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Call for papers on "Urban Knowledge Engineering" Special issue of the International Journal "Computers, Environment and Urban Systems" Presently, all organizations try to be more efficient especially by using modern information technology. Local Authorities are particularly concerned by the efficiency of their actions in order to solve urban problems. For that, knowledge-based systems can be of interest, trying to archive expert knowledge about the urban system and the experiences made throughout the world. The scope of this special issue on "Urban Knowledge Engineering" will be to regroup the best papers, studies and experiences in designing, manipulating, querying, updating, extracting urban knowledge. By urban knowledge, we mean any kind of formalized systems in order to store spatial knowledge, expert rules, taxonomies, ontologies, organizational memories, recommendations, argumentations, case-based reasoning, or more generally focusing on Artificial Intelligence-related technologies assisting the tasks and the decisions. It can range from long term urban planning to daily city management. More precisely, we particularly encourage submissions dealing with studies such as on land use plan, urban renewal, pollution, waste management, traffic, architectural or civil engineering project management and so on. Moreover will also be considered.extraction of urban knowledge from urban datawarehouses, and intelligent connections with urban models. One of the scope will be the creation of a corpus of urban knowledge which can be used in any city. Submit articles by May 15, 1999 to: Robert Laurini, Professor at Claude Bernard University of Lyon LISI - 404 - INSA de Lyon F - 69621 Villeurbanne Phone: (33) 4 72 43 81 72; Fax (33) 4 72 43 87 13; E-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%