Research papers should be original contributions, not accepted or submitted elsewhere and must be written in English and submitted electronically. Accepted formats are : Postscript, Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Word.

Papers should not exceed 12 pages

Please send an electronic copy of the complete manuscript and an abstract to: f.meziane@salford.ac.uk

The Proceedings of NLDB04 will be published in the LNCS-series at Springer Verlag. The authors should follow the LNCS format. In addition a selection of the best papers will be submitted to review and publications in a special edition of the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering.