Message from the IRI 2019 Program Co-Chairs

Welcome to the proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI 2019) in Los Angeles, California, USA. Information reuse and integration (IRI) aims at maximizing the reuse of information by creating simple, rich, and reusable knowledge representations and consequently explores strategies for integrating this knowledge into legacy systems. 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. Over two decades of conferences, IRI has established itself as an internationally renowned forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, connect with colleagues, and advance the state of the art and practice of current and future research in information reuse and integration. More specifically, this year IRI 2019 conference focuses on data science.