10th International Workshop on
Knowledge Representation meets Databases
(KRDB-2003)

Call for papers

The 10th 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-2003 will be held in Hamburg (Germany), September 2003, as a workshop of the 26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), see http://www.ki2003.de/.

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. As every year, KRDB 2003 focusses on a selected topic.

Topic

Databases have always been a very important issue for the World Wide Web, and, conversely, the WWW has stimulated interesting research on databases, for example in the area of semi-structured data. Due to the recent and immense interest in the semantic web initiative, knowledge representation has also gained a considerable amount of attention by the WWW community, and the pollinating impact of this fact on research in knowledge representation is already clearly visible. For these reasons, the focus of KRDB-2003 is on

For the workshop, we thus solicit contributions that address the interplay between knowledge representation and databases, particularly in contexts related to the World-Wide Web. Specific issues we would like to discuss are:

• Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web
• Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW
• Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval
• Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems
• Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data
• Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data

Program Committee

• Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
• Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)
• Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
• Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, Germany)
• Bertin Klein (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
• Ralf Kuesters (University of Kiel, Germany)
• Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
• Massimo Marchiori (University of Venice, Italy)
• David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany)

Organizing Committee

• Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany) Francois.Bry@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
• Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany) lutz@lat.inf.tu-dresden.de
• Ulrike Sattler (TU Dresden, Germany) sattler@lat.inf.tu-dresden.de
• Mareike Schoop (RWTH Aachen and University of Muenster, Germany) schoop@informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline June 23, 2003
• Acceptance Notification July 18, 2003
• Final Version Due August 15, 2003
• The Workshop September 15-18, 2003 (one day only)

Proceedings

The workshop proceedings will be electronically published in the CEUR series of workshop proceedings at

At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to the participants.

Information for authors

Your submission should be no longer than 12 pages formatted according to the example LaTeX file available at

Please avoid headers, footers, and page numbering.

Submissions should be sent by June 23, 2003 as self-contained standard Postscript attachments to:

Registration Information

Participants of KRDB-2003 have to register for the main KI-2003 conference. Please see KI-2003's webpage for more information: http://www.ki2003.de/