Proceedings 1997 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop

The following topics are discussed: computer supported cooperative processing and interoperable systems; data sharing, data warehousing and meta-data management; distributed intelligent mediators and agents; distributed object management; dynamic knowledge; evaluation and measurement of knowledge and database systems; high-performance issues (including architectures, knowledge representation techniques, inference mechanisms, algorithms and integration methods); information structures and interaction; intelligent search, data mining and content-based retrieval; knowledge and data engineering systems; quality assurance for knowledge and data engineering systems (correctness, reliability, security, survivability and performance); software re-engineering and intelligent software information systems; spatio-temporal, active, mobile and multimedia data; emerging applications (biomedical systems, decision support, geographical databases, Internet technologies and applications, digital libraries, etc.)