From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 12 10:49:48 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:49:45 -0500; AA21694 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:49:44 -0500 From: msingh@mcc.com (Munindar Singh) Message-Id: <9506121549.AA08244@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:49:44 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems Special Issue on Formal Methods in Cooperative Information Systems Guest editors: Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) is an emerging research area that addresses the problems in constructing complex systems, which are made more urgent by the rapid expansion of the infrastructure for local and wide-area computing. CIS represents a collection of powerful paradigms for constructing open systems, and includes its own special theories, architectures, languages, and techniques for achieving coordinated behavior among a decentralized group of computations or agents. CIS has found application in telecommunications, manufacturing automation, and information retrieval. In view of the increasing importance of CIS applications, formal methods for their design and analysis are becoming ever more important. Formal methods can simplify the tasks of creating and understanding complex systems, with concomitant improvements in quality and correctness. Formal methods have been proved useful in a number of computing subdisciplines. Indeed, methods and tools of relevance to CIS have been studied and developed in topics such as heterogeneous & legacy databases, federated systems, ontologies, view management, knowledge management, mediators, brokering & directory services, relaxed transactions and workflows, concurrent O-O & actor programming, high-level communication, mobile computing, concurrent engineering, business process management, information retrieval, filtering, & browsing, resource discovery, negotiation, and intelligent agents in general. Unfortunately, this research tends to be scattered across forums of different computing subareas, such as databases, programming languages, and artificial intelligence. This has led to a lack of synergy among the various approaches. The International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems is a premier journal for the publication of research results in CIS and related areas. This special issue will focus attention on formal methods in CIS broadly construed, and their applications. It will contain high-quality articles and will serve as a cohesive reference for researchers and students in the years ahead. Research papers are sought for this special issue. We especially welcome full-length versions of relevant papers that have been published in recent peer-reviewed conferences in databases, artificial intelligence, programming languages, and cooperative information systems. There is no strict length requirement, but papers should ideally be 10000 to 15000 words long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please send a postscript copy of your submission to {huhns,msingh}@mcc.com by 30 September 1995. Alternatively, you may send 4 hard copies to the address below. In either case, please send a separate message containing the title, authors' names and addresses, and abstract in plain text. Michael N. Huhns and Munindar P. Singh MCC 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Austin, TX 78759-5398, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The latest notice will be at http://www.mcc.com/projects/carnot/msingh/ijcis-special-95.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 12 10:54:49 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:54:45 -0500; AA21826 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:54:44 -0500 From: mzemanko@nsf.gov (Maria Zemankova) Message-Id: <9506121554.AA08264@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 10:54:44 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu HUMAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES _____________________________________________ Program Solicitation A JOINT INITIATIVE OF: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DIRECTORATE and ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY SOFTWARE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY OFFICE DEADLINE: JULY 14, 1995 INTRODUCTION The Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems Division (IRIS) and the Cross-Disciplinary Activities Office (CDA) of the Computer, Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (SISTO) of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) plan to jointly support research and development devoted to developing linguistic resources for use in human language technology. The aim of this joint initiative between NSF and ARPA is to accelerate the progress in human language technology by supporting the research and development of widely-accessible and affordable language resources and closely related data resources. It is also of interest to encourage access to these resources by exploring alternative delivery mechanisms that the research community may incorporate as requested resources in their proposals. Technical advances in spoken and written information technology have resulted in the escalation of the number of information services and their importance to the economy. The impact of the resulting national information infrastructure on the well-being of the nation is acknowledged and strongly supported by the academic, industrial and governmental segments of our society. In order to provide full access to and full benefit from these information services, significant advances are needed in their ease of access and use. Spoken and written language technology is a key means of bridging the gap between suppliers and consumers of information services because it is the principal way in which human-computer communication can become seamless with human-human communication. Therefore, it is critically important to develop the human language technologies required to unleash the potential benefits of future information services. Continuing advances in computing performance and new trainable language models will allow consistent improvements in natural language processing if appropriate corpora are available. Rapid advances are being made, and computer-based human language technology research is now having an impact in application areas such as telephony and multimodal communication. Yet, current capabilities fall short of what is possible and what is needed. Far more powerful language models must be created , trained, and compared against realistic language data. This creates a demand for more comprehensive national and multilingual language resources with which to train the models, and for a wider variety of contextual linguistic data, such as video and audio as an accompaniment to text and dialogue corpora. TOPICS OF INTEREST This initiative has three main foci: (1) the continued improvement and extension of speech, text, and closely related language resources to support research and development in human language technology and associated areas, such as interlanguage communications; (2) focused experimental research and data collection involving multimodal types of human language data resources; and (3) innovative ways to make these resources widely available to potential users for both research and education. The last two foci are described in Type II awards below. Type I Award. Improvement in Basic Speech and Text Data Resources Resources of interest are those created, maintained, and distributed to provide broad training and evaluation data for basic research and technological advances in the following areas: - Speech recognition, including the transcription of high-quality continuous speech and other contextual information from talkers unknown to the system. - Speech understanding, in which the focus is primarily on domain-specific database query and update by voice. - Information retrieval, in which the retrieval request is made in terms of speech, text, or other closely associated modalities. - Machine translation, including computer-aided human translation and interlanguage dialog. Human language data resources include, but are not limited to, annotated and unannotated corpora of speech, speech with contextual accompaniment, parallel speech and text in multiple languages, and common lexicons. Languages of interest include, but are not limited to, English, major European languages, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic. Resources created under this focus of the initiative must be of enduring value to a broad community of human language technology researchers. The resources must be well publicized and openly accessible to the general linguistic research community. Delivery mechanisms may involve, for example, the use of high-performance computer and communication networks or conventional compact disks, but other innovative distribution methods are encouraged. The coordination of resource development along with consortial arrangements with other interested agencies and organizations, including those in other countries is also of critical interest. Type II Awards. New Approaches and Means of Data Collection and Distribution While the primary interest of this initiative is resource support for research in speech and text recognition and understanding, related support on a smaller scale is also available for the following areas of innovation: - Development of innovative resources. Examples include: The collection and annotation of video, involving facial gestures and hand movements while speaking to advance research on multi-modal communication using kinesics. Dialogue data collection and annotation to serve as a foundation for the advancement of research on natural language understanding in realistic situations of human-to-human communication. - Novel methods of delivery for multimedia resources to support, for example, such areas as the study of prosody, facial expression understanding, multi-agent dialogues, or others. - Transportable software tools for speech and written language data access and analysis. - Novel mechanisms for language data capture. Means to capture and make available samples such as contrived on-line speech understanding experiments or scenarios for public access and data collection. Experiments using such data to advance language research on speech recognition in noisy environments over telephones by ordinary users. SCOPE OF SUPPORT This initiative is expected to provide overall a total of approximately $3.5 million, depending on funding availability, to one or more awardees in the following two categories: - One large, standard award in the broad area of data collection, archival and distribution of speech, text, and closely related modalities or supportive annotations (Type I Award above). This award may be in the form of an NSF grant or cooperative agreement, depending on the structure of the project. Funding for this award will begin in late FY95. The total budget should not exceed $2 million over a 30-month period. It's duration may depend on the proposer's method for achieving self-sufficiency. - Several smaller grants in the range of $150K to $250K per year for up to three years toward one or more innovative approaches to language data or its delivery (Type II Awards above). Funding for these awards will be made when FY96 funds are available. Proposers must state which of the two above categories best describes their effort and should propose a budget accordingly. A single institution may propose in both categories in separate proposals. PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS All proposals should refer to this Program Solicitation by number, and should be prepared and submitted in accordance with the guidelines contained in Grant Proposal Guide (NSF 94-2, January 1994). In addition, type I proposals must include, within the regular page limits, special sections for Improvement in Basic Speech and Text Data Resources proposals (type I above) as follows: - Evidence for Financial Self-Sufficiency. Proposers should provide convincing arguments that self-sufficiency can be achieved by the end of the award. The case can be made on the basis of revenues, industrial participation, memberships, or other assistance. - Revenue Plan. A plan should be given for how fees for the use of resources will be determined and how revenues from fees charged will be allocated within the project. - Data Offer. A statement should be included that details the types and volumes of data that the proposers could provide. Nine (9) copies of each proposal, including one bearing original signatures, should be addressed to: Human Language Resources Announcement National Science Foundation Proposal Processing Unit 4201 Wilson Blvd. Room P60 Arlington, VA 22230 One information copy should be sent to: Gary W. Strong, Program Director Interactive Systems National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Room 1115 Arlington, VA 22230 WHO MAY APPLY Academic and other not-for-profit research institutions in the United States with computer and information science research capability are invited to submit proposals. While proposals may involve unfunded collaboration with industry or other agencies of the government, an academic or research institution must be the prime research management organization submitting the proposal. WHEN TO SUBMIT Proposals submitted in response to this solicitation must be: (1) received by NSF no later than 5PM July 14, 1995; (2) be postmarked no later than five (5) days prior to the deadline date; or (3) be sent via commercial overnight mail no later than two (2) days prior to the deadline date to be considered for award. The Type I award is planned for September 1995, with Type II awards to be made shortly afterwards. INQUIRIES Telephone and email queries about this announcement are welcomed and should be addressed to: Gary W. Strong, Program Director Interactive Systems (703) 306-1928 gstrong@nsf.gov PROPOSAL EVALUATION AND AWARD Proposals will be subject to review by a panel of external experts from the scientific community. Supplemental ad hoc reviews may be solicited as feasible and necessary to achieve a fair and accurate review of all proposals. Some potentially successful submissions for the Type 1 award (above) may receive site visits if deemed desirable in order to properly evaluate the proposals. Criteria by which the proposals will be judged include those published in NSF 94-2, Grant Proposal Guide, but with special emphasis to be placed on the impact of the proposed project on the infrastructure of science and engineering and on the plan for becoming self-sufficient for Type I (above) proposals. The specific impact on infrastructure to be assessed by the reviewers is the likelihood that the language resources to be developed and the delivery mechanisms proposed will be of the nature and quality to significantly benefit language research and development processes. In addition, Type I proposals will be evaluated in terms of the institution's ability to establish a revenue mechanism that will permit it to continue to provide resources access significantly beyond the period of award. NSF and ARPA will jointly make the final selection of all awards under this initiative, considering the recommendations of all the external reviewers. Awards to successful projects will be made through NSF from funding provided by both agencies. AWARD ADMINISTRATION Grants and cooperative agreements are administered in accordance with the terms and conditions of NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) and NSF Cooperative Agreement Conditions (CA-1), copies of which may be requested from the NSF Forms and Publications Unit cited below under the section ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. More comprehensive information is contained in the NSF Grant Policy Manual (NSF 88-47), available through a subscription offered by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. The Foundation provides awards for research in the sciences and engineering. The awardee is wholly responsible for the conduct of such research and preparation of the results for publication. The Foundation does not assume responsibility for such findings or their interpretation. The Foundation welcomes proposals on behalf of all qualified scientists and engineers, and strongly encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to compete fully in any of the research and research related programs described in this document. In accordance with Federal statues and regulations and NSF policies, no person, on grounds of race, color, age, sex, national origin, or disability shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving financial assistance from the National Science Foundation. THE NSF has TDD (Telephonic Device for the Deaf) capability, which enables individuals with hearing impairment to communicate with the Division of Human Resource Management about NSF programs, employment, or general information. This number is (703) 306-0090. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION NSF information and publications are available electronically via the World Wide Web (the URL is http://www.nsf.gov/), via Internet Gopher (on host stis.nsf.gov), via anonymous FTP (from ftp://stis.nsf.gov), or by sending an email request (sent to info@nsf.gov if you don't know the publication number or pubs@nsf.gov if you do). You may also send a written request to: NSF Forms and Publications Unit Room P-15 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230 FACILITATION AWARDS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS WITH DISABILITIES (FASED) These awards provide funding for special assistance or equipment to enable persons with disabilities (investigators and other staff, including student research assistants) to work on NSF projects. See the program announcement or contact the program coordinator at (703) 306-1636. PRIVACY AND PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENTS The information requested on proposal forms is solicited under the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended. It will be used in connection with the selection of qualified proposals and may be disclosed to qualified reviewers and staff assistants as part of the review process; to applicant institutions/grantees; to provide or obtain data regarding the application review process, award decisions, or the administration of awards; to government contractors, experts, volunteers, and researchers as necessary to complete assigned work; and to other government agencies in order to coordinate programs. See System of Records, NSF-50, Principal Investigator/Proposal File and Associated Records and NSF-51, 60 Federal Register 4449 (January 23, 1995), Reviewer/Proposal File and Associated Records, 59 Federal Register 8031 (February 17, 1994). Submission of the information is voluntary. Failure to provide full and complete information, however, may reduce the possibility of your receiving an award. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 120 hours per response, including the time for reviewing instructions. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: Herman G. Fleming Reports Clearance Officer Division of Contracts, Policy, and Oversight National Science Foundation Arlington, VA 22230 and to: Office of Management and Budget OIRM-Paperwork Reduction Project (3145-0058) Washington, DC 20503 OMB 3145-0058 P.T.: 34 K.W.: 1004144; 1004000; 0410000 Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. 47.070 NSF 95-100 (New) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 12 11:00:35 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:00:23 -0500; AA21974 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:00:22 -0500 From: gps0%eureka@gte.com (Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro) Message-Id: <9506121600.AA08289@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 11:00:22 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATA MINING (KDD-95) Sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Cosponsored by AT&T Global Information Solutions and GTE, and In Cooperation with IJCAI, Inc; collocated with IJCAI-95. August 20-21, 1995: Montreal, Canada. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the KDD-95 WWW page at http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd95 for registration, list of accepted papers, local arrangements, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please join us for the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95). With the advances in data acquisition and storage technologies, the problem of how to turn raw data into useful information becomes a significant one. Having reached sizes that defy even partial examination by humans, modern databases and collections of data sets are literally swamping users. This data firehose phenomenon appears in many fields including science data analysis, medical and healthcare, corporate and marketing, and financial markets. Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) and Data Mining are areas of common interest to researchers in machine learning, machine discovery, statistics, intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition, data visualization, high performance computing, and expert systems. Due to strong demand for participation and the growing demand for formal proceedings, it has become necessary to change the format of the previous KDD workshops to a conference with open attendance. This conference will continue in the tradition of the 1989, 1991, 1993, and 1994 KDD workshops by bringing together researchers and application developers from different areas, and focusing on unifying themes such as the use of domain knowledge, managing uncertainty, interactive (human-oriented) presentation, and applications. The KDD conference also includes invited talks, demo and poster sessions, and panel discussions. We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, KDD-95 Program Cochair Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Research, KDD-95 Program Cochair General Conference Questions: send email to kdd95@aig.jpl.nasa.gov Knowledge Discovery Mine: http://info.gte.com/~kdd/.index.html Program Committee ================= Rakesh Agrawal (IBM) Tej Anand (AT&T GIS) Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Labs) Wray Buntine (NASA Ames) Nick Cercone (Univ. of Regina) Peter Cheeseman (NASA AMES) Greg Cooper (Univ. of Pittsburgh) Brian Gaines (Univ. of Calgary) Clark Glymour (CMU) David Hand (Open University, UK) David Heckerman (Microsoft) Se June Hong (IBM Watson) Larry Jackel (AT&T Bell Labs) Larry Kerschberg (GMU) Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) David Madigan (Univ. of Washington) Chris Matheus (GTE Labs) Heikki Mannila (Univ. of Helsinki) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Labs) Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Bell Labs) Arno Siebes (CWI, Netherlands) Evangelos Simoudis (Lockheed) Andrzej Skowron (Univ. of Warsaw) Padhraic Smyth (JPL) Alex Tuzhilin (NYU Stern School) Xindong Wu (Monash Univ, Australia) Wojciech Ziarko (Univ. of Regina) Jan Zytkow (Wichita State Univ.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================END OF POSTING========================= These are the newsgroups to post to (+ any others you think may be relevant) comp.ai comp.ai.edu comp.ai.neural-nets comp.ai.fuzzy comp.ai.genetic comp.edu comp.parallel comp.org.acm comp.human-factors ieee.announce comp.infosystems.gis comp.graphics.visualization news.announce.conferences comp.databases comp.databases.olap comp.databases.rdb sci.stat.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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 12 14:59:24 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 14:59:19 -0500; AA28845 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 95 14:59:18 -0500 From: Marie-Anne Neimat Message-Id: <9506121959.AA09179@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 12 Jun 95 14:59:18 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Following the annoucement I made a week ago regarding limiting access to the SIGMOD record archives, I received several inquiries regarding access to those archives, membership to SIGMOD and whether membership in ACM was mandatory for SIGMOD membership. Below are answers to these questions. How to obtain a SIGMOD Membership Application: --------------------------------------------- Using Mosaic or Netscape, access the SIGMOD Web server at: http://bunny.cs.uiuc.edu/README.html Click on the 1st entry: ACM SIGMOD Click on the 4th entry: An application to join SIGMOD *** NOTE that it is possible to either join both ACM and SIGMOD or to join SIGMOD only. How to access the SIGMOD record archives: ---------------------------------------- Using Mosaic or Netscape, access the SIGMOD Web server at: http://bunny.cs.uiuc.edu/README.html. Click on the 2nd entry: ACM SIGMOD Record archives Take this opportunity to browse around the SIGMOD Web server for access to numerous annoucements and pointers of interest to the database community. These include conference announcements, assorted publications, free database software, etc. Marie-Anne Neimat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 13 11:30:57 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:30:54 -0500; AA09563 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:30:51 -0500 From: "Tiziana Catarci" Message-Id: <9506131630.AA15129@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 13 Jun 95 11:30:51 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu AVI'96 Advanced Visual Interfaces: an International Workshop Gubbio, Italy, May 27-29, 1996 Under the patronage of the Universita' di Bari In cooperation with the Esprit 8422 "FADIVA" Working Group In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI (pending) The AVI'96 home page on the World Wide Web is: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/info.html PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS This Workshop has the aim of bringing together experts in different areas of computer science who have a common interest in the design and management of visual interfaces. This Workshop is the third of a series initiated with AVI'92 in Rome, and continued with AVI'94 in Bari. The Proceedings of AVI'92 and AVI'94 have been published by World Scientific and ACM Press respectively. Both formal methods and concrete applications fit well into the framework of this workshop. Since cognitive science and metaphor analysis have proved to be useful for understanding the basic mechanisms which allow visual interfaces to be easy to learn and use, these topics are also relevant to the workshop. Furthermore, we will focus on research in the areas of information visualization, graphical and pictorial communication tools, virtual reality applications, multimedia environments, WWW interfaces, visual languages, visual database systems, adaptive interfaces, and other recent technological developments. The program will comprise invited talks, given by leaders in the field, including: Stuart Card (Xerox PARC, USA), Alan Dix (University of Huddersfield, UK), Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto, Canada), Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland, USA). TOPICS Visual Interface Design and Management Visual Interaction Interface Evaluation Controlled Studies and Usability Testing Animated Interfaces Adaptive Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Virtual Reality Visualization Visual Databases Visual Query Systems Dynamic Queries Cognitive Models of User Metaphor Analysis Hypermedia & Multimedia WWW interfaces PAPER SUBMISSION We strongly encourage submissions that address research and development on the above and other related topics, or that propose new approaches suitable for fulfilling the demands that characterizes advanced interfaces of the next generation. Please submit six copies of an 8000 word original manuscript to: Tiziana Catarci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel/Fax: +39-6-49918331 E-mail: catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it and tic@cs.brown.edu DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION The Exhibit Program will primarily consist of demonstrations of software prototypes from universities and research laboratories. Demonstration proposals can be submitted to the Exhibits Program by submitting a project/system description of up to 3,000 words. In addition, publishers are invited to exhibit books and related journals. Exhibits Program submissions should be sent to: Giuseppe Santucci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39-6-85300817 Fax: +39-6-85300849 E-mail: santucci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it IMPORTANT DATES Paper and demo proposal submission: November 1, 1995 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 1996 Camera-ready paper: February 7, 1996 Accepted papers and system descriptions that will be presented at the Workshop will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press. GENERAL CHAIR Stefano Levialdi Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39-6-8841962 Fax: +39-6-8841964 e-mail: levialdi@dsi.uniroma1.it PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Tiziana Catarci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel/Fax: +39-6-49918331 E-mail: catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it, tic@cs.brown.edu Maria Francesca Costabile Universita' di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, Via Orabona, 4 - 70126 Bari, Italy. Tel/Fax: +39-80-5443300 E-mail: fcosta@iesi.ba.cnr.it EXHIBIT PROGRAM CHAIR Giuseppe Santucci Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy. Tel: +39-6-85300817 Fax: +39-6-85300849 E-mail: santucci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean-Francois Abramatic (INRIA, France) Christopher Ahlberg (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden) Heinz Dieter Boecker (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Richard Cooper (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Isabel Cruz (Tufts Univ., USA) Alberto Del Bimbo (Univ. of Firenze, Italy) Yves Dennebouy (EPFL, Switzerland) Max Egenhofer (Univ. of Maine, USA) Jim Foley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Phil Gray (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Matthias Hemmje (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Hubertus Hohl (Siemens, Germany) Rob Jacob (Tufts Univ., USA) Raghu Kolli (Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands) Kim Marriott (Monash, Australia) Piero Mussio (Univ. of Roma, Italy) Paolo Paolini (Univ. of Lecce, Italy) Steven Pemberton (CWI, The Netherlands) Ramana Rao (Xerox PARC, USA) Thomas Rist (DFKI, Germany) Ben Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland, USA) Maurizio Talamo (Univ. of Roma, Italy) Roberto Tamassia (Brown Univ., USA) Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ., Japan) Genoveffa Tortora (Univ. of Salerno, Italy) Manfred Tscheligi (Univ. of Vienna, Austria) Kent Wittenburg (Bellcore, USA) Tiziana Catarci Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma ITALY Tel. +39-6-49918331 Fax. +39-6-49918331 or +39-6-85300849 E-mail catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it or tic@cs.brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Wed Jun 14 11:31:50 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 14 Jun 95 11:31:47 -0500; AA24125 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 11:31:46 -0500 From: Ravi Krishnamurthy Message-Id: <9506141631.AA17095@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 14 Jun 95 11:31:46 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Research Track Paper submission deadline extended to Jun 26th : FIRM DEADLINE NOTE: The abstract deadline is also extended. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF DATABASES ADB-95 December 13-15, 1995, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, USA CONFERENCE FOCUS The conference has been motivated by recent advances in database application development technologies and by the need for DBMS to meet the challenges of new application areas. In contrast to traditional database conferences, ADB-95 focuses on the technical issues surrounding the use of DBMS for developing solutions. This conference aims to provide a forum for DBMS users database software vendors, and academic researchers to engage in highly technical discussions of the research issues in building DBMS applications. There will be three parallel tracks: Research Papers, Advanced Technologies, and Tutorials and Panels. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: TOPICS OF INTEREST * Data and application reengineering * Information modeling and database design * Database development tools * Database application builders * Visual application development environments * Knowledge mining and browsing technologies * Integrated and interoperable database applications * Multidatabase and distributed database applications * Telecommunication database applications * Medical database applications * Multimedia database applications * Engineering database applications * Scientific Applications RESEARCH PAPER TRACK The purpose of the Research Paper Track is to provide an in depth technical presentation of the most recent significant findings in the Topics of Interest. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original research work in one or more of the Topics of Interest. Research papers must not exceed 20 double spaced pages and must be submitted to the Research Paper Track Chair. Electronic copies of the abstracts are due via e-mail on June 26, 1995. Abstracts will be used for early identification of interested reviewers in order to speed up the review process. Four copies of the full manuscript are due on June 26, 1995. Notification of acceptance is due on August 7, 1995. Final camera ready copies are due on September 1, 1995. RESEARCH PAPER TRACK CHAIR Ravi Krishnamurthy HP Laboratories Mail Stop 3U-5 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 adb95@hpl.hp.com ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TRACK The purpose of the Advanced Technology Track is to foster greater communications and collaborations among users, developers, and researchers. Developers are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their latest product innovations, advanced users facing problems in applying the current database and application development technologies are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their problems that need to be resolved, and academic researchers are invited to submit extended abstracts describing their research activities. This track will provide opportunities for developers, users, and researchers to communicate and collaborate in advancing database application technologies. An extended abstract must not exceed 5 double spaced pages and must be submitted to the Advanced Technology Track Chair. Four copies of the extended abstract are due on June 19, 1995. Notification of acceptance is due on August 7, 1995. Final camera ready copies are due on September 1, 1995. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TRACK CHAIR Mohammad Ketabchi Object Technology Laboratory School of Engineering Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053 adb95@otl.scu.edu TUTORIAL AND PANEL TRACK Proposals are invited for half-day tutorials on the Topics of Interest. A tutorial proposal must include a description of the tutorial, a table of contents, and a short biography of the instructor. Proposals are also invited for panel discussions on the controversial aspects of the Topics of Interest. A panel proposal must include a short description of the subject of the panel, the reasons for why a panel discussion of the subject will be useful, a list of questions that will be posed to the panelists in advance, and a list of potential panelists. Tutorial and Panel proposals must be submitted to the Tutorial and Panel Track Chair. Four copies of the tutorial and panel proposals are due on June 19, 1995. Notification of acceptance is due on August 7, 1995. Final camera ready copies of the position statements and tutorial notes are due on September 1, 1995. TUTORIAL AND PANEL TRACK CHAIR Forouzan Golshani Department of Computer Science and Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona 85287-5406 golshani@asu.edu CONFERENCE LOCATION The beautiful campus of Santa Clara University, the oldest higher education institute in California, USA, is situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, one of the world's centers of high technology industry and professional and scientific activities. The cultural and entertainment centers of San Francisco, Berkeley, and Marin County are within one hours travel by train and car. In the opposite direction, the Pacific Beaches of Santa Cruz are about 30 minutes away; the world famous Monterey Peninsula and Carmel are 90 minutes away. The university is accessible by major airlines via San Jose International Airport, which is three miles from campus, and via San Francisco and Oakland airports. GENERAL CHAIR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR STEERING COMMITTEE LIASION Moshe Zloof Mohammad Ketabchi Daniel Fishman HP Laboratories Santa Clara University Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions, Inc. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Afsarmanesh, Hamideh Bancilhon, Francois Batory, Don Bertino, Elisa Berzins, Valdis Borges, Marcos Dasananda, Surapol Dogac, Asuman Gardarin, Georges Guimaraes, Nuno Harada, Lilian Izumida, Y. Jajodia, Sushil Jomier, Genevieve Johnson, Raymond Kamel, M. Kamel, Nabil Khoshafian, Setrag King, Roger Krishnamurthy, Ravi (Chair) Laender, Alberto Lee, Yoon-Joon Lu, Hongjun Marquez, Alonso Medeiros, Claudia Mohan, C. Ozsu, M. Taimer Pino, Jose Rafii, Abbas Ahad, Rafiul Ramakrishnan, Raghu Ramos, Isidro Roffe, Robert Rozen, Steve Rusinkiewicz, Marek Samet, Hanan Shmueli, Oded Stein, Jacob Tanaka, Yuzuru Tjoa, A.M. Tompa, Frank Torne, Anders For further information contact Organizing Committee Chair, M. Ketabchi, at adb95@otl.scu.edu. Up-to-the-minute information is available on the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://otl.scu.edu/adb95.html Endorsements by ACM, IEEE/Computer Society, and several other organizations are being sought. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Wed Jun 14 14:13:55 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:13:50 -0500; AA26652 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:13:49 -0500 From: jain@ece.UCSD.EDU Message-Id: <9506141913.AA17867@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 14 Jun 95 14:13:49 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV Conference Chairs: Ishwar K. Sethi, Wayne State Univ.; Ramesh C. Jain, Univ. of California/San Diego Recent advances in several key technological areas are leading to the creation of large-scale databases of visual and multimedia information. Such databases are finding ready applications in a wide range of fields such as advertising and marketing, education and training, entertainment, medicine, and remote sensing. Because of the very nature of visual and multimedia data, new and innovative methods are called for modeling, organization, and indexing of this data for efficient storage and retrieval. The aim of this conference is to bring together the researchers, who are developing such methods, and the users, who are defining the needs for such methods. Like the previous years, the conference will address a whole range of issues including browsing, content-based retrieval, feature extraction for image and video indexing, image annotation, and storage organization and hierarchies. These issues will be addressed through oral and poster presentation of solicited papers and a panel session. To organize a really exciting technical program, papers are solicited in all relevant areas including the following: * image computing for image, video, and multimedia databases * image and video characterization for indexing * similarity retrieval of images and video * semantic retrieval of images and video * query "X" methods, e.g. query by sketch * processing of compressed images and video for content characterization * sparse distributed memory methods for indexing and retrieval * storage management for VOD * delivery synchronization * neural network methods for image and video indexing * indexing and retrieval of document images, e.g. engineering drawings * applications and systems * user interfaces. This conference is just one of nearly 30 conferences to be held at the EI'96 symposium. And EI'96 is just part of the larger Photonics West Symposium being held 27 January - 2 February 1996, San Jose Convention Ctr., San Jose, California USA. TO OBTAIN ALL CALLS FOR PAPERS ELECTRONICALLY The calls for papers for all conferences in the Photonics West symposium will be available early June on SPIE Web (http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pw96_home.html), by anonymous FTP (ftp://spie.org/meetings/calls/pw96*), or by e-mail file retrieval send a message to info-optolink-request@spie.org with the following in the message body: send [meetings.calls]pw96*} For a printed call for papers or other information: E-mail: pw96@spie.org Fax: 360/647-1445 (*) Phone: 360/676-3290 (*) Electronic Imaging '96 DEADLINES Paper Abstracts Due from Authors: 3 July 1995 Advance Programs due from Chairs: 31 July 1995 Manuscripts Due from Authors: 2 January 1996 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT Send a 500 word abstract of your paper, by the appropriate deadline, in ONE of the following ways: >>mail (please mail 4 hard copies) to: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging '96 SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 Shipping Address: 1000 20th Street, Bellingham, WA 98225 Telephone: 360/676-3290 (*) >>electronic mail in ASCII format to Internet abstracts@spie.org (Please send one submission per email message.) >>fax to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (*) (Please send one submission per fax.) Be sure each abstract includes the following: 1. CONFERENCE CHAIR and CONFERENCE TITLE (submit to ONLY ONE conference) to which the abstract is submitted 2. AUTHOR LISTING (List principal author first) for each author: full name [first(given) last(family] and affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers, email 3. ABSTRACT/PAPER TITLE 4. ABSTRACT TEXT: 500 words typed on white paper 5. KEYWORDS: maximum of 5 keywords 6. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY of the principal author: 50-100 words Please contact SPIE if you have any questions or require further information. (*) Please note: SPIE's area code changed from 206 to 360 in February 1995. If you experience any difficulty using the 360 area code, please use 206 and notify SPIE, your local phone company, and the people in charge of the phone system from where you placed your call. You may also call 1-800-441-5516 to report the difficulty. Thank you for your patience while US West and other regional phone companies fix this problem. You may also call SPIE at 800/483-9034, a temporary number for use during this transition to the new area code. Ramesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jun 15 10:40:37 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:40:32 -0500; AA06698 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:40:31 -0500 From: Ravi Krishnamurthy Message-Id: <9506151540.AA19500@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:40:31 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu The deadline for COMAD95 has been extended to July 7. *********** COMAD95 is the predecessor conference to the CSI sponsored VLDB 96 to be held in Bombay the following year. ---- CALL FOR PAPERS ---- Seventh International Conference On Management of Data Pune, India December 27-30, 1995 Organized by: Computer Society of India Division II and Pune Chapter Special Interest Group on Databases About COMAD - ----------- COMAD is a premier database conference sponsored by Computer Society of India (CSI), whose objective is to promote a healthy blend of theoretical advances in the field and practical innovations and developments through technical sessions, invited papers, and industrial track, tutorials and panels. The intent of this conference is to bring together - researchers, system builders, application developers, designers, application experts - engaged in various aspects of data/information management to facilitate synergistic solution to larger issues. The Seventh International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD'95) will be held in Pune, India from December 27-30,1995. COMAD is the ONLY database conference sponsored by Computer Society of India (CSI) and this will be the predecessor conference to the CSI sponsored VLDB 96 to be held in Bombay the following year. TOPICS OF INTEREST - ------------------ Considering local interests, we would like to encourage papers on Databases in Engineering and Databases in Education. We are proposing to have an industry and an applications track and would like to encourage authors to submit papers on novel uses of databases. Suggested topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Databases in Manufacturing * Databases in Education * Engineering Databases * Database Languages * Data Integrity and Security * Parallel and Distributed Databases * Deductive Databases * Real Time and Active Databases * Database of CASE, CAI * Multimedia Databases * Query Optimization * Statistical and Scientific Databases * Database Architectures and Implementation * Object and Post Relational Databases * Data Mining PAPER SUBMISSIONS - ----------------- We invite you to submit five copies of original contributions on topics including but not restricted to those listed above to one of the two program committee co-chairs. Manuscripts must be in English, typed in double spaced format in 12 point font and not more than 5000 words (20 pages). Proceedings will be sold by Tata-McGraw Hill. The cover page must include the title and affilliation of the author(s), the contact address (including telephone, fax and e-mail) of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed, an abstract of about 200 words, and keywords. Abstract need to be submitted electronically in ASCII through e-mail to comad95@hpl.hp.com. TUTORIALS - --------- Tutorial sessions are planned prior to the conference. We invite tutorial and panel proposals. Tutorial proposals should include the title, an abstract, the proposed contents, and the author's resume. For panel proposals, names of other panelists should also be included. It will be the responsibility of the panel proposer to ensure the participation of the panelists. DEADLINES - --------- papers and submission due date July 7, 1995 Acceptance Notified September 7, 1995 Final camera ready papers October 1, 1995 Tutorials December 27,28 1995 conference December 28,29 & 30 1995 SUBMIT TO - --------- Anand Deshpande Tel no: +91(212) 351510 Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd Fax No: +91(212) 356110 'Kapilvastu', First Floor, e-mail : anand@pspl.ernet.in 397/9, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune 411 053 Ravi Krishnamurthy Tel No.: +1(415)857 8678 Hewlett-Packard Laboratory Fax No.: +1(415) 852 8633 1501 Page Mill Road, e-mail : krishnam@hplabs.hp.com Palo Alto, CA 94303 ABOUT PUNE - ---------- COMAD'95 will be held in Blue Diamond, Pune. Pune is a large industrial city 100 miles south east of Bombay in the state of Maharashtra, India. Today, Pune has one of the largest concentrations of high technology industries in India, especially in the areas of electronics, computer software and mechanical engineering. Pune is also a well known educational centre. The University of Pune offers degree courses in Computer Engineering through 7 affiliated engineering colleges. Pune has a mild winter with the minimum and maximum temperatures during December in the range of 10oC - 22o C. Some warm clothing is strongly recommended, particularly for the evenings. There are several tourist attractions in and around Pune: forts, hill stations and more. There are plans to arrange post-conference tours to places of tourist interest. CHAIRPERSON P.C. - ---------------- Anand Deshpande Ravi Krishnamurthy Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd Hewlett-Packard Lab. PAST COMMITTEE CHAIRS: - --------------------- Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, USA P. Sadanandan, NCST, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS - ------------------------ Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden, USA Anupam Bhide, Oracle Corporation, USA Marco Casanova, IBM, Brazil Surajit Chaudhuri, HP labs, USA Umesh Dayal, HP labs, USA Shashi Gadia, Iowa State University, USA Sumit Ganguly, Rutgers Univ, USA Dirk Van Gucht, University of Indiana Bloomington, USA Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser Univ, Canada Jayant Haritsa, IISc Bangalore, India Paula Hawthorn, Illustra Information Tech. Inc, USA H.V. Jagdish, AT&T Bell labs, USA Hank Korth, Matsushita I.T., USA Hongjun Lu, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore C.Mohan, IBM Almaden, USA A.K. Majumdar, IIT Kharagpur, India Shamim Naqvi, Bell communication Research, USA Sham Navathe, Georgia Tech. Institute, USA Marie-Anne Neimat, HP labs, USA K. Padmanabhan, TCS Madras, India Raghu Ramakrishnan, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA N.L. Sarda, IIT Bombay, India Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Mukul Sinha, ESC New Delhi, USA Marc Scholl, Univ of Konstanz, Germany S.Seshadri, IIT Bombay, India Suryanarayan Sripada, ECRC Munich, Germany N.V. Subramanian, city University of Hongkong TM Vijayraman, NCST Bombay, India Kyu Whang, Korea Publication Chair: Surajit Chaudhari - ----------------- ORGANISING COMMITTEE - -------------------- CSI Pune Chapter Vrinda Ballal CSI Division II Chairman V.A. Sastry Chairperson A.K. Pathak Conference Manager R.S. Tavildar Finance C.G. Sahastrabuddhe Publicity A.R. Ghaisas Exhibition Deepak Shikarpur Registration Shashank Joshi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jun 15 10:42:02 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:41:58 -0500; AA06739 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:41:58 -0500 From: CSKYLAM@cityu.edu.hk Message-Id: <9506151541.AA19507@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 95 10:41:58 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Call for Manuscripts Special issue of Journal of Database Management on the topic of Real-time Database Systems : Theory and Practice Real-time database systems are generally defined as the database systems which are designed for time-constrained data-intensive applications such as computer-integrated manufacturing , international stock market, air traffic control and different kinds of control systems. Supporting timely execution of transactions requires the integration of the technology in both real-time systems and database systems. In recent years, it has seen tremendous growth in this area both in research and applications. It is increasingly common to have database applications that require timely response. At the same time, with the availability of fast processors and advances in main memory technology, it becomes more and more feasible to support real-time applications with the use of database technology. Because of the widespread research activities and the growing application demands on this area, it is the right time to have a special issue in this area to summarize the state of the art and the applications of the previous research efforts. The focus of submitted papers should be on managerial aspects of real-time database systems. Papers that are extremely technical in nature, particularly scientific research dealing with mathematical formulas and models will not be considered. Papers are invited for submission in topics of interest include, but are not limited to : - real-time transaction scheduling and concurrency control protocols - query processing in real-time database systems - temporal database consistency handling - real-time database implications for different system architecture - distributed real-time database systems - application of real-time database systems - case studies. All paper will be reviewed according to the standard Journal of Database Management review process. The special issue will be published in Spring 1996. Send four copies of your manuscript to guest editor : Sheung-lun Hung Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon HONG KONG tel : (852) 2788-8603 fax: (852) 2788-8614 E-mail : cshung@cityu.edu.hk Deadline for submission is July 1, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu Jun 15 14:54:53 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 95 14:54:49 -0500; AA10275 Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 14:54:49 -0500 From: yeona@hoserve.ho.att.com Message-Id: <9506151954.AA20757@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 15 Jun 95 14:54:49 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PARTICIPATION OOPSLA '95 WORKSHOP LEGACY SYSTEMS AND OBJECT TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW The Legacy Systems and Object Technology Workshop will be held in Austin, TX, on October 16, 1995, in conjunction with the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Languages Systems and Applications (OOPSLA '95). The purpose of the workshop is to promote discussion and interaction among researchers and practitioners with interests in legacy systems and object technology. We are interested in exchanging research ideas and results which will not only contribute to the academic arena, but to the business community as well. GOALS AND FOCUS The workshop will provide a forum for presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced directions that will improve the use of object technology in migrating and integrating legacy systems. The migration and integration of legacy applications using object technology has proven to be difficult. This is mainly a result of the complexity of existing systems, the need to maintain operational capabilities throughout the migration process, and the difficulty of integrating and resolving the differences among redundant data sources, management policies, and administrative domains. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in diverse fields such as object-oriented analysis and design, object-oriented programming, heterogeneous database integration, reverse software engineering, and enterprise reengineering to discuss such topics as: - Design and implementation alternatives, tradeoffs, and obstacles - Dealing with poorly documented application requirements - Application-centric versus data-centric strategies - Data quality issues, such as reconciling discrepancies among redundant data sources, and semantic interoperability, as opposed to physical interoperability - Tools that support the migration and integration process - Additional techniques, tools, and capabilities that are needed - Organizational issues that may help or hinder the process The goal of the workshop is to promote discussion and interaction among members of the Computer Science and the Information Systems communities. We are interested in exchanging research ideas and results which will not only contribute in the academic arena, but will benefit the business community as well. We are particularly interested in real experiences, both successful and less than successful, as a source of lessons learned and issues to be addressed. REQUIREMENTS FOR ATTENDANCE We solicit position papers describing original ideas and new results on the migration and integration of legacy applications using object technology. Position papers should address issues concerning theory, development, and/or deployment. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, those listed above, as well as real-world experiences, both successful and less than successful. Position papers no longer than 5 pages should be submitted to one of the addresses below by August 15. Acceptable formats for submission include, in order of preference, Microsoft Rich Text Format, ASCII text, Postscript, or hardcopy (5 copies). Each submission should include: - The names and affiliations of all authors - URLs for any World Wide Web pages related to the position paper (including the position paper itself, if it is on-line) - The primary point of contact for all workshop correspondence - The primary contact's electronic and hardcopy mail addresses - The primary contact's preferred method and format for receiving documents (RTF/ASCII/Postscript via electronic mail, hardcopy mail, or WWW URL) Accepted position papers that are received electronically will be made available via the World Wide Web. The primary contacts of accepted position papers will be notified by September 15 and will receive copies of the workshop agenda and all accepted position papers in their preferred format, where possible. URL CFP is also available from the Web. http://info.acm.org/sig-forums/sigplan/oopsla/a95wrk.html ORGANIZERS Thom Brando, Lead Scientist The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA Dr. Yeona Jang, Member of the Technical Staff AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Dr. Myra Jean Prelle, Consulting Scientist The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA Dr. Arnon S. Rosenthal, Lead Scientist The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA ADDRESSES FOR SUBMITTING POSITION PAPERS Address for electronic submission (preferred): brando@mitre.org Address for hardcopy submission: Yeona Jang AT&T Bell Labs Room 2J-528 Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jun 16 15:41:20 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:41:14 -0500; AA19992 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:41:13 -0500 From: tjoa@ifs.univie.ac.at (A Min Tjoa) Message-Id: <9506162041.AA03125@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:41:13 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DEXA 95 6th International Workshop and Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications September 4 - 8, 1995 London, United Kingdom +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _____________________________________________________________________ W O R K S H O P P R O G R A M MONDAY, September 4, 1995 _____________________________________________________________________ 9:45 - 10:00 am Opening of DEXA Workshops SESSION 1 A OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES 10:00 - 11.30 am Mueck T.A., Polaschek M.L.; Austria A New Approach to Associative Access in OODB Ozkan C., Dogac A.; Turkey A Heuristic Approach for Optimization of Path Expressions on Object-Oriented Query Languages Wu X., Neuhaus J., Huynh Q.D.; Germany A Simple Yet Powerful Application Programming Interface for an Object-Oriented Database System SESSION 1B EXPERT AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS I 10:00 - 11:30 am Canos J.H., Penades M.C., Ramos I., Pastor O.; Spain A Knowledge-Base Architecture for Object Societies Cairo O., Villareal J.; Mexico DIFEVS: Expert System for Failure Diagnosis and Correction in Satellite Communications Ground Stations Kamel M.N., Mc.Caffrey M.J., Metzler P.G.; USA Design and Implementation of a Prototype Maintenance Advisor Expert System for the MK92 Fire Control System SESSION 1 C ACTIVE AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS I 10:00 - 11:30 am De Oliveira J.P.M., Edelweiss N., Arruda E., Laender A.H.F., Cavalcanti J.M.B.; Brazil On the Implementation of an Object-Oriented Temporal Model Using Object-Oriented and Relational DBMSs Castangia S., Guerrini G., Montesi D., Rodriguez G.; Italy Design and Implementation for the Activa Rule Language of Chimera De Castro C.; Italy Temporal Aspects in Distributed Relational Databases SESSION 1 D CIM AND AI 10:00 - 11:30 am Invited Speaker Session organised by Marik V. and Lazansky J. Galletly J.E., Daniel R.C., Ikonomou A.; United Kingdom Recent Heuristic Methods for Production Scheduling Adelsberger H.H., Keilmann K.-P.; Germany Constraint Handling in Planning Systems for Manufacturing 11:30 - 12:00 am Coffee Break SESSION 2 A OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES II 12:00 am-1:00 pm Beheshti M., de Korvin A.; USA Applying Fuzzy Logic to an Object-Oriented Query Optimization Hong E.; Korea A Schema Evolution Mechanism for a Multi-User Development Environment in OODMs SESSION 2 B EXPERT AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS II 12:00 am-1:00 pm Kemp E.A., Todd E.G., Pacitto D., Gray D.I.; New Zealand Developing an Expert System to Assist New Zealand Dairy Farmers Nikolaidou M., Lelis D., Anagnostopoulos D., Georgiadis P.; Greece Distributed System Design: An Expert System Approach SESSION 2 C ACTIVE AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS II 12:00 am-1:00 pm Kurt A., Ozsoyoglu M.; USA Modeling and Querying Periodic Temporal Databases Lue J., Brown K., Samson W.B.; United Kingdom Indexing Techniques for Temporal Data 1:00 - 2:30 pm LUNCH SESSION 3 A OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES III 2:30 - 4:00 pm Hori N., Yoshikawa M., Uemura S.; Japan ASKA: An Object-Oriented Data Model with Multiple Hierarchies and Multiple Object-Perspectives Kwan I., Fong J., Li Q.; Hong Kong A Methodology for Reengineering Relational to Object-Oriented Database via an Extended E-R Model Manea A.; France An Object Oriented Design Method: Application to Hydrological Databases SESSION 3 B EXPERT AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS III 2:30 - 4:00 pm Januchta M.; Poland Rule-Based Monitoring of Multiple Systems Vazirgiannis M.; Greece KNOWEL: A Hypermedia Knowledge Editor SESSION 3 C ACTIVE AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS III 2:30 - 4:00 pm Tawbi C., Jaber G., Dalmau M.; France Rule Specification into an Active Relational DBMS Ortiz R.; Germany The Concurrency Model: A Semantical Model for an Active Database Supporting Concurrent Engineering Wieczerzycki W.; Poland Activity Modeling and Management in Office Information Systems 4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee Break SESSION 4 A OBJECT- ORIENTED DATABASES IV 4:30 - 6:00 pm Beldjilali T.; France Managing Schema Evolution in an Object-Oriented Database Already Populated by Instances Kilic E., Ozhan G., Dengi C., Kesim N., Koksal P., Dogac A.; Turkey Experiences in Using CORBA for a Multidatabase Implementation Miura T., Shioya I.; Japan Strategy Control for Database Queries SESSION 4 B MULTIMEDIA APPROACHES 4:30 - 6:00 pm Addison M., Dudman K.; United Kingdom Organisational Issues for Managing Multimedia Information Gancarski S., Jomier G., Zamfiroiu M.; France A Framework for the Manipulation of a Multiversion Database Rumpler B., Polo M.; France Configuration and Optimisation of Transactional Applications Server by Response Time Modeling SESSION 4 C RELATIONAL AND EXTENDED RELATIONAL APPROACHES 4:30 - 6:00 pm Alagar V.S., Sadri F., Said J.N.; Canada An Extended Relational Model for Managing Uncertain Information ter Bekke J.H.; The Netherlands Meta Modeling for End User Computing Gogolla M.; Germany Towards Schema Queries for Semantic Data Models 6:30 pm Welcome Party at Trent Park Campus TUESDAY, September 5, 1995 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SESSION 5 A LEGAL SYSTEMS I 10:00 - 11:30 am Cammelli A.; Italy Models for the Logic Representation and Automatic Interpretation of a Legal Text Di Giorgi R.M., Fameli E., Nannucci R.; Italy Legal Decisions and Integrated Systems Jukes E., Platts J., Torrance S.; United Kingdom Legal Precedent Retrieval through Case-Based Reasoning and Semantic Interpretation SESSION 5 B APPLICATIONS I 10:00 - 11:30 am Abdi M.K., Kouninef B., Rahmouni M.K.; Algeria Towards a Case Tool for Information Systems Design Battle S., McClatchey R., United Kingdom A Computerised Reservation System Using a Relational Database Augmented by Constraint Based Techniques Binks N.S., Smith D.J.; United Kingdom A Knowledge-Based System for Clinical Laboratory Result Interpretation and Validation SESSION 5 C ADVANCED DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS METHODS I 10:00 - 11:30 am Bouchaffra D., Meunier J.G.; Canada A Thematic Knowledge Extraction in Text Using a Markovian Random Field Approach Callan J.P.; USA Document Filtering with Inference Networks Desai B.C.; Canada Internet Resource Index Registering and Searching System SESSION 5 D RESEARCH ISSUES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND MOBILE DATABASES 10:00 - 11:30 am Invited Speaker Session organised by B. Bhargava 11:30 - 12:00 am Coffee Break SESSION 6 A COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK 12:00 am-1:00 pm Hawryszkiewycz I.T.; Australia Knowledge Structures for CSCW Ljubodrage M.M., Janko L.; Yugoslavia Control of Execution of Work Orders in the Area of Maintenance Equipment SESSION 6 B PHYSICAL ASPECTS 12:00 am-1:00 pm Besancenot J., Cart M., Ferrie J., Morpain C., Pons J.-F., Pucheral P.; France Preserving the Benefit of Strict 2-Phase Locking with Parallel Multidatabase Transactions Harmsen F., Brinkkemper S.; The Netherlands Supporting Storage and Assembly of Method Fragments for Situational Systems Development SESSION 6 C ADVANCED DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS METHODS II 12:00 am-1:00 pm Badal D., Davis M.L.; USA Investigations of Unstructured Text Indexing Kamel N., Hsiao-Feng D.L.; USA A Text Parser and Specification Generator for Modular ASN.1-Described Files 1:00 - 2:30 pm LUNCH SESSION 7 A LEGAL SYSTEMS II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Schweighofer E., Winiwarter W.; Austria KONTERM: Exploratory Data Analysis for Semi-automatic Indexation of Legal Documents Caplinskas A., Paliulioniene L., Sinkeviciute S., Lithuania Project NEMESIS: Knowledge-Based Aspects in Law Engineering Systems SESSION 7 B APPLICATIONS II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Bonfatti F., Monari P.D., Paganelli P.; Italy A Computer Support to Product Configuration Diagnosis and Engineering Guardati S., Cairo O., Boon T., Boon R.; Mexico TICITL: An Expert System for the Diagnosis of Gastroenterological Diseases Holas D., Marik V.; Czech Republic Evaluation of the First Experiments with the FMAspects Tool SESSION 7 C ADVANCED DATABASE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS METHODS III 2:30 - 4:00 pm Lee J.-S.; Korea A Control Architecture for Implementing On-Target Expertise Database of Real-Time Switching System Naqvi W., Ibrahim M.T.; United Kingdom Active Distribution by Stealth Teisseire M., Cicchetti R.; France Event Schema Updating 4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee Break SESSION 8 A APPLICATIONS III 4:30 - 6:00 pm Chrisoulis C., Panagopoulou G., Sirmakessis P.S., Tsakalidis A., Tzimas J.; Greece The PELICAN System Lee H.F., Cho H.J., Klepper R.W.; USA A HESS for Resource Planning in Service and Manufacturing Industries Garcia M.J.B., Alvarez J.C.G.; Spain Environment Information Systems: Study of the Software Productivity SESSION 8 B APPLICATIONS IV 4:30 - 6:00 pm Claramunt C., Mainguenaud M.; Switzerland, France Spatial View: A Dynamic and Flexible Vision of a Geographical Information System Database Panayiotopoulos T., Gergatsoulis M.; Greece Intelligent Information Processing Using TRLi Marshall G.J., Marshall A.; United Kingdom The Creation and Interpretation of an Archaeological Database SESSION 8 C APPLICATIONS V 4:30 - 6:00 pm Marengo V., De Nuccio E., Genchi L., Ligrani M., Scalera M.; Italy A GIS Prototype for South-Italy Rodriguez A., Martin F.; Spain Combining Structures for a Case Reuse in a CBR System Suh S.C., Kocur J.; USA Intelligent Medical Data Management System Development 6:30 pm Cultural Evening at Trentpark Campus ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ C O N F E R E N C E P R O G R A M Wednesday, September 6, 1995 10:00 - 10:30 am Opening of the DEXA Conference 10:30 - 11:30 am Invited Lecture Bhargava B.; USA Communication Overheads in Digital Library Databases 11:30 - 12:00 am Coffee Break SESSION 1 A OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES I 12:00 am-1:00 pm Dogac A., Altinel M., Ozakan C., Durusoy O., Altintas I.; Turkey METU Object-Oriented DBMS Kernel Jun Y.S., Yoo S.I.; Korea Design and Implementation of the spareC++ Object-Oriented Database Programming Language SESSION 1 B ADVANCED DATABASE APPLICATIONS I 12:00 am-1:00 pm Kusch J., Hartel P., Hartmann T., Saake G.; Germany Gaining a Uniform View of Different Integration Aspects in a Prototyping Environment Yang J., Papazoglou M.P.; Australia A Frame-Based Approach for Interoperation Support in Multidatabase Systems SESSION 1 C PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS I 12:00 am-1:00 pm Coenen F.P., Finch I., Shave M.J.R., Bench-Capon T.J.M.; United Kingdom Developing Distributed Database Applications Using TSL Boehm C., Oppitz A., Vogel P., Wiesener S.; Germany Prints of the 17th Century in a Distributed Digital Library System 1:00 - 2:30 pm LUNCH SESSION 2 A OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Pastor Lopez O., Ramos Salavert I., Canos Cerda J.H.; Spain OASIS v2: A Class Definition Language to Model Information Systems Using an Object-Oriented Approach Breche P., Ferrandina F., Kuklok M.; Germany Simulation of Schema and Database Modifications Using Views Di Loreto F., Ferri F., Massari F., Rafanelli M.; Italy A Visual Object-Oriented Query Language for Geographic Information Systems SESSION 2 B ADVANCED DATABASE APPLICATIONS II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Kagawa O., Katayama K., Konomi S., Kambayashi Y.; Japan Capturing Essential Questions Using Question Support Facilities in VIEW Classroom de Korvin A., Quirchmayr G., Hashemi S.; USA, Austria A Fuzzy Model of Managerial Decision Making Incorporating Risk and Ambiguity Aversion Krueger T., Kurian G., Nair A., Neumann G., Neumerkel U., Nusser S., Reintjes P., Taylor A., Tzoar D., Walker A.; USA People Oriented Software Technology and Ist Use in Environmental Reporting SESSION 2 C PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Hameurlain A., Morvan F.; France A Cost Evaluator for Parallel Database Systems Tan K.-L., Yu J.X.; Singapore, Australia A Performance Study of Declustering Strategies for Parallel Spatial Databases 4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee Break SESSION 3 A OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES III 4:30 - 6:00 pm Kempe J., Kowarschick W., Kiessling W., Hitzelberger R., Dutkowski F.; Germany Benchmarking Object-Oriented Database Systems for CAD Pernul G., Hasenauer H.; Austria Combining Reverse with Classical Forward Database Engineering: An Object-Oriented Approach to Solve the Legacy System Dilemma Darmont J., Attoui A., Gourgand M.; France Performance Evaluation for Clustering Algorithms in Object-Oriented Databases SESSION 3 B ADVANCED DATABASE APPLICATIONS III 4:30 - 5:30 pm Naqvi W., Panyiotou S.; United Kingdom Applied Active Databases for Evolving Image Processing Algorithms Beattie B., Coenen F., Bench-Capon T.J.M., Diaz B.M., Shave M.J.R.; United Kingdom Spatial Reasoning for GIS Using a Tesseral Data Representation SESSION 3 C PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS III 4:30 - 5:30 pm Kim J.-K., Chang J.-W.; Korea Design and Performance Evaluation of a New Dynamic Signature File Method in Parallel Processing Environments Yahata C., Takizawa M.; Japan General Protocols for Consensus in Distributed Systems C O N F E R E N C E D I N N E R at Hartfield House THURSDAY, September 7, 1995 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SESSION 4 A OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELLING 10:00 - 11:30 am Naja H., Mouaddib N.; France The Multiple Representation of Objects in an Architectural Application Souza dos Santos C.; France Design and Implementation of Object-Oriented Views Vandenberghe R., Gilbert L., De Caluwe R.; Belgium Integrating Vagueness in an Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model SESSION 4 B INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 10:00 - 11:30 am Francois P.; France Structured Document (SGML/HyTime) Management Systems: Requirements and Data Modelling Using Object-Oriented Database Concepts Macleod I.A., Narine D.; Canada A Depository for Structured Text Objects Signore O.; Italy Issues on Hypertext Design SESSION 4 C THEORETICAL ASPECTS 10:00 - 11:30 am Becker P.; Germany A Temporal Logic Based Approach for Querying Lists, Trees, and DAGs in Databases Buccafurri F., Leone N., Palopoli L., Rullo P.; Italy Disjunctive Ordered Logic Du X., Ishii N.; Japan An Algebraic Rewriting Theorem of Multiple Linear Recursions and Its Applications 11:30 - 12:00 am Coffee Break SESSION 5 A EXTENDED RELATIONAL DATABASES I 12:00 am-1:00 pm Bhargava B., Goel S.; USA A Layered Architecture for Supporting Objects in a Relational System: A Performance Study Bellavia G., Maio D., Rizzi S.; Italy An SQL Extension Supporting User Viewpoints SESSION 5 B EXPERT AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS I 12:00 am-1:00 pm Boucher C., Daul C., Graebling P., Hirsch E.; France KBED: A Knowledge-Based Edge Detection System Debenham J.; Australia Understanding Expert Systems Maintenance SESSION 5 C APPLICATIONS I 12:00 am-1:00 pm Abel M., Reategui E.B., de Castilho J.M.V., Campbell J.; Brazil, United Kingdom Evaluating Case-Based Reasoning in a Geological Domain Bardis L., Grigoropoulos G., Kokkotos S., Loukakis T., Spyropoulos C., Vouros G.; Greece An Expert Loading System for Chemical and Product Carriers 1:00 - 2:30 pm LUNCH SESSION 6 A EXTENDED RELATIONAL DATABASES II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Gazzotti D., Piancastelli L., Sartori C., Beneventano D.; Italy FuzzyBase: A Fuzzy Logic Aid for Relational Database Queries Mechkour M.; France EMIR2: An Extended Model for Image Representation and Retrieval SESSION 6 B EXPERT AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Fleury L., Djeraba C., Briand H., Philippe J.; France Rule Evaluations in a KDD System Miller A.M.J., Gray W.A., Fiddian N.J.; United Kingdom Object-Oriented Knowledge Based Imputation Motro A., Goullioud S.; USA Database Knowledge Organization to Support Browsing and Discovery SESSION 6 C APPLICATIONS II 2:30 - 4:00 pm Cesarini F., Gori M., Marinai S., Soda G.; Italy Data Extraction from Form Images Choquette M., Poulin D., Bratley P.; Canada Compiling Legal Hypertexts Eaglestone B.; United Kingdom Composition Tools Integration with a Music Database System 4:00 - 4:30 pm Coffee Break PANEL DISCUSSION 4:30 - 6:30 pm Chair: Quirchmayr G. Integration, Document Management, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work Panelists: Bench-Capon T., Bhargava B., Kambayashi Y., Revell N. FRIDAY, September 8, 1995 SESSION 7 A EXTENDED RELATIONAL DATABASES III 10:00 - 11:00 am Soutou C.; France Database Reverse Engineering: Extraction of an IFO2 Schema from a Relational Database Sukan E., Ozsoyoglu Z.M.; USA Extended Set Operators for Nested Relations and Complex Objects SESSION 7 B PHYSICAL ASPECTS I 10:00 - 11:00 am Aritsugi M., Teramoto K., Bai G., Makinouchi A.; Japan Several Implementations of Persistent Pointers in a Memory-Mapped I/O Environment Choenni S., Wagterveld H., Blanken H.M., Chang T.; The Netherlands TOPYDE: A Tool for Physical Database Design Sohn Y., Moon S.; Korea Tightly Secure Transaction Scheduler in Multi-Level Secure Database Management Systems SESSION 7 C APPLICATIONS III 10:00 - 11:00 am Gross T., Traunmueller R.; Austria Some Considerations on Problem Dimensions in Design Kueng J., Wagner R., Woess W.; Austria A Rule-Driven Transformation Processor for Bill of Material Data 11:00 - 11:30 am Coffee Break SESSION 8 A APPLICATIONS IV 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Lee S.-H., Kambayashi Y.; Japan Functions of VIEW Conf to Support Dynamic Features of Meetings Maio D., Rizzi S.; Italy CICERO: An Assistant for Planning Visits to a Museum Medeiros C.B., Vossen G., Weske M.; Brazil, Germany WASA: A Workflow-Based Architecture to Support Scientific Database Applications Winiwarter W.; Austria MIDAS - The Morphological Component of the IDA System for Efficient Natural Language Interface Design SESSION 8 B PHYSICAL ASPECTS II 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Manolopoulos Y., Vakali A.; Greece Partial Match Retrieval in Two-Headed Disk Systems de Ferreira Rezende F., Haerder T.; Germany Concurrency Control in Nested Transactions with Enhanced Lock Models for KBMSs Youssef M.W., Revell N.; United Kingdom A Measure for Measure SESSION 8 C APPLICATIONS V 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Teufel S., Eloff J.H.P., Bauknecht K., Karagiannis D.; Switzerland, South Africa, Austria Information Security in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Preucil L., Stepan P.; Czech Republic An Intelligent Self-Guided Vehicle for CIM Systems Campr V., Kouba Z., Vlcek T.; Czech Republic Information System for Onco-Pathology: From an Expert System to WWW +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DEXA'95 REGISTRATION FORM Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment. Last Name: First Name: Title: (Dr./Mr./Mrs./Ms./Prof.): Company: Address: City: State: Zip/Postal Code: Country: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Payment in ATS (Austrian Schillings) (Please indicate method of payment): __ Personal Check __ Bank transfer to: Raiffeisenbank Linz-Traun (bank no.34500), account no. 5.711.098 __ Charge my credit card (VISA, MC, AMEX) ADVANCE (Received by July 15, 1995): Registration __ Reduced (ATS 5000) __Regular (ATS 5500) LATE/ONSITE (Received after July 15, 1995): Registration __ Reduced (ATS 5500) __ Regular (ATS 6000) Charge my Credit Card (VISA, MC, AMEX): Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: Send registration form with fee (make checks payable to DEXA 95): DEXA 95 Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing University of Linz Altenbergerstrasse 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria (Reduced fee for members of Universities, GI, OCG) For fulltime students under 25 years a 50%-reduction is available. For British participants it is possible to pay in Pound Sterling to: G. Wagner (DEXA 95) Account no. 51362771 Midland Bank PLC (Code 40 05 30) Pottery & Princess Str. London EC2P 2BX Regular fee Pound Sterling 355,- Pound Sterling 385,- Reduced fee Pound Sterling 325,- Pound Sterling 355,- ORGANISATION OF THE CONFERENCE The number of papers submitted to DEXA has seen a significant increase over the last few years. Accordingly it was decided to extend the conference to 5 days. This has permitted a refocussing on theory and applications. Accordingly the first 2 days of the conference are designated as workshop sessions where we have included papers which are primarily concerned with the applications of database and expert systems technology and very specialised topics. CONFERENCE SITE The Trent park campus of Middlesex University is a historic English Country Mansion located in over 1000 acres of parkland. Built originally in the 18th Century as a private house it is now a major campus of the University and has recently been restored to its original decor. Middlesex University is one of the largest UK Universities with some 20,000 students over a number of campus sites in north London. The conference can be easily reached by public transport using the Piccadilly underground line to Oakwood which is 25 minutes from central London. A special shuttle bus service will convey delegates from Oakwood underground station to the conference between 9 and 10 am. At other times it is possible to walk (1 km) or to take a taxi from Oakwood station. CONFERENCE DINNER AT HATFIELD HOUSE Hatfield House is one of the oldest Grand Houses in England and dates back to the 15th Century when the original Hall was built. It has been the home of the Salisbury family since that time and one of its most famous residents was indeed Queen Elizabeth the first. During the reign of Charles the second Samuel Pepys the diarist was a frequent visitor. The conference dinner takes place in the banqueting suite in the medieval dining room beneath an original oak beamed roof. ACCOMMODATION Basic student accommodation is available at the Trent Park Campus at a cost of Pound Sterling 322 (ATS 350,-) per night including breakfast. This comprises single rooms but with shared bathrooms. Alternatively delegates may wish to stay in London where there is a wide choice of Hotel accommodation available. If your local travel agent is not able to provide a package including hotel accommodation in London then the following Hotel reservation agencies are able to provide rooms at discount: British Hotel Reservation Centre Tel.: ++44(1)71 828 2425 Fax: ++44(1)71 828 6439 Thomas Cook Booking Office Tel.: ++44(1)71 945 6000 Fax: ++44(1)71 945 6016 Forte Tel.: ++44 345 404040 It is more convenient for access to the conference if you choose a hotel which is close to a Piccadilly line underground station. ******************************************* D E X A Conference Organization Office ******************************************* Gabriela Wagner FAW, University of Linz A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel.: +43(732)244962 Fax: +43(732)243989 e-mail: gabriela@faw.uni-linz.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Fri Jun 16 15:41:50 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:41:47 -0500; AA19999 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:41:47 -0500 From: keulen@cs.utwente.nl (Maurice van Keulen) Message-Id: <9506162041.AA03135@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 16 Jun 95 15:41:47 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu The deadline of the EDBT'96 conference has been postponed till June 29, 1995. This deadline is a firm one. Five copies (no postscript submissions allowed) in English of an original, unpublished paper, limited to 5000 words, should be submitted before this date to: Prof. Peter Apers Computer Science Dept., University of Twente P.O. Box 217 - 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands Email: edbt96@cs.utwente.nl The other important dates remain unchanged: September 1, 1995 deadline of tutorial proposals September 22, 1995 notification of acceptance November 1, 1995 camera-ready copy due. More details about the conference can be found on WWW: http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/edbt/ Maurice van Keulen (edbt96@cs.utwente.nl) -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Maurice van Keulen University of Twente | | Subdepartment: Information Systems Dept. of Computer Science | | Room: INF 3034 P.O. 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