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The conference series – originally “Scandinavian Research Seminar on Information Modelling and Database Management” – started in 1982 and had aim to provide forum for Scandinavian database researchers to meet each other. In 1988 an co-operation initiative between Japan and Finland extended the geographical scope to cover Japan; the conference was called “Joint Scandinavian Japanese seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases”. The term “seminar” indicated its interaction and collaboration intensive atmosphere. The practical operations were then organized by professor Ohsuga in Japan and professors Hannu Kangassalo and Hannu Jaakkola in Finland. A couple of years later the geographical scope expanded to cover Europe (European Japanese …) and later other countries (International …). In 1995 the term “Seminar” was replaced by “Conference” to indicate its established position in the map of international conferences of this important research area. In spite of that the conference has still been able to maintain its tradition as a workshop type meeting of researchers – discussion, time enough for presentations and limited number of participants (50) / papers (30).

The list of conferences by year:

  1. 1982: First Scandinavian Research Seminar on Information Modelling and Database Management, Tampere Finland; Serie continuing (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986)
  2. 1988: Joint Scandinavian Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Ellivuori, Finland. (Book I)
  3. 1989: Second Joint Scandinavian Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Ellivuori Finland (Book I)
  4. 1990: Third Joint Scandinavian Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Ellivuori, Finland. (Book II)
  5. 1991: 1st European-Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Fujiyoshida, Japan. (Book III)
  6. 1992: 2nd European-Japanese on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Seminar Ellivuori , Finland. (Book IV)
  7. 1993: 3rd European-Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Budapest , Hungary. (Book V)
  8. 1994: 4th European-Japanese Seminar, on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Stockholm, Sweden. (Book VI)
  9. 1995: 5th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Sapporo, Japan. (Book VII)
  10. 1996: 6th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Denmark. (Book VIII)
  11. 1997: 7th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Toulouse, France. (Book IX)
  12. 1998: 8th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Ellivuori, Finland. (Book X)
  13. 1999: 9th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Iwate, Japan. (Book XI)
  14. 2000: 10th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Saariselkä, Finland. (Book XII)
  15. 2001: 11th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Maribor, Slovenia. (Book XIII)
  16. 2002: 12th European-Japanese Conference: Krippen on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases, Swiss Saxony, May 27-30, 2002. (Book XIV)
  17. 2003: 13th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Kitakyushu, Japan, June 3-6, 2003. (Book XV)
  18. 2004: 14th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Skoevde, Sweden, May 31 – June 4, 2004. (Book XVI)
  19. 2005: 15th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Tallinn, Estonia, May 16-20, 2005. (Book XVII)
  20. 2006: 16th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Hotel Raztoka, Trojanovice, Czech Republic, May 29 – June 2, 2006. (Book XVIII)
  21. 2007: 17th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Pori, Finland, June 4-8, 2007. (Book XIX)
  22. 2008: 18th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Tsukuba, Japan, June 2-6, 2008. (Book XX)
  23. 2009: 19th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Maribor, Slovenia, June 1-5, 2009. (Book XXI)
  24. 2010: 20th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Jyväskylä, Finland, May 31 – June 4, 2010. (Book XXII)
  25. 2011: 21st European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Tallinn, Estonia, June 5-9, 2011. (Book XXIII)
  26. 2012: 22nd European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Prague, Czech Republic, June 4-8, 2012. (Book XXIV)
  27. 2013: 23rd European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Nara, Japan, June 3-7, 2013. (Book XXV)
  28. 2014: 24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases – EJC2014: Kiel, Germany, June 3-6, 2014. (Book XXVI)
  29. 2015: 25th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases – EJC2015: Maribor, Slovenia, June 8-12, 2015. (Book XXVII)
  30. 2016: 26th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases – EJC2016: Tampere, Finland, June 6-10. 2016. (Book XXVIII)
  31. 2017: The 27th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Thailand, Dusit Thani, Krabi Beach Resort in June 5-9, 2017. (Book XXIX)
  32. 2018: The 28th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Riga, Latvia in June 4-8, 2018. (Book XXX)
  33. 2019: The 29th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Lappeenranta, Finland in June 3-7, 2019. (Book XXXI)
  34. 2020: The 30th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Hamburg, Germany in June 8-9, 2020 as a virtual conference based on Zoom platform. (E-Book XXXII)
  35. 2021: The 31st International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Hamburg, Germany in June 7-11, 2021, as a virtual conference. (E-Book XXXIII)
  36. 2022: The 32nd International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Hamburg, Germany in May 30 – June 2, 2022. (E-Book XXXIV)
  37. 2023: The 33rd International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Maribor, Slovenia
  38. 2024: The 34th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Musashino University, Ariake, Tokyo, Japan.
  39. 2025: The 35th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases: Ostrava, Czech Republic.

The books are printed by IOS Press (Amsterdam) and available both printed and electronic (since the volume XVII). Link to the publisher: https://www.iospress.nl/. Link to the individual ebook volumes (from XVII ahead): http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/information-modelling-and-knowledge-bases-VOLUME_IN_ROMAN_NUMBERS (e.g. http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/information-modelling-and-knowledge-bases-xxx)