From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Apr 1 11:00:44 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA23497 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:37 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA21058 for dbworld; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:36 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:36 -0600 From: "Tiziana Catarci" Message-Id: <199604011700.LAA21058@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ Please accept our apologies if you receive this message multiple times. ------------------------------------------------------------------ AVI'96 Advanced Visual Interfaces: an International Workshop Gubbio, Italy, May 27-29, 1996 Under the patronage of the Universita di Bari Under the patronage of the Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Sponsored by ACM SIGMultimedia Sponsored by IDOMENEUS (Esprit Network of Excellence No. 6606) In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI In cooperation with the Esprit 8422 "FADIVA" Working Group ******************************************************************* The Preliminary Program and Registration Form are available at: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/info.html PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR THE HOTEL RESERVATION IS MARCH 31 ****************************************************************** Tiziana Catarci Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma ITALY Tel. +39-6-49918331 Fax. +39-6-49918331 or +39-6-85300849 E-mail catarci@infokit.dis.uniroma1.it or tic@cs.brown.edu URL http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/AVI96/tchome.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@cs.wisc.edu Mon Apr 1 11:01:04 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA23502 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:58 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA21063 for dbworld; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:57 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:00:57 -0600 From: Matthias Klusch Message-Id: <199604011700.LAA21063@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ATTENTION: Postponement of CIA-Workshop from October 1996 to February 1997. Final Time Schedule in the following announcement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS ***************************************************************************** 1. International Workshop CIA-97 COOPERATIVE INFORMATION AGENTS - DAI meets Database Systems 26th (Wed) - 28th (Fri) of February 1997 University of Kiel, Computer Science Department, Kiel, Germany ***************************************************************************** The workshop will be held in cooperation with the research group FG 1.1.6 on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and FG 2.5.1 on Database Systems of the German Society for Computer Science GI. DESCRIPTION: This workshop will focus on issues concerning approaches for an integrated use of methodologies from both research areas, DAI and Database Systems, especially for the development of cooperative information agents. The idea of a partial synthesis of both, the DAI as well as the Database research area seems to be very promising. One attempt to capture possible benefits from such a synthesis has lead to the introduction of the paradigm of Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) in 1992. In our context a CIS is constituted by a set of intelligent agents where each of them is uniquely attached to one database system. Such information agents behave like active, intelligent database front-ends trying to satisfy their own application-specific task goals alone or in cooperation with others. In particular the necessity to respect the database autonomy requirements hinders such cooperation e.g. for information gathering. The design of information agents inherently requires knowledge from several different research areas like DAI, Database and Expert Systems, and AI. Unfortunately, practical and theoretical work which is relevant for the development of information agents tends to be scattered across several different forums of respective computing subareas: There is an obvious need for a survey of these works, their advantages and limitations. Thus, the workshop aims for being a small but intensive forum for a presentation and exchange of ideas, work in progress, reviews as well as an engaged discussion between all attendees. TOPICS of interest include, but are not limited to: o architecture of information agents o autonomy requirements and their impacts for the development of information agents and systems o decentralized construction and management of common ontologies for cooperative information agents o knowledge discovery and data mining for information evolution in large database networks o semantic querying in multidatabase systems o use of object-oriented modelling within the design of information agents o methods for coalition formation among autonomous agents o approaches towards a theory of organization in multi-agent systems o adaptation and self-organization of information agents o planning in cooperative search for information o user interface issues for information agents o evaluation and development environments for information agents o agent communication languages (like KQML/KIF) o approaches towards mobile information agents (e.g. Telescript, Java) CONTRIBUTIONS: Authors are invited to submit papers describing both theoretical and practical work dealing with the use of methods from distributed artificial intelligence for cooperation between a set of heterogeneous, autonomous databases. Papers describing ongoing research are in particular welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the ones listed above. The paper must be in A4 size (basic font 12 point). Each submission must have a separate title page and a body. The title page must include a title, a 300-400 word abstract, a list of keywords, the names and addresses of all authors, their email addresses, and their telephone and fax numbers. The body must also include the title and abstract, but the author information must be excluded. The length of submitted papers (excluding the title page) must be no more than 12 single-spaced, single-column pages including all figures, tables, and bibliography. All papers must be written in English. and neither accepted nor under review by other conferences or journals. Papers not conforming to the above requirements may be rejected without review. Papers can be submitted both by mail and electronic mail. Electronic submission must be in postscript format. Send three hard-copies or the postscript file of your contribution to Matthias Klusch Institut f"ur Informatik und Praktische Mathematik Christian-Albrechts-Universit"at zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel EMail: mkl@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de In order to inform us about your submission send an email to: {pk,mkl}@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------- Paper Submission Deadline : 3.11.1996 Notification to the Authors : 15.12.1996 Camera Ready Due : 20.1.1997 PARTICIPATION: The number of participants will be restricted to atmost 80 peoples. Preference is given to people with accepted contributions. Early registration is recommended. For registration please send your name, full address (incl. phone/fax), affiliation, and a short description about your current research interests to the Organization Committee (see below). Let us also know if you intend to submit a paper. DATE AND LOCATION: The workshop starts on Wednesday, 26.2.1997, at 8 am and ends on Friday, 28.2.1997, afternoon. It takes place at the University of Kiel. (Address: CAU Kiel, Institut f"ur Informatik, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel, Germany) Nearest international airport is located in Hamburg. The city of Kiel is easily reachable by train from Hamburg in about one hour. A direct connection from the Hamburg airport to Kiel and back is provided by an airport express bus (named 'Kielius'). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wolfgang Benn (University of Chemnitz, Germany) Sonia Bergamaschi (Universita' di Modena, Italy) Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Misbah Deen (University of Keele, UK) Yves Demazeau (Leibniz/Imag/CNRS, France) Frank Dignum (University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland, USA) Klaus Fischer (DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany) Joachim Hammer (Stanford University, USA) Peter Kandzia (University of Kiel, Germany) Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) Stefan Kirn (University of M"unster, Germany) Matthias Klusch (University of Kiel, Germany) Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Klaus Meyer-Wegener (University of Dresden, Germany) Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois, USA) Mike P. Papazoglou (QUT Brisbane, Australia) Jeffrey Rosenschein (Hebrew University, Israel) Tuomas Sandholm (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Onn Shehory (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Antonio Si (Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) Gerd Wagner (University of Leipzig, Germany) Mike Wooldridge (Manchester Mteropolitan University, UK) General Chairs and Organization Committee: Matthias Klusch (University of Kiel, Germany) Peter Kandzia (University of Kiel, Germany) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UP-TO-DATE-INFORMATION about the workshop will be given on the WorldWideWeb WWW: http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/cia97.html For further information about the workshop please contact:\\ Matthias Klusch Institut f"ur Informatik Christian-Albrechts-Universit"at zu Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24118 Kiel PHONE : +49-431-880-4474 Fax : +49-431-880-4054 EMail : mkl@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de WWW : http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~mkl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Mon Apr 1 11:04:04 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA23531 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:03:53 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA21082 for dbworld; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:03:53 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:03:53 -0600 From: randal@cs.UManitoba.CA (Randal Peters) Message-Id: <199604011703.LAA21082@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE APRIL 12, 1996 C I K M ' 9 6 C A L L F O R P A P E R S FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT November 12 - 16, 1996, Doubletree Hotel Rockville, Maryland, USA Sponsored* by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR in cooperation* with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGMOD, CACS/USL, and UMBC. URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ Paper submission deadline extended to Friday, April 12, 1996 CIKM series provide an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental recent advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. CIKM'96 will focus on next generation information systems and bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in these applications and their enabling technologies. SCOPE The primary focus of the conference is on next generation information systems including their theoretical foundations, infrastructure and enabling technologies. We solicit submission of original research, experience and vision papers that address this theme. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Mobile & wireless computing Digital libraries Knowledge & resource discovery Multimedia information systems Information Structures & Interaction Hypertext & Hypermedia Distributed Object Management Transaction & Workflow Management Temporal/Spatial Databases Active & Extensible Databases Engineering, Scientific & Design Databases Software databases User & Application Interfaces Intelligent Search & Data Mining Cooperating & Interoperable Federated Systems Imprecise & Uncertain Information SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers, which are not currently under submission to another conference or journal. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long, short or poster presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In the case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper. FIVE COPIES of the manuscript should be submitted (with the envelope clearly marked "CIKM'96") by APRIL 12, 1996 to: M. Tamer Ozsu c/o CIKM'96 Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 E-mail: cikm96@cs.ualberta.ca Tel: (403) 492-2860, Fax: (403) 492-1071 CIKM'96 will have tutorials and panels organized as part of the technical program. Proposals for these should be submitted to the respective chairs: PANEL PROPOSALS: Amit Sheth Department of Computer Science University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA 30602-7404 E-mail: amit@cs.uga.edu TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: V.S. Subrahmanian Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA 20742 E-mail: vs@cs.umd.edu WORKSHOPS As always, there will be a number of workshops organized in conjunction with CIKM'96. These workshops, which focus on timely research challenges and initiatives, are an important part of the conference. Proposals for workshops should be submitted to the the Workshops Chair: Gultekin Ozsoyoglu Department of Computer Science and Engineering Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA 44106 E-mail: tekin@cs.cwru.edu IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial, panel, and workshop submission deadline: March 15, 1996 Paper submission deadline : April 12, 1996 Notification of acceptance : June 15, 1996 Camera ready papers due : July 31, 1996 --- * pending approval CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chairs: N. Pissinou, USL, USA C. Nicholas, UMBC, USA Program Chair: M.T. Ozsu, U. Alberta, Canada Panels Chair: A. Sheth, U. Georgia, USA Tutorials Chair: V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA Workshops Chair: G. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU, USA Publicity Chair: R.J. Peters, U. Manitoba, Canada Proceedings Chair: K. Barker, U. Manitoba, Canada Registration Chair and Treasurer: E.K. Park, USNA, USA Local Arrangement Chair: J. Chen, GMU, USA CIKM Steering Committee: T. Finin, UMBC, USA K. Humenik, Indiana U., USA K. Makki, UNLV, USA C. Nicholas, UMBC, USA E.K. Park, USNA, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE R. Alonso, MITL, USA P. Apers, U. Twente, Netherlands E. Bertino, U. Milano, Italy A. Biliris, AT&T Research, USA J. Blakeley, Microsoft, USA M. Boehlen, Aalborg U., Denmark A. Bonner, U. Toronto, Canada A.L.P. Chen, Nat. Tsing Hua U., Taiwan S. Christodoulakis, TUC, Greece S. Cluet, INRIA, France U. Dayal, HP Labs., USA K. Dittrich, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland A. Dogac, METU, Turkey F. Eliassen, U. Tromso, Norway O. Etzion, Technion, Israel M. Franklin, U. Maryland, USA O. Friesen, Bull Info. Sys., USA S. Gadia, Iowa State U., USA G. Gardarin, U. Versailles, France D. Georkopoulos, GTE Labs, USA F. Golshani, Arizona State U., USA P.M.D. Gray, U. Aberdeen, Scotland J. Han, Simon Fraser U., Canada J. Icaza, ITESM, Mexico R. Jain UCSD, USA G. Kaiser, Columbia U., USA Y. Kambayashi, Kyoto U., USA A. Keller, Stanford U., USA L. Kerschberg, GMU, USA R. King, U. Colorado, USA W. Klas, GMD-IPSI, Germany L. Liu, U. Alberta, Canada W. Litwin, U. Dauphine, France F. Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong K. Makki, UNLV, USA R. Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium J. Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada R. Ng, UBC, Canada S. Osborn, U. Western Ontario, Canada M. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU, USA M. Papazouglou, QUT, Australia R.J. Peters, U. Manitoba, Canada C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Inst., USA B. Reinwald, IBM Almaden Res. Lab, USA T. Risch, U. Linkoping, Sweden M. Rusinkiewicz, U. Houston, USA R. Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia F. Saltor, U. Pol. de Catalunya, Spain P. Scheuermann, N.Western U., USA P. Schwarz, IBM Almaden, USA T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. U., Greece A. Shoshani, LBL, USA S. Son, U. Virginia, USA J. Srivastava, U. Minnesota, USA L. Tanca, U. Verona, Italy A.U. Tansel, CUNY, USA M. Templeton, Data Integration, USA A. Thomasian, IBM T.J. Watson, USA F. Tompa, U. Waterloo, Canada M. Tresch, ETH, Switzerland V. Tsotras, Brooklyn Polytechnic U., USA S. Urban, Arizona State U., USA K.Y. Whang, KAIST, Korea H. Wittig, IBM ENC, Germany O. Wolfson, U. Illinois, USA M. Zemankova, NSF, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Apr 1 16:38:46 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA02672 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:38:39 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA21591 for dbworld; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:38:38 -0600 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:38:38 -0600 From: Alberto Mendelzon Message-Id: <199604012238.QAA21591@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear Colleague: Over the past few years attendance at the ACM Principles of Database Systems (PODS) conference has increased. However, there has been a significant decline in the number of submissions (although the submissions continue to be of very high quality). The PODS Executive Committee is concerned about this trend, and would like to poll the broad PODS community for ideas on how to increase submissions to PODS. We'd appreciate it if you could respond to the questionnaire below. Please send the answers to pods@research.att.com by April 15, 1996. Thanks Alberto Mendelzon PODS 97 General Chair ================================================================ <* 1. How many papers did you submit to PODS'96? Answer: ___ 2. How many papers did you submit to PODS between 1993 and 1995, inclusive? Answer: ___ 3. How many papers did you ever submit to PODS? Answer: ___ 4. How many times did you attend PODS between 1991 and 1995, inclusive ? Answer: ___ 5. PODS submissions have been restricted to be at most 5000 words, i.e., about 10 double-spaced pages (with an optional appendix). Do you feel that this restriction should be relaxed, e.g., to permit submissions of up to 8000 words ? Answer (5 = very strongly, 1 = not at all): ___ 6. With PODS, the tradition is that almost all members of the program committee read almost all of the submissions. Do you support maintaining this tradition ? Answer (5 = very strongly, 1 = not at all): ___ 7. What database research areas are you mostly interested in? (Please put an "X" in the appropriate boxes.) [] Active DBs [] Access Methods and Data Structures [] Approximate data [] Concurrency, Recovery, Distributed DBs [] Data Mining [] Data Models [] DB Interoperation [] Languages: Query, Update, DB Programming [] Logic in Databases, Datalog [] Non-standard DBs (scientific, GIS, hypermedia, temporal, text) [] Views [] Other ______________________________ 8. If you have a paper that might fit into PODS or SIGMOD, how do you decide which conference to submit the paper to? Answer: 9. Please rate the percentage of papers, invited talks, and tutorials presented at recent PODS conferences you have found interesting (5 = almost all, 1 = almost none) Papers: ___ Tutorials: ___ Invited talks: ___ 10. Please rate the percentage of papers, invited talks, and tutorials presented at recent SIGMOD conferences you have found interesting (5 = almost all, 1 = almost none) Papers: ___ Tutorials: ___ Invited talks: ___ 11. How do you rate the balance of the topics in recent PODS programs? (5 = very good, 1 = very poor) Answer: ___ 12. What areas of research did you find to be under-represented in recent PODS programs? Answer: 13. What areas of research did you find to be over-represented in recent PODS programs? Answer: 14. Do you think that the scope of the PODS conference should be expanded? If so, in what directions? Answer: 15. How can PODS be made into a better conference for you? Answer: *> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 2 11:15:26 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02868 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:15:19 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00543 for dbworld; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:15:18 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:15:18 -0600 From: Isaac Balbin Message-Id: <199604021715.LAA00543@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu --------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers The Fifth International Conference On Database Systems For Advanced Applications DASFAA '97 ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- On the World Wide Web http://www.kbs.citri.edu.au/DASFAA97 Date April 1 - 4, 1997 Location Melbourne, Australia Supported by: * Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), * Australian Research Council Key Centre for Knowledge Based Systems, * Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, * The University of Melbourne, * CSIRO In Cooperation with: * ACM-SIGMOD * Korea Information Science Society * Australasian Database Conference Organising Committee Conference Co-Chairs: * Ron SACKS-DAVIS, RMIT, Australia * Ramamohanarao KOTAGIRI, The University of Melbourne, Australia Steering Committee: * Sukho LEE, Seoul National University, Korea (Chair) * Yahiko KAMBAYASHI, Kyoto University, Japan (Vice-Chair) Program Committee Co-Chairs: * Rodney TOPOR, Griffith University, Australia * Katsumi TANAKA, Kobe University, Japan Panel Chair: Alan FEKETE, University of Sydney, Australia Tutorial Chair: Maria ORLOWSKA, University of Queensland, Australia Publication Chair (Proceedings): Justin ZOBEL, RMIT, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: * Daryl D'SOUZA, RMIT, Australia * Isaac BALBIN, RMIT, Australia Exhibition Chair: Jim McGOVERN, RMIT, Australia Treasurer: Rhys FRANCIS, CSIRO, Australia Aims of the conference This conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. Topics of interest Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Data Modelling and Query Languages and Security and Integrity Database Design Query Optimization Maintenance Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Data Migration Information Retrieval Intelligent User Statistical and Interfaces Scientific Databases Engineering Databases Parallel and Distributed Databases Active Databases Deductive Databases Object-Oriented Databases Document Databases Hypertext Databases Multimedia Databases Interoperable Databases Mobile Databases Internet Databases Temporal and Spatial Database Design Tools Databases Databases for CASE, CAI Legacy Data New Applications Paper submissions Authors are invited to submit original papers on database topics including, but not limited to those listed above, for presentation at the conference. Papers on implemented systems, from research prototypes to advanced industry projects are strongly solicited. Papers will be judged on their originality, significance, correctness and clarity. The main contributions of the paper should be clearly identified and expressed. Submitted papers must be in English, should be typed in two-column, single-spaced format, and must be at most 10 pages long. Papers must include the author's name, affiliation and e-mail address, a 200 word abstract, and keywords preferably from the above list identifying the paper's area. A model paper and the corresponding LaTeX style file can be obtained at the web site http://www.kbs.citri.edu.au/DASFAA97 The preferred form of submission is to email a uuencoded, gzipped PostScript version of the paper to either of the two Program Committee Co-Chairs. Please ensure that such submissions consist of standard PostScript and can be readily printed. Alternatively, submit FOUR copies of a printed version of the paper to one of the two Program Committee Co-Chairs. Professor Rodney Topor Professor Katsumi Tanaka School of Computing and Department of Computer and Systems Information Technology, Engineering Griffith University Kobe University Nathan, Queensland, 4111 Rokkodai 1-1, Nada, Kobe Australia. Japan Fax: +61-7-3875-5051 Fax: +81-78-803-1217 E-mail: rwt@cit.gu.edu.au E-mail: tanaka@in4wolf.in.kobe-u.ac.jp Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. Panel sessions and tutorials Each panel or tutorial proposal should include a one-page description of the subject matter, the name of the organiser, and for panels, a list of proposed panelists. Submissions should be sent to the Panel or Tutorial Chair: Dr. Alan Fekete (panel chair) Professor Maria Orlowska (tutorial chair) Basser Department of Computer Science F09, Department of Computer Science University of Sydney, University of Queensland Sydney, NSW, 2006 St. Lucia, Queensland 4072 Australia. Australia. Fax: +61-2-9351-3838 Fax: +61-7-3365-1999 E-mail: fekete@cs.su.oz.au E-mail: maria@cs.uq.oz.au Important dates Paper submission due: August 30, 1996 Panel & Tutorial proposals due:September 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance: November 30, 1996 Camera-ready copies due: December 31, 1996 Venue The conference will be held at The University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne was founded in 1853 and is the oldest University in Victoria. The University is steeped in tradition, with both historic buildings and modern architecture set in pleasant garden surrounds. The University is close to the central business district of Melbourne, public transport and accommodation. It is located in a tourist precinct with quality restaurants and street cafes all within a few minutes walk. Not far away, on the Yarra River, Melbourne's renowned Southbank has a saturation of arts and theatre. Adjacent are the Botanical gardens and numerous sporting facilities which run along side the banks of the Yarra River. More centrally, there is a diversity of nightlife, from cinemas to casinos. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (partial list) Bertino, Elisa (Italy) Chang, Chin-Chen Chen, Arbee (Taiwan) (Taiwan) Deshpande, Anand Dong, Guozhu (India) (Australia) Feng, Yucai (China) Goh, Eck Soong Angela Harris, Evan (Singapore) (Australia) Ikeda, Hideto (Japan) Inoue, Ushio (Japan) Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kambayashi, Yahiko (Japan) (Japan) Kemp, David (Australia) Kim, Hyung-Joo (Korea) Kitsuregawa, Masaru (Japan) Korth, Henry F. (USA) Lakshmanan, Laks V. S Li, Qing (Hong Kong) (Canada) Ling, Tok Wang Lochovsky, Fred (Hong (Singapore) Kong) Lu, Hong Jun (Singapore) Lum, Vincent Yu-Sun Makinouchi, Akifumi (Hong Kong) (Japan) Manthey, Rainer (Germany) Masunaga, Yoshifumi Moffat, Alistair (Japan) (Australia) Moon, Songchun (Korea) Narasimalu, D. (Singapore) Ngu, Anne (Australia) Norrie, Moira (Switzerland) Ong, KayLiang (USA) Ooi, Beng Cheng Orlowska, Maria (Australia) (Singapore) Park, Seog (Korea) Ryu, Keun Ho (Korea) Samet, Hanan (USA) Sarda, N. L. (India) Shepherd, John A. Spaccapietra, Stefano (Australia) (Switzerland) Sung, Sam Yuan Tompa, Frank Wm Vincent, Millist (Singapore) (Canada) (Australia) Wang, Ke (Singapore) Whang, Kyu Young Wilkinson, Ross (Australia) (Korea) Wong, Kam-Fai (Hong Yoshikawa, Masatoshi Kong) (Japan) Zhou, Lizhu (China) Zicari, Roberto (Germany) For further information, please contact Tori KENNEDY RMIT 723 Swanston Street Carlton, Victoria, 3053 Australia. Fax: +61-3-9282-2444 E-mail: dasfaa97@kbs.citri.edu.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 2 11:15:52 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02887 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:15:46 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00548 for dbworld; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:15:45 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:15:45 -0600 From: Ming-Chien Shan Message-Id: <199604021715.LAA00548@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu We have a research staff opening to work in the Collaborative Computing project at HP Laboratories, in Palo Alto, California. The Collaborative Computing project focuses on workflow technology development, its applications in telecommunications network management and telecom service provisioning, as well as applications of workflow technologies in the emerging InterNet based information infrastructure. We are looking for systems-oriented candidates with strong research capabilities and prototype development skills. Relevant skills include workflow, CORBA, TMN, databases, and distributed object-oriented computing. Candidates should be able to conduct team oriented research to support the overall objectives of the project. Interaction with HP divisions as well as the research community in setting requirements and promoting solutions will be an important part of the job. Strong relevant experience is a high priority, but preference will be given to candidates with a relevant PhD degree. If interested, please send a resume to: Ming-Chien Shan Mailstop 1U-4 1501 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 or Ming-Chien Shan, Manager, Collabrative Computing Technologies, HP Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 2 11:20:39 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA03012 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:20:28 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00561 for dbworld; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:20:28 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:20:28 -0600 From: Akmal B Chaudhri Message-Id: <199604021720.LAA00561@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu A new book on OODBs is currently being planned, to be edited by: Mary E.S. Loomis PhD, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA and Akmal B. Chaudhri, City University, London, UK Target audience ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The target audience includes users or potential users of OODBs. The book will contain contributions by users and practitioners for users and practitioners. People will be able to use this book to judge whether OODB technology is suitable for them. Topics of interest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The topics of interest may include (but are not limited to): * Tips and tricks using particular products * Comparisons of products * Use of products for particular applications (case studies) * Management issues in adopting OODBs * Use of OODBs with ORBs * Use of OODBs with Relational systems (including Gateways) * Tradeoffs between alternative OODB application designs * Tradeoffs between alternative OODB languages bindings for application development (e.g. Smalltalk vs. C++) * War stories Etc. Products of interest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pure OODBs: * GemStone * Objectivity/DB * ObjectStore * O2 * VERSANT Object-Relational: * Illustra * UniSQL Application areas of interest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Papers can discuss applications from any industry sector, e.g. manufacturing, engineering, financial, telecommunications, etc. Papers to emulate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ B. Beck and S. Hartley (1994) Persistent storage for a workflow tool implemented in Smalltalk. Proceedings of OOPSLA '94, Portland, Oregon, 1994, pp. 373-387. N. Goodman (1994) An object-oriented DBMS war story: developing a Genome mapping database in C++. In: Modern Database Systems: The Object Model, Interoperability, and Beyond, W. Kim (ed.) (New York: ACM Press and Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley) Papers should be 5,000 words in length, previously unpublished and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers of a purely academic nature would not be suitable. Next Move ~~~~~~~~~ Please send: 1. A bio of yourself and any co-authors with details of professional experience/affiliations, etc. Include your full name, address (including ZIP/Postal Code) and daytime phone number and email. About one side of A4 (maximum) should be fine. 2. An abstract or extended abstract with details of the product, industrial area and an outline of the major sections of the paper (one-two sides of A4). Submission format ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For the moment, ASCII-based text by email please to: akmal@sarc.city.ac.uk Deadline ~~~~~~~~ Monday 15 April 1996. Akmal B. Chaudhri Systems Architecture Research Centre (SARC) Computer Science Department The City University Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB United Kingdom Tel. +44-171-477-8551 Fax. +44-171-477-8587 Akmal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 2 11:21:01 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA03033 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:20:49 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00567 for dbworld; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:20:48 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:20:48 -0600 From: George Angelos Papadopoulos Message-Id: <199604021720.LAA00567@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACADEMIC POSITIONS The University of Cyprus announces the following academic posts for the Department of Computer Science. 1 permanent (Professor or Associate Professor) and 1 non permanent post (Assistant Professor or Lecturer) in the following fields of study: * Artificial Intelligence * Computer Architecture * Computer Graphics * Data Communication Networks * Database Systems * Human Computer Interaction * Parallel and Distributed Processing * Programming Languages * Software Engineering For all academic ranks, a Ph.D. from a recognized University is required. The language of instruction is Greek and Turkish. Applicants need not be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. The annual salaries for these positions (including the 13th salary) are: Professor (Scale A15-A16) #22.917 - 29.790 Associate Professor (Scale A14-A15) #20.213 - 27.556 Assistant Professor (Scale A13-A14) #18.858 - 25.437 Lecturer (Scale A12-A13) #15.926 - 23.325 (At present CY#1=1.3884 sterling and CY#1=2.1377 dollars). In addition the Council of the University may approve an annual bonus of up to CY#5.000 per year for persons appointed as Professors and up to CY#3.000 for persons appointed as Associate Professors. Interested individuals must submit the following items by Wednesday 22nd of May, 1996: 1. A letter stating the department, the academic rank or ranks for which the applicant is interested in, the field of fields of study and the date when he/she may be able to assume duties in the event of selection. Those interested for both a permanent and a non permanent post must submit separate applications. 2. A Curriculum Vitae. 3. A brief summary (not exceeding three pages) of the applicant's research work as well as a description of plans for future research. 4. A list of publications. 5. Copies of representative publications. 6. Copies of their qualifications. In addition, the applicants must ask three academic referees to send letters of recommendation directly to the University; the names and addresses of these referees must be submitted with the application. Additional confidential information may be sought. The Curriculum Vitae and the brief summary of the research work should be written in Greek or Turkish and in one international language, preferably English. Applications, other documents and reference letters that submitted in the past will not be considered and must be re-submitted. Applications that are not complete will not be considered. The above must reach the University at the following address by Wednesday 22nd of May 1996, by 2:00 p.m. The Registrar University of Cyprus P.O. Box 537 CY-1678 Nicosia CYPRUS Tel.: +357-2-366186, Fax: +357-2-366198 For more details and other information interested individuals may contact the Registrar or the Department of Computer Science at tel: +357-2-338705/06, fax:+357-2-339062, Email: elpida@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy --- Department of Computer Science Tel: +357-2-338704 (05/06) University of Cyprus Fax: +357-2-339062 75 Kallipoleos Str. Email: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy P.O. Box 537, CY-1678 WWW: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/papadopo.html Nicosia, CYPRUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 2 11:31:02 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA03316 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:30:51 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00593 for dbworld; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:30:50 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:30:50 -0600 From: "Manfred A. Jeusfeld" Message-Id: <199604021730.LAA00593@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu **** L.a.s.t Call For Papers **** ** Knowledge Representation meets Databases (KRDB'96) ** At ECAI'96, Budapest, Hungary, August 12/13, 1996 The deadline for submissions for workshop KRDB'96 has been extended by 10 days (April 11). If you are working in the area where knowledge representation meets databases you might consider to submit a position paper (2 pages). ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME!! Details of the CFP are on our home page in http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~nutt/KRDB96/call.html Kind greetings, -- Manfred JEUSFELD http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mjf/ RWTH Aachen, Informatik 5 jeusfeld@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany Fax : +49-241-8888-321 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 2 16:27:47 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA10149 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:27:41 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA01193 for dbworld; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:27:40 -0600 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:27:40 -0600 From: Werner Nutt Message-Id: <199604022227.QAA01193@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive this more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The deadline for submissions for workshop KRDB'96 has been extended by 10 days (April 11). If you are working in the area where knowledge representation meets databases you might consider to submit a position paper (2 pages). ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOME!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ECAI'96 Workshop KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES (KRDB'96) August 12/13, 1996 Budapest, Hungary Both databases and knowledge bases are used to represent the relevant parts of an application domain, and to allow convenient access to the stored information. Nevertheless, until recently there has been little cross-fertilization between the two areas. Research in KR mostly concentrated on expressive formalism with sophisticated reasoning services, usually under the assumption that the size of the KB is relatively small. In contrast, DB research was concerned with efficiently storing and retrieving large amounts of data, but the languages for describing schema information were rather simple, and reasoning about the schema played only a minor role. In recent years, this distinction between the requirements and problems in KR and DB is vanishing rapidly. On the one hand, a modern KR-system must be able to handle large data sets if it is to be employed in realistic applications. This means that techniques developed in the DB area can and should be employed. On the other hand, the information stored in DBs becomes more complex, and thus requires more intelligent retrieval and reasoning techniques. For example, it turned out that important information about the connection between different data items could not be expressed in traditional data models. This led to the introduction of semantic, deductive, and object oriented data models. Recently, it has been shown that many of these data models can be expressed in suitable KR formalisms, which allows one to apply reasoning techniques from AI to database problems. Unlike its predecessor workshops KRDB'94 and KRDB'95, which concentrated on the connection between object-oriented formalisms in KR and DB, KRDB'96 is intended to have a broader scope. We want to bring together researchers and developers from all areas of KR and DB where an interaction seems to be promising. In addition, users from industry can obtain a good impression of the research done on the border line between the two areas, and they can contribute their knowledge of what type of research is relevant in their applications. TOPICS The following is a list of specific topics that could be addressed: - Storage and retrieval in very large KBs: Can methods developed for DBs be employed? What new types of problems arise? - KR formalisms as schema language: Can the inference mechanisms from KR support the schema design? - Integration of multiple information sources: Can more sophisticated schema languages and reasoning services support this task? - Semantic query optimization: Can the inference mechanisms from KR support this task? Can query optimization techniques developed in the DB area be transfered to KBs? - Cooperative query answering systems, generating intensional answers: Can schema knowledge be used to generate intensional answers? - View maintenance and updates: Are constraint propagation and abductive reasoning applicable? - Executive information systems: Can intelligent agents provide the right information at the right time? - Integration of relational, deductive and object oriented formalisms: Can KB formalisms provide a uniform framework? - Automated reasoning: Can reasoning techniques developed in the DB area for specific subclasses of first-order logic (e.g., conjunctive queries, unions of conjunctive queries, ...) be used in KR? - Reasoning in finite models: Are the results obtained for databases also meaningful for KR? - Nonmonotonic reasoning formalisms: Can they be used to represent incomplete information in DBs and KBs? Can they be used to formalize multiple inheritance in OODBs? - Reasoning in Temporal DBs: Can temporal logics or other formalisms for representing time-dependent knowledge be utilized? PARTICIPATION Participation in the workshop will be by invitation only. If you want to attend the workshop, you should submit a position paper (see SUBMISSION OF PAPERS below) that describes your current research and possibly previous accomplishments related to the workshop topic. Based on these papers, the participants will be organized into sessions where they present their positions and then discuss them in a panel. This workshop is part of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence held in Budapest, Aug 12-16, 1996. For details on the ECAI conference, see http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/mars/ECAI96.html Please note that WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION is NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT REGISTRATION TO THE MAIN CONFERENCE. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit - position papers (not exceeding 2 pages). Rather than describing new technical results, these papers should describe the position that the author takes w.r.t. the workshop topics. All submission must be in English. The papers should preferably have double-column pages formatted according to the "Guidelines for Preparing a Paper for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence". Electronic (PostScript) submissions are preferred. Otherwise 5 hard-copies should be sent. Fax submissions cannot be accepted. Submissions should be sent by April 11, 1996 to krdb96@dfki.uni-sb.de or Werner Nutt German Research Center for AI - DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany In addition, an ASCII title page of each submitted paper containing the title of the paper, full names, postal addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses of all authors, and an abstract of 100-200 words should be sent by e-mail to krdb96@dfki.uni-sb.de The "Guidelines for Preparing a Paper for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence" are available via FTP as a Postscript file and Latex style files. Please use ftp ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de or ftp 134.96.188.7. Use "anonymous" as login and your e-mail address as password and download the files from the directory /pub/ECAI-96. Please read the index file for file descriptions. WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop will consist of short talks, panels, and discussions. Besides short technical questions immediately after the talks, the discussion will be shifted to the end of the session, with the intention to have a more general discussion on the topic of the session. This will be facilitated by the fact that all the speakers of the session will form a panel, and the questions are addressed to the whole panel. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: April 11, 1996 Invitations sent out: April 30, 1996 Final versions of papers: May 24, 1996 WEB PAGE There is a web page for the workshop http://www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~nutt/KRDB96/call.html where the call for papers and latest information can be found. Electronic versions of the accepted submissions will be made available via the web page by July 1996. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Franz Baader LuFg Theoretical Computer Science RWTH Aachen Ahornstrasse 55 D-52074 Aachen Germany email: baader@informatik.rwth-aachen.de phone: +49 241 80-21130 Martin Buchheit German Research Center for AI (DFKI) Saarbruecken Germany email: buchheit@dfki.uni-sb.de phone: +49 681 302-5257 Manfred A. Jeusfeld Informatik V RWTH Aachen Ahornstrasse 55 D-52074 Aachen Germany email: jeusfeld@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Werner Nutt (primary contact person) German Research Center for AI (DFKI) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany email: nutt@dfki.uni-sb.de phone: +49 681 302-5321 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Franz Baader (RWTH Aachen) Alex Borgida (Rutgers University) Stefan Brass (University of Hannover) Sjaak Brinkkemper (University of Twente) Martin Buchheit (DFKI Saarbruecken) Manfred A. Jeusfeld (RWTH Aachen) Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome "La Sapienza") Alon Levy (AT&T Bell Labs) Nicolaas Mars (University of Twente) Werner Nutt (DFKI Saarbruecken) Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Wed Apr 3 11:14:23 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA00955 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 11:14:15 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01986 for dbworld; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 11:14:15 -0600 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 11:14:15 -0600 From: smarch@csom.umn.edu (smarch) Message-Id: <199604031714.LAA01986@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER '96 Cottbus, near Berlin, Germany Oct. 7th - Oct. 10 th, 1996 http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ER96/ Deadlines paper, tutorial, panel, exhibition submissions : April 22nd 1996 (at the latest) ER'96 notification: June 10th, 1996 ER'96 final version: July 22nd, 1996 Schedule: conference: October 8th - 10th, 1996 workshops: October 7th, 10th, 1996 tutorials: October 7th, 1996 General Chair Joachim W. Schmidt, Hamburg University J_Schmidt@dbis1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de Program Committee Chair Bernhard Thalheim, Cottbus Technical University thalheim@informatik.tu-cottbus.de Tutorials Mike Papazouglou, Queensland University of Technology mikep@icis.qut.edu.au Industrial Chairs Terry Halpin, Asymetrix and Gerhard Rode, SAP terryh@asymetrix.com gerhard.rode@sap-ag.de Conference Organization Rotraut Goebel, Cottbus Technical University goebel@informatik.tu-cottbus.de Karla Hoppe, Cottbus Technical University hoppe@informatik.tu-cottbus.de CONFERENCE TOPICS The general theme of ER '96 is: Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems More specifically, relevant topics for the ER '96 include, but are not necessarily limited to the following: * advanced modeling - integrating ER-, OO-, OR- etc. modeling - database design methodologies - extending the scope to multimedia data, active data, secure data, heterogeneous and/or federated data - knowledge-based modeling * CASE, CASE tools and engineering of modeling * modeling techniques - integrating structural and process modeling - business and business process modeling - schema integration and schema coordination * systems engineering - systems evolution, reengineering, reuse, reverse engineering - user interfaces and query languages - development and management of user interfaces - novel IS architecture: distributed, cooperative, intelligent interoperable, multimedia, open, client-server * information systems - integrated information systems (decision support systems, office-information systems, knowledge-based systems, information-retrieval systems, hypertextsystems, document management systems, GIS, multimedia systems, management information systems, databases, knowledge bases) - engineering and modeling of information systems * theoretical fundamentals of conceptual modeling - conceptual models, extended modeling concepts - semantics and constraints - ER, OO, OR query languages - workflow management * applications - applications of the conceptual models and their extensions - enterprise modelling - IS in information superhighways - reengineering legacy information systems - information repositories - maintenance and evolution of IS Submissions should be sent by April 22nd, 1996 to Bernhard Thalheim Cottbus Technical University Computer Science Institute P. O. Box 10 13 44 D - 03013 Cottbus Germany thalheim @informatik.tu-cottbus.de Program Committee Catriel Beeri, Israel Takao Miura, Japan Yannis Bubenko, Sweden Robert Meersman, Belgium Sharma Chakravarthy, USA Shamkant B. Navathe, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, France Erich Neuhold, Germany Opher Etzion, Israel Maria Orlowska, Australia David Embley, USA Peretz Shoval, Israel Jean-Luc Hainaut, Belgium Gunter Saake, Germany Terry Halpin, USA, Australia Arne Solvberg, Norway Igor Hawryszkiewycz, Australia August-Wilhelm Scheer, Germany Hannu Kangassalo, Finland Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Germany Jacques Kouloumdjian, France Graeme Shanks, Australia Alberto Laender, Brazil Il-Yeol Song, USA Claus Lewerentz, Germany Stefano Spaccapietra, Switzerland Leonid Libkin, USA Eberhard Stickel, Germany Tok Wang Ling, Singapore Markus Stumptner, Austria Ling Liu, USA Bernhard Thalheim, Germany (PC Chair) Peri Loucopoulos, Great Britain A Min Tjoa, Austria Florian Matthes, Germany Olga De Troyer, Netherlands Heinrich C. Mayr, Austria Yannis Vassiliou, Greece Leszek A. Maciaszek, Australia Herbert Weber, Germany GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Either submit five copies of the manuscript to the Program Chair or send an ordinary LaTex file without additional fonts to the PC chair and to ER96@informatik.tu-cottbus.de . Submitted papers must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere during the review process. The paper should not exceed 5000 words (approximately 11 pages LaTex text or 20 double-spaced pages). A separate cover sheet should be enclosed containing the title of the paper, the author(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail address and fax number) to which correspondence should be sent. Panel and tutorial proposals must include abstract of the topics and a copy of the participant(s) vita. TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Proposals are solicited for organizing half-day tutorials that will be held during the conference. In particular those topics are wanted which bridge the gap between advanced database technology and conceptual modeling and its impact in specific application domains. Please send your proposal by April 22, 1996 to the tutorial program coordinator Mike Papazoglou Queensland University of Technology mikep@icis.qut.edu.au GENERAL INFORMATION Questions regarding the Program of the Conference can be sent to: ER96info@informatik.tu-cottbus.de Organizations interested in taking part in the exhibition, in an industrial session or in a possible sponsorship of the conference are invited to contact Karla Hoppe. PUBLICATION The proceedings of the ER '96 conference are to be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer Publishing House and these will be available at the conference. Selected papers of the conference will be published in the Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal. CO-EVENTS International Symposium on Business Process Modeling - Interaction between Business Process Modeling and Close Applications Cottbus, October 10th, 1996 Main topics of the symposium are: - Process Modeling - Business Process Evaluation - Strategic Business Planning - Process Cost Analysis - Quality Management - Workflow Management - Software Engineering - Data and Process Modeling - Manufacturing Simulations Submissions should be sent to Bernd Scholz-Reiter or Eberhard Stickel Industrial Information Systems Dept. of Information Systems Cottbus Technical University European University Viadrina P.O. Box 10 13 44 P.O. Box 7 76 D - 03013 Cottbus D - 15207 Frankfurt (Oder) bsr@iit.tu-cottbus.de stickel@euv-frankfurt-o.de More information: http://www.iit.tu-cottbus.de/bpm-er96/ International Exhibition on ER CASE Tools Cottbus, October 10th, 1996 Submissions should be sent to Bernhard Thalheim Computer Science Institute Cottbus Technical University D - 03013 Cottbus thalheim@informatik.tu-cottbus.de More information: http://www.iit.tu-cottbus.de/CASE-er96/ International Symposium on ER Concepts in Software Engineering Cottbus, October 7th, 1996 ER techniques are widely used both in Database Management and in Software Engineering. These two fields have progressed in the development of ER techniques quite independently due to different requirements and level of usage. The workshop is aiming to bring together experts from both fields. Thus, issues to be addressed are: - theory and practice of ER modeling in Software Engineering - semantic gaps experienced using ER modeling; overcoming those gaps - future trends for ER techniques and research questions Contacts Claus Lewerentz or Herbert Weber Computer Science Institute Fraunhofer Institute for Cottbus Technical University Software Engineering and Systems Engineering P.O. Box 10 13 44 Kurstr. 33 D - 03013 Cottbus D - 10117 Berlin cl@informatik.tu-cottbus.de herbert.weber@isst.fhg.de More information: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ERinSE-er96/ Conference Location The Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, founded in 1991, sees itself as a scientific institution, as a progressive center of high technology claiming to tread new paths in research and teaching. The foundation concept is based on the idea of cooperation between science, industry and society. The basic principle of scientific work in Cottbus is the interdisciplinary correlation between learning and teaching. Cottbus is one of the greenest towns in Germany and has a long tradition in horticultural architecture. A chain of green parks stretches through the whole city zone and is now joined by the splendid new park of the Bundesgartenschau 1 995 (Federal Horticultural Exhibition). Cottbus is situated between Berlin and Dresden near the Spreewald and the Polish border. It is also very close to the Spreewald which is one of the most famous natural parks in Germany and contains much variety in terms of flora and fauna. Cottbus is the center of Lower Lusatia - a bilingual region, where German and Sorbs have lived together for centuries, which has greatly influenced the region's past and present. This town can be reached in many ways. The motorway M 15, the federal roads B 97, B 115 and B 169, and also the railway running lines between Frankfurt (Oder) and Leipzig, Berlin and Goerlitz and Dresden and Cottbus will all bring you to our town. The nearest airports are Berlin/Schoenefeld (reachable within 1 h 10 min), Dresden (reachable by car within 1 h 30 min) and Berlin/Tegel (reachable by train within 2 h). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Wed Apr 3 15:57:22 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA06916 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:57:16 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA02370 for dbworld; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:57:15 -0600 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:57:15 -0600 From: Amit Sheth Message-Id: <199604032157.PAA02370@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab (http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu) at the University of Georgia is looking for an energetic person to work on the following projects: [The funding for the full-time position is primarily for the first project. Additionally, one or two RAships for new students wishing to pursue PhD in Computer Science are also available]. 1. Collaborative Teleconsulting for Healthcare [CaTCH] Systems skills involve (in short) integrating multimedia patient data on Intranet, referencing data on Internet, ISDN-based Video+Data Conferencing, and Java programming to set up remote environment and context sensitive data exchange. Collaborator: Medical University of South Carolina, SCRA Application: Digestive Disease Consultation 2. Multiparadigm Transactional Workflow [METEOR] Workflow design, semiautomated code generation, and management in multi-enterprise heterogeneous computing environments over Web/Java, CORBA, Notes and Wireless infrastructure Collaborators: Connecticut Hospitals Assoc., MCC, others Applications: various (currently in healthcare) 3. InfoHarness and InfoQuilt Discovery/access/integration/management of heterogeneous digital media data (text, structured, images) in Intra- and Internet environments; information brokering/correlation. Collaborator for InfoHarness: Bellcore Qualifications for the full-time (non-permanent) position: The person should be able to coordinate and contribute significantly to software development in a R&D project. However, the lab provides ample of opportunity to participate in research too. It may also be possible to participate in activities consistent with a research oriented academic unit. Currently, one to two year funding is available for a full time (non-permanent) position. Future funding and mutual interest may allow additional extension. The position may be ideal either (a) for an exceptional MS with superior development skills, but interested in pursuing research for potentially getting the PhD in future, (b) a postdoc, or a research scientist (non-tenure track, "soft money" position). Networking and systems administration skills will be an added plus. There will be ample time to interact with 3 to 4 faculty members and 5 to 10 RAs in the lab. Participation in research and publication activity is very welcome but not a primary requirement. A full time position offers immediate benefits such as health insurance. We hope to fill the position as soon as possible subject to the necessary university procedures (and visa procedures, if needed). Qualifications for RAs: (near) completion of MS with relevant background; pursue PhD in an area of the lab's research. Please check http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu for more information about the lab and its research. The lab is a member of OMG and HOST consortia, and a guest member of WfMC. We are also involved in active technology transfer and licensing of our software. If qualified and interested, please send resume or URL (or questions) to Prof. Amit Sheth at amit@cs.uga.edu (please mention: Resume for Full-time position or Resume for RA or Questions for Full-time position or in the subject line.). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Minimum qualifications are a Ph.D. in Computer Science or allied discipline, and evidence of a strong research potential in applied computer science. Prior teaching experience will be considered an asset. Applicants are principally sought in the areas of operating systems, networks, parallel systems, software engineering, and artificial intelligence, though truly outstanding candidates in other areas may be considered. Duties will include undergraduate and graduate teaching and supervision, research, and service-related activities. The salary range for the position is $40,868 to $62,509. The Department currently has 21 full time tenure track faculty members and a number of term appointments, and offers a full range of both undergraduate and graduate programmes, including cooperative programmes. We currently have over sixty graduate students. The Department is a well-established one which has recently been in an expansionary phase. Both the undergraduate and graduate curricula have been extensively revised and extended. The Department provides good technical support for both teaching and research. Current and planned departmental facilities include numerous UNIX based Workstations, X- Windows terminals, a parallel machine, a software development and testing laboratory, and numerous other research laboratories and personal machines, all of which are networked. The Department has well equipped UNIX and object- oriented teaching labs. The university Computer Centre provides virtually unlimited access to UNIX based workstations and other personal and mainframe computing facilities, as well as Internet connections. This is an excellent opportunity for good researchers and teachers to get in on the ground floor of an exciting Department. Winnipeg has a great deal to offer, both culturally and recreationally, with a number of professional and other ethnic arts groups, professional sports teams, and many opportunities nearby for all types of outdoor activities in all seasons. The Winnipeg housing market is one of the most favourable in Canada to the home buyer. The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities, aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities. The University offers a smoke free work environment, save for specially designated areas. This advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Further information concerning the Department and the University may be obtained from http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/ Applicants should send a curriculum vitae and the names of three referees to the address below. The deadline for applications is May 1, 1996. Chair of Search Committee Department of Computer Science University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 e-mail: search@cs.UManitoba.ca telephone: (204) 474-8313 fax: (204) 269-9178 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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By popular demand, the deadline for submissions for PDCS'96 has been extended to April 30th. This is a firm (drop dead) deadline. So please make sure you send your paper to either program co-chair by that date. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENDED DEALINE (April 30) CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL TRACK ON HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE INTEROPERABILITY AND PARALLEL DATABASES in conjunction with Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems September 25-27,1996 Dijon, FRANCE Sponsored by International Society for Computers and Their Applications (ISCA) in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society (Egypt Chapter) the IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Patrick Valduriez (Inria, France) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A SPECIAL TRACK on parallel databases and heterogeneous database interoperability will be included in the 9th edition of the PDCS conference series (PDCS'96), to give a special emphasis to parallel databases and cooperative information systems. The objective of this special track, is to provide an effective forum for researchers in the area of parallel and distributed computing systems to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experience. We invite authors to submit papers that deal with any aspect of parallel databases and heterogeneous database management. Specifically, the general topics of interest will include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - New techniques for schema integration - global schema and federated schema approaches - Discovery of semantic knowledge from heterogeneous databases - Resolution of semantic heterogeneity among heterogeneous databases - Advanced data models for interoperability of heterogeneous databases - Schema evolution in heterogeneous databases - Multidatabase approaches to heterogeneous database interoperability - Metadata representation and its role in heterogeneous database interoperability - Intelligent software agents and heterogeneous databases - Novel architectures for heterogeneous database interoperability - Query language specifications for heterogeneous database access - Syntactic and semantic query optimization in heterogeneous databases - Query decomposition and assembly of results - Data Warehousing - Information retrieval techniques and their application to heterogeneous databases - Communication paradigms in a heterogeneous database management system - Transaction management and concurrency control in heterogeneous databases - Interoperability among advanced databases - Interoperability of geographic information systems Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may be submitted for consideration include those that have not previously been published in another forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be blind refereed for quality, correctness, and originality. Excellent papers will be recommended for ISCA journal publication. Manuscripts should include an abstract, 5 keywords, and limited to 5000 words. Long papers will not be considered for evaluation. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author(s) affiliation, e-mail address, fax number, and postal address on a separate sheet. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence should also be included. Abstracts may be submitted via E-mail. FOUR copies of the manuscript should be submitted by Tuesday, April 30, 1996 to either program co-chair. Kokou Yetongnon Salim Hariri Departement d'Informatique ECE Department Universite de Bourgogne Syracuse University 21000 Dijon, France Syracuse, NY 13204 Authors should also send an e-mail including the title of the paper, authors'names and a short abstract (80-100 words) of the paper to: pdcs96@u-bourgogne.fr Authors wishing to have long papers reviewed for possible publication in the ISCA Journal of Computers and Their Applications should send four copies of their paper directly to the Editor, Prof. Howard Sholl, Univ. of Connecticut, U-31, 233 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-4031 U.S.A. IMPORTANT DATES E-mail Abstract Submission Deadline: April 30, 1996 Paper Submission deadline: April 30, 1996 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 1996 Preregistration & Camera ready papers due: July 26, 1996 Conference Co-Chair: Stefano Spaccapietra Laboratoire de Bases de Donnees EPFL Lausanne Switzerland Conference Co-Chair: Michel Trehel Laboratoire d'Informatique de Besancon Besancon France Program Committee: ----------------- T. Abdelrahman (USA) Khalid Al-Tawil (Saudi Arabia) Nik Alexandridis (USA) Reda Ammar (Egypt) Magdy Bayoumi (USA) Monique Becker (France) Abdelghani Bellaachia (Morocco) E. Brenner (Austria) Panos Chrysanthis (USA) Michel Diaz (France) Amr El-Kadi (Egypt) Adel Elmaghraby (USA) A. Hameurlain (France) Mehmed Kantardzic (Bosnia) Darren Kerbyson (England) Jacquess Kouloumdjian (France) Anup Kumar (USA) Anup Kumar (USA) Robert Laurini (France) Jorg Liebeher (USA) Emad Mahgoub (USA) Rami Melhem (USA) Rajat Mukherjee (USA) Ferda. Nur Alpaslan (Turkey) Michel Paindavoine (France) Jean Jacques Pansiot (France) Manish Parashar (USA) Bin Qin (Canada) C. S. Raghavendra (USA) Michel Raynal (France) Yves Robert (France) Howard Sholl (USA) Hussam M. Soliman (Saudi Arabia) Yves Sorel (France) Zahir Tari (Australia) Stephen Winter (UK) M. Younis (Egypt) S.Q. Zheng (USA) Local Arrangement Committee Djamal Benslimane (Chairman) Hassan Mountassir Christophe Nicolle Marie Noelle Terrasse ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISCA HEADQUARTERS 8820 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC 27615-2969 Phone: (919) 847-3747; Fax: (919) 676-0666; E-mail: isca@interpath.com http://www.isca-hq.org/isca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Fri Apr 5 10:57:57 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA10609 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:57:41 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA04642 for dbworld; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:57:40 -0600 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:57:40 -0600 From: french@juliet.cs.virginia.edu Message-Id: <199604051657.KAA04642@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ============================================================== C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ============================================================== EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT Stockholm June 18-20, 1996 AIM AND SCOPE This international conference provides a forum for the presentation and exchange of current research in the field of scientific and statistical database management. The Eighth SSDBM continues the tradition of providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion and the exchange of ideas in a quiet setting. STEERING COMMITTEE A. Shoshani (USA, Chair), H. Hinterberger (Switzerland), J.C. French (USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE R.A. Becker (USA), J. V. Carlis (USA), K.R. Dittrich (Switzerland), J.C. French (USA), H. Gilgen (Switzerland), P. A. Golder (UK), R.H. Gueting (Germany), N.I. Hachem (USA), D.J. Hand (UK), H. Hinterberger (Switzerland), Y. Ioannidis (USA), J.C. Klensin (USA), K. Kuespert (Germany), P. Lewis (UK), F. M. Malvestuto (Italy), M. McLeish (Canada), Z. Michalewicz (USA), F. Olken (USA), G. Ozsoyoglu (USA), J.L. Pfaltz (USA), M. Rafanelli (Italy), J.L.A. van Rijckevorsel (Netherlands), T. Risch (Sweden), R. Robbins (USA), D. Rotem (USA), P. Scheuermann (USA), B. Sundgren (Sweden), P. Svensson (Sweden), A. Westlake (UK), M. Zemankova (USA). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE P. Svensson, M. Edlundh, H. Hauska, K. Hellstrom, E. Malmborg, T. Risch GENERAL CHAIR Per Svensson, National Defence Research Establishment, Stockholm, Sweden. CO-CHAIR James C. French, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA SPONSORS Sponsored by the Centre for Geoinformatics in Stockholm, the National Defence Research Establishment, Statistics Sweden, the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Science, and the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development. COOPERATING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES This conference is arranged in cooperation with the VLDB Endowment, the International Association for Statistical Computing, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering. WWW HOMEPAGE http://www.ce.kth.se/geofoto/cgi/8SSDBM/General.htm --------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY JUNE 17 16.00-19.00 REGISTRATION at the conference hotel Foresta 18.00-20.00 WELCOME RECEPTION in the Millesgarden sculpture park TUESDAY JUNE 18 8.00-9.15 REGISTRATION 9.15-9.30 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Janne Carlsson, President, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 9.30-10.15 INVITED LECTURE Data Mining: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Databases H. Mannila, University of Helsinki 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-12.30 FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT Censoring Statistical Tables to F. M. Malvestuto Protect Sensitive Information: M. Moscarini Easy and Hard Problems A Data Structure for A. Bezenchek Representing Aggregate Data M. Rafanelli L. Tininini Statistical Dependencies P. Cotofrei H. Luchian 12.30-14.00 LUNCH BREAK 14.00-15.30 CURRENT PROBLEMS IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES Astronomical Tables, 2-D Indexing, C. G. Page and Fuzzy-joins Sequence Matching of Images N. Yazdani Z. M. Ozsoyoglu Approximate Query Answering In N. Hachem Numerical Databases C. Bao S. Taylor 15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK 16.00-17.00 NEW SYSTEMS FROG and TURTLE: Visual Bridges V. Anjur Between Files and Object-Oriented Y. E. Ioannidis Data M. Livny A Scientific Multimedia Database T. Lee System for Polymer Science T. Bozkaya Experiments H.-C. Kuo G. Ozsoyoglu Z. M. Ozsoyoglu 19.00 BUFFET DINNER in the City Hall, hosted by the Stockholm City Council WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 9.00-10.30 IMPLEMENTATION METHODS I Persistent Array Access Using K. E. Seamons Server-Directed I/O Y. Chen P. Jones J. Jozwiak M. Winslett Extendible Arrays for Statistical D. Rotem Databases and OLAP Applications J. L. Zhao Optimizing Statistical Queries by C. Li Exploiting Orthogonality and X. S. Wang Interval Properties of Grouping Relations 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-11.45 INVITED LECTURE Practical Problems of Implementing Metadata Standards in Official Statistics J. Olenski, University of Warsaw 12.00-13.30 LUNCH BREAK 13.30-15.00 PANEL: DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR STATISTICAL DATABASES POSITION PAPERS: Design Principles for a Unified D. W. Gillman Statistical Data/Metadata System M. V. Appel W. P. LaPlant, jr Quality Aspects of a Modern Database P. Dean Service B. Sundgren What Clinical Database Management P. Lewis System does the NHS need ? DISCUSSION 15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK 15.30-17.00 APPLICATIONS OF DATA AND PROCESS MODELING Conceptual Data Model with Structured G. De Giacomo Objects for Statistical Database P. Naggar Using the Functional Data Model to G. J. L. Kemp Integrate Distributed Biological J. Dupont Data Sources P. M. D. Gray Reuse of High-Level Information G. A. Washburn Requests: Leveraging the Investment L. M. L. Delcambre M. A. Whiting 18.00- CONFERENCE DINNER IN THE HAGA PARK starting with a boat trip to the Haga Park, the National City Park in Stockholm, and a guided walk in the park THURSDAY JUNE 20 9.30-10.30 REQUIREMENTS AND DESIGN Extracting and Providing Knowledge E. Kapetanios within an Object-Centered Scientific Information System for Atmospheric Research Requirements and Design for W. Dreyer Replication Services for a Time D. Schmidt Series Management System A. Kotz Dittrich M. Bleichenbacher 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-11.45 INVITED LECTURE Scientific Requirements for Climate Database Systems L. Bengtsson and R. Budich, German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) 12.00-13.30 LUNCH BREAK 13.30-15.00 PANEL: MANAGING SCALE AND COMPLEXITY IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES POSITION PAPERS: The Design and Implementation of a R. Sargent Database for Human Genome Research D. Fuhrman T. Critchlow T. Di Sera R. Mecklenburg G. Lindstrom P. Cartwright Data and Information Architectures L. Kerschberg for Large-Scale Distributed Data H. Gomaa Intensive Information Systems D. Menasce J. P. Yoon Characterization of Temporal A. Shoshani Sequences in Geophysical Databases P. Holland J. Jacobsen D. Mitra DISCUSSION 15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK 15.30-16.30 IMPLEMENTATION METHODS II Computational Indexes for Time Series E. T. Falkenroth Efficient Temporal Join Processing D. Son Using Time Index R. Elmasri 16.30-16.45 CLOSING SESSION ------------------------------------- ATTENDEE INFORMATION Lodging A block of rooms has been reserved at the conference hotel Foresta. Cost for a single room is SEK 900:-. Double room SEK 505:-/pers. For reservation of rooms please contact the hotel directly and ask for 8SSDBM. Hotel Foresta Herserudsvagen 22, Box 1324, S-181 25 Lidingo, Sweden. Tel: Int +46 8 765 2700, Fax: Int +46 8 767 7542. http://www.lejonet.se/ads/bestwestern/foresta/hem.html There are numerous hotels in Stockholm with travel times less than 30 minutes from Foresta. Location Foresta is located in the city of Lidingo, a suburb of Stockholm. It can be reached easily by public communications. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and can be reached by air, train and car. Ground Transportation Best ground transportation from the Stockholm airport to the conference hotel is taxi. Fixed price fares ranging from SEK 350-400 can be obtained at the airport. Alternatively, airport bus (SEK 60) and taxi from the terminal (appr SEK 100) are recommended. Attractions Hotel Foresta neighbours the Millesgarden sculpture park, the home of the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, who spent many years in the USA. Entry is free for guests at Foresta. Stockholm houses a number of museums, art galleries, etc. Of special interest is the Wasa museum, built around the Warship Wasa which sank on its maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbour in 1628 and was retrieved in 1961. The Stockholm City Council will host a buffet dinner in the City Hall, the very building where each year in December the Nobel prize dinner is held. The conference dinner will be held in the "Copper tents" in the Haga Park, a national park within the city of Stockholm. Extra tickets can be purchased at registration at the subscribed price of SEK 450. Transportation to the dinner will be by boat from Foresta, return by chartered bus. Weather Normally the weather in June is warm with temperatures between 18-22 C. Nights can be cool. Since Stockholm is situated at a latitude of approx 58 N, nights are very short and light at this time of the year. Messages Messages may be left in the hotel reception or at the conference registration desk. Credit Cards VISA and MasterCard will be accepted for payment of the conference fee. All major cards are accepted by Foresta and by most Swedish hotels and shops. Local information Marianne Edlundh, Centre for Geoinformatics (CGI) Phone: +46-8-7907335 Fax: +46-8-7907343 email: medlund@geomatics.kth.se Per Svensson, General Chair, National Defense Research Establishment (FOA) Phone: +46-8-7063696 Fax: +46-8-7063686 email: pers@sto.foa.se - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT Stockholm June 18-20, 1996 Registration ************ Dr./Mr./Mrs.:_______________________________(for name badge) Title:_________________________________________________ Affiliation:_________________________________(for name badge) Address:_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ City:__________________ State:___________ Zip:____________ Country_______________________________________________ Phone:________________________________________________ Fax:___________________________Email:__________________ Author? _ Registration Fee: Includes welcome reception, buffet dinner, conference dinner, lunches, refreshment breaks and proceedings. Before After Amount May 18 May 18 Enclosed --------------------------------- Conference fees for non-members SEK 2400 SEK 2800 ______ Conference fees for members* SEK 2200 SEK 2600 ______ Extra Dinner Tickets Number of tickets____ SEK 450 SEK 450 ______ Extra proceedings Number of proceedings____ SEK 400 SEK 400 ______ Total enclosed: ______ * Reduced fees apply to members of IEEE Computer Society and IASC: Organization:____________ Member Number:_________ Date of Arrival:___________ Date of Departure:_________ Make your check (SEK) payable to Centre for Geoinformatics, KTH or provide credit card number:#________________________ MC: _ VISA: _ Expiration:____/___ Signature:______________________ Names of Accompanying Persons: _______________________ For special dietary or other requirements, please contact Marianne Edlundh. 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Fee ACM/IEEE ______Member($280) ______Non-Member($310) ______Student($135) Banquet Ticket: $55 per person _______ Methods of payments accepted: AMEX VISA MASTERCARD CHECK Card # ______________________________ Expiration Date ____________________ Signature:_____________________________________ Date:______________________ Make check payable to : Digital Libraries Forum 1996. *************** **ACCOMMODATION *************** Capitol Hill Suites Holiday Inn Captiol 200 C Street, SE 550 C Street, SW Washington, DC 20003 Washington, DC 20024 202-543-6000 or 800-424-9165 202-479-4000, FAX:202-547-2608 FAX: 202-479-4353 $99.50/single or $114.50/double $119/ single or double occupancy ============================================================================= URL: http:// URL: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/admin/adl96/adlcall.html ============================================================================= ADL '96 PRELIMINARY AGENDA The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. MAY 13-15, 1996 =============================================================================== SPONSORED by: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and The National Library of Medicine and The IEEE Computer Society and The Library of Congress IN COOPERATION WITH: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, George Washington University, National Institute of Standards & Technology; Rutgers Center for Info. Mgt, Integration & Connectivity, University of Milano, University of Maryland Baltimore County and The University of Texas at Austin CORPORATE SUPPORT: AT&T, Bellcore, Comsat, IBM Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., MCI, Sony, Sun Microsystems GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Milton Halem, GSFC, NASA and Yelena Yesha, UMBC/CESDIS-NASA STEERING COMMITTEE: N. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; A. Aho, Columbia Univ.; D. Atkins, Univ. of Michigan; L. Holcomb, NASA; M. Halem, NASA GSFC; S. Howe, NCO/HPCC; H. Stone, NEC; D. Tiedeman, AT&T; J. Ullman, Stanford Univ.; Y. Yesha, UMBC/CESDIS PROGRAM CHAIR: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ. INDUSTRIAL CHAIR: S. Naqvi, Bellcore INTERNATIONAL CO-CHAIRS: E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany; S. Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc., Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Aigrain, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France; R. Bayer, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany; P. Buneman, Univ. of Penn.; D. Choy, IBM Almaden Research Center; B. Edelson, GWU; S. Feldman, Cornell Univ.; L. Gomez, Northwestern Univ.; H. Hansen, Wirtschafts Univ., Austria; H. Hirsh, Rutgers Univ.; P. Hunter, NASA; H. Jagadish, AT&T Bell Labs.; W. Litwin, Univ. of Paris, France; W. Lougee, Univ. of Michigan H. Mark, Univ. of Texas at Austin; A. McCray, The National Library of Medicine; R. Medina, Law Lib. of Congress; M. Papazoglou,Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia; A. Silberschatz, Bell Labs; T. Smith, UCSB; G. Valle, Univ. of Milano, Italy; H. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; C. Zaniolo, UCLA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Elke A. Rundensteiner, Univ. of Michigan EXHIBIT CHAIR: Susan Hoban, Hughes STX The forum will be held in the Library of Congress and will feature research papers, panels, exhibits, and prototypes and applications of digital libraries in science and industry. In addition, the focus of this year's panels will be on issues related to global digital libraries for Medicine, Environmental Monitoring, Law, and Electronic Commerce. =============================================================================== MONDAY, MAY 13, 1996 12:00-1:15 Registration and Coffee 1:15-1:45pm Welcoming Remarks The Honorable J. Billington, The Librarian of Congress 1:45-2:00 BREAK 2:00-3:00 Invited Speakers: Session 1.1: "The Strategic Environment for Digital Libraries: Technology, Markets, Laws, and Policy" B. Kahin, JFK School of Government, Harvard Univ. "TBA" G. Wiederhold, Stanford Univ. 3:00-3:15 BREAK 3:15-4:00 Contributed Papers:Session 1.1 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL- I Chair: TBA "An Agent-Based Hypermedia Model for Digital Libraries" M. Salampasis, J. Tait, and C. Hardy (Univ. of Sunderland, UK) "GeoChange: An Experiment in Wide-Area Database Services for Geographic Information Exchange" P. Drew and J. Ying (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) 4:00-4:15 BREAK 4:15-5:30 Forum Discussion 1.1: Digital Libraties in Educaction: Potential Roles and Impact Chair: L. Gomez, Northwestern Univ. Panelists: D. Edelson, Northwestern University M. Honey, Center For Children and Technology E. Soloway, University of Michigan 6:30-7:30 Reception-Montpelier Room, Madison Bldg, The Library of Congress =============================================================================== TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1996 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:10 Welcoming Remarks M. Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, GSFC, NASA 9:10-10:00 Keynote Speaker: "TBA" H. McDonald, Director, Ames Research Center, NASA 10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:15-11:15 Invited Speakers: Session 2.1: "Global Legal Information Network" R. Medina, Law Librarian, The Library of Congress "Public Policy Issues in the Digital Age" Andrew Margpanty, Director, The American Library Association, 11:15-11:30 BREAK 11:30-12:30 Contributed Papers:Session 2.1 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Chair: TBA "Creating, Organizing, and Distributing a Digital Medical Library of Multimedia Consumer.." M. D'Alessandro, J. Galvin, D. D'Alessandro, W. Erkonen, and D. Curry, T. Choi (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City) "High Speed Satellite Access to Bio Medical Text/Image Databases" L. Long, M. Gill and G. Thoma (National Library of Medicine) "Medical Digital Library System using Agent Based Technology to create an Integrated View of the Electronic Medical Records" H. Lowe, W. Walker, S. Polonkey, F. Jiang, J. Vries (Univ. of Pittsburgh) 12:30-1:45 LUNCH 1:45-2:30 Keynote Speaker: "Digital Libraries Meet Electronic Commerce: A Win-Win Situation" M. Lesk, Chief Scientist, Bellcore 2:30-2:45 BREAK 2:45-4:15 Contributed Papers: Session 2.2: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL- II Chair: TBA "Target Testing and the PicHunter Bayesian Multimedia Database Retrieval System" I. Cox, M. Miller, S. Omohundro, and P. Yianilos (NEC Research Institute) "Robust Retrieval of Noisy Text" D. Lopresti (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.) "SemaLink: An Approach For Semantic Browsing Through Large Distributed Document Spaces" S. Wiesener, W. Kowarschick, and R. Bayer (Technische Universitat Munchen) "A Digital Library System for Periodicals Distribution" D. Choy, J. Lotspiech, L. Anderson, S. Boyer, R. Dievendorff, C. Dwork, T. Griffin, B. Hoenig, M. Jackson, W. Kaka, J. McCrossin, A. Miller, R. Morris, and N. Pass (IBM Almaden Research Center) 4:15-4:30 BREAK 4:30-5:45 Forum Discussion 2.1: MUSEUMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE Chair: S. Feldman, Digital Access Coalition, Cornell Univ. Panelists: P. Brookman, Curator of Photography & Media Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art; G. Gay, Communication Dept. Cornell & Director, Interactive Multimedia Group; Hong, IBM Japan, & the Ethnology Museum; J. Trant, The Getty Art History Information Program 4:30-5:45 Forum Discussion 2.2: PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY: CASE STUDIES FROM THE IAIMS CONSORTIUM Chair: V. Florance, University of Rochester Medical Center Panelists: N.C. Broering, GWU Medical Center; V. Florance, U of Rochester Medical Center; S. Rauch, U of Washington, Network Information Management; R. E. Lucier, UCSF 7:30- Banquet - Great hall, Jefferson Bldg, The Library of Congress Senator Bob Kerry, (D) Nebraska =============================================================================== WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1996 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker "Applying Knowledge in the Digital Landscape" Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine and founding Director of the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing 10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:15-11:45 Forum Discussion 3.1 ENVIRONMENT Chair: M. Chahine, Chief Scientist, JPL Panelists: T. Pyke, Director, GLOBE; J. Dodge, NASA Headquarters; A. Battin, Head, EPA's National Geographic Information Systems Program; 10:15-11:45 Forum Discussion 3.2: RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES OF DIGITAL LIBRARY/HOSPITAL Chair: S. Wong, Radiology and Bioengineering, UCSF Panelists: D. Bidgood, NLM and Duke University Medical School. P. De Smedt, Electronic Medical Record Project, HP Labs. L. Gasser, Program Director, CISE, NSF. J. Reimer, DL Project, IBM Santa Teresa Lab. E. Shortliffe, Professor and Associate Dean, Stanford University G. Thoma, Communications Engineering Branch, NLM. 11:45-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:45 Invited Speakers: Session 3.1: "TBA" TBA 1:45-2:00 BREAK 2:00-2:30 "Technology-based Protection: A Complement to Copyright" P. Schenck, MITRE 2:30-2:45 BREAK 2:45-4:15 Contributed Papers: Session 3.1 ACESS TO SERVICES Chair: TBA "Authorization in the Digital Library: Secure Access to Services Across Enterprise Boundaries" N. Ching, V. Jones and M.Winslett (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Query Previews in Networked Information Systems" K. Doan, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland) Scalability Issues for High Performance Digital Libraries on the World Wide Web D. Andresen, T. Yang, O. Egecioglu, O. Ibarra, and T. Smith (UC-SB) "Data Compression Using Encrypted Text" R. Franceschini and A. Mukherjee (Univ. of Central Florida) 4:15-4:30 Forum Issues and Responses : Recap ============================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@cs.wisc.edu Fri Apr 5 14:26:05 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA14130 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:25:56 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA04896 for dbworld; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:25:56 -0600 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 14:25:56 -0600 From: debra@win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra) Message-Id: <199604052025.OAA04896@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Computing Science Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology has a job opening for a research assistant (called "aio") in the field of "Incremental Constraint-Based Graph-Drawing Algorithms" Description of the research to be performed: The aio will investigate graph-drawing algorithms to be used for the continuous display of graph structures that are frequently updated. The applications for which this research is intended are: - drawing the structure of part of World Wide Web, for instance a fish-eye view of the neighboring nodes and links, or of the part of the Web that is discovered while browsing. - drawing data- and process-models for information systems during the design phase. The graphical representation of these structures must satisfy a number of static constraints as well as dynamic constraints that limit the changes that are allowed in the display as the graph is being updated. The usability of the algorithms (to be designed and implemented) is more important than the theoretical optimality of these algorithms. (A lot of information on such algorithms can already be found in literature.) This research will involve evaluation of the graphical tools by users in order to determine the best algorithms and the right constraints for maintaining a recognizable graph structure throughout the update process. The environment: This position is situated in the Information Systems group, in which executable specification languages and tools, object-oriented databases, and distributed hypermedia systems (including World Wide Web) are actively studied. The research will be supervised by Paul De Bra, Lou Somers and Jan Paredaens. The location: Eindhoven is located in the province of Noord Brabant in the Netherlands, right near the Belgian border. It is a modern city with a lot of high-tech activity, and has a busy but pleasant center for dining and shopping. The university is within walking distance of the railway station, with direct trains to Tilburg, 's Hertogenbosch, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Maastricht. Eindhoven is only one hour drive away from Antwerp (Belgium), a city with many tourist attractions, and lots of excellent Belgian beer. The research group has active working relations with the universities of Antwerp, Tilburg and with CWI in Amsterdam. Knowledge of the Dutch language is not required for research assistants, and also not for daily life in the Netherlands. (English is the common second language.) Candidates should write an application, with curriculum vitae, to dr. P.M.E. De Bra. Applications by e-mail are preferred. Send applications to debra@win.tue.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-