List of topics and subtopics

The sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the conference main topics.

1	Databases
1.01	Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
1.02	Distributed Database Applications
1.03	Object-Oriented Database Systems
1.04	Database Security and Transaction Support
1.05	Data Warehouses
1.06	Multimedia Database Applications
2	Information Systems
2.01	Software Engineering
2.02	Formal Methods in Software Engineering
2.03	Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics
2.04	Model Driven Development
2.05	Object-Oriented Modelling and Development
2.06	Systems Engineering Methodologies
2.07	Information Engineering Methodologies
2.08	Requirements Analysis
2.09	Modelling Formalisms, Languages, and Notations
2.10	CASE Tools for System Development
2.11	Modelling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
2.12	Security, Freedom and Privacy
2.13	Geographical Information Systems Component-Based Development
2.14	Software Architecture, Design and Frameworks
2.15	Software Engineering for Concurrent and Distributed Systems
2.16	Software Quality
2.17	Software Verification, Validation and Inspection
3	WEB Systems
3.01	Web Databases
3.02	B2B and B2C Applications
3.03	Process Design and Organisational Issues in e-Commerce
3.04	E-Learning and e-Teaching
3.05	Intranet and Extranet Business Applications
3.06	Agents for Internet Computing
3.07	Web Information Agents
3.08	Case studies on Electronic Commerce
3.09	Public sector applications of e-Commerce
3.10	Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
3.11	Network Implementation Choices
3.12	Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing
3.13	Internet and Collaborative Computing
3.14	Semantic Web Technologies
4	Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design
4.01	Tools and Technologies for Business Process Specification, verification and validation
4.02	Process improvement tools
4.03	Business process support systems
4.04	BPM and IS integration
4.05	BPM and Workflow Management Systems Business Processes Re-engineering
4.06	Business Processes optimization
5	Intelligent Agents
5.01	Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
5.02	Strategic Decision Support Systems
5.03	Natural Language Interfaces to Intelligent Systems
5.04	Coordination in Multi-Agent Systems
5.05	Intelligent Social Agents and Distributed Artificial Intelligence Applications
5.06	Intelligent Information Systems
5.07	Agent Oriented Modelling and Development
6	Knowledge Management
6.01	Knowledge-based Systems Engineering
6.02	Business intelligence
6.03	Knowledge/Expertise capture
6.04	Knowledge discovery in databases
6.05	Data and knowledge sharing
7	Ontologies
7.01	Ontology elicitation from databases
7.02	Ontologies for Automated query and reporting systems
7.03	Ontologies for Semi-structured Data
7.04	Ontologies and Semantic Annotations
7.05	Ontologies for searching Document Databases
7.06	Ontologies for Semantic Interoperability
7.07	Data mining techniques using ontologies
7.08	Data mining techniques for enrichment of ontologies
7.09	Interpretation and Validation of mined knowledge
7.10	Data Filtering, Cleansing, and Summarization using ontologies
7.11	Data and ontology integration, merge, alignment, fusion
7.12	Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences in Geographic IS, Scientific Databases, Bioinformatics, Web-based IS
7.13	Ontology-driven Information Systems
8	Data Mining
8.01	Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification
8.02	Data Fusion and Mining
8.03	Knowledge Discovery
8.04	Clustering and Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval
8.05	Case-Based Reasoning
8.06	Decision Analysis
8.07	Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval
8.08	Dynamic Systems Modelling
8.09	Decision Support Systems
8.10	Multi-criteria Decision Making
8.11	Qualitative and Approximate Reasoning