From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 22 22:52:23 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 May 95 22:52:17 -0500; AA23920 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 22:52:16 -0500 From: cm1958@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk (M.Garvey) Message-Id: <9505230352.AA05258@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 May 95 22:52:16 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu BNCOD13 - Thirteenth British National Conference on Databases CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The annual series of British National Conference on Databases has been a forum for database workers and a focus for database research since 1981. The conference provides an exciting opportunity for academics and industrialists to meet, discuss ideas, debate current developments and look into the future. We are delighted to announce that BNCOD13 is to be held at the University of Manchester from 12th-14th July 1995. BNCOD13 will include scientific papers, panels, poster sessions and industrial presentations. ______________________________________________________________ FURTHER INFORMATION For further information about the conference, contact: Ferzana Butt BNCOD13 Administrator Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6248 fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6286 email: bncod@cs.man.ac.uk www: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/events/bncod.html FTP A postscript version of the booking form is available from: scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/bncod13/bncod13.ps or ASCII: scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/bncod13/bncod13.asc ______________________________________________________________ PROGRAMME Wednesday 12 July 14:00-15:30 Welcome and Invited Speaker `Object Databases and Standards' Rick Cattell (SunSoft Inc, USA) 15.30-16:00 Tea 16:00-17:00 Functional Databases `Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphism in a functional database language' Courtenage & Poulovassilis (UK) `Extending functional database languages to update completeness' Sutton & Small (UK) 17:00-18:00 Panel Session Significant Database Problems for Industry 19:30 Reception Welcoming reception sponsored by Prentice-Hall Thursday 13 July 09:00-09:30 Poster session 09:30-11:00 User Interfaces to Databases `Recognising graphic detail - an experiment in user interpretation of data models' Nordbotten & Crosby (Norway) `The Pragmatics of Database Enquiry' Haw, Goble & Rector (UK) `Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface' Mitchell, Kennedy & Barclay (UK) 11:00-11:30 Coffee 11:30-13:00 System-level Algorithms `Scheduling query plans with buffer-requirement estimates' Sieg, Pinkney, Lamoureaux, (USA) `Optimisation of n-way spatial joins using filter' Veenhof, Apers & Houtsma (The Netherlands) `An efficient transient versioning method' Gukal, Omiecinski & Ramachandran (USA) 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14.30-16:00 Queries and Transactions `Concurrency control of tiered flat transactions' Hussak & Keane (UK) `Two step pruning: a distributed query optimisation algorithm' Kim, Lee & Kim (Korea) `Text Search using database systems revisited - some experiments' Kaufmann & Schek (Switzerland) 16:00-16:30 Tea 16:30-17:30 Panel Session Data Protection & Legal Issues of Databases 18:30 Reception & Banquet Friday 14 July 09.30-11:00 Parallel and Federated Systems `Integrity management in an object-oriented federated database environment' Alzahrani, Qutaishat, Fiddian & Gray (UK) `Architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER' Watson & Catlow (UK) `W-SQL: An interface for scalable, highly parallel database machines' Kerridge, Walter & Guiton (UK) 11.00-11:30 Coffee 11.30 Invited speaker `Multimedia Database Management: Perspectives and Challenges' Arif Ghafoor (Purdue University, USA) Close _______________________________________________________________ INVITED SPEAKERS Rick G.G. Cattell Rick is known world-wide in the object-oriented community, working for Sun Microsystems, where his work currently focuses on next-generation database technologies. He is the founder and chair of the Object Database Management Group. Rick will talk about the OODB industry in general and the emerging OODB standards. He is the editor of the Object Database Standard, ODMG-93, a recent book which represents a consensus on component technologies for database products and languages. Rick will discuss the emerging standards, giving us a clue what to expect from our OODBs in the future. Arif Ghafoor Multimedia applications combine text, video, sound and vision. Multimedia databases extend database systems to include these extra features not normally found in traditional systems. Arif Ghafoor will discuss the state of the art in multimedia databases. Arif research interests include the design and analysis of distributed and multimedia systems. He has published extensively in leading journals and conferences. Currently, he is directing the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab. at Purdue University, where a number of projects in distributed multimedia databases and multimedia communications are under way. SOCIAL PROGRAMME On the evening of the 12th there will be an welcoming reception sponsored by Prentice Hall. This will be a splendid opportunity to meet people informally. On the 13th there will be a reception and banquet dinner at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester's city centre. Manchester was at the very heart of the industrial revolution and the museum is a tribute to some of the UK's, and the world's, finest industrial achievements. The dinner will take place in the museum's Power House, amongst the steam locomotives and power engines of the 19th century. Manchester has some of the liveliest night life in the UK. There are bars, pubs, clubs and trendy cafes just a short walk from the museum, which provides an excellent opportunity for extra-mural social activities. ____________________________________________________________ BNCOD-13 BOOKING FORM Name________________________________________________________ Organisation________________________________________________ BCS membership no. if applicable____________________________ Address_____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Tel. No.____________________________________________________ Fax. No.____________________________________________________ Please tick the appropriate box: Early registration available until 2nd June 1995 All prices are UK Pounds With Accommodation Early Standard Academic/BCS #230 [ ] #260 [ ] Student #180 [ ] #210 [ ] Other #260 [ ] #290 [ ] Without Accommodation Early Standard Academic/BCS #195 [ ] #225 [ ] Student #145 [ ] #175 [ ] Other #225 [ ] #255 [ ] The registration fee includes lunch on 13th, dinner on the 12th, banquet on the 13th, all tea and coffee and printed material. Accommodation, if requested, is for the nights of 12th and 13th and includes breakfast on the 13th and 14th. Ensuite accommodation is available at an extra cost. Optional extras Please tick any required: Lunch on 12th #10 [ ] Lunch on 14th #10 [ ] Extra ticket for conference dinner #40 [ ] Ensuite facilities (extra for 12th/13th) #25 [ ] Extra night (11th) #22 [ ] Extra night (11th - ensuite) #32 [ ] Accommodation for additional guests - #22 per night (#32 per night ensuite) We regret no credit cards are accepted Total Booking Fee #.......... Please tick the box if a vegetarian meal is required [ ] Other dietary requirements_________________________________ Car Parking required [ ] All charges are inclusive of VAT Please note that payment must be made at the time of booking. Make cheques payable to "The University of Manchester" Return completed booking form to: Ferzana Butt BNCOD13 Administrator Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6248 fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6286 _____________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION An exhibition of commercial database related software products will accompany the conference. Companies who wish to exhibit should contact: Babis Theodoulidis BNCOD13 Conference Department of Computation UMIST P.O. Box 88 Sackville Street Manchester M60 1QD U.K. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mary Garvey | | | School of Computing and Information Technology | Tel: +44 01902 322729 | | University of Wolverhampton | Fax: +44 01902 322680 | | Wolverhampton, W. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@quarg.cs.wisc.edu Mon May 22 23:06:37 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 May 95 23:06:32 -0500; AA23988 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 23:06:31 -0500 From: dimitris@gte.com (Dimitrios Georgakopoulos) Message-Id: <9505230406.AA05329@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 May 95 23:06:31 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, AND PANELS The 12th International Conference on Data Engineering Feb. 26 - March 1, 1996 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/flyer.html IMPORTANT DATES o Paper, Panel, and Tutorial submissions: May 31, 1995 o Notification of acceptance: October 2, 1995 o Tutorials: February 26-27, 1996 o Conference: February 28 - March 1, 1996 PAPER SUBMISSION Six copies of original papers not exceeding 6000 words (25 double spaced pages) should be submitted by May 31, 1995 to program chair: Stanley Y. W. Su Database Systems R&D Center 470 CSE Building University of Florida P. O. Box 116125, USA Gainesville, FL 32611-6125 E-mail: icde96@cis.ufl.edu Tel. (904) 392-2680, FAX: (904) 392-1220 Authors should explicitly specify in the cover page one or two topics of interest most relevant to the submission. Submissions for the industrial program should also be specified in the cover page. INDUSTRIAL SUBMISSIONS Proposers should submit a short write-up to: Umesh Dayal Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Database Technology Department 1501 Page Mill Road, 3U-4 Palo Alto, CA 94304-1120, USA E-mail: dayal@hplabs.hp.com Office: (415) 857-8431 Fax: (415) 852-8137 PANEL PROPOSALS Proposers should submit a short write-up to: Arie Segev Haas School of Business U. of California-Berkely Berkeley, CA 94720, USA E-mail: segev@haas.berkeley.edu Office: (510) 642-4731 Fax: (510) 642-2826 TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposers should submit a short write-up to: Witold Litwin Universite Paris 9 Dauphine Place du Marechal de Lattre De Tassigny 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France Email: Witold.Litwin@inria.fr ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The ICDE96 home page http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/flyer.html provides additional information on the ICDE96 scope, topics, organizing and program committee members (including hypertext links to their home pages), US letter and A4 flyers in postscript, as well as, links to the table of contents of past ICDE conferences and to the 1996 RIDE workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22 23:09:20 1995 Received: from quarg.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 May 95 23:09:13 -0500; AA24034 Date: Mon, 22 May 95 23:09:12 -0500 From: blane@grouse.spatial.maine.edu (Blane Shaw) Message-Id: <9505230409.AA05346@quarg.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by quarg.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 22 May 95 23:09:12 -0500 To: dbworld@quarg.cs.wisc.edu PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM =46OURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE SPATIAL DATABASES - SSD '95 August 6-9, 1995 Portland, Maine, USA In cooperation with: ACM SIGMOD, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Martin Lockheed, and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis With the conferences in Santa Barbara (1989), Zurich (1991), and Singapore (1993), the International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD) has become the premier meeting for researchers, developers, and practitioners focusing on the integration between database management systems and geographic information systems (GISs). SSD '95 will again bring together computer scientists and GIS specialists to explore advances in modeling, storage, and retrieval of massive spatial data sets, and to discuss the requirements from new, demanding application domains. Program Chair: General Chair: John R. Herring Max J. Egenhofer Oracle Corporation National Center for Geographic Information 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Ste. 1400 and Analysis Bethesda, MD 20814 University of Maine, 5711 Boardman Hall Email: jrherrin@us.oracle.com Orono, ME 04469-5711 Tel: (301) 907-2731 Email: max@mecan1.maine.edu =46ax: (301) 657-8523 Tel: (207) 581-2114 Fax: (207) 581-2206 PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS Sunday, August 6, 1995 SPATIAL DATABASES 8:30am - Boothbay Harbor Room, Radisson Eastland Hotel Portland In this tutorial we review some of the most recent representations of the underlying data in a spatial database and the type of operations that they are designed to support. We also discuss methods of integrating spatial and non-spatial data in conventional database management systems, as well as examine some existing spatial database systems. Will include disk-based file structures for spatial data, object-oriented spatial databases, and implementations of typical GIS operations. Instructor: Hanan Samet is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory of the Center for Automation Research and also has an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. SPATIO-TEMPORAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS 1:00pm - Boothbay Harbor Room, Radisson Eastland Hotel Portland Advances in hardware, database technology and graphics during the last decade have made possible the development of systems which are capable of powerfully supporting the handling of spatially referenced data. However, there are many applications that require the additional handling of temporal dimensions. In current systems, the temporal dimension often plays a subordinate role, temporal variation being represented by a series of static snapshots. The arguments in this tutorial are built upon the premise that for such applications to be properly handled, systems must support not only separate spatial and temporal analysis but a unified model of spatio-temporal information. The tutorial offers an introduction to spatio-temporal information systems via motivating examples; requirements of a spatio-temporal information system; relevant research on temporal databases; spatio-temporal data models; models of human interaction with spatio-temporal systems; performance questions; spatio-temporal reasoning; current research projects and prototypes; and current research hot topics. Instructor: Michael F. Worboys is senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Keele University, UK. Dr. Worboys leads a team conducting research into the theory and practice of geographic databases. Conference Sessions MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1995 Please note that all presentations will be given in the Eastland Ballroom on the main level of the Radisson Eastland Hotel Portland. Registration Opens at 7:30am - Main Lobby, Radisson Eastland Hotel Portland 9:00am Opening Remarks: Max Egenhofer, General Chair SSD'95 and John Herring, Program Chair, SSD'95 9:15am Keynote Presentation: Speaker to be announced 10:15am Refreshment break- Main Lobby Spatial Data Models 10:35am A Lossless Representation of Topological Spatial Data Bart Kuijpers, Jan Paredaens, Jan Van den Bussche 11:05am On the Desirability and Limitations of Linear Spatial Database Mod= els Luc Vandeurzen, Marc Gyssens, Dirk Van Gucht 11:35am The Quad View Data Structure - A Representation for Planar Subdivisions Ulrich Finke, Klaus H. Hinrichs 12:05pm Lunch break Spatial Data Mining 1:30pm Discovery of Spatial Association Rules in Geographic Information Databases Krzysztof Koperski, Jiawei Han 2:00pm Knowledge Discovery in Large Spatial Databases: FocusingTechniques for Efficient Class Identification Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Xiaowei Xu 2:30pm Refreshment break- Main Lobby Spatial Query Processing 2:50pm Ranking in Spatial Databases G=EDsli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet 3:20pm Optimal Redundancy in Spatial Database Systems Volker Gaede 3:50pm Accessing Geographical Metafiles through a Database Storage System Stephen Blott, Andrej Vckovski 4:20pm Extending a Spatial Access Structure to Support Additional Standard Attributes Andreas Henrich, Jens M=F6ller TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1995 Multiple Representations 9:00am Towards a Formal Model for Multi-Resolution Spatial Maps Enrico Puppo, Giuliana Dettori 9:35am Multi-Scale Partitions: Application to Spatial and Statistical Datab= ases Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl 10:00am Refreshment break- Main Lobby Open GIS 10:20am Specifying Open GIS with Functional Languages Andrew U. Frank, Werner Kuhn 10:50am Open GIS Panel - Chair: John Herring 12:10pm Lunch break Geo-Algorithms 1:30pm Load Balancing in High Performance GIS: Partitioning Polygonal Maps Shashi Shekhar, Sivakumar Ravada, Vipin Kumar, Douglas Chubb, Greg Turner 2:00pm Implementation of the ROSE Algebra: Efficient Algorithms for Realm-Based Spatial Data Types Ralf Hartmut G=FCting, Thomas de Ridder, Markus Schneider 2:30pm A 3D Molecular Surface Representation Supporting Neighborhood Querie= s Thomas Seidl, Hans-Peter Kriegel 3:00pm Refreshment break- Main Lobby 3:20pm Software Demonstrations - Boothbay Harbor Room 6:00pm Conference Dinner WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1995 Reasoning about Spatial Relations 9:00am An Inferencing Language for Automated Spatial Reasoning about Graphic Entities Paul Scarponcini, Daniel C. St. Clair, George W. Zobrist 9:35am Inferences from Combined Knowledge about Topology and Directions Jayant Sharma, Douglas M. Flewelling 10:00am 2D-PIR: A Symbolic Representation of Spatial Relationships M. Nabil, J. Shepherd, A. HH Ngu 10:30am Topological Relations between Regions in Raster Stephan Winter 11:00am Refreshment break - Main Lobby Spatial Joins 11:20am Generating Seeded Trees from Data Sets Ming-Ling Lo, Chinya V. Ravishankar 11:50am Spatial Join Strategies in Distributed Spatial DBMS David J. Abel, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Robert Power, Jeffrey X. Yu 12:20pm Lunch break Benchmarks 1:30pm Comparison and Benchmarks for Import of Vector Product Format (VPF) Geographic Data from Object-Oriented and Relational Database Files David K. Arctur, Miyi Chung, Maria Cobb, Eman Anwar, Kevin Shaw, John F. Alexander, Sharma Chakravarthy 2:00pm Compressing Elevation Data Wm. Randolph Franklin 2:30pm Refreshment break - Main Lobby 2:50pm Panel - New Applications of Spatial Databases Chair: Michael Goodchild 4:10pm Closing Remarks =46or further information please contact: SSD'95 Conference Coordinator, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine, 5711 Boardman Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA, Tel: ( 207) 581-2149, =46ax: (207) 581-2206, Email: ncgia@grouse.umesve.maine.edu REGISTRATION FORM =46ourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases - SSD '95 August 6-9, 1995 Portland, Maine, USA Name : _________________________________________________________________ Organization: ____________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ City/State/Zip: ___________________________________________________________ Country: ________________________________________________________________ Telephone: __________________________ Fax: ___________________________= __ E-mail: _________________________________________________________________ =46irst name (or nickname as desired on registration badge): _________________________ ACM/SIGMOD membership number: _________________________________________ Do you have any special needs?: ___________________________________________= __ Conference Registration Fees =46ull registration includes all sessions, refreshment breaks, opening reception, conference dinner on Tuesday, August 8,1995, and one copy of the conference proceedings. Additional reception or dinner tickets may be purchased upon request. Advance Registration (By July 1, 1995) After July 1, 1995 _____ ACM/SIGMOD member - $275 _____ ACM/SIGMOD member - $3= 25 _____ Non-ACM member - $325 _____ Non-ACM member - $= 375 _____ Full-time student - $100 _____ Full-time student - $125 Tutorials, Sunday, August 6, 1995 _____ Spatial Databases, Hanan Samet - Morning session _____ Spatio-Temporal Information Systems, Michael Worboys - Afternoon sessi= on Cost: $50 per tutorial; $80 for both tutorials. PLEASE MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE TO: UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. ALL CHECKS MUST BE IN U.S. DOLLARS DRAWN ON A U.S. BANK. Methods of payment accepted (please check one): MasterCard ______ VISA ______ Personal Check ______ Company Check ______ Traveler's Check ______ Credit card number: _______________________________________________________ Cardholder name: __________________________________ Exp. Date: ___________= __ Signature: _______________________________________________________________ Total Enclosed $__________ Return to: SSD '95 Conference Coordinator, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine, 5711 Boardman Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5711, USA, Tel.: 207-581-2149; FAX: 207-581-2206; Email: ncgia@grouse.umesve.maine.edu. Refund Policy: Before July 1, 1995 100% refund Between July 1-30, 1995 $50 processing fee After July 30, 1995 No refund Accommodation and Travel Portland, Maine's largest city, is only 100 miles (2 hour drive) north of Boston, Massachusetts. Situated on the rocky coast of southern Maine, Portland has a charming historic Old Port Exchange (restored waterfront district) which features numerous unique shops and restaurants along cobblestone streets. The conference will be held at the Radisson Eastland Hotel Portland in Portland, Maine. We have reserved a block of rooms for participants. The room rates are: $92 single or double plus 7% tax One bedroom suites are also available for $180 per night plus 7% tax Complimentary shuttle from Portland International Jetport to the hotel is available; travelers should call from the airport phone board located in baggage claim upon arrival. To make a reservation please call 1-800-777-6246. The local number for the hotel is 207-775-5411; FAX: 207-775-2872. Reservations must be received by July 1, 1995. After this date, reservations will be accepted on a space available basis at a rate being offered to the general public ($129-$169 per night). Please refer to SSD'95 when making your reservation. Summer in Maine is very popular so please make your reservations early. Other area hotels available: Holiday Inn by the Bay Portland Regency Ho= tel 81 Riverside Street 20 Milk Street 207-775-2311 1-800-727-3436 $96 single or double + 7% tax $135 single; $145 double + 7% tax 5 minute walk to Radisson 5-10 min. walk to Radisson Ramada Inn Susse Chalet 1230 Congress Street 340 Park Avenue 1-800-228-2828 1-800-524-2538 $75 single; $85 double + 7% tax $60 single; $65 double + 7% tax 1.6 miles to Radisson; free shuttle downtown 10 min. walk to Radisson Airport and Transportation The Portland International Jetport is located four miles from downtown. An average taxi fare from the airport to intown hotels is about $8-10. All of the hotels listed above provide courtesy airport shuttle service to downtown. Weather The average daily temperature in Portland during August is 70=B0F (21=B0C) a= nd occasionally hitting 90=B0F (32=B0C). 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