From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 19 10:48:02 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:47:56 -0500; AA11779 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:47:55 -0500 From: ong@trilogy.com (Kayliang Ong) Message-Id: <9506191547.AA07037@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:47:55 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ================================================================================ KDOOD Announcements ================================================================================ Due to the extended deadline for the DOOD'95 conference, we have postponed the deadline for workshop from June 1, 1995 to <<< July 1, 1995. >>> This KDOOD CALL-FOR-PAPER can also be found on WWW: http://www.cs.concordia.ca/kdood.html This www page consists of more colorful description of the CFP. For those who are interested to submit papers or participate in the workshop, the web page will be updated frequently to reflect any new information. ** PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT ** ** BY VISITING THE PAGE. ** ================================================================================ 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 ENCOURAGE 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, Trilogy, 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 July 1995 - Final submission date for papers 21 August 1995 - Notification 4 September 1995 - Workshop programs completed 18 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, Trilogy Development Group, USA. For further information and ELECTRONIC submission, please send to: KayLiang Ong Trilogy Development Group 6034, West Courtyard Drive, Suite 130 Austin, Texas 78730 Phone: 512-794-5900 ext. 214 Email: ong@trilogy.com For HARDCOPY submission, please send to: Raymond Ng Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 Phone: 604-822-2394. Fax: 604-822-5485. Email: rng@cs.ubc.ca ================================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 10:50:19 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:50:11 -0500; AA11812 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:50:09 -0500 From: Gerard Ellis Message-Id: <9506191550.AA07087@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 10:50:09 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Please find below the programme for KRUSE. A postscript version can be ftp'ed ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au /pub/rmit/KRUSE/KRUSE.ps.Z Also the KRUSE home page on the World Wide Web is http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/KRUSE/ Regards, Gerard -- Gerard Ellis ged@cs.rmit.edu.au ph:61-3-660-5090 FAX:61-3-662-1617 Rm:10.9.11 WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ged Computer Science Dept, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, AUSTRALIA ______________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International KRUSE Symposium ___ Knowledge Retrieval, Use, and Storage for Efficiency ___ University of California, Santa Cruz August 11-13 1995 Sponsored by: MPR Teltech Ltd, Burnaby, Canada. IBM, Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose. University of California at Santa Cruz. Royal Melbourne University of Technology, Australia. Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada. THEME The symposium is a forum for exploring current research in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and databases that pertains to the organization, encoding and retrieval of logical and complex objects. The symposium draws together researchers from diverse disciplines as well as practitioners engaged in developing real object-oriented term classification systems. The basic questions to be addressed include o classification of objects in a taxonomy: systemic classification, semantic indexing, partial-order sorting, description identification, and taxonomy maintenance. o efficient order, lattice, graph, and code theoretic operations on objects: subsumption, generalization, specialization, least common generalization, and greatest common specialization. o advanced uses of taxonomies: knowledge compression, knowledge compilation, and knowledge evolution. o using classified knowledge: classification as problem solving, classification as constraint satisfaction, and exploiting abstraction. o scalable techniques for large object databases o integration of data and knowledge base technologies The symposium maintains a balance between theoretical issues and descriptions of implemented systems providing a balance between theory and practice. The focus of the symposium is on efficiency of retrieval, use and storage of knowledge. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Veronica Dahl (Co-Chair) Gerard Ellis, RMIT (Program Chair) Director, Logic and Functionall Computer Science Dept. Programming Group Royal Melbourne Inst of Technology Professor, Computing Sciences Dept. GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Simon Fraser University Australia Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA veronica@cs.sfu.ca ged@cs.rmit.edu.au Phone (604) 291-3372 Phone: 61-3-660-5090 Fax (604) 291-3045 Fax: 61-3-662-1617 Andrew Fall (Co-Chair) Robert Levinson (Local Arrangements Chair) School of Computing Science Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences Simon Fraser University 229 Applied Sciences Building Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA University of California fall@cs.sfu.ca Santa Cruz, CA 95064 U.S.A. Phone: (604) 291-4302 levinson@cis.ucsc.edu Fax: (604) 291-3045 Phone: (408) 429-2087 Fax: 459-4829 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mohan Ahuja (USA) Robert Levinson (USA) Hassan Ait-Kaci (Canada) Patrick Lincoln (USA) Franz Baader (Germany) Robert MacGregor (USA) Yves Caseau (France) Deborah McGuinness (USA) Darrell Conklin (Canada) Guy Mineau (Canada) Veronica Dahl (Canada) Werner Nutt (Germany) Francesco Donini (Italy) Peter Patel-Schneider (USA) Gerard Ellis (Australia) Raghu Ramakrishnan (USA) Andrew Fall (Canada) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Germany) Brian Gaines (Canada) James Schmolze (USA) Jim Hendler (USA) Gert Smolka (Germany) Fritz Lehmann (USA) Leon Sterling (USA) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Auxiliary Reviewers Jamie Andrews (Canada), Lin Padgham (Australia), Alex Borgida (USA), Michel Habib (France), Andreas Podelski (Germany), Rudolf Wille (Germany). CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY August 11 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address and Conference Opening Session 1: Description Logics 9:30 - 10:00 "Towards More Informative Answers in Terminological Logics" Margarida Mamede and Luis Monteiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) 10:00 - 10:30 "Runtime and memory usage performance of description logics" Piet-Hein Speel, Frank van Raalte, Paul E. van der Vet, and Nicolaas J.I. Mars, University of Twente (The Netherlands) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 2: Description Logics 11:00 - 11:30 "Implementing and Testing Expressive Description Logics: A Preliminary Report" Paolo Bresciani, Enrico Franconi and Sergio Tessaris, IRST (Italy) 11:30 - 12:00 "Integrating a Description Logic System and an Object-Centered Database System" Lin Padgham, (RMIT, Australia), Patrick Lambrix, and Stefan Kalmelid (University of Linkoping, Sweden) 12:00 - 12:15 "Terminological Reasoning by Query Evaluation: A Formal Mapping of a Terminological Logic to an Object Data Model" Ulrich Reimer, P. Lippuner (Swiss Life, Switzerland), M. Norrie, and M. Rys (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 3: Deductive Databases / Classification 1:30 - 1:45 "Natural Deduction of Inheritance in Datalog" Miguel-Angel Oros-Hernandez, Universite de Bordeaux-1 (France) 1:45 - 2:00 "Knowledge Evolution in Deductive Databases" Danilo Montesi (Imperial College, UK) and Franco Turini (Universita di Pisa, Italy) 2:00 - 2:15 "Self-Organizing Knowledge Bases: The Integration Based Approach" Adil Kabbaj, Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2:15 - 2:30 "Objects, types and constraints as classification schemes" Cecile Capponi, Jerome Euzenat and Jerome Gensel, INRIA, Grenoble (France) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 4: Classification 3:00 - 3:30 "Classification and Representation of Types in TDL" Hans-Ulrich Krieger, DFKI, Saarbrucken (Germany) 3:30 - 4:00 "A Computational Model for the Efficient Retrieval of Very Large Structure-Based Knowledge Bases" Jose F. Quesada (Centro Informatico Cientifica de Andalucia, Spain) and Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) 4:00 - 4:15 "Efficient Knowledge Base Reasoning with Transitive DAGs" Jutta Eusterbrock, GMD, Darmstadt (Germany) 4:15 - 5:30 Panel Discussion: ... 5:30 Reception SATURDAY August 12 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 5: Matching/Defaults/Legibility 9:00 - 9:30 "Improving the Legibility of Knowledge Bases" Florence Lemaire, INRIA (France) 9:30 - 10:00 "Defaults in concept definitions: an application" Pascal Coupey and Christophe Fouquere, Universite Paris-Nord (France) 10:00 - 10:30 "Parallel Matching of Knowledge Structures" William A. Andersen and James A. Hendler (University of Maryland, USA) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 6: Encoding Methods 11:00 - 11:30 "Heterogenous Encoding" Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 11:30 - 12:00 "Embedding Partially Ordered Sets in Product of Chains" Michel Habib, Marianne Huchard and Lhouari Nourine, LIRMM, Universite Montpellier II (France) 12:00 - 12:15 "An Abstract Framework for Taxonomic Encoding" Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 7: Concept Analysis/ Compression 1:30 - 2:00 "Computing a Minimal Representation of the Subsumption Lattice of All Conjunctions of Concepts Defined in a Terminology" Franz Baader, RWTH Aachen (Germany) 2:00 - 2:30 "Incremental Structuring of Knowledge Bases" Robert Godin (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada), Guy Mineau (Universite Laval, Canada), and Rokia Missaoui ((Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada) 2:30 - 2:45 "Issues in the Efficient Use of a Relation Ontology for Conceptual Reasoning" Chris Nowak and Peter W. Eklund, University of Adelaide (Australia) 2:45 - 3:00 "On Compressing Databases Using Multi-Field Pattern Matching" Weizhen Mao and Rahul Simha (College of William and Mary, USA) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session 8: Demonstrations 3:30 - 5:30 Demonstration of implemented systems. 5:30 Reception SUNDAY August 13 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 9: Conceptual Graphs / Graphical Formalisms 9:00 - 9:30 "The Search for Polynomial Projection of Conceptual Graphs" Mark Willems, Free University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 9:30 - 10:00 "Formalization of graphical schemas for conceptual modelling: General sketch-based logic vs. heuristic pictures" B. Cadish and Z. Diskin, Frame Inform Systems (Latvia) 10:00 - 10:15 "An Activity-based Ontology using Conceptual Graphs" Alexandra Galatescu ICI-Research Institute for Informatics (Romania) 10:15 - 10:30 "Agreement graph dependencies and their application to object-oriented design" John Leuchner and Rattikorn Hewett (Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Less Miller and Giora Slutzki (Iowa State University, USA) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 10: Conceptual Graphs and Description Logics 11:00 - 12:00 "On the relationship between Conceptual graphs and Description Logics" Gerard Ellis (RMIT) and Lin Padgham (RMIT) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 2: Panel Discussion 1:30 - 2:00 Panel: Conceptual Graphs vs Description Logics 2:00 - 2:30 Symposium Close 3:00 Reception This programme and the latest information regarding KRUSE can be found on the World Wide Web under http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/KRUSE/ Information regarding the related 3rd International Conference on Conceptual Structures ICCS95, August 14-18, 1995, University of California, Santa Cruz, can be found on the World Wide Web under http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/ICCS95/ ***************************************************************************** AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION Alpha Cab: 408-295-8001 Santa Cruz Airporter: (a shuttle) 408-423-1234 Auto Rental: Auto World: 408-423-9830 725 Soquel Ave. Santa Cruz. Budget Rent-A-Car: 408-425-1808 919 Ocean Street - Santa Cruz DIRECTIONS: 1. From San Francisco: Take 101 South to Highway 880 South which turns into Highway 17 at San Jose. You'll drive over the scenic Santa Cruz mountains on Highway 17 right into Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. 2. From San Jose. Take Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains into the heart of Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. 3. From Monterey. Take Highway 1 North through the fertile agricultural area of the Pajaro Valley to Santa Cruz. 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RETURN BY JULY 15, 1995 TO: Kruse95-registration Prof. Robert Levinson 225 Applied Sciences Building Department of Computer and Information Sciences. University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 408-459-2087 FAX: 408-459-4829 e-mail: levinson@cse.ucsc.edu **************************************************************************** APARTMENT RESERVATION FORM Kruse'95 August 11-12, 1995 University of California Santa Cruz Housing Please reserve the following accommodations: (Base rates are per person, per room, per night). ___ $70.25 Single Occupancy - basic $84.25 -deluxe (send $140.50 for two days) (send $169.00 for two days) ___ $58.25 Double Occupancy - basic $71.50 - deluxe (send $116.50 for two days) (send $143.00 for two days) Basic includes fresh towels and linens but no housekeeping. Deluxe includes full daily house-keeping. Three dining hall meals per day are included with housing payment. Apartment guests must register for at least the nights of Aug. 11 and Aug. 12. In addition you may register for Aug. 10 and Aug. 13. August 10? __________ August 13? ___________ (if registering for these nights - increase your deposit accordingly). ___ Smoking ___ Non-smoking Desired Roomate ____________ (if doubling). [Roommate will be assigned if not specified.] ___ Deposit check enclosed in the amount of $ ____________ (send amount indicated above.) Name: ___________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Telephone: _________________________________________ Fax: ______________________________________________ SEND BY JULY 15, 1994 TO: Housing Reservations - Kruse 95 Prof. Robert Levinson 225 Applied Sciences Building Department of Computer and Information Sciences. University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 408-459-2087 FAX: 408-459-4829 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 12:40:11 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:40:06 -0500; AA13582 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:40:05 -0500 From: guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Oliver Guenther) Message-Id: <9506191740.AA07922@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:40:05 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Call for Position Papers: OOPSLA'95 Workshop on Objects, Scripts and the Web Austin, Texas---Sunday, October 15, 1995 Relevant URLs: Workshop : http://www.cerc.wvu.edu/~fuchs/oopsla-scripts.html http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~rmueller/oopsla-scripts.html OOPSLA'95 : http://info.acm.org/sig_forums/sigplan/oopsla/oopsla95.html Overview: The World Wide Web and its browsers have made it a lot easier to use high-capacity wide area networks to exchange information, but there has been a shift to providing not only data, but also more complex *services*. This workshop will examine issues surrounding the use of object-oriented programming and scripting to install and access services on the Web. Goals and Focus: Typically, services are made available on the WWW through the use of scripting languages. TCL and Perl, neither of which is object-oriented, are common choices. Python, STk, and the recently released java language, are object-oriented contenders. Scripting thus provides dynamic functionality to an otherwise static environment. Scripts are the tip of the iceberg: fast to write and change, with the bulk of the work done below the waterline by compiled code (although that line is sometimes hard to draw). Scripting languages can also be used to provide interfaces to object-based and object-oriented environments. More recently, languages such as Telescript have been put forward as Agent programming languages. Questions to be discussed include: How can object-oriented programming and scripting enable network-centric computing, including mobile agent, intelligent agent, and client/server solutions? How can they be used to develop open, Internet-based alternatives to proprietary agent technologies? Where are scripts appropriate? Where are other approaches preferable, such as software interfaces that translate HTTP to service-specific messages. Will object standards, such as CORBA, or object-oriented operating systems, help or hinder scripting? How can these approaches be used to set up a market for computational objects, in which consumers, brokers and vendors access, arrange and provide services? Requirements for attendance: Prospective participants should submit a 3 page position paper, preferably by email, to one of the two addresses given below by August 15. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by September 1. Organizers: George Almasi, CERC, (almasi@cerc.wvu.edu) Hemant Bhargava, NPS, (bhargava@cs.nps.navy.mil) Gary Cole, IBM Glendale Lab Matthew Fuchs, CERC (fuchs@cerc.wvu.edu) Oliver Guenther, HU Berlin (guenther@wiwi.hu-berlin.de) V. "Juggy" Jagannathan, CERC, (juggy@cerc.wvu.edu) Ramayya Krishnan, CMU (rk2x+@andrew.cmu.edu) Rudolf Mueller, HU Berlin (rmueller@wiwi.hu-berlin.de) Charles Petrie, Stanford (petrie@cdr.stanford.edu) Steve Pritko, IBM Glendale Lab Submissions to: Matthew Fuchs Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University 886 Chestnut Ridge Road P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: (304)293-7226 Fax: (304)293-7541 Email: fuchs@cerc.wvu.edu Rudolf Mueller Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Spandauer Str. 1, D-10178 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49-30-2468-317 Fax: +49-30-2468-341 E-Mail: rmueller@wiwi.hu-berlin.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 19 12:40:36 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:40:33 -0500; AA13589 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:40:32 -0500 From: "Christian S. Jensen" Message-Id: <9506191740.AA07927@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 12:40:32 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ====================================================================== GENERAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================================================================== INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TEMPORAL DATABASES In cooperation with The VLDB Endowment, Inc. Zurich, Switzerland -- September 17-18, 1995 Supported by ARPA/NSF, Aalborg University and ETH Zurich A Message from the General and Steering Committee Chairs -------------------------------------------------------- On behalf of the team of organizers, it is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Workshop on Temporal Databases. The workshop will provide an exciting forum for leading researchers and practitioners to get together to discuss the state-of-the-art in research, applications, and standards and infrastructure in the area of temporal database management. The workshop comes at a time when recent, significant advances in this field are poised to have a major impact on the commercial database products of the near future, and is intended to serve as a forum for disseminating research and experience in this rapidly advancing area. It is our hope that you will attend. The workshop will be held in cooperation with The VLDB Endowment, Inc., and it immediately follows VLDB'95 in Zurich. This allows the participants to maximize their interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practitioners across the entire field of database research and development. In addition to featuring a high-quality technical program, the workshop also includes a reception on Saturday evening, lunch and dinner on Sunday, and refreshments throughout the workshop, all covered by the registration fee. Last but not least, both the proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag, and a book on the TSQL2 Temporal Query Language are included. To maintain a true workshop setting, with ample opportunity for interaction and discussion, participation has been limited to 50. Authors of accepted papers and individuals helping organize the workshop (e.g., PC members) have been given a head start on registration. However, with the release of this General Call for Participation, registration will proceed on a first-come, first-served basis. We hope to see you in Zurich in September. Christian S. Jensen Arie Segev General Chair Steering Committee Chair PS. The workshop will maintain a web page, with up-to-date information about the workshop, at "http://www.iesd.auc.dk/~kock/TempDB95/". ================ WORKSHOP PROGRAM ================ The workshop is preceded by an informal welcome reception on Saturday evening. The technical program starts on Sunday morning and ends on Monday afternoon. During Sunday and Monday, a total of eight sessions are scheduled, with two panels and eighteen paper presentations. The preliminary workshop schedule is shown below. Saturday, September 16 19.00 - 21.00 Informal Pre-Workshop Reception, including pre-registration WORKSHOP DAY ONE: Sunday, September 17 8.00 - 8.30 Registration 8.30 - 10.15 Paper Session 1: Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Data Models * V. Brusoni, L. Console, B. Pernici, P. Terenziani (Italy) Extending Temporal Relational Databases to Deal with Imprecise and Qualitative Temporal Information * C. Claramunt, M. Thiriault (Switzerland, Canada) Managing Time in GIS: An Event-Oriented Approach * S. Abiteboul, L. Herr, J. van den Bussche (France) Temporal Connectives Versus Explicit Timestamps in Temporal Query Languages 10.15 - 10.45 Break 10.45 - 12.30 Paper Session 2: Temporal Constraints * J. Wijsen (Belgium) Design of Temporal Relational Databases Based on Dynamic and Temporal Functional Dependencies * M. Gertz and U. W. Lipeck (Germany) "Temporal" Integrity Constraints in Temporal Databases * M. Koubarakis (England) Databases and Temporal Constraints: Semantics and Complexity 12.30 - 14.00 Workshop Lunch 14.15 - 16.00 Paper Session 3: Critical Evaluations of TSQL2 * I. Androutsopoulos, G.D. Ritchie, P. Thanisch (Scotland) Experience Using TSQL2 in a Natural Language Interface * W. Harris and W.A. Gray (England, Wales) Using Temporal Constructs in Temporal Databases * M. H. Bvhlen, C. S. Jensen, R. T. Snodgrass (USA, Denmark) Evaluating the Completeness of TSQL2 16.00 - 16.30 Break 16.30 - 17.30 Panel 1: Whither SQL3 Moderator: R. T. Snodgrass, University of Arizona Panelists: J. Clifford, Stern School of Business, New York University U. Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs A. Segev, University of California, Berkeley 19.30 - Dinner WORKSHOP DAY DAY TWO: Monday, September 18 8.30 - 10.15 Paper Session 4: Alternative Views on Temporal Data Models * C. Davies, B. Lazell, and L. Cooper (England) Time is Just Another Attribute --- Or At Least, Just Another Dimension * J. Clifford, A. Croker, F. Grandi, A. Tuzhilin (USA, Italy) On Temporal Grouping * D. Schmidt, R. Marti, A. Kotz Dittrich, W. Dreyer (Switzerland) Time Series, A Neglected Issue in Temporal Database Research? 10.15 - 10.45 Break 10.45 - 12.30 Paper Session 5: Implementation Issues for Temporal DBMS's * A. Kumar, V. J. Tsotras, C. Faloutsos (USA) Access Methods for Bi-Temporal Databases * C. Vassilakis, N. Lorentzos, P. Georgiadis (Greece) Transaction Support in a Temporal DBMS * C. De Castro, F. Grandi, M.R. Scalas (Italy) On Schema Versioning in Temporal Databases 12.30 - 13.45 Lunch (on your own) 14.00 - 15.45 Paper Session 6: Potpourri * R. Hjelsvold, R. Midtstraum, O. Sandste (Norway) A Temporal Foundation of Video Databases * T. Y. C. Leung and H. Pirahesh (USA) Querying Historical Data in IBM DB2 C/S DBMS Using Recursive SQL * I. Motakis and C. Zaniolo (USA) Composite Temporal Events in Active Databases: A Formal Semantics 15.45 - 16.15 Break 16.15 - 18.15 Panel 2: The State-of-the-Art in Temporal Data Management: Perspectives from the Research and Financial Applications Communities (and Workshop wrap-up) Moderator: J. Clifford, Stern School of Business, New York University PART I: Current State of Temporal Data Management Infrastructure Panelists: C. S. Jensen, Aalborg University R. T. Snodgrass, University of Arizona M. H. Bvhlen, University of Arizona PART II: Current State of Temporal Data Management in Financial Applications Panelists: H. Dewan, Morgan Stanley D. Schmidt, Union Bank of Switzerland TBA ============================== LOCATION AND TRAVEL DIRECTIONS ============================== Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland with about 400,000 inhabitants, is located on the north side of the Zurich Lake. Zurich county (in German, "Kanton") has about 1.1 million inhabitants. Zurich's climate is mild, with temperatures ranging between -10 and 5 degrees (Celsius) in January and 15 and 30 degrees in July. The airport of Zurich is a major international hub and a destination for more than 150 airlines from all over the world. Frequent train connections exist between Zurich and many European cities. In addition, Zurich itself is famous for its convenient and comfortable public transportation services. Additional information about Zurich is available from the web page of VLDB'95, "http://josef.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/dbtg/vldb95/zh.html". The workshop will be held in the Computer Science Building of ETH Zurich, close to the city center (room IFW A36). The Workshop location and the VLDB'95 Conference location are only 2-3 km apart, making it quite convenient for participants at both the Workshop and VLDB'95 to stay at the same hotel during the entire visit. The international Zurich-Kloten Airport is situated just 11 km (7 miles), or ca. 10 minutes by train (SBB) from from the city center. Trains for the Zurich mainstation (Zurich Hauptbahnhof, Zurich HB) depart frequently from the airport train station. The City of Zurich Public Transport System ("VBZ Zueri-Linie") operates a modern and comprehensive tram and bus network. To reach the workshop location from the main train station in the center of the city (tram stop "Bahnhofstrasse"), take tram 7 in the direction "Bahnhof Stettbach" and get off at the second stop, "Haldenegg". (Other tram lines which stop at "Haldenegg" are numbers 6, 10, and 15.) The Computer Science Building of ETH (IFW) is a modern U-shaped building located at "Haldeneggsteig", a narrow and steeply ascending one-way street off the northern end of the "Haldenegg" junction. Tickets (day cards, single tickets for short or long distances) must be obtained from one of the ticket machines or at a SBB desk before you commence your journey. They cannot be purchased on the vehicles. Tickets to get from the airport to the city center are CHF 5.10 (valid for 2 hrs) and CHF 10.20 (valid for 24 hrs) and can also be used for trams and buses. ===================== WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION ===================== General Chair: Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Program Chair: James Clifford, New York University, USA Steering Committee: Arie Segev (Chair), UC Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA James Clifford, New York University, USA Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Tamer Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY Niki Pissinou, University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA Richard T. Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA Program Committee : Gad Ariav, Tel Aviv University, Israel Jan Chomicki, Kansas State University, USA Albert Croker, Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY, USA Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Shashi K. Gadia, Iowa State University, USA Fabio Grandi, Universita di Bologna, Italy Matthias Jarke, University of Aachen, Germany Wolfgang Kafer, Daimler Benz, Germany T. Y. Cliff Leung, IBM Santa Teresa Lab, USA David Lomet, DEC Cambridge Research Lab, USA Nikos A. Lorentzos, Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Greece Inderpal Singh Mumick, Bell Laboratories, AT&T, USA Beng-Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore John F. Roddick, University of South Australia, Australia Colette Rolland, Universite de Paris 1, France Ellen Rose, Massey University, New Zealand N. L. Sarda, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Edward Sciore, Boston College, USA Abdullah Uz Tansel, Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY, USA Babis Theodoulidis, University of Manchester, England Vassilis J. Tsotras, Polytechnic University, USA Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA Finance Chair: Marianne Baudinet, University of Brussels, Belgium Registration Chair: Andreas Steiner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Chair: Uffe K. Wiil, Aalborg University, Denmark Local Arrangements Chair: Robert Marti, ETH Zurich and Swiss Re, Switzerland Publications Chair: Alexander Tuzhilin, New York University, USA ===================== WORKSHOP REGISTRATION ===================== The registration fee is CHF 265 until July 31. After this date, the registration fee will be CHF 300. This registration fee includes: - workshop proceedings (published by Springer-Verlag), - admission to all sessions, - welcome reception on Saturday evening, - lunch on Sunday, - workshop dinner on Sunday evening, - refreshments during the workshop, - "The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language", R. T. Snodgrass (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, 664+xxv pages. Note that you are requested to arrange for your own health and travel insurance. The organizers of the 1995 International Workshop on Temporal Databases will not accept responsibility for accidents or damage suffered by participants and accompanying persons, occurring during or arising from the workshop. Please complete the following form (TYPE or PRINT) and return it with your payment or proof of payment. 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Cancellation Policy ------------------- The workshop registration fee, with a 5% administration charge deducted, will be refunded for cancellations received before July 1, 1995. Cancellations received more than 28 days before the workshop and after July 1, 1995, will require a 50% administration charge. No refunds will be made for cancellations received less than 28 days prior to the workshop. ================= HOTEL RESERVATION ================= NOTE: We suggest that people attending both VLDB'95 and our workshop send their hotel reservations to the official VLDB'95 organizer (MCI Travel) using the VLDB'95 registration form. General information about VLDB'95 (including registration information) is available at "http://josef.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/dbtg/vldb95/vldb95.html". 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A postscript version can be ftp'ed from ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au /pub/rmit/ICCS95/ICCS95.ps.Z Also the programme and registration form can be accessed from the ICCS'95 home page on the World Wide Web http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/ICCS95/ Regards, Gerard -- Gerard Ellis ged@cs.rmit.edu.au ph:61-3-660-5090 FAX:61-3-662-1617 Rm:10.9.11 WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ged Computer Science Dept, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, AUSTRALIA ______________________________________________________________ ADVANCE PROGRAMME 3rd International Conference on Conceptual Structures August 14-18, 1995 University of California, Santa Cruz Sponsored by: IBM, Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose. University of California at Santa Cruz. Royal Melbourne University of Technology, Australia. American Association of Artificial Intelligence AAAI. THEME Conceptual structures are a modern treatment of Charles Sanders Peirce's Existential Graphs which are a graphic notation for classical logic with higher order extensions developed in 1896. Peirce viewed existential graphs as ``his luckiest discovery'' and ``a logic of the future''. John Sowa showed that conceptual graphs can be mapped to classical predicate calculus or order sorted logic, and are thus seen as a (graphic) notation for logic. However, it is the topological nature of formulas (topology was a field Peirce helped develop) which conceptual graphs make clear, and which can be exploited in reasoning and processing. Conceptual graphs are intuitive because they allow humans to exploit their powerful pattern matching abilities to a larger extent than does the classical notation. Conceptual graphs can be viewed as an attempt to build a unified modelling language and reasoning tool. Conceptual graphs can model data, functional and dynamic aspects of systems. They form a unified diagrammatic tool which can integrate Entity-Relationship diagrams, Finite State Machines, Petri Nets, and Dataflow diagrams. ICCS95 home page URL: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/ICCS95/ ORGANISATION Program Chair Local Arrangements Chair Gerard Ellis Robert Levinson Royal Melbourne Univ of Technology Univ of California, Santa Cruz Australia USA ged@cs.rmit.edu.au levinson@cis.ucsc.edu Finance Chair Honorary Chair Bill Rich John Sowa IBM San Jose, California State University of New York USA USA billrich@vnet.ibm.com sowa@turing.pacss.binghamton.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hassan Ait-Kaci (Canada) Dickson Lukose (Australia) Harmen van den Berg (Netherlands) Craig McDonald (Australia) Duane Boning (USA) Guy Mineau (Canada) Boris Carbonneill (France) Jens-Uwe Moeller (Germany) Michel Chein (France) Bernard Moulin (Canada) Key Sun Choi (Korea) Marie Laure Mugnier (France) Peter Creasy (Australia) Jonathan Oh (USA) Walling Cyre (USA) Heike Petermann (Germany) Harry Delugach (USA) Heather Pfeiffer (USA) Judy Dick (USA) James Slagle (USA) Peter Eklund (Australia) Bill Tepfenhart (USA) Bruno Emond (Canada) Eileen Way (USA) Norman Foo (Australia) Michel Wermelinger (Portugal) Brian Gaines (Canada) Mark Willems (Netherlands) Adil Kabbaj (Canada) Walter Wilson (USA) Fritz Lehmann (USA) Vilas Wuwongse (Thailand) Auxiliary Reviewers Alex Bejan (USA) Tao Lin (Australia) Phil Kime (UK) Maurice Pagnucco (Australia) INVITED TALKS Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Contexts John F. Sowa SUNY Binghamton A proposed standard for conceptual graphs is being developed by ANSI Technical Committee X3T2. The standard is based on the common CG core that has been used and implemented in various projects since 1984. Some purists have insisted on perserving a minimal core that is simpler than the 1984 version and closer in spirit to C. S. Peirce's original existential graphs. Others have been trying to increase the expressive power of CGs to match the generalized quantifiers and referents of natural languages, but the various modifications and extensions have introduced incompatibilities. To accommodate both groups, the proposed CG standard will be based on a minimal core that has a simple mapping to predicate calculus and KIF. It will also have an extensibility mechanism for defining generalized quantifiers and referents in a controlled and systematic way. As far as possible, the 1984 syntax and features will be accommodated either by the core or by the extensibility mechanisms. But the extensions will also support some new representations that can be useful for NL semantics, object-oriented systems, and optimized computations. Graphical Logic Hassan Ait-Kaci Simon Fraser University This talk will discuss the graphical nature of structures used in knowledge representation and logic programming. It will draw from my work on the foundations of the LIFE programming language and will emphasize the graph-theoretic underpinnings of the notions of subsumption, approximation, and interpretation. Ontology Revision Norman Foo University of Sydney Knowledge systems are usually static in their ontlogical assumptions. To make them dynamic, there are several levels of theory change that can be considered. Change without the introduction of new concepts is subsumed under existing theories of belief revision. If new concepts have to be introduced, we are in the domain of ontology revision about which very little is known. This talk will briefly outline a widely accepted belief revision meta-logic, then move on to circumstances in which it can be shown that ontology revision is necessary. Connections will be made to classical results in recursion theory and the problem of theoretical terms. Type hierarchies will be used to illustrate some of the main points. A Triadic Approach to Formal Concept Analysis Fritz Lehmann (GRandAI Software, California) and Rudolf Wille (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany) Formal Concept Analysis, as it has been developed during the last fifteen years, is based on a dyadic understanding of a concept constituted by its extension and its intension. It starts with the primitive notion of a formal (or dyadic) context which combines a set of (formal) objects, a set of (formal) attributes and a binary relation between those sets indicating when an object has a certain attribute. A formal concept of such a dyadic context is constituted by its extension formed by objects of that context and by its intension formed by attributes of that context. The formal concepts of a given formal context always form, with respect to the subconcept- superconcept-relation, a complete lattice which is called the concept lattice of the context. In more than 100 projects of application in numerous areas of interest, concept lattices have been activated for analysing and exploring data and knowledge. Recently, those experiences (but also philosophical considerations based on Peirce's pragmatic philosophy) have suggested a triadic approach to formal concept analysis. It starts with the notion of a triadic context combining (formal) objects, attributes and conditions under which objects may have certain attributes. By the Basic Theorem of Triadic Concept Analysis, it has been clarified what kind of structures are formed by the triadic concepts of triadic contexts. The representation of those structures by triadic diagrams has also been studied. Examples of the conceptual analysis of triadic data sets may demonstrate the usefulness of the new approach. Tutorial: Introduction to Conceptual Graphs Gerard Ellis, RMIT In this tutorial we will introduce conceptual graphs as a graphic notation for first order logic. We will illustrate how to define concepts and relationships, and construct concept and relation hierarchies. We will introduce the generalization hierarchy over conceptual graphs and the canonical formation rules which are the foundation of conceptual graph theory. We will examine advanced uses of conceptual graphs for object modelling and object systems. We will show how Peirce's inference rules can be used for reasoning in conceptual graphs. CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Sunday, August 13 Evening 5:30 - 7:30 Free Tutorial: Introduction to Conceptual Graphs Gerard Ellis (Australia) Monday, August 14 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address 9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk 11:00 - 12:00 Session 1: Applications 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) 1:30 - 2:30 Session 2: Natural Language 3:00 - 4:30 Session 3: Natural Language 4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion - Natural Language and CGs 5:30 Reception Tuesday, August 15 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:15 Session 4: Natural Language / Programming in Conceptual Graphs 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Hassan Ait-Kaci 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) 1:30 - 2:30 Session 5: Programming in Conceptual Graphs 3:00 - 4:45 Session 6: Machine Learning / Knowledge Acquisition 4:45 - 5:30 Panel Discussion - Role of Graph Theory in CGs Wednesday, August 16 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 10:30 Session 7: Hardware and Implementation 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Norman Foo 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) 1:30 - 2:30 Session 8: Logic, Existential Graphs and Peirce 3:00 - 5:00 Session 9: Graph Operations Thursday, August 17 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting 9:00 - 10:30 Session 10: Graph Matching / Knowledge Acquisition 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Rudolf Wille 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) 1:30 - 3:00 Session 11: Ontologies and Theory 3:30 - 4:30 Invited Talk - John Sowa 4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting 5:30 Buffet Reception Friday, August 18 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench CONFERENCE PROGRAM MONDAY August 14 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address and Conference Opening 9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 1: Applications 11:00 - 11:30 "Automatic Integration of Digital System Requirements using Schemata" R. Y. Kamath and W. R. Cyre, Virginia Tech (USA) 11:30 - 12:00 "Service Trading Using Conceptual Structures" A. Puder, S. Markwitz and F. Gudermann, University of Frankfurt (Germany) 12:00 - 12:15 "Automated Message Analysis Using the Conceptual Programming Environment, CP" Heather D. Pfeiffer (New Mexico State University, USA) and Bruce J. Waltar (Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Ft. Lewis, USA) 12:15 - 12:30 "Implementation of Multi Agent Systems using Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge and Message Representation: the CoGITo Platform" Ollivier Haemmerle, LIRMM (France) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 2: Natural Language 1:30 - 2:00 "Sentence Generation from Conceptual Graphs" Nicolas Nicolov, Chris Mellish and Graeme Ritchie, University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom) 2:00 - 2:30 "Discourse Spaces: A Pragmatic Interpretation of Contexts" Bernard Moulin, Laval University (Canada) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 3: Natural Language 3:00 - 3:30 "Using the Conceptual Graphs Operations for Natural Language Generation in Medicine" J. C. Wagner, R.H. Baud and J.-R. Scherrer, Hopital Cantonal Universitaire de Geneve (Switzerland) 3:30 - 4:00 "Table 10 left without paying the bill ! a good reason to treat metonymy with conceptual graphs" Tassadit Amghar, Francoise Gayral and Bernard Levrat, Universite de Paris-Nord (France) 4:00 - 4:15 "An Incremental Semantic Parser for Conceptual Graphs" J. T. Sykes, V. Konstantinou and P. L. R. Morse, The University of Westminster (United Kingdom) 4:15 - 4:30 "Modeling cognition with conceptual graphs: Exploring alternative cognitive architectures and modeling natural language processing" Bruno Emond, Universite du Quebec a Hull (Canada) 4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion: Conceptual Graphs in Natural Language 5:30 Reception TUESDAY August 15 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 4: Natural Language / Programming in Conceptual Graphs 9:00 - 9:30 "A Pragmatic Representational Approach of Context and Reference in Discourses" Bernard Moulin, Laval University (Canada) 9:30 - 9:45 "A General Model of Behavior for Conceptual Graph Theory" Adil Kabbaj, Universite de Montreal (Canada) 9:45 - 10:00 "PhiLog: An Implementation of Formula Translator in a Sorted Logic Programming Language" Sait Dogru and James R. Slagle, University of Minnesota (USA) 10:00 - 10:15 "Operational KADS Conceptual Model using Conceptual Graphs and Executable Conceptual Structures" D. Lukose, T. Cross, C. Munday and F. Sobora, The University of New England (Australia) 10:15 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Hassan Ait-Kaci 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 5: Programming in Conceptual Graphs 1:30 - 2:00 "Object Oriented Conceptual Graphs" Gerard Ellis, RMIT (Australia) 2:00 - 2:30 "A Direct Proof Procedure for Definite Conceptual Graph Programs" Bikash Chandra Ghosh and Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 6: Machine Learning / Knowledge Acquisition 3:00 - 3:30 "Conceptual Clustering of Complex Objects: A Generalization Space based Approach" Isabelle Bournaud and Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Universite Paris 6 (France) 3:30 - 3:45 "Gabels: A Learning System Based on a Hypergraph Model" Olivier Brissac and Michel Liquiere, Universite La Reunion (France) 3:45 - 4:00 "Distributive Concept Exploration: A Knowledge Acquisition Tool in Formal Concept Analysis" Gerd Stumme, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany) 4:00 - 4:15 "Links between Electronic Documents and a Knowledge Base of Conceptual Graphs" Philippe Martin, INRIA (France) 4:15 - 4:45 "Using empirical subsumption to reduce the search space in learning" Marc Champesme, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (France) 4:45 - 5:30 Panel Discussion - Role of Graph Theory in Conceptual Graphs WEDNESDAY August 16 8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting Session 7: Hardware and Implementation 9:00 - 9:30 "A New Parallelization of Subgraph Isomorphism Refinement for Classification and Retrieval of Conceptual Structures" James D. Roberts, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA) 9:30 - 10:00 "Transputer Network Implementation of a Parallel Projection Algorithm for Conceptual Graphs" Alfred Chan and P. Kocura, Loughborough (United Kingdom) 10:00 - 10:30 "Spanning Tree Representations of Graphs and Orders in Conceptual Structures" Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Norman Foo 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 8: Logic, Existential Graphs and Peirce 1:30 - 2:00 "Existential Graphs and Dynamic Predicate Logic" Harmen van den Berg, University of Twente (The Netherlands) 2:00 - 2:30 2:30 - 2:45 "Conceptual Graphs and Peirce Logic" John E. Heaton and Pavel Kocura, Loughborough University of Technology (United Kingdom) 2:45 - 3:00 "The Philosophical Context of Peirce's Existential Graphs" Mary Keeler, Seattle (USA) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session 9: Graph Operations / Other Representations 3:30 - 4:00 "An Implementation Model for Contexts and Negation in Conceptual Graphs" John Esch, Unisys Government Systems Group (USA) and Robert A. Levinson, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA) 4:00 - 4:15 "Visual Structure Representation Language for Conceptual Structures" Andrew L. Burrow and Peter W. Eklund, University of Adelaide (Australia) 4:15 - 4:45 "A Linear Descriptor for Conceptual Graphs and a Class for Polynomial Isomorphism Test" Olivier Cogis and Olivier Guinaldo, LIRMM (France) 4:45 - 5:00 "Representing and Querying Complex Conceptual Structures in the Framework of NKRL, the ``Narrative Knowledge Representation Language'' Gian Piero Zarri, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) THURSDAY August 17 Session 10: Graph Matching / Knowledge Acquisition 9:00 - 9:30 "Projection and Unification for Conceptual Graphs" Mark Willems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 9:30 - 10:00 "A Novel Algorithm for Matching Conceptual and Related Graphs" Jonathan Poole and J.A.Campbell, University College London (United Kingdom) 10:00 - 10:30 Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Modelling D.Lukose, G. Mineau, M-L. Mugnier, J-U, Moeller, P. Martin, R. Kremer and Gian Piero Zarri 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Rudolf Wille 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 11: Ontologies and Theory 1:30 - 2:00 "On the Ontology of Knowledge Graphs" C. Hoede, University of Twente (The Netherlands) 2:00 - 2:15 "From Machine Readable Dictionaries to a Lexical Knowledge Base of Conceptual Graphs" Caroline Barriere, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 2:15 - 2:30 "An Algebraic Definition of Conceptual Graphs" Guy W. Mineau, Denis Gauvreau (Universite Laval (Canada)) Rokia Missaoui (Universite du Quebex a Montreal (Canada)) 2:30 - 3:00 "Conceptual Graphs and First-Order Logic" Michel Wermelinger, University Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) 3:00 - 3:15 "Types, Type Hierarchies, and Canonical Graphs" Clark A. Sexton, Kansas State University (USA) 3:15 - 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 - 4:45 Invited Talk - John Sowa 4:45 - 5:15 General Meeting 5:30 Buffet Reception FRIDAY August 18 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 5:00 Fourth PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench Chair: Peter Eklund (Australia) PEIRCE is an international project, the purpose of which is to integrate conceptual graph tool and application development. We shall discuss implementation techniques for conceptual graphs, including databases, programs, language standards, workbench programming standards, dictionaries, and graphical user interfaces. Applications and requirements for natural language processing, information systems engineering, software engineering, and machine learning will be included as well. CONFERENCE LOCATION Santa Cruz is located on scenic Highway 1 at the North tip of beautiful Monterey Bay. San Francisco International Airport (75 min., 65 miles), San Jose International Airport (45 min., 33 miles) and Monterey Peninsula Airport (40 min., 35 miles) are all easy drives to Santa Cruz. ACCOMMODATIONS The conference facility is on the University of California Santa Cruz Campus. Family style apartments near the conference site will be available for participants. To make an apartment reservation please use the registration form on the next page. Additional "economy" rooms in Residence Halls are available through Campus Guest Housing (408)459-2611. Since major conference activities will be in the unique campus setting we highly recommend you arrange to stay on campus. However, local hotels (such as Holiday Inn: 426-7100, $82 and Babbling Brook Bed and Breakfast : 427-2437 $85-165 and others) are within 10-15 minutes of the campus center. Reservations at these or other alternative facilities should be made directly. ***************************************************************************** AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION Alpha Cab: 408-295-8001 Santa Cruz Airporter: (a shuttle) 408-423-1234 Auto Rental: Auto World: 408-423-9830 725 Soquel Ave. Santa Cruz. Budget Rent-A-Car: 408-425-1808 919 Ocean Street - Santa Cruz DIRECTIONS: 1. From San Francisco: Take 101 South to Highway 880 South which turns into Highway 17 at San Jose. You'll drive over the scenic Santa Cruz mountains on Highway 17 right into Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. 2. From San Jose. Take Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains into the heart of Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. 3. From Monterey. Take Highway 1 North through the fertile agricultural area of the Pajaro Valley to Santa Cruz. 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Workshop registrants need not register for the Conference unless they wish to do so. ___ $250 Conference fee (excl. workshop) before 7/15/95 ___ $350 Conference fee (excl. workshop) after 7/15/95 ___ $100 Student fee (excl. workshop) before 7/15/95 ___ $150 Student fee (excl. workshop) after 7/15/95 ___ $50 PEIRCE Workshop ___ $40 PEIRCE Workshop, student ___ FREE Conceptual Graphs Tutorial Commuter Options: If not registering for UCSC housing (see below) you may register for: parking: all week ($10)? lunch: ($6/day) Specify days: 14? 15? 16? 17? 18? 3 meals: ($18/day) Specify days: 14? 15? 16? 17? 18? Amount Enclosed: $________________ MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO "UC REGENTS" Conference fee includes proceedings and receptions. Payment must accompany the registration form. Checks must be in US dollars only and payable to "UC REGENTS" Please do not send cash. CREDIT CARDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Students must provide a copy of a student I.D. card or a letter from an advisor for proof of student status. RETURN BY JULY 15, 1995 TO: ICCS95-registration Prof. Robert Levinson 225 Applied Sciences Building Department of Computer and Information Sciences. University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 408-459-2087 FAX: 408-459-4829 e-mail: levinson@cse.ucsc.edu **************************************************************************** APARTMENT RESERVATION FORM ICCS'95 August 14-18, 1995 University of California Santa Cruz Apartments Please reserve the following accommodations: [Base rates are per person/per room/per night.] ___ $70.25 Single Occupancy - basic $84.25 -deluxe (send $281.00) (send $337.00) ___ $58.25 Double Occupancy - basic $71.50 - deluxe (send $233.00) (send $286.00) Basic includes fresh towels and linens but no housekeeping. Deluxe includes full daily house-keeping. Housing includes 3 meals per day in dining hall. Arrival Date: ____________ Departure Date: ____________ ___ Smoking ___ Non-smoking Desired Roomate ____________ (if doubling). [Roommate will be assigned if not specified.] ___ Deposit check enclosed in the amount of $ ____________ (send amount indicated above.) Name: ___________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Telephone: _________________________________________ Fax: ______________________________________________ All reservations must be accompanied by a deposit of four nights room rate: August 14,15,16,17 SEND BY JULY 15, 1995 TO: Housing Reservations Prof. Robert Levinson 225 Applied Sciences Building Department of Computer and Information Sciences. University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 408-459-2087 FAX: 408-459-4829 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 15:22:45 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:22:36 -0500; AA15458 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:22:34 -0500 From: Kia Makki Message-Id: <9506192022.AA08648@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 15:22:34 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ************************************************* ********** CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ************************************************* _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ |_| | ||| _ | _ | (_ (_| |_ | | |_ | | |_) | _) _| _) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - 3rd ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP - = ON ADVANCES IN = - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Baltimore, Maryland, USA December 1-2, 1995 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sponsored by ACM in cooperation with CACS-USL, UT1-CERISS in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'95) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In recent years computer processing of Earth observations through geographic information systems has attracted a great deal of attention from the industrial and research world. The Third ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems will provide an effective forum for disseminating original and fundamental research and experience in the rapidly advancing area of the use of computer science for spatial studies. Since the workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'95), participants will be able to maximize their interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practioners across the entire field of knowledge and information management. ACM-GIS'95 will bring together leading researchers and developers and will strive toward setting future research directions in this area. The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original research results in the areas of theorical foundations, design, implementation and applications of GIS as well as experience reports from application specialists. The goal is to exchange research ideas and results among participants. Therefore the topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to: - Query processing and optimization - Spatio-temporal data models and languages - Requirements analysis for GIS applications - GIS performance modeling and evaluation - Reasoning with GIS information - Imprecise spatio-temporal information - Semantics of spatio-temporal data - Quality aspects of geographic information - Design of spatio-temporal data structures - Spatial indexing and storage - Knowledge discovery - GIS meta data - User interfaces for GIS - Multi-media GIS - Digital libraries for GIS - Virtual reality in GIS - Interoperability among heterogeneous GIS - Electronic geographic data interchange standards - Parallel/distributed GIS - GIS and internetworking - Client-server architecture for GIS - GIS and cooperative work - Multidatabase GIS - Distributed spatial objects - Time in GIS - Active spatial objects - Moving objects in GIS - Real-time GIS systems - GIS software tools and environments - Novel applications in scientific and environmental domains - Integration with existing commercial products - Reports on experience with real applications Papers submission: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit complete and original research contributions or experience reports; submissions should be written in english and should include: - Title - Author(s) informations (Name, Affiliation, Postal address E-mail address, Phone/Fax numbers) - Topic(s) - Abstract (up to 200 words) - Text (double-spaced and no longer than 5 000 words) - References In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Submitters should indicate in a cover letter their willingness to attend the workshop and present their paper. All submitted papers will be refereed by at least five reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-GIS'95 proceedings. We encourage submissions from both academic and industrial spheres. Proposals for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative geographic information issues are encouraged as well. Panel proposals should include a summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of the panelists who have made a commitment to participate. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by August 4, 1995 to Dr Patrick Bergougnoux, the ACM-GIS'95 program Co-Chair: Dr Patrick Bergougnoux c/o Michele Cuesta The University of Toulouse 1 CERISS laboratory Place Anatole France 31042 Toulouse Cedex - FRANCE E-mail : bergougn@irit.fr Phone : (33) 61 57 47 89 Fax : (33) 61 57 94 44 ---------------------------IMPORTANT DATES-------------------------- Paper submission deadline : August 4, 1995 Notification of acceptance : September 29, 1995 Camera ready paper due : October 27, 1995 ACM-GIS'95 workshop date : December 1-2, 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------- To receive by post-mail the color version of this call for papers or for any more information about ACM-GIS'95, please send post-mail, fax or e-mail to Dr Patrick Bergougnoux at the above address. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ACM-GIS'95 Program Committee =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= General Chair: -------------- Niki Pissinou Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS Program Co-Chairs: ------------------ Patrick Bergougnoux Univ. Toulouse 1, CERISS laboratory Kia Makki Univ. of Nevada, Dpt of Computer Science Program Committee: ------------------ Z. Ahmed, Univ. of California W.G. Aref, Umatsushita Information Technologie Lab. M.P. Armstrong, Univ. of Iowa F. Bonfatti, Univ. of Modena, Italy N.G. Bourbakis, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton P. Boursier, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France S. Busovaca (local arr.), California State Univ. Sacramento W. Campbell, NASA/GSFC L. De Floriani, Univ. of Genova, Italy A. El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara A. Frank, Technical Univ. Vienna, Austria M.F. Goodchild, Univ. of California O. Guenther, Humboldt Univ. of Berlin, Germany J. Han, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, Canada D. Helder, South Dakoda Sata Univ. J. Herring, Intergraph Corporation P. Hunter, NASA IITA R. Laurini, Claude Bernard Univ. of Lyon, France D.M. Mark, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo E.K. Park (treasurer), US Naval Academy H. Samet, Univ. of Maryland T. Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Inst., Helsinki, Finland P. Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ., Evanston M. Scholl, CNAM Paris, France T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece S. Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota S.Y. Shin, South Dakoda Sata Univ. Y. Song, Drexel Univ of Philadelphia J. Thormodsgard, USGS J.J.P. Tsai, Univ. of Illinois B.W. Wah, Univ. of Illinois F. Waltz, USGS M.F. Worboys, Keele Univ., UK G. Zurfluh, Univ. of Toulouse 1, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 16:25:30 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:25:15 -0500; AA16714 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:25:13 -0500 From: Stefan.Klein@IWI.unisg.ch Message-Id: <9506192125.AA08786@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:25:13 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Tourism - ENTER '96 January 17-19, 1996 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES ENTER is intended to be an international forum dealing with the use and development of information systems and communication technologies in the domain of tourism and leisure time. Information and communication systems embedded in a global net have profound influence on the tourism and leisure industry and will alter it considerably. Reservation systems, distributed multi-media systems, highly mobile working places, so-called "electronic markets" are the first noticeable results of this development. Advances in the use and development of tools, technologies and methodologies that have facilitated the efficient netting of information and communication systems in the tourism industry are to be presented and discussed within ENTER. In addition to the scientific and technical sessions, the conference offers tutorials, workshops and presentations for practitioners in the area of tourism. ENTER is directed towards two target groups: system developers and practitioners which are actively involved in the field of touristic information technology and methodology as well as system users and practitioners interested in a further discussion of the subject. Both these groups will be offered joint presentations to facilitate and support communication. ENTER represents one of the most important international forums of this kind and is intended to be held annually. Each of these conferences will be headed by a general topic which will especially be dealt with by the presentations for the practitioners. The theme for ENTER 1996 is Reengineering and Standardisation in Tourism. SUGGESTED TOPICS Contributions in form of research papers, research in progress papers and case studies are invited in - but not limited to - the following areas of the scientific and technical track: Information systems expert systems decision support systems management information systems multi-media virtual reality distributed systems - WAN's, Internet system architectures reservation systems enterprise modelling business engineering standardisation - EDI optimisation and simulation models capacity management reverse marketing management / organisational / business and economic aspects quality control in tourism legal aspects PANELS or MINITRACKS Submissions are invited from panel or minitrack organisers. Panels or minitracks should address a well-defined issue. Proposals should include a title, the proposed chair, the tentative panellists (not more then 4), a brief description of the panel session subject and a supporting rationale. Contributions in form of research papers, research in progress papers and case studies are invited in - but not limited to - the following areas of the scientific and technical track: Business engineering Redesign of distribution channels (direct sales, the changing role of intermediaries) Redesign of products: modularisation and configuration of services in tourism Redesign of the production process of services in tourism Changing relations among principals, tour operators, travel agents and customers Tools and methods of business engineering Process Management Standardisation Areas of standardisation: products and services, product representation, product classification, payment systems, telecommunication infrastructures etc. History and institutions of standardisation Impact of standardisation on the level of competition, intermediation and disintermediation Standardisation and the individualisation and modularisation of products EDI in tourism Internet-related standards: WWW, HTML, etc. and their impact Electronic distribution platforms for services in tourism Minitrack coordinators will take responsibility to solicit and referee contributions. Panel and minitrack proposals will be refereed for relevance and interest. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS Papers submitted to the conference have to be in English. Papers are invited on the topics listed and others within the general theme of the conference. Abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be submitted by July 31st 1995 to the Program Chair preferably via email (otherwise 4 paper copies are required): Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by September 15th 1995. The category designation from the list of topics and final acceptance will be based upon review of the full length paper, which must be received by November 1st, 1995. Submitted papers will undergo a refereeing process by an International Program Committee and each paper will be reviewed by independent referees. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (published by Springer) to be distributed to the participants at the conference. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be submitted by July 31 1995 to the Program Chair preferably via email to: enter@bandon.unisg.ch or via mail (4 paper copies) to: Prof. Dr. Beat SCHMID Institute of Information Management University of St. Gallen Dufourstr. 50 CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland TIME SCHEDULE: Submission deadline for abstract (1000 Words): July 31, 1995 Notification of preliminary acceptance: September 15, 1995 Final versions due: November 1, 1995 Conference dates: January 17 - 19, 1996 Authors whose papers are selected, panelists who are members of accepted panels, and research exchange organizers are expected to register for the Conference. Program Committee / Co-chairs Scientific and Technical Track: SCHMID Beat, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland KLEIN Stefan, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Application Oriented Track: SCHERTLER Walter, University of Trier, Germany FLEISCH Elgar, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland TJOA A Min, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, WERTHNER Hannes, University of Vienna, Austria Program Committee Members AIVALIS Constantin, University of Crete, Greece BAUKNECHT Kurt, University of Zrich, Switzerland BRANDES Wolfram P., Arthur D. Little, Germany EBNER Arno, TIS GmbH, Austria HITZ Martin, University of Vienna, Austria JAFAR Jafari, University of Wisconsin, USA KASPAR Claude, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland KUBICEK Herbert, University of Bremen, Germany MAARTMANN-MOE Erling, Norwegian Computing Center, Norway MATA-MONTERO Erick, Instituto Tecnslogico de Costa Rica MAZANEC Josef A., University of Vienna, Austria MEIJS Chris, Wageninge Agricultural University, The Netherlands PAOLINI Paolo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy PERONI Giovanni, CST Perugia, Italy REVELL Norman, City University of London, Great Britain RIBBERS Pieter, Tilburg University, The Netherlands ROITHMAYR Friedrich, University of Innsbruck, Austria SHELDON Pauline, University of Hawaii, USA STOCK Oliviero, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy WAGNER Roland, University of Linz, Austria WIETRZYK Vlad, University of Technology Sydney, Australia This call for papers and other relevant material is available at the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://www- iwi.unisg.ch/events/enter96/index.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 19 16:26:00 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:25:48 -0500; AA16742 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:25:47 -0500 From: iwssd8@cs.colorado.edu (IWSSD8) Message-Id: <9506192125.AA08791@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:25:47 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ****************************************************************************** * I W S S D 8 C A L L F O R P A P E R S * * * * 8th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design * * * * 22-23 March 1996, Paderborn, Germany * * * * URL: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/users/iwssd8 * ****************************************************************************** The 8th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design will be held near the ancient city of Paderborn, Germany, immediately before ICSE-18 in Berlin. The purpose of the IWSSD series is to explore major trends and key issues in the specification and design of software systems. The 8th workshop, like its predecessors, seeks to provide a forum in which proponents of and experimenters with different theories, methods, and techniques can interact in an informal yet focused setting. The workshop will consist of parallel working groups and plenary sessions to report on progress made within each group. Attendance is limited to 80 and is by invitation on the basis of a submitted paper. Submissions will be refereed and a selection will be included in the workshop proceedings. Technical papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, soundness and clarity. Experience papers will be evaluated for significance of the lessons and insight gained from experiencing advanced methods and techniques. Position papers will be evaluated for their reasoned presentation of a point of view pertinent to workshop themes. The best technical and experience papers may be considered for publication in a special issue of a major software engineering journal. Themes The special focus of IWSSD8 will be on the current state of the art and future opportunities for software tool support in each of the following areas. o Requirements Engineering: acquisition and elicitation, formal and conceptual modeling, domain analysis, reuse, verification, and prototyping. o Design Engineering: method definition and integration, design processes and strategies, derivation of designs from requirements. o Real-time Systems: capturing and formalizing temporal constraints, logics of time, specification and design strategies. o Concurrency and Distribution: semantics of concurrency, specification/analysis of concurrent systems, decomposition and distribution techniques and strategies. o Software Architecture: architectural models, role of architectures in the software process, composition/decomposition, domain-specific architectures. Instructions to Authors Five (5) copies of submissions must be received by Alexander Wolf no later than 1 August 1995. Submissions must not have been published nor be concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. Technical and experience papers must not exceed 6000 words. Position papers must not exceed 2000 words. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover sheet giving the title, abstract, theme(s) addressed, kind of submission (i.e., technical, experience, or position), and address information for one contact author, including surface mail address, email address, and telephone number. A copy of the cover sheet in plain text should be sent by email to iwssd8@cs.colorado.edu. Important Dates Papers Due: 1 August 1995 Notification of Acceptance and Invitation: 20 October 1995 Camera-ready Paper Due: 1 December 1995 GENERAL CHAIR PROGRAM CHAIRS Wilhelm Schaefer Jeff Kramer Alexander Wolf FB 17 Praktische Informatik Dept. of Computing Dept. of Computer Science Universitaet Paderborn Imperial College ECOT 7-7, CB 430 D-33095 180 Queen's Gate University of Colorado Paderborn Germany London SW7 2BZ UK Boulder, CO 80309 USA wilhelm@uni-paderborn.de jk@doc.ic.ac.uk alw@cs.colorado.edu +49 5251.60.2428 +44 71.594.8271 +1 303.492.4774 PROGRAM COMMITTEE U. Buy (USA) C. Ghezzi (Italy) A. van Lamsweerde (Belg.) P. Cunha (Brazil) M. Goedicke (Germany) T. Maibaum (UK) F. Cristian (USA) C. Heitmeyer (USA) D. Richardson (USA) M. Feather (USA) P. Inverardi (Italy) D. Rosenblum (USA) A. Fekete (Australia) D. Jackson (USA) K. Ryan (Ireland) S. Fickas (USA) S. Jaehnichen (Germany) M. Saeki (Japan) A. Finkelstein (UK) G. Karam (Canada) P. Zave (USA) D. Garlan (USA) R. Kurki-Suonio (Finland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 16:49:35 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:49:25 -0500; AA17230 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:49:24 -0500 From: Riccardo Torlone Message-Id: <9506192149.AA08872@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:49:24 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu We would like to remind you that the deadline for applications to EDBT Summer School -- Advances in Database Technology, to be held in Gubbio, Italy, on September 4--8, is JUNE 20, 1995. For more detailed information and for interactive application, please consult our www server: http://www.iasi.rm.cnr.it/iasi/edbt/scuola.html or contact: Riccardo Torlone c/o IASI-CNR, Viale Manzoni, 30 00185 Roma ITALY Tel: +39-6-771.6446 Fax: +39-6-771.6461 E-mail: torlone@iasi.rm.cnr.it Also, the list of accepted papers for the Fifth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages, to be held at the same location and with some joint events as the school, can be found in: http://www.iasi.rm.cnr.it/iasi/dbpl5.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 19 16:50:50 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:50:47 -0500; AA17271 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:50:46 -0500 From: Jennifer Widom Message-Id: <9506192150.AA08881@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 19 Jun 95 16:50:46 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu I've recently taken over from Arie Segev as editor-in-chief of SIGMOD Record. Arie did a superb job in his 6 year term, instituting a number of significant improvements that I certainly plan to retain. In an attempt to continue Arie's style, I'm soliciting from the database community suggestions for further improvements to the Record. * Currently we have the following special sections, each of which appears in most (but not all) issues. Research Surveys - assoc. editor Jose Blakeley Research Centers - assoc. editor Amit Sheth Funding News - assoc. editor Xiaolei Qian Trade Press Coverage - assoc. editor Rafael Alonso Standards Activities - assoc. editor Leonard Gallagher Any ideas for other special sections (and appropriate assoc. editors)? * I would like to devote approximately half of the issues to special issues containing solicited articles on a particular topic. (In the past, I've found the special issues to be among the most interesting and valuable.) If you have an idea for a special issue, particularly if you are willing to guest edit such an issue, please send me a short proposal by e-mail, including the topic and potential contributors. * Please consider submitting unsolicited articles!! I personally have published two short papers in SIGMOD Record over the last few years, and I found it to be an excellent way to quickly disseminate results that were either too preliminary or too small and self-contained to appear in a conference. You'd be surprised just how widely articles appearing in SIGMOD Record are read. Publishing an article in SIGMOD Record does not preclude publishing an extended, more complete article on a similar topic in a subsequent refereed conference or journal. * Please consider submitting short (1-2 page) technical notes that may be of interest to the community. Also consider submitting responses to previously appearing articles or notes. * Note that SIGMOD Record maintains a WWW site with general information and on-line access to some past issues. You can navigate from the SIGMOD home page (http://bunny.cs.uiuc.edu/README.html) or go directly to http://www-db.stanford.edu/sigmod_record/README.html. * Lastly, please bear with the change from Arie's editorship to mine. Although we are hoping for a smooth transition, some delays and small changes are inevitable. Jennifer Widom ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jennifer Widom Phone - 415-723-7690 Department of Computer Science Sec'y phone - 415-723-0872 Stanford University Fax - 415-725-2588 Stanford, CA 94305-2140 Email - widom@cs.stanford.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 Tue Jun 20 13:48:01 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 20 Jun 95 13:47:57 -0500; AA27833 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 13:47:55 -0500 From: gmitchell@gte.com (Gail Mitchell) Message-Id: <9506201847.AA10698@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 20 Jun 95 13:47:55 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu I'm sending this note to remind you that July 17 is the deadline for submissions for the special issue on Distributed Object Management in the journal Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS). The call for papers, including instructions for submitting to this special issue, appears at http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/activities/tapos.html or contact Gail Mitchell GTE Laboratories, MS-62 40 Sylvan Rd. Waltham, MA 02254 617-466-2286, voice 617-466-2439, fax gmitchell@gte.com Further information about TAPOS and other current calls for the journal can be retrieved via http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/tapos.html and ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/ =========================================================================== Gail Mitchell internet: gmitchell@gte.com Distributed Systems Technology Department phone: (617) 466-2286 GTE Laboratories Incorporated fax: (617) 466-2439 40 Sylvan Rd. MS-62 Waltham, MA 02254 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 Wed Jun 21 10:03:04 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 21 Jun 95 10:02:59 -0500; AA06246 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 10:02:57 -0500 From: Matthias Jarke Message-Id: <9506211502.AA16378@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 21 Jun 95 10:02:57 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu WITS' 1995 Call for Papers - Announcement The 5th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'95) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during December 9-10, 1995, immediately before the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). The purpose of the workshop is to promote discussion and interaction among members of the Information Systems community with research interests in cutting-edge information technologies and systems. We are particularly interested in exchanging research ideas and results which will not only contribute to the academic arena, but will also benefit the business community in the foreseeable future. Topics We solicit condensed research papers describing original ideas and new results on information technologies and their applications. The research should address issues concerning the theory, development, and/or deployment of information technologies and systems. Suggested topics include, but not limited to: - Information System Architectures - Database Systems - Data Quality - Knowledge-based Systems - Distributed Systems - Computer Networks and Telecommunications - System Development Methods - Modeling Methods - Innovative Information Technologies - Decision Support Systems - Collaborative and Group Systems - Human-Computer Interfaces - Object-Oriented Topics We also encourage the submission of experience reports that describe lessons learned in the development, operations, and maintenance of actual systems. Proposals for panels that examine an emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative issue are encouraged as well. Instructions Condensed research papers and experience reports as well as proposals for panels should be submitted to Sudha Ram (co-chairperson). Four copies of the submission must be received by July 5, 1995. All submissions should be double-spaced and use 10pt or larger fonts. Papers and reports should be limited to 10 pages (including tables, figures, and references) and panel proposals to 5 pages. Selection for presentation at the workshop and publication in the proceedings will be based on originality, contribution to the field, and workshop interest. Authors of selected papers and reports will be invited to submit complete versions of their work after the workshop for possible publication in journals such as Information Systems, ORSA Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems and Journal on Organizational Computing. There is an award for the best paper of the workshop. Panel proposals should include a summary of the topic to be covered, names and affiliations of 3-4 panelists who have made a commitment to participate, a summary of their position statements, and a brief biography of each. A mix of industry and academic panel members is recommended. Information on this workshop is available through anonymous ftp to bpa.arizona.edu under CONFERENCE/WITS95 directory. Dates Deadline for receipt of submission: July 5, 1995 ( Papers must be postmarked by July 5, 1995 ) Notification of acceptance: September 29, 1995 Camera-ready copy due: October 27, 1995 Co-Chairpersons Professor Sudha Ram ( papers must be submitted to this person ) Dept. of MIS Karl Eller Graduate School of Management University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 Phone: (602) 621-4113, Fax: (602) 621-2433 E-mail: ram@bpa.arizona.edu Professor Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen Informatik V Ahornstr. 55 52072 Aachen, Germany Phone: (49) (241) 80-21500, Fax: (49) (241) 8888-321 E-mail: jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Program Committee Meral Binbasioglu (Turkey) Bob Blanning (USA) Sjaak Brinkkemper (Netherlands) Tung Bui (Hong Kong) Hsinchun Chen (USA) Panos Constantopoulus (Greece) Prabuddha De (USA) Dan Dolk (USA) Martin Elixmann (Netherlands) George Ernst (USA) Robert Hansen (Austria) Alan R. Hevner (USA) Tawfik Jelassi (France) Dimitri Karagiannis (Austria) Gary J. Koehler (USA) Ron Lee (Netherlands) Tok Wang Ling (Singapore) Peri Loucopoulos (UK) Sal March (USA) David E. Monarchi (USA) Sridhar Narasimhan (USA) Markus Nuettgens (Germany) Andreas Oberweis (Germany) Hasan Pirkul (USA) Klaus Pohl (Germany) Arun Sen (USA) Olivia Sheng (USA) Edward A. Stohr (USA) Mohan Tanniru (USA) Alexander Tuzhilin (USA) Ramesh Venkataraman (USA) Benkt Wangler (Sweden) Ronald Weber (Australia) Carson C. Woo (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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Wed Jun 21 14:11:44 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 21 Jun 95 14:11:40 -0500; AA09085 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 14:11:39 -0500 From: cm1958@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (M.Garvey) Message-Id: <9506211911.AA16848@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 21 Jun 95 14:11:39 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu BNCOD13 - Thirteenth British National Conference on Databases CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The annual series of British National Conference on Databases has been a forum for database workers and a focus for database research since 1981. The conference provides an exciting opportunity for academics and industrialists to meet, discuss ideas, debate current developments and look into the future. We are delighted to announce that BNCOD13 is to be held at the University of Manchester from 12th-14th July 1995. BNCOD13 will include scientific papers, panels, poster sessions and industrial presentations. ______________________________________________________________ FURTHER INFORMATION For further information about the conference, contact: Ferzana Butt BNCOD13 Administrator Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6248 fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6286 email: bncod@cs.man.ac.uk www: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/events/bncod.html FTP A postscript version of the booking form is available from: scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/bncod13/bncod13.ps or ASCII: scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/bncod13/bncod13.asc ______________________________________________________________ PROGRAMME Wednesday 12 July 14:00-15:30 Welcome and Invited Speaker `Object Databases and Standards' Rick Cattell (SunSoft Inc, USA) 15.30-16:00 Tea 16:00-17:00 Functional Databases `Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphism in a functional database language' Courtenage & Poulovassilis (UK) `Extending functional database languages to update completeness' Sutton & Small (UK) 17:00-18:00 Panel Session Significant Database Problems for Industry 19:30 Reception Welcoming reception sponsored by Prentice-Hall Thursday 13 July 09:00-09:30 Poster session 09:30-11:00 User Interfaces to Databases `Recognising graphic detail - an experiment in user interpretation of data models' Nordbotten & Crosby (Norway) `The Pragmatics of Database Enquiry' Haw, Goble & Rector (UK) `Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface' Mitchell, Kennedy & Barclay (UK) 11:00-11:30 Coffee 11:30-13:00 System-level Algorithms `Scheduling query plans with buffer-requirement estimates' Sieg, Pinkney, Lamoureaux, (USA) `Optimisation of n-way spatial joins using filter' Veenhof, Apers & Houtsma (The Netherlands) `An efficient transient versioning method' Gukal, Omiecinski & Ramachandran (USA) 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14.30-16:00 Queries and Transactions `Concurrency control of tiered flat transactions' Hussak & Keane (UK) `Two step pruning: a distributed query optimisation algorithm' Kim, Lee & Kim (Korea) `Text Search using database systems revisited - some experiments' Kaufmann & Schek (Switzerland) 16:00-16:30 Tea 16:30-17:30 Panel Session Data Protection & Legal Issues of Databases 18:30 Reception & Banquet Friday 14 July 09.30-11:00 Parallel and Federated Systems `Integrity management in an object-oriented federated database environment' Alzahrani, Qutaishat, Fiddian & Gray (UK) `Architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER' Watson & Catlow (UK) `W-SQL: An interface for scalable, highly parallel database machines' Kerridge, Walter & Guiton (UK) 11.00-11:30 Coffee 11.30 Invited speaker `Multimedia Database Management: Perspectives and Challenges' Arif Ghafoor (Purdue University, USA) Close _______________________________________________________________ INVITED SPEAKERS Rick G.G. Cattell Rick is known world-wide in the object-oriented community, working for Sun Microsystems, where his work currently focuses on next-generation database technologies. He is the founder and chair of the Object Database Management Group. Rick will talk about the OODB industry in general and the emerging OODB standards. He is the editor of the Object Database Standard, ODMG-93, a recent book which represents a consensus on component technologies for database products and languages. Rick will discuss the emerging standards, giving us a clue what to expect from our OODBs in the future. Arif Ghafoor Multimedia applications combine text, video, sound and vision. Multimedia databases extend database systems to include these extra features not normally found in traditional systems. Arif Ghafoor will discuss the state of the art in multimedia databases. Arif research interests include the design and analysis of distributed and multimedia systems. He has published extensively in leading journals and conferences. Currently, he is directing the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab. at Purdue University, where a number of projects in distributed multimedia databases and multimedia communications are under way. SOCIAL PROGRAMME On the evening of the 12th there will be an welcoming reception sponsored by Prentice Hall. This will be a splendid opportunity to meet people informally. On the 13th there will be a reception and banquet dinner at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester's city centre. Manchester was at the very heart of the industrial revolution and the museum is a tribute to some of the UK's, and the world's, finest industrial achievements. The dinner will take place in the museum's Power House, amongst the steam locomotives and power engines of the 19th century. Manchester has some of the liveliest night life in the UK. There are bars, pubs, clubs and trendy cafes just a short walk from the museum, which provides an excellent opportunity for extra-mural social activities. ____________________________________________________________ BNCOD-13 BOOKING FORM Name________________________________________________________ Organisation________________________________________________ BCS membership no. if applicable____________________________ Address_____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Tel. No.____________________________________________________ Fax. No.____________________________________________________ Please tick the appropriate box: Early registration available until 2nd June 1995 All prices are UK Pounds With Accommodation Early Standard Academic/BCS #230 [ ] #260 [ ] Student #180 [ ] #210 [ ] Other #260 [ ] #290 [ ] Without Accommodation Early Standard Academic/BCS #195 [ ] #225 [ ] Student #145 [ ] #175 [ ] Other #225 [ ] #255 [ ] The registration fee includes lunch on 13th, dinner on the 12th, banquet on the 13th, all tea and coffee and printed material. Accommodation, if requested, is for the nights of 12th and 13th and includes breakfast on the 13th and 14th. Ensuite accommodation is available at an extra cost. Optional extras Please tick any required: Lunch on 12th #10 [ ] Lunch on 14th #10 [ ] Extra ticket for conference dinner #40 [ ] Ensuite facilities (extra for 12th/13th) #25 [ ] Extra night (11th) #22 [ ] Extra night (11th - ensuite) #32 [ ] Accommodation for additional guests - #22 per night (#32 per night ensuite) We regret no credit cards are accepted Total Booking Fee #.......... Please tick the box if a vegetarian meal is required [ ] Other dietary requirements_________________________________ Car Parking required [ ] All charges are inclusive of VAT Please note that payment must be made at the time of booking. Make cheques payable to "The University of Manchester" Return completed booking form to: Ferzana Butt BNCOD13 Administrator Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6248 fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6286 _____________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION An exhibition of commercial database related software products will accompany the conference. Companies who wish to exhibit should contact: Babis Theodoulidis BNCOD13 Conference Department of Computation UMIST P.O. Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester M60 1QD U.K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22 11:36:09 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:36:05 -0500; AA17686 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:36:03 -0500 From: Krishnamurthy Vidyasankar Message-Id: <9506221636.AA19418@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:36:03 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. This position is subject to budgetary approval. The research areas include database transaction processing (concurrency control and recovery in advanced database applications), and distributed computing (interprocess communication). Newfoundland is the most easterly province of Canada. St. John's is the provincial capital with a population of over 150,000. It enjoys a moderate climate and offers numerous outdoor activities throughout the year. Memorial University has a student population of about 18,000. The Department of Computer Science has about 22 faculty members, and offers undergraduate, Master's and Ph.D. programs. The position is for one year. It carries a stipend of about $28,000 (CDN). Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computer science or a related discipline, and have a strong background in theory. Applications including a curriculum vitae, and names and addresses of three referees, should be sent to the following address. To speed up processing, applicants themselves may request their referees to send recommendation letters. Prof. K. Vidyasankar Department of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada A1B 3X5 tel: (709) 737-4369 fax: (709) 737-2009 e-mail: vidya@cs.mun.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22 11:40:58 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:40:53 -0500; AA17767 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:40:52 -0500 From: sigmod96@allegra.att.com (alias for jagadish) Message-Id: <9506221640.AA19431@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 22 Jun 95 11:40:52 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu At the SIGMOD 96 Conference, to be held June 4-6, 1996, in Montreal, in addition to the standard "research" track for papers, there will also be a separate "experience" track, focusing on industrial experience with databases, database systems, and other data-related technologies. Solicited topics include technical innovations in commercial database products, as well as novel application of databases or database technology in industrial settings. Actual case studies from practitioners emphasizing applications, database technology, system deployment, organizational ramifications, or business impact are especially welcomed. Experience papers will be evaluated by the same program committee as research papers, but the evaluation criteria will be different, stressing the lessons learned, research issues raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy information systems. To encourage the submission of quality experience papers, this is an announcement for a "dating" service. I, as program chair, will help put industry folks with relevant experience in touch with academics with appropriate knowledge. Of course, where such connections already exist, for instance, through a consulting relationship, please do exploit these. Lessons learned from a consulting experience could potentially make a very good paper. The dating service offered below is to help build bridges where such connections do not already exist. Industrial People: If you would be willing to share your knowledge and experience with the research community, or even pose significant problems encountered in the course of your experience, please send me e-mail at sigmod96@research.att.com Academic People: If you would like to work with an industrial person to write an experience paper, please send me e-mail at sigmod96@research.att.com I already have expressed indutry interest in OODB Design, Configuration management, ... All People: When you send me e-mail, pl. make sure to include your coordinates, and to write a sentence or so about the topic that interests you. I will use this sentence to determine the best match. The due date for submissions is October 23, 1995. If you may be interested, please send me e-mail ASAP so that you have enough time to locate a partner and write up the paper -- H. V. Jagadish Program Chair SIGMOD 96. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-