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A D V A N C E C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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First International Workshop on

Evolving Theories of Conceptual Modelling (ETheCoM 2009)

November 9-12, 2009 -- Gramado, Brazil

http://ethecom2009.mucoms.org/


The ETheCoM workshop tries to bring together researchers with an
interest in theoretical foundations of conceptual modelling. The
emphasis is on evolving theories that address mathematical and logical
underpinnings of new developments in conceptual modelling, e.g.
addressing service-oriented software systems, personalisation of
Information Systems and services, network-centric and web-based
applications, biomedical applications, games and entertainment, etc.
We are interested in precisely worked-out semantics, in particular
with respect to constraints, and in the usage of such semantics for
the reasoning and inferencing about model properties.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Typical topics of research papers can be (but are not limited to) the
following:

* Theories of concepts;
* Mathematical semantics of service-oriented systems;
* Integrity constraints maintenance and dependency theory;
* Theoretical foundations of personalisation of information systems
and services;
* Formal semantics of network-centric and web-based applications;
* Formal methods for data and knowledge base design;
* Reasoning about data and knowledge base dynamics;
* Logical and mathematical models for novel application areas;
* Adaptivity for personalised data and knowledge bases;
* Formal information integration in data and knowledge bases;
* Knowledge discovery in data and knowledge bases;
* Formal linguistics for data and knowledge bases; and
* Formal ontologies for data and knowledge bases.


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Formatting Guidelines
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ETheCoM 2009 proceedings will be part of the ER 2009 Workshop volume
published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Thus, authors must
submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture
Notes in Computer Science. Refer to
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and
details. Papers in the final proceedings are strictly limited to 10
pages. Therefore, submitted papers should also not exceed 10 pages,
but technical appendices, e.g. containing proofs, can be added to a
submission.
Papers must be in English, formatted in LNCS style and submitted as
PDF-files. Submitted papers must be original and not submitted or
accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or
journal.

Submission Guidelines
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Submission to ETheCoM 2009 will be electronically only. Authors are
asked to create a submission system account first. Subsequently, this
account can be used to submit one or more abstracts and upload
corresponding papers.
The online submission system will become available in March 2009.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract Submission: Apr 10, 2009
Full Paper Submission: Apr 17, 2009
Author Notification: May 25, 2009
Camera-ready Paper Submission: Jun 22, 2009
Workshop: Nov 9-12, 2009


WORKSHOP ORGANISERS
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Program Committee Chairs
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Markus Kirchberg (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand)


FURTHER INFORMATION
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For further information refer to the ETheCoM 2009 Web-site at

http://ethecom2009.mucoms.org/