From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue May 2 09:46:25 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 2 May 95 09:46:20 -0500; AA06358 Date: Tue, 2 May 95 09:46:19 -0500 From: Timos Sellis Message-Id: <9505021446.AA21026@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 2 May 95 09:46:19 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu We are investigating in Athens the case of a person submitting plagiarized papers to various conferences and journals around the world. Till this investigation is over, I would like to warn Editors of journals and Program Committe Chairs about papers submitted by ANYONE (the person has been using various names and affiliations) requesting an acknowledgement to the following address: 77 Aristeidou Str. Kallithea, GR-17671 GREECE Sincerely, Prof. Timos Sellis Tel. +30-1-7728-180 Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engin. 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The joint conference will feature the presentation of original research papers, invited talks, tutorials, industrial sessions, panels, and demonstrations of experimental database prototypes. The SIGMOD and PODS conferences will overlap for two days, but each conference will have a separate third day without overlap. There will be, however, only one registration process for the joint, four-day conference. Attendees will receive both proceedings and be encouraged to attend sessions in both conferences. The award session, reception, lunch and the banquet are joint events. We are holding this conference in Silicon Valley, one of the hotbeds of industrial database activity, and have made a special effort to take advantage of local database expertise in our invited talks, panels, tutorials and industrial programs. We hope you will meet members of our broad database community who may not ordinarily attend SIGMOD/PODS and hear about their activities. As we reach the mid-point of the decade of the '90's, the world of data spans architectures from mobile computing through massively parallel systems, and includes an ever-increasing range of data, from the traditional to multimedia objects to real time satellite data capture. The SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conference represents the combined efforts of the theoretical and applied database communities to tackle the new challenges facing the database professionals. We encourage you to participate in what promises to be an exciting and important event. Pat Selinger Mihalis Yannakakis (SIGMOD General Chair) (PODS General Chair) ============================================================================== Highlights ============================================================================== PODS *) Invited Talk by Christos H. Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego). *) 3 Tutorials on: - Constraint Programming and Database Languages - Research Problems in Genome Databases - Combinatorial Games in Database Theory *) Presentation of 25 papers in the Technical Program. SIGMOD *) Presentation of the SIGMOD Awards. *) 3 Invited Industrial Talks by: - Larry Ellison (Oracle) - Bob Epstein (Sybase) - Janet Perna (IBM) *) Presentation of 36 papers in the Technical Program. *) 3 Panel Sessions on: - Data Interchange Formats - Research and Products - Are They Relevant To Each Other? - Objects and SQL: Strange Relations? *) 7 Industrial Sessions on: - PC Databases - Database Applications - Parallel Database Systems Come of Age: A Survey of Products, Algorithms, and Their Published Performance - Information Infrastructure Issues - Data Warehousing - Object Relational Interfaces - Massive Parallelism *) 5 Tutorials on: - Indexing Multimedia Databases - Storage Technology: RAID and Beyond - Workflow Automation: Applications, Technology, and Research - Integration Approaches for CIM - An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard *) 18 demonstrations of experimental database prototypes. ============================================================================== Location ============================================================================== San Jose, Northern California's largest city, is ideally situated an hour away from the cultural richness of San Francisco and from the scenic coastlines of Monterey and Carmel. The heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose is home to more than 3,000 high tech companies. In 1994 San Jose ranked as the 5th best place in the US to live, and for 3 consecutive years San Jose has topped the list as the safest big city in the United States. Its fantastic climate boasts nearly 300 sunny days per year with an average temperature of 70 degrees. ============================================================================== Social Events ============================================================================== Sunday, May 21st, 7:00--10:00pm Welcoming Reception. Monday, May 22nd, 9:00--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting. Tuesday, May 23rd, 12:00--1:30pm SIGMOD Business Lunch. Wednesday, May 24th, 6:00--7:00pm Conference Reception. Wednesday, May 24th, 7:00--10:00pm Conference Banquet ============================================================================== Sunday, May 21st ============================================================================== 7:00--10:00pm Registration (Market Street Foyer) Welcoming Reception (Market Street Foyer) ============================================================================== Monday, May 22nd ============================================================================== 8:15--9:00am Continental Breakfast (Market Street Foyer) 9:00--10:00am PODS Invited Talk: (Regency II) "Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries" Christos Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 10:30am--12:00pm PODS Session 1: Sequence Data (Regency II) Chair: Paolo Atzeni (Terza U. di Roma) - Algebras for Querying Text Regions Mariano P. Consens (U. Waterloo), Tova Milo (U. Toronto/Tel-Aviv U.) - Sequences, Datalog and Transducers Giansalvatore Mecca (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza"), Anthony J. Bonner (U. Toronto) - Similarity-Based Queries H.V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Labs), Alberto O. Mendelzon (U. Toronto), Tova Milo (U. Toronto/Tel-Aviv U.) 12:00--1:30pm Lunch (on your own) 1:30--3:00pm PODS Session 2: Tutorial (Regency II) Chair: Jan Chomicki (Kansas State U., Manhattan) "Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial" Paris Kanellakis (Brown U.) 3:00--3:30pm Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 3:30--5:30pm PODS Session 3: Constraints and Spatial Databases (Regency II) Chair: Alberto O. Mendelzon (U. Toronto) - Separability of Polyhedra for Optimal Filtering of Spatial and Constraint Data Alexander Brodsky (George Mason U.), Catherine Lassez, Jean-Louis Lassez, Michael J. Maher (IBM Yorktown Heights) - Dense-Order Constraint Databases Stephane Grumbach (U. Toronto and INRIA, Rocquencourt), Jianwen Su (U.C. Santa Barbara) - Measuring Infinite Relations Jan Chomicki (Kansas State U.), Gabriel Kuper (ECRC, Munchen) - Window Query-Optimal Clustering of Spatial Objects Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Jans-Werner Six, Mario Winter (U. Hagen) 9:00--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting (Gold Room) ============================================================================== Tuesday, May 23rd ============================================================================== 7:45--8:30am Continental Breakfast (Market Street Foyer) 8:30--10:00am PODS Session 4: Views (Crystal) Chair: Jeff Naughton (U. of Wisconsin, Madison) - Answering Queries Using Views Alon Y. Levy (AT&T Bell Labs), Alberto O. Mendelzon (U. Toronto), Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Bell Labs) - Answering Queries Using Templates with Binding Patterns Anand Rajaraman, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U.) - View Maintenance Issues for the Chronicle Data Model H.V. Jagadish, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Abraham Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) SIGMOD Session 1A: Transactions (Regency I) Chair: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) - A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels H. Berenson, P. Bernstein (Microsoft), J. Gray (UC Berkeley), J. Melton (Sybase), E. O'Neil, and P. O'Neil (U. Massachusetts, Boston) - Recovery Protocols for Shared Memory Database Systems L. Molesky and K. Ramamritham (U. Massachusetts) - Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks A. Adya, R. Gruber, B. Liskov, and U. Maheshwari (M.I.T.) SIGMOD Tutorial: Indexing Multimedia Databases (Gold Room) Christos Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs and U. Maryland) SIGMOD Industrial Session 1: PC Databases (Regency II) Chair: Peter Spiro (Microsoft) - Object-Oriented, Rapid Application Development in a PC Database Environment Richard McAniff (Microsoft) - Upsizing from File Server to Client Server Architectures Richard McAniff (Microsoft) - The Lotus Notes Storage System Kenneth Moore (Iris Associates) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 10:30am--12:00pm PODS Session 5: Tutorial (Crystal) Chair: Amr El Abbadi (U.C. Santa Barbara) "Research Problems in Genome Databases" Nathan Goodman (Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research) SIGMOD Tutorial: Storage Technology: RAID and Beyond (Regency I) Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon U.) SIGMOD Session 2B: Object Queries (Gold Room) Chair: J. Kiernan (IBM Santa Teresa) - The Lyric Language: Querying Constraint Objects A. Brodsky (George Mason U.) and Y. Kornatzky (U. Toronto) - Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages L. Fegaras and D. Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute) - OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages G. Gardarin (INRIA), F. Machuca, and P. Pucheral (U. Versailles) SIGMOD Industrial Session 2: Database Applications (Regency II) Chair: Peter Spiro (Microsoft) - DIRECTV and Oracle Rdb: The Challenge of VLDB Transaction Processing William L. Gettys (Oracle Rdb Engineering) - Enterprise Transaction Processing on Windows NT Greg Hope (Prologic Computer Corporation) - High Availability of Commercial Applications Kestutis Ivinskis (SAP AG Walldorf) 12:00--1:30pm Lunch and SIGMOD Business Meeting (Gold Room) 1:30--3:00pm PODS Session 6: Updates (Crystal) Chair: Jennifer Widom (Stanford U.) - Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases Philippe Picouet (ENST, Paris), Victor Vianu (U.C. San Diego) - Space-Bounded FOIES Guozhu Dong (U. Melbourne), Jianwen Su (U.C. Santa Barbara) - The Size of a Revised Knowledge Base Marco Cadoli, Francesco M. Donini, Paolo Liberatore, Marco Schaerf (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza") SIGMOD Session 3A: Tutorial Panel: The Data That You Won't Find in Databases: (Regency I) Co-Chairs: David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute) and Peter Buneman (U. Pennsylvania) Panel Members: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Michael Achenbach (Xidak) Robert Grossman (U. Illinois at Chicago and Cornell U.) Ronald B. Melton (Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs) K.C. Morris (National Ins. of Standards and Tech.) Christian Overton (U. Pennsylvania)\\ Stanley B. Zdonik (Brown U.) SIGMOD Session 3B: Spatial Data (Gold Room) Chair: B. Salzberg (Northeastern U.) Nearest Neighbor Queries - N. Roussopoulos, S. Kelley, and F. Vincent (U. Maryland) A General Solution of the N-dimensional B-tree Problem - M. Freeston (ECRC) Topological Relations in the World of Minimum Bounding Rectangles: A Study with R-trees - D. Papadias (UC San Diego), Y. Theodoridis, T. Sellis (N.T.U. Athens), and M. Egenhofer (U. Maine) SIGMOD Industrial Session 3: A Survey of Parallel Database Products (Regency II) Chair: James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) - Parallel Database Systems Come of Age: A Survey of Products, Algorithms, and Their Published Performance Jim Gray (U.C. Berkeley) 3:00--3:30pm Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 3:30--4:00pm SIGMOD Awards Ceremony (Imperial Room) Chair: Pat Selinger (IBM Almaden) 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 7: Datalog (Crystal) Chair: Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) - Semantic Query Optimization in Datalog Programs Alon Y. Levy (AT&T Bell Labs), Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.) - Magic Factoring of Closure Programs Peter T. Wood (U. Cape Town) - Structural Totality and Constraint Stratification Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia U.) 4:00--5:00pm SIGMOD Invited Industrial Talk (Imperial Room) Chair: Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) (Title to be announced) Larry Ellison (Oracle) ============================================================================== Wednesday May 24th ============================================================================== 7:45--9:00am Continental Breakfast (Market Street Foyer) 8:30--10:00am PODS Session 8: Updates and Collections (Crystal) Chair: Val Tannen (Universite' Paris Sud and U. Pennsylvania) - Using Witness Generators to Support Bi-directional Update Between Object-Based Databases Ti-Pin Chang (Informix Software, Portland), Richard Hull (U. Colorado) - Applying an Update Method to a Set of Receivers Marc Andries (Leiden U.), Luca Cabibbo (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza"), Jan Paredaens (U. Antwerp, UIA), Jan Van den Bussche (INRIA, Rocquencourt) - Normalizing Incomplete Databases Leonid Libkin (AT&T Bell Labs) 9:00--10:00am SIGMOD Invited Industrial Talk (Imperial Room) Chair: Dale Skeen (Vitria Technology) (Title to be announced) Bob Epstein (Sybase) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 10:30am--12:00 PODS Session 9: Tutorial (Crystal) Chair: Neil Immerman (U. Massachusetts, Amherst) "Combinatorial Games In Database Theory" Phokion Kolaitis (U.C. Santa Cruz) SIGMOD Session 4A: Parallelism (Regency I) Chair: S. Ghandeharizadeh (USC) - Adaptive Parallel Aggregation Algorithms A. Shatdal and J. Naughton (U. Wisconsin) - Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Join Queries A. Wilschut, J. Flokstra, and P. Apers (U. Twente) - The Merge/Purge Problem for Large Databases M. Hernandez and S. Stolfo (Columbia U.) SIGMOD Tutorial: Workflow Automation: Applications, Technology, and Research (Gold Room) Amit Sheth (U. Georgia) SIGMOD Industrial Session 4: Information Infrastructure Issues (Regency II) Chair: Dale Skeen (Vitria Technology) - Things Every Update Replication Customer Should Know Rob Goldring (IBM Santa Teresa) - VERSANT Replication: Supporting Fault-Tolerant Object Databases Yuh-Ming Shyy, H. Stephen Au-Yeung and C.P. Chou (Versant) - Carnot and InfoSleuth: Database Technology and the World Wide Web D. Woelk, B. Bohrer, N. Jacobs, K. Ong, C. Tomlinson and C. Unnikrishnan (MCC) 12:00--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 10: Transactions and Parallelism (Crystal) Chair: Christos Faloutsos (U. Maryland) - Safe Locking Policies for Dynamic Databases Vinay K. Chaudhri, Vassos Hadzilacos (U. Toronto) - Increasing the Resilience of Atomic Commit at No Additional Cost Idit Keidar, Danny Dolev (Hebrew U.) - Scheduling Problems in Parallel Query Optimization Chandra Chekuri (Stanford U.), Waqar Hasan (Stanford U. and HP Labs), Rajeev Motwani (Stanford U.) SIGMOD Session 5A: Indexing and Beyond (Regency I) Chair: W. Litwin (U. Paris 9) - OODB Indexing by Class-Division S. Ramaswamy (Bellcore) and P. Kanellakis (Brown U.) - The Handwritten Trie: Indexing Electronic Ink W. Aref, D. Barbara, and P. Vallabhaneni (MITL) - FastMap: A Fast Algorithm for Indexing, Data-Mining and Visualization of Traditional and Multimedia Datasets C. Faloutsos, K. Lin (U. Maryland) SIGMOD Tutorial: Integration Approaches for CIM (Gold Room) Moira C. Norrie (ETH Zurich) SIGMOD Industrial Session 5: Panel: Research and Products: Are They Relevant To Each Other? (Regency II) Chair: Herb Edelstein (Euclid Associates) Panel Members: James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) Gary Kelley (Informix) Roger Manfred (Oracle) Dennis McEvoy (Sybase) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 11: Query Languages (Crystal) Chair: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) - On the Complexity of Bounded-Variable Queries Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) - Finite Queries do not Have Effective Syntax Alexei P. Stolboushkin (U.C. Los Angeles), Michael A. Taitslin (Tver State U.) - The Reliability of Queries Michel de Rougemont (LRI, Universite' de Paris-Sud) SIGMOD Tutorial: An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard (Regency I) Nelson Mattos (IBM Almaden/DBTI), Jim Melton (Sybase) SIGMOD Session 6B: Performance (Gold Room) Chair: A. Kemper (U. Passau) - An Effective Hash Based Algorithm for Mining Association Rules J. Park, M. Chen, and P. Yu (IBM Yorktown) - Implementing Crash Recovery in QuickStore: A Performance Study S. White and D. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) - Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communications Environments S. Acharya (Brown U.), R. Alonso (MITL), M. Franklin (U. Maryland), S. Zdonik (Brown U.) SIGMOD Industrial Session 6: Data Warehousing (Regency II) Chair: Gary Kelley (Informix) - Data Extraction and Transformation for the Data Warehouse Cass Squire (Prism) - Real World Requirements for Decision Support - Implications for RDBMS Sanju K. Bansal (Microstrategies) - "One Size Fits All" Database Architectures Do Not Work for DSS Clark D. French (Sybase) 6:00--7:00pm Conference Reception (Market Street Foyer) 7:00--10:00pm Conference Banquet (Imperial Room) ============================================================================== Thursday, May 25th ============================================================================== 8:15--9:00am Continental Breakfast (Market Street Foyer) 9:00--10:00am SIGMOD Invited Industrial Talk (Imperial Room) Chair: Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) - Leveraging The Information Asset Janet Perna (IBM) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 10:30--12:00am SIGMOD Session 7A: Potpourri (Regency I) Chair: A. Swami (Silicon Graphics) - Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinitions A. Gupta (IBM Almaden), I. Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs), and K. Ross (Columbia U.) - Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach W. Hou and Z. Zhang (Southern Illinois U.) - Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation Y. Ioannidis and V. Poosala (U. Wisconsin) SIGMOD Session 7B: Time (Gold Room) Chair: H. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Labs) - Applying Update Streams in a Soft Real-Time Database System B. Adelberg, H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.), and B. Kao (Princeton U.) - Semantic Assumptions and Query Evaluation in Temporal Databases C. Bettini (U. Milan), X. Wang (George Mason U.), E. Bertino (U. Milan), and S. Jajodia (George Mason U.) - Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems A. Sistla and O. Wolfson (U. Illinois, Chicago) SIGMOD Industrial Session 7: Object Relational Interfaces (Regency II) Chair: Gary Kelley (Informix) - Cover Your Assets Mike Olson (Illustra Information Technologies) - Use of a Component Architecture in Integrating Relational and Non-Relational Storage Systems Robert Atkinson (Microsoft) - Enterprise Objects Framework, A Second Generation Object-Relational Enabler Charly Kleissner (NeXT Computer) 12:00--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm SIGMOD Session 8A: Query Processing (Regency I) Chair: P. Valduriez (INRIA) - Dynamic Resource Brokering for Multi-User Query Execution D. Davison (Informix Software) and G. Graefe (Microsoft) - Reducing Multidatabase Query Response Time by Tree Balancing W. Du, M. Shan, and U. Dayal (HP Labs) - Hypergraph Based Reorderings of Outer Join Queries with Complex Predicates G. Bhargava, P. Goel, and B. Iyer (IBM Santa Teresa) SIGMOD Session 8B: View Maintenance (Gold Room) Chair: I. Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs) - View Maintenance in a Warehousing Environment Y. Zhuge, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Hammer, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) - Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates T. Griffin and L. Libkin (AT&T Bell Labs) - Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views J. Lu (Bucknell U.), G. Moerkotte (RWTH Aachen), J. Schu (U. Karlsruhe), and V. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) SIGMOD Industrial Session 8: Massive Parallelism (Regency II) Chair: James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) - An Overview of DB2 Parallel Edition Chaitanya Baru, Gilles Fecteau, Ambuj Goyal, Hui-i Hsiao, Anant Jhingran, Sriram Padmanabhan and Walter Wilson (IBM) - Informix Online Xps Bob Gerber (Informix) - Order of Magnitude Advantage of TPC-C though Massive Parallelism Charles Levine (Tandem) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break (Market Street Foyer) 4:00--5:30pm SIGMOD Session 9A: Video Servers (Regency I) Chair: A. Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) - The SPIFFI Scalable Video-on-Demand System C. Freedman and D. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) - Fault Tolerant Design of Multimedia Servers S. Berson, L. Golubchik, and R. Muntz (UCLA) - An Online Video Placement Policy based on Bandwith to Space Ratio (BSR) A. Dan and D. Sitaram (IBM Yorktown) SIGMOD Session 9B: Documents (Gold Room) Chair: K. Shoens (HP Labs) - A Database Interface for Files Updates S. Abiteboul, S. Cluet (INRIA, Rocquencourt), T. Milo (U. Toronto/Tel-Aviv U.) - Copy Detection Mechanisms for Digital Documents S. Brin, J. Davis, and H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) - Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques S. Chaudhuri, U. Dayal, and T. Yan (HP Labs) SIGMOD Industrial Session 9: Panel: Objects and SQL: Strange Relations? (Regency II) Chair: Dr. Donald R. Deutsch (Sybase) Panel Members: Francois Bancilhon (O2 Technology) Richard Mark Soley (Object Management Group) Nelson M. Mattos (IBM Database Technology Institute) C. J. Date (Author, Lecturer and Consultant) ============================================================================== SIGMOD Annual Awards ============================================================================== SIGMOD Innovations Award For innovative contributions to the development or use of database systems and databases. The contribution must have been put into practice and adopted widely in significant use. Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. SIGMOD Contributions Award For significant contributions to the growth and promotion of the database field through services to the database community, including, but not limited to, publications, technical meetings (conferences, workshops), research funding, and education. Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. Awards Administration By the SIGMOD Awards Committee. Each award consists of an honorary plaque per recipient and $1000 total. Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or groups. Nominations must be received by March 1 to be considered for that year's award by the SIGMOD Awards Committee (see SIGMOD Record). 1995 Award Recipients SIGMOD Innovations Award: David DeWitt SIGMOD Contributions Award: Yahiko Kambayashi ============================================================================== PODS Invited Talk ============================================================================== Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries Speaker: Christos Papadimitriou (U.C. San Diego) Monday, May 22th, 9:00am Abstract: Is "database theory" an oxymoron? Or is it a platitude? What is the fitness measure that decides the survival of ideas (and areas) in mathematics, in applied science, and in computer science? Which ideas from database theory during the past twenty-five years have influenced research in other fields of computer science? How many were encapsulated in actual products? Is applicability the only and ultimate justification of theoretical research in an applied science? Are diversity, inclusiveness, and exhaustiveness undesirable attributes? Are applicability pressures really exogenous and unwelcome? Are negative results appropriate goals of theoretical research in an applied science? If scientific theories must be refutable, what are the "hard facts" that provide the possibility of refutation in the case of database theory? The Speaker: Christos H. Papadimitriou got his PhD from Princeton in 1976; he has since taught at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Athens Polytechnic. Since 1988 he has been the Jacobs Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of California San Diego. He has published four books (including "The Theory of Database Concurrency Control" and "Computational Complexity") and over 200 articles on the theory of algorithms and complexity, and its applications to optimization, databases, artificial intelligence, and mathematical economics. ============================================================================== Tutorials ============================================================================== PODS Tutorial 1. Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial Instructor: Paris C. Kanellakis (Brown U.) Monday, May 22nd, 1:30pm Abstract: Programming with constraints as primitives can lead to powerful extensions of both deductive and object-oriented data models. The property that makes this new database programming paradigm (called Constraint Query Languages or CQLs) applicable to areas such as spatial databases, where previous data models have weaknesses, is that its basic data type is spatial point set, i.e., a generalization of the relational tuple data type that is close to the natural language specification of the application area. Most importantly, I/O-efficient access to sets of such generalized tuples can be supported through existing multi-dimensional searching data structures. This facilitates the design and implementation of languages for applications such as: solid modeling in design databases, map overlays in geographic databases, and subsequence matching in scientific databases. This tutorial is an overview of the development of constraint programming for database applications. We examine: (1) the expressive power for various classes of constraints both linear and nonlinear, (2) calculus/algebra language designs combining constraints and complex objects, (3) optimization in the context of constraints, and (4) new data structures for indexing very large sets of constraints. We survey the features of constraint logic programming, deductive databases, and object-oriented databases that are preserved in CQLs and we highlight the challenging new technical problems. Instructor: Paris C. Kanellakis is a Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1982. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Mathematics (87-89) and held an IBM Assoc. Professorship in Computer Science (89-90). His primary work and interests are in the areas of: principles of database systems, constraint programming languages, logic in computer science, and the theory of concurrency. He has published extensively on these topics in computer science journals and conferences and is author of the chapter "Elements of Relational Database Theory" for the Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier, 1990). He has chaired a number of conferences on databases and on constraint programming, edited collections of papers on these themes, and serves as editorial board member representing these areas for: Theoretical Computer Science, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Information and Computation, and the Journal of Logic Programming. PODS Tutorial 2. Research Problems in Genome Databases Instructor: Dr. Nathan Goodman (Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research) Tuesday, May 23rd, 10:30am Abstract: The Human Genome Project is a fifteen year, international project that seeks to identify all of the genes in the human genome, and to eventually sequence the 3 billion bases of DNA that comprise the human genome. The Human Genome Project is a fascinating scientific adventure and raises exciting research challenges for computer science. This seminar will present several kinds of database challenges that arise. 1. Laboratory databases have to keep track of tens to hundreds of thousands of samples as they flow through complex, multi-step procedures. To make matters worse, these procedures change frequently as new lab techniques are introduced, and the database must evolve to keep pace. 2. There is a need for databases to keep track of the results produced by genome labs, which are often complex structures such as maps, and sequences. 3. There is a need for databases that integrate results from multiple labs. 4. A great deal of genomic data is descriptive in nature and is best represented as free text. There is a need to integrate text databases with more traditional databases. 5. An increasing amount of genomic data is visual in nature, leading to a need for image databases. 6. Scientific results generally consist of (i) data, and (ii) an interpretation of the data in light of current theory. In most genome databases, the data and results are explicit, but the underlying theory is implicit. Since theories change from time-to-time, we are left with the very big problem of reinterpretting old data in a new light. Instructor: Dr. Nathan Goodman is Associate Director of the Whitehead Institute / MIT Center for Genome Research where he heads a software research and development group that creates laboratory information systems for the Human Genome Project. In addition, he is acting president of Marble Associates, Inc., a software consulting firm specializing in object-oriented, client/server business information systems. He is a former professor of computer science at Harvard University and Boston University where he specialized in database research, and a former senior vice-president of Codd and Date. He spent many years at Computer Corporation of America working on distributed and object oriented database systems. Dr. Goodman also has expertise in computer architecture, being a founder and former Chief Computer Scientist of Kendall Square Research Corporation, a manufacturer of multiprocessor supercomputers for transaction processing and scientific applications. He is coauthor of the textbook, Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems. Dr. Goodman received the Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972, the Master of Science degree in Computer Science from MIT in 1976, and the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1980. Dr. Goodman's PhD thesis, Power of Semijoins in Distributed Database Query Processing, studies practical and theoretical aspects of query optimization for distributed, relational database systems. PODS Tutorial 3. Combinatorial Games in Database Theory Instructor: Phokion G. Kolaitis (U.C. Santa Cruz) Wednesday, May 24th, 10:30am Abstract: During the past fifteen years, the study of rule-based query languages has occupied a prominent place in database theory. Much of the work in this area has been devoted to a comprehensive investigation of the expressive power of such query languages. In carrying out this investigation, researchers have relied heavily on the method of combinatorial games, a versatile method that originated in classical mathematical logic and became quite indispensable in finite model theory. The aim of this tutorial is to present the main combinatorial games used in database theory, give a representative sample of their numerous applications, but also indicate some of their limitations. In particular, the tutorial will cover Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse' games, games for monadic NP, and pebble games. Moreover, it will illustrate the use of these games in relational calculus, Datalog, and fixpoint logic. Instructor: Phokion G. Kolaitis is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. His research interests include finite model theory, computational complexity, and database theory. In recent years, he has served on the program committees of several international conferences and on the editorial boards of two journals. In 1993 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. SIGMOD Tutorial 1. Indexing Multimedia Databases Instructor: Christos Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs and U. Maryland) Tuesday, May 23rd, 8:30am Abstract: The tutorial surveys state-of-the-art methods for storing and retrieving multimedia data from large databases. Records (or documents) may consist of formatted fields, text, images, voice, animation, etc. A sample query that we would like to support is "in a collection of 2-d color images, find images that are similar to a sunset photograph." The idea is to use feature extraction functions, which map an image into a point in feature space, so that we can use spatial access methods (SAMs) to accelerate the search. The tutorial examines the properties of good feature extraction functions, highlights subtle problems (e.g., the 'dimensionality curse'), and gives solutions. Finally, it presents case studies and prototype systems for 2-d and 3-d medical image databases, 2-d color image databases, and 1-d time series databases. Instructor: Christos Faloutsos received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (1981) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. Since 1985 he has been with the department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park; he is currently on a leave at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1989 he received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. His research interests include physical data base design, searching methods for text, geographic information systems and indexing methods for medical and multimedia databases. SIGMOD Tutorial 2. Storage Technology: RAID and Beyond Instructor: Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon U.) Tuesday, May 23rd, 10:30am Abstract: This tutorial is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in current trends in storage systems. It will highlight storage technology trends including areal density growth, disk diameter shrinkage, rising rotation rates, embedded controller caching and reordering, peripheral interface evolution, and drive support for redundant disk arrays (more commonly called RAID). It will also highlight the evolution of RAID technology, expected to be a 13 billion dollar industry by 1997. RAID coverage will include a brief review of the historical development of common RAID levels (redundancy organizations and workload optimizations) then focus on techniques for overcoming write bandwidth bottlenecks and on-line failure recovery performance. Finally, recent trends toward RAID-style support for network-based parallel storage systems will be covered. Instructor: Garth Gibson is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the Parallel Data Laboratory's research into high-performance, highly-available, networked, file and storage system architectures. This lab participates in the Nectar Gigabit Networking testbed and the HPCC Multicomputing Systems Software project, and constitutes the Storage and Computer Systems Integration area of the Data Storage Systems Center. Companies collaborating with this lab include AT&T-GIS (NCR), Data General, IBM, DEC, HP, Seagate, and Storage Technology. Gibson received a PhD degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 where he co-founded Berkeley's Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) project with Prof. D. A. Patterson and Prof. R. H. Katz. His dissertation, "Redundant Disk Arrays: Reliable, Parallel Secondary Storage," tied for second place in the 1991 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and was published by the MIT Press in 1992. SIGMOD Tutorial 3. Workflow Automation: Applications, Technology, and Research Instructor: Amit Sheth (U. Georgia) Wednesday, May 24th, 10:30am Abstract: With increasing global exposure, today's enterprises must react quickly to changes, rapidly develop new services and products, and at the same time improve productivity and quality and reduce cost. Business process re-engineering and workflow automation to coordinate activities throughout the enterprise are recognized as important emerging technologies to support these requirements. Rosy estimates of a multi-billion dollar marketplace for workflow software has resulted in significant commercial activities in the area, with over fifty products now claiming to support workflow automation. While many help to automate document- and image-driven office applications, therefore helping to improve the productivity of small groups, most current products fail to support: (a) mission critical and complex applications with requirements such as failure handling and recovery, and (b) interoperability with existing heterogeneous information systems. In this tutorial, we will discuss requirements for applications involving workflow automation, present an overview of the current state-of-the-art in products, and present some of the research efforts that are attempting to respond to unmet challenges. Instructor: Dr. Amit Sheth directs the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems (LSDIS) Lab and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. Earlier he worked for nine years in the R&D labs at Bellcore, Unisys, and Honeywell. He has lead projects on heterogeneous DDBMS, factory information system, integration of AI-database systems (BrAID), transactional workflows (PROMT and METEOR), federated database tools (BERDI and TAILOR), multidatabase consistency, and data quality (Q-Data). LSDIS lab maintains very active collaboration with industry, and has won significant projects in the areas of interoperable information system and workflow management (under the Healthcare Information Infrastructure Program awarded by NIST) and global information system and management of heterogeneous digital data (awarded in the Massive Digital Data Systems initiative). Prof. Sheth has published over 70 papers, given over 45 invited talks and 13 tutorials, and lead two international conferences and a workshop as a General/Program (Co-)Chair. He has also served twice as an ACM Lecturer, has been on over twenty five program and organization committees, and is on the editorial board of four journals. SIGMOD Tutorial 4. Integration Approaches for CIM Instructor: Moira C. Norrie (ETH Zurich) Wednesday May 24th, 2:00pm Abstract: We describe and compare different integration approaches for the exchange and consistency of product data across Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) component systems. In particular, we present the main features of current CIM systems and compare these to the various forms of multidatabase approaches proposed by the database community. The CIM integration effort is based on a number of emerging standards. We provide an overview of the STEP/EXPRESS standard for the exchange of product data and discuss the merits and drawbacks of EXPRESS as a global data model. Instructor: Moira Norrie joined the Database Research Group of Prof. Hans-Jorg Schek at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in January 1993. Her previous posts include lectureships at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland and a research position at the Swedish Institute for Systems Development in Stockholm, Sweden. From 1989 to 1993, she was working on the Esprit project Comandos as part of the Object Data Management Services (ODMS) group at the University of Glasgow. She is currently leading a group investigating issues of object data management and advanced database applications. In particular, she is leading a project entitled "Databases for CIM" which is part of a Swiss funded collaborative project (KWF) involving the CIM Research group of Prof. Flemming at ETH, and industrial partners ABB and Sulzer. SIGMOD Tutorial 5. An Overview of the Emerging Third-Generation SQL Standard Instructors: Nelson Mattos (IBM Almaden/DBTI) & Jim Melton (Sybase) Wednesday May 24th, 4:00pm Abstract: This tutorial provides an overview of the emerging next generation of the SQL Standard, SQL3, expected to be approved in 1997. SQL3's new capabilities can be divided into two categories: extensions to relational facilities (new data types, new predicates, triggers, recursive query expressions, view updatability, stored procedures, control flow, exception handling, and a call-level interface), and object support (abstract data types, encapsulation, object identity, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding, parameterized types, and collection types like set, list, and multiset). Instructors: Jim Melton is a database architect responsible for standards with the Strategic Planning department of Sybase, Inc. Jim has an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In addition to implementing relational database systems, he has participated actively as a Member of ANSI Technical Committee X3H2 for Database and as a USA representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee for database for many years. Jim is the Editor of the SQL-92 standard and the emerging next generation of the SQL standard, currently called SQL3. He contributed very heavily to the technical content of SQL-92 and SQL3 and is the author of a popular text on the subject, "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide". Nelson Mattos is with the Database Technology Institute, IBM, San Jose, CA. Prior to joining IBM, Nelson worked for several years as the leader of large project on object-oriented and knowledge base management systems at the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany). Nelson received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslauitern in 1989. He is a database languages architect working on extended DBMSs and a member of the ANSI Technical Committee X3H2 for Database as well as a USA representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Committee for databases. Nelson has contributed extensively to the design of SQL3. He has published several papers on object-orientation, databases, and knowledge base management in well-known magazines and conferences. He is also the author of the book "An Approach to Knowledge Base Management". ============================================================================== Research Prototype Demonstrations ============================================================================== TUESDAY, May 23rd Session 1 (8:30am-10:00am) - DataMine - Interactive Rule Discovery System T. Imielinski and A. Virmani (Rutgers U.) - The Algres Testbed of CHIMERA: An Active Object-Oriented Database System S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, S. Paraboschi, and G. Psaila (Politecnico di Milano) - The NAOS System C. Collet and T. Coupaye (U. Grenoble) - Query By Image Content(QBIC) System Jonathan Ashley, Ron Barber, Myron Flickner, James Hafner, Denis Lee, Wayne Niblack, Dragutin Petkovic (IBM Research) Session 2 (10:30am-12:00pm) - The REACH Active OODBMS A. Buchmann, A. Deutsch, and J. Zimmermann (Technical U., Darmstadt) - QBI: Query By Icons A. Massari, S. Pavani, L. Saladini, and P. Chrysanthis (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza" and U. Pittsburgh) - InfoHarness: The System for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information L. Shklar, A. Sheth, V. Kashyap, and S. Thatte (Bellcore, UGA, and Rutgers U.) - Design and Implementation of Advanced Knowledge Processing in the KBMS KRISYS J. Thomas, S. Dessloch, and N. Mattos (U. Kaiserslautern) Session 3 (1:30pm-3:00pm) - The SAMOS Active DBMS Prototype S. Gatziu, A. Geppert, and K. Dittrich (Universitat Zurich) - Efendi: Federated Database System of Cadlab E. Radeke, R. Bottger, B. Burket, Y. Engel, G. Kachel, S. Kolmschlag and D. Nolte (Cooperation U. Paderborn & Siemens Nixdorf) - VisDB: A System for Visualizing Large Databases D. Keim and H. Kriegel (U. Munich) - Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) WEDNESDAY, May 24th Session 4 (10:30am-12:00pm) - Using the CALANDA Time Series Management System W. Dreyer, A. Dittrich, and D. Schmidt (Union Bank of Switzerland) - DataMine - Interactive Rule Discovery System T. Imielinski and A. Virmani (Rutgers U.) - Paradise and SHORE The Paradise and SHORE Project Groups (U. Wisconsin) - The REACH Active OODBMS A. Buchmann, A. Deutsch, and J. Zimmermann (Technical U., Darmstadt) Session 5 (2:00pm-3:30pm) - Pattern Matching and Pattern Discovery in Scientific, Program, and Document Databases J. Wang, K. Zhang, and D. Shasha (New Jersey Institute of Technology, U. Western Ontario, and Courant Institute) - PTool: A Light Weight Persistent Object Manager R. L. Grossman, D. Hanley, and X. Qin (U. Illinois at Chicago) - The Algres Testbed of CHIMERA: An Active Object-Oriented Database System S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, S. Paraboschi, and G. Psaila (Politecnico di Milano) - QBI: Query By Icons A. Massari, S. Pavani, L. Saladini, and P. Chrysanthis (Universita' di Roma, "La Sapienza" and U. Pittsburgh) Session 6 (4:00pm-5:30pm) - Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases W. Li and C. Clifton (Northwestern U.) - The ECRC Multi Database System W. Jonker and H. Schutz (PTT Research and ECRC GmbH) - The NAOS System C. Collet and T. Coupaye (U. Grenoble) - The SAMOS Active DBMS Prototype S. Gatziu, A. Geppert, and K. Dittrich (Universitat Zurich) THURSDAY, May 25th Session 7 (10:30am-12:00pm) - Using the CALANDA Time Series Management System W. Dreyer, A. Dittrich, and D. Schmidt (Union Bank of Switzerland) - PTool: A Light Weight Persistent Object Manager R. L. Grossman, D. Hanley, and X. Qin (U. Illinois at Chicago) - Query By Image Content(QBIC) System Jonathan Ashley, Ron Barber, Myron Flickner, James Hafner, Denis Lee, Wayne Niblack, Dragutin Petkovic (IBM Research) - Efendi: Federated Database System of Cadlab E. Radeke, R. Bottger, B. Burket, Y. Engel, G. Kachel, S. Kolmschlag and D. Nolte (Cooperation U. Paderborn & Siemens Nixdorf) Session 8 (2:00pm-3:30pm) - Paradise and SHORE The Paradise and SHORE Project Groups (U. Wisconsin) - Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases W. Li and C. Clifton (Northwestern U.) - InfoHarness: The System for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information L. Shklar, A. Sheth, V. Kashyap, and S. Thatte (Bellcore, UGA, and Rutgers U.) - VisDB: A System for Visualizing Large Databases D. Keim and H. Kriegel (U. Munich) Session 9 (4:00pm-5:30pm) - Pattern Matching and Pattern Discovery in Scientific, Program, and Document Databases J. Wang, K. Zhang, and D. Shasha (New Jersey Institute of Technology, U. Western Ontario, and Courant Institute) - The ECRC Multi Database System W. Jonker and H. Schutz (PTT Research and ECRC GmbH) - Design and Implementation of Advanced Knowledge Processing in the KBMS KRISYS J. Thomas, S. Dessloch, and N. Mattos (U. Kaiserslautern) - Information Translation, Mediation, and Mosaic-Based Browsing in the TSIMMIS System J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) ============================================================================== SIGMOD Committee ============================================================================== General Chair Pat Selinger (IBM Almaden) Program Chair Michael Carey (U. Wisconsin) Industrial Track Co-Chairs) Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.) Dale Skeen (Vitria Technology) Industrial Committee Gary Hallmark (Oracle) James Hamilton (IBM, Toronto) Gary Kelley (Informix Software) Peter Spiro (Microsoft) Jacob Stein (Sybase) Research Prototypes (Exhibits Co-Chairs) Jose Blakeley (Microsoft) Bob Hagmann (Oracle) Tutorial Program Chair Hans Schek (ETH Zurich) Panel Program Dennis Shasha (NYU) Proceedings Editor Donovan Schneider (Red Brick Systems) Best Paper Award Chairs Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs) Bruce Lindsay (IBM Almaden) Program Committee Divyakant Agrawal (U.C. Santa Barbara) David Beech (Oracle) Isabel Cruz (Tufts U.) David DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) Shel Finkelstein (Illustra Inf. Technologies) Michael Franklin (U. Maryland) Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USC) Kien Hua (U. Central Florida) Rick Hull (U. Colorado) H.V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Labs) Sushil Jajodia (George Mason U.) Alfons Kemper (Universitat Passau) Jerry Kiernan (IBM Santa Teresa) Roger King (U. Colorado) Yoon-Joon Lee (KAIST) Hank Korth (Panasonic Technologies) Ravi Krishnamurthy (HP Labs) Witold Litwin (U. Paris 9) David Lomet (Microsoft) Hongjun Lu (Nat'l. U. Singapore) Victor Markowitz (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) Gail Mitchell (GTE Labs) C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) Inderpal Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs) Oscar Nierstrasz (Universitaet Bern) Krithi Ramamritham (U. Massachusetts) Shuky Sagiv (Hebrew U.) Ken Salem (U. Waterloo) Betty Salzberg (Northeastern U.) Bernhard Seeger (U. Munich) Margo Seltzer (Harvard U.) Avi Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs) Richard Snodgrass (U. Arizona) Kurt Shoens (HP Labs) Arun Swami (Silicon Graphics) Patrick Valduriez (INRIA) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (NAIST) Clement Yu (U. Illinois-Chicago) Stan Zdonik (Brown U.) ============================================================================== PODS Committee ============================================================================== Executive Committee Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) Daniel Rosenkrantz (SUNY Albany) Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) Victor Vianu (UCSD/INRIA, Rocquencourt) Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs) General Chair Mihalis Yannakakis (AT&T Bell Labs) Program Chair Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Program Committee Paolo Atzeni (Terza U. di Roma) Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) Jan Chomicki (U. Kansas) Amr El Abbadi (U.C. Santa Barbara) Christos Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs/U. Maryland) Neil Immerman (U. Massachusetts) Alberto Mendelzon (U. Toronto) Jeff Naughton (U. Wisconsin) Val Tannen (U. Pennsylvania) Jennifer Widom (Stanford U.) Proceedings Chair Alon Levy (AT&T Bell Labs) ============================================================================== SIGMOD/PODS Conference ============================================================================== Treasurer Eric Hanson (U. Florida) Publicity Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve U.) Registration Kathi Hogshead Davis (Northern Illinois U.) Local Arrangements Anupam Bhide (Oracle) Debbie Sandman (IBM Almaden) European Coordinator Timos Sellis (National Technical U. Athens) Asian Coordinator Vincent Lum (Chinese U. Hong Kong) South American Coordinator Marco Antonio Casanova (IBM Brazil Rio Sci. Cent.) Conference Advisors Won Kim (UniSQL) Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) ============================================================================== Accommodation ============================================================================== Hotel Information The ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1995 Conference will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of downtown San Jose surrounded by museums, theaters and many fine restaurants. A block of rooms has been reserved for conference attendees from May 21 thru May 26. The conference rate will be in effect for those dates but you must make your reservations by April 22. If you are planning to spend the weekend before or after the conference, check with the hotel for special weekend packages. Please use the enclosed hotel registration form and send directly to the hotel or call toll free 1-800-527-4727. Room rates and availability are not guaranteed after April 22. It is important that you ask for the SIGMOD rate. Local Transportation and Parking Parking near the conference hotel: Expect to pay $10-15 per day for hotel or nearby parking. Hotel parking is limited, but there are nearby lots, for example at the San Jose Convention Center at Market and San Carlos Streets. Local area attendees may want to use the San Jose Light Rail, park at the Tasman station if you are coming from the north and the Chynoweth station from the south (parking is free). The Light Rail stop for the Fairmont Hotel is Paseo de San Antonio station. There is a Web Site with local transit information at: http://server.berkeley.edu/Transit \end{center >From here, you can follow links to CalTrain (with complete schedules), Santa Clara County TA (with links to Light Rail in S.J.), and even links to the SF, SJ, and Oakland airports (and how they connect to bus service, CalTrain, etc.). For Out of Town Arrivals: >From San Jose Airport: Free hotel shuttle to and from San Jose Airport. Runs every half hour on the 1/2 hour (7am-11pm). The hotel suggests you call (direct line to hotel located in baggage claim area) to let them know you are waiting. There is a Standard Rent-a-Car available at the hotel. Taxi - approx $12.00 Driving Instructions from San Jose Airport: On exiting the terminal, turn right onto Guadalupe Parkway/Hwy 87 (see San Jose portion of SF driving instructions for directions to hotel). >From San Francisco Airport: VIP Airport shuttle 1-800-235-8847, $21.00 per person each way. 24 hr advance reservation required. CTS Limo 408 255-9601, $40.00 per person each way, 24 hr advance reservation required. Driving Instructions from San Francisco airport: On exiting from the terminal, get in the left lane as soon as possible, and follow signs to the US-101 to San Jose ramp. In San Jose, take the Guadalupe parkway/Hwy. 87 exit. Continue three miles to the Park Avenue exit. Make a left on Park and continue down two blocks. Park Avenue will end at Market Street. Turn right and circle City Plaza Park. The hotel is located at 170 South Market Street; the cross street is San Fernando. Air Transportation American Airlines has been chosen as the official carrier for the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1995 Conference and is pleased to offer the best available airfare and schedules to fit your travel needs. To obtain the best fare and schedule information, please call 1 800-433-1790. Please be sure to reference Star File number S0755T7. ============================================================================== General Information ============================================================================== Climate The average temperature in San Jose during late May is in the mid to upper 70's with cool evenings. If you plan on touring the Bay Area before or after the conference, listed below are several worthwhile suggestions: In San Jose: The Museum of Art Tech Museum of Innovation Rosicrucian Museum- includes 3,000 year old mummies Paramount's Great America Theme Park Mirassou Winery In San Fransisco (one hour's drive north): Fisherman's Wharf/Pier 39 Chinatown Golden Gate Park and Bridge Cruise the bay and visit Alcatraz In Napa Valley, North of San Francisco: Taste some of finest wines in the world at over 50 wineries on the Wine Train. Take a scenic tour of Napa Valley and surrounding areas while enjoying a 5 course gourmet meal. In Carmel / Monterey (one hour's drive south) Monterey Bay Aquarium Cannery Row 17 mile Drive/Pebble Beach - one of the most scenic drives ============================================================================== Local Arrangements ============================================================================== For additional information concerning local arrangements, contact: Anupam Bhide Oracle Corp. 500 Oracle Pkwy, Box 659414 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 Phone: (415) 506-6427 Fax: (415) 506-7204 Email: abhide@us.oracle.com Debbie Sandman IBM Almaden Research Center 650 Harry Road K55/801 San Jose, CA 95120 Phone: (408) 927-1793 Fax: (408) 927-3215 Email: sandman@almaden.ibm.com ============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Berkeley and LBL, USA Program Chairs: Ami Motro Moshe Tennenholtz George Mason University, USA Technion, Israel Registration Chair: Nilly Schnapp, Technion, Israel ______________________________________________________________________________ This announcement contains: 1. Call for participation 2. Advance program 3. Registration information 4. Registration forms ______________________________________________________________________________ 1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Second International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems will take place on June 27-29 I995, at the Carlton Hotel in Naharia, Israel. The workshop will feature: o 24 research papers on topics that include databases, multi-media information systems, information gathering, integration of information and user interfaces. o Three keynote lectures: 1. The Logic of Enterprise Models Mark Fox, University of Toronto 2. The Future of Graphical User Interfaces Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland 3. The Dynamics of Active Database Rules: Models and Refinements Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA o Three panel discussions: 1. Digital Libraries Avi Silberschatz and Yelena Yesha 2. Business in Cyberspce Hans Hanson 3. Workshop Summary Ami Motro and Moshe Tennenholtz The number of participants in the workshop will be limited. ______________________________________________________________________________ 2. ADVANCE PROGRAM Monday, 26 June _______________ Day: Pre-workshop meeting at the Technion Evening: Welcome reception at the Carlton Hotel Tuesday, 27 June ________________ 9:00 - 9:30 Opening Remarks 9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Session 1 Chair: Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA Speaker : Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA Topic: The Dynamics of Active Database Rules: Models and Refinements 10:30 - 11:00 Refreshments 11:00 - 1:00 Papers Session 1: Next Generation Databases Chair: Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, USA Optimizing Object-Oriented Queries with Path Predicates: Genetic Algorithm Approach S. K. Seo and Y.J.Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Database Monitoring in U-Datalog E. Bertino and B. Catania, University of Milan, Italy An Experimental Comparison of Entity-Relationship and Object-Oriented Model on Quality of Design P. Shoval and S. Shiran, Ben-Gurion University, Israel A History-Oriented Temporal SQL Extension F. Grandi, M. R. Scalas and P. Tiberio, University of Bologna, Italy 1:00 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 Panel Discussion 1 Moderators: Avi Silberschatz and Yelena Yesha Topic: Digital Libraries 3:30 - 4:00 Refreshments 4:00 - 5:30 Papers Session 2: Multi Database Systems Chair: Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy Query Decomposition, Optimization and Processing in Multidatabase Systems K. Evrendilek and A. Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Autonomy and Confidentiality: Secure Federated Data Management B. T. Blaustein, C. D. McCollum, L. Notargiacomo, K. P. Smith and R. D. Graubart, The MITRE Corporation, USA Algebraic Graph-Based Approach to Management of Multidatabase Systems Z. Diskin and B. Cadish, Laboratory of Database Design, Latvia Evening: Dinner at the Carlton Hotel Wednesday, 28 June __________________ 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 2 Chair: Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel Speaker: Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada Topic: The Logic of Enterprise Models 10:00 - 11:00 Paper Session 3: Cooperation and Collaboration Chair: Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel On Migrating Threads B. Mathiske, F. Matthes and J. W. Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany Building Face-to-Face Synchronous Collaborative Applications Y. Eterovic, D. A. Fuller, Pontificia Catholic University of Chile, and J. A. Pino, University of Chile 11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments 11:30 - 1:00 Papers Session 4: Resource allocation, Planning and Design Chair: Mark Fox, University of Toronto, Canada TRAPS - A Time Dependent Resource Allocation Language G. Trzewik, E. Gudes, A. Meisels and G. Solotoresky, Ben-Gurion University, Israel On Fuzzy Hyperknowledge Support Systems C. Carlsson and P. Walden, Abo Akademi University, Finland CODES - A Design Tool for Next Generation Computerized Systems A. Gal, O. Etzion, Technion, Israel 1:00 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 Panel Discussion 2 Moderator: Hans Hanson Topic: Business in Cyberspace 3:30 - 4:00 Refreshments 4:00 - 6:00 Papers Session 5: Information Gathering Chair: Yitzhak Birk, Technion, Israel Delivery of Electronic News M. A. Shepherd, Dalhousie University, Canada, C. R. Watters, Acadia University, Canada, and F.J. Burkowski, University of Waterloo, Canada Category Translation: Learning to Understand Information on the Internet M. Perkowitz and O. Etzioni, University of Washington, USA Learning User Interests in Heterogeneous Information Repositories B. Krulwich, Center for Strategic Technology Research, USA Vocabulary Problem in Internet Resource Discovery S.-H. Li and P. B. Danzig; University of Southern California, USA Evening: Social Event Thursday, 29 June _________________ 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 3 Chair: Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA. Speaker: Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Topic: The Future of Graphical User Interfaces 10:00 - 11:00 Session 6: User Interfaces Chair: Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Hypertext Browsing: A New Model Based on Hypergraph's Dynamic Construction and Data Analysis Methods B. Shapira, A. Raveh and U. Hanani, Hebrew University, Israel DiaGen: A Generator for Diagram Editors Based on a Hypergraph Model G. Viehstaedt and M. Minas, University Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany 11:00 - 11:30 Refreshments 11:30 - 1:00 Paper Session 7: Multimedia and Natural Languages Chair: Dan Berry, Technion, Israel Presentation Layer Modeling for Shareable Multimedia Data G. A. Schloss and M. J. Wynblatt, State University of New York, USA An Adaptive Multimedia-Presentation System Y. Birk and F. Ghenassia, Technion, Israel Using Complex Conceptual Structures for Representing and Querying the "Meaning" of Narrative NL Documents G. P. Zarri, CNRS, France 1:00 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 Paper Session 8: Integration of Heterogeneous Information Chair: Avi Silberschatz, AT&T Bell Labs. The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages H. Garcia-Molina, D. Quass, Y. Papakonstantinou, A. Rajaraman, Y. Sagiv, J. Ullman and J. Widom, Stanford University, USA Knowledge-based Schema Integration In a Heterogeneous Environment T. Catarci and G. Santucci, University of Rome, Italy, and J. Cardiff, RTC Tallaght, Ireland Modeling Heterogeneous Software Components L. Shklar, K. Shah and C. Basu, Rutgers University, USA, and A. Sheth and V. Kashyap, University of Georgia, USA 4:00 - 4:30 Refreshments 4:30 - 5:30 Concluding Discussion Moderators: Ami Motro and Moshe Tennenholtz _________________ Program Committee _________________ Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France Ron Ashany, National Science Foundation, USA Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel Dan Berry, Technion, Israel Elisa Bertino, U. Milano, Italy Yitzhak Birk, Technion, Israel Yuri Breitbart, U. Kentucky, USA Alex Brodsky, George Mason U., USA Peter Buneman, U. Pennsylvania, USA Wesley Chu, U. California, Los Angeles, USA Alessandro D'Atri, U. L'Aquila, Italy Dov Dori, Technion, Israel Ed Durfee, U. Michigan, USA Oren Etzioni, U. Washington, USA Christos Faloutsos, U. Maryland, and AT&T Bell Labs, USA Mark Fox, U. Toronto, Canada Ophir Frieder, George Mason U., USA Les Gasser, U. Southern California, USA Yossi Gil, Technion, Israel Tomasz Imielinski, Rutgers U., USA Alfons Kemper, U. Passau, Germany Fred Lochovsky, U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Dennis McLeod, U. Southern California, USA John Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA Jeff Rosenschein, Hebrew U., Israel Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, USA Amit Sheth, U. Georgia, Athens, USA Peretz Shoval, Ben Gurion U., Israel Avi Silberschatz, U. Texas, Austin, and AT&T Bell Labs, USA Ouri Wolfson, U. Illinois, Chicago, USA ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. REGISTRATION INFORMATION The workshop will be held at the Carlton Hotel in Naharia on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 27 - 29 June, 1995. Workshop Fees: ______________ Early Registration (received by May 1): US$250 Late Registration (received after May 1): US$300 Fees include: 1. Participation in all workshop sessions 2. One copy of workshop proceedings 3. Three lunches (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) 4. Welcome Reception (Monday evening) 5. Dinner at the Carlton Hotel (Tuesday evening) 6. Social event with dinner (Wednesday evening) On Monday, June 26, 1995 the Information Systems Engineering Group at the Technion will sponsor a pre-workshop meeting at the Technion, to which all NGITS participants are invited. Details will be provided later. On Friday, June 30, there will be an optional all day sightseeing tour in the northern part of Israel. The tour is contingent upon sufficient number of participants. Estimated cost is US$50 per person. Accommodations: _______________ Rooms are being reserved in the Carlton Hotel, a luxurious four-star hotel located on the main street of Naharia. Prices for workshop participants: US$82 for a single room US$84 for a double room Prices include breakfast. Israeli participants add VAT. About Naharia: _______________ "Naharia" (Nahar = river in Hebrew) is an picturesque resort town on the beach of the Mediterranean, approximately 30 km north of Haifa. It was founded in 1934 by Jews who immigrated from Germany, and still retains certain mid-European atmosphere. Its name is taken from the Gaaton River, which crosses the town (however, if you would like to see the water of this river, you should return to Naharia in the winter). The hotel (like everything else in Naharia) is located within a walking distance from the beach, the bus and train stations, coffee shops and shopping centers. The climate in June is rather warm (25-30 degrees Celsius). However, because of the sea, it is usually not uncomfortably hot (exceptions are possible). Light clothing is recommended. Meals and Social Events: ________________________ The workshop fees cover lunches on the three days of the workshop, and dinners on the first two days. On Tuesday we shall have "One thousand and one nights" mid-eastern dinner at the Hotel. On Wednesday we shall have a unique social event outside the hotel, transportation will be provided. A reception will be held at the hotel on Monday evening prior to the workshop. Additional tickets for lunches and events would be available for purchase at the workshop. Proceedings: _______________ The proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. NGITS '95 REGISTRATION FORM This form should be returned along with a cheque or money order drawn in US Dollars (Israelis may send an equivalent amount in Shekels) to the order of "NGITS '95". The fees are: US$250 if the form is received by May 1, and US$300 afterwards. Mail this form to: NGITS' 95 c/o Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel Full Name: ________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________ ________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Email (optional):________________________________ Fax (optional): ________________________________ Amount Enclosed: ________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ACCOMMODATION AND SIGHTSEEING FORM: This form is for making reservations at the Carlton Hotel, and for the sightseeing tour. No prepayment is necessary for these reservations. Mail this form by May 1, 1995 to: NGITS 95 c/o Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel or send by email to: schnapp@ie.technion.ac.il or send by fax to: 972-4-235194, attn: Nilly Schnapp Full Name: ________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________ ________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Email (optional):________________________________ Fax (optional): ________________________________ 1. Accommodations: [ ] I want to reserve a room at the Carlton Hotel [ ] I will be making my own accommodation arrangements Type of room [ ] Single room [ ] Double room Arrival Date ________ Departure Date ________ Number of Persons ________ 2. Sightseeing tour: [ ] I wish to participate [ ] I do not wish to participate Number of Persons ________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 3 10:10:39 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 10:10:34 -0500; AA06008 Date: Wed, 3 May 95 10:10:33 -0500 From: Michael Vitale <74150.1512@compuserve.com> Message-Id: <9505031510.AA06386@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 10:10:33 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Subject: Time: 8:38 AM OFFICE MEMO academic positions at Melbourne Date: 5/2/95 If you have not already received the attached announcement, could you post it please? Thank you mike vitale <<<<<< Attached TEXT file follows >>>>>> The University of Melbourne Department of Information Systems Join the team that's building a state-of-the-art department in a world-class university. To help prepare for the initial entering class in February,1996, we are seeking up to eight academic staff who combine an enthusiasm for teaching with a passion for research. Positions will be advertised in the Australian and international press, professional journals and formally over the Internet in the next month. Most appointments will be from one to five years with salaries: Lecturer A$ 42,198- 50,111 per annum Senior Lecturer A$ 51,692 - 59,605 per annum Associate Professor A$ 62,242 - 68,571 per annum Visitors are also welcome to apply for six-nine month appointments Initial course development and teaching opportunities will be available in first and second year IS subjects including: Fundamentals of IT, Information Systems in Organisations, Tools of Analysis, Systems Analysis and Design, Software Development Concepts, Modelling in Organisations, and Database and Telecommunications Concepts. Research interests particularly sought include global information systems, IS performance measurement, systems security, distributed systems, and database systems, but other areas of specialisation will be considered. Demonstrated ability to create and employ innovative learning methods, experience in a team-based work environment, personal competence with information technology, and oral and written communications skills will all be highly valued in the selection process. The department intends to offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as a graduate diploma and post-graduate courses. An academic review period will begin shortly with the aim of concluding by 1 July. Applicants interested further in the positions, or seeking visitor status, should send a curriculum vitae or direct inquiries to: Professor Michael Vitale Head Department of Information Systems The University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3052 AUSTRALIA E-mail: m.vitale@dis.unimelb.edu.au The University of Melbourne is committed to equal opportunity in employment as well as in education. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 3 10:15:08 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 10:15:04 -0500; AA06026 Date: Wed, 3 May 95 10:15:02 -0500 From: zicari@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de Message-Id: <9505031515.AA06408@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 10:15:02 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu TAPOS Special Issues: CFPs __________________________ The following five special issues are planned for TAPOS: Distributed Object Management: Gail Mitchell, GTE Laboratories deadline July 17, 1995 OMG and CORBA: Richard Mark Soley, OMG deadline August 31, 1995 Patterns and Pattern Languages: Stephen P. Berczuk, MIT deadline August 15, 1995 Type Systems: Jens Palsberg and Michael Schwartzbach, Aarhus deadline May 15, 1995 Subjectivity in Object-Oriented Systems: Harold Ossher and William Harrison, IBM deadline April 28th, 1995 The call for papers of each issue is attached. -- Karl Lieberherr -- Roberto Zicari ------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Special Issue of Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS) John Wiley, New York on Distributed Object Management Guest Editor: Gail Mitchell GTE Laboratories Distributed object management systems provide a framework for integrating heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed systems. In a distributed object system the component systems, as well as the data stored in these systems, are modeled as objects. Distributed object management includes facilities needed to support the integration and interoperation of these objects. Increasingly, organizations are encountering situations in which heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed computing systems need to be connected and may interoperate to provide services and information. For example, re-engineering of business processes results in the integration of existing (legacy) business systems, as well as new applications; ubiquitous networks, such as the Internet, connect heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed computing sites; a mobile system communicates with different computing sites as it moves about the globe. Distributed object management systems are often promoted as an approach to solving requirements for interoperability in such systems. For this special issue of TAPOS we invite papers on all aspects of distributed object management. We particularly encourage papers examining current research and developments in the application of distributed object management technology to address system interoperability. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Modelling and interoperability issues o Implementation issues o Distributed object system architectures o Support for object persistence o Object naming, identification, and location o Object migration and mobility o Support for concurrency and transactions o Object behavior o Object semantics and heterogeneity o Object views o Management of object replication o Queries and query optimization o Emerging Standards Electronic submissions are preferred (postscript plus a plain text abstract), but five paper copies are acceptable. Detailed instructions for authors can be retrieved via ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/call-for-papers The deadline for submission is July 17, 1995. Please send your submission to: E-Mail: gmitchell@gte.com US Mail/ Gail Mitchell Express: GTE Laboratories, MS-62 40 Sylvan Rd. Waltham, MA 02254 USA Telephone: (617) 466-2286 Fax: (617) 466-2439 ------------------------------------------------------ > Call for Papers > Special Issue of > > Theory and Practice of Object Systems > John Wiley, New York > > on OMG and CORBA > > Guest Editor: > > Richard Mark Soley > > Since its founding in 1989, the membership-based industry consortium Object > Management Group (OMG) has made great strides in defining a distributed object > computing platform for application integration in widely disbursed, > heterogeneous settings. Central to the group's Object Management Architecture > (OMA) is the notion of an "object request broker (ORB)," comprising both a > language-independent interface definition language, and an API for sending and > receiving inter-application (or inter-object) requests. Along the way a > classical object model formalism was also designed and issued to form the > foundation for the future direction of the OMA. > > As the group has grown past 500 members, member interests have widened > considerably, in parallel with academic interest in the technology. As a > result, layered services above the CORBA object request broker framework have > been added at the rate of five to six service definitions per year, with > current exploration in the direction of more user-visible support facilities. > > We invite papers on all aspects of OMA conforming technologies, both > current and future. All possible additions, deletions or extensions to the > OMA itself, the OMG Object Model, or OMA-defined interfaces (such as CORBA, > CORBAservices or CORBAfacilities) can be addressed; topics of interest > include, but are not limited to: > > o Potential extensions to the OMA itself. > > o Changes or extensions to the OMA Object Model (for example, to > generalized models). > > o Changes or extensions to the CORBA IDL language. > > o Changes to CORBA to support specific execution environments. > > o Additional CORBAservices or CORBAfacilities to address market needs. > > o Abstractions of OMA-provided services. > > o Modelling techniques for OMA service provision. > > o Interworking paradigms for CORBA and other object systems. > > The deadline for submission is August 31, 1995. More information is > available from WWW URL: > > ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/call-for-papers. > > Send your submission to Richard Soley, preferably by sending a > Postscript file, prefixed by a plain text abstract, to soley@omg.org, > or else by sending five copies of the paper to the address below. > > Address: Dr. Richard Mark Soley > Vice President & Technical Director > Object Management Group, Inc. > 492 Old Connecticut Path > Framingham, MA 01701 > U.S.A. > > Phone: +1-508-820 4300 > > Fax: +1=508-820 4303 > > Call For Papers Special Issue of Theory and Practice of Object Systems on Patterns and Pattern Languages Guest Editor: Stephen P. Berczuk Pattern Languages and the Pattern Language form offer much promise as a way to better document software architectures. The potential benefits include a better way to document problem/solution sets for reuse and as a way to expose new developers (or those new to a particular domain) to an existing architectural experience. For the special issue on pattern languages we invite papers which present pattern languages or which discuss applications of the pattern language approach. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Applications of Pattern Languages as a reuse Mechanism (esp Experience papers) * Application Specific Pattern Languages * How to find and document patterns. * Ways of indexing pattern languages * Variations of the pattern form. The deadline for submissions is: August 15, 1995. More information is available from: ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/call-for-papers Send your submission to Steve Berczuk, preferably emailing a postscript file prefixed by a plain text abstract to berczuk@mit.edu, or else by sending five copies of the paper to the following address: Stephen P. Berczuk Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center For Space Research Room 37-561 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 Phone: +1 (617) 253-3840 =========================================================================== \title{{\bf Call for Papers} \\ [2ex] Special Issue of \\ {\em Theory and Practice of Object Systems} \\ on Type Systems } \author{Guest Editors: \\ Jens Palsberg and Michael Schwartzbach} The development and use of type systems for object-oriented languages continues to be important and exciting. In the first half of the 1990s, there have been many suggestions for type systems, new languages developed around a notion of type, faster algorithms for type checking and type inference, and better tools based on type information. Type systems are now used in single- and multiple-dispatch languages, concurrent languages, and others. The aim of the special issue is to present significant recent developments. We invite papers on all aspects of type systems for object-oriented languages. Every variety of object-oriented language can be addressed, and topics of interest include, but are not limited to: \begin{itemize} \item New notions of type. \item Subtyping \item Mathematical properties of types. \item Language designs based on types. \item Type checking and type inference algorithms. \item Comparison of known type systems. \item Use of type information in compilers, programming environments, etc. \end{itemize} \newpage The deadline for submission is {\bf May 15, 1995}. More information is available from WWW URL: \begin{small} ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/call-for-papers. \end{small} Send your submission to Michael Schwartzbach, preferably by sending a Postscript file, prefixed by a plain text abstract, to mis@daimi.aau.dk, or else by sending five copies of the paper to the address below. \begin{tabbing} Address:~\= \kill Address: \>Michael I. Schwartzbach \\ \>BRICS, Dept.\ of Computer Science \\ \>University of Aarhus \\ \>Ny Munkegade, Building 540 \\ \>8000 Aarhus C \\ \>Denmark \\[1.5ex] Phone: \>+45 8942 3374 \\[1.5ex] Fax: \>+45 8942 3255 =========================================================== \title{{\bf Call for Papers} \\ [2ex] Special Issue of \\ {\em Theory and Practice of Object Systems} \\ on Subjectivity in Object-Oriented Systems } \author{Guest Editors: \\ Harold Ossher and William Harrison} Subjectivity is an area of growing interest and importance in the object-oriented community. Especially in large systems or suites of applications, it is often important that the same objects appear different and behave differently when used in different contexts, by different clients, in different ways, or at different times. Support for such subjectivity promises greater flexibility in writing, extending and combining object-oriented systems and applications, and at the same time raises many interesting technical and even philosophical issues. Papers on all aspects of subjectivity in object-oriented systems are invited for the special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: \begin{itemizec} \item Concepts and philosophical issues. \item Motivation, requirements and uses of subjectivity. \item Models and language mechanisms. \item Analysis, design and programming methodology. \item Semantics, including: creation and copying of objects, encapsulation, static versus dynamic views, first-classness of views. \item Specification issues, including: the meaning of invariants in a subjective system, characterizing views and inter-view dependencies. \item Implementation issues. \item Relationship of subjectivity to versioning, inheritance, reflection, distributed systems and other related areas or mechanisms. \end{itemizec} The deadline for submission is {\bf April 28th, 1995}. Electronic submissions are preferred, and will lead to faster reviewing, but five paper copies are acceptable. Detailed instructions for authors are obtainable by using the WWW URL: \begin{verbatim} ftp://ftp.ccs.neu.edu:/pub/journals/tapos/call-for-papers \end{verbatim} Please send your submissions to Harold Ossher: {\small \begin{tabbing} Telephone:xxxxxx\= \kill E-Mail: \>ossher@watson.ibm.com \\[1.5ex] US Mail: \>Harold Ossher, H1-B26 \\ \>IBM T. J. Watson Research Center \\ \>P. O. Box 704 \\ \>Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 \\[1.5ex] Express/ \>Harold Ossher, H1-B26 \\ Shipping: \>IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, \\ \>\hspace{1cm}Hawthorne \\ \>30 Saw Mill River Road \\ \>Hawthorne, NY 10532 \\[1.5ex] Telephone: \>(914) 784-7975 \\[1.5ex] Fax: \>(914) 784-7455 ================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 3 10:47:21 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 10:47:12 -0500; AA06535 Date: Wed, 3 May 95 10:47:10 -0500 From: spiff@ida.his.se (Mikael Berndtsson) Message-Id: <9505031547.AA06489@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 10:47:10 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu (This information is also available at our www server: http://www.ida.his.se/ARTDB-95) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems (ARTDB-95) June 9-11, 1995 University of Skovde, Sweden Sponsored by ACT-NET About the Workshop ------------------ The areas of active and real-time databases have seen tremendous growth in the last few years. Both active functionality, rule based execution, and real-time capability are crucial for the support of time-critical and embedded applications. A number of open issues need to be resolved in order to combine active and real-time capability. ARTDB-95 therefore serves as an important forum for these two research communities to get together to identify and share research results as well as chart new directions. The workshop program consist of a single track, with eleven paper presentations, four invited speakers, two sessions of free discussion/panel and a closing session. Each afternoon is reserved for a social activity with plenty of time for informal discussions. Thus, we hope that this workshop will foster exchange of ideas and inspire a free-flowing discussion between the participants. Attendance will be limited to 45. The advanced program is included below. Registration form can be obtained via our www server: http://www.ida.his.se/ARTDB-95 or by contacting the ARTDB-95 secretariat: ARTDB-95 Marie Boden University of Skovde Department of Computer Science Box 408 S-541 28 SKOVDE, SWEDEN Email: artdb-95@ida.his.se Fax: +46-(0)500-46 47 25 Ph.: +46-(0)500-46 46 00 ADVANCE PROGRAM Thursday June 8 --------------- 09:00-24:00 Registration at Hotel Majoren 22:00-24:00 Evening Buffee at Hotel Majoren Friday June 9 ------------- 08:00-08.45 Registration at the University 08:45-09:00 Opening 09:00-10:00 Title: To be announced Umesh Dayal - USA (Invited Talk) 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:00 Time Issues in Advanced Workflow Management Applications of Active Databases H. Jasper, O. Zukunft and H. Behrends - Germany 11:00-11:30 Optimization of Active Rules with Parallelism C. Collet and J. Machado - France 11:30-12:00 Object-oriented Real-Time Database Design and Hierarchical Control Systems Maria Ligia B. Perkusich, Angelo Perkusich, and Ulrich Schiel - Brazil 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13.00-16.30 Local Tour! 16:30-17:30 Optimizing Active Database Transactions: New Perspectives Eric Simon - France (Invited Talk) 17:30-17:45 Break 17:45-19:00 Panel session 19:30 Dinner Saturday June 10 ---------------- 09:00-9:30 Temporal Conditons with Retroactive and Proactive Updates Minglin Deng, A. Prasad Sistla and Ouri Wolfson - USA 09:30-10:00 Issues in Active Real-Time Databases Mikael Berndtsson and Jorgen Hansson - Sweden 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:00 On Providing Soft and Hard Real-Time Capabilitites in an Active DBMS H. Branding and A. Buchmann - Germany 11.00-11.30 An Algorithm for the Analysis of Termination of Large Trigger Sets in an OODBMS Thomas Weik and Andreas Heuer - Germany 11:30-12:00 A Uniform Model to Express the Behaviour of Rules with Different Semantics S. Comai, P. Fraternali, G. Psaila and L. Tanca - Italy 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13.00-16.30 Local Tour! 16:30-17:30 Title: A Case for Better Language and Compiler Support for Real-Time Database Systems Alexander D. Stoyenko - USA (Invited Talk) 17:30-17:45 Break 17:45-19:00 Panel session 19:30 Dinner Sunday June 11 -------------- 08:30-09:00 An Efficient Real-time Optimistic Concurrency Control Protocol Kwok-wa Lam, Kam-yiu Lam and Sheung-lun Hung - Hong Kong 09:00-09:30 Data Placement, Logging and Recovery in Real-Time Active Databases Rajendran M. Sivasankaran, Krithi Ramamritham, John A Stankovic and Don Towsley - USA 09:30-10:00 An Evaluation of Network Access Protocols for Distributed Real-Time Database Systems Ozgur Ulusoy - Turkey 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:30 Origin of TCs (or, where do Time Constraints come from?) Krithi Ramamrithamn - USA (Invited Talk) 11:30-11:50 Closing 11:50-12:00 Bye/Thank You and Lunch Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs Mikael Berndtsson, (spiff@ida.his.se) Jorgen Hansson, (jorgen.hansson@ida.his.se) Program Chairs Sharma Chakravarthy, (sharma@cis.ufl.edu) Sten Andler, (sten.andler@ida.his.se) Program Committee ----------------- Bengt Asker, Sweden Miron Livny, USA Alex Buchmann, Germany Krithi Ramamritham, India Umesh Dayal, USA Tore Risch, Sweden Oscar Diaz, Spain Karsten Schwan, USA Klaus R. Dittrich, Switzerland Timos Sellis, Greece Narain Gehani, USA Sang H. Son, USA Wolfgang Halang, Germany John A. Stankovic, USA Harold W. Lawson, Sweden Paulo Verissimo, Portugal Brian Lings, UK Alexander D. Stoyenko, 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 May 3 15:48:16 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 15:48:13 -0500; AA11942 Date: Wed, 3 May 95 15:48:12 -0500 From: dimitris@gte.com (Dimitrios Georgakopoulos) Message-Id: <9505032048.AA07440@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 3 May 95 15:48:12 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS The 12th International Conference on Data Engineering Feb. 26 - March 1, 1996 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/flyer.html Six copies of original papers not exceeding 6000 words (25 double spaced pages) should be submitted by May 31, 1995 to program chair: Stanley Y. W. Su Database Systems R&D Center 470 CSE Building University of Florida P. O. Box 116125 Gainesville, FL 32611-6125 E-mail: icde96@cis.ufl.edu Tel. (904) 392-2680, FAX: (904) 392-1220 Authors should explicitly specify in the cover page one or two topics of interest most relevant to the submission. Submissions for the industrial program should also be specified in the cover page. IMPORTANT DATES o Paper, Panel, and Tutorial submissions: May 31, 1995 o Notification of acceptance: October 2, 1995 o Tutorials: February 26-27, 1996 o Conference: February 28 - March 1, 1996 The ICDE96 home page http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/flyer.html provides additional infomation on the ICDE96 scope, topics, organizing and program committee members (including hypertext links to their home pages), US letter and A4 flyers in postscript, and links to the table of contents of past ICDE conferences and the 1996 RIDE workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Discuss new developments and future directions at Microsoft, and find out about potential career opportunities. MICROSOFT OPEN HOUSE TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1995 5:30 - 8:00 PM INTERNATIONAL SUITE FAIRMONT HOTEL, SAN JOSE Refreshments will be served, casual attire. We look forward to seeing you on May 23rd! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Further info can be obtained by eMail from: caise95@jyu.fi or by WWW from http://www.jyu.fi/~mor or from the address: Conference Secretariat: Taru-Maija Heilala University of Jyvdskyld Jyvdskyld Congresses P.O. Box 35 FIN-40351 Jyvdskyld, Finland tel. +358-41-603663 fax +358-41-603621 e-mail: heilala@jyu.fi INTRODUCTION The conference continues the tradition of the previous years, when CAiSE was held in Stockholm, Trondheim, Manchester, Paris, and Utrecht. These conferences have established a reputation of providing a lively meeting point for researchers and practioners. The general theme of CAiSE*95 is Information Systems Engineering: Current Practice and Future Prospects. Concerning current practice, CAiSE*95 ais at soliciting empirical contributions describing and evaluating the current adoption and diffusion of information systems engineering (ISE) technologies (methods and tools) in practice. Concerning the future, CAiSE*95 has invited contributions introducing new emerging ISE technologies, methods and tools. The accepted 26 papers, out of 101, are of high academic quality and treat a broad variety of topics including requirements engineering, conceptual modelling, behaviour modelling, metamodelling, process modelling, object orientation, reuse, CASE integration, user interface issues and software engineering issues. The keynote speeches address the future prospects of process improvement, the impact of new information architectures on industry and government redesign, and industry experiences in large-scale development of object-oriented applications. CAiSE*95 comprises a two-day programme of workshops and tutorials before the beginning of the conference itself. The conference programme is further supplemented with panels, poster sessions and product presentations. As a result, the programme of CAiSE95 continues the tradition of offering an excellent arena for practitioners and researchers to exchange and share ideas on advanced information systems engineering. PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION FEES The Conference is open to all registered participants. The official language of CAiSE*95 is English. The attached registration form should be completed (only one participant per form) and returned to the Conference Secretariat. The early registration fee is only applicable if payment is received before May 12, 1995. On-site registration fees are used for the registrations thereafter. All prices are indicated in Finnish currency (FIM). Note also that payment must accompany the registration form, otherwise registration will not be processed. Please refer to the instructions for payment given on the registration form. All registrations will be confirmed by the Conference Secretariat after receipt of your registration and payment. by May 12 from May 12 onwards Conference fee FIM 2500 FIM 3000 Tutorial fee, half-day FIM 600 FIM 800 Tutorial fee, full-day FIM 1100 FIM 1300 Workshop fee, one day FIM 400 FIM 550 Workshop fee, two days FIM 600 FIM 750 The Conference fee includes: attendance at the Conference, a copy of the proceedings, Get-Together, Reception, Cruise and Conference Dinner, refreshments during the breaks, lunches on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and free entry to the Information Technology 95 & CAiSE95 Exhibition. The Tutorial fee includes: attendance at the Tutorial selected, a copy of the tutorial notes, refreshments, lunch, Get-Together, and free entry to the Information Technology 95 & CAiSE*95 Exhibition. The Workshop fee includes: attendance at the Workshop selected, a copy of the workshop notes, refreshments and lunch(es), Get-Together, and free entry to the Information Technology 95 & CAiSE*95 Exhibition. Note: Conference participants are allotted a 50% reduction of the Tutorial and Workshop fees. No refunds are possible for any part of the package not taken. The fee for the Cruise and Confernce Dinner for accompanying persons is FIM 250. Cancellation/Refund policy: Written notification of cancellation must be sent to the Conference Secretariat. Cancellations made prior to May 12, 1995 will be subject to a 25 % cancellation fee. No refunds will be granted after this date. ACCOMMODATION The standard of hotels in Finland is high. Double rooms have either double beds or twin beds, and all rooms have bath or shower. Most hotels have sauna facilities available for hotel guests free of charge either in the mornings or in the evenings. Special rates, quoted below (FIM/night/person, VAT and breakfast included), are available for reservations made through the Secretariat. Please note that accommodation is to be paid directly to the hotel upon departure. * Hotel Alba: single FIM 315, double FIM 200 (lakeside, at the Conference site) * Hotel Cumulus: single FIM 310, double FIM 180 (city centre, c. 1,5 km from the Conference site, Finnair bus stop in front of Hotel Cumulus) * Summer Hotel Amis: single FIM 180, double FIM 120 (city centre, c. 2 km from the Conference site, cooking facilities) Reservations will be made on a "first-come, first-serve" basis, and the discount prices can only be guaranteed if your reservation is received before May 12, 1995. Should you cancel your booking before this date, no cancellation fee will be charged. USEFUL TO KNOW Conference Venue The Conference venue is Jyvdskyld, capital of Central Finland, a lively university town with some 100 000 inhabitants. CAiSE95 will be held on the Mattilanniemi campus of the University of Jyvdskyld within walking distance of the city centre and a range of comfortable hotels. The Conference Office will be located in the foyer of the Mattilanniemi Building A (MaA). The Office will be at your service throughout the Conference days, starting on Monday, June 12, until the Closing Session, Friday afternoon, June 16. The majority of the sessions will also be held in Building MaA. Travel connections Finland is easily accessible from all over the world. Several interna- tional airlines have regular flights to Helsinki, the state capital. A convenient way is also to take a ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki or Turku. The City of Jyvdskyld is located about 280 km north of Helsinki, in the heart of the Finnish lake area. Jyvdskyld can be reached from Helsinki and Turku through several daily connections by plane, train and bus. Approximater journey times from Helsinki to Jyvdskyld are: air 30 min, and rail 3 hours. ****************************************************************** PROGRAMME ****************************************************************** MONDAY, JUNE 12 9.00 - 17.00 Workshops Workshop W1: 6th European Workshop on On Next Generation of CASE Tools Workshop W2: Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Workshop W3: 2nd Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshop W4: Supporting End User Development with Visual Programming and Object-Orientation TUESDAY, JUNE 13 9.00 - 17.00 Workshops Workshop W1: 6th European Workshop on On Next Generation of CASE Tools Workshop W2: Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Workshop W3: 2nd Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering Tutorial T1: Richard T. Due': Object Engineering. 13.30 - 17.00 Tutorial T3: Jean-Luc Hainaut: Database Reverse Engineering - problems, Methods and Tools. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 8.15 - 11.30 Tutorial T2: Brian Henderson-Sellers: MOSES: Methodology for Object-oriented Software Engineering of Systems Tutorial T4: Amit Sheth: Workflow Automation:Technology, Applications, and Research Tutorial T5: Juha-Pekka Tolvanen: Method integration in metaCASE environments. 12.00 - 12.30 Conference Opening Kalle Lyytinen, Juhani Iivari and Anna-Liisa Takkinen 12.30 -14.00 Keynote Speech: Process Improvement: The Way Forward Prof. M. M. Lehman, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K. 14.00-14.30 Coffee break 14.30- 16.00 Paper Session 1: Behaviour Modelling (Chair: Peri Loucopoulos, U.K.) - A. Olive and Maria-Ribera Sancho, A Method for Explaining the Behaviour of Conceptual Model - J.F.M. Burg, R.P. van de Riet, COLOR-X: A Linguistically-based Event Modeling: A General Approach to Dynamic Modeling - Joan A. Pasto-Collado, Antoni Olive, Supporting Transaction Design in Conceptual Modelling of Information Systems Paper Session 2: Requirements Engineering (Chair: Janis Bubenko, Sweden) - A. L. Opdahl, G., Sindre, Facet Problems for Problem Analysis - David Duffy, C. MaacNish, J. McDermid, P. Morris, A Framework for Requirements Analysis Using Automated Reasoning - J. Krogstie, O. I. Lindblad, G. Sindre, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Quality in Requirements Engineering Panel Session 1: European Process Improvment Initiative: Scandinavian Experiences and Results (Chair: Risto Nevalainen) 16.00-16.39 Coffee break 16.30-17.30 Paper Session 3: OO Concepts and Applications (Chair: Sjaak Brinkkemper, The Netherlands) - E. Andonoff, G. Hubert, A. Le Parc, G. Zurfluh: Modelling inheritance, composition and relationship links between objects, object versions and class versions - Antonina Dattolo, Vincenzo Loia, Hypertext Version Management in an Actor-based Framework Paper Session 4: Work and communication modelling (Chair: Arne Sxlvberg, Norway) - Veronique Plihon, Colette Rolland, Modelling Ways-of-Working - F. Dignum, H. Weigand, Modelling Communication between Cooperative Systems Panel Session 2: European Process Improvement Initiative: Scandinavian Experiences and Results (cont.) (Chair: Risto Nevalainen) THURSDAY, JUNE 15 9.00-10.30 Invited speech: Challanges in Applying Objects to Large Systems Software Engineering Manager, Juha-Markus Aalto Nokia Telecommunications, Cellular Systems 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Paper Session 5. Metamodelling (Chair: Colette Rolland, France) - T. F. Verhoef, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, Feasibility of Flexible Information Modelling Support - H. Herbst, A Meta-Model for Business Rules in Systems Analysis - Matti Rossi, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Metrics in Method Engineering Paper Session 6: User interface issues (Chair: Terttu Orci, Sweden) - Leon Shklar, Amit Sheth, Vipul Kaspyah, Kshitij Shah, InfoHarness: Use of Automatically Generated Metadata for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information - Matti Pettersson, Designing the user interface on top of a conceptual model - G. Viehstaedt, M. Minas, Graphical Representation and Manipulation of Complex Structures Based on a Formal Model Poster Session 1: (Chair: Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Finland) 12.30-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.30 Workshop results 15.30-16-00 Coffee break 16.00-17.30 Paper Session7: CASE integration (Chair: Gerard Wijers, The Netherlands) - John C. Grundy, John R. Venable, Providing Integrated Support for Multiple Development Notations - M. Bounab, C. Godart, A Federated Approach to Tool Integration Paper Session 8: Reuse (Chair: Hele-Mai Haav, Estonia) - M. D. Gibson, Domain Knowledge Reuse During Requirements Engineering - Andreas Geppert, K. Dittrich, Strategies and Techniques: Reusable Artifacts for the Construction of Database Management System Industrial Session 1: (Chair: Pentti Marttiin, Finland) FRIDAY, JUNE 16 9.00-10.30 Keynote Speech: The Impact of New Information Architectures on Industry and Government Transformation Prof. Giampio Bracchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 10.30-11.00 Coffee break 11.00-12.30 Paper Session 9: Conceptual modelling issues (Chair: Antoni Olive, Spain) - O. Rauh, E. Stickel: Standard Transformations for the Normalization of ER Schemata - M. Albrecht, E. Buchholz, A. D|sterhvft, M. Altus, B. Thalheim: The Rapid Application and Database Development Workbench -- A Comfortable Database Design Tool - Keng Siau, Yair Wand, Izak Benbasat, A Psychological Study on the Use of Relationship Concept Paper Session 10: Software development issues (Chair: Andreas Opdahl, Norway) - Priit Parmakson, Alignment of Software Quality and Service Quality - Veronique Narat, Arthur Vila, A Guide for Software Maintenance Evaluation: Experience Report - Kari Laitinen, Natural Naming in Software Development: Feedback from Practitioner Panel Session 3: "Empirical Research, Practice and CAiSE" (Chair: Gerard Wijers, The Netherlands) 12.30-14.00 Lunch 14.00-14.30 Closing Session Kalle Lyytinen, Juhani Iivari and Anna-Liisa Takkinen Announcement of CAiSE*96: Yannis Vassiliou and Panos Constantopoulos, (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece) SOCIAL PROGRAMME In addition to the professional content matter, CAiSE*95 includes the following evening programme: Get-Together, Tuesday, June 13 On Tuesday all participants are cordially welcome to a casual get- together evening with music, wine and snacks. Cocktail Reception at the Jyvdskyld Exhibition Centre, Wednesday, June 14 This will be an excellent opportunity for visiting the exhibition and making contacts with the exhibitors! Cruise and Conference Dinner, Thursday, June 15 A cruise on Lake Pdijdnne will precede a traditional Finnish dinner served in the exceptional setting of Savutuvan Apaja (Fisherman's Catch), followed by dance and music. Return transportation by bus. (Fee for the accompanying persons: FIM 250) In addition to the special evening programme arranged for the CAiSE95 participants, The Jyvdskyld Arts Festival with a versatile cultural programme - concerts, exhibitions, theatre and other events - will take place in the city on June 13-21. Further information available from the Conference Secretariat. POST-CONFERENCE TOURS Booking for the Post-Conference tours should be made on the registration form, and the tours must be prepaid in full when reservations are made. Please note the deadline for the St.Petersburg tour: May 1, 1995. National Park, Saturday, June 17, FIM 350 (min. 15 participants) This one-day excursion will take the participants through the scenic country setting of Central Finland lakeland to the "Pyhd-Hdkki" (the Holy Cage) national park. The day will be spent hiking in the unspoiled nature with a break for a forest lunch cooked on an open fire by a wilderness lake. Price: FIM 350, including bus transportation, English speaking guide services, lunch and refreshments. St.Petersburg, Russia, June 16-19, 1995, FIM 1800 (min. 15 participants) St.Petersburg with its countless parks, bridges and avenues, is regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It is also a lively cultural city, with numerous museums, galleries and collections available for art lovers. Departure from Jyvdskyld after the Closing Session, the tour will end in Helsinki on Monday afternoon. Price: FIM 1800 including bus transportation Jyvdskyld-St.Petersburg- Helsinki, accommodation for three nights in double rooms with breakfast, a Sightseeing tour, visit to the Winter Palace, and an evening programme, guide services, and Visa formalities. Possibilities for joining international groups for other guided tours will be offered at an extra charge of approx. FIM 100-150. Note: booking by May 1. Lapland Once in Finland, we recommend that you extend your northern experience to Lapland, the northernmost, and one of the last remaining wilderness areas of Europe. You can choose between numerous exotic activities, such as a river boat trip, panning for gold, hiking in the fells, or you may just enjoy some other delightful activities in the fresh and clean wilderness air. Tours of various durations available, departures daily, for further information, please contact Heli's Travel, fax +358 41 620 422, tel. +358 41 620 222 or 603 368. ***************************** WWW http://www.jyu.fi/~mor ************* Matti Rossi, Researcher, MetaPHOR project, Dept. of Computer Science Univ. of Jyvdskyld, P.O. Box 35, SF-40351 JKL, Finland tel +358 41 603030 fax +358 41 603011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Make reservations as soon as possible to be assured of the Special Rate!!! ******************************************************************************* ADL'95 A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries McLean Hilton at Tysons Center, Virginia Monday, May 15, 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Reception (McLean Hilton) Tuesday, May 16, 8:30am - 5:00pm and Wednesday, May 17 8:30am - 5:00pm ************************* REGISTRATION INFORMATION ************************* Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment to: Ms. Kelly Whetzel, Jorge Scientific, 7500 Greenway Center Dr.#1130, Greenbelt, MD 20770. Phone:(301)220-1701, Fax:(301)220-1704. Questions related to the technical program should be directed to Dr. N. Adam - adam@adam.rutgers.edu, (201)648-5239, FAX (201)648-5003. ============================================================================== (Dr/Mr/MS/Prof.): First Name:________________Last Name:_______________________ Company/Univ.:_______________________________ Dept.:__________________________ Address:______________________________________________________________________ City:_________________________ State:_____________ Zip/Postal Code:___________ Country:____________________ Phone:________________________________ Fax:_________________________________ E-mail:_________________________________ ADVANCE (Received by May 1, 1995): ========================================== Reg. Fee ACM/IEEE ______Member($220) ______Non-Member($250) ______Student ($75) LATE/ONSITE (Received AFTER May 1, 1995): ================================================ Reg. Fee ACM/IEEE ______Member($250) ______Non-Member($280) ______Student($100) Signature:_____________________________________ Date:______________________ ************* ACCOMMODATION ************* All attendees are welcome to stay at the McLean Hilton at Tysons Corner, VA 22102-3308 (703)761-5111, Fax(703)761-5100 A block of rooms is reserved at a special rate of $118 (single) and $128 (double) per night (ask for the Digital Libraries Group). ============================================================================= URL: http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ISTO/DLT/ADL95/ ============================================================================= FINAL PROGRAM ADL'95 A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries McLean Hilton at Tysons Center, Virginia Monday, May 15, 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Reception (McLean Hilton) Tuesday, May 16, 8:30am - 5:00pm and Wednesday, May 17 8:30am - 5:00pm SPONSORED BY: NASA/GSFC IN COOPERATION WITH: ACM, ARPA, GWU, IEEE Computer Society, NIST-CAIT, NSF, Purdue University, Rutgers-CIMIC and UMBC CORPORATE SUPPORT FROM: AT&T and Bellcore HONORARY CHAIR: Michael R. Nelson, Special Asst. to the President for Information Technology, The White House GENERAL CHAIR: Milton Halem, NASA-GSFC STEERING COMMITTEE: A. Aho, Columbia University; D. Atkins, Univ. of Michigan; W. Day, Prodigy; L. Holcomb, NASA; S. Howe, NCO/HPCC; D. Tiedeman, AT&T; J. Ullman, Stanford Univ. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; Bharat Bhargava, Purdue Univ.; Yelena Yesha, UMBC/NASA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: L. Baron, Univ. of Toronto; T. Finin, UMBC; P. Hunter, NASA; P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ.; M. Lesk, Bellcore; C. Pu, OGI; D. Rosenkrantz, Univ. at Albany-SUNY; J. Schwartz, NYU; J. Slonim, IBM Canada; H. Stone, NEC; H. Wactlar, CMU; R. Wilensky, UC Berkeley INTERNATIONAL CO-COORDINATORS: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany; Shigeo Sugimoto, Univ. of Library & Info. Science, Japan PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS: Susan Hoban, Hughes STX; Elke Rundensteiner, University of Michigan EXHIBIT CHAIR: Susan Hoban, Hughes STX This forum is intended to bring together researchers from universities, industry and government to discuss evolving research issues and applications in digital libraries. Invited speakers will share their experiences in building and using prototype systems, present their vision for the future, and address applied and theoretical research related to such areas as: capturing, and organizing data, management of heterogeneous databases and knowledge bases, and effective use of multimedia databases and knowledge bases available on various national and international networks. =============================================================================== Monday, May 15, 1995 5:30-7:00pm - Poster Session 7:00pm - 9:30pm - Reception (McLean Hilton) =============================================================================== Tuesday, May 16, 1995 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks Dr. M. Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA 9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker Communicating NASA Science To The General Public Dr. F. Cordova, Chief Scientist, NASA 10:00-10:20 BREAK 10:20-11:40 Session 1.1: VISUALIZATION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES 1. Video as Scholarly Material in the Digital Library W. Wolf, B. Liu, M. Yeung, B. Yeo, and D. Markham (Princeton Univ.) 2. Digital Libraries for Electronic News M. A. Shepherd (Dalhousie Univ., Canada), C.R. Watters (Acadia Univ., Canada), and F.J. Burkowski (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) 3. The Visual Analysis of Textual Information: Browsing Large Document Sets J. Thomas, K. Pennock, T. Fiegel, J. Wise, M. Pottier, A. Schur, D. Lantrip, and V. Crow (Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory) 4. WebJounal: Visualization of a Web Journey B. C. Desai and S. Swiercz (Concordia Univ., Canada) 11:40-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-2:20 Forum Discussion 1 RESEARCH ISSUES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES Chair: A. Aho (Columbia University) Panelists include: Y.T. Chien (NSF) Shamim Naqvi (Bellcore) Avi Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Jacob Slonim (Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM) Robert Wilensky (UC Berkeley) Rapporteur: S. Su, Uinv. of Florida 2:20-2:35 BREAK 2:35-3:05 Invited Speaker 1.1: ILIAD: The International Library of Information Access on Demand Raj Reddy (Dean, School of Computer Science), CMU 3:05-3:35 Invited Speaker 1.2: Advances in Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Clifford Lynch (Office of the President, Univ. of Cal.), Avra Michelson (Digital Libraries Dept., The MITRE Corp.), Craig Summerhill (Coalition for Networked Information) and Cecilia Preston (Freelance Cybernaut) 3:35-3:50 BREAK 3:50-5:30 Session 2.1: DOCUMENT HANDLING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES CHAIR: Shigeo Sugimoto (Univ. of Library and Info. Sc., Japan) 1. Uniform Structured Document Handling Using a Constraint-based Object Approach A. Nica and E. A. Rundensteiner (Univ. of Michigan) 2. Digital Software and Data Repositories for Support of Scientific Computing R. Boisvert (NIST), S. Browne (Univ. of Tennessee), J. Dongarra (Univ. of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab.), and E. Grosse (AT&T Bell Laboratories) 3. Semantic Hypermedia Retrieval in Digital Libraries S. Wiesener (Bayerisches Forschungszentrum Fur Wissensbasierte Sys., Germany), W. Kowarschick, P. Vogel, and R. Bayer (Univ. of Munchen, Germany) 4. Fuzzy Multilinkage Thesaurus Builder in Multimedia Information Systems Y. J. Gao, J.J. Lim, and A.D. Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore) 5. Fuzzy Full-Text Searches in OCR Databases A. Myka and U. Guntzer (Univ. of Tubingen, Germany) 6:30-7:30 Cocktail Hour and Informal Question and Answer Session with Representatives from: ARPA (Dr. B. Leiner), NASA (Dr. L. Holcomb) and NSF (Dr. Y.T. Chien) 7:30- Banquet Speaker Building a Scalable America Dr. L. Smarr, Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications. =============================================================================== Wednesday, May 17, 1995 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:15 Welcome Remarks Dr. M. R. Nelson, Special Asst. to the President for Information Technology, The White House 9:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker National Digital Library The Honorable J. Billington, The Librarian of Congress 10:00-10:20 BREAK 10:20-11:40 Forum Discussion 2 ECONOMIC ISSUES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES Chair: M. Lesk, Bellcore Panelists include: Brian Hawkins (Brown University, vice provost) David Rodger (University of Michigan) Richard Mintz (First Virtual Holdings Incorporated) Mira Geffner (CICNet) Paul Southworth (CICNet) Rapporteur: S. Howe, HCO-HPCC 11:40-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:30 Invited Speaker 2.1: Medical Issues in Digital Libraries Donald A.B. Lindberg (Director, National Library of Medicine) 1:30-2:00 Invited Speaker 2.2 Copyright Issues in Electronic Environment Chris Meyer (Office of Legislative and International Affairs) 2:00-2:15 BREAK 2:15-3:35 Session 2.1: NETWORK-BASED INFORMATION AND RESOURCE DISCOVERY 1. Data Discovery in Large Scale Heterogeneous and Autonomous Databases S. Milliner and A. Bouguettaya (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) 2. An Intelligent Agent for the K-12 Educational Community M. E. Rorvig (NASA), M. W. Hutchison (Science Applications International Corporation), R. O. Shelton (NASA), S. L. Smith (Hernandz Engineering Incorporared), and M. E. Yazbeck (LinCom Corporation) 3. Interface Issues for Interactive Multimedia Documents R. B. Allen (Bellcore) 4. Searching and Discovery of Resources in Digital Libraries N. Gershon, W. Ruh, J. LeVasseur, J. Winstead, and A. Kleiboemer (MITRE Corp.) 2:15-3:35 Session 2.2: DESIGN ISSUES AND PROTOTYPING IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES 1. The Almaden Distributed Digital Library System D.Choy, R. Dievendorff, C. Dwork, J. B. Lotspiech, R. T. Morris, L. C. Anderson, A. E. Bell, S. K. Boyer T. D. Griffin, B. A. Hoenig, J. M. McCrossin, A. M. Miller N. J. Pass, F. Pestoni, and D. S. Picciano (IBM, Almaden Research Center and Institute of Scientific Information) 2. The Alexandria Rapid Prototype: Building A Digital Library for Spatial Information J. Frew, M. Aurand, B. Buttenfield, L. Carver, P. Chang, R. Ellis, C. Fischer, M. Gardner, M. Goodchild, G. Hajic, M. Larsgaard, K. Park, M. Probert, T. Smith, and Q. Zheng (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara) 3. The ELINOR Electronic Library D. Zhao (Information Center, De Montfort Univ., UK) 4. Dienst: Building a Production Technical Report Server J. Davis, D. Krafft and C. Lagoze (Cornell Univ.) 3:35-3:50 BREAK 3:50-5:10 Forum Discussion 3 GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ISSUES FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES Chair: Burton Edelson, GWU Panelists include: Vint Cerf, MCI John Gage, Sun Microsystems Dick West, Sony Len Golding, Hughes Network Systems Sally Howe, NCO/HPCC Rapporteur: H. Mark, Univ. of Texas at Austin 5:10-5:30 Forum Issues and Responses : Recap ============================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------- Elke A. Rundensteiner Assistant Professor Elect. Engineering & Computer Science Dep. Software Systems Research Laboratory University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1301 Beal Ave; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122 rundenst@eecs.umich.edu tel (313) 936-2971 fax (313) 763-1503 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Fri May 5 10:40:34 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 5 May 95 10:40:30 -0500; AA02678 Date: Fri, 5 May 95 10:40:28 -0500 From: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr (Elisabeth METAIS) Message-Id: <9505051540.AA07797@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 5 May 95 10:40:28 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu _______________________ * N L D B ' 9 5 * _______________________ First International Workshop on Applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE to DATA BASES (VERSAILLES, France, June 28-29th 1995) Presentation : This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, industrial and potential users, interested in various applications of natural language in the database field. The integration of databases and natural language has been for a long time a marginal topic for which only a few research has been done. For two decades, consulting databases or getting answers in natural language remain a long term objective for many users. This is nowadays an accessible convergent point for which a lot of researchers are focusing on. This is mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new storage technologies which allow large semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of the life cycle of the information system may be improved by using natural language techniques : database design (specification, integration, conflicts resolution), database querying, paraphrasing of data models and query anwers, integrity specification and design validation. Beyond this general use of natural language, different specific applications such as dictionnaries or automatic indexing are also related to both domains of natural language and databases. Papers which will be presented during this workshop cover most of these topics. PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY JUNE 28 1995 8:30-9:15 a.m. Registration 9:15-9:30 a.m. Opening session 9:30-10:30 a.m. Session 1: Linguistic Theory "Semantic Verb Classes and Lexical Conceptual Structures for Enhancing the Conceptual Modelling and the Access to Data Bases" P. Saint-Dizier (France) "An Analysis of Compounds in HPSG for Database Queries" P. McFetridge, F. Popowich, D. Fass (Canada) 11:00-12:30 a.m. Session 2: Natural Language for View Integration "The linguistic Level of the KHEOPS CASE Tool" A.P. Ambrosio, E. Metais, J.N. Meunier (France) "Supporting Schema Integration by Linguistic Instruments" P. Johannesson (Sweden) "Semantic Integration of Conceptual Schemes I. Mirbel (France) 2:00-3:30 p.m. Session 3: Database Querying with Natural Language "Computation of French Temporal Expressions to Query Databases" D. Maurel, M.Mohri (France) "Natural Language Query Processing in Korean Interface for Object-Oriented Databases" J. Chae, S. Lee (Korea) "Sigar : Generating Responses in a Natural Language Query System" H. Khelalfa, O. Nouali (Algeria) 4:00-5:30 p.m. Session 4: Knowledge Acquisition through Natural Language "Conceptual Modelling of Database Schema Using Linguistic Knowledge. Application to Terminological Databases ?" C. Jouis, W. Mustapha-Elhadi (France) "Acquiring Complex Information from Natural Language for EER Database Design" E. Buchholz, H. Cyriaks, A. D|sterhvft, H.Mehlan, B. Thalheim (Germany) Aggregation, Formal Specification and Natural Language Generation H. Dalianis (Sweden) THURSDAY JUNE 29 1995 9:00-10:30 a.m. Session 5: Schema Consistency using Linguistic Tools "Verification of Conceptual Models based on Linguistic Knowledge" B. van der Vos (Netherlands), J.A. Gulla (Norway), R. van de Riet (Netherlands) "NALABA : A Natural Language Based Integrity Requirements Validation System" C. Wu, D.J. Flynn (United Kingdom) "The Impact of Linguistics on Conceptual Models: Consistency and Understandability" J.F.M. Burg, R.P. van de Riet (Netherlands) 11:00-12:00 a.m. Session 6: Logic and Natural Language "Extending Datalog Grammars" V. Dahl, P. Tarau (Canada) "An Evaluation of the Textual Databases using Linguistic and Logics" O. Larouk (France) 1:30-3:00 p.m. Session 7: Textual Databases "Image Retrieval using their Natural Language Textual Description" A. Joubert, A. Caillens, P. Poujol (France) "Querying Linguistic Structures" I. A. MacLeod, C. Gajraj, G. Lessard (Canada) "Intelligent Textual Database and Automatic Acquisition of a Thesaurus" M-C Villain, P. Trigano, J. Deloire (France) 3:30-5:00 p.m. Session 8: Applications "SCHISMA: A Natural Language Accessible Theatre Information and Booking System" G.F. v.d. Hoeven, J.A. Andernach, S.P. v.d. Burgt, G-J.M. Kruijff, A. Nijholt, J. Schaake, F.M.G. de Jong (Netherlands) "A Natural Language Interface for Querying Multiple Databases Using Predefined Views in a Client-Server Environment" Y.C. Chuah, K.J. Heng, S.N. Pang (Singapore) "Different Issues in the Design of a General-Purpose Lexical Database for Basque" E. Agirre, X.Arregi, J.M. Arriola, X. Artola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, J.M.Insausti, K. Sarasola (Basque Country) Sponsors AFCET, ERLI, ESSEC, PRiSM, UVSQ Program Committee Chairman: Mokrane Bouzeghoub PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, France President of AFCET Data Bases Technical Committee Alain Bonnet Langage Naturel, France Janis Bubenko U. of Stockholm, Sweden Hans Burg Vrije U., The Netherlands Corinne Cauvet U. of Paris I, France Jose Coch Erli, France Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau Essec, France Roland Dachelet Inria, France Christian Fluhr CEA, France Vladimir Fomichov Moscow State U., Russia Robert Goldstein U. of British Columbia, Canada Jon Atle Gulla GMD Darmstadt, Germany Henri Habrias U. of Nantes, France Jean-Noel Meunier PRiSM, France Elisabeth Metais U. of Versailles, France Reinder van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Arne Solvberg NTH Trondheim, Norway Veda Storey Rochester U., USA Organizing Committee Chairwoman: Elisabeth Metais PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, France Email: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr Christiane Boucher PRiSM, France Marie-France Kalogera AFCET, France Gilles Levreau PRiSM, France Jean-Noel Meunier PRiSM, France Reinder van de Riet Vrije U., The Netherlands Corinne Sweeney AFCET, France ___________________________________________________________________ GENERAL INFORMATION LOCATION: The workshop will take place at: University of Versailles 45 Avenue des Etats-Unis 78000 Versailles, France ACCESS: Versailles is 15km from Paris and can easily be reached by trains (3 railway lines, nearest station: Montreuil). REGISTRATIONS: Please fill in the enclosed registration form and send it back to : AFCET - 156 boulevard Pereire - 75017 Paris, France (Fax : +33 (1) 42 67 93 12). About 15 days before the meeting you will receive your pass, requested on site to get the workshop documents. FEES: Registrations fees include sessions attendance, one copy of the proceedings, lunches and coffee breaks. DINNER: Workshop dinner is not included in the fees. Price per person will be FF 300 VAT included. If you wish to register, please fill in thea ppropriate portion of the registration form. Dinner venue will be chosen according to the number of participants. PAYMENT: Payments are accepted in French francs only either by : - banker's draft to the order of AFCET (with the name and indication of the title of the workshop), bank account n0 502 650 009 - at BIMP, 22 rue Pasquier 75008 Paris, France. Please ask your bank to arrange the transfer at no cost for the beneficiary. Bank charges, if any, will be requested on site. - credit card Visa International or Eurocard Mastercard. - cheque to the order of AFCET or W CCP : AFCET Paris 25 281 75X (for French residents only). DISCOUNTS: Fees: They apply when at least three persons from the same establishment register together: between 3 and 5 registrations : 20% discount, over 5 registrations: 30% discount. Transportation: a 20% SNCF reduction for French Railway round trip ticket and up to 45% for AIR INTER on some flights may be obtained for the workshop dates. Please complete the appropriate portion of the registration form to receive your discount voucher(s). ACCOMMODATION: For your reservation, please fill in the enclosed reservation form and send it back to Wagons-Lits Tourisme (address on reservation form). LANGUAGE: The workshop will be conducted in English and in French. CANCELLATION: Refunds of 50% will be made if a written request is received by June 10, 1995. No refunds will be made for cancellations received after this date. In case of workshop cancellation for reasons beyond its control, AFCET limits its liability to registration fees already paid. I N F O R M A T I O N : AFCET 156 boulevard Pereire 75017 Paris, France Tel : (33) (1) 47 66 24 19 Fax : (33) (1) 42 67 93 12 E-mail : Afcet.Congres@ibp.fr __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________CUT HERE REGISTRATION FORM Return to: AFCET 156 Boulevard Pireire - 75017 Paris, France Fax: +33 (1) 42 67 93 12 - Tel: +33 (1) 47 66 24 19 Name:...................................................... First name: ............................................... Company/University:........................................ Address: .................................................. ............................................................ ............................................................ Country: Tel: Fax: E-mail: TRAVEL Please send me a French railway discount voucher: ... Please send me an AIR INTER flight discount voucher: ... (both available for the workshop dates) AFCET MEMBER I wish to become a member of AFCET for the first time at the preferential rate of FF 500 (VAT included) for the year 1995 and thus avail of the member registration fee. Please send me a membership application form (separate invoicing): ... REGISTRATION FEES (including VAT 18,6%) Registrations fees include access to sessions, proceedings, lunches and coffee breaks. (VAT = FF 40,77 on meals and drinks cannot be claimed). Before June 10 After June 10 Regular AFCET member FF 1750 FF 2100 Non-member FF 2050 FF 2400 Student rate FF 1200 FF 1550 + Workshop dinner FF 300 (VAT included) x .... person(s) TOTAL: PAYMENT ENCLOSED: Copy of my banker's draft OR Official order form OR I duly authorize you to charge my Visa International .. or my Eurocard Mastercard .. 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Room basis only, taxes and service included Hotel category Price Compulsory hotel deposit per room* 2** Paris 400/450 F 460 F 2** Versailles 360 F 420 F 3*** Versailles 460/520 F 680 F *the hotel deposit will be transmitted to the reserved hotel less FF 60 for reservation fee and deducted from your final bill which you must settle before leaving). SETTLEMENT Hotel deposit....................... FF TOTAL....................... FF Please find enclosed : Cheque payable to Wagons-lits Tourisme OR Copy of my bank tranfer sent to the account 00021935201/61 BNP Saint Lazare Code banque 30004-code guichet 00819-Wagons-lits Tourisme/SEAVT-code comptable 04/670 The bank charges must be added to the above amount. Any difference will be settled on locally. OR I duly authorize you to charge my Visa International/Eurocard Mastercard N0.......................................................................Exp iration date ............../.............. Cardholder's name ............................................................................. .............................. Very important No reservation will be made if the present form is not accompanied by the right amount. Cancellation: Before May 28th 1995 : refund less FF 60 registration fee After May 28th 1995 : no refund Date : Signature: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Fri May 5 13:42:38 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 5 May 95 13:42:30 -0500; AA01911 Date: Fri, 5 May 95 13:42:29 -0500 From: joakim@ida.his.se (Joakim Eriksson) Message-Id: <9505051842.AA08107@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 5 May 95 13:42:29 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Dear Colleague, A tutorial on Active and Real-Time Database Systems will be given by Professor Alejandro P. Buchmann as follows: Dept of Computer Science, University of Skovde June 8, 1995, 8 am - 6:30 pm (08.00 - 18.30) The deadline for registration is May 17, 1995. Please make this information available to colleagues in your organization, who may be interested. Joakim Eriksson Anita Andler Tutorial Co-Chair Tutorial Co-Chair --------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial on ACTIVE AND REAL-TIME DATABASE SYSTEMS June 8, 1995, University of Skvvde, Sweden Presented by PROF. ALEJANDRO P. BUCHMANN, TECH. UNIVERSITY DARMSTADT, GERMANY Sponsored by NUTEK, Telelogic and ENEA DATA AB Scope ----- Active database systems have been proposed recently as a new data management paradigm to satisfy the needs of many applications that require a timely response to critical situations. Typical examples are network management (both power and communication networks), computer- integrated manufacturing (CIM), commodity trading, air-traffic control, plant and reactor control, tracking of moving objects, and environmental monitoring. Common to all these applications is the need to respond in a timely manner to external events. For many of these applications timeliness is part of the correctness criterion. To ensure timeliness, timing constraints must be defined and enforced. Real-time databases have been investigated as the means for guaranteeing time-constrained processing in a database environment. Tutorial format --------------- This tutorial consists of two main parts: the first part addresses active database technology, particularly active object systems. The second part deals with real-time database technology. At the end we discuss the incipient research that combines active and real-time characteristics Each part will be approximately four hours. Lunch and coffee will be served. Tutorial Information -------------------- Information about the tutorial will appear at URL "http://www.his.se/ida/Tutorial/". If email is preferred, the organizer can be reached by address shown below. Registration ------------ To register, complete and return the form below (one form per person) to the secretariat: TUTORIAL ON ACTIVE AND REAL-TIME DATABASE SYSTEMS Attn: Joakim Eriksson, University of Skvvde, P.O. Box 408, S-541 28 Skvvde, SWEDEN Phone: +46 (0)500-46 46 00 Fax: +46 (0)500-46 47 25 Email: joakim.eriksson@ida.his.se Registration fee includes admittance to the tutorial, lunch and coffee. Payments should be made to postal giro 78 81 40-2, payable to `Tutorial on ARTDB, Hvgskolan i Skvvde'. Registration is valid when payment is received. Space is limited, therefore early registration is encouraged. NOTE: Admittance to the tutorial does not automatically give admittance to the ARTDB -95 Workshop which will be held in conjunction with the tutorial. Registration form Tutorial -------------------------- Name:........................................................................ Company/University:.......................................................... Address:..................................................................... City/Country:................................................................ Phone:....................................................................... Email:....................................................................... Alternatives (please circle applicable fee) One session incl. 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