From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:38:39 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA12667 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:38:27 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19830 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:38:27 -0500 From: "Z.CHEN" Message-Id: <199608131838.NAA19830@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) safeprocess'97 call for paper To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:38:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 11683 First Announcement Call for Papers IFAC SYMPOSIUM ON Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Pro= cesses=20 - SAFEPROCESS'97 August 26 - 28, 1997 Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom Scope: Reliability, availability and safety of technical processes and the= ir=20 control systems are important qualities. These qualities are closely relat= ed=20 both to the process and its control systems and they are addressed during d= esign,=20 start-up, operation, maintenance and repair. To ensure that a controlled p= rocess=20 is reliable, always available and safe, it is necessary to perform conditio= n=20 monitoring, predictive maintenance and fault diagnosis, as well as ensuring= the=20 quality of the system components (the sensors, the actuators, the process c= ontrol=20 computers, etc.). One of the main goals is to produce an early diagnosis= =20 (detection, isolation and identification) of faults, whilst they are incipi= ent=20 and hard to detect and isolate. Another goal is to ensure that the process= can=20 tolerate faults through control system reconfiguration or by a graceful deg= radation=20 of safe and stable closed-loop performance. Human factors and human-machin= e=20 interfaces are final links in the safe operation of technical processes. The goal for the Symposium is to bring together experts from different fiel= ds=20 and applications, with the common interest of supervision, safety and fault= =20 tolerance of process and other engineering systems. The programme will con= sist=20 of state-of-the art reviews, presentations of the new results, tutorials,= =20 discussion and application benchmark sessions. An interdisciplinary approa= ch=20 is stressed in the themes. Organised Special Sessions are welcomed and ses= sions=20 on Industrial and Laboratory Benchmark Problems will form an important part= of=20 the Special Sessions Programme. There will be a continuing benchmark study= =20 based on the industrial actuator problem described at SAFEPROCESS'94 and in= =20 the Control Engineering Practice, 3 (12), 1995 (Blanke, Patton et al.) Technical Topics A=09Design for Reliability and Safety =09A1=09Reliability aspects in design =09A2=09Safety evaluation tools =09A3=09Probabilistic safety assessment applications =09A4=09Probabilistic safety criteria =09A5=09Reliability targets =09A6=09Inherently safe processes =09A7=09Reliability and safety analysis B =09Fault Diagnosis (Detection, Isolation and =09Identification) and System Supervision B1=09Fault modelling B2=09Signal analysis B3=09Quantitative model-based methods B4=09Qualitative model-based methods B5=09Statistic test and decision-making B6=09Pattern recognition C=09Artificial Intelligence in Fault Diagnosis C1=09Qualitative reasoning C2=09Expert systems C3=09Fuzzy logic C4=09Artificial neural networks C5=09Neuro-fuzzy approaches D=09On-line Fault-Tolerant Operation D1=09Fault prediction D2=09Construction of fault-tolerant systems D3=09On-line fault-tolerant operation D4=09Reconfigurable control systems E=09Maintenance =09E1=09Predictive maintenance =09E2=09Reliability centred maintenance =09E3=09Maintenance and repair strategies =09E4=09Life-cycle cost considerations F=09Human Factors =09F1=09The role of the human operator =09F2=09Human reliability analysis =09F3=09Industrial safety management and culture =09F4=09Economic, environmental and=20 =09=09ecological aspects of fault diagnosis =09F5=09Operator support systems =09F6=09Hypermedia applications G=09Case Studies and Implementation Issues =09G1=09Electrical, mechanical and electronic systems =09G2=09Biomedical systems =09G3=09Chemical processes =09G4=09Power systems =09G5=09Nuclear plants =09G6=09Traffic and automotive systems =09G7=09Rail transportation systems =09G8=09Marine systems =09G9=09Aeronautical and aerospace systems =09G10=09Others H=09Benchmarks Symposium Language:=09English Venue: The Symposium will be held at The University of Hull, Dept. of=20 Electronic Eng., approx. 3 miles from Hull Railway Station. Accommodation= =20 is provided at the University's very attractive "Lawns" residence facility,= =20 within 3 miles of the main University Campus. Kingston Upon Hull is close= =20 to many famous cultural and historic centres. The timing of the symposium= =20 is arranged for attendees to visit the historical city of York during one= =20 afternoon. However, the symposium will be just prior to the 2nd IEE/IEEE= =20 International conference on Genetic Algorithms in Engineering Systems:=20 Innovations and Applications (GALESIA'97), to be held at The University=20 of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 1st to 4th September, 1997. Delegates may register= =20 their intention to attend GALESIA'97 by contacting galesia@sheffield.ac.uk. Call for Contributed Papers: 4 copies of a well structured draft paper=20 of 5-8 pages (about 1500-2400 words, 11/2-space typing) are invited. Draft= =20 papers should give an outline of the structure of the final paper and indic= ate=20 clearly the merits of the new contributions and the relevance to the theme= =20 of the Symposium. Further information about a number of issues concerning= =20 the symposium is available on http://www. enc.hull.ac.uk/EE/CONTROL/safe97.= htm. =20 Draft papers including 5 keywords and Classification (e.g. A1) and the full= mail=20 address with Telephone, Fax and E-mail, are to be sent by post to: =09SAFEPROCESS'97 Secretariat =09Department of Electronic Engineering =09The University of Hull, =09Hull, HU6 7RX, U.K. =09(:=09+44 14 82 46 51 33 =09(:=09+44 14 82 46 60 06 =09(:=09safeprocess@e-eng.hull.ac.uk Deadlines Submission of draft papers=09=09October 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance=09=09January 15, 1997 Submission of full paper=09=09April 15, 1997 International Programme Committee (IPC) Patton R.J. (UK), Chair=09 Adeli H. (USA)=09=09 Albertos P. (ES)=09 Basseville M. (F)=09 Blanke M. (DK)=09=09 Bologna S. (I)=09=09 Brandt D. (D)=09=09 Cauvin S. (F)=09=09 Clarke D.W. (UK)=09 Clark R.N. (USA)=09 Daley S. (UK)=09=09 Dubuisson B. (F)=09 Filbert D. (D)=09=09 Fleming P. (UK)=09=09 Frank P.M. (D)=09=09 Gertler J. (USA)=09 Gissinger G.L. (F)=09 Goodwin G. (AUS)=09 Halme A. (FI)=09=09 Harris C J (UK)=09=09 Himmelblau D. (USA) =09 Isaksson A.J. (S)=09 Isermann R. (D) =09 Jiang J. (CAN)=09=09 Keviczky L. (H) =09 Kiencke U. (D)=09=09 Kinnaert M. (B) =09 Koivo H. (FI) Korbicz J. (Pol) K=F6nig J. (D) Lautala P. (FI) Leitch R. (UK) Ljung L. (S) Magni J.F. (F) Matsuyama H. (J) McAvoy T. (USA) Milne R. (UK) Mitchell J. R. (USA) Morris A.J. (UK) Ollero A. (ES) Perrin J.P.(F) Ragot J. (F) Rizzoni G. (USA) Roberts P.D. (UK) S=F6derstr=F6m T. (S) Speyer J. L. (USA) Staroswiecki M. (F) Suski G. J. (USA) Tersty=E1nszky G. (H) Tzafestas S. (G) Verbruggen H B (NL) Wach D. (D) Walker B.K. (USA) Zarrop M.B. (UK) Zhang H.Y. (PRC) National Organising Committee Daley S.=09=09=09Chair Chen J.=09=09=09Associate Editor Gilbert J. M=09=09Publicity Henry M.=09=09=09Industrial Liaison Millar P.=09=09=09Industrial Liaison Montague G.=09=09Co-sponsorship Patton R.J.=09=09Editor Rodd M.G.=09=09UKACC Representative Further information: If you want to receive the final program and registrat= ion=20 forms, please write (or e-mail) to SAFEPROCESS'97 Secretariat. Sponsors and Organiser SAFEPROCESS is a tri-ennial Symposium series of the International Federatio= n=20 of Automatic Control (IFAC) and is sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committe= e: =20 Fault Detection, Safety and Supervision of Technical Processes. =20 The following Technical Committees are co-sponsoring SAFEPROCESS'97:=20 Algorithms & Architectures for Real-Time Control,=20 AI in Real-time Control, Chemical Process Control,=20 Marine Systems, Components & Instruments, Aerospace, =20 Automotive Control, Transportation Systems, =20 Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Safety of Computer Control Systems,=20 Social Impact of Automation. The Symposium is organised by: THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING on behalf of: The United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC)=20 - the IFAC National Member Organisation IFAC Publication and Copyright Policy: The material submitted for presentation at SAFEPROCESS'97 must be original,= =20 not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for publi= cation=20 will appear in the Pre-prints of the meeting which will be distributed to t= he=20 participants. Papers duly presented will be offered for sale, in the form = of=20 Postprint volumes, by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK. These will be fur= ther=20 screened for possible publication in the IFAC journals Automatica and Contr= ol=20 Engineering Practice. Copyright in material will be held by IFAC. Authors= =20 will be sent a copyright transfer form. Automatica and Control Engineering= =20 Practice and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to= =20 all presented contributions. However, if the author is not contacted by an= =20 editor of these journals, by 1st December 1997, he/she is free to re-submit= =20 the material for publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry= =20 a reference to the IFAC Symposium SAFEPROCESS'97. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Zheng CHEN Department of Electronic Engineering University of Hull Hull, HU6 7RX, UK Tel: (44) 1482 465152 FAX: (44) 1482 466664 Email: Z.Chen@e-eng.hull.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:39:41 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA12740 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:39:27 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19842 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:39:26 -0500 From: Moshe Vardi Message-Id: <199608131839.NAA19842@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Kanellakis Award To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:39:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4471 Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award The Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award is given to an individual or group for a specific theoretical accomplishment that has had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. The nature of the theoretical accomplishment may be either an invention itself or a major analytic study of an existing technique that led practitioners to adopt it. The Award has been established in memory of the late Paris C. Kanellakis, whose tragic death in late 1995 cut short a distinguished research career. The monetary amount of the award will be $5,000, to be paid from an endowment established for this purpose. The frequency of the award will depend on the size of the endowment, but should be at least once every three years. The first award will be made in 1997. Winners of the award will be chosen by a 5-member committee appointed by the ACM Awards Committee Chair. Membership on the committee will be on a rotating basis, with 5-year terms. The current committee consists of David Johnson, Tom Leighton, Christos Papadimitriou, Moshe Vardi, and Peter Wegner (Chair). The committee will actively solicit nominations from the research and practitioner communities, as well as outside advice on questions of practical and theoretical significance and of priority. Nominations from previous years will typically be carried forward. The committee also reserves the right to make its own nominations. Winners will be selected based on both the importance of the practical impact and the quality of the theoretical accomplishment. In addition to choosing award winners, the Prize Committee will also prepare an extended award citation suitable for publication in all ACM announcements as well as in the ACM Awards Program brochure, based on the nomination and other relevant information obtained by the committee in evaluating the nominee. A nomination will consist of three related parts. (1) A discussion of the theoretical work being nominated, including copies of relevant publications or other documentation of the accomplishment. (2) A description of the claimed practical impact, together with evidence supporting the claims, either in the form of published references or attached statements by one or more top practitioners in the relevant field. (3) Evidence of the linkage between the theoretical work and the practical impact, either in the form of documentation that implies the linkage, or attached statements from the implementers attesting to it. It is not required that the nominees were involved in the transfer from theory to practice, though such an involvement will strengthen the nomination. The theoretical contribution should have occurred within 25 years of the date of the award. For the 1997 award, this means that contributions that were made in 1972 or later are eligible. Nominations should be sent by November 1, 1996 to Professor Peter Wegner Brown University Box 1910 Computer Science Department 115 Waterman Street - 4th Floor Providence, RI 02912 +1-401-863-7632 - office +1-401-863-7657 - fax pw@cs.brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:41:50 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA12790 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:41:44 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19865 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:41:43 -0500 From: Peretz Shoval Message-Id: <199608131841.NAA19865@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) NGITS'97 - Call for papers To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:41:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8778 Call for Papers NGITS '97 The Third International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems June 30 - July 3, 1997 Neve Ilan (near Jerusalem), ISRAEL Main sponsors: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology The next generation information systems will be complex, intelligent, and cooperative, and will utilize various multimedia-media technologies. The goal of the NGITS Workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing issues and solutions related to next generation information systems and the technologies that would make them possible. Following the success of the two previous workshops that were held in 1993 and 1995, a third workshop will take place in 1997. The workshop will feature paper sessions, panel discussions and talks by invited speakers. All accepted papers will appear in a workshop proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering. Workshop Topics ================= The scope of the workshop includes (not exclusively) the following topics: o Decision Support Systems: data warehousing; data mining; web querying. o Electronic Commerce and Interoperability: security and privacy; brokering; information integration (especially on the web); cooperation among heterogeneous information systems; information mediation. o Data and knowledge base systems: advanced models and languages; data integrity and quality; management of spatial and temporal data. o Data modeling: conceptual and logical design; modeling methods and tools; schema integration; forward and reverse data engineering. o Information retrieval: document and multimedia information systems; information extraction, indexing and filtering; digital libraries. o Human-computer interaction: user interface design, human-computer cooperation. o AI techniques: knowledge management; knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge discovery; coordination technologies and agent architectures. o Software engineering and information systems development: analysis and design methods and techniques; CASE tools; object- and process-oriented approaches; project management, software metrics and estimation. o Management information systems: decision support systems; executive information systems; office automation; value of information; evaluation of information systems. o Advanced applications: services and tools to support information infrastructure, scientific and geographical databases; advanced manufacturing systems; health care (medical) information systems. We solicit contributions of three kinds: * Full research papers * Short position papers * Proposals for panel discussions All contributions must emphasize their relevance to issues of next generation information technologies and systems, and must be addressed to an audience of diverse background and interests. - The category of "research papers" is intended for technical papers describing research accomplishments. - The category of "short position papers" is intended for papers that discuss new challenges and visionary solutions. - Proposals for panels should include an abstract of the subject and likely participants. Program Committee Chairs ======================== Avi Silberschatz Peretz Shoval Information Sciences Research center Information Systems Program Bell Laboratories Dept. of Industrial Engin. & Manage. 700 Mountain Ave Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel avi@bell-labs.com shoval@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Fax: 908 582-5809 Fax: +972 7-647-2958 Organizing and Local Arrangement Chairs ======================================= Opher Etzion and Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000, Israel ngits@ie.technion.ac.il Fax: + 972 4-8235194 Information For Authors ======================= A research papers should not exceed 5000 words (approx. 10 LateTex pages, or 20 double-spaced pages) - including figures, tables and references. Short position papers are limited to 2000 words. We shall attempt to handle the submission and review processes by electronic mail and request that you submit your contributions by mailing a PostScript or RTF or MS-WORD or ASCII text file containing your paper to Peretz Shoval at the above e-mail address. Otherwise, please send 3 copies of your paper to BOTH co-chairs at the above postal addresses. Full-paper and Short-paper submissions must include the following: a) title; b) names and affiliations of authors; c) e-mail and address of the corresponding author; d) abstract; e) a list of 4-6 keywords/phrases that characterize the paper f) body of the paper; g) references/bibliography. Important dates: ================ 31 January 1997: Submissions of papers due 15 March 1997: Notification of acceptance 15 April 1997: Camera-ready manuscripts due June 30 - July 3, 1997: The workshop Location: ========= The workshop will take place in Nave-Ilan, a resort village not far from Jerusalem. The workshop will include sightseing tours in the Jerusalem area. Steering Committee ================== + Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA + Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA + Noshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel + Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Program Committee =================== + Nabil Adam , Rutgers University, USA + Barbara Blaustein, NSF, USA + Yuri Breitbart, Univ of Kentuky, USA + Cartiel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel + Dan Berry, Technion, Israel + Ron Brachman, AT&T Research, USA + Olga De Troyer, Tilburg University, The Nederlands + Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey + Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel + Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel + Avigdor Gal, University of Toronto, Canada + Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel + Hans Hansen, Viena U. of Economics & Business Admin., Austria + Haim Kilov, IBM at Watson, USA + Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Belgium + Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University, Israel + Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA + Doron Rotem, LBL, USA + Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel + S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India + Bernhard Thalheim, Cotbus Technical University, Germany + Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA + Doug Tygar, CMU, USA + Jeff Ulman, Stanford University, USA + Riend Van De Riet, Vrije University, The Netherlands + Yelena Yesha, University of Mariland, USA + Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA + Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA UPTODATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WWW SITE (coming soon): //http: iew3.technion.ac.il:8080/Home/NGITS97.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. PERETZ SHOVAL shoval@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Head, Information Systems Engineering Tel: +972 7 6472221 Dept. of Industrial Eng. & Management Fax: +972 7 6472958 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, ISRAEL --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:43:44 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA12832 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:43:37 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19892 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:43:36 -0500 From: sjbr@cs.utwente.nl (Sjaak Brinkkemper) Message-Id: <199608131843.NAA19892@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Final announcement: Method Engineering '96 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:43:36 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 31202 NOTE: Best viewed using a monospaced type font NOTE: Special rate for PhD students --------------------------------------------------------------- <*********** PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *************> METHOD ENGINEERING'96 PRINCIPLES FOR METHOD CONSTRUCTION AND TOOL SUPPORT Organized by: The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.1 and 8.2 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems, The Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization) 25-28 AUGUST 1996 Atlanta, GA USA http://www.cis.gsu.edu/ME-96 or: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~dmrg *************************************************************** *THEME* Formal methods and methodologies continue to play a significant role in the development of information systems, guiding the who, what, where, why and when issues which arise as information systems are developed and evolved. System development methods, once taken to mean monolithic, cradle-to-grave, one-size-fits-all methodologies, are increasingly viewed as "method frameworks" which, in turn, are adapted to the specific development situation. How such frameworks should be built, selected, supported, and deployed is the main subject of this conference. The conference itself is an outgrowth of the IFIP Taskgroup on Method Engineering and several preceding summer workshops held on this subject. The conference will be the first "formal" gathering by IFIP. It is intended to provide substantive insights for both the researcher and practitioner into the current state-of-the-field, and to further engage a community of scholars and practitioners interested in this subject and its ramifications. *CONFERENCE PROGRAM* Sunday 25 August ================ 17.00 - 19.00 Registration 18.00 - 20.00 Welcoming reception Monday 26 August ================ 8.00 Registration 9.00 Conference Opening 9.10 Welcome from the conference chairs Kalle Lyytinen, General Chair Sjaak Brinkkemper, Program Chair Richard J. Welke, Organizing Chair 9.30 Keynote Lecture: A Primer to Method Engineering James Odell, USA 10.30 Coffee Break 11.00 Paper session: ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES Structural Artifacts in Method Engineering: The Security Imperative Richard Baskerville (Denmark, USA) Characterizing IS Development Projects Kees van Slooten and Bert Hodes (The Netherlands) 12.30 Lunch Break 14.00 Panel: REENGINEERING METHOD ENGINEERING? (see Panel Description section below for details) Chair: Keng Siau, (USA) Panelists: Lucas Introna (UK), Graham McLeod (South Africa), Jeffrey Parsons (Canada), Yair Wand (Canada) (see description below) 15.30 Coffee Break 16.00 Paper session: COMPUTER-ASSISTED METHOD ENGINEERING TOOLS Towards an Integrated Environment for Method Engineering John C. Grundy and John R. Venable (New Zealand) A Functional Framework for Evaluating Method Engineering Environments: the case of Maestro II/Decamerone and MetaEdit+ P. Marttiin, F. Harmsen and M. Rossi (Finland and The Netherlands) Method Rationale in Method Engineering and Use Harri Oinas-Kukkonen (Finland) 17.30 End of first day Tuesday 27 August ================= 8.30 Registration 9.00 Paper session: EXPERIENCES WITH METHOD COMPOSITION How to Compose an Object-Oriented Business Process Model Peter Kueng, Peter Bichler, Peter Kawalek and Michael Schrefl (UK and Austria) Human Work as Context for Development of OO-Modeling techniques Jens Kaasboll and Ole Smordal (Norway) Translating OMT* to SDL, Coupling Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Formal Description Techniques K. Verschaeve, B. Wydaeghe, V. Jonckers and L. Cuypers (Belgium) 10.30 Coffee Break 11.00 Paper session: METHOD MODELLING A Proposal for Context-Specific Method Engineering Colette Rolland and Naveen Prakash (France and India) Comparison of Four Method Engineering Languages Frank Harmsen and Motoshi Saeki (the Netherlands and Japan) 12.30 Lunch Break 14.00 Paper session: ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTION PARADIGMS Method Engineering: Who's the Customer L. Mathiassen, A. Munk-Madsen, P.A. Nielsen and J. Stage (Denmark) Simulation-Based Method Engineering in Federated Organizations P. Peters, M. Mandelbaum and M. Jarke (Germany) 15.30 Coffee Break 16.00 Panel: METHOD ENGINEERING: EXPERIENCES IN PRACTICE (see Panel Description section below for details) Panel Chair: Gezinus J. Hidding (USA) Panelists: James J. Odell (USA), John Parkinson (USA), Gerard M. Wijers (the Netherlands) (see description) 17.30 End of second day Evening: Conference dinner Wednesday 28 August =================== 9.00 Keynote Lecture: Information Systems Development: A Broader Perspective David Avison (UK) 10.30 Coffee Break 11.00 Paper session: GENERATION AND EVALUATION OF TOOLS Lazy Functional Meta-CASE Programming Stef Joosten (USA) A Practical Strategy for the Evaluation of Software Tools Antony Powell, Andrew Vickers, Eddie Williams and Brian Cooke (UK) Core Objects Required For A Generic CASE Repository Gordon Manson, Siobhan North and Abdullah Alghamdi (UK) 12.30 Lunch Break 14.00 Paper session: METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS A Classification of Methodological Framework for Computerized Information Systems Support in Organizations John Krogstie and Arne Solvberg (Norway) Method Engineering: Current research directions and implications for future research Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Matti Rossi and Hui Liu (Finland) 15.30 Closing session Announcement of Method Engineering '99 16.00 End of Conference 16.30 Open Scientific meeting IFIP WG8.1/8.2: Taskgroup on Method Engineering (see description below) 18.00 End *POSTERS* During Method Engineering '96 a special area is reserved for poster presentations. Scientific or industrial research projects of any scale are invited to illustrate innovative concepts, theories or prototype systems related to Method Engineering on a poster. Instructions for poster submission: A poster proposal is a one or two page(s) document, which includes: - title - names and affiliation of presenters/authors - abstract of the research project - outline of the poster - references (limited to 5) Further information: - It is the intention to compose a special poster book of all accepted poster proposals. This poster book will be distributed among all participants of the conference. - Poster presenters are invited to accompany their poster presentation with a demo presentation. Minimal hardware facilities might be provided (for UNIX and DOS). - Poster presenters are invited to bring copies of their research papers for handing-out. Poster proposals should be sent to: Rolf Engmann Poster chair Method Engineering '96 Department of Computer Science University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands Tel:+31-53-489.3691 Fax:+31-53-489.2927 E-mail:engmann@cs.utwente.nl Important dates: Deadline for poster proposals : 15 July 1996 Notification of poster acceptance: 25 July 1996 Acceptance notifications will include further instructions for the final poster format. *TASKGROUP ON METHOD ENGINEERING The IFIP Taskgroup on Method Engineering is an informal group of researchers from the industry and academia under the umbrella of both IFIP Working Groups 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems) and 8.2 (The Interaction of Information Systems and the Organization). The objective of the group is to promote research in the area of method engineering in a broad sense, and to exchange and disseminate research results. In the past years the taskgroup has organised three very successful summerschools on Method Engineering and Meta-Modelling (Jyvaskyla, Twente, Calgary) and has established an active research network. The taskgroup can be extended with some members to bring in new ideas and to be involved in the organisation of future events (summerschools and conferences). The taskgroup will meet directly after the Closing Session of the conference on Wednesday 28 August. This meeting is open to all who are interested in joining the group. Ideas, questions and expressions of interest can be directed to the co-chair of the taskgroup, Sjaak Brinkkemper (brinkkemper@cs.utwente.nl). *PANEL DESCRIPTIONS* Panel 1: REENGINEERING METHOD ENGINEERING? Panel Chair: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Panelists: Lucas Introna, London School of Economics, UK Graham McLeod, University of Cape Town, South Africa Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University, Canada Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada Panel 1 Summary Statement: Is there a need for method engineering when only 20% of the developers perform modeling work? Is there a future for method engineering when the majority of practitioners subscribe to their "home-made" methods or methodologies during information systems development? These are the issues that will be discussed and argued during the panel. Panelist Lucas Introna advocates the abandonment of the notion of method and all of its rationalistic baggage. He argues that it is not possible to train designers in particular ways of developing systems. Designers have to become apprentices to existing system developers and learn their skill by socialization. Panelist Graham McLeod maintains that methods can never be fully prescriptive, since they operate in a social environment and the behavior of a complex system is not predictable, but emergent from the complex interaction of many autonomous agents. Panelists Jeffrey Parsons, Keng Siau, and Yair Wand, on the other hand, believe that the unfortunate state of affairs in systems development method can be attributed partly to the lack of strong theoretical foundation and empirical work in the area. In this panel, Jeff Parsons will discuss the use of classification theory (i.e., how humans organize information in terms of categories or concepts) as a theoretical foundation for method engineering. Panelist Yair Wand will discuss method engineering from the ontological point of view and show how ontological concepts can be used in method engineering. Keng Siau will address the role of empirical research in method engineering. PANEL 2: METHOD ENGINEERING: EXPERIENCES IN PRACTICE Panel Chair: Gezinus J. Hidding, Andersen Consulting, USA Panelists: James J. Odell, James Odell Associates, USA John Parkinson, Ernst & Young, USA Gerard M. Wijers, ID Research, the Netherland Panel 2 Summary Statement: Method Engineering is a topic of much research activity witness, for example, this conference. Much of the research focuses on contrasting and comparing various approaches, on repository design, or on design of Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME) tools. Very little of the research focuses on whether methods are used or useful, let alone whether method engineering is used or valuable. Some research, for example, by the Software Engineering Institute, suggests that much systems development work is being done without any formalized procedures for doing or managing the work (Masters and Kitson, 1992). Other researchers, e.g., Orr (1993), even argue that methodologies are not very useful. Ciborra (1993) argues that the a-conflictual and mechanistic nature of structured system development approaches does not even fit the current, and complex reality. However, as Wynekoop and Russo (1993) argued, empirical results or research into experiences with methods (engineering) in practice are rare. Are practitioners using methods, let alone method engineering? Are there different practitioner segments, with different information needs? What are their experiences? What does it even mean to "use" methods? Research by the panel chair indicates that practitioners who use methods do so subconsciously. Their work reveals the method(s) they apply, but they don't read those methods actively anymore. How does methods use or non-use impact an organization's operations? How does it impact an organization's business results (e.g., better quality, faster turn around time, less cost, more productive)? Clearly, such questions are important, as investments in the development and training in such methods are substantial. The panelists, all close to practical applications of Method Engineering, will address these types of questions in their position statements. *SOCIAL PROGRAMME* In addition to the professional sessions, Method Engineering '96 includes the following opportunities for participants to get together and further exchange views in a relaxed atmosphere: WELCOME RECEPTION: Sunday 25 August, 18.00 h. A welcoming reception with drinks and snacks. MONDAY EVENING OUTING Monday 26 August, 18:30 h. Current plans are that this will be a Southern-style BBQ with other Southern foods (Brunswick Stew) and, of course, "sweet tea." It will be held away from the main conference facility; bus transportation will be provided. It is *hoped* that this will be a sponsored event. CONFERENCE DINNER: Tuesday 27 August, in the evening. This will be a more "elegant" dinner evening held at one of the better restaurants near the conference venue (Buckhead). Conference dinner tickets for accompanying persons can be ordered on the registration form or bought at the registration desk on Sunday, subject to seating availability. *EXCURSIONS* The conference takes place shortly after the Atlanta Olympic Games, and the associated Paralympic Games. As such, there will be many opportunities for those arriving early, or staying on afterwards, to see Atlanta as the several million spectators and participants to the games did. In fact, if one arrive early, you can readily attend events of the Paralympic Games and see the various venues first-hand. To obtain more information on this possibility, see the conference URL, or: http://www.atlantagames.com/paragames/ the official Web site of the Paralympics (which includes events, dates, ticket ordering, etc.). The conference's Web page (see below for URLs) will identify various opportunities for sight-seeing and excursions which will be available before or after the conference. *INTERNET ACCESS* We hope to provide, at the conference hotel, one or two computers by which you can access the Internet using Telnet to your local computer. *CONFERENCE VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION* The conference will be held in the conference facilities of the Wyndham Garden Hotels - Atlanta Buckhead located in the "Buckhead" section of Atlanta, GA (USA). The hotel information is as follows: Wyndham Garden Hotel - Atlanta Buckhead 3340 Peachtree Road, NE Atlanta, GA 30326 USA Phone: +1.404.231.1234 Fax: +1.404.231.3112 Contact person: Mr. Darryl Arancio (if you encounter difficulties) You can visit the conference URL to see maps of the area. The hotel was chosen for its proximity to the Buckhead "night life," the MARTA subway/underground, and several high-end, enclosed shopping malls, as well as alternative housing and easy access to one of the main expressways. A block of 80 rooms have been reserved for the conference through the first week of August. After that space will be available on an as-available basis. Participants are encouraged to make their reservations with the hotel as soon as possible, and before the beginning of August. Be aware that from July 19th to August 4th many hotels will be *very* busy handling the deluge of Olympic visitors to Atlanta. Room rates for Sunday through Wednesday (special to the conference) are as follows: $107.00 Single plus occupancy tax (13%) $117.00 Double plus occupancy tax (13%) For those choosing to arrive early, the special rate of $89.00 (single occupancy plus 13% tax) can be had for the preceding Friday and Saturday evenings. You are requested to CONTACT THE HOTEL DIRECTLY at the numbers given above to make your reservation and confirm your first nights lodging by credit card or other payment mechanism. The hotel has agreed to waive the first night deposit for foreign visitors provided you arrive *before* 16:00 h. of the day you intend to check in. Else, they will attempt to sell your room. If you can, you should attempt to provide a means to secure your first night, given the vagaries of flight schedules, etc. Should you have difficulty, please contact the conference secretary listed below. In your discussions with the hotel, please state that you are attending the IFIP ME-96 Conference. *TRANSPORTATION* Hartsfield International Airport is the main airport for the city. It has been newly refurbished for the arrival of our Olympic visitors. It is serviced by the MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) "subway." You can take MARTA, for a $1.50 token to a newly opened MARTA station (Buckhead) very near the hotel. When you get onto MARTA at the airport you will be on the North/South line going North. There are *two* branches to the North-bound line. You wish to be on the North (vs. Northeast) line which terminates at Perimeter Center. You will be getting off at the Buckhead Station (N7)which is at: 3360 Peachtree Road at Tara Place and is a 500 foot walk to the conference hotel. You could also rent a car and drive to the hotel. Detailed location maps will be provided on the Web. You can also use various web sites, such as the AJC web noted above to find and secure rental cars. You will *not* need a car to get around for the conference. *REGISTRATION* The attached conference registration form should be completed and returned to the Conference Secretariat. The early registration fees apply ONLY if payment is received BEFORE August 10th, 1996. Instructions for payment are given on the registration form. All prices are quoted in US Dollars (US$). Please note that registration can only be processed after receipt of payment. We will post on the Atlanta-based conference web page those applications we've received as well as sending email confirmation. To assist in this process PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR (correct) EMAIL ADDRESS. The conference fee includes attendance at the conference, a copy of the conference proceedings, welcoming reception, conference lunches, conference dinner, and coffee breaks. We are offerring, to full-time PhD students not holding a regular University appointment, a special registration fee of $195. This excludes the two dinners. They will need to provide a memo from their supervisor at the time they arrive attesting to their status (i.e. PhD student, not full-time regular faculty). Mark the registration as Full-time PhD student and enter $195 for the registration fee. Questions about registration, reservation, payment, etc. should be directed to the Conference Secretary. Conference registration is done by completing the Registration Form below, and forwarding it, with your payment, to the Conference Secretary: Ms. Carol Carter Computer Information Systems Department College of Business Administration Georgia State University PO Box 4012 Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 USA E-mail: ccarter@gsu.edu Phone: +1.404.651.3871 Fax : +1.404.651.3842 The Web page(s), as well as email will be our primary mode of communication during this period. *CANCELLATION* Cancellation of registration must be communicated in writing to the Conference Secretariat. We will, in turn cancel your hotel reservations, unless you inform us otherwise. Cancellation of registration made prior to August 10, 1996 is subject to a 25% CANCELLATION FEE. Thereafter no refund can be made. A substitute can participate instead. *GENERAL INFORMATION* The City of Atlanta is known by most who write about her as "Hotlanta." While this *might* refer to the summer temperatures, it in fact refers to the population and opportunity growth this city has experienced (and continues to experience)over the past several decades. It is home to numerous Fortune 500 companies and an estimated metropolitan population of over 2.5 million people. An expected additional 2.5 million visitors during the Olympics will temporarily double our population. Courtesy of the XXIII Olympiad, nearly everyone will have read about, and will see parts of Atlanta and its diverse business and social culture. Originally founded by the act of driving a spike in the ground as the point where a major North/South and East/West rail line were to cross, it was subsequently burned to the ground during the Civil War by General Sherman of the Union Army. This was "documented" in the well-known movie "Gone With the Wind." Most visitors' first impressions of Atlanta is one of its "green-ness," due to a variety of trees which grow year-round to great sizes. While located in the South, it's cosmopolitan orientation exudes a blend of both Northern and Southern cultures. There are many Web sites which can provide you with more information about Atlanta and its surrounding areas, including places to visit, food, history, etc. One place to start is with the web site of the local newspaper (The Atlanta Journal/Constitution) at www.ajc.com. Another general site is: http://www.city.net/countries/united_states/georgia/atlanta/ *CLIMATE AND DRESS* Atlanta, in August, tends towards the hot and humid. Daytime temperatures run in the 80's to 90's and can hit 100F. Humidity also tends to the higher side. Evenings are cooler, typically in the mid-70s and very pleasant. Emphasizing that its long-range forecast is very preliminary, the National Weather Service, says there is a 39.3 percent chance that temperatures from June to August will be above normal. The chance for near normal temperatures is 33.3 percent and the chance for below normal is 27.3 percent. As for thunderstorms, another infamous feature of Atlanta summers, the weather service said there is no indication that rainfall will be above or below normal. However, *everything* in Atlanta is air-conditioned (except the outside). Thus, aside from your excursions outside, you should plan to dress appropriate to inside temperatures in the low- to mid-70s. In the South people dress *very* casually; you will *not* need a suit; maybe a sport coat and tie (males) for the "dressier" restaurants. Casual cotton dresses are the most common female dress, along with shorts and blouses. The conference hotel has "guest privileges" with one of the major health spas located less than one hundred feet from the hotel. Here you can work out, swim, take a sauna and stay fit as time and energies permit. Bring athletic wear appropriate to your sports interests. Our advice for outside travel? Wear loose cotton -- the only place you'll need even a light sweater or equivalent will be in the air-conditioned buildings (which include the shopping malls and restaurants). Also, you should bring sun tan lotion, with an SPF of 15 or better as the sun is quite direct and intense. And, while the Ozone layer is allegedly now beginning to repair itself, this isn't expected to reduce harmful rays until the early part of the next century. You should also bring an umbrella for the very occasional thunderstorms. *CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION* General Conference Chair: Kalle Lyytinen University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Programme Chair: Sjaak Brinkkemper University of Twente, the Netherlands Organizing Chair: Richard J. Welke Department of Computer Information Systems College of Business Administration Georgia State University P.O. Box 4015 Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 USA Phone: +1.404.651-3885 (office) Phone: +1.770.518-5740 (home) Fax: +1.404.651-3842 (office) email: rwelke@gsu.edu Conference Secretariat: Ms. Carol Carter Computer Information Systems Department College of Business Administration Georgia State University PO Box 4012 Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 USA E-mail: ccarter@gsu.edu Phone: +1.404.651.3871 Fax : +1.404.651.3842 *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* David Avison, UK Janis Bubenko, Sweden Sue Conger, USA Alan Davis, USA Jurgen Ebert, Germany Gregor Engels, The Netherlands Antony Finkelstein, UK Brian Henderson-Sellers, Australia Alan Hevner, USA Gezinus Hidding, USA Shuguang Hong, USA Juhani Iivari, Finland Matthias Jarke, Germany Heinz Klein, USA Peri Loucopoulos, UK Lars Mathiassen, Denmark Leon Osterweil, USA Barbara Pernici, Italy Naveen Prakash, India Colette Rolland, France Motoshi Saeki, Japan Olivia Sheng, Hong Kong Arne Solvberg, Norway Paul Sorenson, Canada John Venable, New Zealand Yair Wand, Canada Tony Wasserman, USA Trevor Wood-Harper, UK Stanislaw Wrycza, Poland *REGISTRATION* --------------------------------------------------------------- Method Engineering '96 REGISTRATION FORM Please return at your earliest convenience to: Ms. Carol Carter Department of Computer Information Systems Georgia State University PO Box 4015 Atlanta, GA 30302-4015 USA Fax: +1.404.651.3842 E-mail: ccarter@gsu.edu If sending by courier (FedEx, UPS, etc.), you'll need to use the street address for delivery: Ms. Carol Carter Department of Computer Information Systems Georgia State University 35 Broad Street Room 931 Atlanta, GA 30303 USA This address should only be used for delivery services. PARTICIPANT INFORMATION Last name ______________________________________ First name ______________________ Male/Female ___ Organization and Department_____________________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ City ______________________ Postal code ______________ Country _____________________ Telephone _____________________ Fax __________________ E-mail ______________________ REGISTRATION By August 10 After August 10 Amount Paid Conference : USD 295 USD 345 ___________ Accompanying person(s) for Monday outing: USD 10 x _____ = ___________ Accompanying person(s) for Conference Dinner: USD 45 x _____ = ___________ Total amount USD ___________ Remarks (e.g: special diet): ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ NB: We will attempt to accommodate your dietary needs. The Monday evening event will, however be a BBQ, and may not be appropriate for those who are vegetarians or have other dietary restrictions. METHOD OF PAYMENT FOR REGISTRATION __ Commercial (institutional) check drawn on a bank with clearing operations in the USA and payable (without charges) in USD __ Payment order (or wire-transfer) Remit to the Nations Bank, Georgia State University Operating Account Number: 0000008648. The AVA (Routing) number is 061000052. The payment order should reference the registrant's full name *and* indicate that this is for IFIP ME-96. Please attach a copy of the receipt to the registration form. __ Banker's draft, net of bank charges. 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A version of this form is available at http://www.cis.gsu.edu/ME-96 --- End Included Message --- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sjaak Brinkkemper | | Department of Computer Science | | University of Twente | | P.O.Box 217 | | NL-7500 AE Enschede tel. +31.53.489.4283 | | The Netherlands fax. +31.53.489.2927 | | WWW: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~sjbr | | e-mail: { sjbr | brinkkemper }@cs.utwente.nl | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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North" Message-Id: <199608131846.NAA19921@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Graph Drawing '96, Sept. 18-20, Berkeley CA USA, final announcement To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:46:13 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1767 Graph Drawing '96 will be held Sept. 18-20 at MSRI in Berkeley, California. The program and instructions regarding registration and local arrangements can be found in: http://www.research.att.com/orgs/ssr/people/north/gd96.html If you would like to receive the information by e-mail instead, please contact gd96@research.att.com. Stephen North ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:48:38 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA13017 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:48:32 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19945 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:48:32 -0500 From: albert@research.att.com (Albert Greenberg) Message-Id: <199608131848.NAA19945@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) SIGMETRICS 97 CALL FOR PAPERS To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:48:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5077 CALL FOR PAPERS 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems June 15-18, 1997 Seattle, WA Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS An international forum for state-of-the-art work on performance issues in computer systems: theory, practice and case studies. Topics include but are not restricted to: * Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of: Communication networks, Computer architecture, Database systems, Distributed systems, File and I/O systems, Fault-tolerant systems, Memory systems, High speed networks, ATM, Interconnection networks, Multimedia systems, Operating systems, Real-time systems, Network management systems, Service management systems. * Techniques and algorithms for: Performance optimization, Stochastic modeling, Model verification and validation, Experimental design, Petri Nets, Reliability analysis and measurement, Workload characterization, System measurement and monitoring, Simulation and statistical analysis. The default process for submitting papers (in Postscript) will be through the Internet. Permission to submit through other means (and instructions for doing so) must be obtained from the Program Chairman, at: sigmetrics97@research.att.com Information on Sigmetrics '97 will be maintained at: http://www.research.att.com/conf We will accept submissions for: Papers: Papers should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages (excluding figures and tables). All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper and bibliographic references should be modified so as not to reveal the identities of the authors. A small number of top papers will be recognized as award papers. One of the awards will be for the best paper written by a student. (The submission must indicate that the primary author is a full-time student. It is not necessary that the student be the sole author of the paper.) Hot Topic Sessions: A group of speakers will present and discuss their recent results in an area. Send proposals to the program chair, identifying the organizer of the session, the session title, three to five speakers, the titles of their talks, and a 100 word abstract of each talk. Tutorials: Sunday, June 15, 1997 --- Send proposals of 1-2 pages for 90 minute and 3 hours tutorials to the tutorials chair. Joint (3 hours) tutorial proposals are encouraged from researchers working in related areas. The goal is to promote linkages (e.g., theory and practice in a given domain, alternative modeling approaches in a given domain, complementary domains). Important deadlines: October 18, 1996 Submission December 19, 1996 Notification of acceptance January 31, 1997 Camera-ready copy due Abstracts of the Hot Topic talks will be included in the conference Proceedings. The Proceedings will also be published as a special issue of ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. General Chair: John Zahorjan, University of Washington, zahorjan@cs.washington.edu, +1 206 685 2695 Program Chair: Albert Greenberg, AT&T Research, albert@research.att.com, +1 908 582 3395 Tutorials Chair: Asit Dan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, asit@watson.ibm.com, +1 914 784 6677 Publications Chair: Tim Brecht, York University, brecht@cs.yorku.ca, +1 416 736 5053 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:49:36 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA13022 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:49:26 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19955 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:49:25 -0500 From: Isaac Balbin Message-Id: <199608131849.NAA19955@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWOLRD) Last Call for Papers---DASFAA '97 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:49:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2252 Intending authors for the Fifth International Conference On Database Systems For Advanced Applications are reminded that papers are due on August 30, 1996, The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia on April 1-4, 1997. Further information can be found on our website at http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/DASFAA97/ ------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------ For further information, please contact Tori KENNEDY RMIT 723 Swanston Street Carlton, Victoria, 3053 Australia. Fax: +61-3-9282-2444 E-mail: dasfaa97@mds.rmit.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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:50:10 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA13038 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:50:02 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19963 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:50:00 -0500 From: acpc96@ldecs1.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at Message-Id: <199608131850.NAA19963@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWOLRD) CfP: Parallel DBs and Parallel I/O To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:50:00 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 16902 Call for Participation and Last Chance for EARLY Registration 3rd International Conference of the Austrian Center for Parallel Computation (ACPC) with special emphasis on Parallel Databases and Parallel I/O Sept. 22-25 1996, Klagenfurt/Austria http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/ACPC96/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, September 22, 1996 * 19:00 Welcome Reception Monday, September 23, 1996 * 8:15 - 8:30 Opening Ceremony * 8:30 - 9:30 Invited Talk on Parallel I/O, held by David Kotz: "Flexibility and Performance of Parallel File Systems" * 9:45 - 10:45 Parallel I/O Chair: P. Brezany o The Performance of I/O Management and Data Replication Strategies in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems KWONG Peter Carleton University, Canada MAJUMDAR Shikharesh Carleton University, Canada o An Experimental Evaluation of the Parallel I/O Systems of the IBM SP and Intel Paragon Using a Production Application THAKUR Rajeev Argonne National Laboratory, USA GROPP William Argonne National Laboratory, USA LUSK Ewing Argonne National Laboratory, USA * 10:45 - 11:45 Parallel Hardware Chair: J. Volkert o Switcherland - A Scalable Interconnection Structure for Distributed Computing EBERLE Hans ETH Zuerich o Performance Aspects of Virtual Circuit Connections over a Local ATM Network PUCHER Franz TU Graz HOANG Anh Huy TU Graz * 12:00 - 13:00 Parallel Numerics Chair: P. Zinterhof o Investigation in the Salzburg NTN-Method for the Radon Transform HAUSENBLAS Erika University of Salzburg o Parallel Computation of Optimal Parameters for Pseudo Random Number Generation BRUNNER Dieter University of Salzburg UHL Andreas University of Salzburg * 14:00 - 17:00 Tutorial: Parallel Query Execution in DBMSs, held by Peter Apers and Annita Wilschut * 18:00 Poster Session with Buffet o PPARDB / PVM: A Portable PVM Based Database Management System Papakostintinou G., Tsanakas P., Papakostas N. (Greece) o A new language for automatic data generation Szabo E., Forgacs I., Jelly J., Bates C. (Hungary and England) o An Algorithm for Horizontal Fragmentation in Distributed Object Database Systems Bellatreche L., Simonet A. (France) o Implementing snapshot protocol for message based communication libraries Clematis A., Gianuzzi V., Sacchetto G. (Italy) o A/D Graphs - A Data Structure for Data Dependence Analysis in Programs with Pointers Amme W., Zehendner E. (Germany) o A New Method for Dynamic Reconstruction of Computing Processes in Distributed Systems Simonenko V., Kanevsski J, Zinterhof P. (Ukraine and Austria) o A Partition Method for Solving Block Pentadiagonal Linear System on Distributed Memory Computer System Halada L., Lucka M. (Slovakia) Tuesday, September 24, 1996 * 8:30 - 9:30 Invited Talk on Parallel Databases, held by Peter Apers: "Large Scale Parallelism for Data Management" (see below) * 9:45 - 11:15 Parallel Databases Chair: G. Weikum o Skew handling in the DBS3 Parallel Database System BOUGANIM Luc INRIA Rocquencourt, France FLORESCU Daniela INRIA Rocquencourt, France DAGEVILLE Benoit Bull, France o Dynamic Declustering Methods for Parallel Grid Files CIACCIA Paolo University of Bologna, Italy VERONESI Arianna Casalecchio di Reno, Italy o Encapsulation of Intra-Operator Parallelism in a Parallel Match Operator BISCONDI Nadejda LISI, France BRUNIE Lionel LIP, France FLORY Andre LISI, France KOSCH Harald LIP, France * 11:30 - 13:00 Tools & Languages Chair: G. Haring o Synthetic Workload Generation for Parallel Processing Systems PFNEISZL Hannes University of Vienna KOTSIS Gabriele University of Vienna o Parallel Program Visualization with MUCH KRANZLMUELLER Dieter University of Linz KOPPLER Rainer Ch. University of Linz GRABNER Siegfried University of Linz VOLKERT Jens University of Linz o Statement-Sets - Parallelism Enabled by Independence KNUDSEN Svend Erik ETH Zuerich * 14:00 - 15:30 Parallel Algorithms Chair: H. Zima o Heuristics to Optimize the Speed-up of Parallel Programs AGUILAR Jose Univ. de los Andes Av. Tulio Febres Condero, Venezuela o Vectorization of Visualization Algorithms - A Practical Example SPALT Alfred University of Linz GRABNER Siegfried University of Linz VOLKERT Jens University of Linz o Parallel chaotic iteractive algorithms for image reconstruction with limited projection data GOUBARENI N. Technical University of Czestochowa KATKOV Aleksander Technical University of Czestochowa * 16:00 - 17:30 Industrial Session Chair: H. Burkhart o Digital's TruCluster Architecture: Memory Channel - High speed, high availability cluster G. HAUSBERGER Digital Equipment Corporation o The ParaStation Project TICHY Walter University of Karlsruhe BLUM Joachim University of Karlsruhe WARSCHKO Thomas University of Karlsruhe o A third talk, probably given by IBM, will be announced soon * 19:00 Banqet and Cultural Event Reception in the Wappensaal of the Country House. Wednesday, September 25, 1996 In co-operation with the german Gesellschaft der Informatik, our program also includes the five invited talks of the Informatik'96: * 9:00 - A. Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Labs): On the Storage and Retrieval of Continuous Media Data * 10:45 - D.G. Johnson (Rensselear Polytechnic Inst.): Democracy and the Global Computer/Telecommunications Infrastructure * 14:00 - A.M. Odlyzko (AT&T Bell Labs): Computer Algebra and its Applications: where are we going? * 15:45 - K. Mehlhorn (Max-Planck Institut): Die LEDA Plattform fuer geometrisches und kombinatorisches Rechnen * 17:00 - J. Bruce (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology): COMPUTING: The End of the Beginning ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial: Parallel Query Execution in DBMSs This tutorial reviews the developments in parallel DBMSs over the last decade. It focusses on the parallel execution of complex queries on large volumes of data in a single user environment. However, also other sorts of parallel query execution, like parallel OLTP, will be touched on. The design, development, and evaluation of PRISMA, a parallel main-memoy DBMS project in the Netherlands, will form the main story. We will show what we built, motivate our choices, and compare the system to various other parallel DBMSs, both research prototypes and some commercial systems. The following issues will come along in the tutorial: * Parallel hardware. * Relational DBMSs and Relational algebra. * A classification of sorts of parallelism in algebraic query execution. * The architecture of PRISMA as a parallel DBMS. * XRA: a parallel relational algebra. * Data allocation. * Operator allocation. * Communication costs and overhead. * Various performance studies. In this tutorial, we want to show which solutions work, and which do not work. However, more importantly, we will explain WHY the good solutions work and others don't. The tutorial will be held by Peter M.G. Apers and Annita N. Wilschut. Peter M.G. Apers is a professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D from the Vrije University in Amsterdam. His Ph.D thesis was on distributed query processing and data allocation. Before and after working on his thesis he was a visiting researcher at the University of California in Santa Cruz and Stanford University. Currently he heads a group working on object-oriented data models, parallel and distributed database management systems, and interoperability. Recently he was the PC chairman of the EDBT'96 held in France. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal and he serves on the editorial board of Data & Knowledge Engineering and Distributed and Parallel Database Systems. Annita N. Wilschut works as a researcher at the University of Twente in the research group of Peter M. G. Apers. She received her MSc degree in biology from the Free University in Amsterdam in 1980, and her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Twente in 1993. Her PhD thesis was on parallel query execution in PRISMA/DB. Her current research interest are in the area of parallelism in relational and object DBMSs and in the area of geographical information systems. ---------------------------- cut here ------------------------- ******************************************************************************** ********************** ACPC'96 REGISTRATION FORM ********************** Please save and edit this form and send per e-mail to acpc96@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at or send by surface mail to Prof. Laszlo Boeszoermenyi Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Klagenfurt Universitaetsstr. 65-67; A-9020 Klagenfurt / AUSTRIA or by FAX to ++43 (0)463 2700 505 Last Name:________________________________________________ Title: ______________ First Name:_____________________________________________________________________ Company:________________________________________________________________________ Address:________________________________________________________________________ City:___________________________ Zip/Postal-Code: ________ State:_______________ Phone:___________________________________ Fax:__________________________________ E-mail:_________________________________________________________________________ Please indicate method of payment: __ Personal Check (please make them payable to ACPC'96 and send to the chairman) __ Bank transfer to: Raiffeisenbank Kaernten (bank no. 39000) account no. 2.501.286 "ACPC'96" +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conference Fee | +--------------------+-----------------+----------+---------------+ | ACPC-member/author | non-ACPC-member | students | attendee of | | EARLY | LATE | EARLY | LATE | | Informatik'96 | +---------+----------+--------+--------+----------+---------------+ | 2.750 | 3.250 | 3.000 | 3.500 | FREE | 750 | +---------+----------+--------+--------+----------+---------------+ EARLY registration must arrive BEFORE August 16, 1996 the fee has to be paid in ATS (Austrian Schillings) The fee includes the tutorial, the proceedings, all buffets, cultural events, banquet and all invited talks (incl. those of the Informatik'96 on Wednesday). 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:50:47 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA13050 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:50:40 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19973 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:50:39 -0500 From: Opher Etzion Message-Id: <199608131850.NAA19973@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) NGITS'97 - call for papers To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:50:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 8368 Call for Papers NGITS '97 The Third International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems June 30 - July 3, 1997 Neve Ilan (near Jerusalem), ISRAEL Main sponsors: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology The next generation information systems will be complex, intelligent, and cooperative, and will utilize various multimedia-media technologies. The goal of the NGITS Workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing issues and solutions related to next generation information systems and the technologies that would make them possible. Following the success of the two previous workshops that were held in 1993 and 1995, a third workshop will take place in 1997. The workshop will feature paper sessions, panel discussions and talks by invited speakers. All accepted papers will appear in a workshop proceedings. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering. Workshop Topics ================= The scope of the workshop includes (not exclusively) the following topics: o Decision Support Systems: data warehousing; data mining; web querying. o Electronic Commerce and Interoperability: security and privacy; brokering; information integration (especially on the web); cooperation among heterogeneous information systems; information mediation. o Data and knowledge base systems: advanced models and languages; data integrity and quality; management of spatial and temporal data. o Data modeling: conceptual and logical design; modeling methods and tools; schema integration; forward and reverse data engineering. o Information retrieval: document and multimedia information systems; information extraction, indexing and filtering; digital libraries. o Human-computer interaction: user interface design, human-computer cooperation. o AI techniques: knowledge management; knowledge representation and reasoning; knowledge discovery; coordination technologies and agent architectures. o Software engineering and information systems development: analysis and design methods and techniques; CASE tools; object- and process-oriented approaches; project management, software metrics and estimation. o Management information systems: decision support systems; executive information systems; office automation; value of information; evaluation of information systems. o Advanced applications: services and tools to support information infrastructure, scientific and geographical databases; advanced manufacturing systems; health care (medical) information systems. We solicit contributions of three kinds: * Full research papers * Short position papers * Proposals for panel discussions All contributions must emphasize their relevance to issues of next generation information technologies and systems, and must be addressed to an audience of diverse background and interests. - The category of "research papers" is intended for technical papers describing research accomplishments. - The category of "short position papers" is intended for papers that discuss new challenges and visionary solutions. - Proposals for panels should include an abstract of the subject and likely participants. Program Committee Chairs ======================== Avi Silberschatz Peretz Shoval Information Sciences Research center Information Systems Program Bell Laboratories Dept. of Industrial Engin. & Manage. 700 Mountain Ave Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel avi@bell-labs.com shoval@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Fax: 908 582-5809 Fax: +972 7-647-2958 Organizing and Local Arrangement Chairs ============================================ Opher Etzion and Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel ngits@ie.technion.ac.il Fax: + 972 4-8235194 Information For Authors ======================= A research papers should not exceed 5000 words (approx. 10 LateTex pages, or 20 double-spaced pages) - including figures, tables and references. Short position papers are limited to 2000 words. We shall attempt to handle the submission and review processes by electronic mail and request that you submit your contributions by mailing a PostScript or RTF or MS-WORD or ASCII text file containing your paper to Peretz Shoval at the above e-mail addresses. Otherwise, please send 3 copies of your paper to BOTH co-chairs at the above postal addresses. Full-paper and Short-paper submissions must include the following: a) title; b) names and affiliations of authors; c) e-mail and address of the corresponding author; d) abstract; e) a list of 4-6 keywords/phrases that characterize the paper f) body of the paper; g) a list of references/bibliography. Important dates: ================ 31 January 1997: Submissions of papers due 15 March 1997: Notification of acceptance 15 April 1997: Camera-ready manuscripts due June 30 - July 3, 1997: The workshop Location: ========= The workshop will take place in Nave-Ilan, a resort village not far from Jerusalem. The workshop will include sightseing tours in the Jerusalem area. Steering Committee ================== Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA Noshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Program Committee =================== + Nabil Adam , Rutgers University, USA + Barbara Blaustein, NSF, USA + Yuri Breitbart, Univ of Kentuky, USA + Cartiel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel + Dan Berry, Technion, Israel + Ron Brachman, AT&T Research, USA + Olga De Troyer, Tilburg University, The Nederlands + Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey + Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel + Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel + Avigdor Gal, University of Toronto, Canada + Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel + Hans Hansen, Viena U. of Economics & Buss. Admin., Austria + Haim Kilov, IBM at Watson, USA + Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Belgium + Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University, Israel + Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA + Doron Rotem, LBL, USA + Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel + S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India + Bernhard Thalheim, Cotbus Technical University, Germany + Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA + Doug Tygar, CMU, USA + Jeff Ulman, Stanford University, USA + Riend Van De Riet, Vrije University, The Netherlands + Yelena Yesha, NASA/U. Maryland, USA + Ouri Wolfson, U Illinois at Chicago, USA + Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA UPTODATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT OUR WWW SITE (coming soon): //http: iew3.technion.ac.il:8080/Home/NGITS97.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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Aug 13 13:52:26 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA13075 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:52:18 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19994 for dbworld; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:52:17 -0500 From: Vineet Singh Message-Id: <199608131852.NAA19994@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS -- CALL FOR PAPERS To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 13:52:17 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5064 CALL FOR PAPERS 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems June 15-18, 1997 Seattle, WA Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS An international forum for state-of-the-art work on performance issues in computer systems: theory, practice and case studies. Topics include but are not restricted to: * Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of: Communication networks, Computer architecture, Database systems, Distributed systems, File and I/O systems, Fault-tolerant systems, Memory systems, High speed networks, ATM, Interconnection networks, Multimedia systems, Operating systems, Real-time systems, Network management systems, Service management systems. * Techniques and algorithms for: Performance optimization, Stochastic modeling, Model verification and validation, Experimental design, Petri Nets, Reliability analysis and measurement, Workload characterization, System measurement and monitoring, Simulation and statistical analysis. The default process for submitting papers (in Postscript) will be through the Internet. Permission to submit through other means (and instructions for doing so) must be obtained from the Program Chairman, at: sigmetrics97@research.att.com Information on Sigmetrics '97 will be maintained at: http://www.research.att.com/conf We will accept submissions for: Papers: Papers should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages (excluding figures and tables). All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper and bibliographic references should be modified so as not to reveal the identities of the authors. A small number of top papers will be recognized as award papers. One of the awards will be for the best paper written by a student. (The submission must indicate that the primary author is a full-time student. It is not necessary that the student be the sole author of the paper.) Hot Topic Sessions: A group of speakers will present and discuss their recent results in an area. Send proposals to the program chair, identifying the organizer of the session, the session title, three to five speakers, the titles of their talks, and a 100 word abstract of each talk. Tutorials: Sunday, June 15, 1997 --- Send proposals of 1-2 pages for 90 minute and 3 hours tutorials to the tutorials chair. Joint (3 hours) tutorial proposals are encouraged from researchers working in related areas. The goal is to promote linkages (e.g., theory and practice in a given domain, alternative modeling approaches in a given domain, complementary domains). Important deadlines: October 18, 1996 Submission December 19, 1996 Notification of acceptance January 31, 1997 Camera-ready copy due Abstracts of the Hot Topic talks will be included in the conference Proceedings. The Proceedings will also be published as a special issue of ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. General Chair: John Zahorjan, University of Washington, zahorjan@cs.washington.edu, +1 206 685 2695 Program Chair: Albert Greenberg, AT&T Research, albert@research.att.com, +1 908 582 3395 Tutorials Chair: Asit Dan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, asit@watson.ibm.com, +1 914 784 6677 Publications Chair: Tim Brecht, York University, brecht@cs.yorku.ca, +1 416 736 5053 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-