PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

                              CIKM '94

                    Third International Conference on 
                  Information and Knowledge Management 

                     November 29 - December 2, 1994 
                National Institute of Standards and Technology
                        Gaithersburg, Maryland USA


The conference provides an international forum for presentation and
discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as
well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases.

Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals for workshops
concerned with theory or practice or both.  The focus of the
conference includes but is not limited to, the following: application
of knowledge representation techniques to semantic data modeling;
development and management of heterogeneous knowledge bases; automatic
acquisition of data and knowledge bases especially from raw text;
object-oriented DBMS; optimization techniques; transaction management;
high performance OLTP systems; security techniques; performance
evaluation; hypermedia; unconventional applications; parallel database
systems; physical and logical database design; data and knowledge
sharing; interchange and interoperability; cooperation in heterogenous
systems; domain modeling and ontology-building; knowledge discovery in
databases; information storage and retrieval, enterprize integration,
concurrent engineering and computer integrated manufacturing in the
batch and continuous process industries.

All paper submissions and workshop proposals must reach the program
chair by June 1st.  Authors must send five copies of each paper
accompanied by a cover letter containing a list of all authors, their
affiliations, telephone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and fax
numbers.  All submissions will be reviewed and judged with respect to
quality and relevance.

General Co-chairs                          Steering Committee
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 Bharat Bhargava                          Bruce Blum
 Yelena Yesha                             Tim Finin
                                          David Jefferson
                                          Keith Humenik
                                          Charles Nicholas
Program Chair                             E. K. Park
------------                              Yelena Yesha
 Professor and Chairman Nabil Adam
 Graduate School of Management
 Department of Computer and Information Systems
 Rutgers University
 92 New Street
 Newark NJ 07102

Local Arrangements Chair
------------------------
 Elizabeth Fong


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CIKM94-INFO@CS.UMBC.EDU or gopher to GOPHER.CS.UMBC.EDU.  For general
inquiries, contact: CIKM-94, Computer Science Department, Univ. of
Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21228-5398, Email:
cikm@cs.umbc.edu, Phone: 410-455-3000, Fax: 410-455-3969