From helal@cse.uta.edu Mon Feb 20 12:46:01 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 20 Feb 95 12:45:56 -0600; AA20224 Received: from rainbow.uta.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 20 Feb 95 12:45:43 -0600 Received: by rainbow.uta.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04850; Mon, 20 Feb 95 12:49:32 CST Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 12:49:31 -0600 (CST) From: Abdelsalam Helal Subject: Call for Paper ICECCS To: dbworld Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers ICECCS'95 First IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, November 6--10, 1995 Held jointly with 5th CSESAW, 3rd IEEE RTAW and 20th IFAC/IFIP WRTP Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committees on Multimedia Computing, Programming Languages, Real-Time Systems, Software Engineering; Task Force on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems; in cooperation with IFAC COMPUT) Keynote Speaker: David Lorge Parnas, McMaster University ICECCS'95 General Chair Alexander Stoyenko New Jersey Institute of Technology alex@vulcan.njit.edu IFAC/IFIP WRTP'95 Chair Phillip Laplante Fairleigh Dickinson University laplante@fdumad.fdu.edu CSESAW'95 Chair Steve Howell Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division showell@relay.nswc.navy.mil IEEE RTAW'95 Chair Prabha Gopinath Honeywell gopinath_prabha@ssdc.honeywell.com PC Co-Chairs (The Americas) Ted Lewis, Naval Postgraduate School lewis@cs.nps.navy.mil Bruce Shriver, Genesis 2 shriver@genesis2.com PC Co-Chair (Europe & Africa) Dieter Hammer Technical University of Eindhoven wsindh@win.tue.nil PC Co-Chair (Asia/Oceania) Tadashi Ae University of Hiroshima ae@csl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp Industrial/Exhibits Chair Thomas Bihari AMT Systems Engineering, Inc. teb@amt.columbus.oh.us Tutorials Chair Wolfgang Halang FernUniversitat Hagen Wolfgang.Halang@fernuni-hagen.de Local Arrangements Chair Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University borko@cse.fau.edu Publicity Chair Michael Hinchey University of Cambridge Mike.Hinchey@cl.cam.ac.uk Program Committee: T. Ae S. Andler T. Bihari J. Bowen G. Cantone S. Chodrow E. Bertino D. Bhatt R. Freund B. Furht M. Eshaghian M. Evangelist P. Gopinath W. Halang D. Hammer M. Harmon A. Helal C. Heitmeyer M. Hinchey B. Holtcamp S. Horiguchi J. Huang Y. Kakuda H. Kasahara B. Kraemer P. Laplante J. Lavi H. Lee Y.-H. Lee T. Lewis K. Man T. Marlowe M. Hugue J. Miyao L. Motus K. Nilsen V. Nirkhe R. Nord J. de la Puente M. Pezze J. Philipose V. Prasanna P. Ramanathan H. El Rewini M. Rodd W. Rossak J. Schwartz B. Shriver G. Suski S. Takegaki B. Thuraisingham H. Toetenel M. Tokoro J. Vasell S. White M. Wilson Y. Yamaguchi Description: IEEE Computer Society's inaugural International Conference on the Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'95) is to be held in Southern Florida, USA, in November 1995, jointly with the 5th Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis and Assessment Technology Workshop (CSESAW'95), the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications (RTAW`95) and the 20th IFIP/IFAC Workshop on Real-Time Programming (WRTP'95). Scope: Complex computer systems are becoming common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems frequently include distributed, heterogeneous networks, and are driven by requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and satisfaction of these requirements requires managing the tradeoffs among them during system development and throughout the entire system life. In practice, many engineering disciplines must contribute to the construction of complex computer systems. Moreover, such systems cannot be based on a single technique. Different paradigms and methods are necessary for different parts of the system. Although important results have been achieved in different areas, there is an increasing need to integrate these results in a sensible way. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from these various disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. Long-term research, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, and existing complex systems and commercially available tools will be examined on a level playing field. Cross-disciplinary and research-practice experiences and insights are of particular interest. An exhibit area for commercial tools and research prototypes is planned. Tracks/Mini-Tracks/Sessions: A number of tracks/mini-tracks are anticipated, chaired by PC members, as follows: -- Complex Real-Time Architectures, Tools, Environments and Languages (Marlowe, Nilsen, Ramanathan, Vasell) -- Dependable Real-Time Systems (Huang, Hugue) -- Database and Data Management (Bertino, Thuraisingham) -- Formal Methods (Bowen, Heitmeyer, Pezze) -- Heterogeneous Computing (Eshaghian, Freund) -- Re-engineering, Re-use, Reverse Engineering (Kraemer, Wilson) -- Systems Engineering/Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (Howell, Lavi) -- Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Real-Time Imaging (Furht, Laplante, H. Lee) Research, Technology and Application Topics: All aspects of the engineering of complex computer systems are of interest; these include, but are not limited to: -- Formal specification techniques -- Algorithms, optimization and analysis -- Performance estimation and prediction -- Reuse, reverse engineering, legacy applications -- Communications, mobile computing -- Massive databases and distributed systems -- Megaprogramming, visual programming -- Design methods, method integration -- Multimedia systems -- Metrics and project management -- Standards -- Tools and environments -- Prototyping and testing techniques -- Emerging technologies Both long (under 5000 words) and short (under 2500 words) submissions are welcome, including presentations of complete work, summaries of work in progress, position statements, exhibit proposals, tutorial proposals. A submission may address any combination of research, technology or applications within the ECCS area. Prospective participants are encouraged to contact and discuss their possible submissions with appropriate Chairs. All submissions should be made, in five copies, by April 30th, 1995 to: Alexander Stoyenko Real-Time Computing Laboratory Department of Computer and Information Science New Jersey Institue of Technology University Heights Newark, New Jersey 07102 USA alex@vulcan.njit.edu +1-201-596-3366 (office) +1-201-596-5777 (fax) Suggestions and questions concerning exhibits of research prototypes and commercially available tools and technology should be directed to: Thomas Bihari AMT Systems Engineering 1218 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43212 USA teb@amt.columbus.oh.us +1-614-486-7741 (office) +1-614-486-9459 (fax) ICECCS'95 is generously supported by the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Honeywell, and the Real-Time Computing Laboratory at NJIT.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 castano@elet.polimi.it Tue Feb 21 05:40:07 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 21 Feb 95 05:40:02 -0600; AA23151 Received: from ipmel2.elet.polimi.it by cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 21 Feb 95 05:39:28 -0600 Received: by ipmel2.elet.polimi.it (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3A) id AA17874; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 12:41:09 GMT Message-Id: <9502211241.AA17874@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it> Subject: new book announcement To: dbworld Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 12:41:08 +0000 (WET) From: "Silvana Castano" Cc: castano@elet.polimi.it (Silvana Castano) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 8428 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT : *********NOW AVAILABLE ******* TITLE: DATABASE SECURITY Authors: S.Castano, M.G. Fugini, G.Martella, and P. Samarati PUBLISHER: Addison Wesley Publishing Company - ACM Press, 1995 pp. 456 Price: $ 49.50 Presentation The competitive edge of many companies and public trust in government institutions can often depend on the security of the information held in databases. Breaches of that security - whether deliberate or accidental - can be profoundly damaging. Security is therefore a highly topical issue for both designers and users of database systems. This book provides an authoritative account of security issues in databases systems and shows how current commercial or future systems may be designed to ensure secrecy, integrity and confidentiality. Features include: - comprehensive, in-depth coverage of database security, including models, systems, architectures and standards - emphasis on the design of a secure database - emphasis on the design of a secure database - coverage of available security mechanisms and protection measures provided by operating systems, DBMS and data-security packages - up-to-date trends in database security, including issues of security in object-oriented databases, in statistical databases and in database auditing. This book is suitable for advanced courses on database security, and is a reference not only for database administrators and designers, systems analysts and developers, but also for IT managers responsible for the security of information systems. Based at the University of Milan and University of Pavia, the authors have a wealth knowledge of database security in information systems and have contributed to this field in many ways, including research, articles and books, holding key posts on security committees, undertaking consultancy work for companies and governmental organizations, as well as teaching the subject both in academic and professional environments. Detailed contents follow. CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INFORMATION SECURITY 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Database security 1.2 A survey of database concepts 1.2.1 Components of a DBMS 1.2.2 Data description levels 1.2.3 Elements of the relational data model 1.3 Security problems in databases 1.3.1 Threats to database security 1.3.2 Database protection requirements 1.4 Security controls 1.4.1 Flow control 1.4.2 Inference control 1.4.2 Inference control 1.4.3 Access control 1.5 Designing database security 1.5.1 Databases in government departments 1.5.2 Commercial databases 1.6 Concluding Remarks CHAPTER 2 SECURITY MODELS 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Harrison-Ruzzo-Ullman access matrix model 2.2.1 Authorization state 2.2.2 Access model 2.2.3 Operations 2.2.4 Commands 2.2.5 Administration of authorizations 2.2.6 Model implementation 2.3 Take-Grant model 2.3.1 Authorization state 2.3.2 Access modes 2.3.3 Operations and transfer of privileges 2.3.4 Extensions to the model 2.4 Acten (Action-Entity) model 2.4.1 Access modes 2.4.2 Authorizations 2.4.3 Entity classification 2.4.4 Model structures 2.4.5 Consistency and transformation rules 2.5 Wood et al. Model 2.5.1 ANSI/SPARC architecture 2.5.2 Subjects and objects 2.5.3 Access modes 2.5.2 Mapping function 2.5.3 Authorization state 2.5.4 Access rules at the conceptual level 2.5.5 Access rules at the external level 2.5.6 Access control 2.6 Discussion on discretionary models 2.7 Bell-LaPadula model 2.7.1 System state 2.7.2 Operations 2.7.3 Axioms 2.8 Biba model 2.8.1 Axioms 2.9 Dion model 2.9.1 Subjects and their classification 2.9.2 Objects and their classification 2.9.3 Axioms 2.10 The Sea View model 2.10.1 The MAC Model 2.10.2 The TCB model 2.10.3 Representation of multilevel relations 2.11 The Jajodia and Sandhu model 2.11.1 Multilevel relations 2.11.2 Extensions to the model 2.12 Smith and Winslett model 2.12.1 Basic properties 2.12.2 Access to multilevel relations 2.13 The lattice model for flow control 2.13.1 Formal definition 2.13.2 Secure model definition 2.13.3 Lattice derivation 2.13.4 Implicit and explicit flow 2.14 Discussion on mandatory models CHAPTER 3 BASIC SECURITY MECHANISMS AND SOFTWARE 3.1 Introduction 3.1.1 Operating systems concepts 3.2 User identification/authentication 3.2.1 Password-based authentication 3.3 Memory protection 3.3.1 Fence address 3.3.2 Relocation 3.3.3 Register-based protection 3.3.4 Paging 3.3.5 Segmentation 3.4 Access control to resources 3.4.1 Access control mechanisms 3.5 Flow control mechanisms 3.5.1 Control mechanisms at run time 3.5.2 Control mechanisms at compile time 3.6 Isolation 3.7 Security functions in some operating systems 3.7.1 IBM MVS 3.7.2 UNIX 3.7.3 VAX/VMS 3.7.4 IBM VM/SP 3.7.5 OS/400 3.8 Security packages 3.8.1 RACF 3.8.2 CA-ACF2 3.8.3 CA-TOP SECRET 3.9 Security standards 3.9.1 The DoD Criteria 3.9.2 Classification of some systems according to the DoD criteria 3.10 Design of secure operating systems 3.10.1 Kernel-based approach 3.10.2 UCLA Secure UNIX 3.10.3 Kernelized Secure Operating System (KSOS) 3.10.4 Secure Xenix 3.10.5 VAX Security Kernel CHAPTER 4 DATABASE SECURITY DESIGN 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Secure DBMS design 4.2.1 Security mechanisms in DBMSs 4.2.2 The System R authorization model 4.2.3 Secure DBMS Architectures 4.2.4 Research prototypes 4.2.5 Commercial products 4.3 Design of secure databases 4.3.1 Preliminary analysis 4.3.2 Requirement analysis and security policy selection 4.3.3 Conceptual design 4.3.4 Logical design 4.3.5 Physical design 4.3.6 Verification and testing CHAPTER 5 STATISTICAL DATABASE SECURITY 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Basic concepts and assumptions 5.3 Inference protection techniques 5.3.1 Conceptual techniques 5.3.2 Restriction-based techniques 5.3.3 Perturbation-based techniques 5.4 A general framework to compare inference protection techniques CHAPTER 6 INTRUSION DETECTION 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Automated tools for intrusion detection 6.3 Expert systems-based approach: the IDES system 6.3.1 Foundations 6.3.2 IDES model 6.3.3 System Architecture 6.4 The Haystack System 6.4.1 Intrusion types 6.4.2 Analysis of the audit trail 6.4.3 Design principles and system architecture 6.5 The Multics Intrusion Detection and Alerting System (MIDAS) 6.5.1 Rules 6.5.2 MIDAS Operation 6.6 Audit in Trusted Database Management Systems (TDBMS) 6.6.1 Study results 6.7 The Wisdom and Sense (W&S) anomaly detection system 6.7.1 Approach: the rule base 6.7.2 Data model 6.7.3 Evaluation of rules for anomaly detection 6.7.4 Implementation 6.8 The Time-based Inductive Machine (TIM) approach 6.8.1 Input data and rules 6.8.2 Anomaly detection 6.8.3 System considerations 6.9 Trends in intrusion detection 6.9.1 Machine Learning (ML) 6.9.2 Software engineering techniques 6.9.3 Neural networks CHAPTER 7 Security Models for Next Generation Databases 7.1 Introduction 7.1.1 Elements of active databases 7.1.2 Elements of object-oriented databases 7.2 Security in active databases 7.3 Security in object-oriented databases 7.4 The ORION authorization model 7.4.1 Subjects 7.4.2 Objects 7.4.3 Access modes 7.4.4 Authorizations 7.4.5 Rules for the derivation of implicit authorizations and access control 7.4.6 Inheritance hierarchies, composite objects, and versions 7.5 The Bertino-Weigand model 7.6 Authorization models based on methods 7.6.1 The IRIS authorization model 7.6.2 The data-hiding model 7.7 The message filter 7.7.1 Entities of the model 7.7.2 Information flow 7.7.3 Message filtering algorithm 7.7.4 Classification requirement representation 7.8 SORION model 7.8.1 Entities of the model 7.8.2 Security policy axioms 7.8.3 Classification axioms 7.8.4 Classification requirement representation 7.9 The Millen-Lunt model 7.9.1 Entities of the model 7.9.2 Axioms 7.9.3 Classification requirement representation 7.10 Modeling multilevel entities through single level objects 7.11 Observations on OODBMS security ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ong@mcc.com Tue Feb 21 12:25:49 1995 Received: from fyvie.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 21 Feb 95 12:21:02 -0600; AA28511 Received: from turtle.mcc.com by fyvie.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 21 Feb 95 12:17:09 -0600 Received: from tarski.mcc.com (tarski.mcc.com [128.62.90.121]) by turtle.mcc.com (8.6.9/mcc.8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA20290 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 1995 12:17:01 -0600 Received: by tarski.mcc.com (4.1/isd-other_921116_15:19) id AA03432; Tue, 21 Feb 95 12:16:57 CST Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 12:16:57 CST From: ong@mcc.com (Kayliang Ong) Message-Id: <9502211816.AA03432@tarski.mcc.com> To: dbworld@fyvie.cs.wisc.edu Subject: First International Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Discovery with Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (KDOOD) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This CALL-FOR-PAPER can also be found on WWW: http://www.mcc.com/projects/carnot/kdoodws-cfp.html This www page will be updated as relevant information becomes available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Discovery with Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (KDOOD) December 8, 1995, Singapore OBJECTIVES Knowledge discovery from databases and Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD) are two promising research areas that have so far been growing rather independently of each other. However, lots of evidence suggests that the two areas can be mutually beneficial. For example, DOOD techniques may be used to facilitate knowledge discovery, whereas knowledge discovery techniques may help knowledge-base construction, and thus enhance and/or challenge the deductive and object-oriented database techniques. The objective of this workshop is to explore how knowledge discovery and DOOD can be integrated. FORMAT The workshop will be held immediately following the DOOD'95 conference. The plan is to have either a half-day or a full-day session depending on the number of submissions and the level of participation. If the number of submissions is large, we may categorize the papers in presentation papers, poster papers and system/prototype descriptions/demonstrations. Proposals for panel discussions are welcome. The final program of the workshop will be decided only after all the papers have been reviewed. The program will be formatted in a way that will encourage open discussions. The workshop also plans to invite one or two pioneering researchers in the area as keynote speakers. TOPICS The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: 1. Knowledge-base construction by KDD. 2. Rule-guided induction. 3. Integration of induction and deduction techniques. 4. Extension of DOOD systems for KDD. 5. Knowledge-merging: merging deduction rules and discovered rules. 6. Induction from data and schema. 7. Applications of discovered knowledge in DOOD (including semantic query optimization, intelligent query answering, data purification, etc.). 8. Uncertainty handling in data mining and DOOD. 9. KDD tools for DOOD. SUBMISSION AND REVIEWS OF THE PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original research contributions. Each paper should not be longer than 10 pages. We enourage electronic submissions in the form of postscript, latex etc. but limited to the std 8/5x11 size paper. If hardcopies are submitted, four copies will be required. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. PUBLICATIONS To be decided based on the number of submissions. An arrangement will likely be made with the DOOD conference organizers. ATTENDANCE At least one author of the papers selected for paper and/or poster 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rakesh Agrawal, IBM, USA Paolo Atzeni, Universita' La Sapienza, Italy Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories JiaWei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Willi Kloesgen, GMD, Germany Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada Raymond Ng, U. British Columbia, Canada Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan KayLiang Ong, MCC, USA Beng-Chin Ooi, NUS, Singapore Wei-Min Shen, ISI/USC, USA Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed, USA Shalom Tsur, Argonne National Research Lab, USA Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA 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 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada. Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada. KayLiang Ong, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), USA. For further information and paper submission, please contact: KayLiang Ong, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), 3500, West Balcones Center Drive, Austin, Texas 78759-5398, USA email: ong@mcc.com phone: (512) 338-3354. fax: (512) 338-3890. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Debray" Message-Id: <199502221531.AA17621@hedgehog.cs.arizona.edu> Received: by hedgehog.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 08:31:02 MST To: alp-list@intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de, 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@ecrc.de, concurrency@cwi.nl, dbworld, digest@uk.ac.ed.aiva.ed.ac.uk, 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: JLP "Technical Notes": new area announcement and CFP [Apologies if you get multiple copies of this message via different lists...] The Journal of Logic Programming solicits contributions for a new "Technical Notes" area. The purpose of this area is the rapid publication of short papers (upto 5000 words, excluding tables, figures, and bibliography) of interest to the logic programming community. In addition to the traditional research topics covered in other areas of the Journal, this area also covers "practice and experience" style reports on insights and experiences arising from the practical application of research results. In general, a paper can be considered to be within the scope of this area if it is of interest to (a reasonable portion of) the logic programming community, if it makes a nontrivial and non-obvious contribution to the knowledge within this area, and if it meets the length restriction specified. In addition to original contributions not previously published elsewhere, papers and abstracts presented at conferences may be revised and submitted as Technical Notes. In order to minimize processing delays, it is intended to use electronic communication and document manipulation as far as possible. To this end, authors are encouraged to submit papers electronically. Submissions should contain the name, e-mail address, and postal address of the corresponding author, a brief abstract and reasonably accurate word count for the paper (excluding figures, tables, and bibliography), and the manuscript in postscript format, and be sent by electronic mail to the area editor: Saumya K. Debray Dept. of Computer Science The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721, USA debray@cs.arizona.edu If electronic submission is inconvenient, five paper copies prepared according to the guidelines for regular papers should be sent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 loehr@darmstadt.gmd.de Wed Feb 22 10:16:11 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 22 Feb 95 10:16:01 -0600; AA09608 Received: from sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de by cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 22 Feb 95 10:15:58 -0600 Received: from kalbach.darmstadt.gmd.de (kalbach [141.12.35.104]) by sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA03651 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:17:26 +0100 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:17:26 +0100 From: Michael Loehr Message-Id: <199502221617.RAA03651@sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de> To: dbworld Subject: Announcement of AMOS Audio Tool V 1.1 After a number of minor changes we release a new version! *********************************************************************** * * * The AMOS Audio Tool V 1.1* (C) * * * * A tool for presentation and manipulation * * of audio data on SUN SPARC (R) workstations * * * *********************************************************************** Key features of the AMOS** Audio Tool include: o Sophisticated manipulation of audio data like attack, decay, mixing, and dynamic compression o Support of several sampling rates and resolutions The distribution contains sources for the AMOS Audio Tool, including: o an implementation of a C++ class (C++ 2.1) for presentation and manipulation of audio data o supported formats include 8/16 bit sample and sample rates 8kHz up to 48 kHz o tested implementation on SUN SPARC 2/ 10/ 20 with SunOS 4.1.3 (executable will run on Solaris 2) o a sample graphical user interface under OpenLook and Motif o a variety of test signals and other sounds free for use The tool is available at: ftp.darmstadt.gmd.de, directory: /pub/dimsys/amos/aat For further information use our WWW page: http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/dimsys/amos/aat.html ========================================================================== (C) Copyright (C) 1994 German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), Dolivostrasse 15, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany. The software is provided "as is", for details see the file COPYRIGHT in the distribution. (R) SUN, SunOS, and SPARC are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. * These developments are partially granted by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology and by the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG) within the MUSE project carried out at the Technical University of Darmstadt (THD). ** AMOS stands for "Active Media Object Stores" and is a project carried out at the GMD - IPSI, Darmstadt. The objective of the AMOS project is the development of concepts needed for multimedia database management systems (MM DBMS). For further informations, refer to our World Wide Web page: http://este.darmstadt.gmd.de:5000/dimsys/amos/home.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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It is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the information systems and database area. It will offer scientific program with paper presentations and tutorials aimed at transfer of information, and education. The conference will offer an opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. Contributions should cover new requirements, concepts for implementation, management of meta-data, system architectures and experience gained in information systems and DBMSs. SUGGESTED TOPICS : The papers selected for the conference will cover all areas concerning database systems, including the following topics. Data security and Data Quality Management Parallel databases on supercomputers Deductive databases Data Modelling and Database design Database mining and knowledge discovery Distributed databases Engineering databases Temporal and active databases Hypertext/Visualization Multimedia databases Object-Oriented databases Office information systems Spatial databases Statistical and Scientific databases CASE tools and Database languages Process modelling Meta-CASE Methods engineering User interface design Requirements engineering Information systems in Health Care and other applications INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS : The conference plans to publish its proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submitted papers will be refereed by a panel of referees. Submit five copies of the manuscript in English (double space A4 size, 16 pages) to: SUBHASH BHALLA Database Systems Laboratory The University of Aizu Fukushima Ken, PO 965-80 (JAPAN) Phone: +(81)(242)37-2539 Fax: +(81)(242)37-2753 email: bhalla@u-aizu.ac.jp TUTORIALS Tutorial proposals are also invited. Theses should be sent with title, abstract, level of audience expected and duration(half-day/ full-day). PROGRAM COMMITTEE : D. Agrawal, USA R. Agrawal, USA S. Bhalla, Japan (Chair) J. Biskup, Germany N. Bolloju, Hong kong J.A. Bubenko, Sweden A. Cavarero, France X. Castellani, France P. Constantopoulos, Greece U. Dayal, USA P. De, USA P. Dewan, USA V. Dhar, USA P. Dublish, India E.D. Falkenberg, The Netherlands S. Grumbach, France T. Halpin, Australia T. Ichikawa, Japan R. Jain, India H.V. Jagdish, USA S. Jajodia, USA M. Kitsuregawa, Japan M. Kobayashi, Japan P. Krishna Reddy, India A. Kumar, USA H.S. Kunii, Japan P. Loucopolous, UK A.K. Majumdar, India Peter McBrien, UK R. Mehrotra, USA S. Miranda, France I.S. Mumick, USA N. Parimala, India B. Pernici, Italy T.V. Prabhakar, India N. Prakash, India B.E. Prasad, USA S. Ram, USA M.P. Reddy, USA C. Rolland, France M. Saeki, Japan M. Scholl, Germany A. Solvberg, Norway S. Spaccapietra, Swiszerland M.V. Sreenivas, India Jaideep Srivastava, USA Vijay Kumar, USA B. Wangler, Sweden IMPORTANT DATES Papers due : May 1, 1995 Notification of acceptance : August 1, 1995 Camera-ready copies with Registration fee : August 21, 1995 Tutorial Proposal Due : August 1, 1995 Tutorial Acceptance Notification : September 1, 1995 For Further Information on Conference/Panel Participation/Industry Sponsored Tracks, contact : Organizing Secretary email : cismod95@dit.ernet.in OR Organizing Secretary email : cismod95%sirnetw@sirnetd.ernet.in +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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In its tenth edition, SBMICRO will take place jointly with the 1st Ibero-American Microelectronics Conference. The strenghtening of the cooperation and technical exchange among Latin-American and Iberian specialists is sought by this joint event, which tries to consolidate and expand the interaction within Latin America. The following activities will take place in the days of the Conferences: technical sessions, invited papers, tutorial courses, technical panels, exhibition of university projects and industrial products. CONFERENCE LOCATION: SBMICRO and IBERMICRO will be held in the mountains of the Brazilian southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the tourist town of Canela, near Porto Alegre. Canela and Gramado (6km from canela) are known by the influence of German immigration in the region. With its Bavarian architecture style, Canela is surrounded by beautifyul mountais and provides an excelletn environment for conferences or meetings. AREAS OF INTEREST: Authors from all around the world are invited to submit original papers in all areas of microelectronics. Topics include, but are not limited to: .. Analog and Digital IC Design .. CAD for VLSI Design .. Simulation, Verification, and Testing .. High Level Synthesis .. Fabrication Processes .. Materials, Devices and Circuits .. Instrumentation for Microelectronics .. Embedded Systems .. Architecture and Algorithms .. Microelectronics education General Chair: Sergio Bampi / UFRGS, Brazil Technical Program Chair: Ricardo Reis / UFRGS, Brazil SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Contributions will be accepted in English only: papers up to 10 pages long, for oral presentation in technical sessions. Camera-ready originals plus 3 (three) copies should be sent to the address below, where additional information can be obtained. PANELS, TUTORIALS AND ROUND-TABLES Suggestions for the conference activities around Panels, Tutorials and Round-Table discussions can be submitted to the Conference Chairmen until December 30, 1995, stating topics, abstract, and list of potential panelists and invited participants. Secretaria Eventos - Instituto de Informatica -UFRGS Caixa Postal 15064 CEP 91501-970 Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil Telephone: + 55-51-3368399 or 2281633 ext: 6830 Fax: +55-51-3365576 E-Mail: eventos@inf.ufrgs.br IMPORTANT DEADLINES: Submission of manuscripts: April 14th, 1995 (postage) Notifications of acceptance: May 31st, 1995 PAPER FORMAT: The papers have to be submitted in camera-ready format, in double spaced A4 paper (297x210mm), leaving 25mm margins on each side. The first page should include the title, author(s) identification, author(s) affiliation, and abstract. Pages should not be numbered in the original text. 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WWW: via URL file://alpha.ces.cwru.edu/pub/sigmpods/html/acm.html ============================================================================== ADVANCE PROGRAM FOR THE JOINT CONFERENCE 1995 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data & Fourteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) The Fairmont Hotel San Jose, California May 22--25, 1995 ============================================================================== Letter from the Chairs ============================================================================== The ACM SIGMOD/PODS 95 Joint Conference continues the tradition of the last few years in bringing together the theoretical and applied database communities. The joint conference will feature the presentation of original research papers, invited talks, tutorials, industrial sessions, panels, and demonstrations of experimental database prototypes. The SIGMOD and PODS conferences will overlap for two days, but each conference will have a separate third day without overlap. There will be, however, only one registration process for the joint, four-day conference. Attendees will receive both proceedings and be encouraged to attend sessions in both conferences. The award session, reception, lunch and the banquet are joint events. We are holding this conference in Silicon Valley, one of the hotbeds of industrial database activity, and have made a special effort to take advantage of local database expertise in our invited talks, panels, tutorials and industrial programs. We hope you will meet members of our broad database community who may not ordinarily attend SIGMOD/PODS and hear about their activities. As we reach the mid-point of the decade of the '90's, the world of data spans architectures from mobile computing through massively parallel systems, and includes an ever-increasing range of data, from the traditional to multimedia objects to real time satellite data capture. The SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conference represents the combined efforts of the theoretical and applied database communities to tackle the new challenges facing the database professionals. We encourage you to participate in what promises to be an exciting and important event. Pat Selinger Mihalis Yannakakis (SIGMOD General Chair) (PODS General Chair) ============================================================================== Highlights ============================================================================== PODS *) Invited Talk by Christos H. Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego). *) 3 Tutorials on: - Constraint Programming and Database Languages - Research Problems in Genome Databases - Combinatorial Games in Database Theory *) Presentation of 25 papers in the Technical Program. SIGMOD *) Presentation of the SIGMOD Awards. *) 3 Invited Industrial Talks by: - Larry Ellison (Oracle) - Bob Epstein (Sybase) - Janet Perna (IBM) *) Presentation of 36 papers in the Technical Program. *) 3 Panel Sessions on: - Data Interchange Formats - Research and Products - Are They Relevant To Each Other? - Objects and SQL: Strange Relations? *) 7 Industrial Sessions on: - PC Databases - Database Applications - Parallel Database Systems Come of Age: A Survey of Products, Algorithms, and Their Published Performance - Information Infrastructure Issues - Data Warehousing - Object Relational Interfaces - Massive Parallelism *) 5 Tutorials on: - Indexing Multimedia Databases - Storage Technology: RAID and Beyond - Workflow Automation: Applications, Technology, and Research - Integration Approaches for CIM - An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard *) Demonstrations of 18 experimental database prototypes. ============================================================================== Location ============================================================================== San Jose, Northern California's largest city, is ideally situated an hour away from the cultural richness of San Francisco and from the scenic coastlines of Monterey and Carmel. The heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose is home to more than 3,000 high tech companies. In 1994 San Jose ranked as the 5th best place in the US to live, and for 3 consecutive years San Jose has topped the list as the safest big city in the United States. Its fantastic climate boasts nearly 300 sunny days per year with an average temperature of 70 degrees. ============================================================================== Social Events ============================================================================== Sunday, May 21st, 7:00--10:00pm Welcoming Reception. Monday, May 22nd, 9:00--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting. Tuesday, May 23rd, 12:00--1:30pm SIGMOD Business Lunch. Wednesday, May 24th, 6:00--7:00pm Conference Reception. Wednesday, May 24th, 7:00--10:00pm Conference Banquet ============================================================================== Sunday, May 21st ============================================================================== 7:00--10:00pm Registration Welcoming Reception ============================================================================== Monday, May 22nd ============================================================================== 8:15--9:00am Continental Breakfast 9:00--10:00am PODS Invited Talk: "Database Theory and Philosophy of Science: Asking the Big Queries" Christos Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30am--12:00pm PODS Session 1: Sequence Data Chair: Paolo Atzeni (Terza U. di Roma) - Algebras for Querying Text Regions Mariano P. Consens (U. Waterloo), Tova Milo (U. Toronto/Tel-Aviv U.) - Sequences, Datalog and Transducers Giansalvatore Mecca (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza"), Anthony J. Bonner (U. Toronto) - Similarity-Based Queries H.V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Labs), Alberto O. Mendelzon (U. Toronto), Tova Milo (U. Toronto/Tel-Aviv U.) 12:00--1:30pm Lunch (on your own) 1:30--3:00pm PODS Session 2: Tutorial Chair: Jan Chomicki (Kansas State U., Manhattan) "Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial" Paris Kanellakis (Brown U.) 3:00--3:30pm Coffee Break 3:30--5:30pm PODS Session 3: Constraints and Spatial Databases Chair: Alberto O. Mendelzon (U. Toronto) - Separability of Polyhedra for Optimal Filtering of Spatial and Constraint Data Alexander Brodsky (George Mason U.), Catherine Lassez, Jean-Louis Lassez, Michael J. Maher (IBM Yorktown Heights) - Dense-Order Constraint Databases Stephane Grumbach (U. Toronto and INRIA, Rocquencourt), Jianwen Su (U.C. Santa Barbara) - Measuring Infinite Relations Jan Chomicki (Kansas State U.), Gabriel Kuper (ECRC, Munchen) - Window Query-Optimal Clustering of Spatial Objects Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Jans-Werner Six, Mario Winter (U. Hagen) 9:00--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting ============================================================================== Tuesday, May 23rd ============================================================================== 7:45--8:30am Continental Breakfast 8:30--10:00am PODS Session 4: Views Chair: Jeff Naughton (U. of Wisconsin, Madison) - Answering Queries Using Views Alon Y. Levy (AT&T Bell Labs), Alberto O. Mendelzon (U. Toronto), Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Bell Labs) - Answering Queries Using Templates with Binding Patterns Anand Rajaraman, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U.) - View Maintenance Issues for the Chronicle Data Model H.V. Jagadish, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Abraham Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) SIGMOD Session 1A: Transactions Chair: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) - A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels H. Berenson, P. Bernstein (Microsoft), J. Gray (UC Berkeley), J. Melton (Sybase), E. O'Neil, and P. O'Neil (U. Massachusetts, Boston) - Recovery Protocols for Shared Memory Database Systems L. Molesky and K. Ramamritham (U. Massachusetts) - Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks A. Adya, R. Gruber, B. Liskov, and U. Maheshwari (M.I.T.) SIGMOD Tutorial: Indexing Multimedia Databases Christos Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs and U. Maryland) SIGMOD Industrial Session 1: PC Databases Chair: Peter Spiro (Microsoft) - Object-Oriented, Rapid Application Development in a PC Database Environment Richard McAniff (Microsoft) - PC Databases Redefined Brian Arbogast (Microsoft) - The Lotus Notes Storage System Ken Moore (Iris Associates) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30am--12:00pm PODS Session 5: Tutorial Chair: Amr El Abbadi (U.C. Santa Barbara) "Research Problems in Genome Databases" Nathan Goodman (Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research) SIGMOD Session 2A: Object Queries Chair: J. Kiernan (IBM Santa Teresa) - The Lyric Language: Querying Constraint Objects A. Brodsky (George Mason U.) and Y. Kornatzky (U. Toronto) - Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages L. Fegaras and D. Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute) - OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages G. Gardarin (INRIA), F. Machuca, and P. Pucheral (U. Versailles) SIGMOD Tutorial: Storage Technology: RAID and Beyond Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon U.) SIGMOD Industrial Session 2: Database Applications Chair: Peter Spiro (Microsoft) - Challenges of Building a Large New Business: DIRECTV and Oracle Rdb Bill Gettys (Oracle Rdb Engineering) - Enterprise Transaction Processing on Windows NT Greg Hope (Prologic Computer Corporation) - High Availability of Commercial Applications Kestutis Ivinskis (SAP AG Walldorf) 12:00--1:30pm Lunch and SIGMOD Business Meeting 1:30--3:00pm PODS Session 6: Updates Chair: Jennifer Widom (Stanford U.) - Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases Philippe Picouet (ENST, Paris), Victor Vianu (U.C. San Diego) - Space-Bounded FOIES Guozhu Dong (U. Melbourne), Jianwen Su (U.C. Santa Barbara) - The Size of a Revised Knowledge Base Marco Cadoli, Francesco M. Donini, Paolo Liberatore, Marco Schaerf (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza") SIGMOD Session 3B: Tutorial Panel: The Data That You Won't Find in Databases: Co-Chairs: David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute) and Peter Buneman (U. Pennsylvania) Panel Members: Michael Achenbach (Xidak) Robert Grossman (U. Illinois at Chicago and Cornell U.) Christian Overton (U. Pennsylvania) Stanley B. Zdonik (Brown U.) SIGMOD Industrial Session 3: A Survey of Parallel Database Products Chair: James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) - Parallel Database Systems Come of Age: A Survey of Products, Algorithms, and Their Published Performance Jim Gray (U.C. Berkeley) 3:00--3:30pm Coffee Break 3:30--4:00pm SIGMOD Awards Ceremony Chair: Pat Selinger (IBM Almaden) 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 7: Datalog Chair: Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) - Semantic Query Optimization in Datalog Programs Alon Y. Levy (AT&T Bell Labs), Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.) - Magic Factoring of Closure Programs Peter T. Wood (U. Cape Town) - Structural Totality and Constraint Stratification Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia U.) 4:00--5:00pm SIGMOD Invited Industrial Talk Chair: Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) (Title to be announced) Larry Ellison (Oracle) ============================================================================== Wednesday May 24th ============================================================================== 7:45--9:00am Continental Breakfast 8:30--10:00am PODS Session 8: Updates and Collections Chair: Val Tannen (Universite' Paris Sud and U. Pennsylvania) - Using Witness Generators to Support Bi-directional Update Between Object-Based Databases Ti-Pin Chang (Informix Software, Portland), Richard Hull (U. Colorado) - Applying an Update Method to a Set of Receivers Marc Andries (Leiden U.), Luca Cabibbo (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza"), Jan Paredaens (U. Antwerp, UIA), Jan Van den Bussche (INRIA, Rocquencourt) - Normalizing Incomplete Databases Leonid Libkin (AT&T Bell Labs) 9:00--10:00am SIGMOD Invited Industrial Talk Chair: Dale Skeen (Vitria Technology) (Title to be announced) Bob Epstein (Sybase) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30am--12:00 PODS Session 9: Tutorial Chair: Neil Immerman (U. Massachusetts, Amherst) "Combinatorial Games In Database Theory" Phokion Kolaitis (U.C. Santa Cruz) SIGMOD Session 4A: Parallelism Chair: S. Ghandeharizadeh (USC) - Adaptive Parallel Aggregation Algorithms A. Shatdal and J. Naughton (U. Wisconsin) - Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Join Queries A. Wilschut, J. Flokstra, and P. Apers (U. Twente) - The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases M. Hernandez and S. Stolfo (Columbia U.) SIGMOD Tutorial: Workflow Automation: Applications, Technology, and Research Amit Sheth (U. Georgia) SIGMOD Industrial Session 4: Information Infrastructure Issues Chair: Dale Skeen (Vitria Technology) - Things Every Update Replication Customer Should Know Rob Golding (IBM Santa Teresa) - VERSANT Replication: Supporting Fault-Tolerant Object Databases Yuh-Ming Shyy (Versant) - Carnot and InfoSleuth: Database Technology and the World Wide Web D. Woelk (MCC) 12:00--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 10: Transactions and Parallelism Chair: Christos Faloutsos (U. Maryland) - Safe Locking Policies for Dynamic Databases Vinay K. Chaudhri, Vassos Hadzilacos (U. Toronto) - Increasing the Resilience of Atomic Commit at No Additional Cost Idit Keidar, Danny Dolev (Hebrew U.) - Scheduling Problems in Parallel Query Optimization Chandra Chekuri (Stanford U.), Waqar Hasan (Stanford U. and HP Labs), Rajeev Motwani (Stanford U.) SIGMOD Session 5A: Indexing and Beyond Chair: W. Litwin (U. Paris 9) - OODB Indexing by Class-Division S. Ramaswamy (Bellcore) and P. Kanellakis (Brown U.) - The Handwritten Trie: Indexing Electronic Ink W. Aref, D. Barbara, and P. Vallabhaneni (MITL) - FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets C. Faloutsos, K. Lin (U. Maryland) SIGMOD Tutorial: Integration Approaches for CIM Moira C. Norrie (ETH Zurich) SIGMOD Industrial Session 5: Panel: Research and Products: Are They Relevant To Each Other? Chair: Herb Edelstein (Euclid Associates) Panel Members: James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) Gary Kelley (Informix) Roger Manfred (Oracle) Dennis McEvoy (Sybase) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 11: Query Languages Chair: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) - On the Complexity of Bounded-Variable Queries Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) - Finite Queries do not Have Effective Syntax Alexei P. Stolboushkin (U.C. Los Angeles), Michael A. Taitslin (Tver State U.) - The Reliability of Queries Michel de Rougemont (LRI, Universite' de Paris-Sud) SIGMOD Session 6A: Performance Chair: A. Kemper (U. Passau) - An Effective Hash Based Algorithm for Mining Association Rules J. Park, M. Chen, and P. Yu (IBM Yorktown) - Implementing Crash Recovery in QuickStore: A Performance Study S. White and D. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) - Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communications Environments S. Acharya (Brown U.), R. Alonso (MITL), M. Franklin (U. Maryland), S. Zdonik (Brown U.) SIGMOD Tutorial: An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard Nelson Mattos (IBM Almaden/DBTI), Jim Melton (Sybase) SIGMOD Industrial Session 6: Data Warehousing Chair: Gary Kelley (Informix) - Data Extraction and Transformation for the Data Warehouse Debbie Benoit (Prism) - Real World Requirements for Decision Support - Implications for RDBMS Sanje Bampahl (Microstrategies) - The Impossible Dream? Designing a Database Engine for Adhoc DSS Query Clark D. French (Sybase) 6:00--7:00pm Conference Reception 7:00--10:00pm Conference Banquet ============================================================================== Thursday, May 25th ============================================================================== 8:15--9:00am Continental Breakfast 9:00--10:00am SIGMOD Invited Industrial Talk Chair: Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) - Leveraging The Information Asset Janet Perna (IBM) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30--12:00am SIGMOD Session 7A: Potpourri Chair: A. Swami (Silicon Graphics) - Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinitions A. Gupta (IBM Almaden), I. Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs), and K. Ross (Columbia U.) - Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach W. Hou and Z. Zhang (Southern Illinois U.) - Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation Y. Ioannidis and V. Poosala (U. Wisconsin) SIGMOD Session 7B: Time Chair: H. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Labs) - Applying Update Streams in a Soft Real-Time Database System B. Adelberg, H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.), and B. Kao (Princeton U.) - Semantic Assumptions and Query Evaluation in Temporal Databases C. Bettini (U. Milan), X. Wang (George Mason U.), E. Bertino (U. Milan), and S. Jajodia (George Mason U.) - Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems A. Sistla and O. Wolfson (U. Illinois, Chicago) SIGMOD Industrial Session 7: Object Relational Interfaces Chair: Gary Kelley (Informix) - "Cover Your Assets, or, Why New Applications Are More Dangerous, More Difficult, and Way More Cool Than Old Ones." Mike Olson (Illustra Information Technologies) - Integration of OLE objects and Relational Databases Beth Chapman (Microsoft) - Enterprise Objects Framework, A Second Generation Object-Relational Enabler Charly Kleissner (Next Computer) 12:00--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm SIGMOD Session 8A: Query Processing Chair: P. Valduriez (INRIA) - Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution D. Davison (Informix Software) and G. Graefe (Microsoft) - Reducing Multidatabase Query Response Time by Tree Balancing W. Du, M. Shan, and U. Dayal (HP Labs) - Hypergraph Based Reorderings of Outer Join Queries with Complex Predicates G. Bhargava, P. Goel, and B. Iyer (IBM Santa Teresa) SIGMOD Session 8B: View Maintenance Chair: I. Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs) - View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment Y. Zhuge, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Hammer, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) - Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates T. Griffin and L. Libkin (AT&T Bell Labs) - Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views J. Lu (Bucknell U.), G. Moerkotte (RWTH Aachen), J. Schu (U. Karlsruhe), and V. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) SIGMOD Industrial Session 8: Massive Parallelism Chair: James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) - An Overview of DB2 Parallel Edition Gilles Fecteau (IBM) - Informix Online Servers Using Extended Hardware Parallelism Bob Gerber (Informix) - Order of Magnitude Advantage of TPC-C though Massive Parallelism Charles Levine (Tandem) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00--5:30pm SIGMOD Session 9A: Video Servers Chair: A. Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) - The SPIFFI Scalable Video-on-Demand System C. Freedman and D. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) - Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers S. Berson, L. Golubchik, and R. Muntz (UCLA) - An Online Video Placement Policy based on Bandwith to Space Ratio (BSR) A. Dan and D. Sitaram (IBM Yorktown) SIGMOD Session 9B: Documents Chair: K. Shoens (HP Labs) - A Database Interface for Files Updates S. Abiteboul, S. Cluet (INRIA, Rocquencourt), T. Milo (U. Toronto/Tel-Aviv U.) - Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents S. Brin, J. Davis, and H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) - Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques S. Chaudhuri, U. Dayal, and T. Yan (HP Labs) SIGMOD Industrial Session 9: Panel: Objects and SQL: Strange Relations? Chair: Dr. Donald R. Deutsch (Sybase) Panel Members: Francois Bancilhon (O2 Technology) Richard Mark Soley (Object Management Group) Nelson M. Mattos (IBM Database Technology Institute) C. J. Date (Author, Lecturer and Consultant) ============================================================================== SIGMOD Annual Awards ============================================================================== SIGMOD Innovations Award For innovative contributions to the development or use of database systems and databases. The contribution must have been put into practice and adopted widely in significant use. Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. SIGMOD Contributions Award For significant contributions to the growth and promotion of the database field through services to the database community, including, but not limited to, publications, technical meetings (conferences, workshops), research funding, and education. Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. Awards Administration By the SIGMOD Awards Committee. Each award consists of an honorary plaque per recipient and $1000 total. Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or groups. Nominations must be received by March 1 to be considered for that year's award by the SIGMOD Awards Committee (see SIGMOD Record). 1995 Award Recipients SIGMOD Innovations Award: To be announced. SIGMOD Contributions Award: To be announced. ============================================================================== PODS Invited Talk ============================================================================== Database Theory and Philosophy of Science: Asking the Big Queries Speaker: Christos Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego) Monday, May 22th, 9:00am Abstract: Is "database theory" an oxymoron? Or is it a platitude? What is the fitness measure that decides the survival of ideas (and areas) in mathematics, in applied science, and in computer science? Which ideas from database theory during the past twenty-five years have influenced research in other fields of computer science? How many were encapsulated in actual products? Is applicability the only and ultimate justification of theoretical research in an applied science? Are diversity, inclusiveness, and exhaustiveness undesirable attributes? Are applicability pressures really exogenous and unwelcome? Are negative results appropriate goals of theoretical research in an applied science? If scientific theories must be refutable, what are the "hard facts" that provide the possibility of refutation in the case of database theory? The Speaker: Christos H. Papadimitriou got his PhD from Princeton in 1976; he has since taught at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Athens Polytechnic. Since 1988 he has been the Jacobs Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of California San Diego. He has published four books (including "The Theory of Database Concurrency Control" and "Computational Complexity") and over 200 articles on the theory of algorithms and complexity, and its applications to optimization, databases, artificial intelligence, and mathematical economics. ============================================================================== Tutorials ============================================================================== PODS Tutorial 1. Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial Instructor: Paris C. Kanellakis (Brown U.) Monday, May 22nd, 1:30pm Abstract: Programming with constraints as primitives can lead to powerful extensions of both deductive and object-oriented data models. The property that makes this new database programming paradigm (called Constraint Query Languages or CQLs) applicable to areas such as spatial databases, where previous data models have weaknesses, is that its basic data type is spatial point set, i.e., a generalization of the relational tuple data type that is close to the natural language specification of the application area. Most importantly, I/O-efficient access to sets of such generalized tuples can be supported through existing multi-dimensional searching data structures. This facilitates the design and implementation of languages for applications such as: solid modeling in design databases, map overlays in geographic databases, and subsequence matching in scientific databases. This tutorial is an overview of the development of constraint programming for database applications. We examine: (1) the expressive power for various classes of constraints both linear and nonlinear, (2) calculus/algebra language designs combining constraints and complex objects, (3) optimization in the context of constraints, and (4) new data structures for indexing very large sets of constraints. We survey the features of constraint logic programming, deductive databases, and object-oriented databases that are preserved in CQLs and we highlight the challenging new technical problems. Instructor: Paris C. Kanellakis is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1982. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Mathematics (87-89) and held an IBM Assoc. Professorship in Computer Science (89-90). His primary work and interests are in the areas of: principles of database systems, constraint programming languages, logic in computer science, and the theory of concurrency. He has published extensively on these topics in computer science journals and conferences and is author of the chapter "Elements of Relational Database Theory" for the Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier, 1990). He has chaired a number of conferences on databases and on constraint programming, edited collections of papers on these themes, and serves as editorial board member representing these areas for: Theoretical Computer Science, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Information and Computation, and the Journal of Logic Programming. PODS Tutorial 2. Research Problems in Genome Databases Instructor: Dr. Nathan Goodman (Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research) Tuesday, May 23rd, 10:30am Abstract: The Human Genome Project is a fifteen year, international project that seeks to identify all of the genes in the human genome, and to eventually sequence the 3 billion bases of DNA that comprise the human genome. The Human Genome Project is a fascinating scientific adventure and raises exciting research challenges for computer science. This seminar will present several kinds of database challenges that arise. 1. Laboratory databases have to keep track of tens to hundreds of thousands of samples as they flow through complex, multi-step procedures. To make matters worse, these procedures change frequently as new lab techniques are introduced, and the database must evolve to keep pace. 2. There is a need for databases to keep track of the results produced by genome labs, which are often complex structures such as maps, and sequences. 3. There is a need for databases that integrate results from multiple labs. 4. A great deal of genomic data is descriptive in nature and is best represented as free text. There is a need to integrate text databases with more traditional databases. 5. An increasing amount of genomic data is visual in nature, leading to a need for image databases. 6. Scientific results generally consist of (i) data, and (ii) an interpretation of the data in light of current theory. In most genome databases, the data and results are explicit, but the underlying theory is implicit. Since theories change from time-to-time, we are left with the very big problem of reinterpretting old data in a new light. Instructor: Dr. Nathan Goodman is Associate Director of the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research where he heads a software research and development group that creates laboratory information systems for the Human Genome Project. In addition, he is acting president of Marble Associates, Inc., a software consulting firm specializing in object-oriented, client/server business information systems. He is a former professor of computer science at Harvard University and Boston University where he specialized in database research, and a former senior vice-president of Codd and Date. He spent many years at Computer Corporation of America working on distributed and object oriented database systems. Dr. Goodman also has expertise in computer architecture, being a founder and former Chief Computer Scientist of Kendall Square Research Corporation, a manufacturer of multiprocessor supercomputers for transaction processing and scientific applications. He is coauthor of the textbook, Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems. Dr. Goodman received the Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972, the Master of Science degree in Computer Science from MIT in 1976, and the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1980. Dr. Goodman's PhD thesis, Power of Semijoins in Distributed Database Query Processing, studies practical and theoretical aspects of query optimization for distributed, relational database systems. PODS Tutorial 3. Combinatorial Games in Database Theory Instructor: Phokion G. Kolaitis (U.C. Santa Cruz) Wednesday, May 24th, 10:30am Abstract: During the past fifteen years, the study of rule-based query languages has occupied a prominent place in database theory. Much of the work in this area has been devoted to a comprehensive investigation of the expressive power of such query languages. In carrying out this investigation, researchers have relied heavily on the method of combinatorial games, a versatile method that originated in classical mathematical logic and became quite indispensable in finite model theory. The aim of this tutorial is to present the main combinatorial games used in database theory, give a representative sample of their numerous applications, but also indicate some of their limitations. In particular, the tutorial will cover Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse' games, games for monadic NP, and pebble games. Moreover, it will illustrate the use of these games in relational calculus, Datalog, and fixpoint logic. Instructor: Phokion G. Kolaitis is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. His research interests include finite model theory, computational complexity, and database theory. In recent years, he has served on the program committees of several international conferences and on the editorial boards of two journals. In 1993 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. SIGMOD Tutorial 1. Indexing Multimedia Databases Instructor: Christos Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs and U. Maryland) Tuesday, May 23rd, 8:30am Abstract: The tutorial surveys state-of-the-art methods for storing and retrieving multimedia data from large databases. Records (or documents) may consist of formatted fields, text, images, voice, animation, etc. A sample query that we would like to support is "in a collection of 2-d color images, find images that are similar to a sunset photograph." The idea is to use feature extraction functions, which map an image into a point in feature space, so that we can use spatial access methods (SAMs) to accelerate the search. The tutorial examines the properties of good feature extraction functions, highlights subtle problems (e.g., the 'dimensionality curse'), and gives solutions. Finally, it presents case studies and prototype systems for 2-d and 3-d medical image databases, 2-d color image databases, and 1-d time series databases. Instructor: Christos Faloutsos received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1981) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. Since 1985 he has been with the department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park; he is currently on a leave at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1989 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. His research interests include physical data base design, searching methods for text, geographic information systems and indexing methods for medical and multimedia databases. SIGMOD Tutorial 2. Storage Technology: RAID and Beyond Instructor: Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon U.) Tuesday, May 23rd, 10:30am Abstract: This tutorial is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in current trends in storage systems. It will highlight storage technology trends including areal density growth, disk diameter shrinkage, rising rotation rates, embedded controller caching and reordering, peripheral interface evolution, and drive support for redundant disk arrays (more commonly called RAID). It will also highlight the evolution of RAID technology, expected to be a 13 billion dollar industry by 1997. RAID coverage will include a brief review of the historical development of common RAID levels (redundancy organizations and workload optimizations) then focus on techniques for overcoming write bandwidth bottlenecks and on-line failure recovery performance. Finally, recent trends toward RAID-style support for network-based parallel storage systems will be covered. Instructor: Garth Gibson is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the Parallel Data Laboratory's research into high-performance, highly-available, networked, file and storage system architectures. This lab participates in the Nectar Gigabit Networking testbed and the HPCC Multicomputing Systems Software project, and constitutes the Storage and Computer Systems Integration area of the Data Storage Systems Center. Companies collaborating with this lab include AT&T-GIS (NCR), Data General, IBM, DEC, HP, Seagate, and Storage Technology. Gibson received a PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 where he co-founded Berkeley's Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) project with Prof. D. A. Patterson and Prof. R. H. Katz. His dissertation, "Redundant Disk Arrays: Reliable, Parallel Secondary Storage," tied for second place in the 1991 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and was published by the MIT Press in 1992. SIGMOD Tutorial 3. Workflow Automation: Applications, Technology, and Research Instructor: Amit Sheth (U. Georgia) Wednesday, May 24th, 10:30am Abstract: With increasing global exposure, today's enterprises must react quickly to changes, rapidly develop new services and products, and at the same time improve productivity and quality and reduce cost. Business process re-engineering and workflow automation to coordinate activities throughout the enterprise are recognized as important emerging technologies to support these requirements. Rosy estimates of a multi-billion dollar marketplace for workflow software has resulted in significant commercial activities in the area, with over fifty products now claiming to support workflow automation. While many help to automate document- and image-driven office applications, therefore helping to improve the productivity of small groups, most current products fail to support: (a) mission critical and complex applications with requirements such as failure handling and recovery, and (b) interoperability with existing heterogeneous information systems. In this tutorial, we will discuss requirements for applications involving workflow automation, present an overview of the current state-of-the-art in products, and present some of the research efforts that are attempting to respond to unmet challenges. Instructor: Dr. Amit Sheth directs the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems (LSDIS) Lab and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. Earlier he worked for nine years in the R&D labs at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. He has lead projects on heterogeneous DDBMS, factory information system, integration of AI-database systems (BrAID), transactional workflows (PROMT and METEOR), federated database tools (BERDI and TAILOR), multidatabase consistency, and data quality (Q-Data). LSDIS lab maintains very active collaboration with industry, and has won significant projects in the areas of interoperable information system and workflow management (under the Healthcare Information Infrastructure Program awarded by NIST) and global information system and management of heterogeneous digital data (awarded in the Massive Digital Data Systems initiative). Prof. Sheth has published over 70 papers, given over 45 invited talks and 13 tutorials, and lead two international conferences and a workshop as a General/Program (Co-)Chair. He has also served twice as an ACM Lecturer, has been on over twenty five program and organization committees, and is on the editorial board of four journals. SIGMOD Tutorial 4. Integration Approaches for CIM Instructor: Moira C. Norrie (ETH Zurich) Wednesday May 24th, 2:00pm Abstract: We describe and compare different integration approaches for the exchange and consistency of product data across Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) component systems. In particular, we present the main features of current CIM systems and compare these to the various forms of multidatabase approaches proposed by the database community. The CIM integration effort is based on a number of emerging standards. We provide an overview of the STEP/EXPRESS standard for the exchange of product data and discuss the merits and drawbacks of EXPRESS as a global data model. Instructor: Moira Norrie joined the Database Research Group of Prof. Hans-Jorg Schek at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in January 1993. Her previous posts include lectureships at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland and a research position at the Swedish Institute for Systems Development in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1989 to 1993, she was working on the Esprit project Comandos as part of the Object Data Management Services (ODMS) group at the University of Glasgow. She is currently leading a group investigating issues of object data management and advanced database applications. In particular, she is leading a project entitled "Databases for CIM" which is part of a Swiss funded collaborative project (KWF) involving the CIM Research group of Prof. Flemming at ETH, and industrial partners ABB and Sulzer. SIGMOD Tutorial 5. An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard Instructors: Nelson Mattos (IBM Almaden/DBTI) & Jim Melton (Sybase) Wednesday May 24th, 4:00pm Abstract: This tutorial provides an overview of the emerging next generation of the SQL Standard, SQL3, expected to be approved in 1997. SQL3's new capabilities can be divided into two categories: extensions to relational facilities (new data types, new predicates, triggers, recursive query expressions, view updatability, stored procedures, control flow, exception handling, and a call-level interface), and object support (abstract data types, encapsulation, object identity, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding, parameterized types, and collection types like set, list, and multiset). Instructors: Jim Melton is a database architect responsible for standards with the Strategic Planning department of Sybase, Inc. Jim has an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In addition to implementing relational database systems, he has participated actively as a Member of ANSI Technical Committee X3H2 for Database and as a USA representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee for database for many years. Jim is the Editor of the SQL-92 standard and the emerging next generation of the SQL standard, currently called SQL3. He contributed very heavily to the technical content of SQL-92 and SQL3 and is the author of a popular text on the subject, "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide". Nelson Mattos is with the Database Technology Institute, IBM, San Jose, CA. Prior to joining IBM, Nelson worked for several years as the leader of large project on object-oriented and knowledge base management systems at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). Nelson received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslauitern in 1989. He is a database languages architect working on extended DBMSs and a member of the ANSI Technical Committee X3H2 for Database as well as a USA representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Committee for databases. Nelson has contributed extensively to the design of SQL3. He has published several papers on object-orientation, databases, and knowledge base management in well-known magazines and conferences. He is also the author of the book "An Approach to Knowledge Base Management". ============================================================================== Research Prototype Demonstrations ============================================================================== TUESDAY, May 23rd Session 1 - DataMine - Interactive Rule Discovery System T. Imielinski and A. Virmani (Rutgers U.) - The Algres Tesbed of CHIMERA: An Active Object-Oriented Database System S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, S. Paraboschi, and G. Psaila (Politecnico di Milano) - The NAOS Prototype Demonstration C. Collet and T. Coupaye (U. Grenoble) - Query By Image Content(QBIC) System Jonathan Ashley, Ron Barber, Myron Flickner, James Hafner, Denis Lee, Wayne Niblack, Dragutin Petkovic (IBM Research) Session 2 - The REACH Active OODBMS A. Buchmann, A. Deutsch, and J. Zimmermann (Technical U., Darmstadt) - QBI: Query By Icons A. Massari, S. Pavani, L. Saladini, and P. Chrysanthis (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza" and U. Pittsburgh) - InfoHarness: The System for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information L. Shklar, A. Sheth, V. Kashyap, and S. Thatte (Bellcore, UGA, and Rutgers U.) - Design and Implementation of Advanced Knowledge Processing in the KBMS KRISYS J. Thomas, S. Dessloch, and N. Mattos (U. Kaiserslautern) Session 3 - The SAMOS Active DBMS Prototype S. Gatziu, A. Geppert, and K. Dittrich (Universitat Zurich) - Efendi: Federated Database System of Cadlab E. Radeke (Cooperation U. Paderborn & Siemens Nixdorf) - VisDB: A System for Visualizing Large Databases D. Keim and H. Kriegel (U. Munich) - Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) WEDNESDAY, May 24th Session 4 - Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases W. Li and C. Clifton (Northwest U.) - DataMine - Interactive Rule Discovery System T. Imielinski and A. Virmani (Rutgers U.) - Paradise and SHORE The Paradise and SHORE Project Groups (U. Wisconsin) - The REACH Active OODBMS A. Buchmann, A. Deutsch, and J. Zimmermann (Technical U., Darmstadt) Session 5 - Pattern Matching and Pattern Discovery in Scientific, Program, and Document Databases J. Wang, K. Zhang, and D. Shasha (New Jersey Institute of Technology, U. Western Ontario, and Courant Institute) - PTool: A Scalable Persistent Object Manager R. Grossman, N. Araujo, D. Hanley, and W. Xu (U. Illinois at Chicago) - The Algres Tesbed of CHIMERA: An Active Object-Oriented Database System S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, S. Paraboschi, and G. Psaila (Politecnico di Milano) - QBI: Query By Icons A. Massari, S. Pavani, L. Saladini, and P. Chrysanthis (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza" and U. Pittsburgh) Session 6 - Using the CALANDA Time Series Management System W. Dreyer, A. Dittrich, and D. Schmidt (Union Bank of Switzerland) - The ECRC Multi Database System W. Jonker and H. Schutz (PTT Research and ECRC GmbH) - The NAOS Prototype Demonstration C. Collet and T. Coupaye (U. Grenoble) - The SAMOS Active DBMS Prototype S. Gatziu, A. Geppert, and K. Dittrich (Universitat Zurich) THURSDAY, May 25th Session 7 - Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases W. Li and C. Clifton (Northwest U.) - PTool: A Scalable Persistent Object Manager R. Grossman, N. Araujo, D. Hanley, and W. Xu (U. Illinois at Chicago) - Query By Image Content(QBIC) System Jonathan Ashley, Ron Barber, Myron Flickner, James Hafner, Denis Lee, Wayne Niblack, Dragutin Petkovic (IBM Research) - Efendi: Federated Database System of Cadlab E. Radeke (Cooperation U. Paderborn & Siemens Nixdorf) Session 8 - Paradise and SHORE The Paradise and SHORE Project Groups (U. Wisconsin) - Using the CALANDA Time Series Management System W. Dreyer, A. Dittrich, and D. Schmidt (Union Bank of Switzerland) - InfoHarness: The System for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information L. Shklar, A. Sheth, V. Kashyap, and S. Thatte (Bellcore, UGA, and Rutgers U.) - VisDB: A System for Visualizing Large Databases D. Keim and H. Kriegel (U. Munich) Session 9 - Pattern Matching and Pattern Discovery in Scientific, Program, and Document Databases J. Wang, K. Zhang, and D. Shasha (New Jersey Institute of Technology, U. Western Ontario, and Courant Institute) - The ECRC Multi Database System W. Jonker and H. Schutz (PTT Research and ECRC GmbH) - Design and Implementation of Advanced Knowledge Processing in the KBMS KRISYS J. Thomas, S. Dessloch, and N. Mattos (U. Kaiserslautern) - Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) ============================================================================== SIGMOD Committee ============================================================================== General Chair Pat Selinger (IBM Almaden) Program Chair Michael Carey (U. Wisconsin) Best Paper Award Chairs Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs) Bruce Lindsay (IBM Almaden) Industrial Track Co-Chairs) Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) Dale Skeen (Vitria Technology) Industrial Committee Gary Hallmark (Oracle) James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) Gary Kelley (Informix Software) Peter Spiro (Microsoft) Jacob Stein (Sybase) Research Prototypes (Exhibits Co-Chairs) Jose Blakeley (Microsoft) Bob Hagmann (SunSoft) Tutorial Program Chair Hans Schek (ETH Zurich) Panel Program Dennis Shasha (NYU) Proceedings Editor Donovan Schneider (Red Brick Systems) Program Committee Divyakant Agrawal (U.C. Santa Barbara) David Beech (Oracle) Isabel Cruz (Tufts U.) David DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) Shel Finkelstein (Illustra Inf. Technologies) Michael Franklin (U. Maryland) Shahram Ghandeharizedah (USC) Kien Hua (U. Central Florida) Rick Hull (U. Colorado) H.V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Labs) Sushil Jajodia (George Mason U.) Alfons Kemper (Universitat Passau) Jerry Kiernan (IBM Santa Teresa) Roger King (U. Colorado) Yoon-Joon Lee (KAIST) Hank Korth (Panasonic Technologies) Ravi Krishnamurthy (HP Labs) Witold Litwin (U. Paris 9) David Lomet (Microsoft) Hongjun Lu (Nat'l. U. Singapore) Victor Markowitz (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) Gail Mitchell (GTE Labs) C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) Inderpal Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs) Oscar Nierstrasz (Universitaet Bern) Krithi Ramamritham (U. Massachusetts) Shuky Sagiv (Hebrew U.) Ken Salem (U. Waterloo) Betty Salzberg (Northeastern U.) Bernhard Seeger (U. Munich) Margo Seltzer (Harvard U.) Avi Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) Richard Snodgrass (U. Arizona) Kurt Shoens (HP Labs) Arun Swami (Silicon Graphics) Patrick Valduriez (INRIA) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (NAIST) Clement Yu (U. Illinois-Chicago) Stan Zdonik (Brown U.) ============================================================================== PODS Committee ============================================================================== Executive Committee Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) Daniel Rosenkrantz (SUNY Albany) Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) Victor Vianu (UCSD/INRIA, Rocquencourt) Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs) General Chair Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs) Program Chair Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Program Committee Paolo Atzeni (Terza U. di Roma) Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) Jan Chomicki (U. Kansas) Amr El Abbadi (U.C. Santa Barbara) Christos Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs/U. Maryland) Neil Immerman (U. Massachusetts) Alberto Mendelzon (U. Toronto) Jeff Naughton (U. Wisconsin) Val Tannen (U. Pennsylvania) Jennifer Widom (Stanford U.) Proceedings Chair Alon Levy (AT&T Bell Labs) ============================================================================== SIGMOD/PODS Conference ============================================================================== Treasurer Eric Hanson (U. Florida) Publicity Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve U.) Registration Kathi Hogshead Davis (Northern Illinois U.) Local Arrangements Anupam Bhide (Oracle) Debbie Sandman (IBM Almaden) European Coordinator Timos Sellis (National Technical U. Athens) Asian Coordinator Vincent Lum (Chinese U. Hong Kong) South American Coordinator Marco Antonio Casanova (IBM Brazil Rio Sci. Cent.) Conference Advisors Won Kim (UniSQL) Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) ============================================================================== Accommodation ============================================================================== Hotel Information The ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1995 Conference will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of downtown San Jose surrounded by museums, theaters and many fine restaurants. A block of rooms has been reserved for conference attendees from May 21 thru May 26. The conference rate will be in effect for those dates but you must make your reservations by April 22. If you are planning to spend the weekend before or after the conference, check with the hotel for special weekend packages. Please use the enclosed hotel registration form and send directly to the hotel or call toll free 1-800-527-4727. Room rates and availability are not guaranteed after April 22. It is important that you ask for the SIGMOD rate. Local Transportation and Parking Parking near the conference hotel: Expect to pay $10-15 per day for hotel or nearby parking. Hotel parking is limited, but there are nearby lots, for example at the San Jose Convention Center at Market and San Carlos Streets. Local area attendees may want to use the San Jose Light Rail, park at the Tasman station if you are coming from the north and the Chynoweth station from the south (parking is free). The Light Rail stop for the Fairmont Hotel is Paseo de San Antonio station. There is a Web Site with local transit information at: http://server.berkeley.edu/Transit \end{center >From here, you can follow links to CalTrain (with complete schedules), Santa Clara County TA (with links to Light Rail in S.J.), and even links to the SF, SJ, and Oakland airports (and how they connect to bus service, CalTrain, etc.). For Out of Town Arrivals: >From San Jose Airport: Free hotel shuttle to and from San Jose Airport. Runs every half hour on the 1/2 hour (7am-11pm). The hotel suggests you call (direct line to hotel located in baggage claim area) to let them know you are waiting. There is a Standard Rent-a-Car available at the hotel. Taxi - approx $12.00 Driving Instructions from San Jose Airport: On exiting the terminal, turn right onto Guadalupe Parkway/Hwy 87 (see San Jose portion of SF driving instructions for directions to hotel). >From San Francisco Airport: VIP Airport shuttle 1-800-235-8847, $21.00 per person each way. 24 hr advance reservation required. CTS Limo 408 255-9601, $40.00 per person each way, 24 hr advance reservation required. Driving Instructions from San Francisco airport: On exiting from the terminal, get in the left lane as soon as possible, and follow signs to the US-101 to San Jose ramp. In San Jose, take the Guadalupe parkway/Hwy. 87 exit. Continue three miles to the Park Avenue exit. Make a left on Park and continue down two blocks. Park Avenue will end at Market Street. Turn right and circle City Plaza Park. The hotel is located at 170 South Market Street; the cross street is San Fernando. Air Transportation American Airlines has been chosen as the official carrier for the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1995 Conference and is pleased to offer the best available airfare and schedules to fit your travel needs. To obtain the best fare and schedule information, please call 1 800-433-1790. Please be sure to reference Star File number S0755T7. ============================================================================== General Information ============================================================================== Climate The average temperature in San Jose during late May is in the mid to upper 70's with cool evenings. If you plan on touring the Bay Area before or after the conference, listed below are several worthwhile suggestions: In San Jose: The Museum of Art Tech Museum of Innovation Rosicrucian Museum- includes 3,000 year old mummies Paramount's Great America Theme Park Mirassou Winery In San Fransisco (one hour's drive north): Fisherman's Wharf/Pier 39 Chinatown Golden Gate Park and Bridge Cruise the bay and visit Alcatraz In Napa Valley, North of San Francisco: Taste some of finest wines in the world at over 50 wineries in Wine Train. Take a scenic tour of Napa Valley and surrounding areas while enjoying a 5 course gourmet meal. In Carmel / Monterey (one hour's drive south) Monterey Bay Aquarium Cannery Row 17 mile Drive/Pebble Beach - one of the most scenic drives ============================================================================== Local Arrangements ============================================================================== For additional information concerning local arrangements, contact: Anupam Bhide Oracle Corp. 500 Oracle Pkwy, Box 659414 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Phone: (415) 506-6427 Fax: (415) 506-7204 Email: abhide@us.oracle.com Debbie Sandman IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road K55/801 San Jose, CA 95120 Phone: (408) 927-1793 Fax: (408) 927-3215 Email: sandman@almaden.ibm.com ============================================================================== Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu Computer Engineering and Science Dept., CWRU Cleveland, Ohio 44106. 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WWW: via URL file://alpha.ces.cwru.edu/pub/sigmpods/html/acm.html ============================================================================== ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1995 Conference Registration Form Mail to: SIGMOD/PODS 1995 Registration Dr. Kathi Hogshead Davis Department of Computer Science Northern Illinois University Dekalb, IL 60115 Phone: (815) 753-6945 Fax: (815) 753-0342 Email: kdavis@cs.niu.edu Name (Last): _________________________ (First): ____________________ Address: _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________________________________ Fax: _______________________________________________________ Email: _______________________________________________________ ACM/SIG Membership No: _______________________________________________________ Please circle the fees you are paying. The lower rates apply to registrations postmarked by April 22, 1995. Requests for refunds of registration fees will be honored through April 22. Category Before April 22nd After April 22nd ACM/SIG Members $395 $445 Non-Members $445 $495 Full-time Students $150 $175 Amount: $ ____________________ Conference registration includes admission to both conferences, copies of both proceedings (SIGMOD and PODS), continental breakfasts, coffee breaks, the welcoming reception on Sunday night, the lunch on Tuesday, and the show and banquet on Wednesday night. EXTRA BANQUET TICKETS ARE $70 EACH. The student fee includes all the events. TO RECEIVE STUDENT RATE, STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE ADVISOR'S NAME AND SIGNATURE AT THE TIME OF REGISTRATION. Advisor name: _________________________ Signature: ___________________________ Extra banquet tickets? Yes [] No [] If yes, how many? ____________________ Amount ($70 apiece): $ ________________ TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $ ______________ Written requests for refunds must be postmarked no later than April 22, 1995. Refunds are subject to a $50 processing fee. All no-show registrations will be billed in full. Registrations after 4/22/95 will be accepted on-site only. NOTE: To save on postage, receipts will be given out at the conference. Please notify us of any special meal requirements: Vegetarian [] Others (please specify) [] Will you attend: All days [] SIGMOD days only [] PODS days only [] Payment can be made by check, money order, purchase order, or credit card. Please make checks or money orders payable, in US currency, to ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1995. Purchase orders must be from U.S. organizations. 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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 seipel@sunshade.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Thu Feb 23 11:44:16 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 11:44:10 -0600; AA00146 Received: from mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 11:43:57 -0600 Received: from sunshade.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de by mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de with SMTP (PP); Thu, 23 Feb 1995 18:43:20 +0000 Received: by sunshade.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (4.1/SMI-4.1 (WSI-guentzer)) ; Thu, 23 Feb 95 18:42:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 18:42:08 +0100 From: seipel@sunshade.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Dietmar Seipel) Message-Id: <9502231742.AA03638@sunshade.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> To: dbworld Subject: Workshop on `Deductive Databases and Logic Programming' at ICLP'95 \documentstyle{article} \addtolength{\topmargin}{-22mm} \addtolength{\textwidth}{56mm} \addtolength{\textheight}{70mm} \addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-30mm} \addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-30mm} \parindent0pt \newcommand{\fns}{\footnotesize} \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{center} {\large Call For Papers } \vspace{5mm} {\large Third ICLP--Workshop on } \vspace{2mm} \\ {\Large\bf Deductive Databases and Logic Programming } \vspace{5mm} {\large\it in conjunction with the } \vspace{2mm} \\ {\large\it International Conference on Logic Programming -- ICLP'95 } \vspace{5mm} {\large Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan, June 17 -- 18, 1995 } \end{center} \vspace{8mm} \begin{minipage}[t]{6.1cm} {\small {\normalsize\bf Organizing Committee} \vspace{2mm} \\ Ulrich Geske \ {\fns\it GMD Berlin, Germany} \\ Chiaki Sakama \ {\fns\it ASTEM Kyoto, Japan} \\ Dietmar Seipel \ {\fns\it Univ. T\"ubingen, Germany} \vspace{4mm} {\normalsize\bf Program Committee} \vspace{2mm} \\ Stefan Brass \ {\fns\it Univ. Hannover, Germany} \\ Fran\c{co}is Bry \ {\fns\it Univ. Munich, Germany} \\ J\"urgen Dix \ {\fns\it Univ. Koblenz, Germany} \\ Ulrich Furbach \ {\fns\it Univ. Koblenz, Germany} \\ Fosca Giannotti \ {\fns\it CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy} \\ Georg Gottlob \ {\fns\it TU Vienna, Austria} \\ Jiawei Han \ {\fns\it SFU, Burnaby, Canada} \\ Katsumi Inoue \ {\fns\it Toyohashi Univ., Japan} \\ Jorge Lobo \ {\fns\it Univ. Illinois, Chicago, USA} \\ Hirohisa Seki \ {\fns\it Nagoya Inst. of Tech., Japan} \\ Li Yan Yuan \ {\fns\it Univ. Alberta, Canada} \vspace{4mm} {\normalsize\bf Important Dates} \vspace{-1mm} \begin{center} {\it Submission deadline} \\ {\bf April 10, 1995} \\ {\it Notification of acceptance} \\ {\bf April 28, 1995} \\ {\it Camera ready version} \\ {\bf May 22, 1995} \end{center} \vspace{3mm} {\normalsize\bf Addresses} \vspace*{2mm} {\fns {\bf Information}: \\ Dietmar Seipel, University at T\"ubingen, Sand 13, D -- 72076 T\"ubingen, Germany, Phone: +49 7071 29 5993, E-mail: {\it seipel@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de}, Anonymous-Ftp: {\it ftp.informatik.\\ uni-tuebin\-gen.de} (directory {\it /pub/iclp95}) \vspace*{2mm} {\bf Papers}: \\ Ulrich Geske, GMD--FIRST, Ru\-do\-wer Ch. 5, D--12489 Berlin, Germany, Phone: +49 30 6392 1862, Computer--Fax.: +49 30 6392 1839, \mbox{E-mail:} {\it geske@first.gmd.de} } \vspace*{4mm} {\normalsize\bf World--Wide--Web} {\fns For more and latest information see the WWW-page: {\it http://sunwww.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de:8080/iclp/iclp95.html} } } \end{minipage} \hfill \rule[-17.3cm]{0.1mm}{17.55cm} \hfill \begin{minipage}[t]{10.9cm} \small Following the previous meetings in Budapest (1993) and Santa Margherita Ligure (1994), the third ICLP-workshop on {\em Deductive Databases and Logic Programming} will be held in Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan. The meeting will be run as a post--conference workshop of the 1995 International Conference on Logic Programming, which will be held on June 13--16, 1995. \vspace{5mm} The integration of techniques from deductive databases and logic programming leads to intelligent information systems. Techniques from deductive databases must be used to achieve efficient retrieval and reasoning in large knowledge bases. Logic programming provides a powerful declarative language for accessing and maintaining large amounts of knowledge. Query and program optimization techniques play an important role in program evaluation. Recent research results in logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning are useful for extending the expressive power and the computational efficiency of deductive database systems. \vspace{5mm} The one--day workshop is intended to attract researchers working in the related areas of deductive databases and logic programming. The presentations are planned to be half an hour. A fundamental goal is to give opportunities for active discussions on new research directions and the exchange of latest results. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: \vspace{5mm} \hspace*{-2ex} \begin{minipage}[t]{5.10cm} {\small \begin{itemize} \parsep0ex \leftmargin0ex \item Disjunctive databases, \\ Incomplete information \item Non--monotonic reasoning \item Abstract interpretations and \\ program transformations \item Non--determinism, \\ object--orientation \end{itemize} } \end{minipage}\hfill \begin{minipage}[t]{5.95cm} {\small \begin{itemize} \parsep0ex \leftmargin0ex \item Query languages and query \\ optimization \item Constraint reasoning \item Logical approaches to active \\ databases \item Updates, knowledge acquisition \end{itemize} } \end{minipage} \vspace{6.5mm} {\large\bf Submissions} \vspace{2.5mm} The primary focus is on new and original research results. But we also encourage the submission of papers describing products, prototypes in development or benchmarks. Full papers or extended abstracts in English of 6 to 10 pages are welcome on any aspects of deductive databases and new concepts of logic programming supporting it, until April 10, 1995. Authors are invited to send their papers to one of the organizers. Submission in \LaTeX\ or plain \TeX\ format by e-mail is encouraged. Notification of acceptance will be no later than April 28, 1995. The final, camera--ready versions of the accepted papers must be received by May 22, 1995 to be included into the workshop proceedings. \end{minipage} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 greiner@scr.siemens.com Thu Feb 23 12:43:31 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 12:43:21 -0600; AA01418 Received: from scr.siemens.com by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 12:43:18 -0600 Received: from eagle.scr.siemens.com (eagle.scr.siemens.com [129.73.6.59]) by scr.siemens.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA11912; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:41:45 -0500 Received: (from greiner@localhost) by eagle.scr.siemens.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA12556; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:41:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:41:37 -0500 From: Russell Greiner Message-Id: <199502231841.NAA12556@eagle.scr.siemens.com> To: ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca, colt@cs.uiuc.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, dbworld, ml@ics.uci.edu, nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com Subject: CFP: "Relevance" issue of "Artificial Intelligence" Cc: devika@cs.cornell.edu, greiner@learning.scr.siemens.com ************************************************************** ***** CALL FOR PAPERS (please post) ****** ************************************************************** Special Issue on RELEVANCE Journal: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Guest Editors: Russell Greiner, Devika Subramanian, Judea Pearl With too little information, reasoning and learning systems cannot work effectively. Surprisingly, too much information can also cause the performance of these systems to degrade, in terms of both accuracy and efficiency. It is therefore important to determine what information must be preserved, i.e., what information is "relevant". There has been a recent flurry of interest in explicitly reasoning about relevance in a number of different disciplines, including the AI fields of knowledge representation, probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and neural computation, as well as communities that range from statistics and operations research to database and information retrieval to cognitive science. Members of these diverse communities met at the 1994 AAAI Fall Symposium on Relevance, to seek a better understanding of the various senses of the term "relevance", with a focus on finding techniques for improving the performance of embedded agents by ignoring or de-emphasizing irrelevant and superfluous information. Such techniques will clearly be of increasing importance as knowledge bases, and learning systems, become more comprehensive to accommodate real-world applications. To help consolidate leading research on relevance, the "Artificial Intelligence" journal is devoting a special issue to this topic. We are now seeking papers on (but not restricted to) the following topics: [Representing and reasoning with relevance:] reasoning about the relevance of distinctions to speed up computation, relevance reasoning in real-world KR tasks including design, diagnosis and common-sense reasoning, use of relevant causal information for planning, theories of discrete approximations. [Learning in the presence of irrelevant information:] removing irrelevant attributes and/or irrelevant training examples, to make feasible induction from very large datasets; methods for learning action policies for embedded agents in large state spaces by explicit construction of approximations and abstractions. [Relevance and probabilistic reasoning:] simplifying/approximating Bayesian nets (both topology and values) to permit real-time reasoning; axiomatic bases for constructing abstractions and approximations of Bayesian nets and other probabilistic reasoning models. [Relevance in neural computational models:] methods for evolving computations that ignore aspects of the environment to make certain classes of decisions, automated design of topologies of neural models guided by relevance reasoning based on task class. [Applications of relevance reasoning:] Applications that require explicit reasoning about relevance in the context of IVHS, exploring and understanding large information repositories, etc. We are especially interested in papers that have strong theoretical analyses complemented by experimental evidence from non-trivial applications. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts conforming to the AIJ submission requirements by 11 Sept 1995 to Russell Greiner or Devika Subramanian Siemens Corporate Research Department of Computer Science 755 College Road East 5141 Upson Hall, Cornell University Princeton, NJ 08540-6632 Ithaca, New York 14853 (609) 734-3627 (607) 255-9189 Papers will be a subject to a standard peer review. The first round of reviews will be completed and decisions mailed by 11 December 1995. The authors of accepted and conditionally accepted manuscripts will be required to send revised versions by 1 March 1996. The special issue is tentatively scheduled to appear sometime in 1996. We also plan to publish this issue as a book. Finally, to help us select appropriate reviewers in advance, authors should email us a title, set of keywords and a short abstract, to arrive by 4 September. To recap the significant dates: 4/Sep/95: Emailed titles, keywords and abstracts due 11/Sep/95: Manuscripts dues 11/Dec/95: First round decisions 1/Mar/96: revised manuscripts due ?? /96: special issue appears (tentative) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 kumar@CSTP.UMKC.EDU Thu Feb 23 16:59:33 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 16:59:28 -0600; AA05349 Received: from primus.cstp.umkc.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 16:59:26 -0600 Received: by CSTP.UMKC.EDU (MX V4.1 AXP) id 95; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 16:59:21 CST Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 16:59:20 CST From: kumar@CSTP.UMKC.EDU To: dbworld Message-Id: <0098C6C7.442A28F6.95@CSTP.UMKC.EDU> Subject: Call for paper FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS I C A U T O - 9 5 International Conference on Automation December 12-14, 1995, Indore, India Patrons The International Conference ICAUTO'95 is S.K.Khanna, scheduled in technical co-sponsorship with Chairman AICTE, India the Society of Instrument and Control S.S.Chandel, Engineers (SICE), Japan at Indore in India on V.C., DAVV, Indore Dec. 12-14, 1995 to bring the researchers A.Chitale, from east and west together to discuss high Vice Chairman, SGSITS, Indore quality research in the field of computer D.D.Bhawalkar, based automation. Topics of interest include, Director, CAT, Indore but are not limited to, the following areas: S.V.S.Chowdhry, President, CSI, N.Delhi Intelligent Robots Fault Tolerance B.S.Sonde, Autonomous Systems Neural Networks IISc. Bangalore, India Virtual Environments Fuzzy Systems M.S.Ko, Artificial Intelligence Mechatronics Past President of KAAC, Korea Robot Human Collaboration Computer Vision E.Shimemura, Man Machine Interfaces CAD/CAM Past President of SICE, Japan Process Automation Sensor Fusion L.M.Patnaik, Distributed Systems Software Tools IISc. Bangalore, India Office Automation Applications K.Iizuka, Past President of SICE, Japan PAPER SUBMISSION: Submit a full paper I.Ido, (20 pages maximum) to any of the following Past President of SICE, Japan coordinators, formatted as follows: First S.C.Mehta, page - title, authors, mailing address of each Director, DOE, India author, telephone number, Fax number, e-mail address, and subject area of your paper. Second International Advisory and subsequent pages - title, authors, affilia- Committee tions, key words, 100-150 word abstract, followed T.Kitamori, by the full text including figures and references. SICE President, Japan C.W.Burckhardt, H. Kashiwagi IMT-EPFL, Switzerland Dept. of Mechanical Engg., Faculty of Engg., K.Ramamritham, Kumamoto University, Univ. of Massa., USA Kumamoto 860, Japan. K.C.Gupta, Tel.81-96-344-2111, Fax:81-96-346-4360 C.U.Boulder, USA e-mail: kashiwa@kumamoto-u.ac.jp A.Buchmann, FI-TH Darmstadt, Germany G.S. Hura V.Kapoor, Division of Comp. Tech., School of App. Sc., Univ. of Cincinnati, USA Nanyang Technological University, J.S.Bedi, Singapore 2263. Wayne State Univ., USA Tel. (65)799-1271, Fax: 791-9414 S.K.Das, e-mail: ashura@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg Univ. North Texas, USA A.Mukherjee, A.K.Ramani IIT Kharagapur, India International Inst. of Professional studies. W.H.Kwon, DAVV, Khandwa Rd., Indore, India. Seoul National Univ., Korea Tel. 91-731-467668 R.W.Guo, e-mail: icauto@gsits.ernet.in Nanjing Univ., Aero Ast, China S.Hill, Vijay Kumar Monash Univ., Australia Dept.of Comp. Sc. and Telecom, 5100 Rockhill, S.S.S.P.Rao, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City, IIT Bombay, India Kansas City, MO 64110, USA. J.Breen, Tel.(816)235 2366, Fax:(816)235-5159 Monash Univ., Australia e-mail: kumar@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu S.Chakravarthy, Univ. of Florida, USA Swamy Kutti R.Mohler, School of Computing & Mathematics, Oregon State Univ., USA Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, A.Ghosh, Australia - 3217. IIT Kanpur, India Tel. 61-52-271322, Fax.52-272028 U.Dayal, e-mail: nsk@deakin.edu.au HP Labs, CA, USA G.Parulkar, IMPORTANT DATES: Washington Univ.St.louis, USA Full Paper Submissions: May 15, 1995 Y.P.Singh, Review Results: July 30, 1995 BHU, India Camera Ready Papers: August 31, 1995 K.K.Biswas, IIT Delhi, India The papers will be reviewed by at least three A.K.Chitale, reviewers. Submission of Paper imply SGSITS, Indore commitment to present the paper on acceptance, at the conference. Awards for Director, Host Institute best papers for different tracks will be J.P.Shrivastava constituted. Tutorials will be held on the S.G.S.Instt.of Tech.& Sc., topics of current interest. A special session 23, Park Road, Indore, India - for the students is also planned. 452003 INDIA EXPLORATION TOURS: India is a land General Chairs apart - colorful, eventful, spiritual and P.K.Chande, (INDIA) exotic with historical monuments, scenic SGSITS, Indore-3, India beauty & wildlife. Tours will be arranged to Ph.434095, 440632., unfold a spectacle of customs, religions, Fax.91-731-432540 festivals, lifestyles and craftmanship of e-mail: India. Special events are envisaged for the pkchande@gsits.ernet.in spouses. H.Kashiwagi, (JAPAN) Kumamoto University, Japan PLACE: The conference will be held at Indore, Conference Co-Chairs a city of technical and commercial P.C.Sharma, importance. It has its own heritage and SGSITS, Indore, India culture with facilities and comforts for M.Nakamura, international events at attractive cost. Saga Univ., Japan Climate during the conference period will be pleasant with a temperature around Technical Program Co-Chairs 10 degree C. A.K.Ramani, DAVV, Indore S.Kawaji, Kumamoto Univ. Japan GUEST LECTURES: Proposals for tutorials and Executive Co-Chairs special lectures are invited. S.K.Chitale, EXHIBITION: A technical exhibition will be DAVV, Indore, Ph. 470027 arranged. Industries are invited to take A.K.Gupta, part in the technical exhibition. For CAT, Indore, 481078 details please contact Dr.P.K.Chande / P.S.Grover, Dr.H.Kashiwagi or any of the co-chairs. Univ.of Delhi, Ph. 7257591 Kranti Kumar, SUPPORTED BY:Computer Society of India, Bombay, Ph. 6495808 Center for Advanced Technology, International Institute of Professional Student Promotion Committee Studies and Devi Ahilya University. Prabhat Jain, AT & T Bell Labs, PA, USA R.Panadiwal, Deakin Univ, Australia S.Pauddar, Univ. of North Texas, USA S.Pagey, Concordia Univ., Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 gong@csl.sri.com Thu Feb 23 17:34:25 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 17:34:20 -0600; AA06348 Received: from silver.csl.sri.com by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 17:34:18 -0600 Received: by silver.csl.sri.com id AA20551 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for dbworld@cs.wisc.edu); Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:34:16 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:34:16 -0800 From: Li Gong Message-Id: <9502232334.AA20551@silver.csl.sri.com> To: dbworld Subject: SRI job postings (I) -- Systems and Networks Job Openings -- Systems and Networks Computer Science Laboratory SRI International The Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International invites applications for permanent positions on its research staff in the area of distributed systems and communication networks. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in existing research projects on high-speed networks and to perform independent research. The job duties include (1) development of protocols and distributed algorithms, (2) implementation of research prototypes, and (3) research into new concepts and approaches in systems and networks. One opening requires a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, and a second openning requires at least a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science although a Ph.D. degree is preferred. Experience in software implementation of distributed systems and/or communication networks is essential, working knowledge in protocol development (e.g., TCP/IP and ATM) is highly desirable, and familarity with network security issues is a significant plus. The Computer Science Laboratory consists of over 30 professionals plus 10 students and visitors. Its main areas of concentration are networking, distributed parallel processing, formal methods, software architecture, databases, computer and communication security, and integrated circuit design. The laboratory's computing base includes over 50 Sun workstations and a high-speed ATM network. More information on the laboratory can be found at www site http://www.csl.sri.com/. SRI International is one of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjunction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, SRI now employs about 2000 people and has offices around the world, including laboratories in Australia and the United Kingdom and the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey. SRI is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Menlo Park, California, near Silicon Valley and Stanford University. Send resume to: recruiting@csl.sri.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 gong@csl.sri.com Thu Feb 23 17:35:17 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 17:35:14 -0600; AA06379 Received: from silver.csl.sri.com by cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 23 Feb 95 17:35:11 -0600 Received: by silver.csl.sri.com id AA20554 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for dbworld@cs.wisc.edu); Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:35:09 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 15:35:09 -0800 From: Li Gong Message-Id: <9502232335.AA20554@silver.csl.sri.com> To: dbworld Subject: SRI job postings (II) -- System and Network Security Job Opening -- System and Network Security Computer Science Laboratory SRI International The Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International invites applications for a permanent position on its research staff in the area of secure distributed systems and communication networks. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in existing research projects and to perform independent research. The job duties include development of new protocols and distributed algorithms, and the implementation of research prototypes. Candidates must have a Ph.D degree in Computer Science or a closely related field and have demonstrated strong potential for excellence in research. A broad background in system security issues (e.g., authentication, access control, and secure protocols) is essential, and experience in prototyping distributed systems and network protocols (e.g., Unix, TCP/IP, and ATM) is highly desirable. The Computer Science Laboratory consists of over 30 professionals plus 10 students and visitors. Its main areas of concentration are computer and communication security, networking, distributed parallel processing, formal methods, software architecture, databases, and integrated circuit design. The laboratory's computing base includes over 50 Sun workstations and a high-speed ATM network. More information on the laboratory can be found at www site http://www.csl.sri.com/. SRI International is one of the world's largest contract research firms. Founded in 1946 in conjunction with Stanford University as the Stanford Research Institute, SRI now employs about 2000 people and has offices around the world, including laboratories in Australia and the United Kingdom and the David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey. SRI is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, specifically in Menlo Park, California, near Silicon Valley and Stanford University. Send resume to: recruiting@csl.sri.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 Said.Assar@galaxie.int-evry.fr Fri Feb 24 03:53:49 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 03:53:43 -0600; AA11507 Received: from galaxie.int-evry.fr by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 03:53:29 -0600 Received: from arctique.int-evry.fr (arctique.int-evry.fr [157.159.11.4]) by galaxie.int-evry.fr (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id KAA20900 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 10:51:58 +0100 From: Said ASSAR Received: from localhost (assar@localhost) by arctique.int-evry.fr (8.6.4/8.6.4) id KAA02240 for dbworld@cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 10:57:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 10:57:04 +0100 Message-Id: <199502240957.KAA02240@arctique.int-evry.fr> To: dbworld Subject: Doctoral Consortium CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION AND PARTICIPATION (please feel free to communicate this call to whom might be interested) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering 12-13 June 1995, Jyvaskyla, Finland. DESCRIPTION The Doctoral Consortium Workshop brings together PhD students within the information systems engineering field. Its intention is to give them the oppurtunity to present their research, to discuss it with other doctoral students and to get a feed-back about their work. During the Consortium, an expert panel consisting of two (or three) prominent professors whithin the field of Information Systems Engineering will act as a catalyst for the discussions. The consortium will be held in connection with the CAiSE*95 conference in Jyvaskyla. It will be part of the Workshop programme of the CAiSE*95 conference. The two first days of the conference have been reserved for the consortium and the other workshops (i.e., on 12th and 13th June, 1995). THEMES The Doctoral Consortium is open for contributions in line with the CAiSE*95 conference : - AI supported ISE - Business process reengineering - CASE and Meta-CASE - Cognitive aspects of the design process - Dynamic modelling - Entreprise modelling - GIS and groupware design - Information management and planning - Knowledge acquisition - Maintenance and reverse engineering - Method engineering - Multi-media information systems - Object-oriented analysis and design - Object-oriented database design - Prototyping - Quality management - Requirement engineering - Reuse - Software process modelling and support - Temporal information systems - User interface design - Workflow management SUBMISSIONS : To apply for participating at the consortium, you must provide 5 copies of an abstract of your doctoral work. The abstract should : 1- state clearly since when the research began, if it's a full time or part time work, and how the research work is financed; 2- identify clearly the research question; 3- outline the hard problems in the field of research and the current solutions (if any) with the help of 4 to 5 known references; 4- present the preliminary ideas and state clearly the proposed approach; 5- present the contributions of the applicant and the results of the work (if any). The length of the abstract should not exceed two pages. Submissions will be selected based on the topic, quality, and interest of the two-pages abstract they submit. Admission is limited to 20 students. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline (camera ready format) : March 1st 1995 Notification of acceptance : April 15th 1995 CONTACT ADDRESS : Said ASSAR Departement des Systemes d'Information Institut National des Telecommunications 9, rue Charles Fourier 91011 EVRY - FRANCE phone : +33 1 60 76 44 88 fax : +33 1 60 76 44 93 E-mail : assar@galaxie.int-evry.fr For more information about the CAiSE*95 conference itself, contact : E-mail : caise95@jyu.fi World Wide Web (WWW) : http://www.jyu.fi/~mor/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 hendrik@goliat.upc.es Fri Feb 24 08:28:17 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 08:28:14 -0600; AA11668 Received: from goliat.upc.es by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 08:26:03 -0600 Received: by goliat.upc.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27040; Fri, 24 Feb 95 15:19:53 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 15:19:53 +0100 From: hendrik@goliat.upc.es (Hendrik Decker (Professor Visitant) R. Ernest) Message-Id: <9502241419.AA27040@goliat.upc.es> To: dbworld Subject: Abduction in Deductive Databases and Knowledge-based Systems -- we regret that you may receive several copies of this message -- ################################################################################# A N N O U N C E M E N T and C A L L F O R C O N T R I B U T I O N S =============================================================================== ICLP'95 Workshop on Abduction in Deductive Databases and Knowledge-based Systems ------------------- Kanagawa, Japan (17 - 18 June 1995) ################################################################################# Description ----------- Besides deduction and induction, abduction has been identified by C.S. Peirce as one of three basic principles of formal reasoning. An informal characteriza- tion: In a theory T, a set E of sentences is called an abductive explanation of a possible or observed result A if the union T U {E} is consistent and A is a logical consequence of T U {E}. From a causal rule of form A <- B and the know- ledge of B, deduction infers the fact A. From A <- B, abduction generates the hypothesis B to explain the result A. Also induction generates hypotheses, but does not generate explanations, as opposed to abduction. Deduction can simulate abduction. Hence, existing deductive logic programming procedures can be used to implement abductive reasoning. Among various phases of knowledge processing in deductive databases, knowledge acquisition and knowledge mining tend to be inductive, knowledge assimilation tends to be abductive and query answering tends to be deductive. Other applications of abduction are listed below. The 1995 International Conference on Logic Programming will be held on June 13 - 16, 1995, in Shonan Village Center, Kanagawa, Japan. One-day post-conference workshops will be held on June 17 and (possibly) 18. The workshop is the second of its kind. The first, on Abduction in Logic Pro- gramming, was held at ICLP'93 in Budapest, Hungary. It is intended to enable a partial survey of activities in the field, and bring together researchers and developers interested in applications of abductive reasoning in deductive data- bases and knowledge-based systems. The workshop aims at providing a forum for exchange and cross-fertilization of abductive approaches in various applica- tions. Invited speaker: Robert A. Kowalski (Imperial College London, UK). ---------------- Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to : - theory and its import to applications - procedural aspects and implementation of abduction - applications of abduction to - knowledge assimilation - view updating and active rules - integrity maintenance - intensional query answering - incomplete and negative information - exceptions - diagnosis - planning - belief revision - truth maintenance - hypothetical and default reasoning Authors are invited to send up to ten pages of extended abstract (incl. title page with up to 500 words abstract and address/tel/fax/email of main author) to the address below. Also full papers may be submitted, but considering anything beyond the first 10 pages is entirely at the discretion of the reviewer. E-mail submissions in LaTeX or postscript format are strongly encouraged. Surface mail submissions must contain 4 hardcopies. For a book to eventually come out of the workshop, all attendees will be invited to submit a paper. The book is supposed to include extensively refereed full versions of accepted workshop papers. Organizers ---------- Hendrik Decker (Siemens ZFE Mu"nchen, Germany, on leave at UPC Barcelona, Spain) Antonis Kakas (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Chiaki Sakama (ASTEM Kyoto, Japan) Toni Urpi (UPC Barcelona, Spain) Program Committee ----------------- Hendrik Decker Robert Demolombe (CERT-ONERA Toulouse, France) Oskar Dressler (Siemens ZFE Mu"nchen, Germany) Phan Minh Dung (AIT Bangkok, Thailand) Antonis Kakas Vladimir Lifschitz (Univ. Texas at Austin, USA) Luis Pereira (Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal) Chiaki Sakama Deadlines --------- Submission due to arrive by 06 April 1995 Notification 29 April 1995 Final paper due to arrive by 22 May 1995 Contact ------- Hendrik Decker until 30 April 95: LSI, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Pau Gargallo 5, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain tel.: +34 3 401 70 03 email: hendrik@goliat.upc.es from 1 May 95: Siemens ZFE T SN 3 D-81730 Mu"nchen, Germany tel.: +49 89 636 47533 email: hendrik@zfe.siemens.de =================== a LaTeX version of this call will follow =================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Stefano.Spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch Fri Feb 24 10:51:10 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 10:51:06 -0600; AA15330 Received: from sicmail.epfl.ch by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 10:50:54 -0600 Received: from lbdsun.epfl.ch by sicmail.epfl.ch with SMTP (PP) id <06341-0@sicmail.epfl.ch>; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 17:50:44 +0100 Received: by lbdsun.epfl.ch (4.1/Epfl-4.4-c/MX) id AA12284; Fri, 24 Feb 95 17:51:15 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 17:51:15 +0100 From: Stefano.Spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch (Professor S. SPACCAPIETRA EPFL DI/LBD 41 21 693 5210) Message-Id: <9502241651.AA12284@lbdsun.epfl.ch> To: dbworld Subject: VDB-3 Final Program & Seminar Cc: Stefano.SPACCAPIETRA@di.epfl.ch This email contains information on the following two events: --- IFIP 2.6 Working Conference Visual Database Systems - 3 --- Ben Shneiderman's Seminar on User Interfaces for Information Visualization ATTENTION: EARLY BIRD RATES EXPIRING --- REGISTER NOW !!! ############################################################################## PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***************************************************************************** IFIP 2.6 Working Conference Visual Database Systems - 3 ***************************************************************************** March 27-29, 1995 Lausanne, Switzerland AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE -------------------------------- Both the way we look at data, through a DBMS, and the nature of data we ask a DBMS to manage have drastically evolved over the last decade, moving from text to images (and to sound to a lesser extent). Visual representations are used extensively within new user interfaces. Powerful visual approaches are being experimented for data manipulation, including the investigation of three-dimensional display techniques. Similarly, sophisticated data visualization techniques are dramatically improving the understability of the information extracted from a database. On the other hand, more and more applications use images as basic data or to enhance the quality and richness of data manipulation services. Image management has opened a wide area of new research topics in image understandig and analysis. The IFIP 2.6 Working Group on Databases strongly believes that a significant mutual enrichement is possible by confronting ideas, concepts and techniques supporting the work of researcher and practitioners in the two areas of visual interfaces to DBMS and DBMS management of visual data. For this reason, IFIP 2.6 has launched a series of conferences on Visual Database Systems. This conference is the third in the series. As the preceeding editions, the conference addresses researchers and practitioners active or interested in user interfaces, human-computer communication, knowledge representation and management, image processing and understanding, multimedia database techniques and computer vision. TECHNICAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS ---------------------------- The conference will feature an invited talk by Ben Shneidermann, one of the leading figures in the domain with a wide experience and many significant achievements as a researcher and as a developer. His talk will focus on Design Strategies for Visual Information Seeking A panel lead by Tiziana Catarci (recently guest editor for a special issue on Visual Query Languages of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing) will explore Data Models, Visual Representations, Metaphors: How to Solve the Puzzle? The preliminary program also includes 24 research presentations, plus poster presentations and demos. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MONDAY, MARCH 27 8h30-10:00 Registration 10:00-12:00 Opening Session Chair: Ramesh JAIN Introduction by S.K.Chang, Conference Chair Invited Talk Design Strategies for Visual Information Seeking by Ben Shneiderman 12:00-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:30 session 1: Querying by Content Chair: Erich NEUHOLD Querying Multimedia Data from Multiple Repositories by Content: the Garlic Project W.F. CODY et al., USA Representing Concave Objects Using Virtual Images Timothy ARNDT, Gennaro PETRAGLIA, Monica SEBILLO and Genoveffa TORTORA, Italy An Iconic Index for Retrieval of Similar Shapes Rajiv MEHROTRA and James GARY, USA 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-17:30 session 2: Visual Languages Assessment Chair: Robert LAURINI Diagrammatic vs Textual Query Languages: A Comparative Experiment Tiziana CATARCI and Giuseppe SANTUCCI, Italy Flexibility of visual languages for data manipulation Yves DENNEBOUY, Switzerland Design Perspectives in Visualising Complex Information Matthew CHALMERS, Switzerland 17:45 reception ------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, MARCH 28 9:00-10:30 session 3: Video Databases Chair: Arnold SMEULDERS Feature based digital video indexing Arun HAMPAPUR, Ramesh JAIN and Terry E. WEYMOUTH, USA Dynamic Object Clustering for Video Database Manipulations Qing LI and John Chung-Mong LEE, Hong-Kong Iconic Retrievial by Contents from Databases of Cardiological Sequences Alberto DEL BIMBO, Gianfranco CONGIU and Enrico Vicario, Italy 10:30-11:00 coffee break 11:00-12:30 Panel: Data Models, Visual Representations, Metaphors: How to Solve the Puzzle? Panel Chair: Tiziana Catarci Panelists: Francesca Maria Costabile (Univ. di Bari) Isabel F. Cruz (Tufte University) Yannis Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin) Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland) 12:30-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:30 session 4: Visualization Chair: S. K. CHANG The Design of 3D metaphors for Database Visualisation John BOYLE and Peter M.D. GRAY, UK Possibilities and Limits in Visualizing Large Databases Daniel A. KEIM and Hans-Peter KRIEGEL, Germany Visualization of rule behaviour in active databases Tomas FORS, Sweden 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-17:30 session 5: GIS Chair: Dave ABEL Visual Map Algebra: A Direct-Manipulation User Interface for GIS Max J. EGENHOFER and Tom BRUNS, USA Manipulations of graphs with a visual query language: application to a geographical information system A. BROSSIER-WANSEK and M. MAINGUENAUD, France GISQL - A Query Language Interpreter for Geopraphical Information Systems G. COSTAGLIOLA, G. TORTORA, M. TUCCI and M. BUSILLO, Italy 19:00 banquet ----------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29 9:00-10:30 Posters and demos session 10:30-11:00 coffe break 11:00-12:30 session 6: Visual Programming Chair: Jan PARADAENS Interactive Database Objects P. SAWYER, A. COLEBOURNE, J.A. MARIANI and I. SOMMERVILLE, UK Visual construction of highly interactive applications Olivier ESTEBAN, Stephane CHATTY and Philippe PALANQUE, France The Integration of Functional and Visual Programming for the Development of a Knowledge Based Interface Craig STANDING and Geoffrey G. ROY, Australia 12:30-14:00 lunch 14:00-15:30 session 7: Text and Hypermedia Chair: Alberto MENDELZON Visual Interface for Textual Information Retrieval System Aravindan VEERASAMY, Scott HUDSON and Shamkant NAVATHE, USA A HyperDocumentSystem with Automated Link Definition Marcel WORRING, Rene BUITENHUIS and Arnold W.M. SMEULDERS, The Netherlands Zooming and Tunneling in Tioga: Supporting Navigation in Multidimensional Space A. WOODRUFF, P. WISNOSKY, C. TAYLOR, A. SU, M. STONEBRAKER, C. PAXSON, J. CHEN and A. AIKEN, USA 15:30-16:00 coffee break 16:00-17:30 session 8: Data models and Data Structures Chair: Tiziana CATARCI An Automatic and Cooperative Visual Database Interface E. PICHAT and D.SAKER, France NQS - A Graphical Query System for Data Models with Binary Relationship Types Hans-Joachim KLEIN and Dirk KRAEMER, Germany Query Processing Methods for Connectivity Search in Visual Databases Using R+-tree Myeong-A KANG and Ki-Joune LI, Korea ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THURSDAY, MARCH 30 Post-Conference Seminar: User Interfaces for Information Visualization by Ben Shneiderman +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ VENUE ----- The VDB-3 Conference will be held at the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. The campus is adjacent to the city and connected to the city centre by direct public transports running every 10 minutes. Lausanne is a beutifully located city on the shores of the Geneva Lake (Lac Leman). It features a historical city center, the largest gothic cathedral in Switzerland and many museums including some unique ones as: the new Olympics Museum, the best European Museum for photography, a stunning "Art Brut" Collection. It is also the place of the Bejart Ballet and many cultural events. Very close to Lausanne are the Alps and several famous tourist spots (Montreux, the Chateau de Chillon, etc.). HOTEL ACCOMMODATION ------------------- A block of rooms have been reserved for the conference in a four-stars hotel 200 meters from the Lausanne railway station and near the city centre. Please make your hotel reservations directly with the Hotel: Hotel Alpha-Palmier Petit-Chene 34 tel.: +41 21 3230131 1003 Lausanne fax : +41 21 3230145 The special conference rates are: (1 US$ approximately equals 1.3 SF) Single: 106 SF (buffet breakfast included) Double: 162 SF (buffet breakfast included) You must mention you are attending the Visual Database System Conference to obtain the special rate. The cut-off date for guaranteed guest room reservation is March 15, 1995. AIR TRANSPORTATION ------------------ The closest airport is Geneva. Zurich is next. GROUND TRANSPORTATION --------------------- There are direct trains to Lausanne from both Geneva (several trains each hour) and Zurich (one train every hour) airports. Travel time is app. 45 minutes from Geneva Airport and 160 minutes from Zurich Airport. SOCIAL EVENTS ------------- A Welcome Reception will be held for the participants on Monday evening, March 27, 1995, at EPFL. The conference banquet will be held at a typical Swiss restaurant in Lausanne on Tuesday evening, March 28, 1995. Additional banquet tickets can be purchased on site or through advance registration. CANCELLATIONS ------------- Cancellations before March 15 will be refunded. Cancellations between March 16 and March 22 will be charged at 80 SF. Cancellations after March 23 will not be refunded. CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ---------------------- Mrs Marlyse TARIC EPFL-DI-LBD 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Tel.: +41 21 6935211 (Monday-Thursday, 2:00pm-5:30pm) Fax : +41 21 6935195 Email: Marlyse.Taric@di.epfl.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VDB-3 REGISTRATION FORM --------------------------------- Please complete this form and return it to the conference secretariat. Dr./Mr./Mrs./Ms./Prof._________________________________________(For Badge) Affiliation:___________________________________________________(For Badge) Address:_______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Country________________________________________________________________________ Phone:_________________________________________________________________________ Fax:_____________________________ Email:_______________________________________ If you have any special requirements for meals, please specify: ................................................................... REGISTRATION FEE includes welcome reception, lunches, coffee breaks, banquet and one copy of the preliminary proceedings. Before After Amount February 25 February 25 Paid Conference Fee Academics 500 SF 650 SF ________ Industry 600 SF 800 SF ________ Full-time students 250 SF 300 SF ________ Banquet Tickets Number of Tickets ______ x 70 SF 70 SF = ________ Total amount -------- Please tick and delete as appropriate: [ ] a check (Swiss Franks only) payable to `EPFL-LBD' is being/has been sent to the conference secretariat [ ] a money transfer order is being/has been given to transfer the above amount in Swiss Franks to the account: EPFL-LBD account number F4-703.396.0 Swiss Bank Corporation (SBS) EPFL-UNI branch, 1015 Lausanne. _______________________________________________________________ MAIL THIS FORM TO: Mrs Marlyse TARIC Email: Marlyse.Taric@di.epfl.ch EPFL-DI-LBD Fax : +41 21 6935195 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland If you have any further questions regarding registration, please contact Mrs Marlyse TARIC. **************************************************************************************** JOINT EVENT ----------- In conjunction with the VDB-3 Conference, EPFL will host a one-day seminar by Ben Shneiderman on User Interfaces for Information Visualization. The seminar will be given March 30, 1995, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. VDB-3 participants can benefit from a special registration fee for the seminar at 400 SF (200 SF for academics). Should you be willing to register for the seminar, please add this amount to your VDB-3 registration fee. Full details can be obtained from the conference secretariat. **************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ----------------------- Conference Chair: S.K. Chang, University of Pittsburg, USA Program Co-Chairs: Stefano Spaccapietra - EPF Lausanne, Switzerland Ramesh Jain - University of California at San Diego, USA Program Committee Dave Abel, Australia Maried-France Barthet, France Christian Breiteneder, Austria Alfonso F. Cardenas, USA Tiziana Catarci, Italy Richard Cooper, UK Max J. Egenhofer, USA Amarnath Gupta, India William I. Grosky, USA Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Japan Hannu Kangassalo, Finland Robert Laurini, France Stefano Levialdi, Italy Tom D.C. Little, USA Pericles Loucopoulos, UK Rajiv Mahrotra, USA Yoshifumi Masunaga, Japan Robert Meersman, Netherland Alberto Mendelzon, Canada Erich Neuhold, Germany Wayne Niblack, USA Jan Paredaens, Belgium Haran Samet, USA Masao Sakauchi, Japan Peter Scheuermann, USA Arnold Smeulders, Netherland Stephen W. Smoliar, Singapore John Stasko, USA Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland Agnes Voisard, Germany Kyu-Young Whang, Korea C. Thomas Wu, USA Organizing Chair: Yves Dennebouy EPFL-DI-LBD CH 1015 Lausanne fax: +41 21 6935195 Switzerland email: dennebouy@di.epfl.ch **************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************** **************************************************************************************** User Interfaces for Information Visualization Ben Shneiderman Professor Department of Computer Science, Head, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland, USA March 30, 1995, EPFL, Lausanne a seminar for excellence organized by the Database Laboratory at EPFL Departement Informatique Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne The seminar The next generation of databases, CD-ROMs and the information superhighway will offer directory browsing, information retrieval, hypermedia, video-on-demand, home shopping, scientific data management, and library systems through novel graphical and direct manipulation user interfaces. To meet the raised expectations of users of these tools, we have developed Visual Information Seeking principles (VIS) to support fact-finding and browsing by novices and experts. We begin with an overview, and then allow users to filter out unwanted data, zoom in on relevant items, and then get details-on-demand. The interface components are tightly coupled to give users appropriate feedback, facilitate query refinement, and prevent errors. This course will cover basic issues of user interface design, usability testing, user interface management systems, and the guidelines process for ensuring high quality user interfaces for data presentation and browsing. Examples will be drawn from dynamic query methods with continuous visual presentation of results as the query is changed (using sliders, buttons, maps), color-coded 2-D space-filling treemaps to show hierarchies in a single display (hundreds of directories and more than 3000 files can be seen at once), and the starfield display (a zoom-able 2-D display with thousands of selectable points of light). Empirical data from usability studies and controlled experiments will be presented. Applications are drawn from medical data on cancer rates, real estate brokerage information on finding a home, stock market portfolios, film libraries, and hierarchical directories on computers, but the methods generalize to many hierarchical, relational, and multi-dimensional information spaces. User control over the display and rapid feedback offer videogame-like interaction that is highly engaging. The speaker Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has taught previously at the State University of New York and at Indiana University. He regularly teaches popular short courses and organizes an annual satellite television presentation on "User Interface Strategies" seen by thousands of professionals since 1987. Dr. Shneiderman is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (1987, second edition 1992), Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His 1989 book, co-authored with Greg Kearsley, Hypertext Hands-On!, contains a hypertext version on two disks. He is the originator of the Hyperties hypermedia system, now produced by Cognetics Corp., Princeton Junction, NJ. In addition he has co-authored two textbooks, edited three technical books, published more than 160 technical papers and book chapters. His 1993 edited book Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction collects 25 papers from the past 10 years of research at the University of Maryland. Ben Shneiderman has been on the Editorial Advisory Boards of nine journals including the newly formed ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and the ACM Interactions. He edits the Ablex Publishing Co. book series on "Human-Computer Interaction." He has consulted and lectured for many organizations including Apple, AT&T, Citicorp, GE, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Library of Congress, NASA, NCR, and university research groups. Venue The seminar will take place at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), room INJ-218, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. EPFL is easily reached from the city centre of Lausanne by public transportation (metro-ouest, stop EPFL). Parking is available, but not free : parking tickets may be requested in advance from the secretariat. Registration The registration fee is 600 SF (300 SF for academics) and includes a copy of the documentation, lunch and coffee breaks. Enquiries and registration forms should be addressed to: Mrs Marlyse Taric EPFL-Laboratoire de Bases de donn=E9es IN-Ecublens 1015 Lausanne email: taric@di.epfl.ch tel.: 021-693.52.11 /10 fax: 021-693.51.95 Payment is to be made by bank transfer to SBS - EPFL-UNI -1015 Lausanne account LBD-EPFL F4-703.396.0, or cash on site. Cancellations after March 25 are subject to partial refund only (80 % of registration fee). The LBD-Secretariat is open Monday to Thursday, 2.00 pm to 5.30 pm. Joint Registration The seminar is organized in conjunction with the IFIP 2.6 Third Working Conference on Visual Database Systems, which is being held at EPFL, Lausanne, March 27-29, 1995. Attendants to the conference are offered a special registration rate for this seminar at 400 SF (200 for academics). Laboratoire de Bases de Donn=E9es Departement d'Informatique EPFL (IN) Ecublens CH-Lausanne T=E9l. (41 21) 693 52 11 Fax (41 21) 693 51 95 Email marlyse.taric@di.epfl.ch SHNEIDERMAN'S SEMINAR REGISTRATION FORM --------------------------------------------------- Please complete this form and return it to the secretariat. Dr./Mr./Mrs./Ms./Prof._________________________________________(For Badge) Affiliation:___________________________________________________(For Badge) Address:_______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ Country________________________________________________________________________ Phone:_________________________________________________________________________ Fax:_____________________________ Email:_______________________________________ If you have any special requirements for meals, please specify: ................................................................... REGISTRATION FEE includes attendance of the seminar, lunch, coffee breaks and one copy of the documentation. [ ] Academics 300 SF [ ] Industry 600 SF Please tick and delete as appropriate: [ ] a check (Swiss Franks only) payable to `EPFL-LBD' is being/has been sent to the conference secretariat [ ] a money transfer order is being/has been given to transfer the above amount in Swiss Franks to the account: EPFL-LBD account number F4-703.396.0 Swiss Bank Corporation (SBS) EPFL-UNI branch, 1015 Lausanne. _______________________________________________________________ ----- End Included Message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 sharma@cis.ufl.edu Fri Feb 24 12:54:41 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 12:54:35 -0600; AA17377 From: sharma@cis.ufl.edu Received: from snapper.cis.ufl.edu by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 12:54:30 -0600 Received: by snapper.cis.ufl.edu (8.6.9/8.6.7-cis.ufl.edu) id NAA10840; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 13:54:28 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 13:54:28 -0500 Message-Id: <199502241854.NAA10840@snapper.cis.ufl.edu> To: dbworld Subject: Database FACULTY Position at UF Cc: sharon, su DATABASE FACULTY OPENING AT the UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA, Gainesville ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Department of Computer and Information Sciences of the University of Florida has an opening for a qualified person of any rank in the database area. This person will be working with five other full-time database faculty members of the Database Systems Research and Development Center in the CIS Department to conduct research and teaching in various database subjects. A brief description of the recent research activities of the Database Center can be found in [1]. Interested applicants should send their applications to the Search Committee Chairman, Prof. Sartaj Sahni, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. The deadline for the application is March 24, 1995. [1] "Database Research at the University of Florida", SIGMOD RECORD, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 84-90, September 1993. The above is also available as Tech. Report tr95-009 from the anonymous ftp site at UF. The instructions for retrieving it is as follows: Do ftp ftp.cis.ufl.edu Use anonymous as your guest login name Do cd cis/tech-reports Read README file for further instructions Stanley Su Director and Professor Database Systems Research & Development Center email: su@cis.ufl.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 rmarcus@atc.boeing.com Fri Feb 24 13:29:16 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 13:29:11 -0600; AA18396 Received: from atc.boeing.com by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 13:29:08 -0600 Received: by atc.boeing.com (5.57) id AA16389; Fri, 24 Feb 95 11:33:17 -0800 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 11:33:17 -0800 From: Bob Marcus Message-Id: <9502241933.AA16389@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 Workshops Final Call OOPSLA WORKSHOPS FINAL OPPORTUNITY I want to encourage interested parties to submit OOPSLA workshop proposals before March 1 in the areas of: Agents and Objects Scripting Languages and Object Technology Object Extensions to the World Wide Web Reliable and Scalable Distributed Object Computing Workflow Frameworks Legacy Systems and Object Technology Semantic Integration and Object Technology For an example of a proposal check out: URL= http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/adaptable-systems/ I am hoping to have all the workshops proposals available on Web pages. It is a good way to publicize your workshop and related activities through links. I can help you find co-organizers and participants in the above areas! Let me know if you need more information. Bob Marcus rmarcus@atc.boeing.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIREMENTS FOR PROPOSALS 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. OOPSLA=Object-oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications OOPSLA will be held in Austin, Texas from October 15-19. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 rng@cs.ubc.ca Fri Feb 24 18:53:00 1995 Received: from cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 18:52:55 -0600; AA22628 Received: from grolsch-2.cs.ubc.ca by cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 24 Feb 95 18:52:53 -0600 Received: from bells.cs.ubc.ca (rng@bells.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.16.22]) by grolsch.cs.ubc.ca (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA08303 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 1995 16:52:50 -0800 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 16:52:50 -0800 From: Raymond Ng Message-Id: <199502250052.QAA08303@grolsch.cs.ubc.ca> To: dbworld Subject: tenure track position THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia is recruiting for a tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor and Post Doctoral positions in all fields of computer science. The Department will consider outstanding applicants over a wide range of areas of Computer Science research. At the same time, the Department has particular interest in recruiting in the areas of DATABASES, software engineering, systems, computer graphics, programming languages and scientific computation. One of the University's highest academic priorities is to build a leading centre in Computer Science and outstanding candidates are sought to participate in this effort. Junior applicants must demonstrate exceptional research potential and teaching ability. The successful candidate is expected to pursue an active research program, perform both graduate and undergraduate teaching, and supervise graduate students. A Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science or related area is required. The position is available as of July 1, 1995 and salary will be commensurate with experience. The University of British Columbia is situated on the tip of a peninsula, is surrounded by beaches, lush green forests, and spectacular views of ocean, mountains and downtown Vancouver. Just 20 minutes away from both downtown and airport, this location enjoys a unique combination of unsurpassed opportunities for outdo or recreation and easy access to an exciting cosmopolitan city. Applicants should submit their resume and the names of at least three references to Dr. K.S. Booth, Recruiting Co-ordinator, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4. Applications will be accepted until April 30, 1995. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. The University of British Columbia welcomes all qualified applicants, especially women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. The position is subject to available funding. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------