From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Dec 22 11:58:05 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 LAA15639 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:57:59 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA10003 for dbworld; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:57:58 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 11:57:58 -0600 (CST) From: Yannis Ioannidis Message-Id: <199612221757.LAA10003@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu P R E L I M I N A R Y C A L L F O R P A P E R S Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management The Evergreen State College campus Olympia, Washington, U.S.A. August 13-15, 1997 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yannis/ssdbm.html CONTENTS ======== The 9th International SSDBM Conference will bring together database researchers, practitioners, and developers, as well as domain scien- tists from multiple scientific disciplines to explore new concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applica- tions. It will provide a forum for original research contributions as well as practical system design, implementation, and evaluation. The conference will feature keynote talks, panel sessions, and demonstra- tions of research prototypes and industrial systems. It will continue the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion and the exchange of ideas in a quiet setting. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Scientific DBs Statistical DBs __________________________________________________ System Architectures System Architectures Data/Process Models Data Models User Interfaces User Interfaces Data Visualization Data Visualization Query Processing Query Processing Data Compression Data Compression Tertiary Storage Tertiary Storage Data Mining Data Mining Metadata Management Metadata Management Uncertainty Management Knowledge-based Methods Collaborative Work Data Cube Operations Data Integration View Materialization Multi-media Data Temporal/Spatial Data Experiment Management Of particular interest are results that address issues arising in pro- viding database support to specific scientific disciplines or statist- ical application areas, such as those below: Scientific Disciplines Statistical Application Areas _________________________________________________________________ Biological Sciences Biostatistics Chemistry Census Databases Earth and Space Sciences Decision Support Engineering Economics and Finance Geography Enterprise Analysis Medicine Environmental Epidemiology Physics On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) Social Sciences To increase the synergy between database researchers and domain scien- tists, SSDBM-97 invites two separate types of papers. (1) RESEARCH PAPERS, which describe recent important advances in sta- tistical and/or scientific databases. Theoretical papers in this category should include a solid motivation for why the specific results are important to domain scientists and how they are going to influence the development of statistical or scientific data- base systems. Systems papers in this category should describe either complete working systems that are being tested by domain scientists or specialized techniques that can significantly enhance the power of actual statistical or scientific database systems. (2) EXPERIENCE/CHALLENGE PAPERS, which describe actual prototype or product implementations, pose problems that current technology cannot handle well, or identify important industrial trends that could affect the future research directions in the field. Papers in this category should be based on real-life experiences and should clearly place their contribution in the context of the current state of the art and relevant literature. Submitted papers should be clearly marked on the front page by the appropriate category for which they are intended. The Program Commit- tee may, at its discretion, switch papers that are deemed more appropriate for the other category. In addition to papers, SSDBM-97 invites proposals for panels, as well as prototypes for demonstration at the conference. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== PAPERS should be up to 20 pages long, 2-spaced, in font size at least 10 (8000 words) and submitted in six copies. PANEL PROPOSALS should be at most 2 pages long and should include at least a tentative list of panelists. DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS should be at most 2 pages long and should specify the kind of hardware required. All papers and proposals should be sent electronically or in hard- copies to the program chair at the addresses below. IMPORTANT DATES =============== February 7, 1997 Deadline for submission of papers April 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance/rejection May 31, 1997 Deadline for having final papers at the publisher ORGANIZATION ============ Steering Committee ------------------ Arie Shoshani (USA, Chair) Hans Hinterberger (Switzerland) Jim C. French (USA) Per Svensson (Sweden) General Chair ------------- David Maier Oregon Graduate Institute PO Box 91000 Portland, OR 97291-1000, USA phone: +1 (503) 690-1154 fax: +1 (503) 690-1553 email: maier@cse.ogi.edu Program Chair ------------- Yannis Ioannidis Computer Sciences Department 1210 W. Dayton St. University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA phone: +1 (608) 263-7764 fax: +1 (608) 262-9777 email: yannis@cs.wisc.edu Program Committee ----------------- Tony Bonner (University of Toronto, Canada) Tiziana Catarci (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research, USA) Martin David (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) Jeff Dozier (University of California - Santa Barbara, USA) Jim French (University of Virginia - Charlottesville, USA) Bob Grossman (University of Illinois - Chicago, USA) Oliver Guenther (Humboldt University, Germany) Nabil Hachem (Worcester Polytechnic University, USA) Hans Hinterberger (ETH, Switzerland) Yannis Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) Matthias Jarke (RWTH - Aachen, Germany) Epaminondas Kapetanios (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) John Klensin (MCI Telecommunications, USA) Peter Lewis (University of Wales, UK) Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) Francesco Malvestuto (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland) Victor Markowitz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (UNICAMP, Brazil) Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Doron Rotem (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) C. V. Ravishankar (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA) Duri Schmidt (Union Bank, Switzerland) Bo Sundgren (Statistics Sweden, Sweden) Per Svensson (National Defence Research Establishment, Sweden) X. Sean Wang (George Mason University, USA) Andrew Westlake (Survey & Statistical Computing, UK) Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign, USA) Maria Zemankova (National Science Foundation, USA) Local Arrangements ------------------ Judy Cushing Member of the Faculty (Computer Science) The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA 98505, USA phone: +1 (360) 866-6000 x-6652 fax: +1 (360) 866-6794 email: judyc@elwha.evergreen.edu Proceedings Editor ------------------ David M. Hansen Pacific Northwest National Laboratory P.O. Box 999 MSIN K7-22 Richland, WA 99352-0999, USA phone: +1 (509) 375-2362 fax: +1 (509) 375-3641 email: dm_hansen@pnl.gov VENUE ===== At the end of the Oregon Trail and the southern tip of Puget Sound (Budd Inlet) lies Olympia, Washington, and The Evergreen State Col- lege. Within 60 miles lie the Pacific Ocean, the Olympic Rain Forest, the highest mountain in the contiguous United States (Mount Rainier), and hundreds of miles of premier hiking trails in the Olympics and Cascades, and Seattle. 100 miles to the south is Portland, the Colum- bia River, Mt. St. Helens (the most recent active volcano in the U.S.), and more mountain trails and ocean beaches. Within 100 miles to the north, accessible by ferry, is Victoria, British Columbia. Though yearly rainfall can top 60 inches (120 in the rain forest), August is one of two drought months -- and is typically rain-free. Olympia offers the state capital (a replica of the 'other' Washington's capital building) and Gardens, the second largest farm- ers' market in Washington State, boating, salt and freshwater fishing, clam digging (including Evergreen's mascot - the geoduck), fresh oysters (Olympia oysters!), excellent golf courses and tennis courts, and five miles from the center of town, The Evergreen State College. Founded in 1972 as the state's four-year liberal arts college, Ever- green has a national reputation as an innovator in interdisciplinary education and science and arts education. The campus is a 1,000 acre ecological study area, with 1300-feet of frontage on Puget Sound. Conference participants will be welcome on the College's beach and at the 'Rec' Center, which boasts an 11-lane swimming pool, raquetball and tennis courts, and other facilities. Affordable housing will be available on campus in new housing facili- ties in carpeted double and single rooms with semi-private bathrooms and kitchen and laundry facilities nearby. Rooms downtown at Olympia's Governor House are available at a special conference rate, and a shut- tle will run several times daily between the hotel and the campus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sun Dec 22 21:41:01 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 VAA18476 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 21:40:55 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA10412 for dbworld; Sun, 22 Dec 1996 21:40:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 21:40:55 -0600 (CST) From: louiqa@umiacs.umd.edu (Louiqa Raschid) Message-Id: <199612230340.VAA10412@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please use the following to download a 10 page report (postscript) on an (NSF and DARPA sponsored) workshop on Mediator Models and Languages, which was held at the University of Maryland, College Park, in April 1996. The report is edited by Peter Buneman, Jeff Ullman and me. Enjoy! ftp://ftp.umiacs.umd.edu/pub/ONRrept/medmodel96.ps Louiqa Raschid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Dec 25 21:25:48 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 VAA12698 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 21:25:42 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA14117 for dbworld; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 21:25:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 21:25:41 -0600 (CST) From: Praveen Seshadri Message-Id: <199612260325.VAA14117@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CORNELL UNIVERSITY Department of Computer Science TENURE TRACK POSITION IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES We are seeking applicants at all ranks for a tenure track position in research areas related to digital libraries. The applicant should have a very strong background in computer science and a clear specialization and research interest in digital libraries. Research may include such topics as protocols, representations and techniques for achieving interoperability among digital library services, algorithms and techniques for optimizing search and retrieval from globally distributed multimedia information stores, user interface issues in integrating and visualizing digital libraries, and techniques for information discovery. We are looking for candidates with demonstrated research accomplishments, visibility in the rapidly expanding digital library research community, and a commitment to excellence in teaching computer science. REF: DL#4 Further information about the department is available on the World Wide Web at URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/ Applicants should submit a vita and the names of at least three references to: Chair, Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Computer Science, 4130 Upson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7501. Please include reference number with application. Cornell University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from women and ethnic minorities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Philips is the developer of the Compact Disc and the Digital Compact Cassette. We currently have a research position available on a project that is building prototype multimedia systems for medical applications. The project involves integration and management of text, graphics, images, audio and video. Potential candidates must have a background in DBMS and CORBA. Knowledge of PACS, DICOM, HL7, Java, JDBC and data mining is a plus. Advanced degrees or substantial applicable experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline are preferred. Philips provides a full range of employee benefits and an attractive compensation package. All applicants should include a resume documenting their qualifications. Email/fax applications are acceptable, but please include full address and phone information. Please address your resume to the attention of: Stephen Wong, Philips Research Lab, 1070 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Email: swong@prpa.philips.com; Fax: (415) 846-4477. Philips is an equal opportunity employer M/F/H. Principals only need apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Dec 26 19:59:28 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 TAA19489 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:59:23 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA17086 for dbworld; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:59:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 19:59:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Steven Wong" Message-Id: <199612270159.TAA17086@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS (papers due March 5 1997) International Journal of Digital Libraries Special Issue on "Digital Libraries in Medicine" Editor: Stephen Wong, University of California, San Francisco Rapid advances in computing and imaging technologies have revolutionized the practice of medicine and remarkably enhanced the physicians' capacity for accurate diagnosis and management of diseases. Besides the traditional textual information of medical literature and patient reports, medical records today include a broad spectrum of multidimensional images, video streams, and signals. Ironically, however, the field of computerized medical information is threatened by its own success in that the sheer mass of information available is becoming unmanageable. For example, the United States alone spends over $200 billion in 1995 in processing and managing healthcare information. Twelve billions transactions of claims and bills are exchanged between 6500 hospitals and 300,000 health care providers in USA each year. Average information package, if digitized, would contain about 100 megabytes of data. On the other hand, the era of industrialized medicine is shifting medical imaging research focus from the generation and acquisition of images to the post-processing and management of images and textual data in order to realize the greatest possible benefit from the data that already exist. Incorporating digital library technologies into healthcare will contribute to unprecedented diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities as well as innovative means of providing continued health education to the public. The integration of these new technologies will have the significant potential to break down traditional barriers of medical information sharing, provide more efficient and cost-effective access and management of health data, and open up new approaches towards achieving better quality of care and services. The objective of the special issue is to provide a timely and in-depth review of outstanding DL research projects that have potential to make significant contributions to both on current challenges and future practice of medical information processing and management. Papers describing new and original research results of DL systems in medicine and novel interdisciplinary approaches of applying DL technologies to healthcare industry are welcome. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: - Automatic report generation; - Biomedical imaging infrastructure; - Business models/cost benefit analysis; - Content based retrieval of image and video databases; - CORBA/DCOM/Distributed object management; - Data mining/Outcome analysis; - Data visualization in medicine; - Database security and access control; - Electronic medical record; - Federated and distributed databases; - Medical data/vocabulary standards; - Multimedia medical databases; - Multimodal user interface for information retrieval; - Multiagent technologies; - Mobile computing in hospitals; - Speech and object recognition techniques in medicine; - Storage and I/O for multimedia medical communication; - Telemedicine, tele-imaging, and televideoconferencing; - User model of digital medical libraries; - Web and Java based health systems; and - Web based medical image/video servers. Important Dates: Papers due: March 10, 1997. Acceptance Notice: May 10, 1997 Final version due: June 24, 1997 Five copies of papers should be sent to the guest editor at the address below no later than March 5, 1997: Stephen Wong Radiology & Neurology, Box 0628 University of California, San Francisco 505 Parnassus Avenue S.F., CA 94143-0628 email: swong@lri.ucsf.edu Papers may also be submitted in electronic form as Springer Verlag Latex style files. Abstracts must be submitted electronically. Abstracts of accepted papers will be posted on the Journal Web site together with the expected publication date of the special issue. Web site for journal and editorial information: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/jodl. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Dec 27 10:22:33 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 KAA23694 for ; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:22:26 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA19360 for dbworld; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:22:25 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 10:22:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Phokion G. Kolaitis" Message-Id: <199612271622.KAA19360@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Participation 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE THEORY (ICDT '97) Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997 In cooperation with ACM COMPUTER SOCIETY and IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY and Call for Participation ESPRIT-NSF WORKSHOP ON CONSTRAINT DATABASES AND APPLICATIONS (CDB '97) Delphi, Greece, January 11-12, 1997 (The CDB '97 program is listed after the ICDT '97 program below) ICDT is a biannual international conference on theoretical aspects of databases and a forum for communicating research advances on the principles of database systems. Previous ICDT conferences were held in Rome (1986), Bruges (1988), Paris (1990), Berlin (1992), and Prague (1995). Since 1992, ICDT has been merged with the Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), another series of conferences on theoretical aspects of database systems that was initiated in Dresden (1987), and continued in Visegrad (1989) and Rostock (1991). *************************************************************************** ICDT'97 HIGHLIGHTS * Invited talks by S. Abiteboul and J. Ullman * Invited tutorial on data mining by H. Mannila * Presentations of 29 technical papers selected out of 119 submissions *************************************************************************** INVITED TALKS ============= Speaker: S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford University) ------------ Title: Querying Semi-Structured Data Abstract: Semi-structured data can be found in many data sources available electronically (most notably in the WWW). They also arise naturally as the result of the integration of independent heterogeneous sources. In such contexts, the structure of data is not as regular or rigid as in standard databases systems, e.g., in the relational or object-oriented database systems. Also, the notion of schema is altered in essential ways, e.g., the schema may become implicit. We will try to highlight the main aspects and particularities of semi-structured data. We will also survey some proposals of models and query languages for semi-structured data. About the speaker: Serge Abiteboul obtained his Ph.D. from U.S.C, Los Angeles, in 1982, and a Th`ese d'Etat from Paris University, Orsay, in 1985. He is Senior Researcher at I.N.R.I.A., Rocquencourt, France where he managed a Database Group from 1989 to 1995. He is also Maitre de Conf'erence at Ecole Polytechnique. He is currently visiting for two years the Computer Science Dept. at Stanford U. Speaker: J. Ullman (Stanford University) --------- Title: Information Integration Using Logical Views Abstract: A number of ideas concerning information-integration tools can be thought of as constructing answers to queries using views that represent the capabilities of information sources. We review the formal basis of these techniques, which are closely related to containment algorithms for conjunctive queries and/or datalog programs. Then we compare the approaches taken by AT&T Labs' "Information Manifold" and the Stanford "Tsimmis" project in these terms. About the speaker: Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering and acting chair of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. He has served as chair of the CS-GRE Examination board, Member of the ACM Council, Chair of the New York State CS Doctoral Evaluation Board, on several NSF advisory boards, and is past or present editor of several journals. He is presently a member of the Computing Research Association Board. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships, and is the 1996 winner of the Sigmod Contributions Award. He is the author of 14 books, including a 2-volume series on Database Systems. His research interests include information integration, warehouse design, and data mining. ***************************************************************************** INVITED TUTORIAL ================ Speaker: H. Mannila (University of Helsinki) ---------- Title: Methods of data mining Abstract: Data mining, also called knowledge discovery in databases, aims at the discovery of interesting knowledge from large masses of data. We review some recent developments in data mining methods for relational, sequential, and time-series data, and present some theoretical results and challenges in the area. About the speaker: Heikki Mannila is a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1985. After that he has been an associate professor at the Universities of Tampere and Helsinki, a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna, and a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institut fur Informatik in Saarbrucken. He has also worked at the National Public Health Institution in Helsinki, as well as consultant in industry. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, database design, and text databases. He is the coauthor of the book "Design of Relational Databases" (Addison-Wesley) as well as numerous articles in algorithms, databases, machine learning and data mining. He is one of the editors-in-chief of the new scientifc journal "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery". ***************************************************************************** CONFERENCE PROGRAM =================== TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 ------------------------ 16:00 and 20:00 Conference buses depart from Athens airport to Delphi 19:00 - 23:00 Registration 20:00 - 22:00 Reception (with light dinner) ------------------------------------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1997 ------------------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk by J. Ullman (Stanford Univ.) Information Integration Using Logical Views 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Session 1: Conjunctive Queries in Heterogeneous Databases Conjunctive query containment revisited --- C. Chekuri (Stanford Univ.), A. Rajaraman (Stanford Univ.) Semantics and containment with internal and external conjunctions --- G. Grahne (Univ. Helsinki), N. Spyratos (LRI, Orsay), D. Stamate (LRI, Orsay) Efficient complete tests for conjunctive query constraints with negation --- N. Huyn (Stanford Univ.) Selection of views to materialize in a data warehouse --- H. Gupta (Stanford Univ.) 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Session 2: Logic and Databases I Total and partial well-founded Datalog coincide --- J. Flum (Univ. Freiburg), M. Kubierschky (Univ. Freiburg), B. Ludaescher (Univ. Freiburg) Fine hierarchies of generic computation --- J. Tyszkiewicz (RWTH Aachen) Local properties of query languages --- G. Dong (Univ. Melbourne) , L. Libkin (Bell Labs), L. Wong (I.S.S., Singapore) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:30 Session 3: Active Databases Expressiveness and complexity of active databases --- P. Picouet (E.N.S.T.), V. Vianu (UC San Diego) A model theoretic approach to update rule programs --- N. Bidoit (Univ. Paris XIII), S. Maabout (Univ. Paris XIII) Abstract interpretation of active rules and its use in termination analysis --- J. Bailey (Univ. Melbourne), L. Crnogorac (Univ. Melbourne), K. Ramamohanarao (Univ. Melbourne), H. Sondergaard (Univ. Melbourne) Structural issues in active rule systems --- J. Bailey (Univ. Melbourne), G. Dong (Univ. Melbourne), K. Ramamohanarao (Univ. Melbourne) 19:00 - 20:00 Business Meeting ------------------------------------ THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1997 ------------------------- 8:30 - 10:00 Invited tutorial by H. Mannila (Univ. Helsinki) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Session 4: New Applications Discovering all most specific sentences by randomized algorithms --- D. Gunopoulos (MPI), H. Mannila (Univ. Helsinki), S. Saluja (MPI) A formal foundation for distributed workflow execution based on state charts --- D. Wodtke (Univ. Saarland), G. Weikum (Univ. Saarland) Incorporating user preferences in multimedia queries --- R. Fagin (IBM Almaden), E.L. Wimmers (IBM Almaden) Queries and computation on the web --- S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford Univ.), V. Vianu (UC San Diego) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 16:30 Tour of the Delphi archaeological site and museum 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:00 Session 5: Logic and Databases II The complexity of iterated belief revision --- P. Liberatore (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza") Expressive power of unary counters --- M. Benedikt (Bell Labs), H.J. Keisler (Univ. Wisconsin) 18:00-19:00 Session 6: Concurrency Control Concurrency control theory for deferred materialized views --- A. Kawaguchi (Columbia Univ.), D. Lieuwen (Bell Labs), I. Mumick (Bell Labs), D. Quass (Stanford Univ), K. Ross (Columbia Univ.) Serializability of nested transactions in multidatabases --- U. Halici (METU, Ankara), B. Arpinar (METU, Ankara), A. Dogac (METU, Ankara) 20:30 Conference Banquet --------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1997 ------------------------ 9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk by S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford Univ.) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 7: Unstructured Data Adding structure to unstructured data --- P. Buneman (Univ. Pennsylvania), S.Davidson (Univ. Pennsylvania), M. Fernandez (AT&T Research), D. Suciu (AT&T Research) Correspondence and translation for heterogeneous data --- S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford Univ.), S. Cluet (INRIA), T. Milo (Univ. Tel Aviv) 11:30 - 12:30 Session 8: Object Oriented Databases Type consistency problems for queries in object-oriented databases --- Y. Ishihara (Nara Institute), H. Seki (Nara Institute), M. Ito (Nara Institute) Object-oriented database evolution --- J.-B. Lagorce (LRI, Orsay), A. Stockus (LRI, Orsay), E. Waller (LRI, Orsay) 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Session 9: Access Methods Performance of nearest neighbor queries in R-trees --- A. Papadopoulos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki), Y. Manolopoulos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki) Optimal allocation of two-dimensional data --- K. Abdel-Ghaffar (UC Davis), A. El Abbadi (UC Santa Barbara) Efficient indexing for constraint and temporal databases --- S. Ramaswamy (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:00 Session 10: Spatial Data and Bulk Data On topological elementary equivalence of spatial databases --- B. Kuijpers (Univ. Antwerp), J. Paredaens (Univ. Antwerp), J. Van den Bussche (Univ. Antwerp) Dynamic constraint databases for spatial data --- P.Z. Revesz (Univ. Nebraska) Tractable iteration mechanisms for bag languages --- L. Colby (Bell Labs), L. Libkin (Bell Labs) 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner (at the conference center) 20:00 Conference buses depart for Athens ***************************************************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ======================= Program co-chairs: Foto Afrati (NTUA Athens) Phokion G. Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz) Program committee members: F. Afrati (Greece) M. Cadoli (Italy) S. Chaudhuri (USA) S. Cluet (France) T. Eiter (Austria) C. Faloutsos (USA) S. Greco (Italy) M. Gyssens (Belgium) O.H.G.Katona(Hungary) P. Kolaitis (USA) G. Kuper (Germany) T. Milo (Israel) M. Ozsoyoglu (USA) J. Pokorny (Czech Rep.) V. Sazonov (Russia) H-J. Schek (Switzeland) E. Soisalon-Soininen (Finland) J. Su (USA) V. Tannen (USA) D. Van Gucht (USA) V. Vianu (USA) G. Vossen (Germany) P. Wolper (Belgium) J. Zlatuska (Czech Rep.) Organizing committee co-chairs: Foto Afrati, Theodora Varvarigou (NTUA Athens) Organizing committee members: Izambo Karali (Univ. Athens), Theodore Kavalieros, Theodore Mitakos, Costas Petropulos, Francesca Toni (NTUA Athens) WWW: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/public/AD/icdt97.html For further information, contact teo@softlab.ece.ntua.gr ***************************************************************************** +---------------------------------------------------------+ | DEADLINES | | | | Early Registration 12 November 1996 | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ ****************************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION =================== LOCATION --------- ICDT 97 will be held at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece. Delphi (elevation 573 m.) is located in a magnificent natural setting about 170 km N/W of Athens on the undercliffs of Mount Parnassus. The drive from Athens to Delphi takes about three hours. Delphi hosts one of the most significant archaeological sites in Greece. Although today it is just a small village, historically Delphi has been one of the cornerstones of ancient Greek civilization. Indeed, in antiquity Delphi was the seat of the oracle of Apollo, which was particularly active during the 7th and the 6th centuries BC and had to be consulted for essentially every major political decision. Ancient Greeks considered Delphi to be the "navel of the world". The shrine was administered by a panhellenic confederation, which every four years organized the Pythian Games; these were second only to the Olympic Games, but with more prominence on music and drama, as they were dedicated to Apollo. WEATHER -------- January is winter time in Greece. The temperature at Delphi in January typically ranges from 5 to 15 degrees C (41-59 degrees F), with a small probability of being lower than 5 degrees C (41 degrees F). CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE --------------------- The Greek currency is the drachma (DR). In September 1996, 1 US Dollar was approximately 235 DR. Currencey can be exchanged either at the Athens airport or in Delphi. TIME ---- Greece uses +2 hour GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). THINGS TO DO ------------- Delphi's archeological site has many interesting monuments and temples, including the sanctuary of Apollo, the theatre where the Delphic festivals were held, the stadium, the Kastalia Fountain where the Pythia, priestess of Apollo, would bathe before uttering her oracular utterances, and the tholos or rotunda, one of the most remarkable architectural constructions of antiquity (depicted on the conference poster). The collection of the Delphi museum consists exclusively of objects found on the archaeological site, including the famous bronze statue of the charioteer and an ancient copy of the sacred stone "omphalos" (the "navel of the world"). In Delphi and the surrounding villages you can find tavernas, restaurants, coffee houses, and bars. From Delphi you can visit the ski facilities of Mount Parnassus (elevation 2400 m), the town of Itea (17 km), a pleasant summer resort by the sea, the town of Amfissa (22 km), surrounded by a forest of olive trees, and the monastery of Hosios Loukas (36 km), an outstanding example of Byzantine art and architecture. PROCEEDINGS =========== The conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series, published by Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the conference. Each registered participant will receive a copy of the proceedings (except for students). REGISTRATION ============ PROCEDURE ---------- People wishing to attend the conference should fill out a copy of the registration form attached to the end of this announcement and return it, via e-mail, fax, or postal mail, to the address: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Foto Afrati, ICDT 97 | | P.O. Box 64042 Email:teo@softlab.ece.ntua.gr | | 15710 Zographou, Athens tel : +30-1-7722498 | | GREECE fax : +30-1-7722499 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ E-mail registration is strongly preferred. In addition to sending the registration form, the proper registration fee should be paid via cheque or bank transfer, as explained below in the METHOD OF PAYMENT section. On-site registration will be available at the conference office during ICDT 97 starting Tuesday, January 7, 19:00. PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION ------------------------ Before 12 November 1996 After 12 November 1996 ----------------------- ----------------------- Member* US$ 430 US$ 500 Regular US$ 500 US$ 550 Student US$ 270 US$ 300 * For members of ACM and IEEE. A separate form must be completed by each participant. Please make sure that your society affiliation (membership number) and/or university affiliation are shown on your registration form, or that proof of your full time student status comes together with it. Otherwise, the reduced registration fee will not be applied. It is suggested to register for the conference at your earliest convenience. As soon as both registration form and fee have been received, an e-mail confirmation will be sent. To qualify for the early registration fee, payment must be received by November 12, 1996. The conference fee includes admission to all sessions of the conference (including the invited talks and tutorial), a copy of the proceedings (not included in the student fee), refreshments during the breaks, lunches, transportation from and to Athens via the transfer buses of the conference, and the social events (reception on January 7, tour of the archaeological site and conference banquet on January 9 -the latter not included in the student fee). A SPECIAL NOTE FOR EAST EUROPEAN PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------- A limited number of free participations for people from Eastern Europe (free conference attendance and accomodation) will be offered. To become eligible for the support, please apply to Foto Afrati by e-mail (afrati@softlab.ece.ntua.gr) before November 12, 1996. CANCELLATION AND REFUND ----------------------- Cancellation must be made in written form to the organizers. If cancellation notification is received before December 11, 1996, 80% of the registration fee will be refunded; no refunds will be made thereafter. For registered participants who cannot attend, the proceedings will be mailed after the conference. METHOD OF PAYMENT ----------------- Payment of the registration fees should be made in US dollars in one of the following ways: * cheque payable to "ICDT 97", mailed with the registration form, * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A., Zographou Branch Acc. No: 088/03741-00010/19 SWIFT address: ERGOGRAA, 90 Papagou av, and Maratou, 15772 Athens, Greece Fax: +30-1-7486824 Tel: +30-1-7486822 If using a bank transfer, please send a copy of the receipt via postal mail or fax to the address used for the registration above. It is allowed to send a single check or make a single bank transfer covering more than one registration fee. * Upon arrival at the secretariat desk (full fee has to be paid). SOCIAL EVENTS ============= TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 Welcome reception with light dinner at 20:00 AND 22:00 the EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER OF DELPHI. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9,1997 Tour of Delphi archeological site and museum. 14:00 - 16:30 20:30 Conference Banquet.* During the banquet, a performance of Greek music will take place. *The cost of a banquet ticket (for those not registered or students) is US $50 per person. TRAVEL INFORMATION ================== VISA ---- No entry visa is required for visitors from EEC countries, USA, and Canada. For other countries, information about visa can be obtained from the Greek Consulates or airlines. LETTERS OF INVITATION --------------------- Upon request, the secretariat of the conference will send a personal invitation for participation in the conference. It should be understood that such an invitation is only to help participants obtain a visa and does not constitute a commitment on the part of the organizers to provide any financial suport. TO AND FROM DELPHI ------------------ THROUGH ATHENS By plane: Athens International Airport has two terminals. OLYMPIC AIRWAYS passengers arrive at the Western Terminal. Passengers of all other airlines arrive at the Eastern Terminal. You can travel from Athens to Delphi and from Delphi to Athens using the conference buses or public transportation as described below. For those who want to stay overnight in Athens before or after the conference, a block of rooms in the Chandris hotel (address: Sygrou 385, tel: +30-1-9414824) has been reserved. Conference buses will pick up participants both from the airport and the Chandris Hotel (see below). To reach the Chandris Hotel take a taxi from the airport (approximatively 8 US$). ATHENS-DELPHI USING THE CONFERENCE BUSES (trip takes about three hours) * There are two conference buses on Tuesday, January 7, from Athens to Delphi: the first bus departs: at 16:00 from the airport (arrivals) and at 16:30 from the Chandris Hotel the second bus departs: at 20:00 from the airport (arrivals) and at 20:30 from the Chandris Hotel * There is a conference bus on Friday, January 10, from Delphi to Athens, departing at 20:00 (and stopping both at the Chandris Hotel and at the airport). Conference bus transportation is included in the registration fee. USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Public buses from ATHENS TO DELPHI depart from the Central Bus Station located at Liossion St, according to the following schedule. +---------------------+---------------+ | FROM | TO | +=====================+===============+ | Athens@Liossion St | Delphi | +=====================+===============+ | 7:30 | 10:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ | 10:30 | 13:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ | 14:30 | 17:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ | 17:30 | 20:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ +-------------+-----------------------+ | FROM | TO | +=============+=======================+ | Delphi | Athens@Liossion St | +=============+=======================+ | 5:30 | 8:30 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 9:00 | 12:00 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 10:30 | 13:30 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 13:30 | 18:00 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 16:00 | 19:00 (Fri&Sun only) | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 18:00 | 21:00 | +-------------+-----------------------+ The bus fare is DR 2600 one-way. To reach the Central Bus Station at Liossion St, either take a taxi from the airport (approximatively 15 US$) or first take the bus number 091 from the airport to Syntagma Square (160 DR) and then a taxi from there to the Central Bus Station at Liossion St. (approximatively 10 US$). It is recommended to take a taxi directly from the airport. Once in Delphi, all hotels are within easy walking distance. ACCOMMODATION ============= HOTEL RESERVATION ----------------- Reservations have to be made directly with the person in charge at the address below. A block of rooms has been reserved at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, as well as in a number of small and cozy hotels in the village of Delphi. Rooms are also reserved in the Chandris hotel in Athens for those who stay in Athens before or after the conference. The special rates that were arranged are as follows: (in US $) HOTEL SINGLE DOUBLE ----- ------ ------ ATHENS CHANDRIS 117 147 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER 61 88 OF DELPHI HOTEL GROUP I (DELPHI) 85 102 HOTEL GROUP II (DELPHI) 50 78 All rates are per room and night and include breakfast, taxes, and services. ACCOMMODATION FEES ------------------ Those wishing to book accommodation in Athens, Delphi and conference bus transportation Athens-Delphi-Athens are requested to complete the attached Accommodation Form and send it to: M. Bessieri (for ICDT 97) 24 Voulis str., 10562 Athens, Greece fax: +30 1 3221023 TOGETHER with payment in one of the two following ways (payment should be made in US dollars): * a cheque payable to M. BESSIERI, or * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A, Voulis Branch Acc. No: 75/02148-01251/58, c/o M. BESSIERI SWIFT Address ERGOGRAA, 3 Kolokotroni str. 10562 Athens-Greece Fax: 301-3222 264. It is allowed to send a single cheque or make a single bank transfer covering more than one person (also covering more than one room). A confirmation will be send to each participant with details for the hotel. The reservation will be confirmed only upon receipt of the payment. Cancellation must be made in written form to the organizers. If cancellation notification is received before December 11, 1996, 80% of the accommodation fee will be refunded; no refunds will be made thereafter. FORMS ===== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM [Please type or print. ONE FORM PER PERSON] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name ___________________________________First Name______________________ Affiliation ____________________________________________________________ Street Address _________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code _______________________________________________ Country ________________________________________________________________ Phone(s) _______________________________________________________________ Fax ____________________________________________________________________ E-mail _________________________________________________________________ Dietary Restrictions (circle if applicable): Vegetarian Before 12 November 1996 After 12 November 1996 ----------------------- ----------------------- Member* US$430 US$500 Regular US$500 US$550 Student# US$270 US$300 Accompanying US$300 US$350 The fee for accompanying persons covers meals and all the special events of the conference. * For members of ACM and IEEE. Please quote the membership number. # If you apply for the student fee, please attach a copy of your student identification for the ongoing year or a letter signed by the head of your department confirming that you are a student. Total Cost US$:____________ Number of extra Banquet tickets______ (US$50.00 per person) Total Cost US$:____________ Total Due US$: ______________________________ Payment: please send either ------- * cheque payable to "ICDT 97", mailed with the registration form, (do not forget to sign and write your name(s) on the back of the check) or * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A., Zographou Branch Acc. No: 088/03741-00010/19 SWIFT address: ERGOGRAA, 90 Papagou av, and Maratou, 15772 Athens, Greece Fax: +30-1-7486824 Tel: +30-1-7486822 (do not forget to write your name(s) and refer to ICDT 97) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCOMMODATION FORM [Please type or print. ONE FORM PER REGISTERED PERSON] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name __________________________________First Name________________________ Affiliation _____________________________________________________________ Street Address __________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code ________________________________________________ Country _________________________________________________________________ Phone(s) ________________________________________________________________ Fax _____________________________________________________________________ E-mail _________________________________________________________________ Arrival Date______________________Airline/No. Flight____________________ Arrival Time____________________________________________________________ Departure Date____________________Airline/No. Flight____________________ Departure Time__________________________________________________________ [Prices are per room per night. Please write the required number of ------ rooms in the appropriate cells] HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN ATHENS ============================= CHANDRIS HOTEL: US$ 117 (single) US$ 147 (double) single [ ] double [ ] name of other occupant:_____________________ Before the conference --------------------- FROM _________(date of arrival) TO __________________(date of departure) After the conference -------------------- FROM _________(date of arrival) TO __________________(date of departure) Total cost US $________________ HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN DELPHI ============================= SINGLE DOUBLE EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER US$61 US$88 HOTEL I US$85 US$102 HOTEL II US$50 US$78 EUR. CUL. CEN. HOTEL I HOTEL II single [ ] [ ] [ ] double [ ] [ ] [ ] name of other occupant:_____________________ FROM _________(date of arrival) to __________________(date of departure) Total cost US $________________ Total due US $________________ BUS RESERVATION (free) ---------------------- Write on the appropriate cells the required number of seats: +-----------------+------------------+ | from airport | from Chandris | + -------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ | first bus on January 7 |(16:00 hours) | (16:30 hours) | | | | | +--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ | second bus on January 7 |(20:00 hours) | (20:30 hours) | | | | | +--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ + -------------------------+---------+ | bus on January 10 | | | | | +--------------------------+---------+ Payment: please enclose either ------- * a cheque payable to M. BESSIERI or (do not forget to sign, write your name and refer to ICDT'97 on the back of the check) or * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A, Voulis Branch Acc. No: 75/02148-01251/58, c/o M. BESSIERI SWIFT Address ERGOGRAA, 3 Kolokotroni str. 10562 Athens-Greece Fax: 301-3222 264, (do not forget to write your name and refer to ICDT'97) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ESPRIT-NSF Workshop CONSTRAINT DATABASES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS CDB'97 in conjunction with ICDT'97 January 11-12, 1997 Delphi, Greece sponsored by ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA (8666) NSF-ESPRIT cooperative grant on Database Programming Languages and Environments The ESPRIT-NSF Workshop on Constraint Database Systems will be held in the memory of Paris Kanellakis in Delphi, Greece, in conjunction with the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT '97), January 8-10, 1997. Constraint database systems represent a new database paradigm that aims at coherently integrating research results from the area of constraint-based programming, logic programming and databases. The recent success of the constraint-based programming paradigm is based on the direct contribution of constraints to program specification, implementation and maintenance. Constraints are the normal language of discourse for many high-level applications; built-in constraint solvers, and active constraints contribute to efficient implementation; and the clarity and brevity of constraint programs simplifies program maintenance. For large scale applications such as geographic information systems (GIS), the efficient processing and management of large sets of constraints is very important. The objective of this workshop is to bring together database practitioners, researchers and application users to share and explore their views on constraint database technology addressing languages and their expressiveness, architectures, models, indexing techniques for, and optimization of queries on large constraint sets, and their application in areas like spatial databases, geographic information systems, scheduling and routing problems. A major goal of the workshop will be to communicate and discuss recent results of research into constraint database systems and to identify future research issues. *************************************************************************** CDB'97 SUMMARY * Invited talk by C. H. Papadimitriou * Memorial session for Paris Kanellakis * Invited tutorial on theoretical aspects of CDBs by G. Kuper * Invited tutorial on applications of CP and CDBs by M. Wallace * Presentations of technical papers *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP PROGRAM ================= SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1997 -------------------------- 8:30 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 - 11:00 Invited Talk: Planar Topological Queries --- Christos H. Papadimitriou 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 12:30 Tutorial Part I Theoretical Aspects of Constraint Database Systems --- Gabriel Kuper 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Session 1: Constraint Programming and Program Analysis Problem Solving in the DISCO Constraint Database System --- Peter Z. Revesz Interval Domain Library for ECL$^{i}$PS$^{e}$ and its Application --- Tatyana M. Yakhno, Slava Zilberfaine Constraint Databases and Program Analysis Using Abstract Interpretation --- David Toman 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:30 Session 2: Constraint Query Languages A Rule-Based CQL for 2-Dimensional Tables --- Mohand-Said Hacid, Patrick Marcel, Christophe Rigotti On the Expressiveness of Query Languages with Linear Constraints; Capturing Desirable Spatial Properties --- Foto Afrati, Theodore Andronikos, Theodore Kavalieros On Expressing Topological Connectivity in Spatial Datalog --- Bart Kuijpers, Marc Smits Decomposition and Lossless Join in Constraint Databases --- Yujun Wang, Baile Shi, Yunyao Qu SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1997 -------------------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Tutorial Part II Practical Applications of Constraints --- Mark Wallace 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Session 3: Systems The $C^3$ Constraint Object-Oriented Database System: An Overview --- Alexander Brodsky, Victor E. Segal Implementing Linear Constraint Databases --- Stephane Grumbach Integrity Constraint Checking in Chimera --- Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania, Stephane Bressan SICSDD: Techniques and Implementation --- Hamidah Ibrahim, William A. Gray, Nicholas J. Fiddian 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Panel: "Applications of Constraint Databases" 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 15:30 - 16:30 Session 4: Indexing Querying Indexed Files --- Alan P. Sexton On the complexity of BV-tree Updates --- Michael Freeston ***************************************************************************** FURTHER INFORMATION =================== For further information, see either WWW: http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~gaede/cdb.html WWW: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/public/AD/icdt97.html or contact teo@softlab.ece.ntua.gr -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Foto Afrati | | National Technical University os Athens | | Division of Computer Science Email:afrati@softlab.ece.ntua.gr | | Dept of Electrical & Computing Engineering tel : +30-1-7722498 | | 15773 Zographou, Athens fax : +30-1-7722499 | | GREECE www: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/public/AD/AFRATICV.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 Sat Dec 28 17:22:34 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 RAA02903 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:22:28 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA20249 for dbworld; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:22:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:22:27 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Suciu Message-Id: <199612282322.RAA20249@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Workshop on Management of Semistructured Data --------------------------------------------- Friday, May 16, 1997 Ventana Canyon Resort, Tucson, Arizona In conjunction with PODS/SIGMOD CALL FOR PAPERS and ATTENDANCE ------------------------------ Recently we have seen an increased interest in managing data that does not easily conform to a conventional relational or object-oriented schema. The reasons for the emergence of such "semistructured" data are diverse, ranging from the integration of heterogeneous data sources to new database applications such as biology databases or the World-Wide-Web. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in the design, implementation, and use of systems designed to manage semistructured data. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: data models, query languages, object integration and correspondence, data loading, data conversion, and implementation techniques ranging from storage management to query decomposition and processing. The workshop will be rather informal and will encourage discussion and interaction. We invite submissions of short papers (5 pages or less) covering topics related to the management of semistructured data. An informal proceedings will be published, and there will be a registration fee of $50. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Please send a postscript file by e-mail (preferred), or 8 hard-copies, to the address below. The deadline for submissions is March 3, 1997. email: suciu@research.att.com or: Dan Suciu AT&T Labs - Room 2D-114A 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA phone: 908-582-6411 fax: 908-582-4113 If you would like to attend, but will not be submitting a paper, please send email indicating your interest in attending, by March 3, 1997. IMPORTANT DATES: Papers Due: March 3, 1997 Email of Interest: March 3, 1997 Acceptance Decision: March 31, 1997 Final papers due: April 14, 1997 Workshop: May 16, 1997 (right after PODS/SIGMOD) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Serge Abiteboul - INRIA-Rocquencourt, and Stanford University Peter Buneman - University of Pennsylvania Tova Milo - Tel-Aviv University Dan Suciu - AT&T Labs Jennifer Widom - Stanford University PROGRAM COMMITTEE Serge Abiteboul - INRIA-Rocquencourt, and Stanford University Peter Buneman - University of Pennsylvania Sophie Cluet - INRIA-Rocquencourt Alberto Mendelzon - University of Toronto Tova Milo - Tel-Aviv University Guido Moerkotte - University of Mannheim Dan Suciu - AT&T Labs For all information about the workshop contact Dan Suciu AT&T Labs - Room 2D-114A 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA email: suciu@research.att.com phone: 908-582-6411 fax: 908-582-4113 See also: http://www.research.att.com/~suciu/workshop-announcement.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 Sat Dec 28 17:27:15 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 RAA02912 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:27:11 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA20280 for dbworld; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:27:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:27:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Prof. Zicari" Message-Id: <199612282327.RAA20280@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ******************** CALL FOR PAPERS - OOIS'97 ******************** Brisbane, Australia 10 - 12 November 1997 Carlton Crest Hotel SCOPE: ----- OOIS'97 invites both researchers and practitioners to submit papers outlining recent research in object-oriented concepts and principles, as well as reports on industrial projects. Papers in the following areas will be welcome, however, topics are not restricted to these fields: - Distributed Object Computing - Patterns and Frameworks - Concepts and Methodologies - Multimedia Systems - Interoperability Issues - Object-Oriented Metrics - Object Database Management Systems - Object Ontologies - Business Process Re-Design - Object Reuse - Object Relational Data Technology - Knowledge Management In order to meet new challenges, OOIS'97 particularly welcomes papers exploring the areas of significant interest to industry, especially in providing innovative directions for the development of next generation systems, for example: - Coping with Legacy Systems - Transition to Object Technology - Lessons learned from Large Scale Projects using Objects - Object Relational Design PAPER SUBMISSION: ---------------- Four (4) copies of the paper should be sent to Professor Maria Orlowska OOIS'97 Computer Science Department The University of Queensland Brisbane Q 4072 Australia Email: oois97@cs.uq.edu.au or maria@cs.uq.edu.au Fax: 61-7-3365 1999 Tel: 61-7-3365 2906 by 31 March 1997. Electronic submissions are greatly encouraged. Submissions should include: (1) Name, affiliation and complete address for each author including email contact. (2) The following signed statement: "All appropriate organizational approvals for the publication of this paper have been obtained. If accepted, the author(s) will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion in the conference proceedings and will present the paper at the conference." Please submit the complete text of the paper in English, including a 60-word abstract. Papers should be less than 16 pages (double-spaced) in length (maximum 5000 words), and should present the results of original work in one or more of the listed areas of interest. Previous proceedings of the conference series have been published by Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES: --------------- - Paper Submissions: 31 March 1997 - Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 1997 - Camera-Ready Copy: 31 July 1997 - Conference: 10-12 November 1997 General Chair: ------------- David Barbagallo (CEO, DSTC, Australia) Programme Co-Chairs: ------------------- Maria Orlowska (Australia) Roberto Zicari (Germany) Programme Committee: ------------------- Serge Abiteboul (US) Terry Baylis (UK) Wolfgang Emmerich (UK) Fabrizio Ferrandina (Germany) Carlo Ghezzi (Italy) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Brian Henderson-Sellers (Australia) Matthias Jarke (Germany) Keith Jeffery (UK) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Roger King (US) Karl Lieberherr (US) Frederick Lochovsky (Honk Kong) Peri Loucopoulos (UK) Leszek Maciaszek (Australia) Jens Palsberg (US) Remo Pareschi (France) Dilip Patel (UK) Barbara Pernici (Italy) Naveen Prakash (India) Collette Rolland (France) Felix Saltor (Spain) Kazimierz Subieta (Poland) Yuan Sun (UK) Yannis Vassiliou (Greece) Organizing Committee: -------------------- Kathleen Williamson (Australia) Peter Creasy (Australia) Sponsors/Supporters: ------------------- The University of Queensland, Australia Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), Australia Australian Computer Society (ACS) Iona Technologies, Australia Further Information / Paper Submissions: ------------------- Professor Maria Orlowska OOIS'97 Computer Science Department The University of Queensland Brisbane Q 4072 Australia Email: oois97@cs.uq.edu.au or maria@cs.uq.edu.au Fax: 61-7-3365 1999 Tel: 61-7-3365 2906 http://www.cs.uq.edu.au/conferences/oois97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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