Information modelling is becoming increasingly important for researchers, designers, and users of information systems. The amount and complexity of information, the number of abstraction levels, and the size of databases and knowledge bases are continuously growing. Conceptual modelling is one of the sub-areas of information modelling. This conference aims to bring together experts from different areas of computer science and other disciplines who have a common interest in understanding and solving problems on information modelling and knowledge bases and applying the research results to practice. We also aim to recognise and study new areas of modelling and knowledge bases to which more attention should be paid. Therefore philosophy and logic, cognitive science, knowledge management, linguistics and management science are relevant areas, too. The conference will have three categories of presentations, i.e. full papers, short papers and position papers.
The series of European – Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC) originally started as a cooperation initiative between Japan and Finland in 1982. Professor Ohsuga then organised the practical operations in Japan and professors Hannu Kangassalo and Hannu Jaakkola in Finland (Nordic countries). The geographical scope has expanded to cover Europe and also other countries. Workshop characteristic – discussion, time enough for presentations and a limited number of participants (50) / papers (30) – is typical to the conference.
The final publication is published in the Series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence” by IOS Press (Amsterdam). The books “Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases Vol. n” are edited by the Editing Committee. It has the right to propose obligatory improvements as a precondition to the publication. It has the right to withdraw papers that do not follow the given guidelines and technical style.
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