From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Jun 16 10:57:25 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 KAA24336 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:57:18 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05945 for dbworld; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:57:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:57:17 -0500 From: Arthur Keller Message-Id: <199606161557.KAA05945@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Western Institute of Computer Science announces a week-long course on ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES: OBJECT DATA MANAGEMENT taught at Stanford University July 22 -- 26, 1996 by Arthur M. Keller (Stanford University) Rick Cattell (Sun Microsystems) A Practical Week-long Course for Consultants, Educators, Government and Industry Scientists and Engineers This course is taught by two leading researchers in the area of object data management: Arthur M. Keller and Rick Cattell. Participants will receive a grounding in object database fundamentals, familiarity with current commercial systems and advanced prototypes, and exposure to the most important research and development trends in the area. The course begins with an introduction to concepts covering data models, schema notation, and the relational model. Then the concepts of objects, attributes, queries, and versions will be covered. Then object data management systems will be categorized. Implementation issues and performance issues will be covered. A framework for and summary of product comparisons is followed by the ODMG-93, SQL3, and OMG standards. Then migration to object data management will be discussed. Then there will be technical product descriptions by vendor representatives covering GemStone, POET, Persistence, O2, ObjectStore, Versant, Objectivity, UniSQL, and Sybase. The vendors will then participate in a cross-vendor panel for questions and answers. Closing the course will be a panel of the course instructors. Participants will receive a complete set of course notes and readings as well as the text Object_Data_Management by Rick Cattell. PREREQUISITES: Some elementary knowledge of databases and object-oriented programming is useful for this course. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course is appropriate for database developers, technical managers and computer researchers who want to gain insight into the capabilities, implementation and current trends in this emerging technology. COURSE SCHEDULE: ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES: OBJECT DATA MANAGEMENT Course dates: July 22 -- 26, 1996 Schedule AM1: 9:00 -- 10:30 AM2: 11:00 -- 12:30 PM1: 1:30 -- 3:00 PM2: 3:30 -- 5:00 MON AM Introduction and Concepts AM1 . Introduction: Data models, schema notation, relational (Cattell) AM2 . Concepts: Objects, attributes, queries, versions (Cattell) MON PM Categorization and Implementation PM1 . Categorization of Systems (Cattell) PM2 . Implementation Issues (Cattell) TUE AM Performance and Comparisons AM1 . Performance Issues (Cattell) AM2 . Product Comparisons (Cattell) TUE PM Standards PM1 . ODMG-93 Standard (Cattell) PM2 . SQL3 and OMG Standards (Cattell) WED AM Migration, OODB Case Studies AM1 . Migration to Object Data Management (Keller) AM2 . GemStone WED PM OODB Case Studies PM1 . POET PM2 . Persistence THU AM OODB Case Studies AM1 . O2 AM2 . ObjectStore THU PM OODB Case Studies PM1 . Versant PM2 . Objectivity FRI AM OODB Case Studies AM1 . UniSQL AM2 . Sybase FRI PM Conclusion PM1 . Cross-Vendor Q&A (Cattell, Keller, all vendors) PM2 . Closing Panel (Cattell, Keller) ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS Dr. Arthur M. Keller is a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University. He is Project Manager of Stanford University's participation in CommerceNet, which is doing the first large-scale market trial of electronic commerce on the Internet. He leads the effort on smart catalogs and virtual catalogs. He was Manager of the Penguin project, to provide sharing of persistent object data among multiple applications. Currently, common object state is stored in a relational database. He is also working on managing inconsistency in federated, autonomous database systems. His publications include work on databases on parallel computers, incomplete information in databases, database system implementation, hypertext databases, and computerized typesetting. Dr. Rick Cattell is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where his work focuses on new generation database technologies. He previously worked as Sun's engineering manager for database systems, and before that, did research in database systems and user interfaces at Xerox PARC. He is author of Object_Data_Management: Object-Oriented_and_Extended_Relational_Database_Systems published by Addison-Wesley. COURSE INFORMATION Dates: Monday-Friday, July 22-26, 1996 Times: Registration Sunday afternoon, July 21 Morning sessions 9:00am-12:30pm with a 30 minute break Afternoon sessions 1:30-5:00pm with a 30 minute break Lunch break 12:30-1:30pm daily Location: on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, CA. Course Fee: $1,450 (includes instruction, complete set of course notes, break refreshments, and Tuesday night reception.) $1,575 for registration after July 8 Group Discount: A $100 discount is given to each individual when three or more register from the same organization for one of the courses. Accommodations: Housing information will be mailed at the request of the participant after enrollment. Parking permits are available at the Sunday afternoon course registration and are not included in your registration fee. Out-of-town participants will probably NOT need a car during the week. Transportation: from San Francisco International Airport: Shuttle service (Airport Connection) to the Stanford Campus approx. $17.00 each way; from San Jose International Airport: approx. $17.00 GENERAL INFORMATION Registration: Mail the registration form to the Western Institute of Computer Science, P.O. Box 1238, Magalia, CA 95954; FAX the registration form with your VISA/Mastercard number or company purchase order number to (916) 873-6697; or EMAIL your registration with company purchase order number or VISA or Mastercard number to barnhill@hudson.stanford.edu; TELEPHONE (916) 873-0575 with your company purchase order number or VISA or Mastercard numbers. CANCELLATIONS: are accepted up to 14 working days prior to the start of the course. A $100 processing fee will be assessed. After that date, no refunds will be given, but you may send a substitute in your place. If WICS is forced to cancel a course for any reason, liability is limited to the return of the paid registration fee. FOR INFORMATION: Call Western Institute of Computer Science at (916) 873-0575; email to barnhill@hudson.stanford.edu. _____________________________________________________________________________ Registration Form ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES: OBJECT DATA MANAGEMENT July 22-26, 1996 Registration on or before July 8 [ ] ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES: OBJECT DATA MANAGEMENT $1,450 Registration after July 8 [ ] ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES: OBJECT DATA MANAGEMENT $1,575 Name____________________________________ Title___________________________________ Company_________________________________ Address_________________________________ ________________________________________ City/State______________________________ Zip___________________ Country_________________ Work Phone (________)___________________ Home Phone (________)___________________ Electronic Mail address __________________________ on network _____________________ Total amount enclosed: $___________ Method of payment [ ] Check enclosed (payable to WICS) [ ] Visa/Mastercard #________________________________ card exp. date__________ cardholder signature___________________________________________________ [ ] Bill my company. 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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO June 23, 1996 !!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ====================================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS JICSLP'96 Postconference Workshop NMELP Non-Monotonic Extensions of Logic Programming: Theory, Applications and Implementations. in conjunction with JICSLP'96, Bonn, Germany September 2--6, 1996 ====================================================================== During the last decade a significant body of knowledge has been accumulated providing us with a better understanding of semantic issues in logic programming and the theory of deductive databases. In particular, the classes of perfect, well-founded and stable models were introduced and extensively investigated. The problem of extending these approaches with a second kind of negation, of dealing with contradiction, and of defining a suitable semantics for the class of disjunctive logic programs and deductive databases has turned out to be a difficult one, as evidenced by a large number of papers still being produced. The impressive research progress in the last years as well as significant advances in logic programming implementation techniques now provide us with a great opportunity to bring to fruition computationally efficient implementations of the recent extensions to logic programming and their applications. The resulting programming systems must not only ensure the increased expressivity and declarative transparency of the evolving paradigm of logic programming, but should also be suitable to serve as an inference engine for other non-monotonic reasoning formalisms and deductive databases, as well as a specification language for software engineering. =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Papers Due on: June 23, 1996 (Extended Deadline) Author Notification: July 15, 1996 Final version Due on: August 10, 1996 JICSLP-Conference: Sept. 2-6, 1996 NMELP-Workshop: Sept. 5/6, 1996 ================ PAPER SUBMISSION ================ This workshop is the fifth in a series of workshops held in conjunction with Logic Programming conferences (NACLP '90, ILPS '91, ILPS '93, and ICLP '94) and will be concerned with all of the three aspects of Theory, Implementation, and Applications. Papers are welcome on all non-monotonic aspects of logic programming, including, but not limited to: Abductive Extensions New Application Domains Applications to KR Prototypes and Implementation Constructive Negation Query-Answering Procedures Disjunctive LP Semantics Epistemic Extensions Strong or Explicit Negation Inconsistency Handling Updates The Program Committee (see below for the members) will review extended abstracts rather than complete papers. They must be written in English, not exceed 15 pages, and contain a cover page including the following: a 200 word abstract with a list of keywords, postal and electronic addresses as well as phone and fax numbers of the contact author. LaTeX article-style (12pt) on 8.5'' x 11'' is appropriate (see http://www.springer.de/tex/help-tex.html for Guidelines in the LLNCS). Send an electronic copy of your submission by June 23, 1996 to each member of the organizing committee via e-mail (see below for the email addresses of organizing committee members). If possible, please send compressed and uuencoded *.dvi or *.ps files. Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their papers by July 15, 1996. Final versions of the accepted papers must be received by August 10, 1996. The informal workshop proceedings will be available at the conference. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop and are required to be withdrawn from other refereed conferences or workshops. Registration for the workshop as well as fees (which include a copy of the informal proceedings) will be handled by the organizers of JICSLP'96 in a separate call. The workshop will take place at the conference site in Bonn on September 5 or 6 (exact date to be decided by the JICSLP organization). We are planning to publish a regular Proceedings volume in the Springer LNAI-series. Besides extended versions of the papers presented, participants of the workshop are allowed to submit additional papers. All submitted papers will undergo a separate review process. ===================== Organizing Committee: ===================== Juergen Dix (Germany) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal) Teodor Przymusinski (USA) ================== Program Committee: ================== Rachel Ben-Eliahu (Israel) Juergen Dix (Germany) Michael Gelfond (USA) Anthony Kakas (Cyprus) Victor Marek (USA) Jack Minker (USA) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal) Teodor Przymusinski (USA) V. S. Subrahmanian (USA) Chiaki Sakama (Japan) David S. Warren (USA) ================================= For further information, contact: ================================= Juergen Dix Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Fachbereich Informatik Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany. 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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. 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 Please note that during the Olympics (July 19 through August 4th) services at the University (and other places) will be severely curtailed. 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. Enclose draft payable to Georgia State University stating IFIP ME-96 and full name of the participant. __ Credit card Please charge my card: Master Card __ Visa __ American Express __ Card number: _________________________________ Expiration date: ___/___/___ Total amount US$ ___________ Place ________________ Date ___/____/___ Signature _________________________________ __ Personal check ... N.B.: Personal checks cannot be accepted against banks located outside the United States or Canada. Checks originating against a Canadian bank should either be denominated in USD or use the prevailing "buy CAN$ rate" of an American bank. Please do this (CAN$ check) only if the other options are unavailable to you as it will cost us a lot of time and some money to handle this. Payment (or payment evidence) must accompany the registration form. A 25% cancellation fee until August 10, 1996, no refund thereafter. A version of this form is available at http://www.cis.gsu.edu/ME-96 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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. 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 Jun 16 11:14:08 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 LAA24632 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:14:01 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA06013 for dbworld; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:14:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 11:14:00 -0500 From: nossh@ami.liu.se (Nosrat Shahsavar) Message-Id: <199606161614.LAA06013@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [Please apologize for multiple receiving] PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS An international conference on COMPUTER ETHICS will be held at Linkoping University, Sweden at the 9-10 of June 1997. The conference will bring together researchers in computer science and in ethics as well as practitioners in business, public administration and hospitals for discussions on different ethical aspects of system development and the use of computers. OBJECTIVES The use of computers and information technology in different areas of the society accentuates old moral problems and perhaps also creates new one. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars in computer science and ethics, as well as practitioners for discussions on ethical aspects of the u= se of computers and information technology. TOPICS - Privacy and personal integrity - Ethics and internet - Ethical aspects of the use of decision support systems in health care - Ethics and expert systems - Professional ethics - Computers and the quality of work - The relation between computer ethics and theoretical ethics SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Those who are interested to submit a paper are invited to present a title and an abstract of not more than 200 words by the 1st of November. Papers are due by 1st of March. Acceptance will be sent out by 1st of April. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: November 1, 1996 Paper submission deadline: March 1, 1997 Notification to Authors: April 1, 1997 Camera-ready papers : May 1, 1997 Conference: 9-10 of June 1997 Abstracts and papers can be sent to the conference secretariat either by mail or electronically: Miss Nina Nikku Center for Applied Ethics Linkoping University S-581 83 Linkoping Sweden. Email: ninni@tema.liu.se To register interest in attending or submission of abstract, please send an Email to: Email address: nossh@ami.liu.se message subject: Ethics message contents: "Your name" ORGANIZATION The conference on computer ethics is arranged by the Center for Applied Ethics at Linkoping university in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Medical Informatics. Invited as key-note speaker is professor Deborah Johnson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Goran Collste, Prof., Center for Applied Ethics, Linkoping University (LiU), Sweden. Sture Hagglund, Prof., Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), LiU. Ove Wigertz, Prof., Department of Medical Informatics, LiU, Sweden. Viiveke Fak, Prof., Department of Electrical Engineering, LiU. Toomas Timpka, Ass Prof. IDA and Department of Community Medicine, LiU. Bo Petersson, Ass Prof., Center for Applied Ethics, Linkoping University. Jim Nyce, Ass Prof., Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. Hans Ahlfeldt, PhD, Department of Medical Informatics, LiU, Sweden. Nosrat Shahsavar, PhD, Department of Medical Informatics, LiU, Sweden. Hans Gill, MSc, Department of Medical Informatics, LiU, Sweden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 17 09:44:17 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 JAA09192 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:05 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA06940 for dbworld; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:04 -0500 From: sfchang@ctr.columbia.edu (Shih-Fu Chang) Message-Id: <199606171444.JAA06940@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu My sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Video on Demand Systems - Technology, Interoperability, and Trials June 24th (Monday), 1996 Columbia University http://www.itnm.columbia.edu/workshop/vod96 Co-Chairs: D. Anastassiou, S.-F. Chang, A. Eleftheriadis (ITNM Center, Columbia University), J. Pavlik (CNM, Journalism School, Columbia University) Organizer: S.-F. Chang, Columbia University Local arrangements: Sara Brock, Xi Chen, Hari Kalva Sponsor: Image Technology for New Media Center (ITNM), Columbia University Theme: Columbia University will host the 13th DAVIC international meeting June 17-21, 1996, in New York City. During the meeting, there will be a DAVIC annex event for Video-on-Demand interoperability demonstrations (http://www.itnm.columbia.edu/vod/interop96). Several VOD groups from various countries will participate. To promote further the spirit and success of the VOD interoperability effort, this workshop will provide a dedicated place and time for research groups working on, or interested in, VOD interoperability to exchange knowledge and experience in developing VOD systems, conducting large-scale VOD trials, and using VOD in value-added applications. The intended audience will not be limited to DAVIC members. However, by holding the workshop immediately after the DAVIC meeting, we hope to provide a convenient, interactive environment in which researchers and practitioners can discuss the in-depth technical issues involved in developing and deploying VOD systems and applications, in addition to the issues related to the impact of DAVIC specifications on research, development, and deployment of large-scale VOD systems and products. The workshop will consist of three presentation sessions, all to include invited speakers, and one demo session. The focus areas will be: (1)DAVIC VOD Interoperability Experiment, (2)US and International VOD Trials, and (3)Applications and Content Providers. We will invite content providers to share their insights into the potential utilization and impact of DAVIC interfaces and protocols. The demo session will consist of core demos included in the DAVIC interoperability test event, and demos of VOD-related products and research projects. The complete program and registration form are available online at http://www.itnm.columbia.edu/workshop/vod96 This workshop is open to public. Registration will be processed on a first-come-first-serve basis. *********************** Tentative program ********************** 8:00 -8:15 Welcome and Opening Remark Dr. Mike Crow, Vice Provost, Columbia University Prof. Dimitris Anastassiou, Director, ITNM Center, Columbia University 8:15-10:15 Session 1: DAVIC VOD Interoperability Experiment Theme: This session includes invited speakers from R&D groups actively participating in DAVIC VOD Interoperability Experiments. Each group is involved in extensive efforts of VOD testbed development, and interoperability issues among various testbeds. Each speaker will provide an overview of their testbeds/experiments, technical issues in DAVIC compliant implementations, and their unique views of future evolution of VOD system specifications. Chair: Prof. Shih-Fu Chang, ITNM Center, Columbia University "DAVIC Lays the Foundation for the Information Superhighway" Ralph Zoberbier, Siemens AG, Germany "Report of DAVIC VOD Interoperability Event at Columbia University" Hari Kalva, Columbia University, USA "DAVIC Interop Activities in Japan" Masahiro Morinaga and Hidenori Okuda NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan "ARMIDA: Applications Retrieving Multimedia Information Distributed over ATM" Stefano Dal Lago, CSELT, Italy "Columbia/GTE VOD Interoperability Testbed" Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, USA Len Ulbricht, GTE, USA "NIST's Digital Video Interoperability Test Program" David Su, High Speed Network Technologies, NIST, USA "A DAVIC Compliant VoD Systems" Takao Kasahara, Graphics Communication Laboratories, Japan Mini Panel Discussion 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:30 Session 2: VOD and Interactive TV Systems and Trials Theme: Many large-scale VOD/ITV trials, including Internet VOD, have been undertaken or planned in many countries. Various technologies are, or will be tested in large-scale deployment with real users. This session includes invited presentations by technology leaders involved in large-scale trials. It will address critical system integration issues, with focus on the technology aspect, complementing the content/application issues covered in the next session. Each speaker will present system overview, architecture, protocols, and target services in their trials. Chair: Prof. Alexandros Eleftheriadis, ITNM Center, Columbia University "Interactive Broadband -- A View from Bell Atlantic" Patrick White, Bell Atlantic "Trial of CATV, VOD and ISDN Services over FTTH" Isao Omiya, Multimedia Service Department, NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Japan "Time Warner Cable's Full Service Network - Lessons Learned" Ralph Brown, Time Warner Cable Advanced Engineering "VOD Trial in Taiwan" Yuan-Liang Su, Computer & Communication Labs Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan Prodip Sen, NYNEX Ori Cohen, VDOnet 12:30 - 1:30 lunch 1:30 -3:30 Session 3: Panel - Applications and Content Providers Theme: This panel session will provide a conceptual map of the key applications and content providers in video on demand (VOD) and interactive television trials underway and in development. Each panelist will provide a five-minute overview of their vision of the unique, compelling quality of content for interactive television and video on demand in the current generation of new media technology. Following these opening statements we will open the session for question and answers from the audience and interchange among the panelists. Moderator: Prof. John Pavlik, The Center for New Media, Columbia University Panelists: "Digital Video as a Decision/Communications Tool for Businesses" Michael Wheeler, NBC Desktop Video "Lessons From Field Trials and Services" John Carey, Greystone Communications Gary Hartwick, Technology and Operations, Viacom Don Micallef, Bell Atlantic Video Services (speaker to be announced) Bell South 3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break 3:45 - 5:30 Session 4: Demos, VOD Interoperability Chair: Hari Kalva, ITNM Center, Columbia University VOD Interoperability Columbia, CSELT, DeTe Berkome, GCL, GTE, NIST, NTT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 17 09:45:08 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 JAA09215 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:52 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA06947 for dbworld; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:51 -0500 From: geske@prosun.first.gmd.de (Ulrich Geske) Message-Id: <199606171444.JAA06947@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers. Submission deadline: June 21, 1996. If you have problems with the deadline, you may contact us ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Call For Papers 4th Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming in conjunction with the Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming JICSLP'96 Bonn, Germany, September 2 - 6, 1996 World-Wide-Web http://www.first.gmd.de/~geske/dd_lp_96.html http://www-info1.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/staff/seipel/dd_lp_96.html Following the previous meetings in Budapest (1993), Santa Margherita Ligure (1994) and Kanagawa (1995), the 4th ICLP-workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming will be held in Bonn, Germany. The meeting will be run as a post-conference workshop of the 1996 Joint International Conference and Symposium on Logic Programming, which will be held on September 2-6, 1996. The integration of techniques from deductive databases and logic programming leads to intelligent information systems. Techniques from deductive databases must be used for achieving efficient retrieval and reasoning in large knowledge bases. Logic programming provides a powerful declarative language for accessing and maintaining knowledge in databases. Recent results in logic programming, program transformation and optimization, and non-monotonic reasoning are useful for extending the expressive power and the computational efficiency of deductive database systems. The one-day workshop is intended to attract researchers working in the related areas of deductive databases and logic programming. The presentations are planned to be half an hour. A fundamental goal is to give opportunities for active discussions on new research directions and the exchange of latest results. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Topics disjunctive databases, incomplete information data mining program transformations execution and debugging models query languages and optimization constraint reasoning object-orientation active databases, updates, temporal databases non-monotonic semantics Submissions The primary focus is on new and original research. But we also encourage the submission of papers describing products, prototypes in development or benchmarks. Full papers or extended abstracts in English of 6 to 10 pages are welcome on any aspects of deductive databases and new concepts of logic programming supporting it, until June 21, 1996. Authors are invited to send their papers to one of the organizers. Submission in LaTeX or plain TeX format by e-mail is encouraged. Notification of acceptance will be no later than July 10, 1996. The final, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers must be received by August 2, 1996 to be included into the workshop proceedings. Important Dates Submission deadline June 21, 1996 Notification of acceptance July 10, 1996 Camera ready version August 2, 1996 Organizing Committee Fosca Giannotti CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy Dmitri Boulanger CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy Program Committee Paulo Azevedo Univ. Minho, Portugal Dmitri Boulanger CNUCE-CNR, Pisa, Italy Francois Bry Univ. Munich, Germany Burkhard Freitag Univ. Passau, Germany Ulrich Geske GMD Berlin, Germany Fosca Giannotti CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy Georg Gottlob TU Vienna, Austria Jorge Lobo Univ. Illinois, Chicago, USA Jack Minker Univ. Maryland, USA Dino Pedreschi Univ. Pisa, Italy Chiaki Sakama ASTEM Kyoto, Japan Dietmar Seipel Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany Carlo Zaniolo UCLA Los Angeles, USA Papers Fosca Giannotti, CNUCE-CNR via S. Maria 36, 56126 Pisa (Italy) Email: dd_lp_96@orione.cnuce.cnr.it Contact and Publicity Ulrich Geske, GMD-FIRST, E-mail: geske@first.gmd.de Dietmar Seipel, Univ. Wuerzburg, E-mail: seipel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Requirements/Education: BSCS, or related field, is required. MSCS is preferred. Experience with RDBMS internals in UNIX/C development environments preferred. The candidate should have enthusiasm and a driving desire to be the absolute best, associated with the best engineering team and company producing the highest quality product. Sybase offers an excellent benefits package, competitive compensation, and a 401K savings plan. We invite qualified candidates to send resumes to: Purushotham Kola Sybase, Inc. 6601 Bay Street Emeryville, CA 94608 Tel: (510)922-0088 Fax: (510)922-5710 Email: puru@sybase.com About Sybase, Inc. Headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in client/server software. The company's two major product units -- the Enterprise Business Group and the Powersoft Business Group -- are focused on the core market segments of on-line transaction processing, data warehousing, mass deployment and electronic commerce. Sybase's software products -- databases, middleware and tools -- provide customers with enterprise-to-desktop solutions. The company's mission is to provide its customers with an extensible software platform that enables them to create, integrate and communicate their information assets. With record revenues in 1995 of $957 million, Sybase is the sixth largest independent software company in the world. The company's Internet addresses are http://www.sybase.com and http://www.powersoft.com. Sybase is an equal opportunity employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon Jun 17 16:23:56 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 QAA17630 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:23:50 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA07711 for dbworld; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:23:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:23:49 -0500 From: Farzad Haghi Message-Id: <199606172123.QAA07711@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear Colleagues: The academic semester should be over for most schools. It is time to do a serious paper call and conference organizing. The Global Information and Software Society (GISSIC96) will hold its second annual Internet Realtime Conference on October 21 to 25 world wide via WWW and Internet. A suggestion to have a poster session has been accepted by the committee. A poster session cyberspace is being designed and implemented with VRML, ie a virtual reality Poster Session. Although some people may have difficulty running the VRML software on their workstation, the committee felt that the graphical representation of a poster session will add more realism to the session. It will be treated as an innovative experiement in GISSIC96. Of course, without the VR, the poster papers can still be accessed via HTML files. The theme of GISSIC96 (Information Sharing) and its details (technical domains: Distanceless Learning,Telemedicine, Multimedia Creation Technology and Application, Image and Video Processing and Application, Internet Technology and Application, etc.) of call for paper can be accessed by http//quasar.poly.edu:80/~llin/GISS/gissic96call. Please note that you must submit paper and register on-line (by Internet). The important datesto be remembered are 1. Conference dates October 21st to 25th, 1996,Keynoter Vinton Cerf, VP MCI. 2. paper submission deadline 7/14, 1996. 3. Panel session complete proposal deadline 8/1, 1996 4. There are three types of papers in addition to keynote papers: i. Invited paper, paper invited by the organizing committee ii. Papers submitted and reviewed by the committee members which are organized by topic sessions. Each session will have a session chairperson to moderate the Q&A for each paper. iii. Poster papers are papers submitted that either do not fit into an organized session or by author's own request to be a poster paper (for example, a student paper wish to be less formal). 5. For those who have not attended last year's conference (http://quasar.poly.edu/~llin/GISS/gissic95proceedings), the location of the conference is at your most favorite spot, office, home, or on the road. There will be a set of tools made available to GISSIC96 attendees to make conference communication more realistic and effective. The concept, user interface and maintanence of these tools will be kindly licensed to GISSIC96 to use by PRIDE, Polytechnic University. These tools have been developed for PRIDE's Internet Informatics course offered via Internet (http://PRIDE-i2.poly.edu/I-CARE) from 7/15-8/14/1996. We recommend highly that you browse their public descriptions to get familiar with these tools. The course is a certificate program featuring a new pedagogy emphasizing hyperlearning and group teaching and learning methodology. Please send any suggestions or comments related to GISSIC96to Ifay@pride-i2.poly.edu. Sincerely Yours, Ifay Chang, Professor of CIS, Polytechnic University GISSIC96 Steering Committee Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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As part of the Dataman project, faculty and students are involved in research related to mobile wireless computing. Some of the research projects include: geographic messaging, wireless internet protocols, infostations, and wireless information services. The laboratory is equipped with wireless LANs, access to CDPD, cellular modems and various portable technology for experimentation. We are looking for systems-oriented candidates with strong research capabilities and prototype development skills. A Ph.D. degree in computer science with prior research experience in databases, networking, or distributed systems is essential. Please send your resume and the names of three references to: Tomasz Imielinski Department of Computer Science Rutgers University NewBrunswick, NJ 08903 Electronic inquiries should be directed to: imielins@cs.rutgers.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 raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Jun 18 11:28:03 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 LAA08204 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:27:57 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA08632 for dbworld; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:27:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:27:57 -0500 From: sre@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at (Sigi Reich) Message-Id: <199606181627.LAA08632@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ================================================================= ECOOP '96 Call for Participation The 10th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 8-12 July 1996 UNIVERSITY of LINZ, AUSTRIA ================================================================= find additional information inlcuding WWW registration under http://www.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/ecoop96 There is also a long ascii version of this cfp. It is available via anonymous file transfer: ftp.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/pub/ecoop96/cfp_long.ascii (Our apologies if you receive this more than once. Please feel free to distribute). ========================================================= 1. INTRODUCTION ========================================================= ECOOP '96 is a five-day event. It will feature keynote talks by Adele Goldberg and Frangois Bancilhon (O2 Technology), conference sessions, panels, tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, demonstrations and posters. The conference site Linz is located on the Danube, in the heart of Austria right between Vienna and Salzburg. The research and development ambiance of the city is ideally suited to hosting conferences like ECOOP: on the one hand CS departments with 16 chairs and over 2200 students, on the other hand Austria's main industrial site with many high-tech companies; on the one hand a famous past not least due to Johannes Kepler's discoveries, on the other hand an exciting present with research endeavours in object-oriented technology. Welcome to ECOOP '96 in Linz, Austria! Oscar NIERSTRASZ Gerti KAPPEL Peter WEGNER Conference Co-Chairs Organizing Chair SCHEDULE -------- Monday July 8 Tutorials, Workshops Tuesday July 9 Tutorials, Workshops Wednesday July 10 Conference Thursday July 11 Conference Friday July 12 Conference ========================================================== 2. TECHNICAL PROGRAMME ========================================================== ECOOP '96 Technical Programme ----------------------------- Linz is welcoming the 10th edition of ECOOP. For a decade, ECOOP has established itself as an academic conference with a very high quality standard. In the same time, ECOOP has mainly contributed to the dissemination of the object-oriented technology in the software industry. The ECOOP '96 programme committee had the hard task to select 21 papers from 173 submissions coming from all over the world. It has set up a programme that covers a wide range of topics including applications, programming languages, implementation, specification, distribution, databases and design. Pierre COINTE Programme Chair ECOOP '96 Panels ---------------- This year ECOOP has two panel discussions on important topics that have hardly been treated at recent ECOOPs; but both are now "reinforced" by closely related tutorials, workshops or papers. One panel is about teaching, but it should interest also our industrial participants. The other panel is about a particular application area - bank and finance - but it should interest also our academic participants. Markku SAKKINEN Panel Chair Overview: ---------- WEDNESDAY July 10, 1996 Opening Keynote 1: Adele Goldberg Programming Language / Inheritance 1 Applications / Experiences Panel Discussion Demonstrations Preview THURSDAY July 11, 1996 Implementation / Dispatching Specifications / Semantics / Inheritance 2 Distribution Panel Discussion FRIDAY July 12, 1996 Keynote 2: Frangois Bancilhon Databases Language Design / OO Modelling Closing Detailed Programme: ------------------- WEDNESDAY July 10, 1996 ----------------------- 9.15-9.30 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9.30-10.30 Keynote 1: Adele Goldberg: ---------- Measurement Strategies After ten years of attention to the development and use of object technology, how do we measure up? In software development projects, we measure for two reasons: to find out how we are doing relative to plan, and to determine whetherwe have reached our stated goals. We measure by counting those objective attributes of projects - products, processes, and resources - that provide useful information for managers, developers, and customers alike. But we only measure when we clearly understand how to objectively count and how what we count answers the questions we pose about our goals. A software code testing strategy is therefore only a part of an overall measurement program.In this talk, I identify a technique for setting up an effective measurement program. The technique combines the ideas proposed in earlier publications about project management decision frameworks with basic quality assurance strategies. An application of this technique is used to measure whether we, as an industry, are meeting our goals for object technology. Dr. Adele Goldberg serves as Chairman of the Board and a founder of ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. Prior to the creation of ParcPlace, Adele received a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Chicago and spent 14 years as researcher and laboratory manager of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. From 1984-1986, Adele served as president of the ACM, the computer professional society. Solely and with others, Adele wrote the definitive books on the Smalltalk-80 system and has authored numerous papers on project management and analysis methodology using object-oriented technology. Dr. Goldberg edited "The History of Personal Workstations", published jointly by the ACM and Addison-Wesley in 1988 as part of the ACM Press Book Series of the History of Computing which she organized, and co-edited "Visual Object-Oriented Programming"with Margaret Burnett and Ted Lewis. In 1995, a new book on software engineering appeared entitled "Succeeding With Objects: Decision Frameworks for Project Management" with Kenneth S. Rubin. She was recipient of the ACM Systems Software Award in 1987 along with Dan Ignalls and Alan Kay, PC Magazine's 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant contributions to the personal computer industry, is a Fellow of the ACM, and was honored in 1995 with the Reed College Howard Vollum Award for contributions to science and technology. She is currently a member of the scientific advisory board of the German National Research Centers (GMD). 11.00-12.30 Session 1: Programming Language / Inheritance 1 ----------- Chair: Theo D'Hondt (Brussels Free University, Belgium) Type-Safe Compilation of Covariant Specialization: A Practical Case John Boyland (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Giuseppe Castagna (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France) Integrating Subtyping, Matching and Type Quantification: A Practical Perspective Andreas Gawecki and Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg, Germany) Typed Object-Oriented Functional Programming with Late Binding Zhenyu Qian and Bernd Krieg-Br|ckner (University of Bremen, Germany) 14.00-15.30 Session 2: Applications / Experiences ----------- Chair: Erich Gamma (IFA Consulting, CH) Large Scale Object-Oriented Software-Development in a Banking Environment Dirk Bdumer, Rolf Knoll (RWG GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany) Guido Gryczan and Heinz Z|llighoven (University of Hamburg, Germany) An Application Framework For Module Composition Tools Guruduth Banavar (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA) Gary Lindstrom (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) Automatic Generation of User Interfaces From Data Structure Specifications and Object-Oriented Application Models Vadim Engelson, Peter Fritzson (Linkvping University, Sweden) Dag Fritzson (SKF Eng. and Research Center B.V., Nieuwegein, The Netherlands) 16.00-17.30 Panel 1: ----------- OO Framework Technology for Bank and Finance - Experiences and Requirements Moderator: Arne-Jxrgen Berre (SINTEF Informatics & Telecom, Oslo, Norway) 17.45-18.45 Demonstrations Preview 19.45 Governor's and Mayor's Reception (Landhaus) THURSDAY July 11, 1996 ----------------------- 9.00-10.30 Session 3: Implementation / Dispatching ---------- Chair: Walter Olthoff (DFKI GmbH, Germany) Eliminating Virtual Function Calls in C++ Programs Gerald Aigner & Urs Hvlzle (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Supporting Explicit Disambiguation of Multi-Methods Eric Amiel (NatSoft Air Center, Switzerland), Eric Dujardin (INRIA - Le Chesnay, Geneva, Switzerland) Towards Alias-Free Pointers Naftaly Minsky (Rutgers University, New-Brunswick, NJ, USA) 11.00-12.30 Session 4: Specifications / Semantics / Inheritance 2 ----------- Chair: Jose Meseguer (SRI, USA) Inheritance and Cofree Constructions Bart Jacobs (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands) How to Overcome the Inheritance Anomaly Ulrike Lechner, Christian Lengauer (University of Passau, Germany) Friederike Nickl, Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) Modeling Subobject-based Inheritance Jonathan G. Rossie, D. Friedman (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) M. Wand (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA ) 14.00-15.30 Session 5: Distribution ----------- Chair: Mehmet Aksit (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Parallel Operators Jean-Marc Jiziquel and Jean-Lin Pacherie (IRISA, Rennes, France) An Implementation Method of Migratable Distributed Objects using an RPC Technique Integrated with Virtual Memory Management Kenji Kono, Takashi Masuda (University of Tokyo, Japan) Kazuhiko Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Protocol Classes for Designing Reliable Distributed Environments Benoit Garbinato, Pascal Felber and Rachid Guerraoui (Ecole Polytechnique Fidirale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 16.00-17.30 Panel 2: ----------- Object-Oriented Programming in Introductory Courses Moderator: Peter Grogono (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada) 19.30 Concert and Banquet (Abbey St. Florian) FRIDAY July 12, 1996 -------------------- 9.15-10.30 Keynote 2: Frangois Bancilhon (O2-Technology): ---------- Will Europe ever produce and sell objects? Europe has progressively dropped out of a number of hardware markets (microprocessors, workstations, PC, scientific computers, etc.). It has never been very active (despite a number of bright exceptions) on the software product market (languages, databases, operating systems, tools, etc.). The quality and the success of this conference is a good demonstration of both the quality of European research and of the interest European users have in object technology. In the long run, how-ever, the presence of this active community can only be justified by its participation in a global industrial effort to deliver object technology to users. Object technology, as an emerging market represent a tremendous opportunity and it is worth wondering whether Europe will seize it. I will try to identify some of the reasons for the current state of the European software industry, study some of the success stories in this area and try to draw some conclusions on what could be done to change the current situation. Born in 1948, Frangois Bancilhon got his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1976, and the University of Paris XI in 1980. He was a researcher at INRIA from 1976 to 1980, doing theoretical work on relational databases. He was a professor at the University of Paris XI from 1981 to 1984 where he worked on database machines. He was a team leader & chief architect at MCC, Austin, Texas, from 1984 to 1986 developping a deductive database system. He managed the Altair R&D consortium in France from 1986 to 1991. This group designed and developed O2, an object database management system. In 1991, he founded O2-Technology, (Versailles and Palo Alto). O2-Technology is number One on the European object database market. 11.00-12.30 Session 6: Databases ----------- Chair: Ole Lehrmann Madsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) Dynamic Clustering in Object Databases Exploiting Effective Use of Relationships Between Objects Fridirique Bullat and Michel Schneider (Universiti Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II, France) Conceptual Design of Active Object-Oriented Database Applications Using Multi-level Diagrams M.J.V. Silva and C. R. Carlson (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA) Bridging the Gap Between C++ and Relational Databases Uwe Hohenstein (Siemens AG, Munich, Germany) 14.00-15.30 Session 7: Language Design / OO Modelling ----------- Chair: Jacques Malenfant (University of Montreal, Canada) Patterns and Qualifications in BETA: A case for Generalization Sxren Brandt and Jxrgen Lindskov Knudsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Metaphoric Polymorphism: Taking Code Reuse One Step Further Ran Rinat and Menachem Magid (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) Activities: Abstractions for Collective Behavior Bent Bruun Kristensen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Daniel C. M. May (Monash University, Caulfield East, Australia) 15.30 Closing, Welcome to ECOOP '97 ----- ECOOP Friends' Farewell Party ========================================================================= 3. WORKSHOPS (http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/events/ecoop96/Workshops.html) ========================================================================= Workhops represent an essential feature of ECOOP '96. They address in-depth or cross-domain areas of object-orientation and provide a framework for focussed exchange and proliferation of concepts and ideas. ECOOP '96 workshops are scheduled for one full day or for two days and will take place on Monday, July 8, and/or Tuesday, July 9, 1996. Max M\HLHDUSER Workshop Chair W1 OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY FOR NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: Prof. J.-P. Hubaux, EPFL, Lausanne Dr. S. Znaty, EPFL, Lausanne Contact: znaty@tcom.epfl.ch, {ecoop-submit|ecoop request}@tcomhp20.epfl.ch URL: http://tcomwww.epfl.ch/~znaty/ECOOP96.html Day: Monday W2 TESTING OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizer: Jan Overbeck, Servo Data, Vienna Contact: overbeck@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at URL: http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/events/ecoop96/ws2_cfp.html (organizer-owned WWW site not available) Day: Tuesday W3 6TH ECOOP WORKSHOP FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS IN OO SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: B. Bokowski, Freie Universitdt Berlin W. De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel A. Demiris, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg Contact: bokowski@inf.fu-berlin.de URL: http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/PhDOOS/WS96.html Day: Monday and Tuesday W4 PROOF THEORY OF CONCURRENT OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: J.-P. Bahsoun, IRIT-Universiti Paul Sabatier, Toulouse J. L. Fiadero, University of Lisbon D. Galmiche, CRIN-CNRS & INRIA, Nancy A. Yonezawa, University of Tokyo Contact: bahsoun@temporal.irit.fr URL: http://www.irit.fr/MANIFS/ECOOP96.html Day: Monday W5 OO IN INDUSTR. PRACTICE: OPPORTUNITIES, PITFALLS & EXPERIENCES ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: D. de Champeaux, OntoOO, San Jose G. Florijn, Utrecht University Contact: florijn@cs.ruu.nl URL: http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~florijn/ecoop96ws.html Day: Tuesday W6 WORKSHOP ON COMPONENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (WCOP-96) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: Prof. C. Szyperski, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Dr. C. Pfister, Oberon microsystems, Zurich Contact: szypersk@fit.qut.edu.au URL: http://www.oberon.ch/customers/omi/events/WCOP96.html http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~szypersk/WCOP96 Day: Monday W7 OBJECT-ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY AND REAL-TIME SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: Dr. F. Terrier, LETI (CEA - French Atomic Energy Center), Saclay L. Barroca, The Open University, Milton Keynes M. Awad, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki Prof. M. E. Fayad, University of Nevada, Reno Contact: terrier@albatros.saclay.cea.fr URL: http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/events/ecoop96/ws7_cfp.html (organizer-owned WWW site not available YET) Day: Tuesday W8 2ND ECOOP WS ON MOBILE OBJECT SYSTEMS ("AGENTS ON THE MOVE") ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: Joachim Baumann, University of Stuttgart IVPR Luca Cardelli, DEC SRC, Palo Alto, CA Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego Christian Tschudin, University of Zurich Jan Vitek, University of Geneva Contact: jvitek@cui.unige.ch URL: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/OSG/ECOOP/WS96.html Day: Monday and Tuesday W9 PUTTING DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS TO WORK ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: R. Guerraoui, EPFL, Lausanne S. Vinoski, HP, Chelmsford, MA Contact: guerraoui@lse.epfl.ch URL: http://lsewww.epfl.ch/~rachid/conferences/ws9.html Day: Tuesday W10 COMPOSABILITY ISSUES IN OBJECT-ORIENTATION ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: L. Bergmans, University of Twente P. Cointe, Ecole des Mines, Nantes Contact: cioo96@cs.utwente.nl URL: http://wwwtrese.cs.utwente.nl/cioo96 Day: Tuesday W11 ADAPTABILITY IN OO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: M. Aksit & B. Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, Enschede with: L. Bergmans, University of Twente, Enschede Prof. K. Lieberherr, Northeastern University, Boston P. Steyaert, University of Brussels C. Lucas, University of Brussels K. Mens, University of Brussels Contact: adaptable-ecoop96@cs.utwente.nl URL: http://wwwtrese.cs.utwente.nl/ecoop96adws/ Day: Monday W12 ECOOP '96 EDUCATOR'S SYMPOSIUM ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: J. Lindskov Knudsen, Aarhus University G. Florijn, Utrecht University Contact: jlknudsen@daimi.aau.dk URL: http://www.daimi.aau.dk/ecoop-es96 Day: Monday W13 OO PROCESS AND METRICS FOR EFFORT ESTIMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: D. de Champeaux, OntoOO, San Jose S. Horner, Origin UK, Cambridge G. Miller, Northern Telecom Inc., Raleigh Contact: Simon.Horner@dial.pipex.com URL: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/simon.horner/metwshp.htm Day: Monday W14 PROTOTYPE BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: J. Noble, University of Technology, Sydney A. Taivalsaari, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki Contact: taivalsa@research.nokia.com URL: http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~cotar/proto96.html Day: Tuesday W15 MOBILITY AND REPLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizers: B. Andersen, University of Copenhagen C. Baquero, Universidade do Minho, Braga E. Jul, University of Copenhagen R. Oliveira, EPFL, Lausanne Contact: cbm@di.uminho.pt URL: http://www.di.uminho.pt/~cbm/wmr96.html Day: Monday ========================================================== 4. TUTORIALS (http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/Tutorials.html) ========================================================== This year we received 57 proposals from which we put together a selection of 17 tutorials that cover most of the hot topics in current object-oriented research and practice. Most tutorials are half-day, which enables many different combinations of tutorials to be taken. The information on this page helps you making your personal selection. Note also the reduced prices for additional tutorial units. Hanspeter MVSSENBVCK Tutorial Chair T1 ADVANCED C++ PROGRAMMING STYLES AND IDIOMS ------------------------------------------------------------------- James O. Coplien, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL, USA Monday all day see also T10, T11 T2 OBJECTS IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Maher Awad and J|rgen Ziegler, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland Monday all day T3 INTRODUCTION TO DISTRIBUTED OBJECT CONCEPTS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Jul, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Monday morning see also T4, T14 T4 BUILDING DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS WITH CORBA AND C++ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard, Chelmsford, MA, USA Monday afternoon see also T3 T5 HOW TO DEVELOP FRAMEWORKS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA Monday morning see also T6, T12, T13, T15 T6 MET++: AN OBJECT-ORIENTED MULTIMEDIA FRAMEWORK ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dominik Eichelberg, Bernhard Wagner, University of Zurich, CH Monday afternoon see also T5, T12, T13, T15 T7 DERIVING OBJECT-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES FROM LEGACY SYSTEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Harald C. Gall, Reni R. Klvsch, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Roland T. Mittermeir, Klagenfurt University, Austria Monday morning see also T8, T9 T8 A SURVEY OF OBJECT-ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN METHODS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Fowler, Independent Consultant, Boston, MA, USA Monday afternoon see also T7, T9 T9 TESTING OBJECT-ORIENTED COMPONENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------- John D. McGregor, Clemson University, SC, USA Tuesday all day see also T7, T8 T10 ADVANCED SMALLTALK: ELEGANCE AND EFFICIENCY ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruno Schdffer, Union Bank of Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland Tuesday morning see also T1, T11 T11 CONNECTING WITH JAVA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Odersky, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Tuesday afternoon see also T1, T10 T12 AN INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN PATTERNS ------------------------------------------------------------------- John Vlissides, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA Tuesday morning see also T1, T5, T6, T13 T13 APPLICATION OF DESIGN PATTERNS IN COMMERCIAL DOMAINS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Pree, University of Linz, Austria Hermann Sikora, RACON Linz Software, Inc., Austria Tuesday afternoon see also T1, T5, T6, T12 T14 OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS ------------------------------------------------------------------- H.V.Jagadish, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA Tuesday morning see also T3 T15 COMPONENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING - A STEP BEYOND OOP ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dominik Gruntz and Cuno Pfister, Oberon microsystems Inc., Zurich, CH Tuesday afternoon see also T5, T6 T16 TYPING IN OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES: ACHIEVING EXPRESSIBILITY AND SAFETY ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kim B. Bruce, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA Tuesday morning see also T17 T17 FOUNDATIONS OF OBJECT-BASED PROGRAMMING ------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Wegner, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA Tuesday afternoon see also T16 ========================================================== 5. DEMONSTRATIONS, POSTERS, EXHIBITS ========================================================== DEMONSTRATIONS & POSTERS ------------------------ ECOOP `96 provides a venue for live demonstrations of object-oriented systems. Proposals for demonstrations of object-oriented software are invited to illustrate innovative concepts or latest work in applying object-oriented technology. Demonstrations will be selected on the basis of technical merit, novelty and relevance. Demonstrations include in-house applications, as well as academic and corporate research efforts. If you are planning to present a system at ECOOP `96, please, send a description of the demonstration, your name and address together with hardware requirements to: Wolfgang Pree ECOOP `96 Demonstrations & Posters Chair University of Linz - Software Engineering Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel.: ++43-732-2468-9444 Fax: ++43-732-2468-9430 E-mail: pree@swe.uni-linz.ac.at http://www.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/ecoop96 EXHIBITS --------- The main conference will be accompanied by a four-day commercial exhibition from July 9 to 12. Vendors of object-oriented products and services should contact the exhibits chair at the earliest convenience to ensure their inclusion. For further information please contact: Wolfgang Pree ECOOP `96 Exhibits Chair (see above) ========================================================== 6. GENERAL INFORMATION & REGISTRATION ========================================================== GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Conference Location ------------------- ECOOP `96, the 10th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, will be held on the campus of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. There are around 18.000 students enrolled, with over 2.200 in computer science and computer science applied to economics. The computer science related departments have 16 chairs with a broad spectrum of CS fields. Linz is located on the Danube, in the heart of Austria right between Vienna and Salzburg. Linz is surrounded by the gentle hills of the Bohemian landscape to the north, and by the starting Alps to the west where the picturesque Salzkammergut with its lakes and hills is situated. Linz has around 200.000 residents, and it is famous not only but also for its Linzer Torte (delicious cake), Mozart's Linz Symphony, for the astronomer Johannes Kepler, and for the composer Anton Bruckner. Linz is well-known around the world because of the Ars Electronica, a Festival of Music taking place at the Danube every year. You can also find up-to-date information on Linz on the Internet: (http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at:8001/CityOfLinz). Travel to Linz -------------- Linz has an airport with direct flights from / to Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Frankfurt, D|sseldorf, Stuttgart, Zurich, Berlin and connections to all destinations worldwide with stopover in Vienna. There exists a very comfortable train service with at least one train every hour from and to Vienna (app. 2 hours) and Salzburg (app. 1 hour). Linz can easily be reached by car from Munich, Salzburg, Vienna (motorway A1), Passau (A8) and Graz (A9). Electronic mail --------------- Internet access will be provided. Contact Numbers during the Conference ------------------------------------- The contact numbers for urgent messages to the ECOOP `96 organization and conference participants during the five days of ECOOP `96 will be: Tel.: ++43-732-2468-230 Fax: ++43-732-2468-621 (fax messages should be clearly marked with ECOOP '96) Important notice ---------------- We have done our best in preparing ECOOP '96. However, neither AITO nor the local organizers or the City Tourist Board Linz can take responsibility for any damage, loss or inconvenience participants might incur in connection with the conference. We also cannot be held responsible for the correctness or appropriateness of the contents of talks and papers included in this conference. In particular, changes to the published conference programme or cancellations of parts thereof do not entitle to a refund of the conference fee or parts thereof. Names/addresses of attendees will be electronically processed and are included in a participants list that may be posted/distributed during and in connection with the conference. By registering for the conference, participants express their agreement with these regulations. REGISTRATION ------------ Please register via WWW: http://www.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/ecoop96/registration/regist.html or fill in the enclosed registration form and return it to: ECOOP `96 Registration c/o Department of Information Systems Johannes Kepler University of Linz Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria Fax: ++43-732-2468-9308 or Fax. ++43-70-2468-9308 Your registration form has to be accompanied by the payment of your fee. All expenses due to bank transfer have to be covered by the conference participant. Your registration will be confirmed after payment has been received. Fees for early registration have to be paid before May 20, 1996, for late registration before June 25, 1996. After June 25, 1996 the highest price will be valid. Members of ACM, IEEE, GI, SI, AFCET, OCG, VGI and ADV qualify for reduced member fees. Full-time students qualify for student fees. Student registrations must be accompanied by an official letter of an advisor / course instructor confirming full-time-student status. Participants from former socialist countries qualify for a fixed reduced conference fee. Any resident of one of those countries whose registration and participation at ECOOP '96 would require economic support (in addition to the reduced conference fee) is asked to write to the ECOOP '96 Organizing Chair, Prof. Dr. Gerti Kappel, ECOOP '96, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria. Fax: ++43-732-2468-9308, e-mail: ecoop96@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at. Registration Desk ----------------- The registration desk will be open each day from 8:00 - 18:00. Additionally, the registration desk will be open for registration on Sunday July 7, from 16:00 - 20:00. Payment ------- All payments should be forwarded in Austrian currency (Austrian Shillings = ATS. As of March '96, 1 ATS is about 0.1 US $) and can be made by bank transfer, cheque, or credit card (Eurocard/Mastercard, Visa, American Express). All fees are on the account of the participant. Please present the receipt which you will get after payment at the registration desk when collecting your delegate's package. Cancellation ------------ Notification of cancellation must be made in writing to the organization. For cancellation before May 20, 1996, fees will be fully refunded, except for an administration charge of ATS 300. For cancellation between May 20 and June 25, a refund of 50% will be made. No refunds will be made for cancella-tions received after June 25, 1996. Please consult the registration form for details of the fees. The deadline for receipt of early registration is May 20, 1996. The ECOOP `96 conference registration fee covers: * Access to scientific sessions of the technical programme * Access to any number of workshops (provided attendance has been granted by the workshop organizer) * ECOOP `96 Proceedings and other conference materials * Access to Exhibitions, Demonstrations, and Posters * Refreshments during breaks * Breakfast & Lunches (Mo. - Fr.) * Receptions (every day, except Thursday when the banquet takes place) * Public transportation ticket The Tutorial registration fee covers: * Access to the registered tutorials * Tutorial materials * Access to Exhibitions (Tue.) * Refreshments during breaks * Breakfast & Lunches (Mo., Tue.) * Receptions (Mo., Tue.) * Public transportation ticket The Workshops-only registration fee covers: * Access to any number of workshops (provided attendance has been granted by the workshop organizer) * Access to Exhibitions (Tue.) * Refreshments during breaks * Breakfast & Lunches (Mo., Tue.) * Receptions (Mo., Tue.) * Public transportation ticket The Workshops-only registration fee is available to persons who will participate in one or more workshops, but who will not register for the conference. Note, that no workshop fee applies to persons registered for the conference. ECOOP '96 Registration Form --------------------------- Send this form to: ECOOP `96 University of Linz Altenbergerstr. 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria, Fax: ++43-732-2468-9308 or ++43-70-2468-9308 Last Name: _____________________________________________ First Name: ____________________________________________ Sex (F,M): Company / Affiliation: _________________________________ Street Address: ________________________________________ Postal code, City: _____________________________________ Country: _______________________________________________ E-mail: ________________________________________________ Phone (incl. country code): ____________________________ Fax: ___________________________________________________ Please indicate in order to qualify for the reduced fee: o Student (Please note that student registration must be accompanied by an offical letter of an advisor / course instructor confirming full-time student status.) o ACM o AFCET o IEEE o OCG o GI o ADV Membership No.: ____________________ o SI o VGI I want to register for the Conference: o Amount: ___________ ATS I want to register for the following Tutorials: (please note that each full day tutorial counts two tutorial units) Half day (one unit each) T3 T4 T5 T6 T7 T8 T10 T11 T12 T13 T14 T15 T16 T17 Full day (two units each) T1 T2 T9 Amount: ___________ ATS I want to register for Workshop-only: o Amount: ___________ ATS Number of persons for Governor's & Mayor's Reception ____(free of charge) Number of persons for Banquet (each ATS 400) ____ Amount: _________ ATS Dietary Requirements : o Vegetarian o Vegan o Other: Total due: ___________ ATS ========================= Payment ------- The above amount has been paid by: NB: Fees, if any, are at the sender's expense. o Enclosed cheque in Austrian Shillings (ATS), payable to ECOOP '96 - Uni Linz o Bank transfer order to: ECOOP '96 - Uni Linz, Account No. 05.716.170, Raiffeisenbank Linz-Traun (34.500) , A-4040 Linz, Austria. S.W.I.F.T. Address: RZ 00 AT 2 L; o Credit card: o VISA o American Express o Eurocard/Mastercard Card Number: _________________________ Exp. Date: __________________________ Cardholder Name: _____________________ Signature: ___________________________ Date: ________________________________ FEES (in ATS) Conference ---------- Conference(*) Student Member Non-Member by June 25 2400 5000 5800 after June 25 2800 5400 6200 (*) Non-student participants from former socialist countries qualify for a fixed conference fee of ATS 3200. Workshop only fee ----------------- Workshop Student Member Non-Member by June 25 850 1800 2200 after June 25 100 2000 2400 Tutorials ---------- Students -------- No. of units 1 2 3 4 by June 25 1000 1500 2000 2300 after June 25 1200 1800 2400 2760 Members ------- No. of units 1 2 3 4 by June 25 2000 3400 4300 5200 after June 25 2400 4080 5160 6240 Non-Members ----------- No. of units 1 2 3 4 by June 25 2500 4000 5200 6000 after June 25 3000 4800 6240 7200 Accommodation ------------- Hotels of different price categories have been reserved for the delegates of ECOOP `96 by the City Tourist Board Linz. Please use the enclosed accommodationform to book rooms. Four hotels are located downtown (a public transportation ticket will be provided). The "Hotel Sommerhaus", the guest house of the university, is in a ten minutes walking distance from the campus, where ECOOP '96 takes place. Its rooms are of ***-category with shower/WC, telephone and cable TV. The "Hotel Sommerhaus" is recommended at a very moderate price especially for ECOOP-participants. Payment has to be made directly to the hotel upon departure. For further Information concerning accommodation in Linz, please, contact Mrs. E. Wieder, City Tourist Board, Urfahrmarkt 1, A-4040 Linz, Austria, Tel. ++43-732-7070-2925, Fax. ++43-732-70 04 94 ECOOP '96 ACCOMMODATION FORM ----------------------------- Please send or fax this to: City Tourist Board Linz, Mrs. Eva Wieder, Urfahrmarkt 1, A-4040 Linz, Austria Tel. ++43 (732) 7070-2925, Fax: ++43 (732) 70 04 94. Last date of guaranteed reservation: June 1, 1996. Last Name: ________________________________________ First Name: _______________________________________ Sex (F,M): ______ Company / Affiliation: ____________________________ Street: ___________________________________________ Country: __________________________________________ Zip Code: __________ City: ________________________ Telephone number: _________________________________ Fax number: _______________________________________ ___ single room(s) ___ double room(s) o late arrival (after 6 p.m.) Room sharing with: ________________________________ Date of arrival: _____________ Date of departure: ___________ Name of Hotel single room double room o Hotel Sommerhaus*** (next to the campus) ATS 350 ATS 700 o Hotel Goldener Adler*** ATS 700 ATS 940 o Hotel Wolfinger*** ATS 880 ATS 1.200 o Hotel Drei Mohren*** ATS 950 ATS 1.400 o Best Western Spitz Hotel**** ATS 1.250 ATS 1.500 Room rates are in Austrian Shillings (ATS) per room per night incl. breakfast. Bookings are handled in order of receipt. In case of late registration, required accommodation cannot be guaranteed. If requested hotel is fully booked, rooms will be reserved in the next higher category. Please note, if cancellation is not made 48 hours before arrival, full room rate will be charged. Please inform the hotel directly about any changes concerning your reservation. You shall seddle the bill before departure directly at the hotel. You will receive a written confirmation and hotel brochure as soon as your accommodation form has been received. If you intend to share your room with another registrant, please, indicate her/his name on the accommodation form. Date: Signature: ========================================================== 7. ORGANISATION ========================================================== Ecoop '96 is organized by the Institute of Computer Science of the Johannes Kepler University of Linz under the auspices of AITO (Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets). Cooperation Institutions of ECOOP '96: ---------------------------------- ACM/SIGPLAN (Association of Computing Machinery - Special Interest Group in Programming Languages) IEEE Computer Society AFCET (Association frangaise des sciences et technologies de l'information et des systems) GI (Gesellschaft f|r Informatik) SI (Schweizer Informatiker Gesellschaft) OCG (Vsterreichische Computergesellschaft) VGI (Vsterreichische Gesellschaft f|r Informatik) ADV (Arbeitsgemeinschaft f|r Datenverarbeitung) TMG (Upper-Austria Technology and Marketing Corporation) Sponsoring Institutions & Organizations of ECOOP '96: ----------------------------------------------------- Johannes Kepler University of Linz State Government of Upper Austria Head Municipality of Linz Christian Doppler Laboratory for Software Engineering, University of Linz Department of Information Systems, University of Linz dpunkt - Verlag f|r digitale Technologie Externa Salzburg GmbH Wissenschaftshilfe der Wirtschaftskammer Obervsterreich Elektro Bau AG, Linz Fallmann & Bauernfeind, Linz-Puchenau Focus Software Consult, Wien IBM Vsterreich KEBA Ges.m.b.H. & Co., Linz Porsche Informatik, Salzburg Raiffeisenlandesbank Obervsterreich Siemens AG Austria TakeFive Software, Salzburg VOEST-ALPINE STAHL LINZ GmbH Executive Committee: -------------------- Conference Co-Chairs: Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Berne, CH) Peter Wegner (Brown University, USA) Programme Chair: Pierre Cointe (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, F) Organizing Chair: Gerti Kappel (University of Linz, A) Tutorials: Hanspeter Mvssenbvck (University of Linz, A) Workshops: Max M|hlhduser (University of Linz, A) Panels: Markku Sakkinen (University of Jyvdskyld, FIN) Demos, Exhibits & Posters: Wolfgang Pree (University of Linz, A) Sponsoring: Gustav Pomberger (University of Linz, A) Organizational Support: Maria Pichler (University of Linz, A) Werner Retschitzegger (University of Linz, A) Michael Schrefl (University of Linz, A) Technical Support: Heribert Blach (University of Linz, A) Programme Committee: -------------------- Mehmet Aksit (University of Twente, NL) Giuseppe Attardi (University of Pisa, I) Frangois Bancilhon (O2 Technology, F) Yves Caseau (Bouygues, F) Pierre Cointe (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, F; Chair) James O. Coplien (AT&T, USA) Theo D'Hondt (Brussels Free University, B) Erich Gamma (IFA Consulting, CH) Rachid Guerraoui (Ecole Poly. Federale de Lausanne, CH) Ivar Jacobson (Objectory AB, S) Mehdi Jazayeri (Technical University of Vienna, A) Gregor Kiczales (Xerox Parc, USA) Karl Lieberherr (Northeastern University, USA) Ole Lehrmann Madsen (Aarhus University, DK) Tom Maibaum (Imperial College, UK) Boris Magnusson (Lund University, S) Jacques Malenfant (University of Montreal, CDN) Bertrand Meyer (ISE, USA+F) Jose Meseguer (SRI, USA) Max M|hlhduser (University of Linz, A) Walter Olthoff (DFKI GmbH, D) Jens Palsberg (MIT, USA) Markku Sakkinen (University of Jyvdskyld, FIN) Dave Thomas (OTI Inc, CDN) Mario Tokoro (Keio U/ Sony CSL, J) Akinori Yonezawa (Tokyo University, J) Roberto Zicari (J.W.Goethe-University, D) Tutorial Committee: ------------------- G|nther Blaschek (University of Linz, A) Urs Hvlzle (University of California, USA) Hanspeter Mvssenbvck (University of Linz, A; Chair) Markku Sakkinen (University of Jyvdskyld, FIN) Josef Templ (Consultant, A) Roberto Zicari (J.W.Goethe-University, D) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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The applications should include the following: * Curriculum Vitae * Copies of university degrees * Letters of reference * Publication lists * Research plan Send your application in hard copy and a notice by e-mail to: Prof. Dr. Erich J. Neuhold GMD-IPSI Dolivostr.15 D-64293 Darmstadt Germany E-Mail: neuhold@darmstadt.gmd.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Here is: - Preliminary Program Preview - Final Call for Papers - Application Form - Sponsor and Exhibitor Information of the 9th Symposium and Exhibition on Industrial Applications of Prolog (INAP'96) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology in Hino, Tokyo Japan, on Oct 16-19, 1996. Hope to see you in October & Looking forward to your paper, tutorial, poster and demonstration! Oskar Bartenstein oskar@IFComputer.co.jp Tel +81-3-5814-3352 IF Computer Japan Limited Fax +81-3-5814-3357 INAP'96 Preliminary Program Preview update 96/06/17 ============================================================== Overview of Special Focus Sessions, Invited Keynotes, Tutorials, and some early bird paper submissions. Advanced Languages ------------------ 1 (tutorial) Norbert Fuchs, Rolf Schwitter (PENDING) University of Zurich, Switzerland ACE/Controlled English for executable specifications 2 (tutorial) Joe Armstrong Ericsson, Sweden Erlang - a survey of the language and its industrial applications 3 (tutorial) Fergus Henderson The University of Melbourne, Australia Mercury - a declarative programming language for industrial-strength applications 4 (tutorial) Francis G. McCabe Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan April - An Agent Programming Language for the Internet Internet Technologies --------------------- 5 (invited keynote) Paul Tarau University of Moncton, Canada Logic Programming and Virtual Worlds 6 (tutorial) Mary Kroening et al (PENDING) Amzi! inc., USA The Amzi Web Logic Server for HTML/CGI applications 7 (paper) Stephane Bressan ECRC, Germany Philippe Bonnet Bull, France The ECLiPSe HTTP-Library 8 (tutorial) Andrew Davison Prince of Songkla University, Thailand LogicWeb: Enhancing the Web with Logic Programming Software Engineering and Quality Management ------------------------------------------- 9 (invited keynote) Karl Reed La Trobe University, Australia Towards an Engineering Discipline ...The Nature of Software Engineering, Problems, Futures and Directions 10 (tutorial) Gerl Venzl et al Siemens AG Corporate R&D, Germany Boosting the quality and maintainability of Prolog applications by new static analysis techniques. 11 (tutorial) David Sedlock (PENDING) STEP GmbH, Germany The Task Manager - Software Project Management with WWW Traffic Systems & Decision Support ---------------------------------- 12 (paper) Cristina Baboescu The University of Electro-Communications (Railway Technical Research Institute), Japan Constraint Logic Implementation of a Decision Support System for Transportation Planning 13 (paper) Virginia Dignum, Jan van der Vorst NedCar BV., Netherlands Frank Dignum Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Datamining in a vehicle configuration system using Prolog 14 (paper) Leo Obrst, Krishna Nanda Jha, Gary Coen Boeing Helicopters, USA Mass Change of On-line Textual Databases using NLP Agents and Cooperative Systems ------------------------------ 15 (tutorial) Hiroki "Hammer" Ohama NTT Data Corporation, Japan Application of SRI Open Agent Architecture to Information Retrieval Other Sessions -------------- 16 (paper) Helen Lowe Napier University, Scotland Proof Planning & Configuration 17 (paper) Masayoshi Takada Mitsubishi Chemical, Japan Production Scheduling System introducing CSP of operator's skill 18 (paper) Takanori Imaki, Yoshihiro Adachi, Kensei Tsuchida, Takeo Yaku Toyo University, Japan Tree Drawing by Constraints Logic Programming 19 (paper) Gabriella Kokai University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany Zoltan Alexin Jozsef Attila University, Hungary Tibor Gymothy Hungarian Academy of Sciences Learning Biomedical Patterns ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers INAP-96 The 9th Exhibition and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog 16-19 October 1996 Hino, Tokyo Japan The Ninth Exhibition and Symposium on Industrial Applications of Prolog will be held in Tokyo Japan on 16-19 October 1996. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners working on industrial Prolog applications to exchange research ideas and to share development experiences. INAP consists of technical presentations, keynote address, panel discussion, reception party and the simultaneous exhibition. Submissions Details ------------------- Papers in English or Japanese should not be more than 8 pages A4. Apply by June 20 1996 with the authors' names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone and facsimile numbers, paper title and abstract. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the conference in English or Japanese. Important Dates --------------- 20 June 1996 Deadline for application 20 July 1996 Notification of acceptance 20 September 1996 Deadline for camera-ready copies INAP Target Focus and Audience ------------------------------ Prolog is famous as the first very high level programming language and for its unique potential as a specification, artificial intelligence and general purpose programming language. Due to the growing number and economic importance of industrial applications of Prolog based systems there is increasing need for information exchange catering to a sophisticated and critical audience in order to discuss achievements, trends, needs and problems of commercial users. INAP is a forum to discuss results and potential of the application of Prolog in products, production, management, services and software engineering, together with requirements, tools, programming techniques and standards necessary to satisfy technological and economic constraints. Authors are invited to submit full manuscripts or extended abstracts in English or Japanese on applications of Prolog including but not limited to: - Agents - Concurrent Engineering - Business Processes - Electronic Data Interchange - Design - Documentation - Emotion Engineering - Optimization - Quality Control - Multimedia - Visualization Address papers and enqiries to: ------------------------------ Mr. Toshiaki Yagihashi INAP Organizer's Office REN Associates, Inc. 2-12-14 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel +81-3-3433-2543 Fax +81-3-5403-7216 ren.associates@jsn.justnet.or.jp http://www.biz.isar.de/ifcomputer/inap96/ Organized by: ============= INAP Organizing Committee Prolog Association of Japan Chairman: Shuichi Fukuda, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan Program Committee: Yoshihiro Adachi, Toyo University, Japan Oskar Bartenstein, IF Computer Japan, Japan Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Korea Hon Wai Chun, City University, Hong Kong Andrew Davison, University of Melbourne, Australia Robin Drogemuller James Cook Univ of North Queensland, Australia Alexander Herold, ECRC, Germany Tohru Ihara, Chuo University, Japan Masatomo Inui, Ibaragi University, Japan Geun Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea Uk Kim, Hong-Ik University, Korea Nobukuni Kino, ISAC, Japan Yoshiki Kishi, Ibaragi University, Japan Isao Nagasawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Mihoko Okada, Suzuka Medical School, Japan Takao Ozaki, Keizo, Japan David Pearce, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Alli Roth, Prolog Management Group, UK Roger Scowen, National Physical Laboratory, UK Gert Smolka, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Naoyuki Tamura, Kobe University, Japan Jiro Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, Japan Takushi Tanaka, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Masanobu Umeda, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Osamu Yoshie, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Hajime Yoshino, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan Matthew Yuen, Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Special Advisors: Hideyuki Nakashima, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan Toshio Yokoi, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan In Cooperation with: Association of Logic Programming bit Computer Science Magazine Compulog Net EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation European Computer Industry Research Centre German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan German National Research Center for Computer Science International Society for Applied Intelligence International Society for Productivity Enhancement Japanese Cognitive Science Society Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Practical Application of Prolog Prolog Management Group Robotics Society of Japan Conference Office: REN Associates, Inc. INAP'96 Information Request Sheet Fax +81-3-5403-7216 ======================================================== TO: INAP Mr. Toshiaki Yagihashi REN Associates, Inc. 2nd Nichika Bldg, 2-12-14 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku Tokyo 105, Japan Tel +81-3-3433-2543 Fax +81-3-5403-7216 ren.associates@jsn.justnet.or.jp I AM INTERESTED IN INAP'96 o I may present a paper. Tentative Title: ________________________________________________ o I may attend as a delegate. Please keep me informed. o Our company may want to become a sponsor. Please send info on the INAP Sponsor Package o Our company/institute may want to exhibit. Please send info on the INAP Exhibitor Package o I may be able to hold a workshop on: ________________________________________________ o I may be able to chair an organized session on: ________________________________________________ o My organization may be able to cooperate with INAP. Please contact me on this. o I would like to suggest the following person to join the INAP Program Committee: ________________________________________________ MY ADDRESS: Name: ____________________________________ Company/Univ: ____________________________________ Department: ____________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ City: ____________________________________ Country: ____________________________________ Tel: ____________________________________ Fax: ____________________________________ email: ____________________________________ WWW: ____________________________________ Comments/Requests: --------------------------------------------------------------------- INAP'96 Sponsor and Exhibitor Packages update 96/06/11 ================================================================== The Symposium and Exhibition of Industrial Applications of Prolog provides full commercial services for sponsors and exhibitors. INAP targets a highly focussed audience of practitioners with strong interest in advanced software technologies. Sponsors and Exhibitors obtain high visibility in all relevant INAP announcements through postal mail, email, usenet news, Internet World Wide Web, and cooperating organizations. The Exhibition is held for the conference period in the conference lobby and registration area. Coffee/Tea is served throughout. 1. Founder Sponsor Package - Yen250.000 - active involvement in future INAP planning - all services of the Full Sponsor Package 2. Full Sponsor Package - Yen350.000 - full sponsor status in all INAP documents - all services of the Full Exhibitor Package 3. Full Exhibitor Package - Yen180.000 - conference participation for 2 persons - reception, refreshments and lunches for 2 persons - 2 sets of the conference proceedings - full size exhibition booth in the conference lobby (available space will vary depending on number of received applications) - all services of the Poster Exhibitor Package 4. Poster Exhibitor Package - Yen20.000 - 1 page black-and-white A4 exhibition abstract published in the proceedings - 1 set of the conference proceedings - emailed list of INAP Participants - all services of the Catalog Exhibitor Package 5. Catalog Exhibitor Package - Yen10.000 - 1 poster format A1 enlarged from the exhibition abstract displayed in the conference lobby - 1 stack of promotional materials/ handouts placed below the poster in the conference lobby INAP'96 Sponsor/Exhibition Order Fax +81-3-5403-7216 ================================================================== TO: INAP by fax Mr. Toshiaki Yagihashi REN Associates, Inc. 2nd Nichika Bldg, 2-12-14 Hamamatsucho, Minato-ku Tokyo 105, Japan Tel +81-3-3433-2543 Fax +81-3-5403-7216 ren.associates@jsn.justnet.or.jp WE WANT TO SPONSOR/EXHIBIT AT INAP'96: o as Founder Sponsor (Yen250.000) o as Full Sponsor (Yen350.000) o as Full Exhibitor (Yen180.000) o as Poster Exhibitor (Yen20.000) o as Catalog Exhibitor (Yen10.000) WE PAY AS FOLLOWS: o by bank transfer. Please send invoice. o by credit card: o Master o Visa o Diners o Amex Card Number: _________________________ Cardholder Name: _________________________ Expiry Date: _________________________ Total Amount: Yen______________________ Signature: _________________________ WE UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT: 1 Applications are accepted any time and served from the date of receipt of payment by bank transfer or credit card. 2 there are no refunds for any reason 3 we plan to email the exhibition abstract in camera ready monochrome Postscript format by ___/___/___ 4 our Poster will be enlarged and arranged by INAP from the emailed exhibition abstract (attendance is not required) 5 the organizer reserves the right to modify offered services. OUR ADDRESS: Name: ____________________________________ Company/Univ: ____________________________________ Department: ____________________________________ Address: ____________________________________ City: ____________________________________ Country: ____________________________________ Tel: ____________________________________ Fax: ____________________________________ email: ____________________________________ WWW: ____________________________________ Comments/Requests: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 21 10:39:25 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 KAA09315 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:39:12 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05251 for dbworld; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:39:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:39:11 -0500 From: "Boris Novikov" Message-Id: <199606211539.KAA05251@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Participation Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'96 ======================================================== Third International Workshop of the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter In cooperation with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Moscow, September 10-13, 1996 Aims and Scope -------------- ADBIS'96 is the fourth annual workshop on Advances in Databases and Information Systems organized by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter. The two primary goals of these workshops are (1) to provide a forum for the presentation and in-depth discussion of advanced research directions that will effectively improve the building and use of future information systems and (2) to allow direct interaction and communication between the research communities of both East and West thereby fostering old and new collaborations. Participation at the workshop is limited to 70 in order to pursue these two goals. Format of the workshop ---------------------- The official language of the Workshop is English. The workshop programme includes invited and regular talks and posters. The authors of posters will be introduced to the audience by appropriate session chairs to enable informal discussion of their contributions. The Workshop will be held at the main building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskyi Prospect, 32, Moscow, Russia. The proceedings of ADBIS'96 will be printed in two volumes before the Workshop. The first volume will include full texts of all regular papers. The second volume will include extended abstracts of all other presentations. General Co-Chairs ----------------- Mikhail Alfimov Russian Foundation for Basic Research Leninsky prosp. 32a, 117334 Moscow Leonid Kalinichenko Institute for Problems of Informatics Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vavilov str., 30/6, 117900, Moscow Phone: (095) 237-20-31 Yuri Zhuravlev Computing Center RAS Vavilov str., 40, 117967, Moscow Phone: (095) 135-24-89 Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Boris Novikov University of St.-Petersburg, Bibliotechnaya pl. 2, 198904 St.-Petersburg boris@orl.usr.pu.ru Joachim W. Schmidt University of Hamburg, Germany Vogt-Koelln Str. 30, D-22527 Hamburg J_Schmidt@informatik.uni-hamburg.de Program Committee ----------------- Johann Eder (Klagenfurt University, Austria) Nikolay Emelyanov (Institute for Systems Analysis, RAS, Russia) Janis Grundspenkis (Riga Technical University, Latvija) Remigijus Gustas (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania and University of Karlstad, Sweden) Hele-Mai Haav (Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia) Yuri Hohlov (Mathematical institute, RAS, Russia) Leonid Kalinichenko (Inst. for Problems of Informatics RAS, Russia) Hannu Kangassalo (University of Tampere, Finland) Wolfgang Klas (GMD, Germany) Mikhail Kogalovsky (Institute for Market Economy, RAS, Russia) Sergey Kuznetsov (Institute for Systems Programming, RAS, Russia) Peri Loucopoulos (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg, Germany) Rainer Manthey (University of Bonn, Germany) Ron Morrison (St.-Andrews University, Scotland) Tadeusz Morzy (Tech. Uniersity of Poznan, Poland) Nikolay Nikitchenko (Kiev University, Ukraine) Jaroslav Pokorny (Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic) Colette Rolland (Sorbonne, France) Sivio Salza (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) Bernhard Thalheim (Tech. University of Cottbus, Germany) Benkt Wangler (Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden) Vjatcheslav Wolfengagen (Moscow Engineering and Physics Inst., Russia) Alexandre Zamulin (Inst. of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia) Organizing Committee Chair -------------------------- Vjatcheslav Wolfengagen Moscow Engineering and Physics Inst., Russia slava@jurinf.msu.su P R E L I M I N A R Y P R O G R A M M E ================================================ Sept 10 9:30 - 10:00 Opening Address 10:00-11:30 Session 1: Models F. Matthes, R. M\"{u}ller, and J.W. Schmidt. Towards a Unified Model of Untyped Object Stores: Experience with the Tycoon Store Protocol. Klaus Berg and Leonid Kalinichenko Modeling Facilities for the Component-based Software Development Method David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Yiu-Kai Ng On Harmonically Combining Active, Object-Oriented, and Deductive Databases 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee 12:00 - 13:00 Schema Evolution St\'ephane Demphlous Databases Evolution: A Metaobject Approach C. Urtado and C. Oussalah Semantic Rules to Propagate Versions in Object-Oriented Databases 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Information system design Margita Altus User Modelling for Conceptual Database Design Based on an Extended Entity Relationship Model I. A. Basarab, B. V. Gubsky, N. S. Nikitchenko Declarative Languages of Composition Database Development Method Y. Amghar and M. Meziane Designing Databases using the Activity Paradigm poster: Odrova A.N. Implementing the Object Oriented Application 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 Logic and Databases V.E.Wolfengagen Objects and their Computational Framework Stefan Brass SLDMagic --- An Improved Magic Set Technique Juergen Kalinski Disjunctive Rules, Maybe Tuples and Null Values: Logic Programs with Incomplete Information poster: N.E. Emelyanov, A.V. Solovyev, I.V. Schelkacheva Classification of Structured Data Representations poster: Philippov V. A., Tschukin B. A. Postrelational Data Model Sept 11 9:30 - 11:00 Data Warehousing and Migration T. Morzy Warehouse - Integration of External Data Sources Sofien Gannouni, Emmanuel Gleizer Incremental View Maintenance For Data Warehousing K. Menhoudj, M. Ou-Halima Migrating Data-Oriented Applications to a Relational Database Management System 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 13:30 Transactions and Workflows Silvio Salza, Antonio Massari and Massimiliano Bruno A Distributed Architecture for Integrated Access to Legacy Database Systems G. Kappel, S. Rausch-Schott, W. Retschitzegger A Transaction Model For Handling Composite Events Ahmad R. Hadaegh Ken Barker Value-serializability and an Architecture for Managing Transactions in Multiversion Objectbase Systems Vadim Doubrovski Key Integrity for Cooperative Database Environments with Stationary and Mobile Hosts poster: S.A. Kastanoff, V.V.Zhelyazko, S.V. Zikov Designing Information Processing Systems for Workflow Automation 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Query optimization and processing Yi\~{g}it Kulaba\c{s} and \"{O}zg\"{u}r Ulusoy Heuristic Algorithms for Inter-Query Scheduling in Database Systems N. Biscondi, L. Brunie, A. Flory Parallel Databases: Structured Query Optimization Estrella Pulido Recursive query processing with the STARBASE method 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 Object-Oriented Design Leonid A. Kalinichenko Type Associations Identified to Support Information Resource Reuse in Megaprogramming Dmitry O. Briukhov Interfacing of Object Analysis and Design Methods with the Method for Interoperable Information Systems Design Parfenov Yu. Yu., Barabash R.K. Object-oriented design of system for supporting office management poster: L.Yu.Ismailova, K.E. Zinchenko Object-Oriented Tools for Advanced Applications poster: A. Gavrilov New Developers Tools for the CAD Information Systems Design Sept 12 9:30 - 13:00 Tutorial 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Text retrieval and active DB Maxim Martynov, Boris Novikov An Indexing Algorithm for Text Retrieval D. Dervos P. Linardis Y. Manolopoulos Perfect Encoding: a Signature Method for Text Retrieval Ian S. Thomas, Andrew C. Jones Extending the Gemstone Smalltalk Interface Debugger to cope with Active Database Components 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 Databases on the Web I Peter Kutschera MediaStore: A World-Wide Web based user interface for multimedia database systems Trushkin S.A. Andernach H. Micol A. Gubanov A.G. Giovannini G. Verkhodanov O. Titov V.B. Chernenkov V.N. Bursov N.N. Reshetnikov V. The First Publicly Accessible Database ot Radio Sources: an INTAS-RFBR Project Litvinenko E.I. Hypertext Infosystem for Pulsed Neutron Sources and Scientific Investigations Based on these Sources. Sept 13 9:30 - 11:00 Databases on the Web II rfbr36 S.~I.~Alekhin, V.~V.~Ezhela, B.~B.~Filimonov, S.~B.~Lugovsky, A.~S.~Nikolaev, B.~V.~Polishchuk, S.~R.~Slabospitsky, S.~I.~Striganov, Y.~G.~Stroganov COMPAS Project at IHEP. History, Current State, Plans for the Future. V.E.Abramov-Maksimov, V.M.Bogod, A.N.Korzhavin, L.V.Opeikina, V.A.Shatilov Software for Management of a Database of Solar Observations on the Radio Telescope RATAN-600 A.E.Avramenko, R.R.Akhmetov, A.S.Gryasnov, O.V.Doroshenko, Yu.P.Ilyasov, V.A.Potapov, A.E.Rodin Pulsar Astrometry Information System and Data bases for Pulsar Timing and VLBI Observations Emelyanov N.E., Muhanov I.V., Tishchenko V.A. Web-Server on the Basis of NIKA DBMS 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 13:00 RFBR session I B. Novikov Programme Committee Report Smirnov I.S., Lobanov A.L., Alimov A.F., Dianov M.B., Sokolov E.P., S.G. Medvedev Development of Information Retrieval System ZOOINT for Zoology M.Yu.Zakharov, E.A.Loupian, A.A.Mazurov, R.R.Nazirov, E.V.Flitman Information System for On-Line Access to Satellite Data. P.P.Firstov, Yu.A.Filippov A System to Store the Records of Wave Disturbances in the Atmosphere Caused by Volcanic Eruptions Syuntyurenko O. V., Leontieva T. M., Shogin A. N. New Problems of Complex Information Service on the Basis of Information Resources Integration poster: Tasenko S.V., Dlikman F.L., Frishberg F.M., Magariu G.A.,Nadvodniuc N.A., Burtseva L.V. Simulation of Information Support of Local Databases in Network of Satellites Geophysical Control System Victor A. Krivoschokov, Konstantin V. Chuguev Multilanguage and Multicharset Information System 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 RFBR session II I.M.Bockstein, N.S.Merzlyakov, B.M.Miller, L.I.Rubanov Development of an Archive Image Database within the Framework of Modern Technologies of Image Processing and Storage Boris R. Gelchiski, Alexei S. Bushuev, Dmitry V. Latukhin, Valery P. Beskachko Information and Research System on Physical-Chemical Properties of Metals on the Basis of Packages of Applied Programs and Database L.M. Kitaev, A.N. Krenke, E.A.Barabanova Generation and Application of Snow Cover Information System on a Continental Scale V.F.Levchenko, I.I.Evdokimov, Z.M.Grishman, O.A.Snetkova The Databases on the Ecological Conditions of the East Part of the Finnish Gulf (St.Petersburg Region), Internet Access to them and Disseminating of the Data D.A.Varlamov, V.N.Balashov, A.G.Kalinichev, V.V.Ermakov Information System on Experimental Mineralogy and Physical Geochemistry poster: Roman Snytsyr Integration of Biologist Databases Using Component Object Model poster: E.S.Vasiayeva, N.S.Vasiayeva, V.V.Nickolayev Logic-based information system for processing of archaeological materials 16:00 - 16:30 Last Coffee 16:30 - 18:00 RFBR session III E.I. Golovanov, A.A. Stolyarov, D.D. Vasilyev Multilayer Hypertext Model for the Historical Monuments' Databases G.G Belonogov, Al-dr A. Khoroshilov, Al-sey A. Khoroshilov, B.A. Kuznetsov, A.P. Novoselov, Yu.G. Zelenkov Problem of Phraseological Machine Translation of Polythematic Texts from Russian into English and from English into Russian Discussion ====================================================================== T U T O R I A L An Agenda for Research on Cooperative Information Systems John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto) Giorgio De Michelis (Universita di Milano) Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg) Cooperative Information Systems is a relatively young research area which attempts to offer new approaches to information system development and maintenance in response to rapid and far reaching technological and organizational changes. This tutorial articulates a vision of the emerging Cooperative Information Systems paradigm, which is based on the premise that change management will be the central issue to be addressed by information systems of the future. On the basis of this premise, the tutorial proposes a generic architecture for cooperative information systems which consists of four layers: the system layer, which includes existing legacy systems, a system integration layer, a human cooperation layer and an organization layer. This architecture is offered as a means for building cooperative information systems on top of existing systems in order to provide information services that meet evolving organizational objectives. The architecture is also useful in accommodating changes which originate in any of the layers and are then propagated to other layers. On the basis of this architecture, the tutorial takes a closer look at the areas which encompass the four layers: o The system layer accommodates existing information, workflow and other computer-based systems, developed in terms of conventional technologies such as programming languages, DBMS and workflow systems which are executing on conventional, distributed hardware and software. These systems were developed in a bottom-up fashion by individuals, groups or even the organization itself and were intended to serve local and often less-than-permanent needs. o The system integration layer addresses interoperation concerns, including data transfer, semantic and control integration. It is intended to ensure that all systems within an organization, can share data and use each others' functionality, independently of the platform on which they were developed or the one on which they are executing, also independently of their original purpose or origin. o The group collaboration layer addresses human collaboration and coordination concerns in terms of groupware, organizational computing and other tools. This layer ensures that groups of people working on a common business process or other project -- such as co-authoring a report -- can coordinate their activities, get useful information on a timely fashion and can deal with all contingencies as though they were working physically together. o Finally, the organizational layer addresses global organizational concerns, including organizational objectives and business goals, policies, regulations, etc., relating these with intermediate layers, all the way down to existing systems and execution engines. This layer accommodates models of organizational goals, organizational structure, interdependencies among organizational agents as well as models of lower layers and how they all inter-depend. The layer maintains through a repository contact between existing systems, on-going business activities and global organizational objectives; it also offers mechanisms for propagating organizational objective changes to all other layers. For the system integration, group collaboration and the organization layer, the tutorial will review fundamental concepts, promising research directions and open questions. Topis to be covered include: o Cooperation and Change o The CoopIS Architecture o The system integration layer Improved interoperation Liberated coordination Maintenance of links between implementation and model o The group collaboration layer Distinct work space Synchronous and asynchronous share work space Managing the switches Linkages between the organizational and group collaboration layers o The organizational layer Modeling organizational objectives Modeling system requirements Ensuring continuing cooperation\ o Conclusions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A little bit about Moscow The beginning of September is one of the best time of year in Moscow. Usually the weather is sunny and warm but not hot. The place of the Workshop is near Moscow River and one of the biggest parks of Moscow - well-known Gorky Park. From highest floors of the building you could see a beautiful view of the centre of Moscow. Moscow is not only the capital of Russia and very nice city, it's also the great cultural centre. There are a lot of museums. We recommend you to visit museums of Kremlin and also art museums - famous Tretiakov Gallery and Pushkin Museum. Concert halls and theatres of Moscow provide excellent performances every evening. You could choose what do you like more. ============================================================ Registration People wishing to attend the Workshop should fill in the enclosed registration form and to send it by e-mail to the address of Organizing Committee: slava@jurinf.msu.su A separate registration form must be completed by each participant. The regular Workshop fee is $200. For members of the ACM it's reduced to $180. For students the fee is $40. Workshop registration fee includes admission to the technical sessions, tutorial, reception, refreshment breaks, and one copy of the workshop proceedings. Student fee includes only the technical sessions and refreshment breaks. The participation is free for researchers involved in projects supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Special discounts are available for participants that are permanent residents in the countries from the former Soviet Union. Please fill in application form at the end and send it to organizing committee. There are two possible methods of payment: - bank transfer (free of charges for us, please) to the following account: Intermediary: BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, 280 Park Avenue, New York 10017 NY USA SWIFT: BKTR US 33 Beneficiary bank: N 04402672 INTERPROGRESSBANK, Moscow, Russia SWIFT: INTP RU MM Beneficiary: MEPhI account 1070750 === Important: don't forget to include === === in SWIFT card purpose field: === ===>>> `For ADBIS'96 participation' <<<=== - by cash at the registration desk. Accommodation The Organizing Committee proposes you to live in the Hotel Rossia. This big hotel is placed in the very centre of Moscow near Kremlin. There are only three stops by metro to Leninskyi Prospect from there. The price for single-bed room in this hotel is $60 per night. If you like you can book a room in Rossia yourself by fax: +7 (095) 298-5541. There also two less expensive hotels near the place of the Workshop: Hotel Sputnik and Hotel Orlenok ($46 for single-bed room per night), approximately *** hotels. If you prefer these hotels please ask us to book rooms there (see the registration form). We don't propose more expensive hotels (from $200 per night) but they are available, and we can provide your accommodation there. Please reflect your wishes within registration form, and we'll book a room for you. Please note, that probably you will need to pay for your accommodation by cash. Registration form (please fill in and e-mail it to slava@jurinf.msu.su ) Name: Last,First, Middle __________________________________________ Affiliation: ____________________________________________________ Mailing Address: ________ ________________________________________ City,State,Mail Code/Zip: __________________________________________ Country: ______________________________________________________ Telephone _______________________ FAX _________________________ Email _________________________________________________________ RFBR grant: Name of grantee (if different from participant)____________________ _________________________________________Grant No:_________________ Registration Fee $ _______________ Method of Payment: _____Bank transfer _____Cash Accommodation requirements: Hotel Rossia _____ Please book a single-bed room for me (yes, no) Please book a double-bed room for me (yes, no) Hotel Sputnik _____ Hotel Orlenok _____ Some other more comfortable hotel _____ Visa support To get a visa in any embassy of Russia you need to have an official letter of invitation. The organizing committee of ADBIS'96 will provide you with such letters (by fax). An invitation should contain some your personal information. Please, send by e-mail slava@jurinf.msu.su together with your filled registration form your full name, date and place of birth, residence, nationality, affiliation, passport number, passport issued from, place and date of issue, date of expiration. Also please give us a number of your fax to send you the invitation. ============================================================= REQUEST FOR A GRANT (only for participants from the former Soviet Union) The grant will cover registration fee only. No travel or accommodation grants are available. -- RETURN COMPLETED FORM NO LATER THAN AUGUST 31, 1996, IF POSSIBLE VIA E-MAIL, TO: slava@jurinf.msu.su -- PERSONAL DATA Last/Family Name : First Name : Middle Name : Title : Affiliation : Mailing Address : Country : Daytime Phone Number : Fax Number : E-mail Address : I am an author or a co-author of a paper accepted for ADBIS : yes or no I am an author or a co-author of a paper submitted for ADBIS: yes or no State of permanent residence: Date of birth: Place of birth: Highest degree earned: (when and from which school) Present position and responsibilities: Extended visits and training in other organizations and countries: (when and where) Teaching: Research Areas: Publications: (list at most 3 recent publications) Conference Attendance: (list at most 3 conferences you attended) Participation in Research Programs and Projects: (title, sponsors, partners, objectives) Membership of Scientific and Professional Societies: ============================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 21 10:40:22 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA09334 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:40:14 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05258 for dbworld; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:40:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:40:13 -0500 From: tjoa@ifs.tuwien.ac.at (A Min TJOA) Message-Id: <199606211540.KAA05258@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ***************************************************************************** Fourth International Conference on Information and Communications Technology in Tourism ********************* * * * CFP: E N T E R ' 97 * * * ********************* January 22-24, 1997 Edinburgh, Scotland ***************************************************************************** This call for papers and other relevant material will be available at the World Wide Web at the following URL: http://www.tis.co.at/enter CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES --------------------- ENTER'97 is an international forum dealing with the use and development of information systems and communication technologies in the domain of tourism. Information and communication systems embedded in a global net have profound influence on the tourism and leisure industry and will alter it considerably. Advances in the use and development of tools, agents, technologies and methodologies that have facilitated the efficient netting of information and communication systems in the tourism industry are to be presented and discussed within ENTER. Apart from scientific and technical sessions the conference offers additional tutorials, workshops and presentations for practitioners in the area of tourism. ENTER is directed towards two target groups: system developers and practitioners which are actively involved in the field of touristic information technology and methodology as well as system users interested in a further discussion of the subject. Both these groups will be offered joint presentations to facilitate and support communication. The yearly ENTER conference represents - as shown by its success in the past - the most important international forum of this kind. Each year the conferences is headed by a general topic which will especially be dealt with by the presentations for the practitioners. The theme for ENTER 1997 is "Preparing for the Digital Economy". The conference will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland. After three successful years in Innsbruck, Austria, ENTER has reached the status of a truly international conference, and will be moving to new locations around the world each year. SUGGESTED TOPICS ---------------- Contributions in form of research papers, research in progress papers and case studies are invited in - but not limited to - the following areas of the scientific and technical track: 7 Information systems 7 expert systems 7 decision support systems 7 intelligent agents 7 multi-media 7 capacity management 7 management information systems 7 distributed systems / WAN's 7 Internet / World Wide Web 7 system architectures 7 reservation systems 7 executive information systems 7 optimization and simulation models 7 business engineering 7 standardization - EDI 7 reverse marketing 7 management / organization / business and economical aspects 7 virtual reality and tourism 7 quality control in tourism 7 legal and social aspects INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS ---------------------- The conference languages will be English. Contribution to the conference in the form of papers are to be submitted exclusively in English. Papers are invited on the topics listed and others within the general theme of the conference. Four copies of abstracts of no more than 1000 words should be submitted by September 2nd, 1996 preferably via email or via mail (4 paper copies) to the Program Chair: Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa Institute for Software Technology Vienna University of Technology Resselgasse 3/188 A-1040 Vienna AUSTRIA phone: +43 (1) 58801-4131 (or 4081) fax: +43 (1) 504 05 32 email: tjoa@ifs.tuwien.ac.at Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by October 20th, 1996. The category designation from the list of topics and final acceptance will be based upon review of the full length paper, which must be received by November 10th, 1996. All papers received will be refereed by an International Program Committee and each paper will be reviewed by independent referees. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (Springer Verlag) to be distributed to the participants at the conference. TIME SCHEDULE ------------- Submit abstract (1000 Words) September 2nd, 1996 Preliminary acceptance October 20th, 1996 Submit final paper November 10th, 1996 PANELS or MINITRACKS -------------------- Submissions are invited from panel or minitrack organizers. Panels or minitracks should address a well-defined issue. Proposals should include a title, the proposed chair, the tentative panelists (not more then 4), a brief description of the panel session subject and a supporting rationale. Minitrack coordinators will take responsibility to solicit and referee contributions. Authors whose papers are selected, panelists who are members of accepted panels, and research exchange organizers are expected to register for the Conference. ORGANIZATION ------------ Celia Christie Edinburgh & Lothians Tourist Board 4 Rothesay Terrace Edinburgh EH3 7RY Scotland phone: +44 (131) 226 6800 fax: +44 (131) 226 6805 email: celia@edinburgh.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE / CHAIRS -------------------------- Scientific and Technical Track: TJOA A Min Vienna University of Technology, Austria Application Oriented Track: CARTER Roger Edinburgh Tourist Board, Scotland PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS ------------------------- AIVALIS Constantin University of Crete, Greece BAUKNECHT Kurt University of Zurich, Switzerland BENTLEY Robert Sustainable Tourism Development Association, Spain BRANDES Wolfram Arthur D. Little, Germany BUHALIS Dimitrios Westminster University, Great Britain EBNER Arno TIS GmbH, Austria DJUNAEDI Achmad Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia FLEISCH Elgar University of St. Gallen, Switzerland FRANK Klaus University of Worms, Germany GO Frank Technical University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong HITZ Martin University of Vienna, Austria JAFAR Jafari University of Wisconsin, USA KASPAR Claude University of St. Gallen, Switzerland KLEIN Stefan University of St. Gallen, Switzerland KUBICEK Herbert University of Bremen, Germany LANFRANCO Sam York University, Canada MAARTMANN-MOE Erling Norwegian Computing Center, Norway MATA-MONTERO Erick Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica MAZANEC Josef A. University of Vienna, Austria MEIJS Chris Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands MORENO-DIAZ Robero Instituto Tecnologico de Canarias, Spain PAOLINI Paolo Politecnico di Milano, Italy PERONI Giovanni CST Perugia, Italy POLLAK Anna The Strategy Group, Great Britain PRESS Larry University of California, USA RAFFERTY John Board Failte, Ireland REVELL Norman City University of London, Great Britain RIBBERS Pieter Tilburg University, The Netherlands ROITHMAYR Friedrich University of Innsbruck, Austria SCHERTLER Walter University of Trier, Germany SCHMID Beat University of St. Gallen, Switzerland SHELDON Pauline University of Hawaii, USA SMERAL Egon Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Austria STOCK Oliviero Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy STOCKINGER Johann University of Vienna, Austria VAN DER PIJL John Tilburg University, The Netherlands VAN HOOF Hubert Northern Arizona University, USA WAGNER Roland University of Linz, Austria WERTHNER Hannes University of Vienna, Austria WIETRZYK Vlad University of Technology Sydney, Australia ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 21 10:41:42 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 KAA09367 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:41:35 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05270 for dbworld; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:41:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:41:34 -0500 From: acpc96@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at Message-Id: <199606211541.KAA05270@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation 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). Students only may join the conference, tutorial and invited talks - they must have an endorsement of their universities. Copies of the tutorial material will be sold at the conference. Please indicate to participate the tutorial: Yes ___ No ___ Conference fee __________ Tutorial only (ATS 1.250) __________ Number of additional banquet tickets (ATS 500 per person) __________ Additional proceedings (ATS 600) __________ Total ATS ========== Note, the registration is valid only after full payment! --------------------------- cut here ------------------------- Hotel Reservation Form 3rd International Conference of the ACPC September 22-25, 1996 in Klagenfurt/Austria Please complete this form and send it per FAX, surface mail, or e-mail to Klagenfurt Tourismus attn. to: G. Tschernuth Rathaus Neuer Platz A-9010 Klagenfurt / Austria Tel.: ++43 (0)463 537 293 FAX: ++43 (0)463 537 295 ACPC-Hotel@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at Last Name:________________________________________________ Title: ______________ First Name:_____________________________________________________________________ Address:________________________________________________________________________ City:___________________________ Zip/Postal-Code: ________ State:_______________ Phone:___________________________________ Fax:__________________________________ E-mail:_________________________________________________________________________ Arrival date:____________ Time of arrival:__________ Departure Date:__________ I/We will arrive by car ___ train ___ airplane ___ +----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ I reserve ___ single room(s) | Category | C ** | B *** | A **** | ___ double room(s) +----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | single | 230 - 320 | 400 - 790 | 650 - 950 | room sharing with: +----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ | double | 230 - 350 | 350 - 750 | 620 - 800 | ____________________________ +----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ Rates in ATS (Austrian Schillings) per person and night (continental breakfast and taxes included). Bookings are handled in order of receipt. In case of late registration, required accommodation cannot be guaranteed. If requested hotel is fully booked, rooms will be reserved in the next higher category. You shall seddle the bill directly at the hotel. Date ___________ Signature: ________________________ ------------------------ cut here ----------------------------------- For german-speaking people we also cann offer electronic registration via WWW at http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/ACPC96/ in co-operation with the Informatik'96 of the german Gesellschaft f|r Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Jun 21 14:20:50 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 OAA14768 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:20:15 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA05541 for dbworld; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:20:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:20:14 -0500 From: gaede@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Volker Gaede) Message-Id: <199606211920.OAA05541@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International CONTESSA Database Workshop CONSTRAINT DATABASES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS CDB'96 December 16-17, 1996 London, United Kingdom organized by ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA (8666) Following the first successful workshop in Friedrichshafen last year the 2nd open CONTESSA workshop on constraint database systems will be held in London, United Kingdom. Constraint database systems represent a new database paradigm in that they aim 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. Papers are solicited in the area of storage and indexing of constraints in databases; the use of constraint handling techniques for query optimization; the incorporation of constraints in object data modelling and database specification; constraints on stored objects; and the relationship between constraints as data, active constraints and integrity constraints. Papers describing implementations and applications of constraint databases are particularly welcome. SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit unpublished contributions, having no more than 15 single-spaced A4-pages. Each submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least three PC-members. We encourage to submit papers in postscript-format by email to cdb96@cbr.dit.csiro.au, or otherwise by sending 8 hard-copies to: CDB'96 CSIRO Division of Information Technology, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia PROCEEDINGS: As with the previous workshop, it is intended to publish a selection of revised full papers as a volume of the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science after the Workshop. Important Deadlines: Submissions September 27, 1996 Notification of Acceptance November 4, 1996 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dave Abel CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Foto Afrati National Technical U. of Athens, Greece Alex Brodsky George Mason University, USA. Rolf de By University of Twente, The Netherlands Andrew Frank Technical University of Vienna, Austria Christos Faloutsos University of Maryland, USA Mike Freeston University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Johann-Christoph Freytag Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Volker Gaede (Chair) CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Stephane Grumbach INRIA, France Oliver Guenther Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Joxan Jaffar University of Singapore, Singapore Gabriel Kuper INRIA, Rocquencourt, France Michael Maher Griffith University, Australia Jan Paredaens University of Antwerp, Belgium Andreas Podelski Max Planck Institut, Saarbruecken, Germany Divesh Srivastava AT&T Research, USA Peter Stuckey University of Melbourne, Australia Michel Scholl INRIA, France Mark Wallace IC PARC/ICL, London, Great Britain Michael Worboys Keele University, Keele, Great Britain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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