Abstract :
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.)
Keywords :
Internet; data integrity; decision support systems; distributed databases; geographic information systems; knowledge acquisition; knowledge based systems; knowledge representation; library automation; multimedia computing; object-oriented databases; open systems; software agents; systems re-engineering; Internet technologies; biomedical systems; computer supported cooperative processing; content-based retrieval; data mining; data sharing; data warehousing; decision support; digital libraries; distributed intelligent mediators; distributed object management; dynamic knowledge; geographical databases; inference mechanisms; information structures; intelligent software information systems; interoperable systems; knowledge representation techniques; meta-data management; multimedia data; software re-engineering;
