| This book provides research communities in Europe and Japan with an overview of scientific results and experiences achieved using innovative methods and approaches in computer science and other disciplines, which have a common interest in understanding and solving problems on information modelling and knowledge bases, as well as applying the results of research to practice. The topics of research covered in this book mainly concentrate on a variety of themes in the domain of theory and practice of information modelling, conceptual modelling, design and specification of information systems, software engineering, databases and knowledge bases. We also aim to recognize 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.
This book includes the papers presented at the 13th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases. The conference held in June 2003 in Kitakyushu, Japan, continues the series of events that originally started as a co-operation initiative between Japan and Finland, as early as the second half of the 1980's. By 1991, the geographical scope of these conferences had expanded to cover the whole of Europe and other countries, too. |
