From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 10:01:25 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:01:23 -0500; AA00872 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 10:01:20 -0500 From: Riccardo Torlone Message-Id: <9505151501.AA13737@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:01:20 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION EDBT SUMMER SCHOOL ADVANCES IN DATABASE TECHNOLOGY Gubbio, Italy, September 4--8, 1995 Promoted by: EDBT Foundation In cooperation with: A.I.C.A., Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IASI-CNR, IDOMENEUS ESPRIT Network of Excellence, Terza Universita di Roma *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: JUNE 20 *** The Third EDBT Summer School on Database Technology will take place in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, on September 4--8, 1995, at the same location and with some joint events as the Fifth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL-5). These dates are just before VLDB which is being held in Zurich, Switzerland, September 11--15. For more detailed information and for interactive application, please consult our www server: http://www.iasi.rm.cnr.it/iasi/edbt/scuola.html SCHOOL OBJECTIVES In the last decade new applications for database systems have emerged that go beyond the standard business domain where database technology grew up and established itself. These new applications often require an extension of the functionalities of database systems with attention directed to the specific aspects of the new application. Furthermore, there is a body of knowledge and technology already existing in other fields that needs to be integrated with current database technology. The aim of the school is to offer the opportunity for cross-fertilization between databases and other technologies, with reference to both general methodologies and specific new applications. The school is directed to members of the research community (in the wide sense): researchers, graduate students, and professionals involved in R&D or in the use of advanced database technology. SPEAKERS Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center): Data mining W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachussetts, Amherst): Integrating information retrieval with database systems Ralf Hartmut Gueting (FernUniversitaet Hagen): Spatial database systems H.V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Laboratories): Databases for telecommunications Alberto O. Mendelzon (University of Toronto): Querying and visualizing the Internet Jan Paredaens (Universiteit Antwerpen): Data models in spatial databases Joachim W. Schmidt and Florian Matthes (Universitaet Hamburg): Persistent polymorphic systems DIRECTORS Paolo Atzeni and Riccardo Torlone (Terza Universita' di Roma) LOCATION The historical town of Gubbio lies near Perugia, Todi, and Assisi, and is about 150km from both Rome and Florence. It has conserved its medieval appearance and outstanding monuments such as the Roman Theatre, the Palazzo Ducale, and the Gothic Church of St. Francis. Gubbio can be reached from Rome or Florence by a two-hour train or bus ride. Participants interested in attending VLDB can reach Zurich easily, by air from Rome or by train from Florence or Rome. ACCOMMODATION Rooms have been reserved at the Park Hotel Ai Cappuccini (four stars), a restored convent with modern conference facilities. Less expensive accommodation is also available. REGISTRATION Attendance is limited to 60. Prospective participants should apply as soon as possible using the form below to: Riccardo Torlone c/o IASI-CNR, Viale Manzoni, 30 00185 Roma ITALY Tel: +39-6-771.6446 Fax: +39-6-771.6461 E-mail: torlone@iasi.rm.cnr.it Acceptance will be mainly on a first-come first-served basis. However, an attempt will be made to select a balanced audience on the basis of the statement of interests and of current activities as indicated in the applications. The deadline for applications is *** JUNE 20, 1995 ***. All applicants will receive notification by July 5. Successful applicants will be requested to register immediately by paying the registration fee according to instructions given in the notification of acceptance. REGISTRATION FEE (in Italian Lire) with accommodation at: | in double room | in single room | ----------------------------|------------------|------------------| Park Hotel Ai Cappuccini | 1.700.000 | 2.000.000 | Three-star hotel | 1.500.000 | 1.700.000 | The registration fee includes all lectures, lecture notes, and accommodation on a half-board basis from Sunday evening to Friday lunch. A longer stay can be arranged for interested participants. The registration does not include any form of insurance. School participants are therefore responsible for making their own insurance arrangements. Sponsorship of a limited number of scholarships for full-time students in the amount of ca.1.200.000 Lire is being sought from the EDBT Foundation and the IDOMENEUS Esprit Network of Excellence. To apply for a scholarship, please send a specific request together with the attached application, a brief CV and a letter of recommendation from your supervisor. Notification of a decision on scholarships will also be given by July 5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPLICATION FORM EDBT Summer School: Advances in Database Technology Gubbio, Italy September 4--8, 1995 Mail, e-mail, or fax (by June 20) to: Riccardo Torlone c/o IASI-CNR, Viale Manzoni, 30 00185 Roma ITALY Tel: +39-6-771.6446 Fax: +39-6-771.6461 E-mail: torlone@iasi.rm.cnr.it Name: _____________________________________________________________________ Affiliation and address: __________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Fax: _______________________________ Email: ____________________________________________________________________ Highest degree obtained, year, name of institution: _______________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Present professional position: ____________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Current research interests: _______________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------- END OF APPLICATION FORM ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 10:11:53 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:11:46 -0500; AA00953 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 10:11:45 -0500 From: lieuwen@allegra.att.com (Daniel Lieuwen) Message-Id: <9505151511.AA13753@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:11:45 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Ode 4.0 is Available Now! ------------------------- Ode Object-Oriented Database Systems and Tools + Ode (Ode) - Active Object-Oriented Database + MM-Ode (MM-Ode) - Active Main-Memory Object Database + OdeFS - UNIX File System Interface to Ode The Ode system and tools have developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ 07974. UNIVERSITY AVAILABILITY ----------------------- Ode 4.0 is now available to Universities. There is no charge for Ode. However, AT&T requires the signing of a non-disclosure agreement. If you have PREVIOUSLY signed an agreement for Ode 2.0 or Ode 3.0, then you do not need to sign a new agreement - you should have received a separate announcement. To get information and/or a copy of the Ode system, send mail to Daniel Lieuwen or Bob Arlein at oderequests@allegra.att.com with the following information: Faculty Member Name: University: Department: Postal Address: Tel no: Fax no: Email: After May 20, 1995, you can also get information about Ode and order it through the World Wide Web using the URL http://www-db.research.att.com/ode-announce.univ.html Ode 4.0 provides a family of Industrial Strength Database Systems & Tools! ODE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS ---------------------- + Ode, also known as Ode, is an active, object-oriented database system based on the C++ object paradigm. Ode is built using the EOS storage manager. The Ode database programming language O++ is an upward-compatible extension of C++. O++ offers a simple and elegant notion of persistence which is modeled on the `heap'. O++ provides facilities for querying and modifying the database. O++ also provides sophisticated trigger facilities. + MM-Ode, also known as MM-Ode, is a main-memory version of Ode built using the Dali main-memory storage manager. It is the only object-oriented, main-memory database. MM-Ode will be especially useful for time-critical applications. + OdeFS is a file system interface to the Ode object database. OdeFS allows objects to be treated and manipulated like files. Standard commands such as rm, cp and mv and tools such as vi and grep can be used to manipulate objects in the database. Ode 4.0 Provides Active Database Facilities! ------------------------------------------- Release 4.0 of the Ode system provides sophisticated trigger facilities. Triggers are the basic ingredient of active databases. Ode triggers are very powerful since they can be based on complex events. They are more sophisticated than the triggers provided by commercial systems. Ode Users --------- Ode is currently being used in several projects within AT&T. Earlier versions of Ode have been distributed to and 425+ universities. Ode User Group -------------- An Ode user group is run from the Illinois Institute of Technology. The purpose of the users' group for Ode is to share tips, problems, ideas and experiences using Ode. The users' group is for discussing all aspects of Ode, its applications, programming language interfaces, data model, and implementation. Discussion is NOT limited to experts. To join the group, send mail to ode@iitmax.acc.iit.edu Include name and a paper mail address in the message. Platforms --------- Ode currently runs on these platforms: OS Hardware -- -------- SunOS 4.1.x Sun SparcStations Solaris 2.3 Sun SparcStations UNIX SVR4 Intel x86 - currently available only for v3.0.3 IRIX SGI - currently available only for v3.0.3 MM-Ode is only available on Suns currently. ODE DETAILS ------------ Ode Active Oriented Database ---------------------------- Ode data model uses one integrated data model (C++ classes) for both database and general purpose manipulation. The Ode database is defined, queried and manipulated in the database programming language O++, which provides simple and elegant facilities for manipulating the database. O++ is an upward-compatible extension of C++. A few facilities have been added to C++ to make it into a database programming language. C++ programmers can learn O++ in a very short time. Some of the important features offered by Ode are: - Large objects (transparent and file-like interface) - Object versioning - Triggers - Associative queries - B-tree (Ode only) and hash indices - Named objects Ode has two operation modes: - Client-server: allows multiple users to access the database concurrently. - Single user: improved performance compared to client-server mode (no transactions or logging). GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Some important characteristics of an object-oriented database are: ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Data is stored as objects - Data can be interpreted (using member functions) only as specified by the class designer - Relationships between similar objects are preserved (inheritance) - References between objects are preserved. Advantages ---------- - Speed: Queries can be faster because relational-style joins are often not needed. - No impedance mismatch: The same data model is used both by the database programming language and the database. No format conversions are required when reading data from (or storing data to) disk. - Complex applications: The full power of the database programming language's type system can be used to implement the data structures of a complex application and the relationship between different data items. - Multi-media applications: Class methods facilitate correct interpretation of the data. - Versions: Better support for versioning provided. An object can be viewed as the set of all its versions. Also, object versions can be treated as full fledged objects. - Triggers and constraints: Better support for triggers and constraints which are the basis of active databases. - OO applications: Most if not all, object-oriented applications that have database needs will benefit from using an object-oriented database. Specifically, C++ applications that have database needs will benefit from using Ode. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 10:36:11 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:36:04 -0500; AA01154 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 10:35:58 -0500 From: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr (Elisabeth METAIS) Message-Id: <9505151535.AA13845@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:35:58 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu =========================================================================== E D B T ' 9 6 C A L L F O R P A P E R S The Fifth International Conference on E X T E N D I N G D A T A B A S E T E C H N O L O G Y Avignon, France, March 1996 =========================================================================== Promoted by ___________ the EDBT foundation Organized by ____________ the French Computer Society AFCET the PRiSM Lab, Univ. of Versailles Sponsored by ____________ France Telecom/CNET, INFORMIX, INFORSID, PRC/BD3, UNILOG Conference Themes _________________ With successful conferences in Venice (1988 and 1990), in Vienna (1992), and in Cambridge (1994), EDBT has established itself as Europe's premier international conference on databases. EDBT'96 in Avignon will provide a forum to discuss the latest results in the research, development and use of database technology, and will encourage active interchange between all those involved in this field. Europe has a strong database research community, leading international technology suppliers, and it has many large commercial users of database systems. Their presence will ensure a high level debate. Major topics for the conference will include, but are not limited to: - Client-Server and open networked database systems - Distributed database techniques and interoperability - Advanced transaction processing techniques - Object-oriented, deductive and active databases - Multimedia and hypermedia database systems - Advanced user interfaces for data manipulation - Databases and programming systems - Database design techniques and interfaces - Highly parallel database systems - Information resource dictionaries/repositories - Database implementation (query optimisation, integrity and security) - Advanced database applications In addition to the technical papers, the conference will include panel discussions, industrial sessions, and high quality tutorials by internationally recognized speakers. There will be an accompanying exhibition. Papers Submission _________________ Five copies in English of an original, unpublished paper, limited to 5000 words, should be submitted before June 16th, 1995 to : Prof. Peter Apers Computer Science Dept., University of Twente P.O. Box 217 - 7500 AE Enschede the Netherlands Email: edbt96@cs.utwente.nl Submitted papers must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere during the review process. The Program Committee will carefully look at what major open question the paper addresses, what the expected long term impact is, and on which earlier work it builds on. The Conference Proceedings will be edited and published by Springer-Verlag (in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series) and will be distributed at the conference. Tutorial Proposals __________________ Proposals are solicited for organizing half-day tutorials that will be held during the conference. In particular, those that bridge the gap between advanced database technology and its impact in specific application domains. Please send your proposal by September 1st, 1995 to the tutorial program coordinator: Dr. Martin Kersten CWI, P.O.Box 4079, 1009 AB Amsterdam, the Netherlands Email: mk@cwi.nl Important Dates _______________ June 16, 1995 deadline of paper submission September 1, 1995 deadline of tutorial proposals September 22, 1995 notification of acceptance November 1, 1995 camera-ready copy due Conference Chairperson ______________________ Georges Gardarin (PRiSM Lab, France) Programme Committee ___________________ Peter Apers (Univ. Twente, the Netherlands) - Chairperson Serge Abiteboul (France) Michel Adiba (France) Maristella Agosti (Italy) Elisa Bertino (Italy) Jorge Bocca (Chili/UK) Mike Brodie (USA) Janis Bubenko (Sweden) Alex Buchmann (Germany) Sharma Chakravarthy (USA) Claude Chrisment (France) Stavros Christodoulakis (Greece) Wesley Chu (USA) Wolfgang Effelsberg (Germany) Andre Flory (France) Mike Freeston (Germany) Hans-Peter Frei (Switzerland) Hector Garcia-Molina (USA) Jane Grimson (Ireland) Bill Grosky (USA) Theo Haerder (Germany) Yannis Ioanniddis (USA) Keith Jeffery (UK) Christian Jensen (Denmark) Masaru Kitsuregawa (Japan) Wolfgang Klas (Germany) Rosana Lanzelotte (Brazil) Withold Litwin (France Florian Matthes (Germany) Dennis McLeod (USA) Guido Moerkotte (Germany) Ken Moody (UK) Shojiro Nishio (Japan) Antoni Olive (Spain) Tamer Ozsu (Canada) Mike Papazoglou (Australia) Stefano Paraboschi (Italy) Alain Pirotte (Belgium) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Keith van Rijsbergen (UK) Felix Saltor (Spain) Peter Scheuermann (USA) Marc Scholl (Germany) Amit Sheth (USA) Letizia Tanca (Italy) Patrick Valduriez (France) Jan Van de Bussche (Belgium) Yannis Vassiliou (Greece) Kyu-Young Whang (South Korea) Gerhard Weikum (Germany) Jennifer Widom (USA) Tutorials Coordinator _____________________ Martin Kersten (The Netherlands) Organization Committee ______________________ Mokrane Bouzeghoub (PRiSM Lab, France) - Chairperson Claude Chrisment (IRIT, Toulouse) Anne Doucet (Laforia, Univ. Paris VI) Beatrice Finance (PRiSM, Versailles) Daniele Gardy (PRiSM, Versailles) Elisabeth Metais (PRiSM, Versailles) Eric Simon (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Regional Coordinators _____________________ Janis Bubenko (Sweden) Alex Buchman (Germany) Lois Delcambre (USA) Oscar Diaz (Spain) Abdelhamid El-Iraki (Morroco) Robert Goldstein (Canada) Remigijus Gustas (Lituania) Jean-Luc Hainaut (Belgium) Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (Australia) Rosana Lanzelotte (Brazil) Peri Loucopoulos (United Kingdom) Timos Sellis (Greece) Arne Solvberg (Norway) Stefano Spaccapietra (Switzerland) Hermann Stephen (Urugway) A Min Tjoa (Austria) Kam-Fai Wong (Hong Kong) EDBT Foundation Representatives _______________________________ Stefano Ceri (Milano, Italy) Joachim Schmidt (Hamburg, Germany) Michel Missikoff (Rome, Italy) Keith Jeffery (London, UK) Information ___________ Organizations interested in taking part in the exhibition, in an industrial session, or in a possible sponsorship of the conference are invited to contact the Conference Organization Chairperson: Prof. Mokrane BOUZEGHOUB PRiSM Lab. University of Versailles 78035 VERSAILLES CEDEX, France Email: Mokrane.Bouzeghoub@prism.uvsq.fr Til: +33 (1) 39 25 40 51 Fax: +33 (1) 39 25 40 57 Avignon is a popular tourist city so accommodation should be reserved in advance. To ensure that you receive the Advance Programme and that you are able to take advantage of early registration and social events, please send your coordinates to the Secretary of the Conference: Mrs Marie-France Kalogera AFCET, 156 Boulevard Pireire 75017 Paris France Til: +33 (1) 47 66 24 19 Fax: +33 (1) 42 67 93 12 Email: edbt@prism.uvsq.fr Conference location ___________________ Avignon is a very special place in the world of tourism and business. It has a rich history due to its exceptional location in the heart of Provence and its status as Pontifical States in the XIV century. This is a strategic rendez-vous place in France, next to the Rhone river crossed by the famous Avignon Bridge, at the heart of Europe. Access is very easy by air (Local Airport of Avignon-Caumont at 10 mn, International Airport of Marseille at 45 mn), train TGV from Paris, Lyon, Genhve and Marseille (3 hours 40 from Paris), and highways (South Sun Freeway close). The weather is usually nice at the end of March. The conference will be held in the Palais des Papes, a majestic white palace with matching decor dominating the Rhone river valley, located close to the city center and to several hotels. Built by Pope Benoit XII from 1335 to 1400, the Palace is one of the most prestigious monument of the medieval architecture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 10:52:05 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:51:58 -0500; AA01392 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 10:51:57 -0500 From: vng@gudivada.cs.ohiou.edu (Venkat N. Gudivada) Message-Id: <9505151551.AA13899@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 10:51:57 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at Ohio University invites applications for two tenure track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor. The positions begin in either September 1995 or January 1996. The EECS department, consisting of approximately 32 faculty members, is the largest department in the College of Engineering and offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs. The current external research funding in the department is over $3.5 million, and Ohio University was recently designated a research II institution by the Carnegie Foundation. Research opportunities are enhanced by an excellent department and university research infrastructure. Active research programs in the Computer Science division include Parallel and Distributed Computing, Multimedia Information Systems, Internetworking, Algorithms and Complexity Theory. In addition to these areas, the department seeks to establish research programs in Software Engineering, Operating Systems, AI, Databases and Computer Graphics. Applicants with a good publication record in any of the above areas are strongly encouraged to apply at appropriate levels. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications. Senior applicants must demonstrate a history of research funding. The screening of applications will begin in the Summer of 1995 and we expect to interview in September. Please send a copy of your resume, a one page research plan, and a list of three references to: Prof. Jerrel Mitchell Chair Department of EECS Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701-2979 Ohio University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 11:32:36 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 11:32:30 -0500; AA02006 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 11:32:28 -0500 From: "Bhavani Thuraisingham" Message-Id: <9505151632.AA13993@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 11:32:28 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Subject: Time:8:30 AM OFFICE MEMO MDDS session conflicts Date:5/12/95 May 12th, 1995 To: DB World We sent a message yesterday about the MDDS Birds of a Feather Session at SIGMOD and I was informed of the overlap with Microsoft's open house. We will try to reschedule the MDDS session at SIGMOD on the 22nd from 7 to 9 pm provided there is no overlap with a major event or have it on the 23rd from 8 to 10 pm so that there is no overlap with Microsoft's event. A revised message will be sent out shortly. Bhavani Thuraisingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 13:01:29 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 13:01:15 -0500; AA04126 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 13:01:13 -0500 From: Andreas Geppert Message-Id: <9505151801.AA14239@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 13:01:13 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Please find enclosed the program for VLDB '95. More information is available in the World Wide Web at http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/dbtg/vldb95/vldb95.html The registration form and registration information will be sent in a separate message. ========================= Cut Here ========================= Call for Participation and Program VLDB `95 21st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Zurich, Switzerland September 11-15, 1995 Organized by: - Department of Computer Science, University of Zurich - Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Swiss Informatics Society, Database - Theory and Application - The VLDB Endowment Sponsored by: Microsoft Corp. Object Management Group Poet Software Swissair Unisys ********** THE CONFERENCE ********** The International Conference on Very Large Data Bases is one of the most renowned conferences in the database field, with two decades of succesful history. The VLDB `95 program committee has prepared a very exciting program offering interesting topics for most people working in the field of databases. VLDB '95 will provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas among both researchers and practitioners. In addition to the high-quality scientific program, tutorials on challenging developments in databases will be held by leading personalities. Moreover, several industrial sessions will take place during VLDB `95, identifying problems and describing solutions from a practical point of view. Panels will be held, each letting experts discuss urgent questions in current database technology. Finally, invited talks will be given by leading persons in the field illuminating recent trends. The VLDB Endowment as well as the local organizers are looking forward to welcoming you at the conference! VLDB `95 will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Zurich-Irchel, which is easily reachable from the city and the main station. Zurich is a city with only about 400'000 inhabitants, it has however an international flair, and provides everything one might expect from a major capital. It is the financial heart of Switzerland, and an important artistic, cultural, educational, and industrial center. The city is located by the picturesque Lake Zurich, and in September has a mild climate. Downtown Zurich is worthwile visiting, with its medieval historic center and many touristic attractions. The world-famous swiss Alps as well as most other scenic places in Switzerland are easy to reach either by train or by car. Zurich's airport is a major international hub easily accessible from all over the world. Frequent and comfortable train connections exist to most European cities. ********** INVITED TALKS ********** Invited Talk 1 TU 12 09, 11:30-12:30 Database Systems: Road Kill on the Information Superhighway? David J. Dewitt (University of Wisconsin) About the Speaker David DeWitt received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1976. Since then he has been on the faculty of the University of WIsconsin where he currently holds the rank of Professor and Romnes Fellow. His long term research interests include parallel database systems, object-oriented database systems, and database system performance. He is the winner of this year's SIGMOD innovation reward for his outstanding contributions to database research and development. Invited Talk 2 TU 12 09, 18:00 - 19:00 The Double Life of the Transaction Abstraction: Fundamental Principle and Evolving System Concept Henry F. Korth (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.) About the Speaker Henry F. Korth is Vice President of Panasonic Technologies,Inc., and Director of the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1981, and is co-author of the textbook Database System Concepts. Invited Talk 3 FR 15 09, 09:30 - 10:30 Document Management as a very large Database Application Rudolf Bayer (Technical University of Munich) About the Speaker Rudolf Bayer received a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1966. Until 1970, he worked for the Boeing Scientific Research Labs. From 1970 to 1972, he was affiliated with Purdue University. Since then, he is a full professor of Computer Science at the Technical University in Munich. From 1977 to 1987, he was an Associated Editor of the ACM "Transactions on Database Systems". Since 1988, he is head of the "Knowledge Bases" group at the Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge Based Systems (FORRWISS). Invited Talk 4 FR 15 09, 12:00 - 13:00 >From VLDB to VMLDB (Very MANY Large Data Bases): Dealing with Large-Scale Semantic Heterogenity Stuart E. Madnick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) About the Speaker Stuart E. Madnick is the John Norris Maguire Professor of Information Technology and Leaders for Manufacturing Professor of Management Science at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the Total Data Quality Management (TDQM) project. His current research interests include connectivity among disparate distributed information systems, database technology, and software project management. He is the author or co-author of over 200 books, articles, or reports on these subjects. He has been active in industry making significant contributions as one of the key designers of projects such as IBM's VM/370 operating system and Lockheed's DIALOG information retrieval system. He has also been the founder or co-founder of five high-tech firms and currently operates a hotel in 14th Century Langley Castle in England. ********** TUTORIAL PROGRAM ********** Tutorial A MO 11 09, 14:00 - 17:30 A Survey of Parallel Database Techniques and Systems Jim Gray, UC Berkeley Abstract The tutorial first introduces the common techniques used by parallel database systems to partition data and execution. Parallel variants of the relational operators are described. Optimization techniques are then briefly outlined. Attention then turns to commercial systems available today. The tutorial highlights the strengths of each of these systems: Teradata, Tandem, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, and DB2/2. About the Instructor Jim Gray is a specialist in database, transaction processing, and dependable computer systems. He has written many articles and built several systems that embody his ideas on these topics. He is currently a McKay Fellow at UC Berkeley. He has worked at Digital on Rdb and Sorting, worked at Tandem on NonStop SQL, and at IBM on System R, SQL/DS, DB2, and IMS-Fast Path. He is co-author of Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques, and Editor of the Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems Performance. He is a Fellow of the ACM and is active in the National Research Council. Tutorial B MO 11 09, 14:00 - 17:30 Spatial Database Systems Ralf Hartmut Gueting (University of Hagen) Abstract The purpose of a spatial database system is the management of data about some space in two or more dimensions. Space of interest may be the physical world around us as in geography, urban planning, meteorology, or astronomy. Other spaces may, for example, represent parts of the human body, a VLSI design, or a 3D molecular structure. A spatial database keeps information about objects in such spaces with a clear identity, position, and extent, in contrast to image databases where the focus is on the manipulation of raster images of such spaces. Spatial data management imposes a number of requirements on database systems. Concepts are needed to describe the shape and position of objects in space as well as relationships between them. Data modeling must also provide concepts for the representation of spatially related collections of objects, such as partitions (of a region), or networks. To access efficiently objects in some particular region of the space, specialized spatial access methods are needed. The user interface must support graphical representation as well as overlay of different query results. Since extensions at all levels of the system architecture are needed, extensible database systems are the prime architectural framework for the implementation of spatial database systems. The tutorial aims at giving a coherent picture of the main research results obtained so far in the areas of modeling, querying, data structures and algorithms for system implementation, and system architecture. About the Instructor Ralf Hartmut Gueting is currently a full professor in computer science at the University of Hagen, Germany. He received his Diplom and Dr.rer.nat. degrees from the University of Dortmund. After a one-year stay at the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1985, extensible and spatial database systems became his major research interests. His group has built a prototype of an extensible spatial DBMS, the Gral-System. He is the author of a (German) text book on data structures and algorithms and has published about 35 articles in computational geometry and database systems. He recently was a guest editor of a special issue of the VLDB Journal on Spatial Database Systems. Tutorial C TU 12 09, 14:00 - 17:30 The Evolution of User Interface Tools for Database Applications Ravi Krishnamurthy (Hewlett-Packard Labs) and Moshe Zloof (Hewlett-Packard Labs) Abstract Traditionally, the user interface tools for database applications have lagged the technological advances in GUI revolution. Recent entrants such as PowerBuilder, SQL Windows, NextStep, etc., have made major strides in closing this gap. In order to extrapolate the trends, we introspect the past and forecast the future. We will first give a historical account of the evolution of database UI tools since the early seventies in the context of many facets of database applications (e.g., querying, forms & reports, 4GL capabilities, and end user graphical tools). These tools were aimed at improving the productivity of application developers, the primary clientele of SQL. The advent of PC database management system saw the metamorphism of this clientele to less sophisticated users. These non-programmers (i.e., power users) who wish to build their own applications required different kinds of tools and the PC database industry lead this thrust. We address the design factors in both these types of tools and contrast them. In doing this, we will use examples from some of the current products (e.g., Microsoft's Access, Gupta's SQL Widows, Powersoft's PowerBuilder, etc.) to highlight their power, functionality, levels of abstraction and ease of use. Lastly, we extrapolate on how this UI technology will be evolving in the future. About the Instructors Ravi Krishnamurthy is a senior researcher at H.P. Labs, currently heading the Picture Programming project that is developing the IC-BY-EXAMPLE language. He received his doctorate degree at the Univ. of Texas at Austin and then joined Moshe Zloof at IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center to work on the Office-By-Example project in 1981. In 1985, he joined MCC to work on Budda and LDL, where he subsequently assumed the chief architect position of the joint project. After leaving MCC, he was a co-founder of a start-up company, Logica Information Machines, in which he is still involved as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Moshe Zloof, principal architect of H.P. Labs, is considered a poineer researcher in the area of data base languages and user interfaces. Back in the 1970's, in a complete departure from the traditional approach and while working at IBM, Moshe created QUERY-BY-EXAMPLE (QBE), the first visual programming language which not only set the stage for considerable research agenda, but also has been incorporated in many successful products such as PARADOX, DBASE IV, ACCESS, and many more. At Hewlett-Packard, Moshe is currently involved in developing the IC-BY-EXAMPLE language - a new paradigm to enable non-programmer professionals to construct their own applications. Tutorial D WE 13 09, 9:00 - 12:30 OQL: Language, Compatibility with SQL, Implementation Sophie Cluet, INRIA Abstract OQL is the standard for object database query languages proposed by the ODMG. It borrows SQL syntax but has a functional nature that makes it simpler to use, implement, and document. Improving its compatibility with SQL(92) and clarifying its relationship with SQL(3) will strongly help its general acceptance by the database community. More important, ANSI(X3H2) and ODMG are working on a proposal for a common standard involving the current OQL. The tutorial addresses a public of both, industrials and researchers. Although standards are clearly of primary interest to industrials, their evolution also provides challenging issues that should not be overlooked by researchers. The tutorial consists of three parts. First, we present OQL(1.2) in details and explain how to construct simple and complex OQL queries. Next, we discuss the OQL vs. SQL approaches and study different possibilities by which OQL can reach full compatibility with SQL. Finally, we briefly consider the language implementation. About the Instructor Sophie Cluet is currently a researcher in the Verso team at INRIA-Rocquencourt. She holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sud. She is one of the designers of OQL and has implemented for O2 Technology the language's first interpreter and optimizer. She is still very much involved in this area (working on a future release of OQL and new OO optimization techniques). Tutorial E WE 13 09, 14:00 - 17:30 Transformation-based Database Engineering Jean-Luc Hainaut (University of Namur) Abstract Transformation-based software engineering has long been considered as a major scientific approach to build reliable and efficient programs. According to this approach, abstract specifications can be converted into correct, compilable and efficient programs by application of selected, correctness-preserving operators called transformations. In the database engineering realm, transformations that are proved to preserve the correctness of the origin specifications have been proposed in virtually all the activities related to data engineering : schema normalization, DBMS schema development, schema optimization, model translation, schema integration, view derivation, proving schema equivalence, data conversion, reverse engineering, and others. The tutorial is a contribution to the systematic study of both fundamental and practical aspects of database schema transformations. It introduces the fundamentals of database transformations, then it develops a practical toolset of neutral techniques. These techniques are used to revisit the main database engineering processes. The description of a transformation-based CASE tool and the presentation of a reengineering case study demonstrates the applicability of this general approach. About the Instructor Jean-Luc Hainaut is a professor in Information Systems and Databases at the Institute of Informatics of the University of Namur, Belgium. His research interests comprise database technology, database methodology, reverse engineering, information system evolution and CASE technology. Currently, he is heading the multinational DB-MAIN project the purpose of which is to develop general methodologies and CASE tools to assist practitioners in solving database application maintenance and evolution problems. He is the author of two books in database and DSS design, and of over 20 recent conference papers, most of them dealing with transformation techniques. He has presented several tutorials (including three on database reverse engineering and reengineering) in major international conferences on Databases and Information Systems. Tutorial F TH 14 09, 9:00 - 12:30 Repository Internals Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Corporation) Abstract A repository is a metadata manager that supports design tools for CASE, CAD and the like. It runs as an application on a DBMS and provides three main functions beyond those of a standard DBMS: relationships, version and configuration management, and extensibility. We explain how these functions can be used by design tools, and what technical requirements are implied by those usage patterns. We then delve into the technical capabilities of each function. For example, relationships are object-valued properties that have special update semantics and can be scoped by configurations. Version and configuration functions allow tools to run either on repository objects directly or on files. Configurations support transitive containment (unlike file systems) and can scope name spaces. A tool vendor can extend the repository's model by adding behavior to standard repository methods on repository objects, e.g., by adding state to the object, checking constraints on the object, and adding methods to the objects. The presentation will draw from examples of Microsoft's and others' CASE tools, and where appropriate will be couched in the OLE object model. About the Instructor Philip Bernstein is a repository architect at Microsoft, where he leads a joint design effort with Texas Instruments to design an open repository for CASE. He was formerly an architect at Digital Equipment Corp., a professor at Harvard University and Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and VP Software at Sequoia Systems. Dr. Bernstein has published over 70 articles on the theory and implementation of database systems, is coauthor of "Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems" (Addison-Wesley, 1987). In 1994, he was awarded the ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award for "contributions to the development and use of database systems." Tutorial G TH 14 09, 14:00 - 17:30 Temporal Databases Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University) and Richard T. Snodgrass (University of Arizona) Abstract Temporal database technology has reached a level of maturity and sophistication that clearly illustrates that the support for temporal data management provided by current database products is very far from what is achievable. The tutorial provides an overview of important issues and concepts within temporal database management. It reviews fundamental data modeling concepts and surveys the implementation of temporal database systems. It also features the consensual temporal query language TSQL2 that has recently been designed by an international committee of database researchers and practitioners. TSQL2 adds temporal support to the current SQL standard and is the most complete temporal query language to date. The tutorial is relevant for practitioners who work with databases containing time-varying data, and for database researchers who are interested in temporal data management. About the Instructors Christian S. Jensen is currently an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has spent 4 years at the University of Maryland and the University of Arizona. Recently, he coordinated and headed two editorial boards for the ongoing consensus temporal database glossary initiative; he is editor for the temporal database benchmark initiative; and he was a member of the TSQL2 Language Design Committee. Richard T. Snodgrass received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and joined the University of Arizona in 1989. He has written or co-edited three books, including "Temporal Databases: Theory, Design and Implementation.'" He chaired the TSQL2 Language Design Committee, and is now working closely with the ANSI and ISO SQL3 committees to add temporal support to that language. ********** PANELS ********** Panel I TU 12 09, 16:00 - 17:30 Scientific Journals: Extinction or Explosion? Panelists: - Raghu Ramakrishnan (Wisconsin University, moderator) - Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University) - Avi Silbershatz (AT&T Bell Laboratories) - Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University) Panel II WE 13 09, 16:00 - 17:30 Databases and Workflow Management: What is it All About? Panelists: - Andreas Reuter (University of Stuttgart, moderator) - Stefano Ceri (Milan) - Jim Gray (San Francisco) - Betty Salzberg (Northeastern University, Boston) - Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarbruecken) Panel III TH 14 09, 16:00 - 17:30 Accessing Heterogeneous Data: How to do? How to measure? Panelists: - Len Seligman (MITRE Corporation, moderator) - Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University) - Erich Neuhold (GMD) - Michael Stonebraker (Berkeley University) - Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University) ********** SCIENTIFIC TRACK ********** Session 1: Object Stores TU 12 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - A. Eickler, C.A. Gerlhof, D. Kossmann (Germany, USA): A Performance Evaluation of OID Mapping Techniques - J.L. Wiener, J.F. Naughton (USA): OODB Bulk Loading Revisited: The Partitioned-List Approach - L. Amsaleg, M. Franklin O. Gruber (France, USA): Efficient Incremental Garbage Collection for Client-Server Object Database Systems Session 2: Distributed Information Retrieval TU 12 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - D. Konopnicki, O. Shmueli (Israel): W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web - T. W. Yan, H. Garcia-Molina (USA): Duplicate Removal in Information System Dissemination - L. Gravano, H. Garcia-Molina (USA): Generalizing GIOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies Session 3: Disk Management TU 12 09, 16:00 - 17:30 - K. Mogi, M. Kitsuregawa (Japan): Hot Block Clustering for Disk Arrays with Dynamic Striping - K.-L. Wu, P.S. Yu, J.-Y. Chung (USA): A Performance Study of Workfile Disk Management for Concurrent Mergesorts in a Multiprocessor Database System - L.T. Chen, D. Rotem, S. Seshadri (USA): Declustering Databases on Heterogeneous Disk Systems Session 4: Concurrency Control WE 13 09, 9:00 - 10:30 - A. Bestavros, S. Braoudakis (USA): Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control - M. Kornacker, D. Banks (Germany, USA): High-Concurrency Locking in R-Trees - B. Goyal, J. Haritsa, S. Seshadri, V. Srinivasan (India, USA): Index Concurrency Control in Firm Real-Time Database Systems Session 5: Object Technology WE 13 09, 9:00 - 10:30 - P. Buneman, S.B. Davidson, K. Hart, C. Overton, L. Wong (USA, Singapore): A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources - F. Ferrandina, T. Meyer, R. Zicari, G. Ferran, J. Madec (Germany, France): Database Evolution in the O2 Object Database System - K. Subieta, Y. Kambayashi, J. Leszczylowski (Japan, Poland): Procedures in Object-Oriented Query Languages Session 6: Transaction Models WE 13 09, 11:00 - 12:30 - M. Rusinkiewicz, W. Klas, T. Tesch, J. Waesch, P. Muth (USA, Germany): Towards a cooperative transaction model - The cooperative activity model - - R. Barga, C. Pu (USA): A Practical and Modular Implementation of Extended Transaction Models - P. Ammann, S. Jajodia, I. Ray (USA): Using Formal Methods to Reason about Semantics-Based Decompositions of Transactions Session 7: Query Optimization WE 13 09, 11:00 - 12:30 - M. Steinbrunn, K. Peithner, G. Moerkotte, A. Kemper (Germany): Bypassing Joins in Disjunctive Queries - W. Hasan, R. Motwani (USA): Coloring Away Communication in Parallel Query Optimization - H. Lu, K.-L. Tan (Singapore): The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization Session 8: Multimedia WE 13 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - M. Tresch, N. Palmer, A. Luniewski (USA): Type Classification of Semi-Structured Documents - F. Moser, A. Kraiss, W. Klas (Germany): L/MRP: A Buffer Management Strategy for Interactive Continuous Data Flows in a Multimedia DBMS - S. Chaudhuri, S. Ghandeharizadeh, C. Shahabi (USA): Retrieval of Composite Multimedia Objects Session 9: Cost Models WE 13 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - A. Belussi, C. Faloutsos (Italy, USA): Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the `Correlation' Fractal Dimension - P.J. Haas, J.F. Naughton, S. Seshadri, L. Stokes (USA, India): Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute - G. Gardarin, J.-R. Gruser, Z.-H. Tang (France): A Cost Model for Clustered Object-Oriented Databases Session 10: Query Processing WE 13 09, 16:00 - 17:30 - S. Flodin, T. Risch (Sweden): Processing Object-Oriented Queries with Invertible Late Bound Functions - W.P. Yan, P. Larson (Canada): Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation - A. Gupta, V. Harinarayan, D. Quass (USA): Generalized Projections: A Powerful Approach to Aggregation Session 11: Parallel Databases TH 14 09, 09:00 - 10:30 - N. Bassiliades, I. Vlahavas (Greece): A Non-Uniform Data Fragmentation Strategy for Parallel Main-Menory Database Systems - M. Mehta, D.J. DeWitt (USA): Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems - E. Rahm, R. Marek (Germany): Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems Session 12: Mining Association Rules TH 14 09, 09:00 - 10:30 - R. Srikant, R. Agrawal (USA): Mining Generalized Association Rules - J. Han, Y. Fu (Canada): Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases - A. Savasere, E. Omiecinski, S. Navathe (USA): An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases Session 13: Recovery and Availability TH 14 09, 11:00 - 12:30 - R. Gallersdoerfer, M. Nicola (Germany): Improving Performance in Replicated Databases through Relaxed Coherency - D. Lomet, M.R. Tuttle (USA): Redo Recovery after System Crashes - S.-O. Hvasshovd, O. Torbjornsen, S.E. Bratsberg, P. Holager (Norway): The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availability, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response Session 14: Data Mining TH 14 09, 11:00 - 12:30 - H. Lu, R. Setiono, H. Liu (Singapore): NeuroRule: A Connectionist Approach to Data Mining - R. Agrawal, K.-I. Lin, H.S. Sawhney, K. Shim (USA): Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases - R. Agrawal, G. Psaila, E.L. Wimmers, M. Zait (USA, Italy): Querying Shapes of Histories Session 15: Schema Management TH 14 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - S. Milliner, A. Bouguettaya, M. Papazoglou (Australia): A Scalable Architecture for Autonomous Heterogeneous Database Interactions - E.M. Haber, Y.E. Ioannidis, M. Livny (USA): OPOSSUM: Desk-Top Schema Management through Customizable Visualization - C. Kalus, P. Dadam (Germany): Flexible Relations - Operational Support of Variant Relational Structures Session 16: Access Methods TH 14 09, 16:00 - 17:30 - G. Evangelidis, D. Lomet, B. Salzberg (USA): The hBP-tree: A Modified hB-tree Supporting Concurrency, Recovery and Node Consolidation - J.M. Hellerstein, J.F. Naughton, A. Pfeffer (USA): Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems - S. Brin (USA): Near neighbor Search in Large Metric Spaces Session 17: Mass Storage FR 15 09, 11:00 - 12:00 - S. Sarawagi (USA): Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases - L.-F. Cabrera, R. Rees, W. Hineman (USA): Applying Database Technology in the ADSM Mass Storage System Session 18: Spatial Data FR 15 09, 11:00 - 12:00 - E.G. Hoel, H. Samet ((USA): Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output - A.P. Sistla, C. Yu, C. Liu, K. Liu (USA): Similarity based Retrieval of Pictures Using Indices on Spatial Relationships ********** INDUSTRIAL TRACK ********** -> Note that there are some slight modifications in the industrial track program with respect to the printed version. Application Session 1 TH 14 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - A. Meier (Switzerland): Providing Database Migration Tools - A Practicioner's Approach - E. Simon, A. Kotz-Dittrich (France, Switzerland): Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems Application Session 2 FR 15 09, 11:00 - 12:00 - T. Didriksen, C. Galindo-Legaria, E. Dahle (Norway): Database De-Centralization - A Practical Approach - K. Sumiya, K. Yasutake, H. Tanaka, N. Sanada, Y. Imai (Japan): A Product Specification Database for Visual Prototyping Vendor Session 1 TU 12 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - David Vaskevitch (Microsoft Corporation): Very Large Databases: How Large, How Different? - Michael Stonebraker, Paul Brown (Illustra): The Illustra Object Relational DBMS and its Application to Satellite Imagery Processing Vendor Session 2 TU 12 09, 16:00 - 17:30 - Y. Wang (IBM Corporation): IBM Parallelism (DB2/MVS and DB2 6000 Parallel Edition) - Gilles Fecteau (IBM corporation): DB2/CS Parallelism On Shared Nothing Architecture - S. Cluet (O2 Technology) Using an Object Database to develop and administer WWW servers Vendor Session 3 WE 13 09, 9:00 - 10:30 - B. Lindsay (IBM Corporation) DB2 Common Server Technology Progress & Directions - J. Catozzi, S. Rabinovici (ATT, Teradata) OS Support for VLDBs: Unix Enhancements for the Teradata Data Base - N. N. (Wal-Mart Coporation) Wal-Mart Decision Support System on Teradata Vendor Session 4 WE 13 09, 11:00 - 12:30 - Jack Orenstein (Object Design Incorporated): Object Store Gateway - C. Kiernnan (Microsoft Corporation): Distributed Management Framework (SQL-DMF) Vendor Session 5 WE 13 09, 14:00 - 15:30 - H. Spintzik (Informix Incorporated) Informix Onlin XPS: A Dynamically Scalable RDBMS for Open Massively Parallel Platforms - Gary Hallmark (Oracle Corporation): Database Support For Large DSS/Data Warehousing Vendor Session 6 WE 13 09, 16:00 - 17:30 - Harry Leslie (Tandem Computers): Efficient Search of Multi-Dimensional B-Trees - Ron-Chung Hu: Navigation Server: A Highly Scalable Database Server on Open Systems ********** CONFERENCE ORGANISATION ********** General Conference Chairs Klaus R. Dittrich, Switzerland Hans-Joerg Schek, Switzerland Conference Directors Kurt Bauknecht, Switzerland Carl A. Zehnder, Switzerland VLDB Endowment Representative Yannis Vassiliou, Greece Area Chairpersons Europe: Heinz Schweppe, Germany Americas: Yuri Breitbart, USA Asia/Australasia: Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Australia Publicity Chairs Keith Jeffrey, UK Stefano Spaccapietra, Switzerland Program Chairs Europe: Peter M.D. Gray, UK Americas: Umeshwar Dayal, USA Asia/Australasia: Shojiro Nishio, Japan Industrial Track Program Chairs Europe: Peter C. Lockemann, Germany Americas: Hamid Pirahesh, USA Asia/Australasia: Yoshifumi Masunaga, Japan Tutorial Chair Claude Delobel, France Panel Chair Stefano Ceri, Italy Contact Address vldb95@ifi.unizh.ch PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michel Adiba, France Rakesh Agrawal, USA Peter Apers, Netherlands David Bell, N.Ireland Phil Bernstein, USA Jose Blakeley, USA Alejandro Buchmann, Germany Marco Casanova, Brasil Sharma Chakravarthy, USA Sophie Cluet, France Richard Cooper, UK Susan Davidson, USA Umeshwar Dayal, USA Lois Delcambre, USA David DeWitt, USA Oscar Diaz, Spain Shel Finkelstein, USA Piero Fraternali, Italy Christoph Freytag, Germany Hector Garcia-Molina, USA Georges Gardarin, France Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USA Georg Gottlob, Austria Alex Gray, UK Jim Gray, USA Peter M.D. Gray, UK Theo Haerder, Germany Meichun Hsu, USA Tomasz Imielinski, USA Ushio Inoue, Japan Yannis Ioannidis, USA Hiroshi Ishikawa, Japan Manfred Jeusfeld, Germany Michael Kay, UK Peter King, UK Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Japan Masaru Kitsuregawa, Japan Yasushi Kiyoki, Japan Hank Korth, USA Angelika Kotz-Dittrich, CH Ravi Krishnamurthy, USA Chiang Lee, Taiwan Tok Wang Ling, Singapore Barbara Liskov, USA Frederick H. 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UK participants Karen Hammond Karin Rommel Travel Plc. 17 St. Goerge Street, Hanover Sq., London W1R 9DE Phone: 071/499-7611 Fax: 071/493-0326 (Please quote "VLDB `95") Japanese participants Ms Shizuko Miyamoto Manager Swiss Center Cycle World Corporation Pier West Square 1-11-8 Tsukuda Chuo-Ku Tokyo 104 Japan Phone: 03/5560-1500 Fax: 03/5560-0401 Pre- and Post-Conference Tours Switzerland offers marvelous opportunities for holidays and sightseeing tours before or after the conference. If you are interested in such tours, please contact MCI Travel for further information (see the registration form for MCI's address). Booking of tours is possible at the conference site. ********** IMPORTANT NOTICE ********** We have done our best in preparing VLDB '95. However, neither the VLDB endowment nor the local organizers or MCI Travel can take any responsibility for any damage, loss or inconvenience participants might incur in connection with the conference. We also cannot be held responsible for the correctness or appropriateness of the contents of talks and papers included in this conference. In particular, changes to the published conference program or cancellations of parts thereof do not entitle to a refund of the conference fee or parts thereof. Names/addresses of attendees will be electronically processed and are included in a participants list that may be posted/distributed during and in connection with the conference. By registering for the conference, participants express their agreements with these regulations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 14:05:24 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 14:05:13 -0500; AA05337 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 14:05:11 -0500 From: Ouri Wolfson Message-Id: <9505151905.AA14406@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 14:05:11 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers For the new journal published in cooperation with the ACM: WIRELESS NETWORKS Special Issue: Data Management Issues in Mobile Computing Scope: In the near future millions of users will have palmtops with wireless connection to the rest of the network. Data will be widely distributed among a variety of computers (from mainframes to smart cards) and accessible through the information superhighway with its first wireless mile. New important research problems in database management arise because the location of data and other resources varies dynamically. This special issue is devoted to these problems, with some of the issues of interest being: Various aspects of network management. This includes management of data related to location and mobility, faults, accounting and billing, capacity planning. Optimization of access and communication between mobile computers and online databases. Energy efficient data management. Multimedia data in mobile computing. Access to telecommunication data such as continuous data broadcast. Disconnection management. Broadcast versus point-to-point data transmission. Environment-aware data processing. Query languages and data presentation methods for small devices. The authors should send 6 copies of their paper to one of the guest editors by December 15, 1995. The following time-table shall be followed: Manuscript Submission Deadline: December 15, 1995 Acceptance Notification: June 15, 1996 Final Manuscript Submission Deadline: August 15, 1996 Expected Publication Date: Last Quarter 1996 Guest Editors: Tomasz Imielinski Department of Computer Science Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 0250 Telephone: (908) 445-3551 Internet: imielins@cs.rutgers.edu Ouri Wolfson Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (M/C 154) 851 S. Morgan St. University of Illinois Chicago, IL 60607 Telephone: (312) 996-6770 Facsimile: (312) 413-0024 Internet: wolfson@eecs.uic.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 15 15:22:32 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 15:22:25 -0500; AA06834 Date: Mon, 15 May 95 15:22:24 -0500 From: Gerard Ellis Message-Id: <9505152022.AA14505@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 15 May 95 15:22:24 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Please find below the programme for KRUSE. A postscript version can be ftp'ed ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au /pub/rmit/KRUSE/KRUSE.ps.Z Also the KRUSE home page on the World Wide Web is http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/KRUSE/ Regards, Gerard -- Gerard Ellis ged@cs.rmit.edu.au ph:61-3-660-5090 FAX:61-3-662-1617 Rm:10.9.11 WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ged Computer Science Dept, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, AUSTRALIA ______________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION International KRUSE Symposium ___ Knowledge Retrieval, Use, and Storage for Efficiency ___ University of California, Santa Cruz August 11-13 1995 Sponsored by: Microtel Pacific Research, Burnaby, Canada. IBM, Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose. University of California at Santa Cruz. Royal Melbourne University of Technology, Australia. Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada. THEME The symposium is a forum for exploring current research in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and databases that pertains to the organization, encoding and retrieval of logical and complex objects. The symposium draws together researchers from diverse disciplines as well as practitioners engaged in developing real object-oriented term classification systems. The basic questions to be addressed include o classification of objects in a taxonomy: systemic classification, semantic indexing, partial-order sorting, description identification, and taxonomy maintenance. o efficient order, lattice, graph, and code theoretic operations on objects: subsumption, generalization, specialization, least common generalization, and greatest common specialization. o advanced uses of taxonomies: knowledge compression, knowledge compilation, and knowledge evolution. o using classified knowledge: classification as problem solving, classification as constraint satisfaction, and exploiting abstraction. o scalable techniques for large object databases o integration of data and knowledge base technologies The symposium maintains a balance between theoretical issues and descriptions of implemented systems providing a balance between theory and practice. The focus of the symposium is on efficiency of retrieval, use and storage of knowledge. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Veronica Dahl (Co-Chair) Gerard Ellis, RMIT (Program Chair) Director, Logic and Functionall Computer Science Dept. Programming Group Royal Melbourne Inst of Technology Professor, Computing Sciences Dept. GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Simon Fraser University Australia Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA veronica@cs.sfu.ca ged@cs.rmit.edu.au Phone (604) 291-3372 Phone: 61-3-660-5090 Fax (604) 291-3045 Fax: 61-3-662-1617 Andrew Fall (Co-Chair) Robert Levinson (Local Arrangements Chair) School of Computing Science Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences Simon Fraser University 229 Applied Sciences Building Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 CANADA University of California fall@cs.sfu.ca Santa Cruz, CA 95064 U.S.A. Phone: (604) 291-4302 levinson@cis.ucsc.edu Fax: (604) 291-3045 Phone: (408) 429-2087 Fax: 459-4829 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mohan Ahuja (USA) Robert Levinson (USA) Hassan Ait-Kaci (Canada) Patrick Lincoln (USA) Franz Baader (Germany) Robert MacGregor (USA) Yves Caseau (France) Deborah McGuinness (USA) Darrell Conklin (Canada) Guy Mineau (Canada) Veronica Dahl (Canada) Werner Nutt (Germany) Francesco Donini (Italy) Peter Patel-Schneider (USA) Gerard Ellis (Australia) Raghu Ramakrishnan (USA) Andrew Fall (Canada) Manfred Schmidt-Schauss (Germany) Brian Gaines (Canada) James Schmolze (USA) Jim Hendler (USA) Gert Smolka (Germany) Fritz Lehmann (USA) Leon Sterling (USA) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Auxiliary Reviewers Jamie Andrews (Canada), Lin Padgham (Australia), Alex Borgida (USA), Michel Habib (France), Andreas Podelski (Germany), Rudolf Wille (Germany). CONFERENCE PROGRAM FRIDAY August 11 8:00 - 9:00 Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address and Conference Opening Session 1: Description Logics 9:30 - 10:00 "Towards More Informative Answers in Terminological Logics" Margarida Mamede and Luis Monteiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) 10:00 - 10:30 "Runtime and memory usage performance of description logics" Piet-Hein Speel, Frank van Raalte, Paul E. van der Vet, and Nicolaas J.I. Mars, University of Twente (The Netherlands) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 2: Description Logics 11:00 - 11:30 "Implementing and Testing Expressive Description Logics: A Preliminary Report" Paolo Bresciani, Enrico Franconi and Sergio Tessaris, IRST (Italy) 11:30 - 12:00 "Integrating a Description Logic System and an Object-Centered Database System" Lin Padgham, (RMIT, Australia), Patrick Lambrix, and Stefan Kalmelid (University of Linkoping, Sweden) 12:00 - 12:15 "Terminological Reasoning by Query Evaluation: A Formal Mapping of a Terminological Logic to an Object Data Model" Ulrich Reimer, P. Lippuner (Swiss Life, Switzerland), M. Norrie, and M. Rys (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 3: Deductive Databases / Classification 1:30 - 1:45 "Natural Deduction of Inheritance in Datalog" Miguel-Angel Oros-Hernandez 1:45 - 2:00 "Knowledge Evolution in Deductive Databases" Danilo Montesi (Imperial College, UK) and Franco Turini (Universita di Pisa, Italy) 2:00 - 2:15 "Self-Organizing Knowledge Bases: The Integration Based Approach" Adil Kabbaj, Universite de Montreal (Canada) 2:15 - 2:30 "Objects, types and constraints as classification schemes" Cecile Capponi, Jerome Euzenat and Jerome Gensel, INRIA, Grenoble (France) 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break Session 4: Classification 3:00 - 3:30 "Classification and Representation of Types in TDL" Hans-Ulrich Krieger, DFKI, Saarbrucken (Germany) 3:30 - 4:00 "A Computational Model for the Efficient Retrieval of Very Large Structure-Based Knowledge Bases" Jose F. Quesada (Centro Informatico Cientifica de Andalucia, Spain) and Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) 4:00 - 4:15 "Efficient Knowledge Base Reasoning with Transitive DAGs" Jutta Eusterbrock, GMD, Darmstadt (Germany) 4:15 - 5:30 Panel Discussion: ... 5:30 Reception SATURDAY August 12 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 5: Matching/Defaults/Legibility 9:00 - 9:30 "Improving the Legibility of Knowledge Bases" Florence Lemaire, INRIA (France) 9:30 - 10:00 "Defaults in concept definitions: an application" Pascal Coupey and Christophe Fouquere, Universite Paris-Nord (France) 10:00 - 10:30 "Parallel Matching of Knowledge Structures" William A. Andersen and James A. Hendler (University of Maryland, USA) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 6: Encoding Methods 11:00 - 11:30 "Heterogenous Encoding" Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 11:30 - 12:00 "Embedding Partially Ordered Sets in Product of Chains" Michel Habib, Marianne Huchard and Lhouari Nourine, LIRMM, Universite Montpellier II (France) 12:00 - 12:15 "An Abstract Framework for Taxonomic Encoding" Andrew Fall, Simon Fraser University (Canada) 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 7: Concept Analysis/ Compression 1:30 - 2:00 "Computing a Minimal Representation of the Subsumption Lattice of All Conjunctions of Concepts Defined in a Terminology" Franz Baader, RWTH Aachen (Germany) 2:00 - 2:30 "Incremental Structuring of Knowledge Bases" Robert Godin (Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada), Guy Mineau (Universite Laval, Canada), and Rokia Missaouri ((Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada) 2:30 - 2:45 "Issues in the Efficient Use of a Relation Ontology for Conceptual Reasoning" Chris Nowak and Peter W. Eklund, University of Adelaide (Australia) 2:45 - 3:00 "On Compressing Databases Using Multi-Field Pattern Matching" Weizhen Mao and Rahul Simha (College of William and Mary, USA) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session 8: Demonstrations 3:30 - 5:30 Demonstration of implemented systems. 5:30 Reception SUNDAY August 13 8:00 - 9:00 Registration Session 9: Conceptual Graphs / Graphical Formalisms 9:00 - 9:30 "The Search for Polynomial Projection of Conceptual Graphs" Mark Willems, Free University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 9:30 - 10:00 "Formalization of graphical schemas for conceptual modelling: General sketch-based logic vs. heuristic pictures" B. Cadish and Z. Diskin, Frame Inform Systems (Latvia) 10:00 - 10:15 "An Activity-based Ontology using Conceptual Graphs" Alexandra Galatescu ICI-Research Institute for Informatics (Romania) 10:15 - 10:30 "Agreement graph dependencies and their application to object-oriented design" John Leuchner and Rattikorn Hewett (Florida Atlantic University, USA) and Less Miller and Giora Slutzki (Iowa State University, USA) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break Session 10: Conceptual Graphs and Description Logics 11:00 - 12:00 "On the relationship between Conceptual graphs and Description Logics" Gerard Ellis (RMIT) and Lin Padgham (RMIT) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (Provided) Session 2: Panel Discussion 1:30 - 2:00 Panel: Conceptual Graphs vs Description Logics 2:00 - 2:30 Symposium Close 3:00 Reception This programme and the latest information regarding KRUSE can be found on the World Wide Web under http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/KRUSE/ Information regarding the related 3rd International Conference on Conceptual Structures ICCS95, August 14-18, 1995, University of California, Santa Cruz, can be found on the World Wide Web under http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/ICCS95/ ***************************************************************************** AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION Alpha Cab: 408-295-8001 Santa Cruz Airporter: (a shuttle) 408-423-1234 Auto Rental: Auto World: 408-423-9830 725 Soquel Ave. Santa Cruz. Budget Rent-A-Car: 408-425-1808 919 Ocean Street - Santa Cruz DIRECTIONS: 1. From San Francisco: Take 101 South to Highway 880 South which turns into Highway 17 at San Jose. You'll drive over the scenic Santa Cruz mountains on Highway 17 right into Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. 2. From San Jose. Take Highway 17 over the Santa Cruz Mountains into the heart of Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. 3. From Monterey. Take Highway 1 North through the fertile agricultural area of the Pajaro Valley to Santa Cruz. Exit onto Hiway 1 to Half Moon Bay - follow UCSC signs. ***************************************************************************** Kruse'95 REGISTRATION FORM Name: ___________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Telephone: ___________________________ Fax: ________________________________ e-mail: ______________________________ Please indicate which event(s) for which you are registering. Symposium registrants need not register for the Conference unless they wish to do so. ___ $200 ($150 with ICCS registration) Symposium fee before 7/15/94 ___ $250 ($200 with ICCS) Symposium fee after 7/15/95 ___ $100 ($75 with ICCS registration) Student fee before 7/15/94 ___ $150 ($125 with ICCS) Student fee after 7/15/94 Commuter Options: If not registering for UCSC housing (see below) you may register for: parking(M-F): ($4/day) 11? week ($10)? lunch: (6$/day) Specify days: 11? 12? 13? 3 meals: ($18/day) Specify days: 11? 12? 13? Amount Enclosed: $________________ MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO "UC REGENTS" Conference fee includes proceedings and receptions. Payment must accompany the registration form. Checks must be in US dollars only and payable to "UC REGENTS" Please do not send cash. CREDIT CARDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Students must provide a copy of a student I.D. card or a letter from an advisor for proof of student status. RETURN BY JULY 15, 1995 TO: Kruse95-registration Prof. Robert Levinson 225 Applied Sciences Building Department of Computer and Information Sciences. University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 408-459-2087 FAX: 408-459-4829 e-mail: levinson@cse.ucsc.edu **************************************************************************** APARTMENT RESERVATION FORM Kruse'95 August 11-12, 1995 University of California Santa Cruz Housing Please reserve the following accommodations: (Base rates are per person, per room, per night). ___ $70.25 Single Occupancy - basic $84.25 -deluxe (send $140.50 for two days) (send $169.00 for two days) ___ $58.25 Double Occupancy - basic $71.50 - deluxe (send $116.50 for two days) (send $143.00 for two days) Basic includes fresh towels and linens but no housekeeping. Deluxe includes full daily house-keeping. Three dining hall meals per day are included with housing payment. Apartment guests must register for at least the nights of Aug. 11 and Aug. 12. In addition you may register for Aug. 10 and Aug. 13. August 10? __________ August 13? ___________ (if registering for these nights - increase your deposit accordingly). ___ Smoking ___ Non-smoking Desired Roomate ____________ (if doubling). [Roommate will be assigned if not specified.] ___ Deposit check enclosed in the amount of $ ____________ (send amount indicated above.) Name: ___________________________________________ Affiliation: _________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Telephone: _________________________________________ Fax: ______________________________________________ SEND BY JULY 15, 1994 TO: Housing Reservations - Kruse 95 Prof. Robert Levinson 225 Applied Sciences Building Department of Computer and Information Sciences. University of California at Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95060 408-459-2087 FAX: 408-459-4829 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue May 16 12:49:57 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 12:49:50 -0500; AA29030 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 12:49:49 -0500 From: Isabel Cruz Message-Id: <9505161749.AA29245@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 12:49:49 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu *** Preliminary Call for Papers *** International Workshop on Constraints for Graphics and Visualization ===================================================================== In conjunction with International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP95 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Marseille, France September 18, 1995 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for Submission: July 5, 1995 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Graphics and visualization are prominent application domains of constraint systems. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to access the state of the art in this field and discuss future research directions. The workshop will be one day long, and will take place in the same location as the main conference. The technical program includes two invited talks by leaders in the area, a panel discussion, and presentations of contributed papers. Facilities will be available for presenting audio-visual material. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Chairs =============== Isabel Cruz (isabel@cs.tufts.edu) Kim Marriott (marriott@cs.monash.edu.au) Pascal Van Hentenryck (pvh@cs.brown.edu) Invited Speakers ================ Alan Borning, U. Washington, USA Roberto Tamassia, Brown U., USA Program Committee ================= Tiziana Catarci, U. of Rome, Italy Wayne Citrin, U. of Colorado-Boulder, USA Isabel Cruz, Tufts U., USA (co-chair) Stephane Donikian, U. Rennes, France Tomihisa Kamada, Access Co., Japan David Kurlander, Microsoft Res., USA Kim Marriott, Monash U., Australia (co-chair) Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown U., USA (co-chair) Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore, USA Topics of Interest include: =========================== o Constraint-based graphical user interfaces in databases, AI, human-computer interaction, graph drawing, software engineering, hardware design, and multimedia. o Programming environments for constraint-based graphics and visualization. o Algorithms for constraint-based graphics. o Characterization of important classes of constraints in graphics and visualization, and complexity of solving. o Approaches to underconstrained/overconstrained systems of constraints (e.g., constraint hierarchies). o Formal specification of constraint-based visual languages for automatic or user-defined visualization. o Constraint-based techniques for interactive graphics. o Declarative and/or visual methods for 2D and 3D visualization and animation. Submission ========== Authors are invited to submit electronically papers (in English, at most 18 pages) or short papers (in English, at most 8 pages) to ifc@cs.brown.edu. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals is not allowed. In addition to papers describing original research work, surveys and position papers are sought. Submissions should be in the form of a single uuencoded compressed PostScript file sent by email to any of the chairs, accompanied by a separate email message to the same chair with the following information on the paper: title, kind of submission, author(s), affiliation(s), and address of the contact author. Please make sure that your PostScript file can be previewed with Ghostview and is printable on a standard PostScript printer. If electronic submission is not possible, please contact one of the chairs to make special arrangements, at least one week before the deadline. Important Dates =============== Submissions: July 5, 1995 Notification of acceptance: August 15, 1995 Camera-ready papers due: At workshop WWW URL ======= http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ifc/cgv.html CFP in PostScript ================= http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ifc/cgv.ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue May 16 12:56:25 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 12:56:18 -0500; AA29096 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 12:56:16 -0500 From: Francesca Rossi Message-Id: <9505161756.AA29259@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 12:56:16 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP95) Cassis, France, September 19-22, 1995 ACCEPTED PAPERS ``On the combination of symbolic constraints, solution domains, and constraint solvers'', by Franz Baader and Klaus U. Schulz ``A Unifying Framework for Tractable Constraints'', by Peter Jeavons, David Cohen and Marc Gyssens ``Reducing Domains for Search in CLP(FD) and Its Application to Job-Shop Scheduling'', by Hans-Joachim Goltz ``Polynomial restrictions of SAT: What can be done with an efficient implementation of the Davis and Putnam's procedure?'', by A. Rauzy ``A Visual Constraint-Programming Environment'', by Massimo Paltrinieri ``Asynchronous Weak-commitment Search for Solving Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems'', by Makoto Yokoo ``Solving Linear, Min and Max Constraint Systems Using CLP based on Relational Interval Arithmetic'', by Pierre Girodias, Eduard Cerny and William J. Older ``Constraint Propagation in Model Generation'', by Jian Zhang and Hantao Zhang ``Normalizing Narrowing for Weakly Terminating and Confluent Systems'', by Andreas Werner ``Scaling Effects in the CSP Phase Transition'', by Ian P. Gent, Ewan MacIntyre, Patrick Prosser and Toby Walsh ``Debugging Constraint Programs'', by Micha Meier ``Improved Branch and Bound in Constraint Logic Programming'', by Steven Prestwich and Shyam Mudambi ``The Progressive Party Problem: Integer Linear Programming and Constraint Programming Compared'', by Barbara M. Smith, Sally C. Brailsford, Peter M. Hubbard and H. Paul Williams ``An Optimization-based Heuristic for Maximal Constraint Satisfaction'', by Javier Larrosa, Pedro Meseguer ``Complete Solving of Linear Diophantine Equations and Inequations without Adding Variables'', by F. Ajili and E. Contejean ``From Local to Global Consistency in Temporal Constraint Networks'', by Manolis Koubarakis ``On Termination of Constraint Logic Programs'', by Livio Colussi, Elena Marchiori, Massimo Marchiori ``Constrained Dependencies'', by Michael Maher ``First-order Definability over Constraint Databases'', by Stephane Grumbach and Jianwen Su ``A Constraint-Based Approach to Diagnosing Software Problems in Computer Networks'', by Daniel Sabin, Mihaela C. Sabin, Robert D. Russell, Eugene C. Freuder ``Solving Crew Scheduling Problems by Constraint Programming'', by Nabil Guerinik and Michel van Caneghem ``Situated Simplification'', by Andreas Podelski and Gert Smolka ``Modelling Producer/Consumer Constraints'', by H. Simonis and T. Cornelissens ``Guarded Constructive Disjunction : Angel or Demon ?'', by Christian Codognet and Philippe Codognet ``From Elliott-MacMahon to an algorithm for general linear constraints on naturals'', by Eric Domenjoud and Ana Paula Tomas ``A Confluent Calculus for Concurrent Constraint Programming with Guarded Choice'', by Kim Marriott and Martin Odersky ``An optimizing compiler for CLP(R)'', by Andrew Kelly, Andrew Macdonald, Kim Marriott, Harald Sondergaard, Peter Stuckey, Roland Yap ``Domain Independent Ask Approximation in CCP'', by Enea Zaffanella ``Safe Stratified Datalog with Integer Order Programs'', by Peter Z. Revesz ``Local and Global Relational Consistency---Summary of Recent Results'', by Rina Dechter and Peter van Beek ``On the Forward Checking Algorithm'', by Fahiem Bacchus and Adam Grove ``Dynamic Variable Ordering in CSPs'', by Fahiem Bacchus and Paul van Run ``On Similarity Queries for Time-Series Data: Constraint Specification and Implementation'', by Dina Q. Goldin and Paris C. Kanellakis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue May 16 14:17:38 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 14:17:33 -0500; AA00492 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 14:17:32 -0500 From: agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu (Divyakant Agrawal) Message-Id: <9505161917.AA29555@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 14:17:32 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Information Systems Special Issue on Disaster Recovery in Database Systems D. Agrawal A. El Abbadi Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Databases have become a crucial component for the survival of most organizations. Inaccessibility to the data and more importantly loss of the data may seriously jeopardize the well-being of such organizations. These considerations make disaster recovery an essential component of any database architecture. Because of the importance of this area, Information Systems is planning a special issue on Disaster Recovery for Summer 1997. The goal is to collect papers on recent important advances and to put together a strong issue on the subject. Theoretical papers should include a solid motivation for why the stated results are applicable in real applications. Applied papers that describe working systems in actual use are particularly solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. - Novel implementations of the traditional systems-pair approach (i.e., primary-backup). - Coding-theory techniques for redundancy and disaster recovery. - Cost-effective replication mechanisms for normal operations as well as disaster recovery (note that the replication here is primarily to restore data after failures rather than for availability) - disaster recovery in LANs and WANs - requirements for innovative applications that need support for disaster recovery, e.g., libraries, telecommunications, utility distribution, life-critical applications etc. Papers should be at most 30 pages long, double-spaced, in font size 10 or larger. Five copies of each paper should be sent to the following address: Divyakant Agrawal Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106-4321 USA agrawal@@cs.ucsb.edu The following are important dates for this issue: Date Milestone ______________________________________________________________ 11/1/95 Deadline for submission of papers 3/1/95 Notification of 1st-round referee results 5/15/96 Deadline for submission of revised papers 8/15/96 Notification of final acceptance/rejection 11/1/96 Deadline for having final papers at the publisher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue May 16 18:51:20 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 18:51:13 -0500; AA03344 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 18:51:12 -0500 From: isabel@cs.tufts.edu (Maria Isabel Cruz) Message-Id: <9505162351.AA00441@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 18:51:12 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ********************************************************************** Call for Submissions Please Distribute Widely ********************************************************************** Effective Abstractions in Multimedia Layout, Presentation, and Interaction ------------------------------------- Workshop to be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia '95 November 4, 1995 San Francisco, California Workshop description -------------------- The topic of this one-day workshop is the study of abstract representations and methods for the structuring of multimedia/hypermedia documents and interactions. While multimedia/hypermedia has enjoyed marketing success and benefited from substantial work on the underlying engineering and systems mechanisms, there has been less emphasis on principled approaches at the application level. The focus here is on concepts and techniques that are useful for structuring and organizing heterogeneous information in multimedia/hypermedia applications from the perspective of both end-user delivery and authoring. While we hope to attract participants with experience in an eclectic mix of multimedia/hypermedia applications, the common thread will be the organization and abstraction of information. With such an emphasis, we hope to facilitate idea sharing and mutual understanding between researchers and developers in diverse areas (e.g., electronic publishing, video conferencing, digital libraries, command & control, etc.) that are all related to multimedia/hypermedia, but that have been, for the most part, isolated from each other. Problems likely to be discussed at the workshop include: * Spatial layout for visual information presentation * Temporal layout for information presentation using animation and audio * Determination of page content, linking structure and index structure for hypermedia documents * Filtering, generalization, and customization of information in multimedia/hypermedia applications * Synergistic combination of media in multimedia/hypermedia applications A representative set of techniques that are relevant to such problems include: * Constraint-based methods * Grammar-based methods * Heuristic search and optimization * Graph-based data structures and algorithms * Data modeling, query languages, and ontology development * Pattern-matching methods for (a)synchronous media streams Due to space limitations, attendance will be by invitation only. Submission details ------------------ Submit an extended abstract (not more than five pages, single-spaced) describing previous work, recently completed work, or work in progress that is relevant to the workshop topic. Submissions should be submitted via e-mail: send ASCII text or PostScript files to kentw@bellcore.com. A subset of invited participants will be selected to give a presentation on their research and to compose a WWW page comprised of a final version of their submission, pointers to their own related papers and technical reports, and other relevant material (presentation slides, video segments, interactive demos, sample multimedia/hypermedia documents, etc.). Participants' Web nodes will be aggregated to form an on-line workshop proceedings. Due dates --------- Receipt of submissions: July 15, 1995 Notification of acceptance: September 1, 1995 Completion of WWW-page materials: October 20, 1995 Organizing committee -------------------- Isabel Cruz, Tufts University (isabel@cs.tufts.edu) Joe Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (marks@merl.com) Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore (kentw@bellcore.com) Program committee ----------------- Elisabeth Andre, German Research Center of A.I. GmbH Michael Christel, Carnegie Mellon University Isabel Cruz, Tufts University George Furnas, University of Michigan Ramesh Jain, University of California San Diego Fillia Makedon, Dartmouth College Joe Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Linn Marks, IBM Watson Research Labs Stuart Shieber, Harvard University David Stotts, University of North Carolina Dirk Van Gucht, Indiana University Kent Wittenburg, Bellcore WWW URL ------- http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~isabel/mmws.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Tue May 16 18:51:45 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 18:51:42 -0500; AA03358 Date: Tue, 16 May 95 18:51:40 -0500 From: "Bhavani Thuraisingham" Message-Id: <9505162351.AA00446@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 16 May 95 18:51:40 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu 5/15/95 5:17 PM MDDS Session Time Change Birds of a Feather Session on the Intelligence Community Initiative in Massive Digital Data Systems Held in Conjunction with the 1995 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data in the Crystal Room at The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California on Tuesday, 23 May 1995 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm ******************************* Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) will require effective management, retrieval, and integration of databases that may be heterogeneous. Achieving this concept of massive intelligence information systems will require new technologies and novel approaches for data management. While several advances have been made in database management technology, the complexity and the size of the database coupled with the unique needs of the Intelligence Community (IC) require the development of novel approaches. The MDDS Initiative has been started by the Community Management Staff (CMS) of the IC to identify the data management issues and challenges as well as to develop possible solutions for managing massive databases., The purpose of the Birds of a Feather Session is to provide an overview of the MDDS program, solicit input toward developing a testbed /framework for the initiative, and to have technical discussions on novel methods for managing massive databases. Tentative agenda for the session is as follows: 1. Overview of MDDS Initiative 2. Overview of MDDS Research Projects 3. Discussion on testbed/framework 4. Discussion on techniques for massive database management Information on the MDDS Initiative can be obtained from : http://www.nml.org/other_programs/mdds/mdds.html For more information contact: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham K329, The MITRE Corporation, Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 email: thura@mitre.org; Phone: 617-271-8873; Fax: 617-271-2352 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 17 11:37:58 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 11:37:53 -0500; AA26068 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 11:37:52 -0500 From: Rosane Pagano Message-Id: <9505171637.AA14210@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 11:37:52 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY - UK FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS the Department of BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Lecturer/Senior Lectureships (Permanent and Fixed Term) Four posts are offered to complement the current 20 academic staff who form this innovative department, prominent in its field. Teaching and dissertation supervision will be at undergraduate and post graduate levels. Applications are invited from suitable qualified persons with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Networking and Communications Relational Database Management Change Management Systems Design Methodologies Managing Information Systems Successful candidates will be active in research for which they can expect to receive strong continuing support. The continued success of the Department is dependent upon our strong academic staff base, therefore encouragement and assistance is given for professional growth and development within a creative and stimulating environment. Fixed term appointments are offered for one year in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal. Should you like an informal discussion about any aspect of these posts please telephone Dennis Dunn, Head of Department on 0161-247-3809 or e-mail D.Dunn@MMU.AC.UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 17 11:40:09 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 11:40:07 -0500; AA26077 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 11:40:06 -0500 From: sanderso@dcs.gla.ac.uk (Mark Sanderson) Message-Id: <9505171640.AA14245@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 11:40:06 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Subject: (DBWORLD) ESSIR - European Summer School Information Retrieval [If you receive multiple copies, I'm sorry] ESSIR European Summer School Information Retrieval University of Glasgow, 3rd - 8th September 1995 The second european summer school in information retrieval (IR) will be hosted this September by the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow. The school is aimed at those starting out in the field of information retrieval, and will cover a wide range of subjects. Each course will be taught by IR researchers who are regarded as experts in their field. Various student bursaries are available. Planned courses * Introduction * IR models * Architecture/implementation * Natural language processing for IR * User interfaces * IR and databases * Evaluation * Intelligent retrieval * IR and hypermedia * Multimedia and retrieval * IR and wide area networks Information Further information and application forms for this event and for bursaries can be obtained either via WWW... http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir/ ....or in a booklet that can be ordered from... Jane Reid Computing Science University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5006 Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4913 Email: essir@dcs.gla.ac.uk ______________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Fax : +44 (0)141 330 4913 Department of Computing Science, Tel : +44 (0)141 330 6292 University of Glasgow, Email: sanderso@dcs.gla.ac.uk Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK URL : http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sanderso/ ______________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgement ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 17 15:26:21 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 15:26:15 -0500; AA29661 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 15:26:14 -0500 From: Matthias Jarke Message-Id: <9505172026.AA14832@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 15:26:14 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of RWTH Aachen, Germany, has an opening for a position of Professor (C3) for Computer Science. Teaching tasks include participation in undergraduate and graduate education of computer science majors and minors. The research area should be in practical computer science, preferably in the area of Information Systems, for example: knowledge-based systems, heterogeneous and interoperable information systems, or multimedia databases. Prerequisites are the habilitation or equivalent, as well as good teaching abilities. It is expected that professors will be able to teach in German after a short grace period (at most two years). Applicants are requested to send a vita including publication list and teaching experience by May 30, 1995, to Dekan der Math.-Nat. Fakultaet RWTH Aachen Templergraben 64 52056 Aachen, Germany ----------------- Some further information for non-German applicants: The C3 position roughly corresponds to that of a tenured associate professor in the US. "Equivalence to habilitation" is best proven through a promotion to untenured associate professor, alternatively through a strong research record as assistant professor or in an equivalent research position. RWTH Aachen is one of the largest technical universities in Europe. Aachen is located in the western tip of Germany, between Cologne and Brussels. The computer science department currently has 12 tenured professorships, about 100 researchers (including Ph.D. students), and about 1200 students. Many opportunities for cooperation with science and engineering departments, as well as with the local high-tech industry, are available. Companies such as Philips, Ericsson, and Ford Europe have their research centers here. The position is loosely associated with the Information Systems group of Prof. Matthias Jarke. A recent overview can be found in the March 95 issue of ACM SIGMOD Record. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 17 15:29:29 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 15:29:27 -0500; AA29670 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 15:29:26 -0500 From: Peter Schauble Message-Id: <9505172029.AA14844@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 15:29:26 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ______________________________________________________________ ACM SIGIR'95 Post-Conference Workshop on INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND DATABASES July 13, 1995 Seattle, WA, USA ______________________________________________________________ A Research Workshop The integration of database management systems and information retrieval systems is of great practical interest. There are, however, hard research problems that remain to be solved. The workshop aims at assisting the information retrieval community in understanding the integration problems and in setting a research agenda. The workshop will include focused presentations addressing the following four issues: Architecture: loosely coupled, tightly coupled, total integration; does the DBMS control the IRS or vice versa; support for distributed computing. Retrieval Model and Query Language: reconciling classical DB retrieval and classical (weighted) IR retrieval; retrieval models taking into account structural information (DB attributes); treating DB attribute values in an IR way, e.g. in a probabilistic way; query languages for IR/DB systems. Concurrency Control and Transaction Management: concurrency control on the IR index; is ACID enough or is ACID too much for IR; new transaction models (nested transactions); long lived transactions (for indexing). Performance: new access structures; new buffering schemes (caches); retrieval performance on dynamic data; insertion, deletion, and modification performance; scalability (parallel architectures); query processing/optimization for relevance ranking. Following the presentations, attendees will participate in round table discussions about each topic. To allow this to proceed in a workshop atmosphere, the workshop is restricted to 30 participants. **Program Committee: David Harper, The Robert Gordon University, UK Peter Schauble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich Those wishing to give presentations should submit a short position paper (about 2 pages) covering the aforementionend issues. About six of these papers will be selected for presentation. Other prospective attendees should prepare a short statement describing their interest in the area. Submissions or requests for further information should be addressed to: . Deadline for submission: May 31, 1995 Notification: June 15, 1995. See also http://info.sigir.acm.org/sigir/conferences/sigir_95_adv.pgm.txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 17 15:38:00 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 15:37:53 -0500; AA29803 Date: Wed, 17 May 95 15:37:52 -0500 From: Hannes Thiemann Message-Id: <9505172037.AA14877@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 17 May 95 15:37:52 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Announcement and Call for Papers C E D S '9 5 Second International Workshop on Climate and Environmental Database Systems 21 - 23 November 1995 held at DKRZ - German Climate Computing Centre Hamburg, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ For up-to-date information on CEDS '95 conference : WWW : http://www.dkrz.de/forschung/project/ceds95/ceds95.html \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Two years after the First Conference on Climate Database Systems we are pleased to invite the climate data management community to meet in Hamburg once again. The conference will provide an opportunity to present new results in this field and to discuss recent developments and the outlook for the future. The conference coordinators invite contributions on any of the following subjects: 1. Climate Database Realizations Existing Climate Database Systems User Interface and Scientific Dataprocessing WWW Database Access Geographically Distributed Databases . . . . 2. Standardization of Metadata and Storage Formats Data Description Models, e.g. CERA, DIF, INFOCLIMA, FDGC Storage Formats, e.g. GRIB, NetCDF, HDF . . . . 3. Future Developments for Climate and Environmental Data Database Management Systems, e.g. RDBMS, ODBMS Graphical User Interfaces Large Archives and Data Migration Systems Data Compression . . . . Abstracts for reviewing (1 page containing authors, names, affiliation, address, telephone/facsimile num- bers, and email) should be received in duplicate by 1 August 1995 to one of the addresses listed below. Conference Coordination: Dr. Michael Lautenschlager DKRZ - Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum Bundesstra=DFe 55 D-20146 HAMBURG Germany Tel.: +49 40 411 73 297, Fax: +49 40 411 73 400 EMail: lautenschlager@dkrz.d400.de Dr. Manfred Reinke AWI - Alfred-Wegener-Institut f=FCr Polar- und Meeresforschung Am Handelshafen 12 D-27570 BREMERHAVEN Germany Tel.: +49 471 4831 503, Fax: +49 471 4831 149 EMail: reinke@awi-bremerhaven.de In order to receive further circulars for this workshop please return the attached form together with the conference fee (100,-- DM, Students free) before the 1 July 1995. The fee should be transfered to: Bank Name: Deutsche Bank Hamburg Bank Code Number: 200 700 00 Bank Account: 3675188.11 Key Word: CEDS-Workshop I plan to attend the Workshop on " Climate and Environmental Database Sys= tems". ---------------------= -- Name:Prof./Dr./Mr./Mr= s. ---------------------= -- First Name: Dr. Michael Lautenschlager ---------------------= -- Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH Affiliation: Bundesstra=DFe 55 D-20146 Hamburg Germany ---------------------= -- Address: ---------------------= -- Fax: ---------------------= -- E-Mail: -- = ------------- Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH --------------- Hannes Thiemann = Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum Tel +49 40 41173100 = Bundesstr. 55 Fax +49 40 41173400 = D-20146 Hamburg email: thiemann@dkrz.d400.de FRG --------------------------------------------------------------- --PART-BOUNDARY=.19505161100.ZM940.mahlzahn-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu May 18 11:22:59 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 May 95 11:22:53 -0500; AA21933 Date: Thu, 18 May 95 11:22:52 -0500 From: Kia Makki Message-Id: <9505181622.AA29566@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 May 95 11:22:52 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ************************************************* ********** CALL FOR PAPERS ********** ************************************************* _ _ _ _ _ , _ _ |_| | ||| _ | _ | (_ (_| |_ | | |_ | | |_) | _) _| _) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - 3rd ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP - = ON ADVANCES IN = - GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Baltimore, Maryland, USA December 1-2, 1995 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sponsored by ACM in cooperation with CACS-USL, UT1-CERISS in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'95) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In recent years computer processing of Earth observations through geographic information systems has attracted a great deal of attention from the industrial and research world. The Third ACM International Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems will provide an effective forum for disseminating original and fundamental research and experience in the rapidly advancing area of the use of computer science for spatial studies. Since the workshop will be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'95), participants will be able to maximize their interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practioners across the entire field of knowledge and information management. ACM-GIS'95 will bring together leading researchers and developers and will strive toward setting future research directions in this area. The primary focus of the workshop is on new and original research results in the areas of theorical foundations, design, implementation and applications of GIS as well as experience reports from application specialists. The goal is to exchange research ideas and results among participants. Therefore the topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to: - Query processing and optimization - Spatio-temporal data models and languages - Requirements analysis for GIS applications - GIS performance modeling and evaluation - Reasoning with GIS information - Imprecise spatio-temporal information - Semantics of spatio-temporal data - Quality aspects of geographic information - Design of spatio-temporal data structures - Spatial indexing and storage - Knowledge discovery - GIS meta data - User interfaces for GIS - Multi-media GIS - Digital libraries for GIS - Virtual reality in GIS - Interoperability among heterogeneous GIS - Electronic geographic data interchange standards - Parallel/distributed GIS - GIS and internetworking - Client-server architecture for GIS - GIS and cooperative work - Multidatabase GIS - Distributed spatial objects - Time in GIS - Active spatial objects - Moving objects in GIS - Real-time GIS systems - GIS software tools and environments - Novel applications in scientific and environmental domains - Integration with existing commercial products - Reports on experience with real applications Papers submission: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit complete and original research contributions or experience reports; submissions should be written in english and should include: - Title - Author(s) informations (Name, Affiliation, Postal address E-mail address, Phone/Fax numbers) - Topic(s) - Abstract (up to 200 words) - Text (double-spaced and no longer than 5 000 words) - References In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Submitters should indicate in a cover letter their willingness to attend the workshop and present their paper. All submitted papers will be refereed by at least five reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-GIS'95 proceedings. We encourage submissions from both academic and industrial spheres. Proposals for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative geographic information issues are encouraged as well. Panel proposals should include a summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of the panelists who have made a commitment to participate. Seven copies of the manuscript should be submitted by August 4, 1995 to Dr Patrick Bergougnoux, the ACM-GIS'95 program Co-Chair: Dr Patrick Bergougnoux c/o Michele Cuesta The University of Toulouse 1 CERISS laboratory Place Anatole France 31042 Toulouse Cedex - FRANCE E-mail : bergougn@irit.fr Phone : (33) 61 57 47 89 Fax : (33) 61 57 94 44 ---------------------------IMPORTANT DATES-------------------------- Paper submission deadline : August 4, 1995 Notification of acceptance : September 29, 1995 Camera ready paper due : October 27, 1995 ACM-GIS'95 workshop date : December 1-2, 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------- To receive by post-mail the color version of this call for papers or for any more information about ACM-GIS'95, please send post-mail, fax or e-mail to Dr Patrick Bergougnoux at the above address. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ACM-GIS'95 Program Committee =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= General Chair: -------------- Niki Pissinou Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, CACS Program Co-Chairs: ------------------ Patrick Bergougnoux Univ. Toulouse 1, CERISS laboratory Kia Makki Univ. of Nevada, Dpt of Computer Science Program Committee: ------------------ Z. Ahmed, Univ. of California W.G. Aref, Umatsushita Information Technologie Lab. M.P. Armstrong, Univ. of Iowa F. Bonfatti, Univ. of Modena, Italy N.G. Bourbakis, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton P. Boursier, Univ. of Paris-Sud, France S. Busovaca (local arr.), California State Univ. Sacramento W. Campbell, NASA/GSFC L. De Floriani, Univ. of Genova, Italy A. El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara A. Frank, Technical Univ. Vienna, Austria M.F. Goodchild, Univ. of California O. Guenther, Humboldt Univ. of Berlin, Germany J. Han, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, Canada D. Helder, South Dakoda Sata Univ. J. Herring, Intergraph Corporation P. Hunter, NASA IITA R. Laurini, Claude Bernard Univ. of Lyon, France D.M. Mark, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo E.K. Park (treasurer), US Naval Academy H. Samet, Univ. of Maryland T. Sarjakoski, Finnish Geodetic Inst., Helsinki, Finland P. Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ., Evanston M. Scholl, CNAM Paris, France T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece S. Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota S.Y. Shin, South Dakoda Sata Univ. Y. Song, Drexel Univ of Philadelphia J. Thormodsgard, USGS J.J.P. Tsai, Univ. of Illinois B.W. Wah, Univ. of Illinois F. Waltz, USGS M.F. Worboys, Keele Univ., UK G. Zurfluh, Univ. of Toulouse 1, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Thu May 18 11:23:42 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 May 95 11:23:40 -0500; AA21949 Date: Thu, 18 May 95 11:23:39 -0500 From: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es Message-Id: <9505181623.AA29572@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 18 May 95 11:23:39 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu ***************************************************** * Preliminary Call for Paper * * * * IPMU'96 * * * * Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 * ***************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- Organized by Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. Universidad de Granada. Sponsored by Junta de Andalucia. Universidad de Granada. Ayuntamiento de Granada. -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope -------------------------------------------------------- Organized at a regular two-year interval, the IPMU Conference deals with the difficulties existing in the acquisition, representation, management and transmission of data in knowledge-based and decision-making systems. It brings together researches working on various methodologies for the management of uncertain information and provides a useful exchange between theorists and practitioners using these different methodologies. -------------------------------------------------------- Topics of particular interest -------------------------------------------------------- * Uncertainty Methods: Measures of Information and Uncertainty, Bayesian and Probabilistic Methods, Fuzzy Methods, Mathematical Theory of Evidence, Belief Networks, Chaos Theory. * Non-standard Logics: Non-monotonic Logics, Approximate Reasoning, Multivalued Logics, Modal Logics, Temporal Reasoning, Case-based Reasoning. * Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Machine Learning, Inductive Methods, Commonsense Knowledge, Intelligent Databases and Information Systems. * Intelligent Systems: Fuzzy Control, Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems under Uncertainty, Decision Support Systems, Multicriteria and Group Decision Making, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Classification, Belief Updating and Inconsistency Handling. -------------------------------------------------------- Address and Location -------------------------------------------------------- IPMU'96 Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. E.T.S.I. Informatica. Avda. Andalucia, 38 Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada. Spain. Phone: +34.58.244019 Fax: +34.58.243317 e-mail: ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es e-mail for submissions: ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es URL: http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html Granada, a world-famous city, whose history spans over thousand years, also has outstanding features as a modern conference town. The Alhambra, the city's monuments, cultural and University traditions, as well as excellent leisure facilities, good restaurants, lively night life, the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Coast, all attract thousand of visitors to Granada every year. -------------------------------------------------------- Submission Information -------------------------------------------------------- Authors should submit three copies of each full paper by November 1st. There will be a six page (two columns) limit on the final versions of accepted papers. Papers will be carefully reviewed and authors will be notified on the acceptance/rejection by February 1st, 1996. Final camera-ready copies for publication will required by April 1st, 1996. Submissions may be sent by mail to the address included in this call. Electronic submissions are encouraged. To submit a paper electronically, send an e-mail to ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es including the following information (in this order): a) Paper title (plain text) b) Author's names, including professional status. c) Surface mail and e-mail address for a contact author (plain text) d) A short abstract, including keywords or topic indicators (plain text) e) Paper body (Postscript format) Proceedings will be available at the opening of the Conference. Relevant papers may be selected for publication in special issues of leading international journals. -------------------------------------------------------- Dates and Deadlines -------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 1 1995: Deadline for submission of papers. Feb. 1 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection. Apr. 1 1996: Reception of final camera-ready. May 15 1996: Deadline for early registration. July 1-5 1996: CONFERENCE. Early Registration Fee: 60.000 pesetas (ptas). Late Registration Fee: 70.000 pesetas (ptas). -------------------------------------------------------- Invited sessions -------------------------------------------------------- A number of invited sessions on special topics will be included in the program of IPMU'96. Authors will be invited to contribute to these sessions, which will be chaired by recognized experts in these topics. Proposals to organize invited sessions are welcome to be considered by the committee until September 15th. -------------------------------------------------------- Honorary President -------------------------------------------------------- Lotfi A. Zadeh(University of California, Berkeley, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- General Chairpersons Committee -------------------------------------------------------- Bernardette Bouchon-Meunier (CNRS, France) Miguel Delgado (University of Granada, Spain) Jose Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, Spain) Maria Amparo Vila (University of Granada, Spain) Ronald R. Yager (Iona College, NY, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- International Program Committee -------------------------------------------------------- J. Aczel (Canada) J. Aguilar-Martin (France) J. Baldwin (UK) S. Barro (Spain) A. Blanco (Spain) H. Berenji (USA) J. Bezdek(USA) P. Bonissone (USA) P. Bosc (France) J.L. Castro(Spain) D. Dubois (France) F. Esteva (Spain) M. Fedrizzi (Italy) M.A. Gil (Spain) A. Gonzalez (Spain) S. Guiasu (Canada) J. Gutierrez (Spain) F. Herrera (Spain) K. Hirota(Japan) J. Jacas (Spain) J.Y. Jaffray (France) A. Kandel (USA) E.P. Klement (Austria) G. Klir (USA) R. Kruse (Germany) M.T. Lamata (Spain) H.L. Larsen (Denmark) S.L. Lauritzen (Denmark) R. Lopez de Mantaras (Spain) R. Marin (Spain) J. Montero (Spain) S. Moral (Spain) H. Nguyen (USA) S. Ovchinnikov(USA) J. Pearl (USA) H. Prade(France) I. Requena (Spain) A. Rocha (Brazil) E. Ruspini (USA) A. Sage (USA) E. Sanchez (France) G. Shafer (USA) P. Shenoy (USA) P. Smets (Belgium) M. Sugeno (Japan) S. Termini (Italy) A. Titli (France) E. Trillas (Spain) I.B. Turksen (USA) R. Valle (France) L. Valverde (Spain) T. Yamakawa (Japan) H.J. Zimmermann (Germany) -------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee: -------------------------------------------------------- S. Moral (President) A. Blanco J.L. Castro J.C. Cubero A. Gonzalez F. Herrera M.T. Lamata J.M. Medina O. Pons I. Requena J.M. Zurita -------------------------------------------------------- PRE-REGISTRATION FORM -------------------------------------------------------- If you want to be kept informed, please fill in this form and return it to the address included in this call. ........................ cut here ....................... Pre-Registration Form Surname: First Name: Mailing Address: Phone: Fax: E-Mail: _ |_| I am interested in attending the conference. _ |_| I am interested in submitting a paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 18:22:41 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 18:22:33 -0500; AA19895 Date: Fri, 19 May 95 18:22:31 -0500 From: garzotto@elet.polimi.it (franca garzotto) Message-Id: <9505192322.AA14474@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 18:22:31 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PARTECIPATION AND PRELIMINARY P R O G R A M I W H D' 95 International Workshop on Hypermedia Design Atelier International sur la Conception d'Applications Hypermedia June 1 - June 2, 1995 "Le Corum" - Montpellier (France) Organized by, organisee par LIRMM (UMR CNRS/UM II 9928) Sponsored by, avec le soutien de UM II, District de Montpellier In cooperation with, en cooperation avec ACM SIGLINK, CWI, GMD, INRIA See also detailed information (Program, abstracts, accomodation, registration...) on http://www.lirmm.fr/~mnanard/iwhd95.html ********************************************************************** International Workshop on Hypermedia Design 1995 IWHD'95 is the second in a series of International Workshops which aim at promoting activities related to Hypermedia Design. The previous workshop was co-located with ACM ECHT'94, the European conference on Hypermedia Technology. IWHD'95 provides researchers as well as professional designers with an opportunity to meet, present position papers, discuss their methods, models, tools, experiences and ongoing projects on Hypermedia Design. Reducing the production cost of hypermedia applications, reducing design delays, improving the quality of hypermedia products, enforcing usability is an important challenge for Information Industry. Increasing the efficiency of design environments, evaluating the effectiveness of the design methods on which they are based and of the applications produced with them requires mastering and tuning-up design methods, as well as proposing new methods and tools. This is an important R&D activity that is becoming increasingly visible within hypermedia and WWW communities. The two-days workshop aims at studying problems, comparing approaches, mixing experiences, and cross-fertilizing knowledge on hypermedia design among researchers and practitioners. ********* SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM **************** ********************************************************* Jeudi 1er juin 1995 Matin Thursday June 1st, 1995 Morning ****************************************************************** 8:30 - 9:00 Accueil / Registration 9:00 - 9:30 Session d'ouverture / Opening Session ************* 9:30 - 11:00 **** SESSION 1 **** ************* Design Methods *Papers track* RMCase: Computer-aided support for hypermedia design and development A. DIAZ (Univ. Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), T. ISAKOWITZ (Stern School of Business, New York Univ. NY, U.S.A) Structural Constraints in Rich Hypertexts K. OSTERBYE (Aalborg University, Denmark) *Panel Discussion* Moderator: Daniel Schwabe, PUC Panelists: A. DIAZ (Univ. Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) T. ISAKOWITZ (Stern School of Business, New York University, U.S.A) K. OSTERBYE (Aalborg University, Denmark) R. BERNARD, et al. (University of Southampton, G.B.) E. De VRIES, et al.( Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France) D. SCHWABE, et al.(P U C, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break ************* 11:30 - 13:00 ****SESSION 2**** ************* Multimedia Modeling and Design *Papers track* Multimedia Document System for Temporal and Spatial Structuring T. SHIMIZU, O. NAKAMURA, Y. KIYOKI (Fuji Xerox , Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.) Modeling Corresponding Information Content between Multimedia M. SCHREFL, T. PRUCKLER (J KU Linz, Austria) *Panel Discussion* Moderator: :Franca Garzotto, (Politecnico di Milano) Panelists: T. SHIMIZU, et al. (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.) M. SCHREFL, et al. (J KU Linz, Austria) A. BROSSIER-WANSEK, et al.( (France Telecom, Evry, France) R. WILKINS, et al.( (University of Southampton, G.B.) ********************************************************************** Jeudi 1er juin 1995 Apres-midi Thursday June 1st, 1995 Afternoon ************* 14:30 - 16:00 ****SESSION 3**** ************* Higher Structures in Hypermedia Designs Spaces *Papers track* Designing virtual hypertexts with aggregates M. BENMRAD, G. CORAY, C. VANOIRBEEK (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Providing maps to support the early stage of design of hypermedia systems Z. MOUNTAZ (Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) *Panel Discussion* Moderator:Tomas Isakowitz, (New-York University, NY, U.S.A.) Panelists: C. VANOIRBEEK (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Z. MOUNTAZ (Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) A.F. SMEATON (Dublin City University, Ireland) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break ************* 16:30 - 18:00 ****SESSION 4**** ************* User-Interface Design for Hypermedia *Papers track* Global and Local Hypermedia Design in the Encyclopaedia Africana P. KAHN (Dynamic Diagrams, Inc., Providence, U.S.A.) An Object-Oriented Model for Designing the Human-Computer Interface of Hypermedia Applications G. ROSSI, D. SCHWABE, C.J.P. LUCENA, D.D. COWAN (Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) *Panel Discussion* Moderator Cathy Marshall, Texas A&M University Panelists: P. KAHN (Dynamic Diagrams, Inc., Providence, U.S.A.) G. ROSSI, et al. (PUC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) R. NKAMBOU, et al. (Universite de Montreal, Canada) L. CALVI, W. GEERTS (Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Belgique) ********************************************************************** Vendredi 2 juin 1995 Matin Friday June 2, 1995 Morning ************* 09:00 - 10:30 ****SESSION 5**** ************* Building Distributed Web Applications *Papers track* The Design of a Distributed, Hyperlinked Programming Interface L. FRIENDLY (Sun Microsystems, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.) Applying Open Hypertext Principles to the WWW G. HILL, W. HALL, D. DE ROURE, L. CARR (University of Southampton, Great Britain) Genre as Reflection of Technology in the World-Wide Web R. FURUTA, C.C. MARSHALL (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A.) 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 *Panel Discussion* Moderator:Anne-Marie Vercoustre, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France Panelists: L. FRIENDLY (Sun Microsystems, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.) K. BHARAT, et al. (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.) G. HILL, et al. (University of Southampton, Great Britain) R. FURUTA, et al. (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, U.S.A.) A. SILVA, et al (IESC, Lisboa, Portugal) G. BEQIRAJ, et al. (INIMA, Tirana, Albania) E. BILOTTA , et al. (Universita ' della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy) C. COMPAROT, et al. (I.R.I.T., Toulouse, France) ********************************************************************** Vendredi 2 juin 1995 Apres-midi Friday June 2, 1995 Afternoon ************* 14:00 - 15:30 ****SESSION 6**** ************* Hyperdialogs *Papers track* Conversations with Friends: Hypertexts With Characters M. BERNSTEIN (Eastgate Systems, Inc., Watertown, MA, U.S.A.) Hyperstories for learning M. LUMBRERAS, L.M. BIBBO (LIFIA, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), J. SANCHEZ (University of Chile, Santiago, Chile) *Panel Discussion* Moderator:Jocelyne Nanard, LIRMM, Montpellier, France Panelists: M. BERNSTEIN (Eastgate Systems, Inc., Watertown, MA, U.S.A.) M. LUMBRERAS, L.M. BIBBO (LIFIA, UNP, Argentina), J. SANCHEZ (University of Chile, Santiago, Chile) F.V. CIPOLLA FICARRA (UPC, Barcelona, Spain) A. TEJANI, et al. (The University of Westminster, Great Britain) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Closure panel, Discussion ********************************************************************** IWHD'95 is organized by the LIRMM, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier, unite Mixte CNRS et UM II No9928. IWHD'95 is sponsored by the University of Montpellier II, the District of Montpellier, IWHD'95 is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGLINK, CWI, GMD, and INRIA CONFERENCE Co-CHAIRS Marc Nanard, Jocelyne Nanard LIRMM, CNRS & Universite Montpellier II, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Franca Garzotto Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy US COORDINATION Tomas Isakowitz Information Systems Department, Stern School of Business New York University, USA Proceedings Chair Sylvain Fraisse LIRMM, CNRS & Universite Montpellier II, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bob Allen Bellcore (USA) Ives Blake S. M. Univ. Dallas, Tx (USA) Hugh Dubberly TMC (USA) Bob Glushko Passage Systems (USA) Wendy Hall SouthamptonUniv.(UK) Lynda Hardman CWI (The Netherlands) Paul D. Kahn Dynamic Diagrams (USA) Cathy Marshall Texas A&M University (USA) Ryuichi Ogawa NEC (Japan) Kasper Osterbye Aalborg Univ.(Denmark) Paolo Paolini Politecnico di Milano(Italy) Vincent Quint INRIA(France) Antoine Rizk Euroclid (France) Wolfgang Schuler GMD (Germany) Daniel Schwabe PUC (Brazil) Jack Schiff Siemens (Germany) Manfred Thuring Bifoa (Germany) Christine Vanoirbeek EPFL(Switzerland) ********************************************************************** IWHD '95 International Workshop on Hypermedia Design Montpellier, France, 1-2 juin 1995 ******REGISTRATION FORM****** Last Name ................ First Name ........................... Affiliation......................................................... ..................................................................... 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SEND PAYMENT & REGISTRATION FORM TO IWHD '95 Secretariat - Corine ZICLER L.I.R.M.M. 161 rue Ada - 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Tel: (+33) 67 41 85 03 - Fax: (+33) 67 41 85 00 Email: zicler@lirmm.fr ********************************************************************** Renseignements / Information ****Lieu de la conference / Conference Location**** "Le Corum", Palais des congres, Esplanade Charles de Gaulle 34027 Montpellier IWHD '95 Secretariat - Corine ZICLER L.I.R.M.M. 161 rue Ada - 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 - France Tel: (+33) 67 41 85 03 - Fax: (+33) 67 41 85 00 -Email: zicler@lirmm.fr _________________________ Corine ZICLER LIRMM 161, rue Ada 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 Tel : 67 41 85 03 Fax : 67 41 85 00 E_mail : zicler@lirmm.lirmm.fr _____________________________________________ Franca Garzotto Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano - Italy Phone: +39-2-23993520; Fax: +39-2-23993411 e-mail: garzotto@elet.polimi.it _____________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 18:23:40 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 18:23:38 -0500; AA19902 Date: Fri, 19 May 95 18:23:37 -0500 From: "Jaroslav Pokorny" Message-Id: <9505192323.AA14480@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 18:23:37 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Received: from SpoolDir by KKI (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 9 May 95 10:36:37 MET-1DST Return-path: Received: from hp832.fce.vutbr.cz by kki.ms.mff.cuni.cz (Mercury 1.13); Tue, 9 May 95 10:36:28 MET-1DST Received: from [147.229.78.20] by hp832.fce.vutbr.cz (1.36.108.7/1.05 VUT Brno) id AA13175; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:16:40 +0200 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 10:16:40 +0200 Message-Id: <9505090816.AA13175@hp832.fce.vutbr.cz> X-Sender: erves@hp832.fce.vutbr.cz X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 To: pokorny@kki.ms.mff.cuni.cz From: erves@fce.vutbr.cz (Vlastimil Vesely) Subject: CFP Datasem X-Attachments: H:\VLASTA\CALLANGL.DOC;H:\VLASTA\CALLANGL.TXT; X-PMFLAGS: 34078848 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="CALLANGL.TXT" C A L L F O R P A P E R S FIFTEENTH DATABASE CONFERENCE D A T A S E M ' 9 5 CS-COMPEX, a.s. Brno October 8-10, 1995 The DATASEM seminar was initiated in 1981. In presented application and lectures it gave the review of both theoretical and practical results in the field of database systems and related problems - expert systems, information management etc. From the very beginning the seminars aimed most of all at database structures design and information systems analysis with the emphasis being put on both fundamental and applied research. In the following years DATASEM was increasingly focused on the problems of practice. Since 1994, thanks to its extent and the number of participants, the seminar has been changed to the prominent conference. The late times show users' insufficient preparedness to accept new software technology. Helping to improve the theoretical knowledge is one of the goals of the DATASEM conference. Besides the traditional presentation of the latest progress in database systems field and trends in the related topics, this year DATASEM '95 is concentrating on the high expert and theoretical level of the papers. We're expecting contributions looking in the theoretical background of commercial products, comparative studies and methodological generalization of the present trends. This should be achieved by offering "invited" lectures which can enable to give a deeper view on the problem both on the conference as in the conference proceedings. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Miroslav Benesovsky, Petr Hujnak, Jiri Gregor, Dusan Chlapek, Jaroslav Pokorny, Lubomir Popelinsky, Zdenko Stanicek, Jan Valenta, Vlastimil Vesely, Jaroslav Zeleny TOPICS Themes to be covered include: IT strategic planning (meaning, processes, application, Business Process Redesign) IT human aspects (team management, consultant-client relations, organizational culture, interdisciplinar cooperation) External information resources, information services, INTERNET Executive Information System (EIS) Quo vadis CASE Information systems with visualized space information GUI and client/server development methodology Getting knowledge from databases ( Data Mining) Fulltext processing systems (hypertexts, multimedia) Distributed databases, heterogeneous systems Models and methods of data storaging in non-databases applications) Real time databases Benchmarks Non-traditional database models and systems (MUMPS, object-oriented databases, ...) Data security Proposal for a panel discussion: UNIX versus Windows NT INSTRUCTIONS TO SPEAKERS Papers should be submitted * in written form * in three copies * to the address of the program chair * up to 10 pages A4 * by May 26th, 1995 The program committee will decide about including the paper into the seminar program and will notify the authors by June 29th, 1995. The received paper must be sent in camera-ready form to the conference secretary by September 1st, 1995. All papers have to include a name and a complete address of all authors. One contact person should be determined for sending correspondence. All papers to be included into the conference program will be published in the conference proceedings. OUR OFFER * board and accommodation * opportunity to advertise your products & services on the invitation card, on the panels in the lecture-room, in the conference proceedings, in other materials concerning the conference, by distributing them among the participants, by sponsoring the conference. Individuals and organizations interested can be given more information through the conference secretary. IMPORTANT DATES Submission receipt deadline: May 26th, 1995 Camera-ready copy: September 1st, 1995 Author notification date: June 29th, 1995 Conference: October 8-10, 1995 PLANNING TO ATTEND We would be pleased to invite all the interested in attending DATASEM '95 and to ask them for sending their address to the conference secretary. PROGRAM CHAIR Jaroslav Pokorny MFF UK Praha Malostranske nam. 25 118 00 Praha 1 tel: 02 2451 0286 (office) Email:pokorny@kki.ms.mff.cuni.cz ********************************************************************* * Doc.RNDr.Jaroslav Pokorny,CSc. Phone: +422 24510286 * * Dep. of Software Engineering E-mail:pokorny@kki.ms.mff.cuni.cz * * Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Fax: +422 532742 * * Charles University * * Malostranske nam. 25 * * 118 00 Praha 1 * * C Z E C H R E P U B L I C * ********************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 19 18:33:34 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 18:33:26 -0500; AA20058 Date: Fri, 19 May 95 18:33:21 -0500 From: mohan@almaden.ibm.com Message-Id: <9505192333.AA14553@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 19 May 95 18:33:21 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu VLDB'96 Preliminary Conference Announcement 22nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Bombay, India September 3-6, 1996 SCOPE A distinguished history of 22 years has established the VLDB conference at the centre of the international database community. It is a recognized forum for discussion in the international database community and, without doubt, one of the most eminent. VLDB'96 is to take place in Bombay, India. We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results in the general field of databases. To further the goal of leading in reporting and stimulating new research directions, we solicit papers and panel proposals on speculative and futuristic topics. We also encourage papers on novel and challenging applications of database technology in designing and building complex information systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest include but are not limited to: . Temporal and Spatial Databases . Optimization and Performance . Parallel and Distributed Databases . OO Persistent Systems . Multimedia Databases . Database Languages . Storage Management . Active Databases . Knowledge Base Management Systems . Text Databases . Engineering and Scientific Databases . Heterogeneous Databases . Graphical Query Languages . DBMS Architectures . Concurrency Control and Recovery . Implementation Issues . Data Consistency, Integrity and Security . Database Mining . Data Models and Database Design . Mobile Databases . Interaction Between DB and IR Systems . User Interfaces . Database Benchmarks . Logic and Databases . Implementation Reports/Case Studies . Transactional Workflow PAPER SUBMISSION Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words (double spaced pages) should be submitted to the appropriate program co-chair depending on the geographic region in which the authors of a paper reside. The submissions must be received by the "drop-dead" deadline of 23 February 1996 (i.e., there will be no grace period). INDUSTRY/APPLICATIONS TRACK We are continuing the recent trend in the VLDB conferences to have an industrial track. We encourage submission of papers describing work of significant interest to industry, particularly in applications and areas providing interesting directions for the development of DBMSs. We seek to provide a forum to discuss experiences in applying DBMSs to real-life situations. Papers intended for this track will receive special consideration by the Program Committee. They should be clearly marked as industrial/application papers and submitted to the regular PC chairs corresponding to the author's geographic region. In the evaluation of the papers submitted to this track, the committee will consider novelty, technical quality and the value of reported results to developers and users of information systems. Panel and tutorial proposals should be submitted to the respective chairs. ABOUT BOMBAY Bombay which is located on the west coast of India is the capital of Maharashtra state, and the business capital and economic powerhouse of India. It is the fastest moving, most affluent and most industrialised city in India. Bombay's very cosmopolitan population is estimated to be around 10 million. The main languages spoken in the city are Hindi and Marathi, but a visitor can easily manage his/her business/travel with English. Bombay is also the home of the Hindi film industry, which is the largest in the world. There are several tourist attractions in and around Bombay: ancient cave paintings, sculptures, quaint hill-stations and more. There are plans to arrange pre and post-conference tours to places of tourist interest. Numerous international airlines have services to Bombay. For further information, please send email to vldb96@cse.iitb.ernet.in _IMPORTANT DATES_________________________________________________________ | | | Paper, Panel, Tutorial, | | Industry/Applications submissions: 23 February 1996 (firm deadline) | | | | Notification of acceptance: 10 May 1996 | | | | Conference: 3-6 September 1996 | |_________________________________________________________________________| __________________________________________________________________________ |PROGRAM CHAIRS | | ASIA/AUSTRALIA | | Nandlal L. Sarda | | Department of Computer Science | | Indian Institute of Technology, Powai | | Bombay 400 076, India | | email: nls@cse.iitb.ernet.in | | (also, vldb96@cse.iitb.ernet.in) | | Ph: (+91 22) 578 2545 Fax: (+91 22) 578 3480 | | | | AMERICAS | | C. Mohan | | K55/801, IBM Almaden Research Center | | 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA | | email: mohan@almaden.ibm.com | | Ph: (+1 408) 927 1733 Fax: (+1 408) 927 3215/2100 | | | | EUROPE | | Alejandro Buchmann | | DVS-I, TH Darmstadt, Frankfurter Str. 69A | | D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany | | email: buchmann@dvs1.informatik.th-darmstadt.de | | Ph: (+49 6151) 165 253 Fax: (+49 6151) 165 554 | | | |INDUSTRY/APPLICATION CHAIRS | | ASIA/AUSTRALIA | | Anand Deshpande | | Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd. | | 'Kapilavastu', First Floor | | 397/9 Senapati Bapat Road | | Pune 411 053, India | | email: anand@pspl.ernet.in | | Ph: (+91 212) 331 510 Fax: (+91 212) 336 170 | | | | AMERICAS | | Jim Gray | | Microsoft | | 310 Filbert St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA | | email: gray@crl.com | | Ph: (+1 415) 989 3739 Fax: (+1 415) 989 3739 | | | | EUROPE | | Peter Lockemann | | Fakultaet fuer Informatik | | Universitaet Karlsruhe, Postfach 6980 | | D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany | | email: lockeman@ira.uka.de | | Ph: (+49 721) 608 3968 Fax: (+49 721) 694 092 | | | |TUTORIAL CHAIRS | | P. 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