IEEE IRI 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse & Integration (IRI)

Given the emerging global Information-centric IT landscape that has tremendous social and economic implications, effectively processing and integrating humungous volumes of information from diverse sources to enable effective decision making and knowledge generation have become one of the most significant challenges of current times. Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) seeks to maximize the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into systems and applications. IRI plays a pivotal role in the capture, representation, maintenance, integration, validation, and extrapolation of information; and applies both information and knowledge for enhancing decision-making in various application domains.
This conference explores three major tracks: information reuse, information integration, and reusable systems. Information reuse explores theory and practice of optimizing representation; information integration focuses on innovative strategies and algorithms for applying integration approaches in novel domains; and reusable systems focus on developing and deploying models and corresponding processes that enable Information Reuse and Integration to play a pivotal role in enhancing decision-making processes in various application domains.
The IEEE IRI conference serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. Theoretical and applied papers are both included. The conference program will include special sessions, open forum workshops, panels and keynote speeches.
The conference includes, but is not limited to, the areas listed below:

Large Scale Data and System Integration
Component-Based Design and Reuse
Unifying Data Models (UML, XML, etc.) and Ontologies
Database Integration
Structured/Semi-structured Data
Middleware & Web Services
Reuse in Software Engineering
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Sensory and Information Fusion
Reuse in Modeling & Simulation
Automation, Integration and Reuse across Various Applications
Information Security & Privacy
Survivable Systems & Infrastructures
AI & Decision Support Systems
Heuristic Optimization and Search
Knowledge Acquisition and Management
Fuzzy and Neural Systems
Soft Computing
Evolutionary Computing
Case-Based Reasoning
Natural Language Understanding
Knowledge Management and E-Government
Command & Control Systems (C4ISR)
Human-Machine Information Systems
Space and Robotic Systems
Biomedical & Healthcare Systems
Homeland Security & Critical Infrastructure Protection
Manufacturing Systems & Business Process Engineering
Multimedia Systems
Service-Oriented Architecture
Autonomous Agents in Web-based Systems
Information Integration in Grid Computing Environments
Information Integration in Mobile Computing Environments
Information Integration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Systems of Systems
Semantic Web and Emerging Applications
Information Reuse, Integration and Sharing in Collaborative Environments
Best Paper Award: IEEE IRI will be presenting a Best Paper award. The best paper will be selected by separate committee and will be the one that reports the most novel and promising research work that has a high potential impact in the real world.