From lingtw@iscs.nus.sg Sun Feb 12 20:59:06 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 12 Feb 95 20:58:58 -0600; AA16735 Received: from netman.iscs.nus.sg by cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 12 Feb 95 20:58:28 -0600 Received: from ibmunx.iscs.nus.sg (lingtw) by netman.iscs.nus.sg with SMTP id AA10870 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for dbworld@cs.wisc.edu); Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:58:17 +0800 Received: by ibmunx.iscs.nus.sg (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA82850; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:58:21 +0800 Message-Id: <9502130258.AA82850@ibmunx.iscs.nus.sg> Subject: DASFAA'95 - ADVANCE PROGRAMME AND PRE-REGISTRATION To: dbworld Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:58:21 +0800 (SST) From: "Ling Tok Wang" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 43124 (A postscript version of this advance programme is available via anonymous ftp at: ftp.nus.sg:/pub/NUS/ISCS/cfp/advance.ps.Z This information is also available at our www server: http://www.iscs.nus.sg/ under the 'Conference announcements' page.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADVANCE PROGRAMME AND PRE-REGISTRATION DASFAA '95 4th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications April 10-13, 1995, National University of Singapore, Singapore Co-organised by Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (National University of Singapore), Information Processing Society of Japan Sponsored by Center for the International Cooperation for Computerisation, Singapore Federation of Computer Industry In-cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, IEEE Computer Society, Korea Information Science Society, IEEE Singapore (Computer Chapter), Institute of System Science, Information Technology Institute, Singapore Computer Society Corporate Sponsors CSA Automated Pte Ltd, Fujitsu (Singapore) Pte Ltd, IBM Singapore Pte Ltd, Informix Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd Official Publication IT Asia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DASFAA '95 presents a high-quality international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers, and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development on advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. In particular, DASFAA'95 will be a showcase to gather and disseminate information on OODBMS systems, applications and standardization. The DASFAA '95 programme includes invited talks, papers, panels, tutorials and an exhibition, plus conference reception and banquet. The invited talks will be delivered by pioneers in database research, who will share their vision of the field with the participants. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Keynote Speaker: Professor Yahiko Kambayashi, Japan Title : Object Deputy Model and Its Applications Abstract: In this paper object proxy model and it applications are discussed. Although object-oriented data model has a lot of advantages over relational data model, the former does not offer enough flexibility as the latter. Many papers have been published to extend flexibility of object-oriented model, such as papers on view mechanisms, multiple-hierarchy support, roles and object migration. These concepts are very closely related. Multiple-hierarchies can be realized by view mechanism. An object appearing in a view can be regarded as playing a role in that view. Object migration is the change history of set of roles of an object. Object proxy model is introduced to give unified approach to provide enough flexibility for object-oriented databases. It can be also used to realize multibase systems where site autonomy is required. A proxy object can be defined for any object or proxy object (called the source object). It has its own object identifier, attributes and methods. It has a bilateral link to its source object and attribute values and methods of the source object are partially inherited. As applications of this model, we will discuss a flexible system for integration of databases and knowledge-bases under distributed environment, geographic database GeoProxy and virtual office system VIEWoffice , which are currently developed by our research group. Biography: Yahiko Kambayashi received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1965, 1967, and 1970, respectively. During 1970-1971 he was a Research Associate at Kyoto University. From 1971 to 1973 he was a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana. During 1973-1984 he was with the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University. In 1984 he became a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Since 1990 he has been a professor at Integrated Media Environment Experimental Laboratory of Kyoto University. In 1979, he was a Visiting Professor at McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada, and in 1984 he was a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. His research interests include logic design, switching theory, automata theory, and database theory. Logic design method called transduction method developed jointly by him and Prof. Muroga of University of Illinois is now used by several U.S. and Japanese computer companies. Dr. Kambayashi was a Chairman of SIGDBS (database systems) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). He was a Chairman of SIGCOMP (computation theory) of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan(IEICEJ). He was also a member of the board of IPSJ. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), a member of IEICEJ, IPSJ and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was an associate editor of ACM TODS (Transaction on Database Systems). He is currently a member of VLDB endowment which organizes International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, vice-chair of ACM Tokyo/Japan Chapter, and members of editorial board of several international journals. He also has organized several international conferences. Keynote Speaker: Dr Won Kim, U.S.A. Title : On Marrying Relations and Objects: Relation-Centric and Object-Centric Perspectives Abstract: The past several years have been the gestation period for a new generation of database technology. There has been a flurry of activities to develop and experiment with database systems that support an object-oriented data model or that extend the relational data model with some object-oriented facilities. These activities have been fuelled by the emergence of a broad spectrum of database applications which relational database systems cannot support and the increasing need to achieve another productivity leap in application development. As a result of these efforts, there is now a sufficient body of knowledge for the development of a commercially viable next-generation database system. Such a system should support a unified relational and object-oriented data model; that is, a full object-oriented data model in a way that is completely compatible with the relational model. I will discuss motivations for unifying the relational and object-oriented data models in a single database system, and outline design and implementation issues that must be addressed in building such a system. Biography: Dr. Won Kim is the founder and President of UniSQL, Inc., a next-generation database corporation in Austin, Texas. Before founding UniSQL, he was Director of the Object-Oriented and Distributed Systems Laboratory at MCC. He was also the chief architect of the ORION series of object-oriented database system developed at MCC. Before joining MCC, he was on the research staff at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His Ph.D dissertation was on query processing in relational database systems. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT. He authored a book Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases for MIT Press. He also co-edited Object-Oriented Concepts, Databases, and Applications for Addison-Wesley and ACM Press. He is the Chairman of ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems. Keynote Speaker: Dr Francois Bancilhon, France Title : The ODMG Standard for Object Databases Abstract: The ODMG standard was defined by a group of object database vendors. It defines a global architecture for an object database system and defines a set of interfaces that ensures the portability of applications from one compliant system to another. It is based on a data model which is an extension of the OMG core data model and includes the specification of ODL and object definition language to specify the database schema, OQL, an object query language to query the database and bindings to popular programming languages such as C++ and Smalltalk. Biography: Francois Bancilhon was born in 1948. He holds an Engineering Degree from the Ecole des Mines de Paris(1970), a PhD from the University of Michigan (1976) and a These d'Etat from the University of Paris XI (1981). He has been with INRIA as a researcher and project leader from 1976 to 1980, a Professor at the University of Paris XI from 1981 to 1984, a Team Leader at MCC, Austin Texas, from 1984 to 1986 and the Director of the Altair research consortium from 1986 to 1990. He is currently the CEO of O2 Technology. His work as a researcher includes stochastic automata theory, relational databases, deductive databases and object-oriented database systems. He is the author of numerous papers on theses topics and the editor of two books. Both at INRIA and at the University of Paris XI, he was the lead architect of the VERSO database machine. At MCC, he was one of the architects of the BUBBA system which included a parallel database machine and a deductive system. At Altair, he managed the project that designed and built the O2 object-oriented database system. O2 Technology is number one on the European object database market. It develops, supports and markets the O2 system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS Tutorial 1: "CLIENT-SERVER Architectures and data base issues" Prof.Serge MIRANDA, University of Nice- Sophia Antipolis, France Abstract: Client-server became a converging MODEL for computer architectures around data base technology. The purpose of this tutorial is to clarify the underlying concepts and to define a fruitful perspective for distributed object systems of the future. Table of contents: 1- Evolution of computer science towards client-server (CS) computing -New paradigms ("Userware", " Holomorphism", "Desintermediation",..) -Micro-computer joke -New equation for computer science (E=MC2) - Fuzzy (natural) concepts of computer science for present and future CS, Objects, multimedia -(Provocative) Definition of CS -Open architectures and standards -Social implications of such evolution (Education, market,...) 2- Generic concepts for a data server - integrity (CRUDE properties) : triggers, alerters,... - transaction (ACID properties) and 2PC (2-Phase commit) 3- Taxonomy of CS architectures - The three generations : from revamping legacy systems to distributed databases - Second definition of CS - The 8 golden rules for a CS architecture - OSS ("One-stop servicing") model for a practical evolutionary approach - Open issues : migration, development ("middleware") and design - Objects and Client-server : the second chance for object technology ? 4- Data servers of the future - Approaches : the 3 manifestos for next-generation DBMS (Bancilhon and al 1989 , Stonebraker and al 1990, Date 1994) - Data typing : integration of multimedia and objects (from a client-server point of view) - Hardware : parallel architectures (concepts...) 5- Evolutionary approach towards object integration within V0-V1-V2 Relational data models - What is missing in V0 Relational data model : the RICE properties - How to achieve this goal : Encapsulation of Domains as user-defined data types This Tutorial is based on his (new) french book (translated in Korean by M-J Kim) on client-server (2nd edition in October 1994). Biography : Serge Miranda is professor of computer science at the University of Nice- Sophia Antipolis, in Sophia Antipolis, France, a position he has held since October 1983 and presently scientific director of MBDS ("Mastere in Data Base of Sophia Antipolis") he founded in 1991, the highest French degree devoted to data base systems with huge involvment of industry partners (resource center with 2 data base machines...). His research has developed from computer networks, distributed file systems towards data base management and multi-media systems (International research contracts from ESPRIT, Teradata , Etri...) . In education, he is strongly involved with courses and technology transfer activities around database technology, and has many visiting appointments at universities and institutions all over the world in this area of research and teaching. Serge Miranda has authored or coauthored more than 90 publications (48 in English), and published five successful French books on databases (nine Editions). In 1992, he was in charge of a course on Next-generation DBMS broadcast by satellite all over Europe (EUROPACE). Tutorial 2: "Database Mining" Dr Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S.A. Abstract: Database Mining is the efficient discovery of previously unknown patterns in large databases, and is emerging as a major application area for databases. Many of the database mining problems have been motivated by the practical decision support problems faced by most large retail organ- izations. The Quest project on database mining at the IBM Almadeen Research Center has developed innovative technology to discover useful patterns in gigabytes of data in a short amount of time. This software can be used to solve the following customer problems: Associations: Given a database of sales transactions, find what sells together. Discover all associations such that the presence of one set of items in a transaction implies other items. "If a customer buys salmon and mussels then the customer buys white wine too in 90% of the cases" Sequential Patterns: Given a database of sales transactions, find what items customers buy over a set of visits in sequence. "A customer orders sheets and pillowcases, followed by a comforter, followed by drapes in 70%" Classification: Given examples of people belonging to different groups, develop a profile for each group. This profile is then used to retrieve instances of these groups from a different population. "Buyers of expensive sport cars are typically young urban professionals with a high income whereas luxury sedans are preferred by elderly wealthy persons" Similar Sequences: Given a database of time sequences, find sequences similar to a given one, or find all pairs of similar sequences. Typical uses of this software include finding stocks with similar price movements, products with similar sales patterns, or store/departments with similar revenue streams. "If sales of coke go up due to a promotion, sales of salted snacks also go up" The Quest software has been tested on several customer datasets. Several customers are actively investigating the various applications of Quest in retail. The software currently runs on RS/6000 workstations under AIX on flat files, DB2/CS and DB2/MVS databases. Parallel algorithms for finding association rules also run on IBM Power Parallel System. The software has been designed to be easily portable to other platforms and run on multiple data-repositories. In this tutorial, he will draw upon his Quest experience to present his perspective of database mining, describe current work, and present some open problems. Biography: Rakesh Agrawal is the Project Leader for Database Mining at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California. He received the M.S. and Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1983. He also has a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Roorkee, India and a two-year postgraduate diploma in Industrial Engineering from NITIE, Bombay, India. >From 1983 to 1989, he was with the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, where he was a member of the technical staff in the Computing Systems Research Laboratory. Since Jan 1990, he has been with the IBM Almaden Research Center. Rakesh Agrawal is currently the Chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering. He is also an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He has been a Program Chair for the 19th International Conference on Very Large Databases, 1993, a Program Chair for the 2nd International Symposium on Databases in Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1990, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Data Engin- eering Bulletin. He has published extensively in technical journals and conferences. He has also authored a book on "Programming in ANSI C". His current research interests include database mining, object-oriented database systems, and deductive database systems. Rakesh Agrawal is a Senior Member of IEEE. Tutorial 3: "Introduction to Object-Relational Database Systems" Dr Won Kim, UniSQL Inc, U.S.A. Abstract: Today the database industry is in the throes of transition from relational technology to object-relational technology. Object-relational database systems are essentially relational database systems augmented with object modeling and management facilities. The object facilities make it possible for these database systems to overcome performance and application development problems that have plagued relational database systems. In particular, object-relational database systems provide a sound basis for the management of multimedia data, complex structured data, arbitrary data types, and a systematic means of reusing database designs and user-written programs. This tutorial discusses motivations for object-relational database systems, an example object-relational data model, an object-relational query language (object SQL), applica- tions of the technology, and current and future R&D activities. (This tutorial is open to all conference participants) See Keynote 2 for author's Biography. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Monday April 10, 1995 (Tutorial) 08:30-09:30 Registration Free transport will be available during the conference period (April 10-13) from conference hotels (Peninsula and Excelsior) to the conference site in the morning and back to hotels in the evening. Details will be posted at the hotels. 09:30-12:30 Tutorial 1:"Client-server Architectures and Database Issues", Prof S.Miranda, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France. 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-17:00 Tutorial 2:"Database Mining", Dr R.Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S.A. 19:00-21:00 Reception at: Excelsior Hotel 5 Coleman Street, Singapore 0617 Tuesday April 11, 1995 (Conference Day 1) 08:15-09:00 Registration 09:00-09:30 Opening 09:30-10:45 Keynote 1: "Object Deputy Model and Its Applications", Professor Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan 10:45-11:15 Tea/Coffee Break 11:15-12:30 Parallel Session 1A - Heterogeneous Databases "The Management of Interdependent Asynchronous Transactions in Heterogeneous Database Environments", Lyman Do, Pamela Drew, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong "Object-Oriented Views of Relational Databases Incorporating Behaviour", Mark W.W. Vermeer, Peter M.G. Apers, University of Twente, The Netherlands "Maintaining Schemata Consistency for Interoperable Database Systems", A. Illarramendi, J.M. Blanco, E. Mena, A. Goni, J.M. Perez, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain 11:15-12.30 Parallel Session 1B - Data Modelling "An Extension of SQL for Relations of History Expressions", Dan Tian, Fujitsu Network Switching of America, Inc., U.S.A. "An Event Algebra for Specifying and Scheduling Workflows", Munindar P. Singh, Greg Meredith, Christine Tomlinson, Paul C. Attie, Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corporation, U.S.A., Imperial College, U.K., Florida International University, U.S.A. "Hyper-Agenda: A System to Organize and Realize Tasks", Slimane Hammoudi, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:45 Session 2 - Advanced Applications "An Approach to Intelligent Software Library Management", Burkhard Freitag, Bernhard Steffen, Tiziana Margaria, Ulrich Zukowski, Universitaet Passau, Germany "Continuous Media Sharing in Multimedia Database Systems", Mohan Kamath, Krithi Ramamritham, Don Towsley, U. of Massachusetts, U.S.A. "Cost Efficient Adaptive Protocol with Buffering for Advanced Mobile Database Applications", S.J. Lai, A. Zaslavsky, G.P. Martin, L.H. Yeo, Monash University, Australia "Gaming-Simulations of Multi-Agent Information Systems using Large Databases: the concept and database algorithms", Tadashi Ohmori, Mamoru Hoshi, The University of Electro- Communications, Japan 15:45-16:15 Tea/Coffee Break 16:15-17:30 Session 3 - Indexing "Combining Indexing Technique with Path Dictionary for Nested Object Queries", Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee, Ohio State University, U.S.A., HKUST, Hong Kong "A New Algorithm for Processing Joins Using the Multilevel Grid File", Sang-Wook Kim, Wan-Sup Cho, Min-Jae Lee, Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea "Signature False Drops due to Combinatorial Error", Sam Y. Sung, H. Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore 14:00-17:30 Tutorial 3:"Introduction to Object-Relational Database Systems", Dr Won Kim, UniSQL Inc, U.S.A. Wednesday April 12, 1995 (Conference Day 2) 08:30-09:00 Registration 09:00-10:15 Keynote 2: "On Marrying Relations & Objects: Relation- Centric and Object-Centric Perspectives", Dr Won Kim, UniSQL Inc, U.S.A. 10:15-10:45 Tea/Coffee Break 10:45-12:30 Parallel Session 4A - Multi-Media and User Interfaces "A Query Interface Truly for Chinese Users", V.Y. Lum, F.W. Lee, S.K. Fong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong "A Visual Representation of Complex Relationships for Object-Oriented Databases", Bonghee Hong, Bonggi Jun, Pusan National University, Korea Telecom, Korea "Multimedia Application Programming Interface Framework", Max Roger Pokam, Gerard Michel, Laboratoire de Genie Informatique, France "On the Issues of Expressiveness and Portability of Chiql", C.K.Lam, Vincent Y. Lum, Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 10.45-12.30 Parallel Session 4B - Deductive Databases "A Deductive Database Solution to Intelligent Information Retrieval from Legacy Databases", KayLiang Ong, Natraj Arni, Christine Tomlinson, Unnikrishnan, Darrell Woelk, MCC, USA "Datalog-A : Array Manipulations in a Deductive Database Language", Sergio Greco, Luigi Palopoli, Eugenio Spadafora, Universita della Calabria, Italy "Set-Term Matching in a Logic Database Language", Seung Jin Lim, Yiu-Kai Ng, Brigham Young University, U.S.A. "Modeling, Chaining and Fusion of Uncertain Knowledge", Helmut Thone, Ulrich Guntzer, Werner Kiessling, Universitaet Tuebingen, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15.45 Parallel Session 5A - Real Time Databases "OODB Support for Real-Time Open-Architecture Controllers", Lei Zhou, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Kang G. Shin, The University of Michigan, U.S.A. "Real-Time Replication Control for Distributed Database Systems: Algorithms and Their Performance", Sang H. Son, Fengjie Zhang, University of Virginia, USA "Real-Time Multiversion Concurrency Control Using Precedence Relationship", Seok Hee Hong, Yoon-Joon Lee, Myoung Ho Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea "Data Compression Management Mechanism for Real-Time Main Memory Database Systems", Soon-Jo Lee, Hae-Young Bae, Inha University, Korea 14:00-15.45 Parallel Session 5B - Distributed & Parallel Query Processing "Batch Query Processing in Shared-Nothing Multiprocessors", Hongjun Lu, Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore "Dynamic Join Product Skew Handling for Hash-Joins in Shared-Nothing Database Systems", Lilian Harada, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Fujitsu Laboratories, University of Tokyo, Japan "Load Balancing in Distributed Query Processing", Chengwen Liu, I-Ping Chu, DePaul University, U.S.A. "Implementing Dynamic Code Assembly for Client-Based Query Processing", J. Thomas, T. Gerbes, T. Haerder, B. Mitschang, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany 15:45-16:15 Tea/Coffee Break 16:15-17:45 Panel Discussion 18:00-21:30 Conference Banquet at: Tai He Lou Theatre Restaurant Tang Dynasty City 2 Yuan Ching Road, Singapore 2261 Free transport will be provided from conference site to banquet restaurant. Thursday April 13, 1995 (Conference Day 3) 08:30-09:00 Registration 09:00-10:15 Keynote 3: "The ODMG Standard for Object Databases", Dr Francois Bancilhon, O2 Technology, France 10:15-10:45 Tea/Coffee Break 10:45-12:30 Parallel Session 6A - Object-Oriented Databases "Evolution Features of the F2 OODBMS", Lina Al-Jadir, Thibault Estier, Gilles Falquet, Michel Leonard, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland "Object Migration in ISA Hierarchies", Tok Wang Ling, Pit Koon Teo, National University of Singapore, Singapore "Transform More Semantics from Relational Databases into Object-Oriented Semantics Databases", Ge Yu, Guoren Wang, Huaiyuan Zheng, Akifumi Makinouchi, Northeastern University, China, Kyushu University, Japan "Formally Speaking About Schemata, Bases, Classes and Objects", Carlos A.Tau, Clara Smith, Claudia Pons, Ana Maria Monteiro, Gabriel Baum, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina 10:45-12:30 Parallel Session 6B - Statistical and Scientific Databases "Extensible Data Modeling for Statistical Databases", Malee Wongsaroje, National Statistical Office, Thailand "Intelligent Mathematical Databases", G.Butler, Concordia University, Canada "Genetic Sequence Annotation within Biological Databases", Isabelle Mougenot, Therese Libourel, Patrice Dehais, LIRMM, France "Spatial Database Querying with Logic Languages", Jean-Pierre Cheiney, Vincent Oria, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:45 Parallel Session 7A - Active Databases and Data Mining "Incorporating Flexible and Expressive Rule Control in a Graph-based Transaction Framework", Ramamohanrao S. Jawadi, Stanley Y.W. Su, University of Florida, U.S.A. "Synchronization Attributes and Rules of Active Object-Oriented Database for Multimedia Presentation", Seok Jae Yun, Woo Saeng Kim, Agency for Defense Development, Kwangwoon University, Korea "An Efficient Algorithm for Deriving Compact Rules from Databases", Show-Jane Yen, Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, R.O.C. "On Foundations of Constraint Optimization", Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea 14:00-15:45 Parallel Session 7B - Distributed and Transaction Management Systems "A Two-Phase Approach to Data Allocation in Distributed Databases", John Shepherd, Banchong Harangsri, Hwee Ling Chen, Anne Ngu, The University of New South Wales, Australia "Performance Evaluation of Replica Control Algorithms in a Locally Distributed Database System", Chang S. Keum, Wan Choi, Eui K. Hong, Won Y. Kim, Kyu Y. Whang, ETRI, Seoul City U., KAIST, Korea "An Efficient Representation of Distributed Fragments of Recursive Relations", Sungwon Jung, Sakti Pramanik, Michigan State University, U.S.A. "Trading Operation Consistency for Concurrency", Hang Kwong Mak, Man Hon Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 15:45-16:15 Tea/Coffee Break 16:15-17:30 Parallel Session 8A - Temporal Databases "Archiving Techniques for Temporal Databases", Vram Kouramajian, Ramez Elmasri, The Wichita State University, The University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A. "Temporal Object-Oriented Data Model for the Schema Modification", Woo Saeng Kim, Duk Chul Chang, Tae Young Lim, Young Ho Shin, Kwangwoon University, Korea "A Temporal Expansion to the Multimedia Object Model in OMEGA", Yoshifumi Masunaga, University of Library and Information Science, Japan 16:15-17:30 Parallel Session 8B - Document Databases "Object-Oriented Modeling and Quering of Hypermedia Documents", Georges Gardarin, Shim Yoon, University of Versailles Saint- Quentin, France "A Formal Model for Databases of Structured Text", Brian Lowe, Justin Zobel, Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT University, Australia "Incremental Data Organization for Ancient Document Databases", Shinichi Ueshima, Kazuhiro Ohtsuki, Jun-ya Morishita, Qing Qian, Hiroaki Oiso, Katsumi Tanaka, Kansai University, Kobe University, Himeji Dokkyo U., Japan 17:30-17:45 Closing ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION The conference will be held at the Department of Information Systems & Computer Science, National University of Singapore (Block S16, Level 3). Singapore is situated at one of the important crossroads of the world, a place where East and West come together. Here you will find Chinese, Malay and Indian communities living in harmony, their long established cultures forming a unique backdrop to a clean and modern garden city. English is spoken everywhere and is the common business language. Singapore is warm and welcoming all year round, with tempera- tures ranging from 23 to 32 degrees Celsius. Taxi fare from Changi International Airport to the conference hotels (Excelsior and Peninsula) is about $15 Singapore dollars. After midnight a surcharge of 50% of the taxi fare is payable. Conference Registration: Conference registration fee includes attendence at keynotes, paper & panel sessions, exhibition, tea/coffee breaks, lunches, conference reception, banquet, and proceedings. Student registration does not include banquet and proceedings. Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd. The working language of the conference will be English, which will be used for all printed material, presentations and discussions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Chung Kwong YUEN, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Steering Committee Chair: Sukho LEE, Seoul National University, Korea Steering Committee Vice-Chair: Yahiko KAMBAYASHI, Kyoto University, Japan America Co-ordinator: Stanley Y W SU, University of Florida, USA Europe Co-ordinator: Stefano SPACCAPIETRA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Program Committee Co-chairs: Tok Wang LING, NUS, Singapore Yoshifumi MASUNAGA, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Panel Chair: Hongjun LU, NUS, Singapore Tutorial Chair: Beng Chin OOI, NUS, Singapore Publicity/Publication Chair: Yong Meng TEO, NUS, Singapore Local Arrangement Chair: Kwok Kee WEI, NUS, Singapore Exhibition Chair: Gary Soon Huat TAN, NUS, Singapore Registration: Sam Yuan SUNG, NUS, Singapore Treasurer: Mong Li LEE, NUS, Singapore Conference Secretary: Ms Sew Kiok TOH, NUS, Singapore PROGRAM COMMITTEE D.J. Abel CSIRO, Australia H. Adeli Ohio State University E. Bertino University of Genova, Italy C.C. Chang National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan Arbee Chen National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan S.K. Dao Hughes Research Laboratories, USA A. Deshpande Persistent System Pte Ltd, India D.W. Embley Brigham Young University, USA J. Grant Towson State University, USA Angela E.S. Goh Nanyang Technological University, Singapore J. Han Simon Fraser University, Canada E.K. Hong Seoul City University, Korea H. Ikeda Ritsumeikan University, Japan U. Inoue NTT, Japan H. Ishikawa Fujitsu Lab., Japan H.F. Korth Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., USA Y. Kambayashi Kyoto University, Japan L.V.S. Lakshmanan Concordia University, Canada S.Y. Lee National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Q. Li Hong Kong University of Science & Tech. S.Y. Ling National Computer Board, Singapore F.H. Lochovsky Hong Kong University of Science & Tech. H.J. Lu National University of Singapore Vincent Lum Chinese University of Hong Kong A. Makinouchi Kyushu University, Japan R. Manthey University of Bonn, Germany T.H. Merrett McGill University, Canada S. Miranda Univ. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France S.C. Moon KAIST, Korea D. Narasimhalu Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Peter A Ng New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA M. Norrie ETH, Switzerland K.L. Ong MCC, USA B.C. Ooi National University of Singapore M. Orlowska University of Queensland, Australia K. Ramamohanarao University of Melbourne, Australia K.H. Ryu Chungbuk National University, Korea Ron Sacks-Davis RMIT, University of Melbourne, Australia H. Samet University of Maryland, USA N.L. Sarda IIT (Bombay), India Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA S. Spaccapietra Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Stanley Y.W. Su University of Florida, USA K.P. Tan National University of Singapore K. Tanaka Kobe University, Japan A. Min Tjoa University of Vienna, Austria Frank W. Tompa University of Waterloo, Canada K.F. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong K. Wang National University of Singapore K.Y. Whang KAIST, Korea M. Yoshikawa NAIST, Japan L. Zhou Tsinghua University, China R. Zicari University of Frankfurt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Completed registration and hotel reservation forms are to be returned to: DASFAA '95, (Attn: Ms Sew Kiok TOH) Department of Information Systems & Computer Science National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 tel: 772 2807 fax: +65 779 4580 email: tohsk@iscs.nus.sg DISCLAIMER Every effort has been made to present, as accurately as possible, all the information contained in this brochure. The Organising Committee, the National University of Singapore, its Agents or Servants or the Sponsors do not accept legal liability for any changes in the structure or the content of the technical programme, registration fees, accommodation costs and any general or specific information contained in this brochure. ======================================================================== DASFAA '95 REGISTRATION FORM Name (Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms): __________________________________________________ Organisation : __________________________________________________ Address : __________________________________________________ City : ___________ Postcode:_______ Country:___________ Telephone : ___________ Fax:____________ Email:_____________ Special Request for Banquet/Lunches: o Vegetarian o Muslim o Special Diet: _______________(please specify) (Extra banquet tickets at Singapore dollars $70 each (inclusive of tax) can be purchased at the time of registration.) 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GST (Goods and Services Tax) will be absorbed by the conference. * For authors and employees of ISS, ITI and NUS. For members of the cooperating societies, please fill in the following: o ACM o IEEE o IPSJ o KISS o SCS Membership No: _____________ # For half-day tutorial registration, please indicate session: o morning o afternoon @ For student registration, please complete the following: Name of Supervisor : ______________________________________________ Supervisor's Signature: _____________________________ Date ___________ CONFERENCE REGISTRATION PAYMENT All payments should be made in Singapore Dollars, payable to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE. Payment by Visa or Mastercard and personal and company cheques drawn on a Singapore bank will be accepted. Bank drafts must be payable in Singapore. A refund of 70% will be provided for written cancellations received by 1 April 1995. Thereafter, the full amount will be forfeited. o I enclose a bank draft/money order made payable to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE for SIN $__________ Bank Draft/Money Order No:_____________ Issuing Bank:________________ o Please charge to my credit card (tick on circle): Card type: o Visa o Mastercard Card Holder's Name: _________________________________________ Card Number: _____________________ Expiry date: ____________ Date: ____________ Cardholder's Signature: _________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACCOMMODATION (DASFAA '95) Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the Excelsior Hotel and Peninsula Hotel. These two tourist class hotels are next to each other in the heart of downtown Singapore, near shopping malls, museums, parks and restaurants. Hotel rooms are equipped with self-coded safe, teletext colour TV, IDD telephone, attached bath room and mini-bar. If you require hotel accommodation, please complete the necessary details on the hotel reservation form. Reservations at the special DASFAA rate can be accepted until March 1, 1995. After this date, reservations will be on a space available basis. Hotel deposit for one night is re- quired to reserve each room. Transportation to/from hotel and conference site will be provided. ======================================================================== HOTEL RESERVATION FORM Please make the following reservation. Check In Date: ___________Check Out Date: __________ for _______night(s) Single Room(s) (SIN $120* per room) ______ Double Room(s) (SIN $125* per room) ______ Twin Room(s) (SIN $125* per room) ______ * All room rates subjected to 14% Government and Local Tax o I enclose a bank draft or money order made payable to YTC Hotels Ltd. for SIN $__________ for my hotel reservations. Bank Draft/Money Order No: ____________ Issuing Bank: ________________ o Please charge my reservations to my credit card (tick on circle): Card type: o Visa o Mastercard o American Express o JCB Card Holder's Name: _________________________________________ Card Number: _____________________ Expiry date: ____________ Date: ____________ Cardholder's Signature: _________________ =========================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it Mon Feb 13 08:54:45 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 08:54:40 -0600; AA18663 Received: from infokit.dis.uniroma1.it by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 08:53:44 -0600 Received: from [151.100.16.141] (tizianac.dis.uniroma1.it [151.100.16.141]) by infokit.dis.uniroma1.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id PAA11644; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:53:16 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:53:16 +0100 Message-Id: <199502131453.PAA11644@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it> From: "Tiziana Catarci" Reply-To: "Tiziana Catarci" To: dbworld, VISUAL-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU, diagrams@csli.stanford.edu Subject: FADIVA Project - First Workshop Some comments on the first workshop of the FADIVA (Foundation of Advanced 3-D Information Visualizations) Working Group, as well as some info on the group itself, can be found at: http://www-cui.darmstadt.gmd.de/visit/fadiva/seeheim-workshop.html Tiziana Catarci Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma ITALY Tel. +39-6-49918331 Fax. +39-6-49918331 or +39-6-85300849 E-mail catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it or tic@cs.brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From aberer@darmstadt.gmd.de Mon Feb 13 09:50:42 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 09:50:36 -0600; AA20064 Received: from sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 09:50:33 -0600 Received: from amper.darmstadt.gmd.de (amper [141.12.35.15]) by sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA15989 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:52:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 16:52:03 +0100 From: "Dr. Karl Aberer" Message-Id: <199502131552.QAA15989@sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de> To: dbworld Subject: VODAK object-oriented DBMS release 4.0 *********************************************************************** * * * ANNOUNCEMENT * * * * Release 4.0 of the * * object-oriented database management system * * VODAK * * * *********************************************************************** VODAK is an object-oriented database management system that was developed over the past years at GMD-IPSI, the Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems of the German National Research Center for Computer Science. VODAK provides several advanced features: - object-oriented data model with metaclass concept for tailoring the datamodel to specific application domains - object-oriented query language with extensible query optimization module - open-nested transaction management exploiting semantics of methods - support for multimedia datatypes The prototype is fully implemented including schema compiler, transaction management, object management, data dictionary, communication management and query processor. It runs on top of ObjectStore, which is used for low-level storage. Different tools and sample applications are available with the prototype. For installation one requires SunOS 4.1, Sun C++ Compiler V 2.1 (SC1.0) and ObjectStore V3.0. A short history: ---------------- The VODAK project has started in 1987. A first unreleased prototype was implemented in Smalltalk. After several internal releases at IPSI, the first C++ based implementation was officially released in December 1992 (V3.0). An improved version is available since November 1993 (V3.1). V3.1 used the relational DMBS Damokles for low-level storage. Release V4.0 is the first VODAK version which uses the object-oriented DBMS ObjectStore. Obtaining VODAK releases: ------------------------- VODAK and its documentation is free for use for educational, research, and non-profit purposes. Details are given in the copyright notice attached with the release. Interested users are requested to notify us by e-mail (vodakpro@darmstadt.gmd.de) about installation and type of usage of the release. Any feedback is highly appreciated. VODAK releases can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de (141.12.62.22) directory /pub/dimsys/vodak The installation process is described in the file install_vodak_V4.0.README. Papers concerned with database research at IPSI may also be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de (141.12.62.22) directory /pub/dimsys/reports You will find VODAK-related information on WWW http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/dimsys/home.html In case you have any problems or questions concerning the VODAK releases, please send mail to vodakpro@darmstadt.gmd.de or contact Karl Aberer, GMD-IPSI, Dolivostr. 15, D-64293 Darmstadt, GERMANY Tel: +49-6151-869 935 FAX: +49-6151-869 966 email: aberer@darmstadt.gmd.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gmitchell@gte.com Mon Feb 13 09:57:17 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 09:57:08 -0600; AA20213 Received: from ns.gte.com by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 09:57:04 -0600 Received: from [132.197.103.1] by ns.gte.com (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4) id AA16552; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:55:11 -0500 X-Sender: gm01@pophost.gte.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:56:58 -0500 To: dbworld From: gmitchell@gte.com (Gail Mitchell) Subject: CFP - Distributed Object Management - TAPOS Special Issue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The attached call for papers appears in issue 1 of Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS). Please pass it along to interested colleagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Special Issue of Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS) John Wiley, New York on Distributed Object Management Guest Editor: Gail Mitchell GTE Laboratories Distributed object management systems provide a framework for integrating heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed systems. In a distributed object system the component systems, as well as the data stored in these systems, are modeled as objects. Distributed object management includes facilities needed to support the integration and interoperation of these objects. Increasingly, organizations are encountering situations in which heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed computing systems need to be connected and may interoperate to provide services and information. For example, re-engineering of business processes results in the integration of existing (legacy) business systems, as well as new applications; ubiquitous networks, such as the Internet, connect heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed computing sites; a mobile system communicates with different computing sites as it moves about the globe. Distributed object management systems are often promoted as an approach to solving requirements for interoperability in such systems. For this special issue of TAPOS we invite papers on all aspects of distributed object management. We particularly encourage papers examining current research and developments in the application of distributed object management technology to address system interoperability. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Modelling and interoperability issues o Implementation issues o Distributed object system architectures o Support for object persistence o Object naming, identification, and location o Object migration and mobility o Support for concurrency and transactions o Object behavior o Object semantics and heterogeneity o Object views o Management of object replication o Queries and query optimization o Emerging Standards Electronic submissions are preferred (postscript plus a plain text abstract), but five paper copies are acceptable. Detailed instructions for authors can be retrieved via ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/call-for-papers The deadline for submission is July 17, 1995. Please send your submission to: E-Mail: gmitchell@gte.com US Mail/ Gail Mitchell Express: GTE Laboratories, MS-62 40 Sylvan Rd. Waltham, MA 02254 USA Telephone: (617) 466-2286 Fax: (617) 466-2439 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu Mon Feb 13 12:15:57 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 12:15:51 -0600; AA22435 Received: from hub.ucsb.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 12:15:25 -0600 Received: from eci1.ucsb.edu (eci1-52.ucsb.edu) by hub.ucsb.edu; id AA00826 sendmail 4.1/UCSB-2.1-sun Mon, 13 Feb 95 09:47:41 PST for dbworld@cs.wisc.edu Received: from gull.cs.ucsb.edu by eci1.ucsb.edu (1.38.193.5/UCSB-v3) id AA06446; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:13:24 -0800 Received: by gull (4.1/UCSB-v2) id AA28949; Mon, 13 Feb 95 10:13:22 PST Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 10:13:22 PST From: agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu (Divyakant Agrawal) Message-Id: <9502131813.AA28949@gull> To: dbworld Subject: Call for Papers: special issue of Information Systems Cc: agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Information Systems Special Issue on Disaster Recovery in Database Systems D. Agrawal A. El Abbadi Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Databases have become a crucial component for the survival of most organizations. Inaccessibility to the data and more importantly loss of the data may seriously jeopardize the well-being of such organizations. These considerations make disaster recovery an essential component of any database architecture. Because of the importance of this area, Information Systems is planning a special issue on Disaster Recovery for Summer 1996. The goal is to collect papers on recent important advances and to put together a strong issue on the subject. Theoretical papers should include a solid motivation for why the stated results are applicable in real applications. Applied papers that describe working systems in actual use are particularly solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. - Novel implementations of the traditional systems-pair approach (i.e., primary-backup). - Coding-theory techniques for redundancy and disaster recovery. - Cost-effective replication mechanisms for normal operations as well as disaster recovery (note that the replication here is primarily to restore data after failures rather than for availability) - disaster recovery in LANs and WANs - requirements for innovative applications that need support for disaster recovery, e.g., libraries, telecommunications, utility distribution, life-critical applications etc. Papers should be at most 30 pages long, double-spaced, in font size 10 or larger. Five copies of each paper should be sent to the following address: Divyakant Agrawal Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106-4321 USA agrawal@@cs.ucsb.edu The following are important dates for this issue: Date Milestone ______________________________________________________________ 11/1/95 Deadline for submission of papers 3/1/95 Notification of 1st-round referee results 5/15/96 Deadline for submission of revised papers 8/15/96 Notification of final acceptance/rejection 11/1/96 Deadline for having final papers at the publisher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From kar@cs.columbia.edu Mon Feb 13 14:31:54 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 14:31:47 -0600; AA25400 Received: from cs.columbia.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 14:31:44 -0600 Received: from swift.cs.columbia.edu (swift.cs.columbia.edu [128.59.21.45]) by cs.columbia.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA28088 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:31:42 -0500 Received: (from kar@localhost) by swift.cs.columbia.edu (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA09825; Mon, 13 Feb 1995 15:31:42 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 15:31:42 EST From: Ken Ross To: dbworld Cc: kar@cs.columbia.edu Subject: Postdoctoral Research Position in Database Systems Message-Id: Postdoctoral Position in Database Systems Department of Computer Science Columbia University Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position in database systems. The expected starting date is flexible, with a target starting date of June 1st, 1995. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility for further years, subject to research progress and funding availability. Applicants should have a Ph.D in computer science. The successful candidate will carry out research in one of several ongoing research projects. Current projects are in the areas of deductive databases, object-oriented databases, medical databases, distributed query processing, and image databases. Additional responsibilities may include prototype implementation, report writing, grant proposal writing, and presenting demonstrations. Applicants should send a vita, including the names of at least three references, by e-mail to Professor Kenneth Ross, kar@cs.columbia.edu. Applications should be received by March 15th for full consideration. If e-mail is impossible, hard-copies may be mailed to: Professor Kenneth Ross Deparment of Computer Science 450 Computer Science Building Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Columbia University provides an attractive location for both research and non-research activities. In addition to the Columbia facilities, there are a number of corporate research centers within commuting distance of New York City. New York City is a center of culture and commerce, with a famous social and ethnic diversity. The successful candidate may be eligible for subsidized near-campus housing. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer, and women and minorities are encouraged to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From peters@moon.eecs.nwu.edu Mon Feb 13 15:04:04 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 15:03:53 -0600; AA26276 Received: from moon.eecs.nwu.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 13 Feb 95 15:03:49 -0600 Received: by moon.eecs.nwu.edu (4.1/SMI-EECS-3) id AA01499; Mon, 13 Feb 95 15:03:42 CST Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 15:03:42 CST From: peters@moon.eecs.nwu.edu (Peter Scheuermann) Message-Id: <9502132103.AA01499@moon.eecs.nwu.edu> To: dbworld Subject: SIGMOD Awards nominations Cc: peters 1995 ACM SIGMOD AWARDS In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual "SIGMOD Innovations Award" and "SIGMOD Contributions Award" as part of its Awards Program. The first winners of the SIGMOD Innovations Award were Prof. Michael Stonebraker (1992), Dr. James Gray (1993), and Dr. Philip Bernstein (1994). The winners of the SIGMOD Innovations Award were Dr. Maria Zemankova (1992) and Prof. Gio Wiederhold (1993). This note is intended to inform the database community of the existence of these annual awards, and to encourage the nomination of candidates for the awards. The nomination deadline for this year is March 15, 1995. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- DETAILS OF THE AWARDS -- 1.A Name: SIGMOD Innovations Award. 2.A. For What: Innovative contribution to the development or use of database systems and databases; the contribution must have been reduced to practice and adopted widely in significant use. 1.B Name: SIGMOD Contributions Award. 2.B For What: Outstanding and sustained services to the database field through education, conference organizations, journals, standards activities, research funding, etc. 3. Given: Annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate). 4. Award: $1,000 plus a plaque per person (or group, if it is for a group). 5. Administration: Administered by the SIGMOD Awards Committee. 6. Nomination/Evaluation Procedures: - Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or group. - Nominations should include a 200-500 word statement to justify the nomination. - Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. - The nomination procedure, etc., will be published in SIGMOD RECORD once or twice a year. - The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. - Nominations must be received by March 15 to be considered for this year's award. 7. Receipient: The recipient will receive the award during the opening ceremony at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference; he/she will give a short speech (5-10 minutes). 8. Eligibility for Nomination: anyone except the current elected officers of SIGMOD (Chair, Vice Chair, and Treasurer), and members of of the SIGMOD Awards Committee. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WHERE TO SEND NOMINATIONS -- Nominations should be submitted to (either via e-mail or postal mail) to one or more members of the SIGMOD Awards Committee, and copied to the ACM SIGMOD chair. SIGMOD Awards Committee: Prof. Peter Scheuermann Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 peters@eecs.nwu.edu Prof. Tomasz Imielinski Dept. of Computer Science Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 imielins@cs.rutgers.edu Prof. Hans Schek Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Dept. of Computer Science CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland schek@inf.ethz.ch SIGMOD Chair: Dr. Won Kim UniSQL, Inc. 8911 Capital of Texas Highway Austin, Texas 78759 kim@unisql.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From keulen@cs.utwente.nl Tue Feb 14 05:06:43 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 05:06:20 -0600; AA02193 Received: from utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 05:06:08 -0600 Received: from apollo.cs.utwente.nl by utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl (5.0/csrelayMX-SVR4_1.0/RB) id AA28957; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:05:33 --100 Received: from race_track.cs.utwente.nl by apollo.cs.utwente.nl (4.1/RBCS-2.1) id AA11212; Tue, 14 Feb 95 12:05:31 +0100 Received: by race_track.cs.utwente.nl (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA24758; Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:05:28 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 12:05:28 +0100 From: keulen@cs.utwente.nl (Maurice van Keulen) Message-Id: <9502141105.AA24758@race_track.cs.utwente.nl> To: dbworld Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Advanced course "Multimedia databases in perspective" X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII X-Face: ia?gjt~SgC#":O~Y$)o_V.gul%:>&ebK:OP:P%O>V}-}6P}P.!g3X@!@IbQKX/{h7n{<2VW ltAnsu`}J?'a4wLX>C{W70E&%V*b56t4VVVCEyyO;|WN=gcc0^u{<\Ob{Lx$d6D"HT65# Content-Length: 8695 Advanced Course "Multimedia databases in perspective". June, 8-9, 1995, Enschede, The Netherlands Contents: With the advent of modern computer technology, multimedia systems become increasingly important. This is caused, among others, by the exploration of novel applications areas where handling of pictures, audio, and video is a prevalent part of the application. To support multimedia applications, traditional database management tasks like searching, sharing and, storing of data have to be reconsidered. Although some multimedia DBMS-prototypes have been developed, the functionality and composition of required components are by no means clear. The Advanced Course "Multimedia databases in perspective" will focus on these topics. Several outstanding researchers will contribute to this course and present some of their most recent work. Together they cover the most important aspects of a multimedia DBMS. The course starts with an interesting multimedia application, namely one offering a `virtual world'. This lecture is followed by descriptions and impressions of other multimedia applications, which are used to derive an architecture for a multimedia database management system (MDBMS). Next, attention is paid to the technology that makes MDBMS's feasible, namely the hardware, operating system, and communication support that is available now or in the near future. Subsequently, some lectures are devoted to the conceptual level of MDBMS's and features to adequately describe multimedia applications are introduced. To this end, several standards are covered in the course: SQL3, SGML, and HYTIME. The next topic concerns retrieval of multimedia objects. New concepts that describe the contents or the (relative) position of multimedia objects are required. These concepts may be incorporated in future query languages for MDBMS's. Subsequently, some implementation aspects of MDBMS's are treated, namely access structures, query processing, and distribution. Finally, the value of multimedia applications for the market is addressed: which conditions have to be fulfilled for these applications to really benefit potential users. A more detailed announcement can be found on WWW: http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/dbnl/ADBMS.html LECTURERS Christian Breiteneder, University of Vienna, Austria: "Virtual worlds" Wolfgang Klas, GMD Darmstadt, Germany: "MM applications and their implications for database architecture" Sape Mullender, University of Twente, The Netherlands: "Operating systems support for multimedia" Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany: "Communication support for distributed multimedia applications" Peter Pistor, IBM Heidelberg, Germany: "SQL3 and new multimedia technology" Peter Verkoulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands: "Document standards" Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece: "Multimedia query languages: concepts" Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland, USA: "Indexing of multimedia databases" Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy: "Query processing and optimization" Peter Apers, University of Twente, The Netherlands: "Distributed hypermedia systems" Maurice Houtsma, Telematics Research Center, The Netherlands: "Critical success factors for multimedia applications" ============================================================================== REGISTRATION FORM Advanced Course "Multimedia databases in perspective" June 8-9, 1995 Hotel Bad Boekelo, Enschede, The Netherlands To register for the Advanced Course "Multimedia databases in perspective", please complete this form and return it by mail to: University of Twente BASICS International Conference Services P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands or by email to: J.R.Haan@basics.utwente.nl Registration will not be effective until payment has been received. Attendance is limited to approximately 40 persons. To make the course as effective as possible, selection is based on affinity with multimedia research. Therefore, please indicate your current research topics. In case of over-subscription, payments will be reimbursed to those not selected. PERSONAL INFORMATION Mr./Mrs. Initials Family name First name Title Organization Address Postal Code City Country Telephone Telefax E-mail Research topics A. REGISTRATION FEE For a limited number of PhD-students a student rate fee is possible. (Sponsoring by the Network of Excellence IDOMENEUS has been requested and is expected). Please, mention the name of your graduation professor. If needed, payments will be reimbursed. The fee includes the dinner at June, 8th, 1995, but no lodging. Fee Paid before Paid after Amount to be paid May 1, 1995 May 1, 1995 Full rate Dfl. 630,= Dfl. 700,= _________________ Student rate Dfl. 210,= Dfl. 250,= _________________ (Graduation professor) _________________________________ Overnight stay Dfl. 115,= (single room x ... nights) _________________ Dfl. 150,= (double room x .... nights) _________________ TOTAL AMOUNT TO BE PAID _________________ B. HOTEL ACCOMMODATION (please indicate your choice) Hotel Bad Boekelo o Single room o Double room Dfl. 115,= Dfl. 150,= I will share a double room with Mr./Mrs. _______________________________________ Date of arrival _________________________________________ Date of departure _________________________________________ Number of nights ___________________ Prices are per room per night. Breakfast included. C. PAYMENTS Payments may be made as follows: a. By bank transfer to: ING Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands Account No. 66.48.76.269 (giro of the bank: 811153), payable to "Advanced Course", stating your full name. b. By cheque payable to Advanced Course (note: Eurocheque to a maximum of Dfl. 300,= per cheque). c. By credit card. American Express/Diners Club/Eurocard/Mastercard/Visa If you pay by credit card, please send also a signed copy to BASICS, see above. Card no. _______________________________________________ Expiration date ________________________________________ All payments must be made NET OF ALL CHARGES. If not, these charges will have to be paid on arrival. Date Signature Please note: cancellations received in writing before May, 15 1995 will be subject to an administrative charge of Dfl. 35.00. After this date, no refunds can be given. -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Maurice van Keulen University of Twente | | Subdepartment: Information Systems Dept. of Computer Science | | Room: INF 3034 P.O. Box 217 | | Phone : +31 53 893725 7500 AE Enschede | | e-mail : keulen@cs.utwente.nl The Netherlands | | WWW : http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/keulen/homepage.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From pedre@DI.UniPi.IT Tue Feb 14 07:27:05 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 07:26:56 -0600; AA04989 Received: from apollo.di.unipi.it by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 07:26:51 -0600 Received: from igor.di.unipi.it by apollo.di.unipi.it with SMTP (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA11153; Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:23:09 +0100 Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' di Pisa - Italy Received: by igor (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17514; Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:18:59 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:18:59 +0100 From: pedre@DI.UniPi.IT Message-Id: <9502141318.AA17514@igor> To: dbworld, vianu@cs.ucsd.edu, (Victor, Vianu), kifer@cs.sunysb.edu, su@cs.ucsb.edu, (Jianwen, Su), eiter@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at, MARIK VLADIMIR@DI.UniPi.IT, , nik@si.deis.unical.it, leone@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at, sacca@ccusc1.unical.it, sacca@si.deis.unical.it, greco@si.deis.unical.it, stephane.grumbach@inria.fr, grumbach@db.toronto.edu, zlacroix@tacos.inria.fr, greco@ccusc1.unical.it, gire@litp.ibp.fr, (Francoise, Gire), turini@DI.UniPi.IT, paolo@DI.UniPi.IT, brogi@DI.UniPi.IT, brogi@cs.ucla.edu, asirelli@iei.pi.cnr.it, gmsys@vm.cnuce.cnr.it, vs@cs.umd.edu, zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu, fosca@orione.cnuce.cnr.it, pedre@DI.UniPi.IT, renso@DI.UniPi.IT Subject: ADVANCES IN LOGIC-BASED DATABASE LANGUAGES The proceedings of the workshop ADVANCES IN LOGIC-BASED DATABASE LANGUAGES (Prague, Jan 9, 1995, in conjunction with ICDT'95) are available as a WWW page at the following URL: http://www.di.unipi.it/~pedre/praga-proceedings.html The page has references to PostScript files with either papers or transparencies of (most) talks. Thanks for your interest, Dino Pedreschi Univ. Pisa, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ghignati@inf.ufrgs.br Tue Feb 14 10:48:38 1995 Received: from stimpy.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:48:32 -0600; AA07750 Received: from [143.54.2.99] by stimpy.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:47:07 -0600 Received: from cristal.inf.ufrgs.br by inf.ufrgs.br (4.1/INF-UFRGS-941007) id AA23235; Tue, 14 Feb 95 13:47:55 EST Received: from [143.54.10.45] (gollum) by cristal.inf.ufrgs.br (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23170; Tue, 14 Feb 95 13:44:08 EST Message-Id: <9502141644.AA23170@cristal.inf.ufrgs.br> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:49:36 -0300 To: dbworld@stimpy.cs.wisc.edu From: ghignati@inf.ufrgs.br X-Sender: ghignati@143.54.6.8 Subject: VII SBAC-PAD XV CONGRESS OF BRAZILIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY JULY 29 - AUGUST 4, 1995 CANELA - RS - BRAZIL VII SBAC-PAD VII BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE HIGH PERFORMANCE PROCESSING CALL FOR PAPERS ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM SBAC-PAD, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Architecture - High Performance Processing, is the major Brazilian Forum for debates on researching and development in computer architecture area, high performance processing and correlatives subjects. Its realization will emphasize the integration between researching and application, offering room for meeting the academic community with other high performance processing users. VII SBAC- PAD will include invited works, outstanding speeches and tutorials. TOPICS OF INTEREST Parallel, Vector and Systolic Processint Parallel and Superscalar Architectures Workstations Clusters Programming and Compilation Environments Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems Parallel and Distributed Languages Performance Evaluation and Simulation Specification and Modeling Real Time Systems Interconnection Networks Algorithms Aplications Neural Networks Reliability and Fault Tolerance PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alvaro Coutinho (COPPE/UFRJ) Claudio Amorim (COPPE/UFRJ) Claudio F. R. Geyer (UFRGS) Carlos Moura (UFCe) Daniel Menasce (George Mason,USA) Eduardo W. Bergamini (INPE) Isaac Scherson (Irvine,USA) Jacques Chassin de Kergommeaux (IMAG, Franca) Jairo Panetta (IEAv/CTA) Jzlio Salek (NCE/UFRJ) Liria Sato (Poli/USP) Osvaldo S. F. Carvalho (UFMG) Philippe O. A. Navaux (UFRGS) - co-ordinator Rafael Lins (UFPe) Siang Song (IME/USP) Virgilio A. F. Almeida (UFMG) INSTRUCTIONS TO THE AUTHORS The authors must submit the original paper and three copies, written in English or in Portuguese (in this case the paper must have and abstract in English), in A4 size sheets, in single column with 3.0 cm lateral margins, 3.5 cm top margin and 2.0 cm bottom margin, printed preferentially in a laser printer. The paper must be no longer than 15 pages. The fist page must include the title of the paper, names of the authors, filiation and addresses, followed by the abstract (papers in Portuguese must contain English and Portuguese abstracts). In the proceedings the originals could be reduced 70%. The pages must be enumerated at back by free hand. The papers must be followed by a letter with the title of the paper, area, names of the authors, name of the speaker, e-mail and normal addresses. The papers will be analyzed by the clearness and accurancy of ideas, originality and importance from results and quality of the presentation. The authors must observe that the article must not be submitted to another conference or magazine. DEADLINES Paper Submission: April 7, 1995 Acceptance Notification: May 12, 1995 Final Version Submission: May 31, 1995 INFORMATION Lourdes Tassinari - Setor de Eventos Instituto de Informatica - UFRGS Av. Bento Goncalves, 9500 - Bloco IV Caixa Postal 15064 - 91501-970 Porto Alegre - BRAZIL Phone: +55 51 336.8399 ext.6166/6158 Fax: +55 51 336.5576 E-mail: Conf95@INF.UFRGS.BR VII SBAC - PAD (a/c Philippe O. A. Navaux) Phone: +55 51 336.8399 R.6809 E-mail: SBAC-95@INF.UFRGS.BR ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Celso M. da Costa (UFRGS) Claudio F. R. Geyer (UFRGS) Fernando R. Nascimento (UFRGS) Gerson G. H. Cavalheiro (UFRGS) Philippe O. A. Navaux (UFRGS) - co-ordinator Ricardo C. Krug (UFRGS) Sandro J. Rigo (UFRGS) Simco S. Toscani (UFRGS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From ghignati@inf.ufrgs.br Tue Feb 14 10:50:02 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:49:59 -0600; AA07766 Received: from [143.54.2.99] by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:49:44 -0600 Received: from cristal.inf.ufrgs.br by inf.ufrgs.br (4.1/INF-UFRGS-941007) id AA23267; Tue, 14 Feb 95 13:53:32 EST Received: from [143.54.10.45] (gollum) by cristal.inf.ufrgs.br (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23284; Tue, 14 Feb 95 13:49:45 EST Message-Id: <9502141649.AA23284@cristal.inf.ufrgs.br> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:55:14 -0300 To: dbworld From: ghignati@inf.ufrgs.br X-Sender: ghignati@143.54.6.8 Subject: VI Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computers VI SYMPOSIUM ON FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTERS CALL FOR PAPERS THE EVENTS The PANEL - Latin American Conference on Informatics, is an annual event promoted by CLEI that brings together most of the Latin American Informatics community. The Software and Hardware Symposium - SEMISH, and the Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computers - SCTF - are conducted in affiliation with the Annual Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society. In 1995, both Conferences will be jointly organized by the Instituto de Informatica of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). They will be held in the mountain region of the brazilian southern State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the tourist town of Canela. Canela stays only a hundred kilometers from Porto Alegre, the State's Capital, and is characterized by the influence of the German and Italian immigration in the region. With its bavarian architectural style, Canela is surrounded by beautiful mountains and provides an excellent environment for professional and scientific meetings. THE SYMPOSIUM The objective of SCTF - Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computers - is to provide a forum for academic and practitioners in the areas related to systems fault tolerance, safety and security to exchange research results, development activities, and application experience reports. All participants will have an opportunity to exchange ideas with special emphasis on research and application relationship, and to observe the current development of research in Informatics in Latin America. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit papers describing relevant research and applications in Computer Science, not published nor currently submitted for publication in Brazil in substantially similar versions. RELEVANT TOPICS INCLUDE (among others): o Evaluation and validation of dependability o Fault-tolerant computing systems o Fault modeling and simulation o Testability, diagnosis and maintenability o Data security o Distributed systems o Hard real-time systems o Dependability specification o Industrial experience reports PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit the original plus three copies of their papers, written in Portuguese, Spanish or English, printed on white 8 1/2" x 11" paper, preferably by laser printer, with a maximum of 20 pages, double-spaced and right justified. The margins of the text should be: superior margin 3.5 cm, inferior margin 2 cm, and 2.5 cm on each side. Tiny details should be avoided, since each page may be subject to a 70 % reduction in the final layout. The pages should not be numbered. The first page must contain the title of the paper, the complete names of the authors, followed by their affiliation and addresses, and an ABSTRACT, with no more than 130 words in length. A small curriculum of the authors should be sent on a separate page. The copies must be accompanied by a letter to the chairman, complete with the title, names of authors, mailing address and e-mail (this last information is essential!). The papers submitted will be analyzed by an international Program Committee, based on criteria such as originality, scientific contribution and clarity. The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the joint Conference. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for papers reception : March 31, 1995 Notification of acceptance : May 5, 1995 Final camera-ready copy: May 31, 1995 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dr. Alderico R. de Paula Jr. (INPE) Dr. Antonio Otavio Fernandes (UFMG) Dr. Eliane Martins (UNICAMP) Dr. Helano Castro de Souza (UFC) Dr. Joni da Silva Fraga (UFSC) - coordenador Dr. Jorge M. de Souza (CPqD/TELEBRAS) Dr. Julius Leite (UFF) Dr. Markus Endler (USP) Dr. Marta R.B. Martini (CPqD/TELEBRAS) Dr. Orlando Loques (UFF) Dr. Raul Weber (UFRGS) Dr. Ricardo Anido (UNICAMP) Dr. Taisy Silva Weber (UFRGS) Dr. Valentim Obac Roda (USP - Sao Carlos) GENERAL CHAIRS: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Jansch Porto (UFRGS) - Chair Prof. Dr. Raul Weber (UFRGS) Prof. Dr. Taisy Silva Weber (UFRGS) FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Jansch Porto Instituto de Informatica Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Caixa Postal 15064 CEP 91501-970 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil Tel: (051) 336 8399 or 2281633 R. 6166/6158 Fax: (051) 336 5576 E-mail: VISCTF@inf.ufrgs.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From felty@research.att.com Tue Feb 14 10:55:23 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:55:07 -0600; AA07915 Received: from research.att.com by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 10:55:04 -0600 Received: by research.att.com; Tue Feb 14 11:40 EST 1995 Received: from lutece.research.att.com by hunny.research.att.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0reQIo-000G6yC; Tue, 14 Feb 95 11:40 EST Received: by lutece.research.att.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0reQIn-000TeyC; Tue, 14 Feb 95 11:40 EST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 11:40 EST To: dbworld Subject: LICS'95 Accepted Papers From: felty@research.att.com (Amy Felty) Reply-To: lics-request@research.att.com Day 1 ===== Program Logics -------------- Completeness of Kozen's Axiomatisation of the Propositional $\mu$-Calculus, Igor Walukiewicz Once and For All, Orna Bernholtz, Amir Pnueli Complete Proof Systems for First Order Interval Temporal Logic, Bruno Dutertre Finite Models I --------------- The Infinitary Logic of Sparse Random Graphs, James F. Lynch, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz Generalized Quantifiers and 0-1 Laws, Anuj Dawar, Erich Gr\"{a}del Relativized Logspace and Generalized Quantifiers over Finite Structures, Georg Gottlob First-order Queries on Finite Structures over the Reals, Jan Paredaens, Jan Van den Bussche, Dirk Van Gucht Model Checking and Verification ------------------------------- Model-Checking of Causality Properties, Rajeev Alur, Doron Peled, Wojciech Penczek On the Complexity of Modular Model Checking, Moshe Y. Vardi Timing Behavior Analysis for Real-Time Systems, Farn Wang On the Verification Problem of Nonregular Properties for Nonregular Processes, Ahmed Bouajjani, Peter Habermehl, Rachid Echahed Day 2 ===== Theorem Proving and AI ---------------------- Uniform Proofs and Disjunctive Logic Programming, Gopalan Nadathur, Donald W. Loveland Structural Cut Elimination, Frank Pfenning Paramodulation without Duplication, Christopher Lynch Complexity of Normal Default Logic and Related Modes of Nonmonotonic Reasoning, V. Wiktor Marek, Anil Nerode, Jeffrey B. Remmel Concurrency I ------------- Control Structures, Alex Mifsud, Robin Milner, John Power Configuration Structures, R. J. Van Glabbeek, G. D. Plotkin A Typed Calculus of Synchronous Processes, Simon Gay, Rajagopal Nagarajan Modal $\mu$-Types for Processes, Marino Miculan, Fabio Gadducci Semantics I ----------- Games and Full Abstraction for the Lazy $\lambda$-Calculus, Samson Abramsky, Guy McCusker Games Semantics for Full Propositional Linear Logic, Fran\c{c}ois Lamarche A Fully Abstract Semantics for a Concurrent Functional Language with Monadic Types, Alan Jeffrey Day 3 ===== Lambda-Calculus and Types ------------------------- Equality Between Functionals in the Presence of Coproducts, Daniel J. Dougherty, Ramesh Subrahmanyam A Logic of Subtyping, Giuseppe Longo, Kathleen Milsted, Sergei Soloviev Normalization and Extensionality, Adolfo Piperno New Notions of Reduction and Non-Semantic Proofs of $\beta$-Strong Normalization in Typed $\lambda$-Calculi, A. J. Kfoury, J. B. Wells Finite Models II ---------------- Finitely Monotone Properties, Alexei P. Stolboushkin Tree Canonization and Transitive Closure, Kousha Etessami, Neil Immerman Ptime Canonization for Two Variables with Counting, Martin Otto When Do Fixed Point Logics Capture Complexity Classes?, Anil Seth Unification and Rewriting ------------------------- Higher-Order Unification via Explicit Substitutions, Gilles Dowek, Th\'{e}r\`{e}se Hardin, Claude Kirchner Sequentiality, Second Order Monadic Logic and Tree Automata, Hubert Comon Orderings, AC-Theories and Symbolic Constraint Solving, Hubert Comon, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Albert Rubio Day 4 ===== Model Checking II ----------------- Efficient On-the-Fly Model Checking for $CTL^{*}$, Girish Bhat, Rance Cleaveland, Orna Grumberg Partial Model Checking, Henrik Reif Andersen Hardware Verification via Boolean Logic Programming, Enrico Tronci Concurrency II -------------- Compositionality via Cut-Elimination: Hennessy-Milner Logic for an Arbitrary GSOS, Alex K. Simpson Compositional Testing Preorders for Probabilistic Processes, Bengt Jonsson, Wang Yi Semantics II ------------ The Stone Gamut: A Coordinatization of Mathematics, Vaughan R. Pratt Logically Presented Domains, Erik Palmgren, Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen Domain Theory in Stochastic Processes, Abbas Edalat Linear Logic ------------ Decision Problems for Second Order Linear Logic, Patrick Lincoln, Andre Scedrov, Natarajan Shankar The Complexity of Neutrals in Linear Logic, Max I. Kanovich Decidability of Linear Affine Logic, Alexei P. Kopylov ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From rmarcus@atc.boeing.com Tue Feb 14 16:41:38 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 16:41:33 -0600; AA16006 Received: from atc.boeing.com by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 14 Feb 95 16:41:30 -0600 Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA13225; Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:45:40 -0800 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 95 14:45:40 -0800 From: Bob Marcus Message-Id: <9502142245.AA13225@atc.boeing.com> To: agents@eng.sun.com, bomsig@omg.org, dbworld, orb@omg.org, patterns@cs.uiuc.edu, sting@dxcern.cern.ch Subject: OOPSLA 95 Workshops and Complex Systems Engineering OOPSLA 95 WORKSHOPS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS ENGINEERING OOPSLA is the Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications Conference. It will meet in Austin, Texas from Oct 15-21. As the OOPSLA 95 Workshop Chair, I am strongly encouraging the submission of workshop proposals related to the theme of complex adaptable systems engineering. See below for one list of possible topics and information about a new mailing list. If you are interested in organizing a workshop on ANY object-oriented topic please send in your proposals before March 1. Thanks. I can help organizers with logistics and recruiting. Bob Marcus (rmarcus@atc.boeing.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proposals should be up to two pages in length and include a description of the themes, problems to be addressed, proposed agenda and references to other papers, workshops and forums if appropriate. The proposal should include names, affiliations, addresses, phone, fax, and e-mail addresses of all prospectives co-organizers, indicating a primary contact. I can send you more information if you need it, but an old OOPSLA program can also provide good proposal models. Your workshop proposal should be SUBMITTED BEFORE MARCH 1 to rmarcus@atc.boeing.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPLEX ADAPTABLE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING There has been a lot of exciting research during the last few years in the area of complex systems. This work has focused mainly on modeling and simulating systems in areas like biology and cellular automata. There have also been similar discussions in fields like economy, ecology, management science, sociology etc. I believe that it possible to extend some of these approaches to the area of software engineering. For example, object technology can be used to manage some of the complexity and adaptability that is required for large corporate computing systems. However experience has shown that extensions of this technology to provide greater flexibility, scalability and reliability will be necessary. Some of the areas where extensions would make interesting topics for OOPSLA workshops include: New Database Applications (Object-relational,OLAP,OODBs) Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data and Components Patterns for Complex Systems Design Legacy Systems Interfaces Workflow Frameworks Scripting Languages Agent-oriented Systems Large-scale Object-oriented Simulations Reliable Distributed Computing World Wide Web Tools Large-scale Concurrent Computing Adaptable Software Systems Bob Marcus rmarcus@atc.boeing.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. I have started a new mailing list to discuss the theory and applications of complex systems engineering. If you would like to subscribe send me mail at rmarcus@atc.boeing.com. Here are some questions to simulate an initial discussion: KEY QUESTION: Is it possible to build customizable generic tools for the modeling, simulation, and analysis of complex systems? Is there a scientific discipline of complex systems? What are the basic laws? Are there generic principles for complex systems engineering? What are these principles? How can adaptability be designed into software and systems? How can non-adaptable components and systems be reengineered? How can we maintain systems with constantly changing requirements? How can we manage systems that are too complex for individual understanding? How should object technology respond to the proposed extensions above? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From klas@darmstadt.gmd.de Thu Feb 16 04:25:40 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 04:25:34 -0600; AA15493 Received: from sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 04:25:31 -0600 Received: from ems.darmstadt.gmd.de (ems [141.12.38.87]) by sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA04438 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:26:55 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:26:55 +0100 From: "Dr. Wolfgang Klas" Message-Id: <199502161026.LAA04438@sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de> To: dbworld Subject: Postgraduate Positions (MM Info.systems in Mobile Computing Environments) The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) offers 10 Postgraduate Positions By these positions, GMD offers young scientists the opportunity to work on innovative topics in a broad range of subjects. The emphasis is on - Communication and Cooperation - Intelligent Multimedia Systems - Hardware/Software Co-Design - Parallel and Scientific Computing which represent the four major research areas of GMD. Each of the full-time positions will have a duration of up to two years. A single extension by one additional year is possible. Funding can commence in April 1995. Applications must be sent before March 1, 1995. Applicants must have a Ph. D. (or equivalent) and demonstrate research experience from projects in research institutions, universities or industry. Good knowledge of English or German is required. A statement of research qualification and interest should accompany the application. The applications should include a Curriculum Vitae, copies of university degrees, letters of reference, and publication lists. Please send applications to GMD Gilbert Kalb Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 St. Augustin Germany For further information please contact Gilbert Kalb email: kalb@gmd.de Fax: +49 2241 14 2288 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the topics of interest for postgraduates within the above announcement is the area of MULTIMEDIA OBJECT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS We seek applicants with substantial expertise in multimedia information systems, object-oriented databases, or interoperable systems for the research, development, and application of INFORMATION SYSTEMS in MOBILE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS. Furthermore, the applicants should have experience with and knowledge of the MOBILE COMPUTING area. For more information please contact Dr. Wolfgang Klas GMD-IPSI Dolivostr. 15 D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: klas@darmstadt.gmd.de Fax: ++49-6151-869 966 Phone: ++49-6151-869 943 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From naughton@milkfat.cs.wisc.edu Thu Feb 16 06:43:50 1995 Received: from milkfat.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 06:43:47 -0600; AA16924 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 06:43:46 -0600 From: naughton@milkfat.cs.wisc.edu (Jeff Naughton) Message-Id: <9502161243.AA28502@milkfat.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by milkfat.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 06:43:46 -0600 To: dbworld@milkfat.cs.wisc.edu Subject: Jim Gray elected to National Academy of Engineering Database researcher Jim Gray has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. For those who may not be familiar with the NAE, this is truly a great (and well-deserved) honor. Congratulations Jim! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:34:55 +0100 From: Jacek Skowronek The Call for Papers for the EDBT'96 conference (March 25-29, 1996, Avignon, France) has been placed on the WWW server here at the University of Twente. The page will be updated as relevant information becomes available. See URL: http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/edbt/ Jacek Skowronek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jacek Skowronek e-mail: Department of Computer Science tel: +31-53-893725 Information Systems Workgroup fax: +31-53-339605 University of Twente WWW: http://www_is.cs.utwente.nl:8080/skow/Memyself.html P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Co-located with IJCAI-95. URL: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/kdd95.html PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION: Please submit 5 *hardcopies* of a short paper (a maximum of 9 single-spaced pages not including cover page but including bibliography, 1 inch margins, and 12pt font) by March 3, 1995. A cover page must include author(s) full address, E-MAIL, a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. This cover page must accompany the paper. IN ADDITION, an ascii text version of the cover page MUST BE SENT BY E-MAIL to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov by March 3, 1995. Please mail the papers to : KDD-95 AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496 U.S.A. send e-mail queries regarding submissions logistics to: kdd@aaai.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From gupta@cs.nmsu.edu Thu Feb 16 16:22:45 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 16:22:14 -0600; AA28965 Received: from dns1.NMSU.Edu by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 16:22:09 -0600 Received: from cs by NMSU.Edu (8.6.8.1/NMSU-1.18) id PAA07172; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:14:09 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:14:07 -0700 Message-Id: <199502162214.PAA07172@NMSU.Edu> Received: from san-patricio (san-patricio.CS.NMSU.Edu) by cs (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05756; Thu, 16 Feb 95 15:14:06 MST Received: by san-patricio (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04018; Thu, 16 Feb 95 15:14:05 MST From: gupta@cs.nmsu.edu (Gopal Gupta) To: POPX@vax.ox.ac.uk, ai@uk.ac.qmw.dcs, alp-list@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de, alpuente@garbi.dsic.upv.es, cclp.x@parc.xerox.com, clp@cis.ohio-state.edu, clp@cs.cmu.edu, compsci@uk.ac.aston.mail.demon.co.uk, compulog-list@cwi.nl, compulog@doc.imperial.ac.uk, compunode-exec@ecrc.de, compunode@ecrc.de, concurrency@cwi.nl, dbworld, digest@uk.ac.ed.aiva.ed.ac.uk, gulp@apollo.di.unipi.it, gulp@di.unipi.it, lprolog@central.cis.upenn.edu, nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu, parforce@ecrc.de, prolia@tlxf.geomail.org, prolog-vendors@sics.se, quintus-users@quintus.com, sepia_users@ecrc.de, sicstus-users@sics.se, x3j17@ai.sri.com Subject: CFP: Special Issue of JLP The style files for preparing the paper can be obtained via anonymous ftp from rockon.nmsu.edu in directory pub/jlp (See announcement below for details). Apologies if you get this email twice. The Journal of Logic Programming Editor-in-Chief: M. Bruynooghe Founding Editor: J.A. Robinson Special Issue on High Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems Guest Editors: Gopal Gupta & Mats Carlsson Call For Papers The Journal of Logic Programming is planning a special issue on High Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, tentatively to appear in early 1996. High-quality original research papers are invited on all aspects of high performance sequential and parallel implementations of logic programming languages. Topics include, but are not limited to, o compilation technology for logic programming languages, o runtime implementation techniques and implementation optimizations, o parallel, concurrent, and distributed implementations, o principles and practice of logic programming implementation technology, and o performance analysis of logic programming implementations. Short papers (5 to 8 pages) describing important past implementation efforts (which have not been published in archival journal papers) are also solicited. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conferences that have not appeared in archival journals are also eligible for submission. Please send six copies of your paper, by March 1st, 1995, to Gopal Gupta Guest co-editor Laboratory for Logic, Databases, and Advanced Programming Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University Box 30001/CS, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA Email: jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu JLP Latex style files are available by ftp from rockon.nmsu.edu in directory pub/jlp. The style file is jlp.sty, instructions for using this latex style file are in file jlpsty.tex. Authors are encouraged to use them to speed the publication process. Postscript files over email will also be accepted. Authors are required to email a title and a four or five line abstract to arrive by February 20th, 1995, at jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu to facilitate assignment of reviewers in advance. NORTH-HOLLAND ------------- \documentstyle[12pt]{article} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in} \setlength{\textwidth}{16cm} \setlength{\topmargin}{-0.5in} \setlength{\headsep}{0.5in} \setlength{\textheight}{23cm} \hbadness=10000 \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \Huge \begin{center} \underline{{\bf The Journal of Logic Programming}} \end{center} \small \begin{flushright} {\bf Editor-in-Chief:} M. Bruynooghe \\ {\bf Founding Editor:} J.A. Robinson \end{flushright} \LARGE \begin{em} \begin{center} Special Issue on High Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems \end{center} \begin{center} Guest Editors: Gopal Gupta \& Mats Carlsson \end{center} \end{em} \large \medskip \begin{center} {\bf Call For Papers} \end{center} \noindent \normalsize The Journal of Logic Programming is planning a special issue on High Performance Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, tentatively to appear in early 1996. High-quality original research papers are invited on all aspects of high performance sequential and parallel implementations of logic programming languages. Topics include, but are not limited to, \begin{itemize} \item compilation technology for logic programming languages, \item runtime implementation techniques and implementation optimizations, \item parallel, concurrent, and distributed implementations, \item principles and practice of logic programming implementation technology, and \item performance analysis of logic programming implementations. \end{itemize} \noindent Short papers (5-8 pages) describing important past implementation efforts (which have not been published in archival journal papers) are also solicited. Revised and enhanced versions of papers published in conferences that have not appeared in archival journals are also eligible for submission. \noindent Please send six copies of your paper, by March 1st, 1995, to \begin{quote} Gopal Gupta\\ Guest co-editor\\ Laboratory for Logic, Databases, and Advanced Programming\\ Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University\\ Box 30001/CS, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA \\ Email: jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu \end{quote} \noindent JLP \LaTeX ~style files are available by anonymous ftp from rockon.nmsu.edu in directory pub/jlp. The file jlp.sty is the \LaTeX style file, and jlpsty.tex contains instructions. Authors are encouraged to use them to speed up the publication process. Postscript files over email will also be accepted. Authors are {\em required} to email a title and a 4-5 line abstract to arrive by February 20th, 1995, at jlpspi@cs.nmsu.edu to facilitate the assignment of reviewers in advance. \vspace{1cm} \Huge \begin{center} \underline{\bf North-Holland} \end{center} \end{document}  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From sobol@julius.crd.ge.com Thu Feb 16 18:35:38 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:35:32 -0600; AA01667 Received: from crdems.GE.COM by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:35:04 -0600 Received: from crdns.crd.ge.com by crdems.ge.com (5.65/GE 1.77) id AA09423; Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:26:40 -0500 Received: from woody.crd.ge.com by crdns.crd.ge.com (5.65/sendmail.ease_1.79(3/22/94))id AA21597(crdns.crd.ge.com); Thu, 16 Feb 1995 18:02:49 -0500 Received: from julius.crd.ge.com by woody.crd.Ge.Com (4.1/SMI-4.0/GE-CRD @(#)sun4.ease1.14 01/06/93)id AA26328; Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:01:29 EST Received: by julius.crd.ge.com (5.57/GE-CRD Standard Sendmail Version S1.5)id AA08554; Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:00:55 -0500 Message-Id: <9502162300.AA08554@julius.crd.ge.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: ce95all@woody.crd.ge.com Subject: Final CE95 CFP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 18:00:53 -0500 From: sobol@julius.crd.ge.com X-Mts: smtp CE95 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS Washington, DC Area August 23-25, 1995 THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS CE95, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, is a major forum for the international scientific exchange and presentation of multi-disciplinary and inter-organizational aspects of concurrent engineering (CE). The focus is on the use of integrated enterprise processes, collaborative work, information sharing, co-locating resources, and integrated frameworks and tools. This conference addresses research and applications issues of CE. CE95 is sponsored by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, GE Corporate Research and Development, the International Society for Productivity Enhancement, and the CERA Journal. It is hosted by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA, USA. Topics of Interest: Submissions are invited on substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all areas of product design, engineering and manufacturing, including, but not limited to: * Enterprise integration (e.g., assessing an organization's readiness, CE assessment models, integrated process capture, re- engineering enterprise processes, CE metrics, barriers to CE, agile manufacturing, virtual enterprises) * Cooperative work (e.g., team coordination, common visibility of activities and data, monitoring progress of product development, change notification across perspectives, conflict resolution techniques, constraints management, planning and scheduling of activities, workflow, cooperative problem solving, computer support for team structure) * Information sharing (e.g., information modeling and simulation, data version control and management, PDES/STEP, multi-level user access, capturing corporate history, enterprise multimedia notebooks, design rationale, integrated database and knowledgebase management systems) * Communication tools (e.g., computer-based video and audio conferring and consulting, multimedia electronic mail, network- wide sharing of tools, graphical collaborative user interfaces for inter-operability) * Integrated frameworks and tools (e.g., architectures for building concurrent engineering systems, integration of tools, integration of design and manufacturing, knowledge-based integration) * Life cycle engineering (e.g., design for X, integrated product and process development, environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, life-cycle cost and quality) * Practical applications of CE in industry (e.g., case studies, practical solutions, systematic guidelines, pitfalls and success stories) Final Timetable: * Authors should submit a full draft paper, not exceeding 16 single spaced pages, to the Program Chair, no later than April 15, 1995 (preferably by E-mail in PostScript). * Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) on or before April 30, 1995, 1995. * Final camera-ready versions of the papers must be received by May 20, 1995. Details of the format will be sent later. Conference General Chair: Dr. Anand J. Paul Concurrent Technologies Corporation, 11605 Bedfordshire Avenue Potomac, MD 20854 E-Mail: paul@ctc.com Telephone: (301) 762-6190, Fax: (301) 762-6191 International Co-Chair: Dr. Mark Fox Dept. of Industrial Engineering University of Toronto 4 Taddle Creek Road Toronto, Ontario Phone: 416-978-6823, Fax: 416-971-1373 E-mail: msf@ie.utoronto.ca Conference Program Chair: Dr. Michael Sobolewski GE Corporate Research and Development KW Building, Room C279, P. O. Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 E-Mail: sobol@crd.ge.com Telephone: (518) 387-5150, Fax: (518) 387-7080 Program Co-Chair (Enterprise Integration): Dr. Pravir K. Chawdhry School of Mechanical Engineering University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom E-Mail: P.K.Chawdhry@bath.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (1225) 826956, Fax: +44 (1225) 826928 Program Co-Chair (Communication Tools and Integrated Frameworks): Dr. J. Favrel GRASP / LISPI INSA de Lyon, Informatique - 502 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France E-Mail: jfavrel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr Telephone: +33-72438485, Fax: +33-72438518 Program Co-Chair (Information Sharing): Dr. V. "Juggy" Jagannathan Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University, P. O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 E-Mail: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu Telephone: (304) 293-7226, Fax: (304) 293-7541 Program Co-Chair (Cooperative Work): Dr. Mark Klein Boeing Computer Services P. O. Box 24346, MS 7L-44 Seattle, WA 98124-0346 E-Mail: mklein@atc.boeing.com Telephone: (206) 865-3412, Fax: (206) 865-2965 Program Co-Chair (Practical Applications and Environments): Dr. Anthony J. Gadient SCRA, 5300 International Blvd. N. Charleston, SC 29418 E-Mail: gadient@scra.org Telephone: (803) 760-4357, Fax: (803) 760-3349 Program Co-Chair (Life Cycle Engineering): Dr. S. N. Dwivedi Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506 E-Mail: dwivedi@faculty.coe.wvu.edu Telephone: (304) 293-3111, Fax: (304) 293-6689 Program Co-Chair (Panels and Tutorials) John W. Lewis GE Corporate Research and Development PO Box 8, Bldg KW, Rm C277 Schenectady, NY 12301 E-mail: lewisjw@crd.ge.com Telephone: (518) 387-5072, Fax: (518) 387-7080 Program Committee: Lars Bergman (Swedish Institute for Systems Development, Sweden) Hubert D. Callihan (Concurrent Technologies Corporation) Jian (John) Dong (University of Connecticut) Joseph Cleetus (CERC WVU) Joe Erkes (GE Corporate Research and Development) Shuichi Fukuda (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan) Peihua Gu (University of Calgary, Canada) Martin Hardwick (RPI) Michael N. Huhns (MCC) Taha Khedro (Stanford University) Howard A. Kuhn (Concurrent Technologies Corporation) Zenon Kulpa (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland) Andrew Kusiak (University of Iowa) Marc Pallot (European Society for CE, France) Kulwant S Pawar (University of Nottingham) Jacky Prucz (West Virginia University) Biren Prasad (EDS/GM) Zbigniew W. Ras (Univ. of North Carolina) Jose M. Sanchez (Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico) Kamar J. Singh (GE Aircraft Engines) John E. Sneckenberger (West Virginia University) Richard Mark Soley (Object Management Group, Inc.) Norman K. Sondheimer (GE Corporate Research and Development) Ram D. Sriram (NIST) Katia P.Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University) Alexander Smirnov (Russian Academy of Sciences) Ken Smith (MITRE) Vladimir Vittikh (Russian Academy of Sciences) Ralph Wood (United Technologies Research Center) A current full version of a CE95 call for papers, panels and tutorials is available at: http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/ce/ If you or a coleague would like to be added to or removed from the CE95 mailing list, please send e-mail to sobol@crd.ge.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From conrad@volker.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE Fri Feb 17 07:21:18 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 07:21:12 -0600; AA05853 Received: from eva.cs.TU-Magdeburg.de by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 07:21:03 -0600 Received: from iti.Cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE by sunpool.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0rfSdO-0006ezC; Fri, 17 Feb 95 14:22 MET Received: from hydra (hydra.cs.tu-magdeburg.de) by iti.Cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA08421; Fri, 17 Feb 95 14:22:36 +0100 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 14:17:16 +0100 (MET) From: Stefan Conrad X-Sender: conrad@hydra To: dbworld Cc: Stefan Conrad Subject: DOOD Post-Conference Workshop on Temporal Reasoning ... Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Call For Paper can also be found on WWW: http://max.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/institut/db/DOOD-WS.html The page will be updated as relevant information becomes available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP (DOOD'95) ON TEMPORAL REASONING IN DEDUCTIVE AND OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES (December 8, 1995, Singapore) THE WORKSHOP The workshop is intended to bring together leading researchers to discuss the integration of logic-based approaches with temporal or dynamic object bases. Suggested topics are (but are not limited to): - temporal specification and verification of object-based systems - deduction in temporal databases - logical frameworks for transactions in DOOD - temporal constraints in DOOD Especially, we encourage the submission of papers dealing with non-standard logics for modeling temporal aspects of deductive and object-oriented databases. FORMAT The workshop is planned to be a half-day or a full-day session depending on the number of submissions and the level of participation. There will be sufficient opportunity for discussing the presented approaches. SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original research contributions as extended abstracts (no longer than 10 pages) by June 1, 1995. Submissions will be reviewed. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged in the form of postscript, self-contained latex, etc. If electronic submission is not possible, four hardcopies will be required. Please send submissions to: conrad@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Stefan Conrad University of Magdeburg Institute for Technical Information Systems P.O.Box 4120 D-39016 Magdeburg, GERMANY ATTENDANCE At least one author of the papers selected for presentation must attend the workshop. Researchers who are willing to contribute in the discussions are encouraged to participate. Workshop participants are not required to register and attend DOOD'95 conference. However, a discount will be given if they attend both conference and workshop. PUBLICATION Proceedings of the workshop will be published as a technical report. In case a number of high quality papers is accepted, an attempt can be made to prepare a special issue of an international journal dedicated to the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES 1 June 1995 - Final submission date for papers 24 July 1995 - Notification 7 August 1995 - Workshop programs completed 1 September 1995 - Camera ready 8 December 1995 - Workshop PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jose Carmo, Lisbon, Portugal Weidong Chen, Dallas, USA Jose Fiadeiro, Lisbon, Portugal (co-chair) Dov Gabbay, London, UK Udo Lipeck, Hannover, FRG Gunter Saake, Magdeburg, FRG (co-chair) Interpal Singh Mumick, USA Zoltan Somogyi, Melbourne, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, USA Kian-Lee Tan, Singapore Alexander Tuzhilin, New York, USA Roel Wieringa, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Beat Wuthrich, Hongkong ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jose Luiz Fiadeiro (program co-chair) Department of Informatics Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon Campo Grande 1700 Lisboa, PORTUGAL Jose.Luiz.Fiadeiro@di.fc.ul.pt Gunter Saake (program co-chair) University of Magdeburg Institute for Technical Information Systems P.O.Box 4120 D-39016 Magdeburg, GERMANY saake@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Stefan Conrad (organization chair) University of Magdeburg Institute for Technical Information Systems P.O.Box 4120 D-39016 Magdeburg, GERMANY conrad@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Stefan Conrad conrad@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de | | University of Magdeburg | | Institute for Technical Information Systems | | P.O. Box 4120 tel.: ++49-391-5592-3066 | | D-39016 Magdeburg, GERMANY fax: ++49-391-5592-2020 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr Fri Feb 17 10:24:27 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:24:22 -0600; AA08311 Received: from yalova.srdc.metu.edu.tr by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:21:45 -0600 Received: from yenikoy.metu.edu.tr (yenikoy.srdc.metu.edu.tr) by srdc.metu.edu.tr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15733; Fri, 17 Feb 95 18:22:50 +0200 From: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr (Asuman DOGAC) Message-Id: <9502171522.AA15733@srdc.metu.edu.tr> Subject: ISCIS X Call for Papers To: dbworld Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 18:26:28 +0300 (GMT+3:00) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1708 CALL FOR PAPERS THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES ISCIS X October 30- November 1, 1995 Ephesus,Izmir,Turkey Organized by Istanbul Technical University, Turkey The papers are solicited on all aspects of database systems. PAPER SUBMISSION Please submit four copies of the full paper in English limited to eight pages by May 1, 1995 to address provided at the signature. Paper Format: on A4 or letter size paper with single space, 12 point font, single column, one inch margins on all four sides. The first page should have a two inch margin at the top. Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title of the paper, author(s), affiliation(s), mailing and e-mail address(es), then the abstract, not exceeding 15 lines, followed by the text. In an accompanying letter, the following should be included: full title of the paper, author name(s), mailing address(es), telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address(es) of the author(s) indicating the presenter. Important Deadlines: May 1, 1995 Submission of full paper (4 copies) Jul 3, 1995 Notification of acceptance Aug 21,1995 Submission of camera ready papers Oct 30-Nov 1,1995 Symposium -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Professor Asuman Dogac Director Software R&D Center of TUBITAK Internet: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr Department of Computer Eng. Tel: +90 (312) 210 12 98 Middle East Technical University Fax: +90 (312) 210 1259 06531 Ankara Turkey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From garzotto@elet.polimi.it Fri Feb 17 10:37:42 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:37:36 -0600; AA08488 Received: from ipmel2.elet.polimi.it by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:37:19 -0600 Received: by ipmel2.elet.polimi.it (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3A) id AA22471; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:38:59 GMT Message-Id: <9502171738.AA22471@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it> X-Sender: garzotto@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:42:46 +0100 To: Multiple recipients of list From: garzotto@elet.polimi.it (franca garzotto) Subject: CFP reminder: Workshop on Hypermedia Design X-Mailer: ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 1995!! ********* --- CALL FOR PAPERS --- IWHD'95 I N T E R N A T I O N A L W O R K S H O P ON H Y P E R M E D I A D E S I G N June 1 - June 2 1995 Montpellier (France) Organized by : LIRMM / CNRS UM-II In cooperation with : ACM SIGLINK, INRIA, CWI, and GMD SCOPE IWHD'95 is the second in a series of International Workshops which aim at promoting activities related to Hypermedia Design. The first workshop was co-located with ACM ECHT'94, the European conference on Hypermedia Technology. IWHD'95 provides researchers as well as professional designers with an opportunity to meet, present position papers, discuss their methods, models, tools, experiences and ongoing projects on Hypermedia Design. Reducing the production cost of hypermedia applications, reducing design delays, improving the quality of hypermedia products, enforcing usability is an important challenge for Information Industry. Increasing the efficiency of design environments, evaluating the effectiveness of the design methods on which they are based and of the applications produced with them requires mastering and tuning-up design methods, as well as proposing new methods and tools. This is an important R&D activity that is becoming increasingly visible within hypermedia and WWW communities. The two-days workshop aims at studying problems, comparing approaches, mixing experiences, and cross-fertilizing knowledge on hypermedia design among researchers and practitioners. TOPICS You are invited to participate in IWHD'95 and to submit short (3000 words) or long (6000 words) papers. Topics appropriate for the workshop include but are not limited to: Hypermedia applications design - Design methods and models - Experiences in Designing - Designing Hypermedia Applications on the Internet - Experiences in teaching Hypermedia Design Hypermedia applications evaluation - Methods for Evaluation - Evaluating Hypermedia Applications on the Internet - How to Evaluate Commercial products - Hypermedia and the Electronic Publishing Market - Hypermedia Usability and Hypermedia Ergonomics Hypermedia Engineering - Specifying Hypermedia Applications - Design Standards and Portability - Authoring Environments and Frameworks for Design - Tools for designing Hypermedia on the Internet - Computer-Aided Design, Collaborative Design. Specific Design Application Areas - Hypermedia Cultural Applications - Technical Documentation Hypermedia - Educational Hypermedia, Teaching with Hypermedia - Hypermedia and Advertising - Distributed Hypermedia Application Design DEADLINES March 1st 1995 Submission: Full papers, in English, short (3000 words) or long (6000 words) should be received by the conference secretariat, both in paper and electronic form. Detailed specifications for submission are available by sending E-mail to iwhd95@lirmm.fr with IWHD95 Guidelines Request in the subject line. Or browse WWW at URL: http://www.lirmm.fr/~mnanard/iwhd95/workshop.html April 15 1995 Notification of acceptance. May 10th 1995 Final copy of papers received by the conference secretariat for publication in the proceedings. Proceedings will be proposed to Springer Verlag Workshop Series for publication. IWHD'95 CONFERENCE Secretariat Corine Zicler LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5, France E-mail: zicler@lirmm.fr Voice: (33) 6741 8503 Fax: (33) 6741 85 00 IWHD'95 CONFERENCE Co-CHAIRS Marc Nanard, Jocelyne Nanard LIRMM, CNRS & UniversitI de Montpellier II, France Voice: (33) 67 41 85 17 Fax: (33) 67 41 85 85 E-mail: mnanard@lirmm.fr PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Franca Garzotto Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Voice: (39) 2-23993520 Fax: (39) 2-23993411 E-mail: garzotto@elet.polimi.it US COORDINATION Tomas Isakowitz Information Systems Department, Stern School of Business New York University, NY 10012, USA Voice: (1) 212-998-0833 Fax: (1) 212-995-4228 E-mail: tisakowi@stern.nyu.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bob Allen Bellcore (USA) Hugh Dubberly Apple (USA) Bob glushko Passage Systems (USA) Wendy Hall Southampton Univ. (United Kingdom) Lynda Hardman CWI (The Netherlands) Blake Ives S. M. Univ. Dallas, Tx (USA) Paul D. Kahn Dynamic Diagrams (USA) Cathy Marshall Texas A&M University (USA) Ryuichi Ogawa NEC (Japan) Kasper Osterbye Aalborg Univ.(Denmark) Paolo Paolini Univ. of Lecce & Politecnico di Milano(Italy) Vincent Quint INRIA(France) Antoine Rizk Euroclid (France) Wolfgang Schuler GMD (Germany) Daniel Schwabe PUC (Brazil) Jack Shiff Siemens (Germany) Manfred Thuring Empirica CTR (Germany) Christine Vanoirbeek EPFL(Switzerland) ---- HOW to SUBMIT ---------- The workshop will consider two kinds of papers : long papers,) (about 5000 words), and shorter papers (about 3000 words). English is the official language. Any topic concerning methodologies or environments for designing or evaluating hypermedia applications, or experience in these domains are welcome for the workshop. All submissions to IWHD must be received by the secretariat before March 1st, both in electronic form and in paper form. A separate cover page with - the title of the paper, - the author list, - the affiliation, - the address including full postal address, phone number (voice and Fax) E-Mail address, if any. - an abstract (200 words), - a list of relevant keyword, should be added to the submission. Five copies of the submitted paper should be sent to : IWHD'95 CONFERENCE Secretariat Corine Zicler LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5, France E-mail: zicler@lirmm.fr Voice: (33) 6741 8503 Fax: (33) 6741 85 00 An electronic version of the paper ***which is strictly mandatory too*** must also be received by the secretariat at the same date. It must contain: - the ascii text of the cover page, sent directly as textual content of an E-Mail sent to : iwhd95@lirmm.fr with the subject line : IWHD95-abstract. - the formatted submitted document itself. The best way is to send the it as an Eudora attachment to an E-Mail sent to : iwhd95@lirmm.fr with the subject line : IWHD95-submission. If you have problems with your mail server when sending large files, you may use FTP as an alternate solution. A drop-in directory named 'iwhd95.drop-in' is available in the ftp server of LIRMM. - The hostname is: ftp.lirmm.fr - Its internet address is: 193.49.104.10 - The local pathname of the directory is: incoming/iwhd95.drop-in - The local pathname of the directory might be subject to changes due to reorganizing the ftp directory. So, if needed, explore! You must uuencode or binhex your file and put it in the drop-in directory. Use binary mode for transfer. The electronic version may be in either of the 4 following forms : - Microsoft Word for Mac or for PC - RTF - Latex - Postscript. Microsoft Word for Mac is the preferred one. Presentation rules: The proceedings will be produced from camera ready copies. In order to have a consistent presentation, very precise guidelines will be provided for producing the final version. Nevertheless, the Program Committee will appreciate that submissions be already presented according to the guidelines. A file named IWHD.MSWord.Template.hqx is located in the ftp directory iwhd95. You may get it by ftp anonymous. Then convert it with the binhex4 converter to obtain a MSWord file that you can use an a model for presenting your paper. Remark : the file IWHD.MSWord.Template.hqx will be available on the ftp site only after January 15 1995 Explicit data about the formatting will be placed on the web as soon as possible on the URL: http://www.lirmm.fr/lirmm/manifs/manifs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From geppert@ifi.unizh.ch Fri Feb 17 10:43:54 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:43:50 -0600; AA08649 Message-Id: <9502171643.AA10977@cs.wisc.edu> Received: from josef.ifi.unizh.ch by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 17 Feb 95 10:43:45 -0600 Received: from ifi.unizh.ch by josef.ifi.unizh.ch id <00566-0@josef.ifi.unizh.ch>; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:44:09 +0100 To: dbworld Subject: Final CfP: VLDB '95 Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 17:44:09 +0100 From: Andreas Geppert Sender: geppert@ifi.unizh.ch ******************************************************************* Please note: papers that are received after Monday, February 27, will be returned to the sender! ******************************************************************* Final Call for Papers VLDB '95 21. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases September 11-15, 1995 Zuerich, Switzerland The annual VLDB conference is one of the oldest database conferences. It is among the best-established forums of discussion in the interna- tional database community. VLDB '95 will take place in Zuerich, Switzerland. We invite the database community to submit papers reporting recent research results in the general field of database systems. Especially, we solicit the submission of papers addressing novel, challenging, and innovative directions in database research (so-called "hot-topics"). We also encourage submission of papers describing work of signifi- cant interest to industry, particularly in areas providing interest- ing directions for the development of databases. General Conference Chairs: Klaus R. Dittrich Hans-Joerg Schek Institut fuer Informatik Computer Science Department Universitaet Zuerich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Winterthurerstr. 190 ETH Zentrum CH-8057 Zurich CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland Switzerland Email: vldb95@ifi.unizh.ch Conference Directors: Kurt Bauknecht, Switzerland Carl A. Zehnder, Switzerland VLDB Endowment Representative: Yannis Vassiliou, Greece Area Chairpersons Europe: Heinz Schweppe, Germany Americas: Yuri Breitbart, USA Asia/Australasia: Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Australia Publicity Chairs: Stefano Spaccapietra, Switzerland Keith Jeffrey, UK VLDB '95 Hot Topics ------------------- There is a growing feeling among both researchers and practicioners for the need to communicate much more closely than in the past, to meet the challenges of society, the market-place and applications, by providing novel information technologies and apply them in innovative ways. Databases, in close conjunction with other information techno- logies, will have to play a leading role within this trend. Therefore, the conference will give extra weight to papers opening future direc- tions for others to follow, with a well-argued and stimulating presen- tation, even where some of the results may still be in a preliminary stage. Topics may include, but are not restricted to, the following items: - Human-Computer Interaction, Hypermedia, Direct Manipulation Interfaces - Cooperating and Interoperable Federated Systems, Network Media- tors - Transactional Workflow Control, Activity Management - Rules and Constraints in Very Large Knowledge Bases - Incremental Database Design, Design Techniques for Object- Oriented and Active Databases - Intelligent Search and Data Mining - Performance Improvements, Object Stores, Small Grain Parallelism - Mobile Databases - Terabyte Scale Applications, GIS, Scientific Database Systems - Industrial Issues and Standards "Delta" papers, which incrementally advance previous results only in the subtle details and hence are likely to appeal only to a small group of specialists, should expect tougher competition than in the past. Extended versions of the best papers on systems aspects of databases may be published in a special issue of the VLDB Journal. Paper Submission ---------------- Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words (double spaced pages, including keywords) MUST BE RECEIVED by the 25th of February 1995, by the appropriate regional program chair. Submissions should contain a return address on the cover sheet, including a fax number and an email address. European Program Chair: Peter M.D. Gray, UK Dept. of Computing Science University of Aberdeen Kings College, ABERDEEN AB9 2UE, Scotland Phone: +44 224 272292 Fax: +44 224 273422 Email: pgray@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk pgray@csd.abdn.ac.uk American Program Chair: Umeshwar Dayal, USA Hewlett-Packard Labs. 1501 Page Mill Road, 3U-4, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: 415-857-8431 Fax: 415-852-8137 Email: dayal@hpl.hp.com Asia/Australasia Program Chair: Shojiro Nishio, Japan Department of Information Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering Osaka University 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan Phone: +81-6-879-7820 Fax: +81-6-877-9463 Email: nishio@ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp Program Committee ----------------- Michel Adiba, France Rakesh Agrawal, USA Peter Apers, Netherlands David Bell, N.Ireland Phil Bernstein, USA Jose Blakeley, USA Alejandro Buchmann, Germany Marco Casanova, Brasil Sharma Chakravarthy, USA Sophie Cluet, France Richard Cooper, UK Susan Davidson, USA Lois Delcambre, USA David DeWitt, USA Oscar Diaz, Spain Shel Finkelstein, USA Piero Fraternali, Italy Christoph Freytag, Germany Hector Garcia-Molina, USA Georges Gardarin, France Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USA Georg Gottlob, Austria Alex Gray, UK Theo Haerder, Germany Meichun Hsu, USA Tomasz Imielinski, USA Ushio Inoue, Japan Yannis Ioannidis, USA Hiroshi Ishikawa, Japan Manfred Jeusfeld, Germany Michael Kay, UK Peter King, UK Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Japan Masaru Kitsuregawa, Japan Yasushi Kiyoki, Japan Hank Korth, USA Angelika Kotz-Dittrich, CH Ravi Krishnamurthy, USA Chiang Lee, Taiwan Tok Wang Ling, Singapore Barbara Liskov, USA Frederick H. Lochovsky, Hong Kong Peter Lockemann, Germany Rainer Manthey, Germany Rudolf Marty, CH Robert Meersman, Netherlands Alberto Mendelzon, Canada Michele Missikoff, Italy Gail Mitchell, USA Songchun Moon, Korea John Mylopoulos, Canada Anil Nori, USA Moira Norrie, CH Atsushi Ohori, Japan Frank Olken, USA Jack Orenstein, USA Tamer Ozsu, Canada Norman Paton, UK Hamid Pirahesh, USA Alain Pirotte, Belgium Peter Pistor, Germany Fausto Rabitti, Italy M.V. Ramakrishna, USA Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Australia Krithivasan Ramamritham, USA Tore Risch, Sweden Ron Sacks-Davis, Australia Peter Scheuermann, USA Marc H. Scholl, Germany Timos Sellis, Greece Dennis Shasha, USA Carol Small, UK Rick Snodgrass, USA Arne Solvberg, Norway Katsumi Tanaka, Japan Yong Chiang Tay, Singapore Rodney Topor, Australia Patrick Valduriez, France Reind van de Riet, Netherlands Yannis Vassiliou, Greece Ke Wang, Singapore Shan Wang, China Gerhard Weikum, Germany Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Jennifer Widom, USA Gene Wuu, USA Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Japan Roberto Zicari, Germany Industrial Track ---------------- To increase industrial involvement and relevance, VLDB '95 will also have an industrial track. We encourage the submission of papers that reflect important trends, products, and applications experience. These papers will be evaluated on their significance to and impact on indus- try. Papers intended for this track should be clearly marked as such, and should be submitted directly to one of the co-Chairs of the Indus- try Track Subcommittee. The Program Chairs may, at their discretion, exchange papers that are deemed more appropriate to the other track. Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words (double spaced pages, including keywords) MUST BE RECEIVED by the 25th of February 1995, by the appropriate regional program chair: Submissions should contain a return address on the cover sheet, including a fax number and an email address. European Industrial Track Chair: Peter C. Lockemann, Germany Universitaet Karlsruhe Fakultaet fuer Informatik Institut fuer Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation Postfach 6980, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Email: lockeman@ira.uka.de American Industrial Track Chair: Hamid Pirahesh, USA IBM Almaden Research Centre, K55 801 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA Email: pirahesh@almaden.ibm.com Asia/Australasia Industrial Track Chair: Yoshifumi Masunaga, Japan University of Library and Information Science 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan Fax: +81-298-52-4326 Email: masunaga@ulis.ac.jp Industrial Track Subcommittee: Christoph Freytag, Germany Jim Gray, USA Michael Kay, UK Mary Loomis, USA Vincent Lum, Hong Kong Rudolf Marty, CH Sham Navathe, USA Mike Stonebraker, USA Kunitoshi Tsuruoka, Japan Panels and Tutorials -------------------- Proposals for panels and tutorials MUST BE RECEIVED by the 25th of February 1995, by the appropriate chairperson: Panel Chair: Stefano Ceri, Italy Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy Email: ceri@elet.polimi.it Tutorial Chair: Claude Delobel, France University of Paris-Sud LRI bat 490, F-91405 ORSAY cedex, France Email: delobel@lri.fr Important Dates --------------- Deadline for all submissions: February 25, 1995 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 1995 Camera-ready copies due: July 1, 1995 Conference: September 11-15, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- CONFERENCE on DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE AND ARCHIVING SYSTEMS Philadelphia,PA October 26-27,1995 ***************************************************************************** This conference is a part of SPIE's International Symposium on INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS, & COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS, & SYSTEMS To be held as part of Photonics East '95 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA 22-27 October 1995 This conference addresses aspects of an image archiving system, such as "specialized" compression schemes for storage, browsing, semantic searching, content-based retrieval, data preservation models, data modeling and representation, system design issues and applications. Papers are solicited in all areas of digital image storage and archival systems: - image and video archives/databases - design methodologies and system architectures for huge image archives - hierarchical storage design and management for scalable image and video on-demand databases - data transfer models for platform-independent Internet access via standard network tools - long-term preservation methodology and quality assurance management - lossless and near-lossless compression for archiving purposes - compression scheme supporting hierarchical browsing, e.g., multiresolution methods - methods facilitating sophisticated search mechanisms such as content-based retrieval, e.g., automatic/semiautomatic image object recognition, segmentation, image features corresponding to human perception, etc. - intelligent compression techniques which will enable semantic and perceptual searching on the compressed representation - data modeling and representation for images and features - fuzzy, object-oriented, feature-based, neural network and information theoretic approaches to image and video storage indexing and retrieval - domain-independent storage techniques and access/index structures for images, features and their logical representatives - measures for evaluating various aspects or components of an image archival system - actual experimental systems which embody the state of the art in image archival - methods related to querying an image archive, e.g., powerful query interfaces, algorithms for query processing, incorporation of user-relevance feedback to help iterative queries, etc. - applications and systems of image archives in areas such as telemedicine, remote sensing, GIS, multimedia, etc. IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS ================================= Authors are invited to submit a 500 word abstract of each paper in one of the ways described below. Only original material should be submitted and abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach the results of the research. Papers accepted will be published as part of the proceedings of the conference. Abstracts should contain the following: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 1.TITLE OF ABSTRACT/PAPER | | | | 2.AUTHORS' LISTINGS - Full names and affliations as they will appear | | in program | | 3.CORRESPONDENCE for EACH author - Complete address,telephone,fax | | number and e-mail address | | 4.SUBMIT TO: ______________________________________________ | | (Conference Title) (Conference Chair) | | (Here: Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems | | Prof. C. -C. Jay Kuo ) | | | | 5. PRESENTATION: Indicate preference for "Oral Presentation" | | or "Poster Presentation. | | 6.ABSTRACT TEXT: 500 words | | 7.BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: 50 to 100 words ( principal author only) | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts can be submitted in any of the following ways: - electronic mail: ( 1 copy) abstracts@spie.org (ASCII format) - fax : (1 copy) to SPIE at (360) 647-1445 - mail: ( 4 copies) Photonics East '95 SPIE, P.O.Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA Shipping address: 1000 20th St.,Bellingham, WA 98225 USA Tel: (360) 676-3290 TO OBTAIN ALL CALLS FOR PAPERS ELECTRONICALLY ============================================= The calls for papers for all conferences in the Photonics East symposium are available on SPIE Web (http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/), by anonymous FTP (ftp://spie.org/meetings/calls/pe95*), or by e-mail file retrieval (Send a message to info-optolink-request@spie.org with the following in the message body: send [meetings.calls]pe95_conf* For a printed call for papers or other information: E-mail: spie@spie.org Fax: 360/647-1445 Phone: 360/676-3290 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Abstracts Due from Authors: March 27, 1995 Notification of Acceptance : July 3, 1995 Manuscripts Due from Authors: September 25, 1995 Conference Chair: ================= C. -C. Jay Kuo (Univ. of Southern California) Program Committee: ================== Shih-Fu Chang (Columbia Univ.) Ming-Yee Chiu (Siemens Corporate Research Inc.) Son K. Dao (Hughes Research Lab.) Navid Haddadi (Univ. of Southern California) S. Sitharama Iyengar (Louisiana State Univ.) Ramesh Jain (Univ. of California/San Diego) Rangachar Kasturi (Pennsylvania StateUniv.) Sanjit K. Mitra (Univ. of California/Santa Barbara) A.Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore) Wayne Niblack (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.) R. W. Picard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Arun Sood (George Mason Univ.) George Thoma (National Library of Medicine) Asha Vellaikal (Hughes Research Lab.) Symposium Programs ------------------ INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS FULL SERVICE RESIDENTIAL NETWORKS ENTERPRISE SERVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACING WIRELESS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help -------------------------------------------------------------------------------