From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Sun Oct 22 11:27:08 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 22 Oct 95 11:27:05 -0500; AA02960 Date: Sun, 22 Oct 95 11:27:04 -0500 From: french@juliet.cs.virginia.edu Message-Id: <9510221627.AA10681@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 22 Oct 95 11:27:04 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please excuse me if you get multiple copies of this message. I have tried to eliminate duplicates but I am using multiple lists so I can't always find them. Jim --------- REMINDER: --------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Eighth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management Stockholm, Sweden, June 18-20, 1996. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: database modeling and semantics, in particular spatial and temporal modeling, query languages and user interfaces, statistical data models and database languages, management of spatial and temporal data, management of uncertainty in databases, interfaces between computational models and databases, physical organization, integrity, security, image databases, tertiary storage management, data analysis and visualization, knowledge discovery, remote sensor data collection and management systems, evaluation of scientific, engineering, or statistical applications. Submission of Papers Please submit five copies of a 6000 word (maximum) original manuscript in English. Contributions from the American continents to: James C. French, US Co-Chairman, Dept. of Computer Science, Thornton Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA All other contributions to: Per Svensson, General Chairman, Division of Information Systems Technology, National Defence Research Establishment, S-172 90 Stockholm, Sweden. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Important Dates November 15, 1995 Deadline for submission of papers. February 10, 1996 Notification of acceptance. March 15, 1996 Camera-ready copies of papers due. June 18-20, 1996 Conference WWW homepage: http://www.ce.kth.se/geofoto/cgi/8SSDBM/General.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 25 13:08:11 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:08:06 -0500; AA23378 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:08:05 -0500 From: Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr (Elisabeth METAIS) Message-Id: <9510251808.AA15220@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:08:05 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ___________________________________________________________ E D B T'9 6 International Conference on Extending Database Technology 25th-29th march 1996, Avignon (France) C A L L F O R D E M O N S T R A T I O N S _____________________________________________________________ Besides the scientific and industrial program, the EDBT'96 Conference will also be a large forum for research demonstrations and posters. Submissions of research prototypes demonstrations and posters are requested in the various topics of the EDBT conference: - 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. Interested researchers must submit a one page abstract which clearly describes the fonctionalities of the prototype or the aim of the posters. Submissions could be sent by electronic mail, fax or regular mail to: Pr. Mokrane Bouzeghoub Laboratoire PRiSM 45 avenue des Etats-Unis 78035 Versailles Cedex, France fax: (33) 1 39 25 40 57 e-mail: edbt@prism.uvsq.fr The demonstrators will have to bring their own computer equipment. Each demonstrator will have to be registred as a participant for the EDBT conference. ____________________ Deadline for submission: 15th december 1995 Notification of acceptance: 15th January 1996 ___________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Oct 25 13:12:27 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:12:24 -0500; AA23432 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:12:23 -0500 From: dimitris@gte.com (Dimitrios Georgakopoulos) Message-Id: <9510251812.AA15269@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 25 Oct 95 13:12:23 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ http://info.gte.com/ftp/doc/ICDE96/flyer.html \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Databases and Telecommunications July 1996 Guest Editors Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Jari Veijalainen Telecommunications systems currently use database concepts, theory, and technology to support business and network operations functions. In particular, many business systems being used or being developed by telecommunications organizations rely on large databases to store, process, and maintain information and support corresponding business functions, including the following: - customer and services usage information for billing - network and facility information for provisioning equipment needed to provide requested services - financial information for designing and marketing telecommunications services - facility inventory for planning network expansion and improvements In addition to extensive use of databases in business systems, databases are currently gaining ground in systems supporting network operations. Such systems perform network monitoring and management, support intelligent network services, and provide critical information for sophisticated network configuration management. Since the development of recent telecommunications concepts (such as intelligent network and personal communication services) cannot be realized without sophisticated database services, efficient and reliable database management is becoming increasingly important in telecommunications operations. Because of the growing importance of this area, the International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems is planning a special issue on Databases and Telecommunications for Summer 1996. We solicit both theoretical and applied papers describing the state-of-art in this area. Theoretical papers should provide clear motivation discussing how the stated results are applicable in real telecommunications problems. Applied papers should describe working systems and their actual use. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Database management for intelligent networks - Database issues in TINA architecture - Real-time and main memory databases - Transaction management in telecommunications - Infrastructure for advanced telecommunications services - Techniques for dealing with large databases - Workflow specification and management in telecommunications - Techniques for database replication and non-stop operation - Telecommunications-specific query processing including cost models - Security aspects in telecommunication databases - Application migration from legacy systems to relational and object DBMSs Important Dates Jan. 10, 1996: Paper submission deadline April 20, 1996: Acceptance notification May 15, 1996: Final Manuscript Deadline July 1996: The special issue is published Instructions for authors Manuscripts should be in English and should not not exceed 5000 words. Text must be double-spaced using a 10 pt or larger font. Paper submissions will not be considered for publication if they have been submitted for consideration elsewhere, or they have been published in the same form, in any language, without prior consent of the EIS publisher. Papers should include a title, the names and affiliations of author(s), a 50-100 word abstract, the paper sections, acknowledgements (if any), and references. A separate cover page should be used to provide the name, title, postal address, email address, telephone number, and fax number of a designated primary contact author. Send five (5) copies of each paper submission and a single cover page to one of the guest editors: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Jari Veijalainen GTE Laboratories Incorporated VTT Information Technology 40 Sylvan Road, MS-62 Multimedia Systems P.B.1203 Waltham, MA 02254 FIN-02044 VTT USA Finland email: dimitris@gte.com email: jari.veijalainen@vtt.fi tel.: +617 466 2522 tel.: +358-0-4566014 fax: +617 890 9320 fax: +358-0-4567028 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 26 09:49:06 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 26 Oct 95 09:48:59 -0500; AA08415 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 09:48:58 -0500 From: Bressan Stephane Message-Id: <9510261448.AA18245@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 26 Oct 95 09:48:58 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Researcher and Software Engineer Positions at ECRC -------------------------------------------------- The European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC) seeks two talented computer scientists/engineers to join the Database Platform and Information Service Infrastructure project (part of the Advanced Information Management area). The positions are available immediately. The Project ----------- The aim of our project is to design and implement a platform supporting information services and applications in the Global Information Infrastructure. We are particularly interested in Distributed Object Management, Repository Management, Access Methods, Query Optimisation and Processing for Distributed and Multi-Database Systems. These areas rest upon ECRC's expertise in deductive and object oriented database management systems design and implementation. We have several international projects and collaborations with outstanding partners such as INRIA, Dutch Telecom, DKFZ, and several groups in our shareholders companies BULL, ICL and Siemens. The Positions ------------- We are looking for a: * Researcher ---------- Recent PhD or equivalent research experience in one or more of the following areas: - distributed object management; - distributed systems; - database and distributed database systems; - heterogeneous and multi-database systems. * Software Engineer ----------------- Recent MSc (UK/US), Diplom-Informatiker (Germany), Ingenieur des Grandes Ecoles (France) or equivalent. with good practical knowledge of: - C, C++; - Unix, TCP/IP; - distributed applications, and interest in the above mentioned research topics. The Company ----------- ECRC is an international research centre funded by a consortium of companies and also strongly supported by the European Commission. Its mission is to conduct research and to develop advanced applications which are of strategic importance to industry. Active research areas include distributed computing and communication, user interaction and visualization, and advanced information management. Approximately 40 researchers from 20 different nations work at the centre. ECRC offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits. English is the working language of the centre. ECRC is located in Munich, Germany. Munich and its surroundings is one of Europe's high-tech centres, with numerous computer and manufacturing companies, and a major technical university located in the area. Munich is also an exciting place to live. It is home to the world-famous Oktoberfest and numerous other festivals, close to the Alps and surrounded by numerous lakes. Culturally, Munich offers a variety of museums, art galleries, and concert venues. Munich is also centrally located for travel to other parts of Europe. Further information about ECRC can be found at http://www.ecrc.de/ How to Apply ------------ For immediate consideration, send a written application, including a curriculum vitae, and three references to: Recruiting Committee ECRC Arabellastr. 17 Muenchen 81925 Germany For further information contact Stephane.Bressan@ecrc.de ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Oct 26 14:39:55 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 26 Oct 95 14:39:49 -0500; AA13387 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 95 14:39:48 -0500 From: Catriel Beeri Message-Id: <9510261939.AA18587@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 26 Oct 95 14:39:48 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu THE SEVENTH ISRAELI CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER BASED SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING June 12-13, 1996 Tel Aviv, Israel PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS Sponsored by: * The IEEE Computer Society, Israel Chapter * The Information Processing Association (IPA) of Israel The Seventh Israeli Conference on Computer-Based Systems and Software Engineering is a forum for developers and researchers, from Israel and abroad, to present and discuss innovative ideas and projects relevant to the design, development, and analysis of computer-based systems. The conference provides a bridge between industry and academia, and a balanced view of academic research and industrial development. A main theme of the conference is software engineering and computer- based system development. The Seventh Conference will additionally emphasize areas that are at the forefront of research and development in these areas. These include, in particular, the integration of computers and communications, parallel and distributed systems, heterogenuous and flexible information and computation systems, and human-computer interaction. The conference will include plenary sessions with invited speakers, presentations of contributed papers, panel discussions, and demonstrations of innovative proto- types and commercial systems. The proceedings will be available at the conference, and will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. The official language of the conference is English The conference will be part of the new Israeli Federated Computing Conference (IFCC). The IFCC will also include the Fourth Israeli Conference on Theory of Computing and Systems (ISTCS), which will take place on June 10-11, 1996, as well as a Computer Science Forum at Bar-Ilan University on June 9, 1996. MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST (NOT EXCLUSIVE) Computer-based Systems Engineering Parallel & Distributed System - Hardware/software architectures - Hardware architectures - Hardware/software tradeoffs - Communication protocols - Design methods - Operating systems - Performance analysis & evaluation - Reliable distributed systems - Requirements & Specifications - Client-Server systems - Testing and validation methods - Distributed/mobile database systems - Development process management: - Heterogeneous information systems Maturity models & Quality Systems - WWW-related systems Human-Computer Interaction Programming & Development Environments - User interface development - Programming languages: tools & methodologies design & implementation - Usability methods - Object Oriented languages - Design techniques/environments - Object Oriented development - Analysis methods & evaluation - Hyper-media system development environments - System integration platforms - Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Workflow management systems & models (CSCW) INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Submission should be in the form of a complete paper (up to 6000 words, or 12 double spaced pages). Submissions will be judged by the program committee based on originality, contribution, relevance and quality of presentation. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Please send 5 copies to one of the Program Chairs. Electronic submission (to the first pc chair) of a self-contained postscript(tm) file is strongly encouraged, as it speeds the review process. However, hard copies MUST also be sent. DATES: Submission deadline ............................ January 31, 1996. Acceptance notification ........................ March 10, 1996. Final copy due ................................. April 11, 1996. The first page of the paper should include the title of the paper, names and affiliations of authors, the contact author's name, address, phone number, fax number, and email address, if available. The paper should include an abstract, references and comparisons with related work. ACCEPTANCE: Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by e-mail and a letter mailed around March 10, 1996. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. A final copy of each accepted paper is required by April 11, 1996. It is expected that every accepted paper will be presented at the symposium by one of the authors. The official language of the conference is English. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: To be announced. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Catriel Beeri Shem-Tov Levi Institue of Computer Science MobileComm The Hebrew University P.O. Box 16 Jerusalem, 91904, ISRAEL Yavne, 81550, ISRAEL email: beeri@cs.huji.ac.il email: fts@netvision.net.il phone: 972-2-6585266 phone: 972-8-420976 fax: 972-2-6585439 fax: 972-8-420979 CONFERENCE Chair: Michael Winokur, Israeli Aircraft Industries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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With our best wishes, yours sincerely, <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< < IPMU'96 Organization Committee < < Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty < < in Knowledge Based Systems < < Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 < < 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 < <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< --------- Mail Contribution to the List begin here -------- ----------------------------------------------------------- !!!! NEW INFORMATION FOR IPMU'96 !!!! ----------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** * IPMU'96 * * * * Information Processing and Management of * * Uncertainty * * in Knowledge Based Systems * * * * Granada, Spain, July 1-5, 1996 * * * * URL: http://pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html * ***************************************************** Dear Colleague, Due to the increasing number of petitions we are receiving these days, the IPMU'96 Organization Committee has decided to postpone the deadlines for submitting. Enclosed you can find the new deadlines, as well as other useful information. ----------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------- Prof. T. Terano (Japan). Kampe de Feriet Award Prof. A. F. Rocha (Brazil) Prof. H.J. Zimmermann (Germany) Prof. P. Bonissone (U.S.A.) Prof. R. Scozzafava (Italy) ----------------------------------------------------------- !!!! NEW DEADLINES !!!! ----------------------------------------------------------- December. 1 1995: Deadline for submission of papers. March. 1 1996: Notification of acceptance/rejection. April. 1 1996: Reception of final camera-ready. May 15 1996: Deadline for early registration. July 1-5 1996: CONFERENCE. ----------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------- There will be a six page (two columns, 10 pt) limit on the final versions of accepted papers. Papers will be carefully reviewed and authors will be notified on the acceptance/rejection by March 1st, 1996. Final camera-ready copies for publication will be required by April 1st, 1996. Authors can submit through two alternative ways: - Sending three copies of each full paper, by surface mail to: IPMU'96 Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial. E.T.S.I. Informatica. Avda. Andalucia, 38 Universidad de Granada. 18071 Granada. Spain. - Sending an electronic mail to: ipmu96-submissions@robinson.ugr.es or alternatively to ipmu96@robinson.ugr.es In this case, the following information must be included (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 in postscript format (be sure it is not coded or compressed) ----------------------------------------------------------- TRAVELLING TO GRANADA ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. You can visit our city through URL: http://www.pirata.ugr.es/ipmu96.html For accommodation facilities, please contact with the travel agency: Viajes Bonal Avda. de la Constitucion 19 18014 - Granada. Spain Phone: + 34 58 276312 Fax: + 34 58 291967 ----------------------------------------------------------- PAYMENT ----------------------------------------------------------- Transfer to CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL IPMU96. Bank: CAJA GENERAL DE AHORROS DE GRANADA Account: 2031.0234.81.0100058503 Address: Avda. Andalucia s/n. Edificio Samoa 18014 Granada. Spain ----------------------------------------------------------- OTHER USEFUL INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------------------- The frequency of International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems will be increased from the current 4 issues per year to 6 issues, starting from 1996. In recognition of the association between the IPMU community and the journal, the editors of World Scientific Publishing are pleased to inform all the members of the IPMU community, that there is a special subscription rate of US$60 per year for the journal. This special rate remains the same as previous years, despite the increase in frequency. So then, subscribe the journal today! All you need to do is to write/fax in to: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. Block 1022 Tai Seng Avenue #05-3520 Tai Seng Industrial Estate Singapore 538890 Republic of Singapore Tel: 65-3825663, Fax: 65-3825919 or simply send an email message to any one of the following addresses: worldscp@singnet.com.sg (Singapore office) wsped@singnet.com.sg (Editorial Dept, Singapore) wspmkt@singnet.com.sg (Marketing Dept., Singapore) In any case, please include the acceptance notification of your paper to IPMU'96, or the payment receipt if you are attending to the conference. ----------------------------------------------------------- Announcement of: International Conference on Intelligent Technologies in Human Related Sciences University of Leon, Spain, July 5-7 1996 Please mail to the Organizing Committee: Secretariat of the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies in Human Related Sciences Facultad de CCEE y Empresariales University of Leon Campus de Vergazana, s/n E-24071 Leon, Spain Ph: +34 87 291 742 Fax: +34 87 291 454 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Oct 27 11:10:55 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 27 Oct 95 11:10:50 -0500; AA28984 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 11:10:48 -0500 From: Kia Makki Message-Id: <9510271610.AA23210@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 27 Oct 95 11:10:48 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM '95 November 28 - December 2, 1995 OMNI Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore, Maryland, USA Sponsored by: ACM SIGART and SIGIR in cooperation with AAAI, ACM SIGLINK, Bellcore, CACS/USL, NASA, NSF and UMBC The Fourth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '95) will provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. CIKM'95 will bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in improving information and knowledge management technologies. The CIKM conferences have become an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. An important part of the conference is the Workshops Program which focuses on timely research challenges and initiatives. The conference will feature keynote addresses, invited talks, presentation of technical papers, workshops, panels and social events. Several preconference tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, November 28. TENTATIVE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Tuesday, November 28 -------------------- 5:30 am - 7:00 pm Registration and check-in 8:00 am - 12:00 noon Tutorials (see descriptions following this schedule) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (included in tutorial fee) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Tutorials (see descriptions following this schedule) Wednesday, November 29 ---------------------- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in 8:40 am - 9:00 am Opening session: 9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary Openning Address: Paul Young Assistant Director, National Science Foundation(NSF) Current Trends in NSF Research in Computing Information and Communications 10:15 am - 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions: 1) Data Mining 2) Indexing 3) Invited talk: Research Problems in Data Warehousing Jennifer Widom, Stanford University Applications of Neural Nets to Databases Harold Zsu, CACS/USL 11:45 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary Address: An Overview of the TSIMMIS System Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: 1) Parallelism Mobile Environments 2) Interoperability 3) Query Processing 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Plenary Address: Enhancing Performance of Interoperable Database Systems and the Role of Materialized Views Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland College Park 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Conference Reception Thursday, November 30 --------------------- 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in 9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary address: Performance Evaluation Issues in Generalization Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 10:15 am - 11:45 am Concurrent Sessions: 1) Information Retrieval I 2) Query Optimization 3) Invited Talks: Mining Knowledge at Multiple Concept Levels J.W. Han, Simon Fraser University, CA Designing Electronic Catalogs for Business Value Arie Segev, UC Berkeley 11:45 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary address: User-Centered Interfaces and Tools A National Focus Area Gary Strong, National Science Foundation 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: 1) Distribution 2) Information Retrieval II 3) Uncertainty Invited Talk: Marc Damashek, U.S. Department of Defense 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Plenary Address:Intelligent Integration of Information (I3C) Program Dave Gunning, ARPA 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Banquet Dinner Plenary Banquet Address: Milton Halem Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, Earth and Space Sciences Directorate, NASA NASA PARC'S for Communicating Knowledge: Public Access Resource Center Friday, December 1 ------------------ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration and check-in 9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary Address: Research Directions in Database Security Teresa Lunt, SRI/ARPA 10:15 am - 11:45 noon Concurrent Sessions: 1) Collaboration and Workflow 2) Object Oriented and Rule Languages 3) Invited Talks 11:45 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Plenary Address: An Extensible Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Rule Based Interoperability among\Heterogenous Systems Stanley Su, University of Florida 2:15 pm - 4:15 pm Concurrent Sessions: 1) Temporal and Spatial 2) Knowledge Base Reasoning and Representation 3) Scientific and Design DBS 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Plenary Closing Panel Chair: Larry Reeker, National Science Foundation Funding Predictions and Research Challenges in Information and Knowledge Management 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions (GIS and Intelligent Agents only) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Maryland Science Center Tour and Reception (included in conference and workshop fee) Saturday, December 2 -------------------- 9:00 am - 10:30 am Concurrent Workshop Sessions* 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions* 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch (included in workshop fee) 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions* 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Concurrent Workshop Sessions* *See Workshop descriptions on following pages. PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS ------------------------ Optional pre-conference tutorials will be held on Tuesday, November 28, 1995. The fee for the following tutorials is $200 each which includes lunch. Register for TWO tutorials at the special fee of $375. Indicate your choice by number on the registration form. #1 Digital Libraries - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon --------------------------------------------- Instructor: Professor Edward A. Fox, Department of Computer Science, Associate Director for Research, Computing Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA This tutorial will review current efforts in digital libraries and will include experience with building a digital library in computer science and applying it to education, application of information storage and retrieval, hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia technologies and requirements, architectures, design approaches, systems and projects. #2 Distributed Data and Object Management - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon ------------------------------------------------------------------ Instructor: M. Tamer Ozsu, Department of Computing Science, University of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The main objective of this tutorial is to provide an in-depth presentation of distributed data and object management technologies. The fundamental distributed data management techniques will be reviewed, their incarnation in object-oriented systems will be discussed as well as the particular problems of distributed object systems. This tutorial will also highlight the open problems and discuss the emerging standards in this area. #3 Task-Oriented User Interface Development - 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructor: Chris Stary, Department for Information Systems, University of Technology, Vienna This tutorial puts user interface design and task-oriented software development into the perspective of task-oriented user interfaces. The objective is to close the knowledge gap between developers and researchers who have already gained conceptual and practical experiences with task-oriented system development methods and those who have to seek advice from project to project since each user interface seems to be unique in its complexity, requirements and constraints. #4 Index Multimedia Databases - 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ------------------------------------------------ Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, ATT&T Bell Laboratories, and University of Maryland College Park, Maryland This tutorial surveys state-of-the-art methods for storing and retrieving multimedia data from large databases. Records may consist of formatted fields, text, images, voice, animation, etc. A sample query may be AD in a collection of 2-d color images, find images that are similar to a sunset photograph. The idea is to use feature extraction functions which map an image into a point in feature space so that spatial access methods (SAMs) can be used to accelerate the search. This tutorial will examine the properties of good feature extraction functions, highlight subtle problems, and give solutions. #5 Multidatabase Systems - 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ------------------------------------------- Instructor: A. R. Hurson, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania This tutorial explores issues associated with multidatabases and presents the current status if work in the field. It covers a wide range of theoretical, conceptual, and practical topics and addresses the needs of a wide range of audiences including researchers, database designers, practitioners, and users of database systems. #6 A Rule-Based Approach to ER Modeling for Relational Database and Object-Oriented Database Design - 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructor: Dr. Il-Yeol Song, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Entity-Relationship (ER) model and its accompanying ER diagrams are widely used for database modeling and design. Many resources, however, provide only a definition of each modeling component and examples of the pre-built ER diagrams. Beginners in data modeling have a great deal of difficulty learning how to approach a given problem. This tutorial presents step-by-step guidelines a set of decision rules useful in building ER diagrams, and a case study problem. The tutorial will present a set of rules for translating ER diagrams, compare and contrast various approaches, and synthesize recent research results of translating ER diagrams into object-oriented schema for object-oriented database design. WORKSHOPS --------- The fee for the following workshops is $225 each which includes lunch. 1- Geographic Information Systems - Friday, December 1, 4:30 pm - Saturday, December 2, 4:30 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. This workshop will provide a forum for disseminating original and fundamental research results in the areas of theoretical foundations, design, implementation and applications of GIS, as well as experience reports from application specialists. 2- Intelligent Information Agents - Friday, December 1, 4:30 pm - Saturday, December 2, 4:30 pm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will bring together researchers who are working on or interested in exploring the use of agent-oriented paradigms in information systems. Some of the topics relevant to this workshop include: agent communications and messaging languages; agent programming and scripting languages; security, privacy and authentication in agent systems; agent collaboration and integration; learning agents and trainable agents; information mediators and facilitators; agent-human interfaces; agents on the World Wide Web; information filtering, retrieval, gathering and monitoring; and applications in digital libraries, electronic commerce, education, etc. 3- New Paradigms for Information Systems - Saturday, December 2, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop will focus on the increasing variety of interfaces between information systems and users. Topics relevant to this workshop include: virtual reality markup language (VRML); applications of Internet tools such as MUDs, MOOs, and IRCs;' and techniques of scientific visualization and their application to information visualization. REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Conference participants are encouraged to register in advance of the conference. The pre-registration deadline is November 14, 1995. Late registration fees must be paid after November 14, 1995 and on-site at the conference. Registration includes coffee breaks, the conference banquet, the conference reception, and the reception and trip to the Maryland Science Center. Four easy ways to register: 1) Phone (410) 455-2336 with credit card information; 2) FAX (410) 455-1074 with credit card information; 3) Mail check made out to ACM-CIKM95 to: UMBC Continuing Education, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398; 4) E-Mail: KATHLEEN_VIRDEN@UMBCADMN.BITNET. You are not officially registered until payment has been received. All fees must be paid in U.S. dollars. REFUND POLICY ------------- Refunds, less a $25 processing fee, will be given only if requested in writing three days before the start of the conference. No refunds will be granted after the conference begins. FEE SCHEDULE ------------ ACM MEMBER ACM NON-MEMBER STUDENT Early / Late Early / Late Early / Late Conference $305 / $355 $355 / $405 $205 / $230 One Tutorial $200 / $225 $200 / $225 $200 / $225 Two Tutorials $375 / $425 $375 / $425 $375 / $425 One Day Workshop $185 / $205 $210 / $230 $100 / $125 Day and A Half $225 / $250 $270 / $300 $135 / $150 Workshop LODGING ------- The Conference Center is The Omni Hotel, 101 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Reservations at the special conference rate can be made by calling 1-800-THE-OMNI and mentioning the CIKM '95 Conference. After October 28, 1995, reservations will be accepted on a space available basis. If you are using a Purchase Order for payment of housing, the P.O. number should be sent to Credit Manager, Omni Hotel, at least 30 days before your arrival. OMNI Rates: $75 - Single or Double. Extra person in the room is $20. Rates are subject to 12% Baltimore City and Maryland State taxes. Non-smoking rooms are available. Check-in is at 3:00 p.m. MEALS ----- Beverages and snacks will be offered during the morning and afternoon breaks. During the conference, lunch is on your own. There is a joint workshop luncheon on Saturday and a tutorial luncheon on Tuesday. The Conference Reception Wednesday, November 29 and the Workshop Reception Friday December 1 will feature hor'doeuvres, beverages, and a cash bar. The conference banquet is scheduled for Thursday, November 30. WELCOME TO BALTIMORE -------------------- Baltimore, a city full of life, offers a wealth of events to please a diversity of tastes. Downtown Baltimore and the famous Inner Harbor is located just a short walk on the overhead bridges from the Omni Conference site. A stroll around the Harbor will yield an evening of people-watching, shopping, and endless options for fantastic food from elegant dining to colorful outdoor cafes to an array of ethnic eateries. November in Baltimore also provides opportunities to take in a play or concert, or visit an exhibit. Area maps and a complete listing of Baltimore events and restaurants will be given to you when you check-in at the conference. MARYLAND SCIENCE CENTER ----------------------- The Maryland Science Center's Museum and Davis Planetarium has been reserved on Friday, December 1, 1995. Shuttle bus service will be available for the short trip to Baltimore's Inner Harbor where a reception will greet conferees. Tour the Science Center Museum on your own where you will have the opportunity to push, pull, turn, and electrify hundreds of innovative hands-on exhibits. Part of the evening will be spent blasting off on a fantastic journey to another world in the Davis Planetarium. This will be a memorable event! TRANSPORTATION -------------- If you are arriving by plane, BWI ground transportation is located on the lower airport level near the baggage claim area. You can reach the Omni Hotel via: 1) BWI Ground Transportation (round trip $12; one way $8); 2) BWI Limousine Service; 3) BWI Taxi Service (approximately $15). If you are arriving by car: From Interstate 95, take exit 53, Route 395 to Pratt Street. Turn right and continue three blocks to Charles Street. Turn left and proceed three blocks to Fayette Street. Turn left. The Omni Hotel is on your left. From Interstate 83, exit at St. Paul Street. Continue south on St. Paul to Fayette Street. Turn right and proceed three blocks to the Omni Hotel. Parking: The Omni Inner Harbor Hotel parking garage rate for hotel guests is $9.00 per 24 hours. Additional parking information will be sent with your conference confirmation. INFORMATION ----------- If you have any questions about your registration, please call UMBC Continuing Education at (410) 455-2336, or FAX (410) 455-1074. ON-LINE INFORMATION ------------------- Complete information on CIKM '95 is available on-line at the following World Wide Web and email locations: email: cikm95@cacs.usl.edu www: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/conferences/cikm/ www: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~randal/cikm95.html Contact Dr. Niki Pissinou, Program Co-Chair at (318)482-6604,-5791(fax); or Dr. E. K. Park, Program Co-Chair at (410)293-6806, eun@usna.navy.mil for CIKM 95 program related matters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Oct 27 13:42:02 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 27 Oct 95 13:41:55 -0500; AA01850 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 13:41:53 -0500 From: Raymond Ng Message-Id: <9510271841.AA23428@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 27 Oct 95 13:41:53 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Even though the following ad says one, my department actually has 2 open tenure-track positions. Database is a top priority for us. If you know someone who is interested, please ask him or her to send in an application before the deadline specified below, and to send me an email (rng@cs.ubc.ca) so that I can look out for the application. Cheers, Raymond Ng ---------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia is recruiting for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The Department will consider outstanding applicants over a wide range of areas of Computer Science research. At the same time, the Department has particular interest in recruiting in the areas of databases, software engineering, systems,computer graphics, programming languages and scientific computation. One of the University's highest academic priorities is to continue to build a leading centre in Computer Science and outstanding candidates are sought to participate in this effort. Applicants must demonstrate exceptional research potential and teaching ability. The successful candidate is expected to pursue an active research program, perform both graduate and undergraduate teaching, and supervise graduate students. A Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science or related area is required. The position is available as of July 1, 1996, and salary will be commensurate with experience. The University of British Columbia is situated on the tip of a peninsula, is surrounded by beaches, lush green forests, and spectacular views of ocean, mountains and downtown Vancouver. Just 20 minutes away from both downtown and airport, this location enjoys a unique combination of unsurpassed opportunities for outdoor recreation and easy access to an exciting cosmopolitan city. Applicants should submit their resume and the names of at least three references to Dr. Nick Pippenger, Chair, Recruiting Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4. Applications will be accepted until December 31, 1995. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. UBC welcomes all qualified applicants, especially women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. The position is subject to available funding. ======================================== INSTRUCTOR The Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track position of Instructor. As well as an outstanding teaching record, candidates should have experience in curriculum design and course development and in state-of-the-art teaching laboratories. A demonstrated commitment to teaching, as well as familiarity with current developments in the teaching of computer science, is essential. A Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science is preferred. The position is available as of January 1, 1996. Salary will be commensurate with rank and experience. Applicants should submit their resume and the names of at least three references to Dr. Nick Pippenger, Chair, Recruiting Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z4. Applications will be accepted until November 30, 1995. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada. UBC welcomes all qualified applicants, especially women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities. The position is subject to available funding. --AAA11537.814777622/bells.cs.ubc.ca-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Oct 27 17:36:57 1995 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 27 Oct 95 17:36:50 -0500; AA05403 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 17:36:49 -0500 From: Patrick Eugene O'Neil Message-Id: <9510272236.AA23746@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 27 Oct 95 17:36:49 -0500 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu >From poneil@cs.umb.edu Wed Oct 18 17:16:28 1995 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 17:15:54 -0400 From: Patrick Eugene O'Neil To: listproc@cs.wisc.edu Subject: Please announce Cc: poneil@cs.umb.edu Please announce the following position on the dbworld list. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------- University of Massachusetts at Boston Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Tenure track Assistant Professorship, competitive salary, starting September 1996 in Computer Science Program offering BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees. Candidate must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent and be committed to both teaching and research. Current faculty research interests include: databases, programming languages, compilers, software engineering, networking, image and text processing, operating systems and architecture. Please send your vitae, three letters of reference and a statement about your research interests and teaching experience to Professor Peter Fejer Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125-3393 Questions may be directed by internet email to Professor Patrick O'Neil, poneil@cs.umb.edu Applications submitted by January 22, 1996 will receive priority consideration. An Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Title IX employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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