IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. LANGUAGE --------- The official language of the conference will be English. PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------- Full papers should not exceed 8 pages. Short papers should not exceed 4 pages. Papers will be reviewed according to: technical quality, originality, clarity, appropriateness to the conference focus, and adequacy of references to related work. Authors should submit the papers electronically. For details see conference web site. In addition, one copy of a manuscript should be sent, too. Each paper should contain the following information: (1) Title of the paper. (2) Name, affiliation, mailing address of the author, e-mail. (3) Abstract of 100-200 words. (4) The subject category (the topic) in which the paper should be reviewed. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Feb. 1, 1998 Registration forms March 1, 1998 Paper submission deadline May 1, 1998 Notification of acceptance June 20, 1998 Camera-ready deadline Sept. 9 - 11, 1998 Conference dates CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS ----------------------- JCKBSE'98 Department of Computer Science and Engineering Slovak University of Technology Ilkovicova 3, 812-19 Bratislava, Slovakia fax: +421-7-720-415, e-mail: jckbse98 (at) dcs.elf.stuba.sk VENUE ------ Smolenice castle is a beautiful site renown for providing excellent environment for scientific conferences. It serves as a congress centre. It is situated approximately 60km from Bratislava in the surroundings of Small Carpathians mountains. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE --------------------- Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss topics in knowledge engineering and in software engineering. Special emphasis is given to applicationof knowledge-based methods to software engineering problems. The conference originated from efforts to provide a suitable forum for contacts for scientists mainly from Japan, the CIS countries and the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe while always being open for participants from the whole world. JCKBSE'98 will continue in this tradition and expand for even greater international participation. Also, the scope of the conference as indicated by its topics is being updated to reflect the recent development in all three areas i.e., (1) knowledge engineering, (2) software engineering, (3) knowledge-based software engineering. The conference will also include invited talks. TOPICS (include, but are not limited to) (1) Architecture of knowledge, software and information systems including collaborative, distributed, multi-agent and multimedia systems, internet and intranet (2) Domain modelling (3) Requirements engineering, formal and semiformal specifications (4) Intelligent user interfaces and human machine interaction (5) Knowledge acquisition and discovery, data mining (6) Automating software design and synthesis (7) Program understanding, programming knowledge (8) Object-oriented and other programming paradigms, metaprogramming (9) Reuse, re-engineering, reverse engineering (10) Knowledge-based methods and tools for software engineering, including testing, verification and validation, process management, maintenance and evolution, CASE (11) Decision support methods for software engineering (12) Applied semiotics for knowledge-based software engineering (13) Learning of programming, modelling programs and programmers (14) Knowledge systems methodology, development tools and environments (15) Software engineering and knowledge engineering education, distance learning, emergence of an information society FEE ---- Participants will pay for an integrated package comprising registration fee, board and lodging, proceedings and a half day excursion. Participants from CIS and Central and Eastern Europe are eligible for a substantially reduced fee. SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS --------------------- There will be available a limited number of scholarships for students submitting papers to the conference to support partially their participation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------ Zbigniew Banaszak Seiichi Komiya Technical Univ., Zielona Gora,PL IPA, Chair of SIG-KBSE, Andras Benczur Co-chair, JPN Eotvos Lorand Univ., Behrouz H. Far Budapest, HU Saitama Univ., JPN Maria Bielikova Teruo Koyama Slovak Univ. of Technology, SK NACSIS, JPN Vladan Devedzic Vitaliy Lozovskiy Univ. of Belgrade, YU UAS, Odessa, UA Christo Dichev Ludovit Molnar IIT-BAS, BG Slovak Univ. of Technology, SK Darina Dicheva Morio Nagata Univ. of Sofia, BG Keio Univ., JPN Danail Dochev Pavol Navrat IIT-BAS, BG Slovak Univ. of Technology, Alexander Ehrlich Co-Chair, SK Computer Centre of RAS, RU Toshio Okamoto Yoshiaki Fukazawa Univ. of El. Communication, JPN Waseda Univ., JPN Gennady Osipov Matjaz Gams Programme Systems I. of RAS,RU Jozef Stefan I., Ljubljana, SI Yury N. Pechersky Viktor Gladun I. of Math. of MAS, MD V.M.Glushkov I. of Cybernetics, Dmitrii Pospelov Kiev,UA Computer Centre of RAS, RU Vladimir Golenkov Vadim Stefanuk Radiotech. Univ. of Minsk,BY Inf. Transfer Probl. I. of RAS, RU Masaaki Hashimoto Kenji Sugawara Kyushu I. Of Technol., JPN Chiba I. of Technology, JPN Tomas Hruska Enn Tyugu Technical Univ. of Brno, CZ Royal I. of Technology, Kista, SE Kenji Kaijiri Haruki Ueno Shinshu Univ., JPN Tokyo Denki Univ., JPN Vladimir Khoroshevsky Shuichiro Yamamoto Computer Centre of RAS, RU NTT, JPN =============================================================== PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION FORM Third Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Smolenice, Sept. 9-11, 1998 Last name First name Affiliation Address City/Code Country Phone Fax E-mail Yes, I intend to attend the JCKBSE'98: Submitting a paper Proposing a panel discussion Without presenting a paper The provisional title of my paper is: Co-author(s) Topic Abstract (attach on a separate sheet) Date Signature Please, fill in completely and mail this form at your earliest convenience, but not later than Feb. 1, 1998 to the correspondence address. After you have registered, you will be immediately added to our mailing list. Fax registrations are also accepted. =============================================================== Alternatively use electronic registration on the conference web site. More information about JCKBSE'98 is available on the conference web site: http://www.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/jckbse98/