Welcome to the IEEE IRI 2009 website

Celebrating the 10^th Anniversary of the Conference

We are delighted to invite you to mark you schedule and attend IEEE IRI, to be held in Las Vegas, from 10-12 August 2009. (Tuscany Suites & Casino); we have received a large number of high quality submissions and currently working hard to put together a strong program.

The IEEE IRI conference is rapidly growing as a leading international forum for information reuse and integration researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.

We look forward to meeting you in Las Vegas in August 2009.

News Update

14 July 2009: The detailed program has been uploaded.

01 July 2009: There will be a panel on Monday 10 August 2009 at 4:00PM; Panel Title: Critical Need for Funding of Basic and Applied Research in Large-Scale Computing. Panelists: Lotfi Zadeh, Bhavani Thursingham, Dan Smith, Stuart Rubin, Jon Rokne, Shu-Ching Chen, Gary Boettinger

01 July 2009: Manager of Goddard Mission Services Evolution Center at NASA Mr. Dan Smith will be a keynote speaker at IEEE IRI 2009; his talk will be entitled: "Efficient Reuse and Integration at NASA - Its Not Just the Technology"

26 June 2009: To get the conference special rate, please use the code 11Y9H6 to book your accommodation at Tuscany Suites & Casino

23 June 2009: Prof. Stuart H. Rubin and Prof. Shu-Ching Chen will be keynote speakers at IEEE IRI 2009; their talk will be entitled: “10^th-Year Anniversary Keynote Presentation on Information Reuse and Integration”

22 May 2009: Registration information is now available; You may register online or offline

16 May 2009: Professor Bhavani Thuraisingham will be a keynote speaker at IEEE IRI 2009; her talk will be entitled: "Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs"

14 April 2009: Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh will be a keynote speaker at IEEE IRI 2009; his talk will be entitled: "Computing with words and perceptions--a paradigm shift"

electronic copyright form has been added

01 March 2009: Based on numerous request, IEEE IRI 2009 submission deadline has been extended; new deadline: 29 March 2009

20 December 2008: IEEE IRI 2009 will be held at

Tuscany Suites & Casino

255 East Flamingo Rd
Las Vegas, Nevada 89169-4708

Main: (702) 893-8933
Fax: (702) 947-5994

The room rate is $45/night

Incredible rate for a quality campus-like Italian hotel

4-October-2008: one more special issue has been confirmed

The following Special/Featured Topic Issues have been approved to include papers from IEEE IRI 2009

1. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/ijseke/ijseke.shtml)

2. Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/)

3. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (http://siwn.org.uk/itssa/)

4. International Journal of Information & Decision Sciences (IJIDS) (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=306)

Also a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on SMC -- Part C is coming out in 2009

We are still negotiating other special issues to include papers from IEEE IRI 2009; more information will be added here as we finalize the negotiation.