From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Fri Mar 1 18:42:03 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 1 Mar 96 18:41:59 -0600; AA10310 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 18:41:55 -0600 From: mario@seas.smu.edu (Mario Nascimento) Message-Id: <9603020041.AA19303@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Fri, 1 Mar 96 18:41:55 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ===================================================================== XI BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON DATABASE SYSTEMS - SBBD'96 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Sao Carlos, SP - BRAZIL October 14-16, 1996 The Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD) is an annual event sponsored by the Special Commission on Databases of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Its main purposes are the dissemination of the research work in Databases, and to provide an environment for the interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practitioners in that field. The XI SBBD will be held at Federal University of Sao Carlos and supported by both universities located in Sao Carlos: Federal University of Sao Carlos and University of Sao Paulo. PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES Technical sessions, international talks, tutorials, mini-courses, panels involving academics, manufacturers and users, exhibitions of commercial products in the database domain. The X Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering will be held at the same place from 15 to 18 October; both events are coordenated by the same organizing commitee. TOPICS Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing relevant, original and unpublished research or experience works, as well as tutorials, related (but not restricted to) the following topics: - Database theory and algorithms - User Interfaces to databases - DBMS implementation aspects - Object-oriented databases - Active,deductive, temporal and spacial databases - Cooperative databases - Multimedia and Hypermedia databases (data storage, retrieval and synchronization in a multimedia database) - Knowledge discovery in database - Extensible systems - Distributed databases - Interoperability - Data modelling and database design techniques - Query processing - Database support for advanced applications INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors should send 4 copies of the full paper, limited to 15 pages. Papers should not be submitted simultaneously to other conference. Tutorials should be submitted in 4 copies, limited to 25 pages classified in one of the topics listed above. Submissions must be sent to the address below (no E-mail or Fax submissions are allowed) with the following statements: - the work is original and has not been published elsewhere; - the work will be presented in the symposium by at least one author; The criteria for judgement are originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation. FORMAT OF PAPERS AND TUTORIALS Papers and tutorials must be written in Portuguese or English, and printed in A4 format (21,0 cm x 29,7 cm), with top margin 3,5 cm, bottom margin 2,0 cm and side margins 2,5 cm. They must be printed preferably with 12 points roman fonts and include title, information of all authors (name, institution, address, fax number and e-mail ), a short abstract (150 words), and keywords. Proceedings will be printed reduced by 70%, so small details should be avoided. PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Names confirmed until now: Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (IME-RJ) Berthier Ribeiro de Araujo Neto (UFMG) Decio Fonseca (UFPE) Geovane Magalhaes (UNICAMP) Marina Teresa Pires Vieira - General Chair (UFSCar) Marta Lima de Queiroz Mattoso (UFRJ) Nina Edelweiss (UFRGS) Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-RJ) Vania Maria Pontes Vidal (UFC) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Agma Juci Machado Traina - ICMSC Antonio Carlos dos Santos - UFSCar Antonio Francisco do Prado - UFSCar Caetano Traina Junior - ICMSC Joao Eduardo Ferreira - UNESP/Rio Claro Jose Carlos Maldonado - ICMSC Marcio Delamaro - ICMSC Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos - IFSC Marisa B. Figueiredo - ICMSC Marina Teresa Pires Vieira (CO-CHAIR) - UFSCar Mauro Biajiz - UFSCar Paulo Cesar Masiero - (CO-CHAIR) - ICMSC Plinio R. Souza Vilela - FEE/UNICAMP Renata Fortes - ICMSC Roberto Ferrari Junior - UFSCar Rosangela A. D. Penteado - UFSCar Sandra C. P. F. Fabbri - UFSCar SAO CARLOS Sao Carlos is a city located at the geographical center of the state of Sao Paulo, in the southeast of Brazil. With about 900m above sea level it has an average temperature of 25 C. Sao Carlos has a population of 160 thousand people and contains two major universities with an active population of students and researchers. The symposium will be held at the nice, green and attractive campus of the Federal University, using the facilities of its new Library Building. SUBMISSIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS Profa. Marina Teresa Pires Vieira General Chair - XI SBBD Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos Departamento de Computacao Via Washington Luis, km 235 - Caixa Postal 676 CEP 13565-905 - Sao Carlos - SP - Brazil Phone: (016) 274-8232 e-mail: sbbd96@power.ufscar.br WWW: http://www.seas.smu.edu/~mario/sbbd/cfp.html DEADLINES Paper and tutorial submission: May 03, 1996 Notification of acceptance: June 17, 1996 Camera-ready papers due: July 15, 1996 Symposium: October 14-16, 1996 ===================================================================== -- MARIO Nascimento _ mario@seas.smu.edu _ http://www.seas.smu.edu/~mario/ SMU Box 752165, Dallas, TX 75275-2165, USA _ Phone @ SMU (214) 768-1404 void phd (long time) {while (!EOF_thesis) {hairlength++; CDs+=1; etc()}} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Monday, May 13: 12:00 - 5:30pm - 7:30 Reception Tuesday, May 14: 8:30am - 5:30pm - 7:30 Banquet Wednesday, May 15: 8:30am - 4:30pm ************************* *REGISTRATION INFORMATION ************************* Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment to: Ms. Kelly Whetzel, Jorge Scientific, 7500 Greenway Center Dr.#1130, Greenbelt, MD 20770. Phone:(301)220-1701, Fax:(301)220-1704. Questions related to the technical program should be directed to Dr. N. 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MAY 13-15, 1996 =============================================================================== SPONSORED by: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and The National Library of Medicine and The IEEE Computer Society and The Library of Congress IN COOPERATION WITH: Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, George Washington University, National Institute of Standards & Technology; Rutgers Center for Info. Mgt, Integration & Connectivity, University of Milano, University of Maryland Baltimore County and The University of Texas at Austin CORPORATE SUPPORT: AT&T, Bellcore, Comsat, IBM Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., MCI, Sony, Sun Microsystems GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Milton Halem, GSFC, NASA and Yelena Yesha, UMBC/CESDIS-NASA STEERING COMMITTEE: N. Adam, Rutgers Univ.; A. Aho, Columbia Univ.; D. Atkins, Univ. of Michigan; L. Holcomb, NASA; M. Halem, NASA GSFC; S. Howe, NCO/HPCC; H. Stone, NEC; D. Tiedeman, AT&T; J. Ullman, Stanford Univ.; Y. Yesha, UMBC/CESDIS PROGRAM CHAIR: Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers Univ. INDUSTRIAL CHAIR: S. Naqvi, Bellcore INTERNATIONAL CO-CHAIRS: E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany; S. Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc., Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE: P. Aigrain, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France; R. Bayer, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany; P. Buneman, Univ. of Penn.; D. Choy, IBM Almaden Research Center; B. Edelson, GWU; S. Feldman, Cornell Univ.; L. Gomez, Northwestern Univ.; H. Hansen, Wirtschafts Univ., Austria; H. Hirsh, Rutgers Univ.; P. Hunter, NASA; H. Jagadish, AT&T Bell Labs.; W. Litwin, Univ. of Paris, France; W. Lougee, Univ. of Michigan H. Mark, Univ. of Texas at Austin; A. McCray, The National Library of Medicine; R. Medina, Law Lib. of Congress; M. Papazoglou,Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia; A. Silberschatz, AT&T Bell Labs; T. Smith, UCSB; G. Valle, Univ. of Milano, Italy; H. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon Univ.; C. Zaniolo, UCLA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Elke A. Rundensteiner, Univ. of Michigan EXHIBIT CHAIR: Susan Hoban, Hughes STX The forum will be held in the Library of Congress and will feature research papers, panels, exhibits, and prototypes and applications of digital libraries in science and industry. In addition, the focus of this year's panels will be on issues related to global digital libraries for Medicine, Environmental Monitoring, Law, and Electronic Commerce. =============================================================================== MONDAY, MAY 13, 1996 12:00-1:15 Registration and Coffee 1:15-1:30pm Welcoming Remarks The Honorable J. Billington, The Librarian of Congress 1:30-2:15pm Keynote Speaker: "TBA" TBA 2:15-2:30 BREAK 2:30-3:00 Invited Speaker: "The Strategic Environment for Digital Libraries: Technology, Markets, Laws, and Policy" B. Kahin, JFK School of Government, Harvard Univ. 3:00-3:15 BREAK 3:15-4:00 Contributed Papers:Session 1.1 IMAGE/GIS Chair: TBA "Data Compression Using Encrypted Text" R. Franceschini and A. Mukherjee (Univ. of Central Florida) "GeoChange: An Experiment in Wide-Area Database Services for Geographic Information Exchange" P. Drew and J. Ying (Honkong University of Science and Technology) 4:00-4:15 BREAK 4:15-5:30 Forum Discussion 1.1: MUSEUMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE Chair: S. Feldman, Digital Access Coalition, Cornell Univ. Panelists: G. Gay, Communication Dept. Cornell & Director, Interactive Multimedia Group. Hong, IBM Japan, & the Ethnology Museum D. Romer, Kodak Research 4:15-5:30 Forum Discussion 1.2: EDUCATION Chair: L. Gomez, Northwestern University Panelists: TBA 6:30-7:30 Reception-Montpelier Room, Madison Bldg, The Library of Congress =============================================================================== TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1996 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-9:10 Welcoming Remarks M. Halem, Chief, Space Data and Computing Division, GSFC, NASA 9:10-10:00 Keynote Speaker: "TBA" H. Mcdonald, Director, Ames Research Center, NASA 10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:15-11:15 Invited Speakers: Session 2.1: "Global Legal Information Network" R. Medina, Law Librarian, The Library of Congress "TBA" Andrew Margpanty, Director, The American Library Association, 11:15-11:30 BREAK 11:30-12:30 Contributed Papers:Session 2.1 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS Chair: TBA "Creating, Organizing, and Distributing a Digital Medical Library of Multimedia Consumer.." M. D'Alessandro, J. Galvin, D. D'Alessandro, W. Erkonen, and D. Curry, T. Choi (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City) "High Speed Satellite Access to Bio Medical Text/Image Databases" L. Long, M. Gill and G. Thoma (National Library of Medicine) "Medical Digital Library System using Agent Based Technology to create an Integrated View of the Electronic Medical Records" H. Lowe, W. Walker, S. Polonkey, F. Jiang, J. Vries (Univ. of Pittsburgh) 12:30-1:45 LUNCH 1:45-2:30 Keynote Speaker: "Digital Libraries Meet Electronic Commerce: A Win-Win Situation" M. Lesk, Chief Scientist, Bellcore 2:30-2:45 BREAK 2:45-4:15 Contributed Papers: Session 2.2: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL Chair: TBA "Target Testing and the PicHunter Bayesian Multimedia Database Retrieval System" I. Cox, M. Miller, S. Omohundro, and P. Yianilos (NEC Research Institute) "Robust Retrieval of Noisy Text" D. Lopresti (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.) "An Agent-Based Hypermedia Model for Digital Libraries" M. Salampasis, J. Tait, and C. Hardy (Univ. of Sunderland, UK) "A Digital Library System for Periodicals Distribution" D. Choy, J. Lotspiech, L. Anderson, S. Boyer, R. Dievendorff, C. Dwork, T. Griffin, B. Hoenig, M. Jackson, W. Kaka, J. McCrossin, A. Miller, R. Morris, and N. Pass (IBM Almaden Research Center) 4:15-4:30 BREAK 4:30-5:45 Forum Discussion 2.2: PUBLISHING IN THE DIGITAL LIBRARY: CASE STUDIES FROM THE IAIMS CONSORTIUM Chair: V. Florance, University of Rochester Medical Center, Panelists: N.C. Broering, GWU Medical Center; V. Florance, U of Rochester Medical Center; D. Ketchell, U of Washington Health Sciences Library; R. E. Lucier, UCSF 7:30- Banquet - Great hall, Jefferson Bldg, The Library of Congress Senator Bob Kerry, (D) Nebraska =============================================================================== WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1996 8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker "TBA" Donal Lindberg, Director, The National Library of Medicine and First Director of The National Coordination Office for HPCC 10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:15-11:45 Forum Discussion 3.1 ENVIRONMENT Chair: M. Chahine, Chief Scientist, JPL Panelists: TBA 10:15-11:45 Forum Discussion 3.2: RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES OF DIGITAL LIBRARY/HOSPITAL Chair: S. Wong, Radiology and Bioengineering, UC-SF. Panelists: S. Chen, UNC at Charlotte; P. DeSmedt, Electronic Medical Record Project, HP Labs. P. Heimer, IBM Santa Terasa Lab.; E. Shortliffe, Prof. of Medicine and CS & Assoc.Dean, Stanford University; G. Thomas,The National Library of Medicine. 11:45-1:00 LUNCH 1:00-1:45 Keynote Speaker: "TBA" TBA 1:45-2:00 BREAK 2:00-2:30 "TBA" TBA 2:30-2:45 BREAK 2:45-4:15 Contributed Papers: Session 3.1 ACESS TO SERVICES Chair: TBA "Authorization in the Digital Library: Secure Access to Services Across Enterprise Boundaries" N. Ching, V. Jones and M.Winslett (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) "Query Previews in Networked Information Systems" K. Doan, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman (Univ. of Maryland) "SemaLink: An Approach For Semantic Browsing Through Large Distributed Document Spaces" S. Wiesener, W. Kowarschick, and R. Bayer (Technische Universitat Munchen) 4:15-4:30 Forum Issues and Responses : Recap ============================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------- Elke A. Rundensteiner Assistant Professor Elect. Engineering & Computer Science Dep. 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