From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Sun Mar 10 09:31:33 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 10 Mar 96 09:31:27 -0600; AA16114 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 09:31:26 -0600 From: btds@usa.net (William) Message-Id: <9603101531.AA20237@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 10 Mar 96 09:31:26 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu BTDS seeks manager/experts in OOA, OOD, OOP, OODB, GUI, and software quality. Work at your home for money and equity. Distinguished Technical Advisory Board members (particularly university CS faculty) are also sought. BTDS is preparing to implement a new database technology, code- named "AP", based upon breakthrough extensions to the relational model. AP is described in a 600 page "AP Technical Treatise", but does not yet exist as a software product. BTDS is searching for brilliant people to implement AP as software. AP has large-scale commercial viability because it achieves the following seven goals: G1. A powerful expansion of the relational model; G2. Graphical integration of the rules that control data; G3. An extraordinary new database metaphor; G4. Dramatic empowerment of all users; G5. 100% dynamic environment; G6. Scalability; G7. Greatly improved resource utilization and performance. Jobs will begin as part-time contract positions compensated primarily by equity in BTDS. Upon completion of a funding milestone, the jobs will transition to full-time contract positions with substantial cash compensation. Jobs are anticipated to become full-time in summer 1996. Participants will enjoy a very large profit potential through equity ownership. A ten page Announcement is available including the following topics: 1) elaboration of the seven above-stated goals, 2) description of the AP Technical Treatise, 3) what experts say about AP, 4) brief description of BTDS, including financing issues, and 5) job requirements. To receive the Announcement, please email William with subject title "Announcement Request". Please *exclude* the text of this message from your request. This message is placed on the Internet in Colorado state. Thank you. William btds@usa.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Sun Mar 10 15:10:40 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 10 Mar 96 15:10:37 -0600; AA19016 Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 15:10:35 -0600 From: han@cs.sfu.ca Message-Id: <9603102110.AA20598@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Sun, 10 Mar 96 15:10:35 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Last Call For Papers: KDD-96 The Second International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-96), Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2-4, 1996. (Please visit the WEB site of the KDD'96 conference for more information: http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96) Sponsored by AAAI and Co-located with AAAI-96 and UAI-96 The first international conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-95), held in Montreal in August 1995, was an outstanding success, attracting over 340 participants. The second international conference will follow up the success of KDD-95 by bringing together researchers and application developers from different areas focusing on unifying themes. This conference is the PREMIER FORUM for presenting data mining work and it attracts many researchers from database systems, statistics, information systems, and AI communities. Besides the best paper awards, a selected set of papers, after being extended to journal length and quality, will be considered for publication in the new journal, Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Both research and applications papers are solicited. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance to KDD, novelty, significance, and clarity. Authors are encouraged to make their work accessible to readers from other disciplines by including a carefully written introduction. Papers should clearly state their relevance to KDD. SUBMISSION: Please submit 5 *hardcopies* of a short paper (a maximum of 9 single-spaced pages not including cover page but including bibliography, 1 inch margins, and 12pt font) to be received by March 18, 1996. A cover page must include author(s) full address, E-MAIL, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords. This cover page must accompany the paper. In addition, an ASCII version of the cover page should be sent electronically via email to kdd96@almaden.ibm.com by March 18th 1995 (preferably earlier for e-mail). For the electronic title page, authors are required to use the template as follows. Please mail the 5 hardcopies of the full papers to: AAAI (KDD-96) 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496 U.S.A. Phone: (+1 415) 328-3123; Fax: (+1 415) 321-4457 Email: kdd@aaai.org Please e-mail your ASCII version of the cover page to kdd96@almaden.ibm.com by March 18th 1995 (preferably earlier for e-mail). Important Dates 5 copies of full papers received by: March 18, 1996 (in addition to an electronic ASCII title page) Acceptance notices: April 19, 1996 Final camera-readies due to AAAI by: May 20, 1996 Program Co-chairs: Evangelos Simoudis, IBM Almaden Research Center JiaWei Han, Simon Fraser University KDD-96 Organization: General Conference Chair: Usama M. Fayyad, Microsoft Rersearch KDD-96 Publicity Chair: Padhraic Smyth, Jet Propulsion Laboratory KDD Sponsorship Chair: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories Program Committee Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Tej Anand (AT&T Global Information Solutions, USA) Ron Brachman (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) Wray Buntine (Thinkbank, Inc., USA) Nick Cercone (University of Regina, Canada) Peter Cheeseman (NASA AMES Research Center, USA) Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Stephen G. Eick (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) Usama Fayyad ( Microsoft Rersearch, USA) Clark Glymour (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) George Grinstein (University of Lowell, USA) David Hand (Open University, UK) David Heckerman (Microsoft Corporation, USA) Se June Hong (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University, USA) Larry Jackel (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) Larry Kerschberg (George Mason University, USA) Willi Kloesgen (GMD, Germany) David Madigan (University of Washington, USA) Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland) Chris Matheus (GTE Laboratories, USA) Sham Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia, Canada) Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (GTE Laboratories, USA) Daryl Pregibon (AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) Pat Riddle (Boeing Computer Services, USA) Ted Senator (US Department of the Treasury, USA) Wei-Min Shen (University of Southern California, USA) Arno Siebes (CWI, Netherlands) Avi Silberschatz (AT&T Bell Laboratories) Andrzej Skowron (University of Warsaw, Poland) Steve Smith (Dun and Bradstreet, USA) Padhraic Smyth (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Ramakrishnan Srikant (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Sal Stolfo (Columbia University, USA) Alex Tuzhilin (NYU Stern School, USA) Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors R&D Center, USA) Xindong Wu (Monash University, Australia) Wojciech Ziarko (University of Regina, Canada) Jan Zytkow (Wichita State University, USA) FURTHER INFORMATION: For further information, send inquiries regarding submission logistics to AAAI at kdd@aaai.org, Phone: (+1 415) 328-3123; Fax: (+1 415) 321-4457 KDD-96 sponsorship and industry participation to: Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro at gps@gte.com: Phone: 617-466-4236, Fax: 617-466-2960 Technical program and content to kdd96@almaden.ibm.com general and publicity issues to kdd96@aig.jpl.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------------------- KDD-96 Electronic Abstract Submission Template. ----------------------------------------------------------- Please observe the following: 1. Electronic submission is for abstract only. Hardcopies of the FULL papers must be submitted as per instructions in the Call for Papers. 2. Please DO NOT REMOVE the special Keywords beginning with "KDDT___" prefix. They are needed for processing of submission. 3. Please fill in all fields, replace the example text with your own information, and e-mail this entire file to kdd96@almaden.ibm.com 4. please REPLACE every line that begins with "enter" using your own text, do not touch the KEYWORDS IN CAPS. KDDT___BEGIN KDDT___TITLE enter paper title here, can take multiple lines KDDT___TITLEND KDDT___AUTHORS enter 2 lines per author, name and affiliation (no address here) on one line enter email address of author on previous line on the second line. enter 2n lines if you have if you have n authors KDDT___AUTHORSEND KDDT___CONTACT enter the contact name and address here, this should be a single address, include phone and fax, enter as many lines as needed for full address. KDDT___CONTACTEND KDDT___EMAIL enter single e-mail here that will serve as primary contact e-mail KDDT___ABSTRACT enter your abstract here enter as many lines as needed, please limit to 200 words or less KDDT___ABSTRACTEND KDDT___KEYWORDS enter 5 to 10 subject keywords here, separate by commas, enter as many lines as needed KDDT___KEYWORDSEND KDDT___END ----------------------------------------------------------- This abstract template can also be fetched with the conference URL: http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Mar 11 12:02:50 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 11 Mar 96 12:02:46 -0600; AA03279 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 12:02:44 -0600 From: Alberto Mendelzon Message-Id: <9603111802.AA21572@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 11 Mar 96 12:02:44 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Internet: Beyond the Year 2000 __________________________________ A Special Colloquium of the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series Sponsored by The Information Technology Research Centre of the Province of Ontario The Connaught Fund, Department of Computer Science, and Knowledge Media Design Institute of the University of Toronto To be held on 28 April 1996 - 1 May 1996 in Convocation Hall Version of 7 March 1996 Session 1: Plenary session on the Internet and its impact (April 28, 7:30-9:00 p.m.) Session Chair: Ronald Baecker, University of Toronto The Internet and the Information Revolution Shumpei Kumon, Center for Global Communications, International Univ. of Japan Session 2: Internet technology (April 29, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.) Session Chair: Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto The past, present, and future of Internet Technology Danny Cohen, Myricom The Multimedia Internet Stephen Deering, Xerox PARC Agents on the Internet Tom Erickson, Apple Internet Security: new problems, new solutions Lance Hoffman, GWU Session 3: World Wide Web technology (April 29, 1:15 - 4:15 p.m.) The past, present, and future of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee, W3 Consortium Document object wars Robert Arn, InContext Systems JAVA and active Web pages Robert Sproull, Sun Microsystems Digital Assets and Interactive 3D on the Web Ray Miller, Alias|Wavefront Session 4: Applications to education and medicine (April 29, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.) Session Chair: Andrew Bjerring, Canarie Inc. The Internet in schools Mary Beam, Education Network of Ontario The Learning Highway Trevor Owen, York University Lifelong learning communities Linda Harasim, Simon Fraser University Session 5: Social impacts of virtual communities (April 30, 9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.) 'Give me a place to stand and a place to grow and I will build .....' David Sutherland, Nation Capitol FreeNet Where's the Group? Support Groups On-Line Lee Sproull, Boston University From "information superhighway" to "global finger-painting party": better metaphors for cyberspace Amy Bruckman, M.I.T. Electronic Ladyland: A Status Report on Gender and the Internet Leslie Regan Shade, McGill University Session 6: Information, Research and Publishing on the Net (April 30, 1:45 - 3:45 p.m.) Session Chair: Carole Moore, University of Toronto Digital libraries and the information order David Levy, Xerox PARC Information access and resource discovery Mic Bowman, Transarc Corp From Memex to Web and Beyond Andries van Dam, Brown University Session 7: Business and government on the Net (April 30, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.) Economics of the Internet Hal Varian, University of California at Berkeley Commerce on the Net Andrew Whinston, University of Texas Session 8: Plenary session on technology and democracy (April 30, 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.) Session Chair: Patrick Watson, CBC (retired) The new technology and democracy: allies or adversaries? Benjamin Barber, Rutgers Session 9: Legal and regulatory issues (May 1, 9:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.) Session Chair: Ian Kyer, Fasken Campbell Godfrey Content versus carriage in communications law Hudson Janisch, Univ. of Toronto Cyberspace and the No-Regulation Fallacy: A European Perspective on Regulation of Online Services and the Internet Christopher J. Millard, Clifford Chance (London) Lost in Cyberia: Electronic Transmission under the Law of Copyright William A. Tanenbaum, Kenyon and Kenyon (New York) Privacy in electronic communications David Flaherty, B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Session 10: Ethical and political issues (May 1, 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.) Session Chair: C.C. Gotlieb, University of Toronto Issues for government David Johnston, McGill University Implications of telework Jean-Claude Parrot, Canadian Labour Congress The real meaning of free speech in cyberspace Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo Looking out for public interests: Universal access and citizen participation Andrew Clement, University of Toronto Please note for purposes of registration, plenary sessions (#1 and #8) are regarded as half sessions). Details subject to change. For info about program, registration fees, and tickets, write graff@dgp.toronto.edu or call 416-978-5184. Please visit our Web Page at http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/upcoming/internetconf.html for regular updates. VISITING TORONTO? _________________________________________________________ Special Room Rates for this conference have been arranged at the following hotels: Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Ontario Individual reservations can be made by contacting the hotel reservation department directly at (416) CHELSEA (243-5732), by calling toll-free from elsewhere in Canada and U.S. 1-800 CHELSEA (243-5732) or over the Internet at http://www.deltahotels.com/canada.html Callers must mention the group name "U of T - Internet Beyond the Year 2000" and the Q-name "GFIBY" to ensure the appropriate rate is charged. Hotel Plaza II, 90 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario Individual reservations can be made by contacting the hotel reservation department directly at (416) 961-8000 Callers must mention the group name "U of T - Department of Computer Science" to ensure the appropriate rate is charged. REGISTRATION FEES For those registrants paying in U.S. funds, please multiply listed conference fees by 0.8. ALL SESSIONS Deadlines for Registration On or Before On or Before Late Registration 11 March 1996 1 April 1996 (to 22 April) Registration Category Industry and Government $250 $375 $500 ITRC Members and Affiliates $200 $300 $400 U of T faculty/students ----------------no charge to capacity---------------- Other schools, college and $100 $150 $200 universities SINGLE SESSIONS -- (Each Full Session/Half Sessions #1 and/or #8) Deadlines for Registration On or Before On or Before Late Registration 11 March 1996 1 April 1996 (to 22 April) Registration Category Industry and Government $60/30 $80/40 $100/50 ITRC Members and Affiliates $50/25 $65/30 $80/40 U of T faculty/students ----------------no charge to capacity------------------ Other schools, college and $25/10 $35/15 $40/20 universities Please note that subject to availability, registration will be available at the door. Payment Information 1. For payment in U.S. funds, please multiply listed conference fees by 0.8. 2. Cheques should be made payable to University of Toronto (Internet Conference) 3. Purchase orders and government vouchers will not be accepted 4. Faxed registration forms will not be accepted. 5. No forms will be processed without payment. COLLOQUIUM REGISTRATION FORM _________________________________________________________ THE INTERNET: BEYOND THE YEAR 2000 Name Title Company/University Address City Prov./State Postal Code Telephone Fax Email Address Affiliation Business or Government I.T.R.C. Member or Affiliate University of Toronto Other School, College or University I wish to attend the following sessions: Entire Conference __________ (No of Tickets) Session 1 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 2 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 3 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 4 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 5 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 6 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 7 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 8 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 9 __________ (No of Tickets) Session 10 __________ (No of Tickets) Total Payable: ___________ x ___________ = ______________ # of tickets applicable total due fee/session Please send this form along with cheque made payable to the University of Toronto (Internet Conference) to: The Internet: Beyond the Year 2000 Attn: Conference Coordinator Department of Computer Science 10 King's College Road, Room 4306 University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Details subject to change. For info about program, registration fees, and tickets, write graff@dgp.toronto.edu or see http://www.dgp.utoronto.ca/upcoming/nternetconf.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Mar 11 14:59:09 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 11 Mar 96 14:59:05 -0600; AA01993 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 14:59:04 -0600 From: Yoshinori Hara Message-Id: <9603112059.AA21793@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 11 Mar 96 14:59:04 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ============================================================================= Research Staff Positions at NEC USA's C&C Research Laboratories, San Jose ============================================================================= NEC USA's C&C (Computers & Communications) Research Laboratories in San Jose, CA invites applications for Research Staff Member and Senior Research Associate positions in the area of Multimedia Software. These positions offer excellent benefits and opportunity for conducting advanced research. We are looking for individuals seeking to work in a world-wide research network, including Princeton, Tokyo, Bonn and Berlin. Who can maintain strong relationships with universities and conduct joint projects and can work closely with our product development units. Great opportunity for career growth. Research Staff Member PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 3+ years relevant research and/or software development experience, and technical specialization in one or more of the following: hypermedia/multimedia databases, content- based image retrieval, distributed multimedia computing, multimedia authoring, human interfaces. Experience with real application domains and knowledge of current multimedia computing/network technologies desirable. (Exceptionally qualified candidates may be considered for Senior Research Staff Member position). Senior Research Associate MS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 5+ years creative software development/prototyping experience, and specialization in one or more of the following: hypermedia/multimedia databases, content-based image retrieval, distributed multimedia computing, multimedia authoring, human interfaces. Relevant experience with multimedia authoring and navigation software desirable. Software expertise should include: C, C++, Unix, TCP/IP, Windows, VBX, VC++, Scripting Languages (HTML,VRML, Java, Lingo), SQL, etc. The purpose of our research project is to establish next-generation hypermedia/multimedia application framework based on key software technologies such as multimedia databases, content-based image retrieval, human interfaces and multimedia authoring tools. Contact and send resume to; Yoshinori Hara Senior Research Manager Multimedia Software Department C&C Research Laboratories NEC USA, Inc. 110 Rio Robles Ave., San Jose, CA 95134 e-mail: hara@ccrl.sj.nec.com phone: (408) 943-3001 fax: (408) 943-3099 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Mon Mar 11 16:54:04 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:53:59 -0600; AA04782 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:53:58 -0600 From: nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com (Kingsley Nwosu) Message-Id: <9603112253.AA21952@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:53:58 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ================= 1996 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTI-MEDIA DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (IW-MMDBMS'96) Minnowbrook Conference Center Blue Mountain Lake, New York August 14-16, 1996 WWW page: http://drum.ncsc.org/~nwosuck/iwmmdbms96.html ----------------------------------------- Sponsored by - New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University in cooperation with - IEEE Computing Society - IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing - IEEE SIG Multimedia - ACM SIG Multimedia* - ACM SIGMOD* - The Data Management Specialty Group of the MITRE Corp. ----------------------------------------- The rapid advances in many facets of Computer Technology have intensified Research and Development interests in Multi-Media Information Processing(MMIP). Despite the current existence of some forms of Multi-Media Systems, the true realization of MMIP rests on the ability to access and manipulate the multi-media objects. That can only be adequately addressed and achieved via Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (MMDBMSs). For conventional text-based information, data access and manipulation have advanced considerably; however, for multi-media systems that incorporate continuous media objects, e.g., audio and video, and other media types like images, voice, and graphics, they pose novel problems. IW-MMDBMS'96 is an international technical forum for active researchers and practitioners who are involved in various aspects of multimedia database management isues. The workshop will emphasize the issues relevant to designing, developing, and utilizing MMDBMSs. The paper presentations, panel, and working group discussions will addresss the following issues as they relate to MMDBMSs: - Multi-Media Database Modelling - Decomposition/Organization Strategies - Storage Structures and Techniques - Distributed Multimedia DBMS - Multimedia Database Applications - Data transmission - Multimedia Network Protocols and Infrastructures - Query Language Designs, Specifications, and Optimizations - Retrieval/Search Techniques/Strategies/Algorithms - Access Methods, Browsing, and Indexing Techniques - Multimedia Data Synchronization - QoS Delivery/Presentation Issues - Image Processing (Storage, Retrieval, etc.) - Conventional Database Compatibility Issues - Operating Systems Implications - System, Schema, and Functional Architectures - Metadata Management - Performance Evaluation - Access Security Issues - Object-Oriented Paradigms Information for Authors: ======================== Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of each paper not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages, including figures, pictures, etc. Each paper must include an abstract of about 200 words. Previously published papers will not be considered. Each author must clearly describe the nature of the work, significant contributions to the body of work, the novel features, and its current status. A one page cover which contains the full name, affiliation, phone numbers, e-mail address, and full mailing address of each author must accompany each paper. The cover page must also indicate a contact author in the case of multiple authors. If a paper is accepted, the author(s) will prepare the final manuscript, as requested, in time for inclusion in the Workshop proceedings. Postscript files (via email) are also acceptable. A number of papers will be selected for special issues of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) and the IEEE Multimedia. The special issues of these journals will primarily deal with multimedia database issues. Paper submissions should be sent to: Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com AT&T Bell Labs. Phone:(201)386-4211 67 Whippany Rd., Rm 2C-256 Fax:(201)386-6235 Whippany, NJ 07981-0903 Important Dates: =============== Papers due: March. 15, 1996. Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1996. Camera-ready copies due: June 14, 1996. General Chair: Vice General Chair: ============== =============== Prof. P. Bruce Berra Prof. Erich Neuhold Director, CASE Center, GMD-IPSI Suite 2-212, CST, Dolivostrasse 15 Syracuse Univ., D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany Syracuse, NY 13244. Program Chairs: Steering Committee: ============== =================== Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu P. Bruce Berra AT&T Bell Labs., Eric J. Neuhold 67 Whippany Rd., Rm. 2C-256, Ramesh Jain Whippany, NJ 07981-0903. Venkat P. Rangan Phone:(201)386-4211. Kingsley C. Nwosu Fax:(201)386-6235. Bhavani Thuraisingham email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com Arding Hsu T. D. C . Little Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyril Orji The Mitre Corp., Patrick Bobbie K329, Burlington Rd., Bedford, MA. 01730. Phone:(617)271-8873. email:thura@mitre.org Program Co-Chairs: ================= Dr. Patrick Bobbie Dept of CIS, Florida A&M Univ. Tallahassee, FL 32307. Phone:(904)599-3022. email:bobbie@serel.cis.famu.edu Dr. Cyril Orji School of Computer Science Florida International Univ. Miami, FL. 33199 email:orji@geneva.fiu.edu Working Group Chair =================== Prof. T. D. C. Little Boston University Publications Chair: ============================ Prof. Soon M. Chung Dept. of CS and Engr Wright State Univ. Dayton, OH 45435 email:schung@cs.wright.edu Local Arrangements/Registration: =============================== Emileen Butler CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST, Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1062. Emily Yakawiak CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1060. Program Committee: ================== Michel Adiba (IMAG-LGI, France) Longy Anyanwu (Montclair St. Univ.) A. Asthana (AT&T Bell Labs) John Buford (UMass Lowell) Borko Furht (Florida Atlantic Univ.) Arif Ghafoor (Purdue Univ.) S. Ghandeharizadeh (USC) F. Golshani (Arizona State Univ) William Grosky (Wayne St. Univ.) Le Gruenwald (U. OK) Arding Hsu (Siemens Corp. Res.) Ramesh Jain (UCSD) Kevin Jeffay (UNC) Wolfgang Klas (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Clement Leung(Victoria Univ. Tech.) T.D.C. Little (Boston Univ.) Kelly Lyons (IBM) Rajiv Mehrotra (U. Missouri-St. Louis) Banu Ozden (AT&T Bell Labs) Dragutin Petkovic (IBM) B. Prabhakara (India Inst. Tech.) P. Venkat Rangan (UCSD) Olivia R. Liu Sheng (Hong Kong US&T) Ralf Steinmetz (IBM) Warren Sterling (AT&T GIS) Raj Yavatkar (U. KY) Philip S. Yu (IBM) HongJiang Zhang (National Univ. of Singapore) ==================================================================== WWW page: http://drum.ncsc.org/~nwosuck/iwmmdbms96.html ===================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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THIS IS DUE TO UNKNOWN INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENTS ALIAS's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- E D B T ' 96 International Conference on Extending Database Technology 25-29th March 1996, Palais des Papes, Avignon, France ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Only two weeks before the begining of the EDBT Conference. If you are not yet registered, please read the following information and send as soon as possible your registration form. Extended text of the final program and corresponding registrations forms can be found in the following web home page: <<< http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/public/edbt/program.html >>> To have paper program or for more information, please check with the Secretariat of the Conference or email to : <<< Mokrane.Bouzeghoub@prism.uvsq.fr >>> or to <<< Afcet.Congres@ibp.fr >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORT SUMMARY OF THE FINAL PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1996 EDBT Conference is the 5th edition of the most important European conference in database technology. It allows several researchers and industrial companies to present and demonstrate their more advanced results and products. Three parallel tracks are organized during three days. ** The research track includes 11 sessions which cover most of the hot research topics in the area. Three keynote speakers will open the three conference days by extended presentations on challenging topics such as data warehousing, object databases, and information retrieval in artificial reality. ** The industrial track includes 6 sessions which give a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and applications. ** The exhibition track shows more than 20 demonstrations of experimental database systems, design tools and applications. Preceeding the conference itself, 6 tutorials, given by internationally recognized experts, will provide surveys on the state of the art in different aspects of database technology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The tutorials program offers advanced courses on six hot topics in the database technology: Active Database Systems, The Web and Databases, Data Mining, Workflow Management, Distributed objects in Databases, Indexing Multimedia Databases. These tutorials are given by well-known personalities who have directed several important projects, and have made significant publications in the corresponding areas. All these tutorials are excellent synthesis of the state of the art; they can be followed by engineers and researchers who want to maintain up-to-date their knowledge in these exciting domains. ********** Monday 25th March ********** ***** 14:00 - 17:00 ***** TUTORIAL 1A: The World Wide Web and Databases: Past, Present and Future ---------------------------------------------- Jean-Francois Abramatic (European Director of the International World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)) TUTORIAL 1B: Data Mining ------------------------- Arno Siebes (CWI and Data Distilleries B.V., Netherlands) ********** TUESDAY MARCH 26 ********** ***** 9:00 - 12:00 ***** TUTORIAL 2A : Workflow Management Systems: State of the Art on Research and Products ------------------------------------------------------- C. Mohan (IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA) TUTORIAL 2B : Distributed Data and Object Management ----------------------------------------------------- Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada) ********** TUESDAY MARCH 26 ********* ***** 14:00 - 17:00 ***** TUTORIAL 3A : Active Database Systems ------------------------------------- Stefano Ceri ( Politecnico di Milano, Italy) TUTORIAL 3B : Indexing Multimedia Databases ------------------------------------------- Christos Faloutsos (Univ. of Maryland at College Park and AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ********** WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 ********** ***** 8:00 - 9:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ***** 9:30 - 10:00 OPENING SESSION Michel Garnier (President of the University of Versailles) Arnold Rochfeld (President of AFCET) Georges Gardarin (Conference Chairman) Peter Apers (Program Committee Chairman) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (Organization Committee Chairman) 10:00 - 11:00 Session 1 (Plenary Session) Chair : Peter Apers (Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands) Invited Speaker: J. Widom (Stanford University, USA) =ABData Warehousing : Buzzwords and Technical Issues=BB ***** 11:30 -12:30 ***** Research Session 2A : Data Mining ---------------------------------- Chair : Arno Siebes (CWI, The Netherlands) * R. Srikant, R. Agrawal (IBM Almaden, USA) =ABMining Sequential Patterns: Generalizations and Performance Improvements=BB * M. Mehta, R. Agrawal, J. Rissanen (IBM Almaden, USA) =ABSLIQ: A Fast Scalable Classifier for Data Mining=BB Research Session 2B : Active Databases -------------------------------------- Chair : Jennifer Widom (Stanford Univ., CA, USA) * G. Gottlob (Tech. Univ. Wien, Austria), G. Moerkotte (RWTH-Aachen Germany), V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ. of Maryland, USA) =ABThe PARK Semantics for Active Rules=BB * R. Meo, G. Psaila (Politecnico di Torino), S. Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) =ABComposite Events in Chimera=BB ***** 14:00 -15:30 ***** Research Session 3A : Design Tools ---------------------------------- Chair : Felix Salto (Univ. of Catalunya, Spain) * P. Atzeni, R. Torlone (Terza Univ. of Roma, Italy) =ABManagement of Multiple Models in an Extensible Database Design Tool=BB * U. Kelter, D. Daeberitz (Univ. Siegen, Germany) =ABAn Assessment of Non-Standard DBMSs for CASE Environments=BB * X. Qian (SRI International, USA) =ABCorrect Schema Transformations=BB Industrial Session 3B: Advanced DBMS ------------------------------------ Chair : U. Dayal (Hewlett-Packard Lab., CA, USA) * O. Friesen, A. Lefebvre, L. Vieille (Bull, France) =ABVALIDITY : A DOOD System=BB * D. Bonjour (Cincom Europe, France) =ABThe Need for an Object Relational Model and its Use=BB * A. Gupta (IBM Almaden, USA), H.V. Jagadish, I. S. Mumick (AT&T Bell Laboratories) =ABData Integration using Self-Maintainable Views=BB ***** 16:00 - 17:30 ***** Research Session 4A : Optimization ---------------------------------- Chair : Marc Scholl (Univ. Konstanz, Germany) * P.A. Boncz, W. Quak, M. Kersten (CWI, the Netherlands) =ABMonet And Its Geographic Extensions: a Novel Approach to High Performance GIS Processing=BB * S. Chaudhuri (HP Labs), K. Shim (IBM Almaden, USA) =ABOptimizing Queries with Aggregate Views=BB * H. J. Steenhagen, R.A. de By, H.M. Blanken (Univ. of Twente, the Netherlands) =ABTranslating OSQL-Queries into Efficient Set Expressions=BB Industrial Session 4B : Data Mining and Warehousing --------------------------------------------------- Chair : Jane Grimson (O'Reilly Institute, Ireland) * B. Perry, S. Dao (Hughes Research Lab., USA) =ABData Mining for Heterogeneous Schema Integration: Initial Results and Evaluations=BB * G. Pavillon (INSERM, France) =ABKnowledge Discovery from Epidemiological Databases=BB * K. Mokhnachi (Oracle, France) =ABThe Role of a DBMS in a Datawarehouse Architecture=BB ***** 18:30 Welcome Reception (Offered by ADB/MATISSE) ------------------------------------------- A Welcome reception will be given at 18h30 in the Salle des Gardes of the Palais des Papes. ********** THURSDAY, MARCH 28 ********* ***** 9:00 - 10:00 ***** Session 5 (Plenary Session) --------------------------- Chair : Georges Gardarin (PRiSM, Univ. of Versailles, France) * Invited Speaker: F. Bancilhon (O2 Technology, France) =ABObject Databases=BB Research Session 6A : System Issues ----------------------------------- Chair : Yannis Vassiliou (Nat. Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece) * M. Rabinovich, N. Gehani, A. Kononov (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) =ABScalable Update Propagation in Epidemic Replicated Databases=BB * B. Adelberg (Stanford Univ.), B. Kao (Princeton Univ.), Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford Univ., USA) =ABDatabase Support for Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data=BB * P. Ciaccia (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) =ABOptimal Multi-Block Read Schedule for Partitioned Signature Files=BB Research Session 6B : Applications ---------------------------------- Chair : Tamer Ozsu (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) * M. Yoshikawa, O. Ichikawa, S. Uemura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) =ABAmalgamating SGML Documents and Databases=BB * H. Williams, J. Zobel (RMIT, Australia) =ABIndexing Nucleotide Databases for Fast Query Evaluation=BB * I. A. Chen, V.M. Markowitz (Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab), K.H. Fasman, S. Letovsky, P. Li (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA) =ABVersion Management for Scientific Databases=BB ***** 14:00 - 15:30 ***** Research Session 7A : Temporal Databases ---------------------------------------- Chair : Ken Moody (Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.) * D. Toman (Kansas State Univ, USA), D. Niwinski (Warszaw Univ., Poland) =ABFirst-Order Queries over Temporal Databases Inexpressible in Temporal Logic=BB * M.H. Boehlen, R.T. Snodgrass (Univ. of Arizona), J. Chomicki, D. Toman (Kansas State Univ., USA) =ABQuerying TSQL2 Databases with Temporal Logic=BB * E. Bertino, E. Ferrari (Univ. of Milano), G. Guerrini (Univ. of Genova, Italy) =ABA Formal Temporal Object-Oriented Data Model=BB Industrial Session 7B : The Web and Hypermedia ----------------------------------------------- Chair : Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano, Italy) * L. Delcambre (Oregon Graduate Institute, USA), M. Biezunski and C. Hamon (High Text, France) =ABDynamic Development and Refinement of HyperMedia Documents=BB * S. Finkelstein, E. Lemoine, R. Lenaers (ADB/MATISSE, France) =ABMultimedia DBMS for Web Server=BB * Brian Baker (INFORMIX Software) =ABDoing Business on the Web=BB Research Session 7C : Performance --------------------------------- Chair : Witold Litwin (INRIA, France) * C. Liu, H. Chen (DePaul Univ., USA) =ABA Hash Partition Strategy for Distributed Query Processing=BB * E. Panagos, A. Biliris, H.V. Jagadish, R. Rastogi (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) =ABFine-granularity Locking and Private Logging for Distributed Architectures=BB * A. Gawecki, F. Matthes (Hamburg, Germany) =ABExploiting Persistent Intermediate Code Representations in Open Database Environments=BB ***** 16:00 - 17:30 ***** Research Session 8A : Workflow Management ----------------------------------------- Chair : Xiaolei Qian (SRI International, CA,U.S.A.) * M. Kamath (Univ. of Massachusetts, USA), G. Alonso (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland), R. Gunthor, C. Mohan (IBM Almaden, USA) =ABProviding High Availability in Very Large Worklflow Management Systems=BB * F. Casati, S. Ceri, B. Pernici, G. Pozzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) =ABSemantic Workflow Interoper-ability=BB * A. J. Bonner, A. Shrufi (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), S. Rozen (Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research, USA) =ABLabFlow-1: a Database Benchmark for High-Throughput Workflow Management=BB Industrial Session 8B : Esprit Projects --------------------------------------- Chair : Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University, CA, USA) * L. Bouganim, B. Dageville, P. Valduriez =ABAdaptive Parallel Query Execution in DBS3=BB * P. Fankhauser (GMD, Germany), B. Finance (PRiSM Lab., France), W. Klas (GMD, Germany) =ABIRO-DB: Making Relational and Object-Oriented Databases Systems Interoperable=BB * Ph. Pucheral, J. Fessy, (PRiSM Lab, France), Y. Lepetit, (CNET, Lannion, France) =ABUsing Distributed Object Bases for Telecommunication System Support=BB Research Session 8C : Database Design -------------------------------------- Chair : Paolo Atzeni (C.N.R., Italy) * D. Plexousakis, J. Mylopoulos (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) =ABAccomodating Integrity Constraints During Database Design=BB * A. Y. Levy (AT&T Bell Labs, USA), I.S. Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs, USA), Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew Univ., Israel) =ABReasoning with Aggregation Constraints=BB * H. Decker, E. Teniente,T. Urpi (Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) =ABHow to Tackle Schema Validation by View Updating=BB ********** FRIDAY, MARCH 29 ********* ***** 9:00 - 10:00 ***** Session 9 (Plenary Session) --------------------------- Chair : Mokrane Bouzeghoub (PRiSM, Univ. of Versailles, France) Invited Speaker: K. van Rijsbergen (Univ of Glasgow, UK) =ABInformation Retrieval : an Experiment in Artificial Reality=BB ***** 10:30 - 12:00 ***** Research Session 10A : Parallel Databases ----------------------------------------- Chair : Patrick Valduriez (INRIA, France) * P. Muth, A. Kraiss, G. Weikum (Univ. of Saarland, Germany) =ABLoT: Dynamic Declustering of TSB-Tree Nodes for Parallel Access to Temporal Data=BB * J.S. Karlsson (Linkoping Univ., Sweden), Witold Litwin (Univ. of Paris, France), Tore Risch (Linkoping Univ., Sweden) =ABLH*LH: A scalable High Performance Data Structure for Switched Multicomputers=BB * N. Koudas (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), C. Faloutsos (AT&T Bell Labs, USA), I. Kamel (Matsushita IT Lab, USA) =ABDeclustering spatial databases on a multi-computer architecture=BB Industrial Session 10B : Advanced Applications ---------------------------------------------- Chair : Joachim Schmidt (Univ. of Hamburg, Germany) * M. Emrich (ATG Cincom Corp, USA) =ABObject FrameWork for Business Applications=BB * Q. Chen, U. Dayal (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, CA, USA.) =ABCommit Scope Control in Nested Transactions=BB * D. Simmen, E. Shekita (IBM Almaden, USA), T. Malkemus (IBM Austin, USA) =ABOptimizing the Way Order Requirements are Satisfied=BB ***** 14:00 - 16:00 ***** Closing Session 11 (Plenary Session) : Technology Transfer and Cooperation ------------------------------------- Chair : Peter Apers (Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands) * A. Servida (European Commission) =ABEuropean Opportunities and Trends in Database Technology=BB * G. Wiederhold (Stanford University, USA) =ABDealing with Asynchrony in Technology Transfer=BB * E. Neuhold (GMD, Germany) =ABPresentation of the IDOMENEUS Project=BB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INDUSTRIAL AND RESEARCH EXHIBITIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In parallel with the Conference and during three days, exhibitions of different products and prototypes will be organized in the Hall and and of the Palais des Papes. These exhibitions will be given by systems suppliers and research centers; they will highlight the most recent and advanced developments in database technologies, including database systems, design tools, hight level interfaces and applications. More than 20 demonstrations will be scheduled during the 3 days conference. Following is a first list of these demonstrations. -------------------------- Title : "The AMOS Project" Authors : Tore Rish e-mail : torri@ida.liu.se Country : Sweden -------------------------- Title : "MOSAICO : An Environment for the Analysis and Conceptual Modeling of OODB Applications" Authors : M. Missikoff, R. Pizzicannella e-mail : pizzican@iasi.rm.cnr.it Country : Italy -------------------------- Title : "The Workflow System Panta Rhei" Authors : H. Groiss, J. Eder, W. Liebhart e-mail : herb@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at Country : Austria -------------------------- Title : "TempCASE : A Tool for Modelling and Manipulating Temporal =09 Applications" Authors : B. Theodoulidis, A. Ait-Braham & Group e-mail : aab@sna.co.umist.ac.uk Country : United Kingdom -------------------------- Title : "An Open Abstract-Object Storage System and its Application to Geospatial Metadata Management" Authors : S. Blott, L. Relly, H-J. Schek e-mail : blott@inf.ethz.ch Country : Switzerland -------------------------- Title : "The SAMOS Active DBMS Prototype" Authors : S. Gatziu, H. Fritschi, A. Vaduva, A. Geppert, K. R. Dittrich e-mail : gatziu@ifi.unizh.ch Country : Switzerland -------------------------- Title : "Business process modeling with ConceptBase Authors : H. W. Nissen, M. Jarke, M. A. Jeusfeld, M. Staudt e-mail : jeusfeld@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Country : Germany -------------------------- Title : "The World Travel Editor : A Geographic Search Engine on the Internet" Authors : P. Bonnet, S. Bressan, B. Granveaud e-mail : bonnet@ecrc.de Country : Germany, Munich (ECRC) -------------------------- Title : "The Toolset of the Active DBMS REACH" Authors : J. Zimmermann, A. Buchmann e-mail : zim@dvs1.informatik.th-darmstadt.de Country : Germany -------------------------- Title : "OASIS : An Open Architecture Scientific Information System" Authors : E. Mesrobian, R. Muntz, E. Shek, S. Nittel, M. LaRouche, M. Kriguer e-mail : edmond@retina.cs.ucla.edu Country : USA, Los Angeles -------------------------- Title : "Tetralogie system" Authors : T. Dkaki, B. Bousset, J. Mothe e-mail : mothe@sig4.irit.fr Country : France, Toulouse (IRIT) -------------------------- Title : "CIGALES : A Visual Query Language for Geographical Information System" Authors : A. Brossier-Wansek, D. Calcinelli, B. Languou, C. Lecocq, M. Mainguenaud e-mail : cigales@int-evry.fr Country : France, Evry (INT) -------------------------- Title : "SgmlQL, a query language for querying SGML documents" Authors : S. Harie, J. Le Ma=EEtre, E. Murisasco e-mail : jlm@paros.univ-tln.fr Country : France, Marseille -------------------------- Title : "WWW front-end for heterogeneous database systems" Authors : E. Radeke e-mail : elke@smaug.cadlab.de Country : Germany -------------------------- Title : "Tools for Active Rule Design in IDEA" Authors : S. Ceri, S. Paraboschi, P. Fraternali e-mail : ceri@elet.polimi.it Country : Italy -------------------------- Title : "The IDEA Project's Object-Oriented Optimizer" Authors : P. Valduriez et al e-mail : Patrick.Valduriez@inria.fr Country : France (INRIA Rocquencourt) -------------------------- Title : "The Kheops Database Application Design Platform" Authors : M. Bouzeghoub, E. M=E9tais, G. Levreau, J.N. Meunier, =09 A.P. Ambrosio, J. Barros, R. Ruggia, E. Benazet, H. Guehl, E. Delassus, Z. Keddad e-mail : Elisabeth.Metais@prism.uvsq.fr Country : France -------------------------- Title : "NAOS 2.1 : Dealing with Composite Events" Authors : C. Collet, T. Coupaye, C. Roncancio e-mail : Christine.Collet@imag.fr Country : France, Grenoble -------------------------- Title : "A Rule System with Parametrized Semantics" Authors : M. Matulovic , F. Fabret, F. LIirbat, E. Simon e-mail : Francoise.Fabret@inria.fr Country : France (INRIA Rocquencourt) -------------------------- Title : "STORM : A Structural and Temporal Object-Oriented Multimedia Database System" Authors : F. Mocellin, H. Martin, M. Adiba e-mail : Michel.Adiba@imag.fr Country : France, Grenoble -------------------------- Title : "Visual Constraints" =09 Authors : Pierre-Yves Policella e-mail : Pierre-Yves.Policelle@lri.fr Country : France (LRI) -------------------------- Title : "GeoSabrina" =09 Authors : Y. Viemont et al e-mail : Yann.Viemont@prism.uvsq.fr Country : France (Univ. of Versailles) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION --------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZED BY ------------ AFCET: the French Computer Society PRiSM Lab, University of Versailles, France PROMOTED BY ----------- the EDBT foundation SPONSORS -------- ADB/MATISSE, AFUU, CEPIS, CINCOM, CNRS-PRC/BD3, EDS France, European Commission, France Telecom/CNET, IDOMENEUS, INFORMIX, INFORSID, INRIA, MICROSOFT, ORACLE, UNILOG, Universit=E9 de Versailles St-Quentin. CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON ---------------------- Georges Gardarin (PRiSM Lab, Univ. of Versailles, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON -------------------------------=20 Peter Apers (Univ. Twente, the Netherlands) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON ---------------------------------- Mokrane Bouzeghoub (PRiSM Lab, Univ. of Versailles, France) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- Peter Apers, Chair (Univ. Twente, the Netherlands) Serge Abiteboul (France) Michel Adiba (France) Maristella Agosti (Italy) Elisa Bertino (Italy) Jorge Bocca (Chili/UK) Mike Brodie (USA) Janis Bubenko (Sweden) Alex Buchmann (Germany) Sharma Chakravarthy (USA) Claude Chrisment (France) Stavros Christodoulakis (Greece) Wesley Chu (USA) Wolfgang Effelsberg (Germany) Andre Flory (France) Mike Freeston (Germany) Hans-Peter Frei (Switzerland) Hector Garcia-Molina (USA) Jane Grimson (Ireland) Bill Grosky (USA) Theo Haerder (Germany) Yannis Ioanniddis (USA) Keith Jeffery (UK) Christian Jensen (Denmark) Masaru Kitsuregawa (Japan) Wolfgang Klas (Germany) Rosana Lanzelotte (Brazil) Withold Litwin (France) =46lorian Matthes (Germany) Dennis McLeod (USA) Guido Moerkotte (Germany) Ken Moody (UK) Shojiro Nishio (Japan) Antoni Olive (Spain) Tamer Ozsu (Canada) Mike Papazoglou (Australia) Stefano Paraboschi (Italy) Alain Pirotte (Belgium) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Keith van Rijsbergen (UK) =46elix Saltor (Spain) Peter Scheuermann (USA) Marc Scholl (Germany) Amit Sheth (USA) Letizia Tanca (Italy) Patrick Valduriez (France) Jan Van den Bussche (Belgium) Yannis Vassiliou (Greece) Kyu-Young Whang (South Korea) Gerhard Weikum (Germany) Jennifer Widom (USA) Tutorials Coordinator --------------------- Martin Kersten (The Netherlands) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE ---------------------- Mokrane Bouzeghoub,Chair (PRiSM Lab, France) Claude Chrisment (IRIT, Toulouse) Anne Doucet (Laforia, Univ. Paris VI) B=E9atrice Finance (PRiSM, Versailles) Daniele Gardy (PRiSM, Versailles) Marie-France Kalogera (AFCET) Elisabeth Metais (PRiSM, Versailles) Eric Simon (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Regional Coordinators --------------------- Janis Bubenko (Sweden) Alex Buchman (Germany) Lois Delcambre (USA) Oscar Diaz (Spain) Abdelhamid El-Iraki (Morroco) Robert Goldstein (Canada) Remigijus Gustas (Lithuania) Jean-Luc Hainaut (Belgium) Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (Australia) Rosana Lanzelotte (Brazil) Peri Loucopoulos (United Kingdom) Timos Sellis (Greece) Arne Solvberg (Norway) Stefano Spaccapietra (Switzerland) Hermann Stephen (Urugway) A Min Tjoa (Austria) Kam-Fai Wong (Hong Kong) EDBT FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVES ------------------------------- Stefano Ceri (Milano, Italy) Joachim Schmidt (Hamburg, Germany) Michel Missikoff (Rome, Italy) Keith Jeffery (London, UK) SECRETARIAT OF THE CONFERENCE ----------------------------- Mrs Corinne Sweeney AFCET, 156 Boulevard P=E9reire 75017 Paris France T=E9l: +33 (1) 47 66 24 19 Fax: +33 (1) 42 67 93 12 Email: Afcet.Congres@ibp.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE LOCATION ------------------- Palais des Papes International Convention Centre, BP 149 84008 Avignon Cedex, France Tel: +33 90 27 50 00 - Fax: +33 90 27 50 08 Welcome desk in =ABSalle des Gardes=BB. ACCESS ------- * By plane : - Avignon-Caumont Airport (taxi fare, approx. FF 100) - Nimes-Garons Airport (40 KM): airport shuttle to Nimes coach station: FF 28. Coach from Nimes to Avignon coach station: approx. FF 80. - Marseille-Marignane airport (75 KM): airport shuttle to Aix en Provence coach station: FF 40. Coach from Aix to Avignon coach station: approx. FF 80 * By train : direct from Paris (TGV), Brussels, Geneva, Barcelone, Rome. = =20 Taxi fare from station: approx. FF 35 * By road : Autoroute A7, exit : Avignon Nord or Avignon Sud. Autoroute A9, exit : Remoulins or Roquemaure. ENTRY VISA ---------- Check with your local French Consulate if you need a visa. Please note that visa applications are made at the French Consulate and may take 4 weeks to process. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE ---------------------- * On advance : Please fill in the enclosed registration form and send it to: AFCET, 156 Boulevard P=E9reire 75017 Paris, France. About 15 days before the conference, you will receive your pass, requested on site to get the conference documents. * On-site : Registration desk and welcome service will be available on Monday March 25 from 12:30 p.m. and on Tuesday March 26 from 8:00 a.m. ACCOMMODATION ------------- =46or your reservation, please fill in the enclosed accommodation form and send it back to Centrale de R=E9servation Hoteli=E8re RMG/EDBT'96 (full address on reservation form). Average rates per room and per night, room basis only, taxes and service included; (City taxes not included) - Breakfast is not included. Hotel Category Rate/Night Deposit/Room * Single FF 160/ FF 218 * Double FF 190/ FF 248 ** Single FF 230/300 FF 358 ** Double FF 300/330 FF 388 *** Single FF 350/410 FF 468 *** Double FF 400/460 FF 518 **** Single FF 600/1361 FF 1 419 **** Double FF 600/1361 FF 1 419 WELCOME RECEPTION ----------------- Included in the registration fees. It will take place on March 27 in =ABLa Salle des Gardes=BB room, inside the Palais des Papes . LUNCHES They are included in the registration fees. They will be served in =ABEspace Jeanne Laurent=BB, outside the Palais des Papes, 5mn walking. CONFERENCE BANQUET ------------------ Included in the registration fees. Extra fees for accompanying persons : 300 FF. The conference banquet will take place on March 28 in =ABLe Grand Tinel=BB room, inside the Palais des Papes . =46EES ---- Registration fees (indicated in the registration form) include sessions attendance, one copy of the proceedings, tutorial notes according to the registration, coffee breaks, 4 or 3 lunches according to the registration, welcome reception and conference banquet. * Conference only Full rate : FF 3 660 Reduced rate : FF 2 905 Students rate : FF 2 230 * Conference + tutorials Full rate : FF 4 415 Reduced rat : FF 3 825 Students rate : FF 2 950 * Late Registration Fees (after February 28th 1996) - Supplement fee : FF 250 Please add this amount to your rate if sent after february 28th 1996. * Very important - Reduced rates apply only to members of followings organizations : ACM, IEEE and CEPIS (AFCET, AICA, BCS, CCS, DND, FESI, FIPA, GCS, GI, ICS, ITG, NGI, NCS, NJSzT, OCG, PIPS, SD, SI, VRI). - Students rate is given only if a copy of an official licence for the on-going year is provided to the Conference Secretariat with the registration form. - Extra fees for accompagning person Conference dinner : FF300 DISCOUNTS --------- * On fees : They apply when at least three persons from the same company register at the same time. Between 3 and 5 registrations: 20% discount. Over 5 registrations : 30% discount. * On travel : 20% reduction on French SNCF Railways round trip ticket, and up to 45% reduction for AIR INTER on some domestic flights (round trip). These discounts are obtained only for the conference dates. Please complete the appropriate portion of the registration form to receive your discount voucher(s). CANCELLATIONS ------------- Refunds of 50% will be made if a written request is received before March 1st, 1996. No refunds will be made for cancellations received after this date. In case of conference cancellation for reasons beyond its control, AFCET limits its liability to registration fees already paid. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Mokrane Bouzeghoub Laboratoire PRiSM, Universite' de Versailles SQY 45, avenue des Etats-Unis - 78035 Versailles Cedex, France Tel: +33 1 39 25 40 51 - Fax: +33 1 39 25 40 57 Email: Mokrane.Bouzeghoub@prism.uvsq.fr WWW: http://www.prism.uvsq.fr WWW: http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/public/edbt/program.html ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Tue Mar 12 14:12:35 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 12 Mar 96 14:12:27 -0600; AA24021 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 14:12:26 -0600 From: Klaus-Dieter Schewe Message-Id: <9603122012.AA23181@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 12 Mar 96 14:12:26 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS --> deadline: April 1, 1996 Sixth International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects INTEGRITY IN DATABASES Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, September 16-20, 1996 organized by GI-Arbeitskreis ``Grundlagen von Informationssystemen (Foundations of Information Systems)'' supported by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) This international workshop will be the sixth in a series focussing on foundations of models and languages for data and objects. The main principle of this workshop series is to concentrate on one selected topic and to offer the opportunity for in-depth exchange of ideas and experiences. In order to stimulate extensive discussions, the time for the presentation of a long (short) paper is 60 (30) minutes followed by about 30 (15) minutes of discussion. Furthermore, another participant will be asked in advance to prepare a response to the work presented. In addition to the talks, there will be working groups which concentrate on actual research topics and try to develop a common understanding of the problems involved. Due to the special character of the workshop, every participant is expected to stay for the complete duration of the workshop. Authors are cordially invited to submit four copies of their contribution (extended abstract) to one of the program committee co-chairs by April 1, 1996. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced, 12pt, US letter or A4 paper) for long presentations and 5 pages for short presentations and for working group proposals. Submissions have to be sent to Stefan Conrad Integrity in Databases Institut fuer technische Informationssysteme Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Postfach 4120 39016 Magdeburg Germany for papers and to Klaus-Dieter Schewe Integrity in Databases Institut fuer Informatik Technische Universitaet Clausthal Erzstr. 1 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Germany for working group proposals. Electronic submissions (PostScript, dvi) are accepted as well and have to be sent to conrad@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de or schewe@informatik.tu-clausthal.de Important Dates Submission April 1, 1996 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection June 3, 1996 Camera--ready version July 15, 1996 Workshop September 16-20, 1996 An up-to-date version of this Call for Papers is available at http://www.informatik.uni-hannover.de/ak/int96.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Call for Papers I S A C C '9 6 Applications and Research in Software Engineering, Management Information Systems and Distributed Computing Systems October 30-November 1, 1996 Monterrey N.L. Mexico The main objective of ISACC '96 is to bridge the gap between academic research and real world applications in the areas of Software Engineering, Management Information Systems and Distributed Computing Systems. This can only be achieved with the participation of a diversity of people involved in academic and / or organizations who share their experience and knowledge. Besides, ISACC will provide a forum for exchange of information and interaction between acedemic researchers and people from organizations. PROGRAM Program for ISACC will consist of contributed papers, plenary lectures and tutorials by invited speakers, and contributed tutorials. There will also be parallel papers sessions, discussion panels and social events. SCOPE We are looking for original high-quality contributed papers that meet at least one of the following criteria: - Research results to solve complex practical problems. - Research results derived from practical experience. - Papers describing how information technology has been applied. - Reports of successful or unsuccessful transfer of research and/or technology to institutions or organizations. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Management Information Systems: Multimedia Information Systems Collaborative Work Frameworks Data and Object Models for Information Systems Executive Information Systems Software Engineering: Software Engineering Total Quality Management Object-Oriented Techniques Software Reuse and Software Factories Process Reengineering Distributed Computing Systems: Distributed Information Superhighway Real Time Distributed Systems Multimedia Distributed Systems Internet Applications REVIEW OF PAPERS AND TUTORIALS Submissions will be judged by the program committee with respect to their relevance, originality, quality and clarity. Reviewing for ISACC '96 will be blind to the identities of the authors. This requires that authors avoid citations of their names, previous works or institutions that make their identity obvious. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors must first submit the paper's title page to the program chair via e-mail or post, including the title, name, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail and affiliations of all authors (specify the contact person), an abstract no longer than 200 words, the type of submission (review, research paper, case study, etc.) and the areas which it belongs to. Authors must then submit five (5) complete printed copies of their papers, written in English, to the ISACC '96 program chair including the same title, abstract, and areas but not the names or affiliations of the authors. Each copy must have a title page separate from the body of the paper; please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. Submissions must be printed on 8x11 in. paper using size 10 seriff font. The body of submitted papers must be in a maximum of 10 double colum pages, including title, abstract, figures, tables and diagrams but excluding the cover title page. Double-sided printing in strongly encouraged. Postscript files will be accepted via electronic mail. The postscript file must follow the Adobe Document Structuing Conventions. Facsmile submissions will not be accepted. SUBMISSION OF TUTORIALS Authors must submit proposals for organizing full-or half-day tutorials that will be held on the first day of the symposium. Proposals should include tutorial title, a brief syllabus of the topic, and curriculum vitae of the proponent. BEST PAPER AWARD The main purpose of ISACC is to bridge the gap between academic research and real world application so an award of $1,000 USD will be given for the best paper addressing this symposium goal , in the judgement of a committee. CRITICAL DATES Abstracts must be received by April 1, 1996. Papers and tutorials proposals must be received by April 29, 1996. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by July 1, 1996. A final copy, camera ready for publication in the proceedings, is due by August 12, 1996. Only those papers that meet the required standards and whose authors have registered for the symposium on time will be published. LOCATION AND ORGANIZERS The symposium will be held in Monterrey, N.L. Mexico from October 30-November 1, 1996 and is being organized by both the Informatics Research Center and Information Systems Department at The Monterrey Institute of Technology (Insti- tuto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey). PROGRAM CHAIR TUTORIAL CHAIR Dr. Carlos Islas Perez Dr. Jose Raul Perez-Cazares E-mail: cislas@campus.mty.itesm.mx E-mail: rperez@campus.mty.itesm.mx Paper submission: isacc@dgicii.mty.itesm.mx Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Centro de Investigacion en Informatica Sucursal de Correos "J", Monterrey, N.L. Mexico C.P. 64849 Phone (52-8)358-2000 ext. 5082, 5076 Fax (52-8)328-4081 HTTP://dgicii.mty.itesm.mx:8090/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 project is centered around database view maintenance and query optimization, for distributed, heterogeneous, warehousing, multi-media, and other environments. You should have a Ph.D in computer science or equivalent qualifications. Applicants with prior research experience in one or more of the following areas have advantage: database query optimisation, view maintenance, data warehousing, constraint databases, database programming languages, descriptive complexity, or human genome sequence management. The appointment is for April 1996 to December 1997. Salary: AUS$30,130-AUS $40,889 p.a. depending on qualifications and experience. Further information: Dr Dong 61-3-9287-9166; email dong@cs.mu.oz.au. Applications (including the names and email addresses of three referees and sample publications in journals or conferences) should be sent to Dr Dong, Computer Science Department, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia, fax 61-3-9348-1184. Postcript submisson is accepted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Mar 13 09:55:47 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 13 Mar 96 09:55:36 -0600; AA13582 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 09:55:29 -0600 From: mzemanko@nsf.gov (Maria Zemankova) Message-Id: <9603131555.AA24708@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 13 Mar 96 09:55:29 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The following CISE Newsletter was sent out last Friday by John Lehman. If you are on his distribution list, please accept my appologies for sending another. Maria Maria Zemankova, Ph.D. Deputy Division Director Information, Robotics & Intelligent Systems National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Arlington, VA 22230 email: mzemanko@nsf.gov Phone: 703-306-1926 Fax: 703-306-0599 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/cise/IRIShome.html PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Barbara Blaustein is the current Program Director for Database & Expert Systems ++++ CISE NEWSLETTER NSF-96-62 March 1996 Paul Young, Assistant Director, NSF, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM PAUL YOUNG ANNOUNCEMENT OF CISE WEB SITE PARTNERSHIPS FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM NATIONAL COORDINATION OFFICE (NCO) JOINS NSF POSITIONS AVAILABLE CISE STAFF SPECIAL NOTE ACCESS TO NSF PUBLICATIONS **************** MESSAGE FROM PAUL YOUNG With continuing uncertainty regarding NSF's FY 1996 budget, the people at CISE resumed work in the second week of January, following nearly a month of budget furlough and blizzard closings. The impact of the furlough has been significant in delaying, not only proposal processing, but also a number of major reviews and planning meetings that had been scheduled for some time. It has also caused us to postpone the next CISE Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting from early May to June 5-6, 1996. More worrisome is the long-term outlook for federal budgets supporting research in science and engineering. As I write in mid-February, NSF is funded only through March 15 of this year. Some predictions are that overall Federal budgets supporting research in science and engineering will decrease 30% in actual dollars over the next five years; we will know more after the President's budget is released in mid-March. This is clearly a time when the nation is rethinking the role of the federal government in many contexts, including the government's role in support of research in science and engineering. Now, perhaps as never before since the end of World War II, it is important that scientists and engineers do a good job of articulating for the general public, as well as for our nation's leaders, the role which the federal investment in basic research has in laying the economic bases for our country's economic future. We also need to articulate the broad role which research in science and engineering can have in support of the education of the students who will be our country's future leaders. Neal Lane, the Director of the Foundation, has been speaking out increasingly on this topic, and I'd urge you to look at some of his speeches. (See, e.g., URL http://www.nsf.gov under "Overview" then "Director"). I believe that as our various communities continue to articulate the role which NSF supported research should play in laying the groundwork for our nation's future technological, economic, and educational base, the public will understand that basic research in information technology must continue to play an increasingly important role. One of the main topics for the June meeting of the CISE Advisory Committee will be a continuing review of CISE programs. At its last meeting, members of the Advisory Committee presented broad reviews of all CISE research programs, and also heard a report from the Hayes' Task Force on the Future of the Supercomputer Center's Program. (See the description of the new program, Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, below). At the June meeting we expect presentations of reviews of additional activities, including reviews of CISE programs in human resources, in networking infrastructure, and of the CISE organization itself. The human resources review will be chaired by Bryant York, the networking infrastructure review by Doug Van Houweling, and the organizational review by Rick Adrion. These reviews will present broad recommendations for changes and activities that will best support CISE program development over the next five years. The CISE Directorate was formed ten years ago, and has served the NSF community well. While individual programs are externally reviewed on a regular basis, the current set of reviews constitute the first set of overall reviews of broad Directorate activities as well as of the organizational structure as a whole. The purpose of the reviews is to make sure that the Directorate is well positioned to meet emerging challenges and opportunities over the next few years. Draft reports will be provided to NSF staff and the CISE Advisory Committee members around April, 1996. CISE senior staff will then integrate the information and recommendations from the various reviews to develop an overall CISE Strategic Plan. Full reports should be presented to the Advisory Committee at the June meeting. While these reviews are underway, I would welcome hearing your thoughts on CISE programs, and on how CISE might be better organized to serve the computing, communications and information science and engineering needs of our nation. As mentioned at the beginning of these remarks, we've lost significant work and planning time due to government furloughs associated with the FY 1996 budget debates. One example is our new infrastructure program in support of computational science and engineering, Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. We had hoped for approval of this program at the November meeting of the National Science Board, but that meeting was canceled because of the first budget furlough. We were lucky to get approval at the December meeting of the National Science Board, which occurred only one day before the second budget furlough. As NSF continues to carry out and evolve it's Strategic Plan (URL http://www.nsf.gov/nsf/nsfpubs/straplan/contents.htm), look for a new emphasis throughout the agency's programs on activities which contribute to the integration of research and education. In accord with this strategy, CISE will continue to develop programs, such as, supplements to research grants in support of undergraduate involvement in research programs and new cross disciplinary programs, joint with other Directorates, supporting research on learning technologies which will impact all levels of education in the 21st century. ******************************* ANNOUNCEMENT OF CISE WEB SITE The CISE Directorate now has its own site on the World Wide Web. The URL is http://www.cise.nsf.gov. CISE has several goals in bringing up a Web site: * provide accurate and timely information about CISE programs, staff and important documents, * encourage development of links to external sources containing information relevant to CISE supported activities, and in general to * promote a better understanding of the benefits of research and education in computer science and engineering and of computational and networking infrastructure supporting the nation's research and education communities. To accomplish this, we seek ways to link to the resources and talents in the CISE R&D community. We have made a modest start in this direction, but much more should be possible with the direct involvement of the CISE community. If you have ideas, comments, or suggestions regarding the CISE Web Site, feel free to contact Larry Brandt who is coordinating the development of our server. He can be reached at (703)-306 1963; Internet - lbrandt@nsf.gov. Moreover, all CISE program staff would be pleased to hear from you regarding ways to communicate results and any research proposals that may seek new ways to fulfill the goals of this CISE project. We particularly welcome pointers to home pages which describe CISE-supported projects in ways that are of interest to the larger science, engineering, and education communities, and to the public as a whole. ********************* PARTNERSHIPS FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM The Advanced Scientific Computing Division of CISE has issued a program solicitation for the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure program, which builds on and replaces the current NSF Supercomputer Centers program established in 1985. The new program seeks to incorporate newly emerging opportunities in high performance computing and communications. It is designed to meet the need for high-end computation primarily within the academic community to enable continued U. S. world leadership in computational science and engineering. NSF funding will enable active partnership participation and create a broad base supporting the national computational infrastructure for research in science and engineering. The number and size of awards will be based on the quality and potential impact of the proposed partnerships, and on the availability of funds. The cooperative agreements for the partnerships are expected to cover a five-year period beginning in fiscal year 1998. Phase in of a new partnership is expected to occur over a one year period. In order to be eligible to submit a formal proposal, the institution must have submitted a pre proposal by April 15, 1996. Details of the program solicitation are available from STIS (NSF 96 31) and from the NSF Web site (URL http://www.cise.nsf.gov/cise/ASC/). ******************** NATIONAL COORDINATION OFFICE (NCO) NOW LOCATED AT NSF The Foundation is now hosting the National Coordination Office (NCO) for the High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC). The HPCC program, a twelve agency activity including NSF, has fostered research which has led to technologies which have revolutionized the U.S. research and education communities. The NCO coordinates the federal interagency program for CIC (the Committee on Information and Communications), a part of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and provides outreach to interested communities. The NCO team is headed by Mr. John Toole, its Executive Director. The NCO is located in Rooms 665 and 690 and may be reached at (703)-306-4722 ************************** POSITIONS AVAILABLE The Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation anticipates Program Director positions in a number of its Divisions. Program Directors are responsible for the planning and administration of research programs and serve as spokespersons for their programs within the broader scientific community. Service at the =46oundation is a particularly effective mechanism for researchers from the external community to influence the direction of programs, to initiate new programs, to be involved in cross-disciplinary activities within NSF, to collaborate with other federal agencies on programs of joint interest, and to represent NSF at professional meetings and seminars. Program Directors are encouraged to keep abreast of relevant scientific research by participating in independent research, and attending professional meetings and conferences. Program Directors should be able to take a broad view of research in computer science and engineering, and should be interested in supporting activities which cut across the various divisions and programs in the CISE Directorate, as well as programs which cut across the =46oundation as a whole. These positions are temporary positions for one or two years that are filled with Visiting Scientists or with temporary assignment to NSF through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA). Several potential vacancies are listed below. The appropriate Division Director shown should be contacted for further information about these and other possible anticipated vacancies and the Division's programs. Women and members of groups underrepresented in CISE disciplines are especially encouraged to investigate serving in these positions. IPA position compensation is based on the individual's home institution salary while Visiting Scientist positions are normally AD-4 positions ($62,473-$97,366 per annum). Normally candidates have the equivalent of at least 6 years experience post-Ph.D. and a successful personal research record. Program Vacancies are anticipated in the: Division of Advanced Scientific Computing (Dr. Robert Borchers, Division Director, (703)-306 1970, rborcher@nsf.gov), and Division of Computing and Computation Research Programs: Experimental Software Systems; and Software Engineering, Languages and Architectures.. (Dr. Richard Kieburtz, Division Director, (703)-306-1910, rkieburt@nsf.gov), Office of Cross Disciplinary Activities Program: Institutional Infrastructure (Dr. John Cherniavsky, Office Head, (703)-306 1980, jchernia@nsf.gov), Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Programs: Knowledge Models and Cognitive Systems; Interactive Systems; Information Technology & Organizations; and Database & Expert Systems ((Dr. Yi-Tzuu Chien, Division Director, (703)-306-1930, ytchien@nsf.gov), Division of Microelectronics Information Processing and Systems Programs: Microelectronic Systems Architecture; (Dr. Bernard Chern, Division Director, (703)-306-1940, bchern@nsf.gov), and the Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure Programs: Networking Research; and Communications Research (Dr. George Strawn, Division Director, (703)-306-1950, gstrawn@nsf.gov), Information on the Directorate and its programs may be found on CISE Directorate's home page: http://www.cise.nsf.gov *************** CISE STAFF CISE DIRECTORATE FOR COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING=7F (FAX NUMBER - (703)-306-0577) Assistant Director PAUL R. YOUNG 306-1900 pryo= ung Deputy Assistant Director=7F MELVYN CIMENT 306-1900 mcim= ent Acting Executive Officer MERRELL PATRICK 306-1900 mpat= rick Senior Advisor, Planning, Analysis and Policy JEROME S. DAEN 306-1900 jdae= n Acting HPCC Coordinator 306-1900 Senior Science Advisor =46REDERICKA DAREMA 306-1900 fd= arema ASC DIVISION OF ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (FAX NUMBER - (703)306-0632) Division Director ROBERT R. BORCHERS 306-1970 rbor= cher Deputy Division Director RICHARD S. HIRSH 306-1970 rhirsh Program Director for Centers RICHARD E. KAPLAN 306-1963 rkaplan Program Manager for Centers LAWRENCE E. BRANDT 306-1963 lbra= ndt Staff Associate for Centers IRENE D. LOMBARDO 306-1963 ilombard Program Director, New Technologies JOHN VAN ROSENDALE 306-1962 jvan= rose CCR DIVISION OF COMPUTER AND COMPUTATION RESEARCH (FAX NUMBER - (703)306-1947) Division Director RICHARD KIEBURTZ 306-1910 rkieburt Deputy Division Director CAROLINE E. WARDLE 306-1910 cwardle Program Director for Theory of Computing DANA MAY LATCH 306-1911 dlat= ch Program Director for Software Engineering HELEN GILL 306-1911 hgill Program Director for Numeric, Symbolic and Geometric Computation KAMAL ABDALI 306-1912 kabdali Program Director for Computer Systems YECHEZKEL ZALCSTEIN 306-1914 zzal= cste Program Director for Operating Systems and Systems Software ANAND TRIPATHI 306-1912 atri= path Program Directors for Programming Languages and Compilers ANAND TRIPATHI 306-1912 atri= path HELEN GILL 306-1911 hgill CDA OFFICE OF CROSS-DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES (FAX NUMBER - (703)306-0589) Head JOHN CHERNIAVSKY 306-1980 jchernia Program Director for CISE Instrumentation 306-1981 Program Directors for CISE Instrumentation TSE-YUN FENG 306-1981 tfeng JOHN CHERNIAVSKY 306-1980 jchernia Program Director for CISE Institutional Infrastructure - Minority Institutions RITA RODGRIGUEZ 306-1981 rrod= rigu Program Director for CISE Educational Infrastructure TSE-YUN FENG 306-1981 tfeng Program Directors for CISE Cross-Directorate Activities RITA RODGRIGUEZ 306-1981 rrod= rigu HARRY HEDGES 306-1981 hhed= ges Program Directors for CISE Special Projects RITA RODGRIGUEZ 306-1981 rrod= rigu IRIS DIVISION OF INFORMATION, ROBOTICS & INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (FAX NUMBER - (703)-306-0599) Division Director YI-TZUU (YT) CHIEN 306-1930 ytchien Deputy Division Director MARIA ZEMANKOVA 306-1926 mzem= anko Program Director for Knowledge Models & Cognitive Systems LARRY REEKER 306-1926 lreeker Program Director for Database and Expert Systems BARBARA BLAUSTEIN 306-1926 bblauste Program Director for Robotics and Machine Intelligence HOWARD MORAFF 306-1928 hmor= aff Program Director for Interactive Systems GARY STRONG 306-1928 gstrong Program Director for Information Technology & Organizations LES GASSER 306-1927 lgasser Program Manager STEPHEN GRIFFIN 306-1930 sgri= ffin Expert JOHN HESTENES 306-1930 jhes= tene MIPS DIVISION OF MICROELECTRONIC INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (FAX NUMBER - (703)306-0610) Division Director BERNARD CHERN 306-1940 bche= rn Deputy Division Director JOHN R. LEHMANN 306-1940 jleh= mann Program Director for Design, Tools, and Test ROBERT B. GRAFTON 306-1936 rgrafton Program Director for Microelectronic Systems Architecture LIONEL M. NI 306-1936 lni Program Director for Circuits and Signal Processing JOHN H. COZZENS 306-1936 jcoz= zens Program Director for Experimental Systems MICHAEL J. FOSTER 306-1936 mfoster Program Director for Systems Prototyping and Fabrications JOHN STAUDHAMMER 306-1936 jstaudha NCRI DIVISION OF NETWORKING & COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH & INFRASTRUCTURE (FAX NUMBER - (703)-306-0621) Division Director GEORGE STRAWN 306-1950 gstr= awn Acting Deputy Division Director AUBREY M. BUSH 306-1949 abus= h Staff Associate DONALD R. MITCHELL 306-1950 dmitchel Assistant Program Director CARMEN KOCINSKI 306-1949 ckoc= insk Program Director for NSFNET MARK LUKER 306-1949 mluker Associate Program Officers for NSFNET DOUGLAS GATCHELL 306-1949 dgatchel DAVID A. STAUDT 306-1949 dsta= udt International Coordinator - Collaborative Activities STEVEN N. GOLDSTEIN 306-1949 sgol= dste Program Director for Networking & Communications Research AUBREY M. BUSH 306-1949 abus= h Program Manager for Networking & Communications Research DARLEEN L. FISHER 306-1949 dlfisher All telephone numbers are area code 703. All email addresses are @nsf.gov ************** SPECIAL NOTE The Foundation provides awards for research in the sciences and engineering. The awardee is wholly responsible for the conduct of such research and preparation of the results for publication. The Foundation, therefore, does not assume responsibility for the research findings or their interpretation. The Foundation welcomes proposals from all qualified scientists and engineers and strongly encourages women, minorities, and persons with disabilities to compete fully in any of the research related programs described here. In accordance with federal statutes, regulations, and NSF policies, no person on grounds of race, color, age, sex, national origin, or disability shall be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving financial assistance from the National Science Foundation. =46acilitation Awards for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities (FASED) provide funding for special assistance or equipment to enable persons with disabilities (investigators and other staff, including student research assistants) to work on NSF projects. See the program announcement or contact the program coordinator at 306-1636. The National Science Foundation has TDD (Telephonic Device for the Deaf) capability, which enables individuals with hearing impairment to communicate with the Foundation about NSF programs, employment, or general information. To access NSF TDD dial (703)-306-0090; for FIRS, 1-800-877-8339. ************* ACCESS TO NSF PUBLICATIONS Electronic Access. A variety of access methods are available as follows: * World Wide Web (Mosaic). The URL for the NSF Home page is http://www.nsf.gov/. * Internet Gopher. Point your client to host stis.nsf.gov, port 70. * Anonymous FTP. Host is stis.nsf.gov. * E-Mail STIS Index. Send ONLY the command get index in a message to stisserve@nsf.gov * E-Mail Mailing Lists. Send ONLY the command get stisdirm in a message to stisserve@nsf.gov * Remote login to Science and Technology Information System (STIS). Dial (703)-306-0212, choose 1200, 2400, or 9600 baud; settings 7-E-1. =46or More Information on Electronic Access. To obtain an electronic version of the NSF flyer, "Getting NSF Information and Publications," send an e-mail message to stisserve@nsf.gov and include ONLY the command get nsf9564.txt. For a paper copy of the flyer, call (703)-306-1130, or (703)-306-0090 (Telephonic Device for the Deaf (TDD)) requesting NSF 95-64. Printed NSF Publications. In all requests, include the NSF number and title of the publication, number of copies desired, and your name and complete mailing address. Allow 3 weeks for delivery from the time we receive your request. Need the Publication Number? If you don't know the NSF number, send e-mail to info@nsf.gov, or call (703)-306-1234 or (703)-306-0090 (TDD). If you have the NSF publication number, you may request printed NSF publications by: e-mail address: pubs@nsf.gov Telephone: (703)-306-1130 TDD: (703)-306-0090 =46AX: (703)-644-4278 Mail: NSF Forms and Publications Unit Room P-15 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA. 22230 =46or more information about NSF, including publication availability, titles and numbers, visit the NSF Information Center, located on the second floor of the NSF building, or call the Center at (703)-306-1234; dial (703)-306-0090 to access the TDD. To contact the NSF Information Center via e-mail, address e-mail message to info@nsf.gov. **************************** CISE Newsletter Editor John R. Lehmann, Deputy Division Director Microelectronic Information Processing Systems Division, CISE (703)-306-1940 jlehmann@nsf.gov TDD # (703)-306-0090 **************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Mar 13 11:13:16 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 13 Mar 96 11:13:12 -0600; AA14838 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 11:13:11 -0600 From: Gunter Saake Message-Id: <9603131713.AA24823@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 13 Mar 96 11:13:11 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Faculty of Computer Science of Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg calls for applications for the position of a full professor ("C4") of "Business Oriented Computer Science" ("Wirtschaftsinformatik"). The Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg in Germany (former East Germany, 120 km west of Berlin) has undergone a complete restructuring in recent years. New laboratories have been installed and a young team of faculty members is carrying out state-of-the-art research and teaching. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the field of "Business Oriented Computer Science" by research and teaching. An outstanding research record is expected in one or more of the following areas: - System development for applications in business or administration, - foundations and applications of distributed systems and communication techniques, - multimedia systems, - database systems for business applications. The required qualifications must be documented by research results published in renowned international publication media. In addition, practical experiences are desirable. Teaching will be required mainly in the program "Business Oriented Computer Science" (diploma). The successful candidate shall be responsible for introductory as well as advanced courses within a coordinated teaching framework according to the respective curricula. Habilitation for a pertinent field or equivalent scientific standing are required. The university particularly encourages women to apply. Applications of disabled are prefered when equally qualified. Applicants should send a CV, copies of three publications as well as the names of three references by March 26th, 1996 to: Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Fakultaet fuer Informatik Dekan Herrn Prof. Dr. Th. Strothotte PF 4120, 39016 Magdeburg Germany Further information on the position can be obtained from the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, email: dekan@cs.uni-magdeburg.de, Phone: +49 391 671-8773, Fax: +49 391 671-2551 Information about the computer science faculty (including the official German call for applications) can be found in the WWW at the following URL: http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Wed Mar 13 16:43:21 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 13 Mar 96 16:43:17 -0600; AA20969 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 16:43:16 -0600 From: iwcase@iwcase.org (IWCASE - Intl Workshop on CASE) Message-Id: <9603132243.AA25552@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Wed, 13 Mar 96 16:43:16 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu 1996 STEVENS LECTURE ON SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elliot Chikofsky, IWCASE +1 (617) 272-0049; fax -8464 March 11, 1996 or Charlene Rauber, SEI +1 (412) 268-3007; fax -5758 DAVID HAREL TO RECEIVE 2ND ANNUAL STEVENS AWARD Burlington, MA -- Dr. David Harel has been named the recipient of the second annual Stevens Award and will present the 1996 Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods. The lecture, titled "Theory vs. Practice in System Development", will be given on Monday evening, April 22, 1996 in Daytona Beach, Florida at the 9th Conference on Software Engineering Education (CSEE). "David Harel made the concepts of state modeling and dynamics effective in the practical application of systems and software engineering for real-time systems," says Elliot Chikofsky of DMR Group, who is head of the Stevens selection committee and Chair of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE). "Harel's advances in the language of statecharts, provided through the Statemate toolset, broadened the reach and applicability of computer-aided software engineering environments. Besides automating engineering of complex reactive systems, his efforts laid the groundwork for applications in modeling and simulation of business processes that are the basis of many current tools for business reengineering." David Harel is a Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) in the department of applied mathematics and computer science, where he has been since 1980. He was founder and Chief Scientist (1984-1991) of i-Logix Inc. (Andover, MA, USA), maker of the STATEMATE toolset. Harel is author of the books: Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (Addison- Wesley, 2nd ed. 1992) and The Science of Computing: Exploring the Nature and Power of Algorithms (Addison-Wesley 1989), and 6 other monographs and books. He has authored over 70 papers on topics in mathematics, process logic, and computer science, including applications to areas such as hardware design and biochemistry of polymers and gene structures. His broad perspective on issues in software and systems development was highlighted in the 1992 paper, "Biting the Silver Bullet: Toward a Brighter Future for Systems Development" (Computer, January 1992). Harel has been a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and Digital Equipment's System Research Center. He holds a PhD in computer science from MIT (1978), an MS from Tel Aviv University (1976), and a BS from Bar-Ilan University (1974). The Stevens Award was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software and systems development. The lecture presentations focus on advancing or analyzing the state of software methods and their direction for the future. This award lecture is named in memory of Wayne Stevens (1944-1993), a highly-respected consultant, author, pioneer, and advocate of the practical application of software methods and tools. His 1974 IBM Systems Journal article "Structured Design" was the first published on the topic and has been widely reprinted. Stevens was the author of the books: Software Design: Concepts and Methods (Prentice-Hall Intl, 1991) and Using Structured Design (Wiley, 1981). His last article "Data Flow Analysis and Design" appears in the Encyclopedia of Software Engineering (Wiley, 1994). Stevens was the chief architect of application development methodology for IBM's consulting group. The first Stevens Award (1995) was presented to Tony Wasserman, founder and chairman of Interactive Development Environments. The Stevens Award and lecture is presented by IWCASE, the international sponsoring association of the CASE workshop - the principal technical meeting of the computer-aided software and systems engineering field. Stevens was a member of the IWCASE board. The Conference on Software Engineering Education is sponsored by the Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and the IEEE Computer Society TCSE. It is the premier international conference for educators, trainers, managers, and administrators in the field of software engineering training and education. ### International Workshop on CASE Inc. / IWCASE P.O. Box 400, Burlington, MA 01803 USA +1 (617) 272-0049; fax +1 (617) 272-8464 http://www.iwcase.org IWCASE Executive Board - 1996 President: Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia Vice President: Francois Coallier, Bell Canada, Canada Exec Secretary: Elliot Chikofsky, DMR Group, USA Treasurer: Homa Taraji, Aerospace Corp, USA Immed Past Pres: John Jenkins, City University London, United Kingdom Board Members: Ron Norman, San Diego State University, USA Gene Forte, Intel Corporation, USA Swee-Cheang Lim, Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Jacob Slonim, IBM Canada, Canada Hausi Muller, University of Victoria, Canada Paul Layzell, UMIST - University of Manchester, United Kingdom Gene Hoffnagle, IBM Corporation, USA Jos Trienekens, Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Mar 14 08:16:50 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:16:45 -0600; AA03980 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:16:44 -0600 From: kfwong@se.cuhk.hk (Wong Kam-Fai) Message-Id: <9603141416.AA26418@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:16:44 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Advance Program Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 1 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong May 27-30, 1996 This conference brings together developers and researchers from universities, industry and government to advance the science and technology in distributed computing. Its three-day technical program encompasses three parallel sessions covering 87 papers on a broad range of subjects, 2 keynote addresses by distinguished speakers, and 2 panel sessions to stimulate discussion and interaction. TUTORIALS MAY 27 (details can be found under our web page: http://www.cs.ust.hk/ICDCS/ICDCS-Adv.html) T1: REAL-TIME SYSTEMS SPEAKER: Krithi Ramamrithm received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1981. Since then he has been with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts where he is currently a Professor. He is a co-director of the Real-Time Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. He served as Program Chair for the Real-Time Systems Symposium in 1994 and as General Chair in 1995. He is an editor of the Real-Time Systems Journal and the Distributed Systems Engineering Journal. He has co-authored three IEEE tutorial texts on real-time systems. T2: HIGH-SPEED NETWORKS FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SPEAKERS: Lionel Ni is a Professor of Computer Science and director of Advanced Computer Systems Laboratory at Michigan State University. He has published over 120 technical articles in the area of parallel processing and distributed computing. Dr. Ni is an IEEE fellow and is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Currently he is serving as the Program Director of the Microelectronic Systems Architecture Program at the US National Science Foundation. Hong Xu received the Ph.D degree in computer science from Michigan State University. He is currently an engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. Prior to that he was at the University of Southern California, where he participated in the design and implementation of the 640-Mbps switch-based ATOMIC LAN. His current research interests include high-speed network architecture and high-performance network protocol design. T3: DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS SPEAKER: Arif Ghafoor received his PhD from Columbia University in 1985. In 1991 he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, where he is an Associate Professor. Prior to that, he was a faculty at Syracuse University. He has published over 100 technical papers in the areas of parallel and distributed systems, and multimedia information systems. He is on the editorial boards of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, and the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases. T4: WIRELESS MOBILE AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKER: Justin Chuang received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1983. Since then, he worked as a researcher at MSU, GE Corporate Research and Development, and at Bellcore. Since 1993, he has been a Reader at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Chuang is the editor of Wireless Access Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has guest-edited special issues on Wireless Personal Communications for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. TECHNICAL PROGRAM MAY 28 - MAY 30, 1996 87 paper presentations selected from 305 submissions in the following areas: (details can be found under our web page: http://www.cs.ust.hk/ICDCS/ICDCS-Adv.html) * Fault-tolerant Applications & Frameworks * Real-Time Synchronization & Scheduling * Distributed Shared Memory * Checkpointing & Recovering * Real-time Communications * Routing in Direct Networks * Support for Distributed Applications * Scheduling * Communication & Synchronization * Electronic Commerce, Protection & Verification * Mobile Computing I * Routing & Protocols * Distributed Objects I * Persistence * Group Communications * Interoperable Databases * Algorithms for Linguistic Support * Multicast Protocols * Distributed Objects II * Performance Analysis * Configuration Languages * Distributed Deadlock & Data Structures * Migration Strategies * Web & Internet * Transactions * Mutual Exclusion * Mobile Computing II Two keynote speeches: "From HPCC to New Millennium Computing" T.Y. Feng, National Science Foundation, USA "Distributed Computing in the Organization of the Future" Bob Johansen, Institute for the Future, U.S.A. Two panel discussions: "Impact of Technologies on Distributed Computing" Chair: Domenico Ferrari, Universita` Cattolica, Piacenza, Italy "How Will Distributed Object Standards Impact the Distributed Computing Systems of the Future ?" Chair: Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Social events: Reception (held in conjunction with President's Reception) - May 28 Boat Cruise and Banquet - May 29 ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES General co-chairs Mario Barbacci, Software Engineering Institute, CMU, USA Vincent Shen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Program Co-chairs Bill Buckles, Tulane University, USA Samuel Chanson, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Distributed Operating Systems Vice Chair Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State University, USA Distributed Databases and Information Systems Vice Chair Tamer Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada Communication Protocols Vice Chair Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Distributed Real-Time Systems Vice Chair Farnam Jahanian, University of Michigan, USA Languages, Tools and Software Engineering Vice Chair Jeffrey Kramer, Imperial College, UK Computer Architecture and Interconnection Vice Chair Lionel Ni, Michigan State University, USA Fault Tolerance, Availability and Security Vice Chair Graham D. Parrington, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Distributed Resource Management and Scheduling Vice Chair Richard D. Schlichting, University of Arizona, USA Performance of Distributed Systems Vice Chair Erol Gelenbe, Duke University, USA Mobile Computing Vice Chair Hamid Ahmadi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Distributed Algorithms and Applications Vice Chair Nicola Santoro, Carleton University, Canada Tutorial Chair Babak Hamidzadeh, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Awards Chair Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, USA International Liaison Chair Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Local Arrangement Chair Francis Lau, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Exhibitions Chair Chin Lu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Treasurer N.V. Balasubramanian, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong TC on Distributed Processing Chair Joseph E. Urban, Arizona State University, USA Steering Committee Chair Ming T. (Mike) Liu, Ohio State University, USA ICDCS-16 Registration Form Return the registration form to: ICDCS'96 Registration, IEEE Computer Society, 1730 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1992, USA Fax: 202-728-0884; Phone: 202-371-1013 (sorry, no phone registrations) Name............................................... Affiliation........................................ Mailing Address .................................. .................................................... Phone............ Fax.............. Email.............. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Mar 14 08:37:10 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:37:01 -0600; AA04370 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:37:00 -0600 From: Tore Risch Message-Id: <9603141437.AA26451@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:37:00 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT Stockholm June 18-20, 1996 AIM AND SCOPE This international conference provides a forum for the presentation and exchange of current research in the field of scientific and statistical database management. The Eighth SSDBM continues the tradition of providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion and the exchange of ideas in a quiet setting. STEERING COMMITTEE A. Shoshani (USA, Chair), H. Hinterberger (Switzerland), J.C. French (USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE R.A. Becker (USA), K.R. Dittrich (Switzerland), J.C. French (USA), H. Gilgen (Switzerland), R.H. Gueting (Germany), N.I. Hachem (USA), D.J. Hand (UK), H. Hinterberger (Switzerland), J.C. Klensin (USA), F.M. Malvestuto (Italy), M. McLeish (Canada), Z. Michalewicz (USA), F. Olken (USA), G. Ozsoyoglu (USA), J.L. Pfaltz (USA), M. Rafanelli (Italy), T. Risch (Sweden), R. Robbins (USA), D. Rotem (USA), P. Svensson (Sweden), J.L.A. van Rijckevorsel (Netherlands), A. Westlake (UK), M. Zemankova (USA). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE P. Svensson, H. Hauska, E. Malmborg, T. Risch (Sweden) GENERAL CHAIR Per Svensson, National Defence Research Establishment, Stockholm, Sweden. CO-CHAIR James C. French, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA SPONSORS Sponsored by the Centre for Geoinformatics in Stockholm, the National Defence Research Establishment, Statistics Sweden, the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Science, and the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development. COOPERATING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES This conference is arranged in cooperation with the VLDB Endowment, the International Association for Statistical Computing, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering. WWW HOMEPAGE http://www.ce.kth.se/geofoto/cgi/8SSDBM/General.htm --------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM SCHEDULE MONDAY JUNE 17 16.00-19.00 REGISTRATION at the conference hotel Foresta 18.00-20.00 WELCOME RECEPTION in the Millesgarden sculpture park TUESDAY JUNE 18 8.00-9.15 REGISTRATION 9.15-9.30 WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Janne Carlsson, President, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 9.30-10.15 INVITED LECTURE Data mining: machine learning, statistics, and databases H. Mannila, University of Helsinki 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-12.30 FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT Censoring Statistical Tables to F. M. Malvestuto Protect Sensitive Information: M. Moscarini Easy and Hard Problems A Data Structure for A. Bezenchek Representing Aggregate Data M. Rafanelli L. Tininini Statistical Dependencies C. Paul H. Luchian 12.30-14.00 LUNCH BREAK 14.00-15.30 CURRENT PROBLEMS IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES Astronomical Tables, 2-D Indexing, C. G. Page and Fuzzy-joins Sequence Matching of Images N. Yazdani Z. M. Ozsoyoglu Approximate Query Answering In N. Hachem Numerical Databases C. Bao S. Taylor 15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK 16.00-17.00 NEW SYSTEMS FROG and TURTLE: Visual Bridges V. Anjur Between Files and Object-Oriented Y. E. Ioannidis Data M. Livny A Scientific Multimedia Database T. Lee System for Polymer Science T. Bozkaya Experiments H.-C. Kuo G. Ozsoyoglu Z. M. Ozsoyoglu 19.00 BUFFET DINNER in the City Hall, hosted by the Stockholm City Council WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 9.30-10.30 REQUIREMENTS AND DESIGN Extracting and Providing Knowledge E. Kapetanios within an Object-Centered Scientific Information System for Atmospheric Research Requirements and Design for W. Dreyer Replication Services for a Time D. Schmidt Series Management System A. Kotz Dittrich M. Bleichenbacher 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-11.45 INVITED LECTURE Title to be announced L. Bengtsson, German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) 12.00-13.30 LUNCH BREAK 13.30-15.00 PANEL: MANAGING SCALE AND COMPLEXITY IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES POSITION PAPERS: The Design and Implementation of a R. Sargent Database For Human Genome Research D. Fuhrman T. Critchlow T. Di Sera R. Mecklenburg G. Lindstrom P. Cartwright Data and Information Architectures L. Kerschberg for Large-Scale Distributed Data H. Gomaa Intensive Information Systems D. Menasce J. P. Yoon Characterization of Temporal A. Shoshani Sequences in Geophysical Databases P. Holland J. Jacobsen D. Mitra DISCUSSION 15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK 15.30-17.00 APPLICATIONS OF DATA AND PROCESS MODELING Conceptual Data Model with Structured G. De Giacomo Objects for Statistical Database P. Naggar Using the Functional Data Model to G. J. L. Kemp Integrate Distributed Biological J. Dupont Data Sources P. M. D. Gray Reuse of High-Level Information G. A. Washburn Requests: Leveraging the Investment L. M. L. Delcambre M. A. Whiting 18.00- CONFERENCE DINNER IN THE HAGA PARK starting with a boat trip to the Haga Park, the National City Park in Stockholm, and a guided walk in the park THURSDAY JUNE 20 9.00-10.30 IMPLEMENTATION METHODS I Persistent Array Access Using K. E. Seamons Server-Directed I/O Y. Chen P. Jones J. Jozwiak M. Winslett Extendible Arrays for Statistical D. Rotem Databases and OLAP Applications J. L. Zhao Optimizing Statistical Queries by C. Li Exploiting Orthogonality and X. S. Wang Interval Properties of Grouping Relations 10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00-11.45 INVITED LECTURE Practical Problems of Implementing Metadata Standards in Official Statistics J. Olenski, University of Warsaw 12.00-13.30 LUNCH BREAK 13.30-15.00 PANEL: DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR STATISTICAL DATABASES POSITION PAPERS: Design Principles for a Unified D. W. Gillman Statistical Data/Metadata System M. V. Appel Quality Aspects of a Modern Database P. Dean Service B. Sundgren What Clinical Database Management P. Lewis System does the NHS need ? DISCUSSION 15.00-15.30 COFFEE BREAK 15.30-16.30 IMPLEMENTATION METHODS II Computational Indexes for Time Series E. T. Falkenroth Efficient Temporal Join Processing D. Son Using Time Index R. Elmasri 16.30-16.45 CLOSING SESSION ------------------------------------- ATTENDEE INFORMATION Lodging A block of rooms has been reserved at the conference hotel Foresta. Cost for a single room is SEK 900:-. Double room SEK 505:-/pers. For reservation of rooms please contact the hotel directly and ask for 8SSDBM. Hotel Foresta Herserudsvaegen 22, Box 1324, S-181 25 Lidingv, Sweden. Tel: Int +46 8 765 2700, Fax: Int +46 8 767 7542. http://www.lejonet.se/ads/bestwestern/foresta/hem.html There are numerous hotels in Stockholm with travel times less than 30 minutes from Foresta. Location Foresta is located in the city of Lidingv, a suburb of Stockholm. It can be reached easily by public communications. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and can be reached by air, train and car. Ground Transportation Best ground transportation from the Stockholm airport to the conference hotel is taxi. Fixed price fares ranging from SEK 350-400 can be obtained at the airport. Alternatively, airport bus (SEK 60) and taxi from the terminal (appr SEK 100) are recommended. Attractions Hotel Foresta neighbours the Millesgerden sculpture park, the home of the Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, who spent many years in the USA. Entry is free for guests at Foresta. Stockholm houses a number of museums, art galleries, etc. Of special interest is the Wasa museum, built around the Warship Wasa which sank on its maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbour in 1628 and was retrieved in 1961. The Stockholm City Council will host a buffet dinner in the City Hall, the very building where each year in December the Nobel prize dinner is held. The conference dinner will be held in the "Copper tents" in the Haga Park, a national park within the city of Stockholm. Extra tickets can be purchased at registration at the subscribed price of SEK 450. Transportation to the dinner will be by boat from Foresta, return by chartered bus. Weather Normally the weather in June is warm with temperatures between 18-22 C. Nights can be cool. Since Stockholm is situated at a latitude of approx 58 N, nights are very short and light at this time of the year. Messages Messages may be left in the hotel reception or at the conference registration desk. Credit Cards VISA and MasterCard will be accepted for payment of the conference fee. All major cards are accepted by Foresta and by most Swedish hotels and shops. Local information Marianne Edlundh, Centre for Geoinformatics (CGI) Phone: +46-8-7907335 Fax: +46-8-7907343 email: medlund@geomatics.kth.se Per Svensson, General Chair, Defense Research Establishment (FOA) Phone: +46-8-7063696 Fax: +46-8-7063686 email: pers@sto.foa.se - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT Stockholm June 18-20, 1996 Registration ************ Dr./Mr./Mrs.:_______________________________(for name badge) Title:_________________________________________________ Affiliation:_________________________________(for name badge) Address:_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ City:__________________ State:___________ Zip:____________ Country_______________________________________________ Phone:________________________________________________ Fax:___________________________Email:__________________ Author? _ Paper Number:________________________________ Registration Fee: Includes welcome reception, buffet dinner, conference dinner, lunches, refreshment breaks and proceedings. Before After Amount May 18 May 18 Enclosed --------------------------------- Conference fees for non-members SEK 2400 SEK 2800 ______ Conference fees for members* SEK 2200 SEK 2600 ______ Extra Dinner Tickets Number of tickets____ SEK 450 SEK 450 ______ Extra proceedings Number of proceedings____ SEK 400 SEK 400 ______ Total enclosed: ______ * Reduced fees apply to members of IEEE Computer Society and IASC: Organization:____________ Member Number:_________ Date of Arrival:___________ Date of Departure:_________ Make your check (SEK) payable to Centre for Geoinformatics, KTH or provide credit card number:#________________________ MC: _ VISA: _ Expiration:____/___ Signature:______________________ Names of Accompanying Persons: _______________________ For special dietary or other requirements, please contact Marianne Edlundh. Mail this form to: Centre for Geoinformatics 8SSDBM att: Marianne Edlundh KTH S-100 44 Stockholm Sweden or send it by fax to +46-8-7907343, or by email to medlund@geomatics.kth.se, same addressee as above. If you have any further questions regarding registration, please contact: Marianne Edlundh, Centre for Geoinformatics (CGI) Phone: +46-8-7907335 Fax: +46-8-7907343 email: medlund@geomatics.kth.se -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Per Svensson email : pers@sto.foa.se Director of research National Defence Research Establishment Division of Information Systems Technology (FOA 73) S-172 90 Stockholm phone : +46 8 706 36 96 Sweden fax : +46 8 706 36 86 personal phone (GSM): +46 70 543 84 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Mar 14 08:37:40 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:37:38 -0600; AA04377 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:37:37 -0600 From: mumick@research.att.com (Inderpal Singh Mumick) Message-Id: <9603141437.AA26456@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 08:37:37 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the WWW at: http://www.research.att.com/home/mumick@research/views96/views96.html Workshop on Materialized Views: Techniques and Applications (In co-operation with ACM Sigmod) Friday, June 7, 1996 Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada. CALL FOR PAPERS and ATTENDANCE ------------------------------ Materialized views have recently seen a renewed interest in the research and commercial communitites because of their applications in warehousing, schema integration in heterogeneous databases, visualization, integrity constraints, query optimization, and decision support. Leading database vendors are currently implementing or planning to implement materialized views in some form. Several database research groups in academia are also studying materialized views. The aim of the workshop is to bring together people working in various aspects of materialized views - their storage, maintenance, implementation, and applications. What are the problems that need to be solved to efficiently implement materialized views? What are the various consistency options and performance tradeoffs in maintaining materialized views? What are the new applications for materialized views? The setting will be informal, and will encourage discussion and interaction. We especially encourage the submission of short papers dealing with specific problems, things that didn't work, desirable features, and position papers. An informal proceedings will be published. Attendance will be limited to around 40 people. There will be a $50 registration fee. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: - ------------------ We invite papers for presentation and discussion at the workshop. Send a postscript copy of the paper by email (preferable), or five hard copies on paper to the address below. The page limit on all submissions is 10 pages, double spaced, 10 pt minimum. Inderpal Singh Mumick AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue, Room 2B-235 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 (908)582-2001 Fax: (908)582-5809 mumick@research.att.com or Ashish Gupta Oracle Corporation MS 659412 500 Oracle Pkwy Redwood Shores, CA 94065 (415) 506-3877 ashgupta@us.oracle.com If you would like to attend, but will not be submitting a paper, please send mail indicating your interest in attending, by April 1st. IMPORTANT DATES: - ---------------- Papers Due: April 1, 1996 Letters of Interest Due: April 1, 1996 Acceptance Decision: April 29, 1996 Final papers due: May 13, 1996 Workshop: June 7, 1996 (immediately after SIGMOD '96) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: -------------------- Timothy Griffin [AT&T Bell Labs] Ashish Gupta [Oracle] Laks Lakshamanan [Concordia University] Inderpal Mumick [AT&T Bell Labs] PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------- Jose Blakeley, Microsoft Suzanne Dietrich, Arizona State University Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich Guozhong Dong, University of Melbourne Alan Downing, Oracle Timothy Griffin, Bell Labs Ashish Gupta, Oracle Rick Hull, University of Colorado Laks Lakshamanan, Concordia University Leonid Libkin, Bell Labs Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto Inderpal Singh Mumick, Bell Labs Xiaolei Qian, SRI Robert Rizzo, AT&T Ken Ross, Columbia Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland Yehoshua Sagiv, Hebrew University V. S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland Laurent Vieille, Bull Jennifer Widom, Stanford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Mar 14 11:22:04 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 11:21:57 -0600; AA07766 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 11:21:56 -0600 From: randal@cs.UManitoba.CA (Randal Peters) Message-Id: <9603141721.AA26820@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 11:21:56 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu C I K M ' 9 6 C A L L F O R P A P E R S Paper submission deadline April 5, 1996 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT November 12 - 16, 1996, Doubletree Hotel Rockville, Maryland, USA Sponsored* by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR in cooperation* with NASA, Bellcore, NSF, AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGMOD, CACS/USL, and UMBC. URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ CIKM series provide an effective and established forum for the discussion and dissemination of original and fundamental recent advances in the area, and to foster close international collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. CIKM'96 will focus on next generation information systems and bring together leading researchers and developers in a wide variety of scientific areas, with a common interest in these applications and their enabling technologies. SCOPE The primary focus of the conference is on next generation information systems including their theoretical foundations, infrastructure and enabling technologies. We solicit submission of original research, experience and vision papers that address this theme. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Mobile & wireless computing Digital libraries Knowledge & resource discovery Multimedia information systems Information Structures & Interaction Hypertext & Hypermedia Distributed Object Management Transaction & Workflow Management Temporal/Spatial Databases Active & Extensible Databases Engineering, Scientific & Design Databases Software databases User & Application Interfaces Intelligent Search & Data Mining Cooperating & Interoperable Federated Systems Imprecise & Uncertain Information SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers, which are not currently under submission to another conference or journal. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long, short or poster presentation. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author affiliation, e-mail address, tel/fax numbers and postal address. In the case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper. FIVE COPIES of the manuscript should be submitted (with the envelope clearly marked "CIKM'96") by APRIL 5, 1996 to: M. Tamer Ozsu c/o CIKM'96 Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1 E-mail: cikm96@cs.ualberta.ca Tel: (403) 492-2860, Fax: (403) 492-1071 CIKM'96 will have tutorials and panels organized as part of the technical program. Proposals for these should be submitted to the respective chairs: PANEL PROPOSALS: Amit Sheth Department of Computer Science University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA 30602-7404 E-mail: amit@cs.uga.edu TUTORIAL PROPOSALS: V.S. Subrahmanian Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA 20742 E-mail: vs@cs.umd.edu WORKSHOPS As always, there will be a number of workshops organized in conjunction with CIKM'96. These workshops, which focus on timely research challenges and initiatives, are an important part of the conference. Proposals for workshops should be submitted to the the Workshops Chair: Gultekin Ozsoyoglu Department of Computer Science and Engineering Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH, USA 44106 E-mail: tekin@cs.cwru.edu IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial, panel, and workshop submission deadline: March 15, 1996 Paper submission deadline : April 5, 1996 Notification of acceptance : June 15, 1996 Camera ready papers due : July 31, 1996 --- * pending approval CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chairs: N. Pissinou, USL, USA C. Nicholas, UMBC, USA Program Chair: M.T. Ozsu, U. Alberta, Canada Panels Chair: A. Sheth, U. Georgia, USA Tutorials Chair: V.S. Subrahmanian, U. Maryland, USA Workshops Chair: G. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU, USA Publicity Chair: R.J. Peters, U. Manitoba, Canada Proceedings Chair: K. Barker, U. Manitoba, Canada Registration Chair and Treasurer: E.K. Park, USNA, USA Local Arrangement Chair: J. Chen, GMU, USA CIKM Steering Committee: T. Finin, UMBC, USA K. Humenik, Indiana U., USA K. Makki, UNLV, USA C. Nicholas, UMBC, USA E.K. Park, USNA, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE R. Alonso, MITL, USA P. Apers, U. Twente, Netherlands E. Bertino, U. Milano, Italy A. Biliris, AT&T Research, USA J. Blakeley, Microsoft, USA M. Boehlen, Aalborg U., Denmark A. Bonner, U. Toronto, Canada A.L.P. Chen, Nat. Tsing Hua U., Taiwan S. Christodoulakis, TUC, Greece S. Cluet, INRIA, France U. Dayal, HP Labs., USA K. Dittrich, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland A. Dogac, METU, Turkey F. Eliassen, U. Tromso, Norway O. Etzion, Technion, Israel M. Franklin, U. Maryland, USA O. Friesen, Bull Info. Sys., USA S. Gadia, Iowa State U., USA G. Gardarin, U. Versailles, France D. Georkopoulos, GTE Labs, USA F. Golshani, Arizona State U., USA P.M.D. Gray, U. Aberdeen, Scotland J. Han, Simon Fraser U., Canada J. Icaza, ITESM, Mexico R. Jain UCSD, USA G. Kaiser, Columbia U., USA Y. Kambayashi, Kyoto U., USA A. Keller, Stanford U., USA L. Kerschberg, GMU, USA R. King, U. Colorado, USA W. Klas, GMD-IPSI, Germany L. Liu, U. Alberta, Canada W. Litwin, U. Dauphine, France F. Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong K. Makki, UNLV, USA R. Meersman, Vrije U., Belgium J. Mylopoulos, U. Toronto, Canada R. Ng, UBC, Canada S. Osborn, U. Western Ontario, Canada M. Ozsoyoglu, CWRU, USA M. Papazouglou, QUT, Australia R.J. Peters, U. Manitoba, Canada C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Inst., USA B. Reinwald, IBM Almaden Res. Lab, USA T. Risch, U. Linkoping, Sweden M. Rusinkiewicz, U. Houston, USA R. Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia F. Saltor, U. Pol. de Catalunya, Spain P. Scheuermann, N.Western U., USA P. Schwarz, IBM Almaden, USA T. Sellis, Nat. Tech. U., Greece A. Shoshani, LBL, USA S. Son, U. Virginia, USA J. Srivastava, U. Minnesota, USA L. Tanca, U. Verona, Italy A.U. Tansel, CUNY, USA M. Templeton, Data Integration, USA A. Thomasian, IBM T.J. Watson, USA F. Tompa, U. Waterloo, Canada M. Tresch, ETH, Switzerland V. Tsotras, Brooklyn Polytechnic U., USA S. Urban, Arizona State U., USA K.Y. Whang, KAIST, Korea O. Wolfson, U. Illinois, USA M. Zemankova, NSF, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Thu Mar 14 16:28:04 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 16:27:59 -0600; AA15070 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 16:27:58 -0600 From: Alfredo Goni Sarriguren Message-Id: <9603142227.AA27303@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu; Thu, 14 Mar 96 16:27:58 -0600 To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS =============================================================================== B I W I T 9 7 THIRD BASQUE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY "D A T A M A N A G E M E N T S Y S T E M S" =============================================================================== BAYONNE (FRANCE), FEBRUARY 5-7, 1997 Requested cooperation to ACM AFCET IEEE Computer Society Organized by: o Institut Universitaire de Technologie Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour - UPPA BAYONNE (France) o Facultad de Informatica Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea - UPV/EHU SAN SEBASTIAN (Spain) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chairman: Flory, Andre (INSA, Lyon, France) Programme Committe Members: Blanco, Jose Miguel (UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain) Bois, Jean Paul (JPB Consultant, Paris, France) Bouisset, Marc (UQVAM, Montreal, Canada) Bouzeghoub, Mokrane (Univ. de Versailles, France) Brunie, Lionel (LIP-CNRS, Lyon, France) Bubenko, Janis (Stockholm Univ., Kista, Sweden) Costilla, Carmen (Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Chrisment, Claude (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Demolombe, Robert (ONERA-CERT, Toulouse, France) Diaz, Oscar (UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain) Frasson, Claude (Universite de Montreal, Canada) Gouarderes, Guy (IUT Bayonne, France) Grefen, Paul (Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands) Guimaraes, Nuno (INESC, Lisboa, Portugal) Illarramendi, Arantza (UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain) Kaltenbach, Marc (Univ. de Montreal, Montreal, Canada) King, Peter (University of London, London, UK) Loucopoulos, Perikles (University of Manchester, UK) Miranda, Serge(Grp. SERAM, Sophia-Antipolis, France) Nguyen, G.T. (INRIA/LGI-IMAG, Grenoble, France) Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri (Univ. of Oulu, Oulu, Finland) Paton, Norman (University of Manchester, UK) Patrick, Jon (Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ) Piattini, Mario (Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain) Pinon, Jean Marie (LISI, Lyon, France) Prabhakar, T.V. (Indian Inst. of Techn., Kanpur, India) Ramos, Isidro (Univ. Politecnica, Valencia, Spain) Rolland, Colette (Universite de Paris 1, Paris, France) Saltor, Felix (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Sbattella, Licia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Sedes, Florence (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Sharp, Bernadette (Stafford University, Stafford, UK) Solvberg, Arne (University of Trondheim, Norway) Wieczerzycki, Waldemar (FPSNIT, Poznan, Poland) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chairman: Dagorret Pantxika (IUT de Bayonne, Bayonne, France) Organization Members: Bessagnet, Marie-Noelle (FDEG/UPPA, Pau, France) Dalmau, Marc (IUT de Bayonne, Bayonne, France) Goni, Alfredo (UPNA, Pamplona, Spain) Lopisteguy, Philippe (UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain) Nodenot, Thierry (IUT de Bayonne, Bayonne, France) Sallaberry, Christian (FDEG/UPPA, Pau, France) ==================================== SCOPE ==================================== BIWIT is an international workshop whose aims are to develop exchanges between researchers, developers, people from industry and users working in different areas of Information Technology. From 1994, this workshop has been alternatively held in Bayonne and San Sebastian. In 1997, the workshop will be held in Bayonne ; its topic will be : "Data Management Systems". The scope of this workshop includes both the management of data and the development of user-centred information systems. Ongoing research on extending Data Base Management Systems (DBMS) features or on applying active, multimedia and object oriented DBMS to real life situations will receive special consideration by the programme committee. To further the goal of stimulating new research directions, we also encourage submission of papers presenting systems supporting the user while navigating in an informational space made of structured data, of declarative and procedural knowledge or of multimedia data. ============================== TOPICS OF INTEREST ============================= Object Oriented Databases Active Databases Multimedia Databases Deductive Databases Federated Multidatabase Management Knowledge Base Management Systems Data Mining Hypermedia tools Flexible Interfaces Human-Computer Interaction User-Centred Information Systems Applications ============================ INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS ========================== The official language of the Workshop will be English. Authors proposing a paper should send five copies of their paper to reach the Organization Secretary before 1996, May 27th. Authors (describing original and unpublished results) should observe the following conventions : The title of the paper must be followed by the name(s) of author(s) with e-mail, fax and affiliation addresses. Next should follow an abstract (up to 15 lines) and a list of keywords (1 line). The length of the paper should not exceed 12 pages using double spacing in 12 point, Times font. The paper itself should not contain the names of the authors. ================================== KEY DATES ================================== May 27th, 1996 : Papers due September 30th, 1996 : Notification of acceptance October 28th, 1996 : Camera ready proofs All contributions/information requests must be sent to : ====================== BIWIT'97 Organization Secretary ======================== BIWIT'97 - IUT de Bayonne Chateau-Neuf, Place Paul Bert 64100 BAYONNE - FRANCE Tel : (+33) 59.46.32.12 Fax : (+33) 59.46.32.29 e-mail : biwit@iutbay.univ-pau.fr www-page : http://sisx04.si.ehu.es/lsi/BIWIT97 ================================ REPLY CARD ================================== - Name:_________________________________________________________________ - Affiliation:__________________________________________________________ - Address:______________________________________________________________ - City:_________________________________________________________________ - Country:______________________________________________________________ - Tel.:_____________________ Fax:_____________________________________ - E-mail:_______________________________________________________________ I intend to submit a paper - Subject area:________________________________________________ - Title:_______________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Issue 1996) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IC3N'96 CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS October 16 - 19, 1996 Double Tree Hotel, Rockville, Washington D. C., USA Sponsored* by DataTech and NASA. In cooperation* with NSF, NIST, USL, USC Communication, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and IEEE Communication Society. The objective of this conference is to provide an effective forum for original and fundamental advances in Computer Communications and Networks and to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We solicit the submission of papers that address novel, challenging and innovative results. Therefore the topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to: ATM Networking Internet Services/Applications Distributed Multimedia Applications Real Time Communications Quality of Services (QoS) Issues LAN/WAN Internetworking Interoperability Personal Communication Services Network Management Wireless Networks Intelligent Networks Multicast Protocols Network Security Optical Networks Reliable Networks High Speed Network OAM/Protocols Video-on-Demand Traffic Management Multimedia Human-Machine Interface Performance Modeling/Analysis Communication Software Protocol Verification/Validation/Testing SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers that may be submitted for consideration include those that have not previously been published in another forum, or are not currently being published or reviewed by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a submission as long, short or poster presentation. Of particular interest are papers which address experiences with concrete Computer Communications and applications. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors will be interested to know that special issues of journals containing outstanding papers from the conference are being planned. Manuscripts should include an abstract and be limited to 5000 words. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings should also be included. Six copies of the manuscript should be submitted by Friday, March 22, 1996 to Program Co-Chair: Dr. David Lee AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue, RM 2C-423 Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA lee@research.att.com Tel: (908) 582-5872; Fax:(908) 582-5857 For more information about the conference (as opposed to paper submissions) please send e-mail to ic3n@cacs.usl.edu. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: March 22, 1996 Notification of acceptance: May 30, 1996 Camera ready papers due: July 1, 1996 WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS: Proposals are solicited for tutorials and workshops. Please send your proposal by March 22, 1996 to Professor M. Singhal, the Tutorial Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, singhal@cis.ohio-state.edu, Tel: (614) 292-5839, Fax: (614) 292-2911. To Professor K. Efe, the Workshop Chair, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, The University of SW Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70504, efe@cacs.usl.edu, Tel: (702) 482-6876, Fax: (702) 482-5791. Steering Committee: I. Chlamtac-U. Mass, V. Li (chair) - USC, K. Makki - UNLV, J.S. Meditch - U. Wash, E. K. Park - USNA, R. Pickholtz - GWU, N. Pissinou - CACS/ USL, T. Suda - UC Irvine, J.W. Wong - U. Waterloo General Co-Chairs: K. Makki - UNLV and N. Pissinou - CACS/USL Program Committee: S. Aggarwal-SUNY/Binghamton, C. Alaettinoglu-USC/ISI, M. H. Ammar-GA/Tech, H. Arabnia-U. Georgia, M. Bayoumi-USL, K. Bhat-AT&T, A. Bush-NSF, K. Calvert-GA/Tech, S. T. Chanson-UBC, D. Cohen-Bellcore, T. S. Dillon-LaTrobe U., T. Y. Feng-NSF, O. Frieder (Co-Chair)-GMU, E. Geraniotis-DEEI, F. Golshani-ASU, M. G. Gouda-UT/Austin, Z. Haas-Cornell, M. Halem-NASA, J. Harms-U. Alberta, E. Hahne-AT&T, C.-S. Kang-Hannam U., I. Khan-Qualcomm, J. B. Kim-CSUN, D. Lee (Co-Chair)-AT&T, Y.-H. Lee-U. Florida, B. J. Leon-CACS/USL, F. J. Lin-Bellcore, M. T. Liu-OSU, W. Liu-BellSouth, W. M. Moh-SJSU, R. Miller-UMD, M. S. Obaidat-CUNY, S. Olariu-ODU, M. T. Ozsu- U. Alberta, W. Peng-SWTSU, S. Sahni-U. Florida, H. Saito-NTT, M.-C. Shan-HP, U. Shankar-UMD, H. Sharif-UNL, A. Silberschatz-AT&T, V. Srinivasan-IBM, D. Su-NIST, Y. Zhang-Hughes Conference Coordinators: C. Fayet-INT/France, A. Gaivoronski-ITALTEL/Italy, C.-S. Kang-Hannam U./Korea, U. Krieger-DBP/Germany, H. Saito-NTT/Japan Publicity Co-Chairs: S. Bhattacharya-Honeywell, Mallikarjun Tatipamula-BNR} Local Arrangements: D. Su-NIST Treasurer: E. K. Park-USNA * pending approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 15 08:20:08 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 IAA11126 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:19:58 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA28252 for dbworld; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:19:58 -0600 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:19:58 -0600 From: Jan Staudek Message-Id: <199603151419.IAA28252@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS +------------------------------------------------------------+ | SOFSEM'96 | | | | XXIII-rd Seminar on Current Trends | | in Theory and Practice of Informatics | +------------------------------------------------------------+ November 23 - November 30, 1996 Hotel Devet-skal, Milovy Czech Republic ------------ Organized by ------------ Czech ACM Chapter, Czech Society for Computer Science, Czech Research Consorcium on Informatics and Mathematics, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic, Masaryk University, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Slovak Society for Computer Science ------- Subject ------- SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an eight-day international seminar devoted to the theory and the practice of software systems. Its program consists of a series of invited talks given by prominent academic professionals and researchers. Contributed talks and posters of participants are also included in the program of SOFSEM. The working language is English. ------------------------------- Invited talks and contributed talks are published by Springer-Verlag in the series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" and distributed at the seminar. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Sofsem'96 is the 23rd in the series of Sofsem seminars held annually.| | It is intended to foster cooperation among people working in various | | areas of computer science. Its scientific program offers a unique | | opportunity to gain a relatively quick and representative | | overview about the selected parts of computer science, | | presented by top researchers. | | Its social program provides an optimal framework for discussions, | | meetings, contact establishing, and socializing. Especially suited | | for PhD students and young computer scientists. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= Topics Program Committee Advisory Board Program - Abstracts, CVs KEY NOTE ADDRESS INVITED TALKS Submissions Contributed Talks Posters Deadlines Contact Address Fees Cancellation Financial support Exhibitions Culture Program Local Arrangements Sofsem www-page Venue Registration REGISTRATION FORM AND PAYMENT NOTICE Sponsors History One-sheet LaTeX form of CALL FOR PAPER ------ Topics ------ A. Fundamentals B. Parallel and Distributed Computing C. AI and Control Systems D. Databases and electronic documents E. Programming and SE F. Scientific Computing and Visualization -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is an one-sheet LaTeX form of CALL FOR PAPER at the end of this call -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- K. G. Jeffery, Chair, (RAL, Oxon, UK), J. Kral, Co-Chair, (Charles University, Prague, CZ), P. Asirelli, (I.E.I. - C.N.R., I), P. Y. Bartos, (SOFTEC, Bratislava, SK) P. Hajek, (Academy of Science,Prague, CZ), V. Hlavac, (Czech Technical University Prague, CZ), J. Grimson, (O' Reilly Institute Trinity College Dublin, IR), P. Jancar, (Ostrava University, CZ), M. Kersten, (CWI Amsterdam, NL), J. Kohoutkova, (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ) M. Kretinsky, (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ), L. Matyska, (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ) A. Micovsky, (SOFTEC spol. s.r.o, Bratislava, SK), H. Moessenboeck, (University of Linz, A), L. Motyckova, Secretary (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ) M. Neilsen, (Aarhus University, DK), N. Paton, (University of Manchester, UK), J. Pavelka, (DCIT, Prague, CZ), F. Plasil, (Charles University, Prague, CZ), I. Privara, (Institute of Informatics and Statistics, Bratislava, SK) J. Pokorny, (Charles University, Prague, CZ), S. Robinson, (RAL, Oxon, UK), B. Rovan, (Comenius University Bratislava, SK) H. Siegelmann, (Technion Haifa, Izrael), S. Shrivastava, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) A. Solvberg, (University of Trondheim, N) J. Staudek, (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ), G. Tel, (Utrecht University, NL), J. Valenta, (DCIT, Prague, CZ), M. Vajtersic, (Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SK) J. Wiedermann, (Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ), P. Zemcik, (Technical University Brno, CZ), J. Zlatuska, (Masaryk University, Brno, CZ), -------------- Advisory Board -------------- D. Bjorner, (UN University, IIST, Macau), P. van Emde Boas, (CWI Amsterdam, N), M. Broy, (TU Munich, Germany), M. Chytil, (Arthur D.Little Int., Prague, CZ), G. Gottlob, (TU Vienna, A), K. G. Jeffery, (RAL, Oxon, UK), M. Zemankova, (NSF, Washington DC, USA) ------------------------ Program - Abstracts, CVs ------------------------ KEY NOTE ADDRESS ---------------- Kurt Bauknecht, the IFIP President, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland Contributions from professional organisations like IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing, to the Advances in Informations Technology. INVITED TALKS ------------- A. Fundamentals: ---------------- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Polytechnic Univ. of Catalunha, Barcelona, Spain A Unified View Of String Matching Algorithms We present a unified view to sequential algorithms for many pattern matching problems, using a bit-wise simulation of a non-deterministic finite automaton (NFA) built from the pattern which uses the text as input. This approach gives very fast practical algorithms which have good complexity for small patterns on a RAM machine with word length O(log n). Ricardo Baeza-Yates received his Ph.D. in CS form the U. of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989. During 1993, he received the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences. Currently he is full professor at the CS department of the University of Chile. His reserch interests include algorithms and data structures, text retrieval, graphical interfaces and visualization applied to databases. ............................................................................ Friedhelm Mayer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn, Germany Communication in Parallel Systems The talk covers two basic communication issues in parallel computing: Routing in networks, and data organization in distributed memory machines. The first part, Routing in Networks, surveys the current research on efficient routing protocols for store-and-forward and wormhole routing. In particular, universal routing protocols that work well for wide classes of networks are considered. The second part, data organization in distributed memory machines, surveys hashing techniques for simulating shared memory, using redundant representation of the data. Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide finished his PhD in 1981 in Bielefeld, and his Habilitation in 1986 in Frankfurt. From 1980 to 1986 he was assistant at the CS department in Frankfurt, with one year on leave at the IBM Almaden Laboratory in San Jose. From 1986 to 1989 he was professor at the CS department in Dortmund, scince then he is full professor at the CS department in Paderborn. His research interests include parallel algorithms and architectures, randomized algorithms, and lower bound techniques. ............................................................................ Felipe Cucker, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, SPAIN Computing With Real Numbers ............................................................................ Paul Vitanyi, CWI & University of Amsterdam Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications Kolmogorov complexity is a modern notion of randomness dealing with the quantity of information in individual objects. A new mathematical proof technique was developed, now known as the `incompressibility method'. The incompressibility method is a basic general technique such as the `pidgeon hole' argument, `the counting method' or the `probabilistic method'. Kolmogorov complexity was proposed by A.N. Kolmogorov to quantify the randomness of individual objects in an objective and absolute manner. Likewise, the Kolmogorov complexity of an object is a form of absolute information of the individual object. Applications of Kolmogorov complexity by us and others have been given in a plethora of areas. Paul Vitanyi heads the Algorithms and Complexity research group at CWI, and is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Amsterdam He is a member of the Dutch Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics (IPA), and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Dutch Graduate School in Logic (OzsL) ............................................................................ B. Parallel and Distributed Computing ------------------------------------- Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Object-Oriented Approaches to Flexibility in System Software This presentation will begin by reviewing recent research into flexible system software with an emphasis on systems that have employed object-oriented approaches such as the use of frameworks or meta-object protocols. We will then describe how these techniques have been employed in the Tigger project at Trinity College to develop a family of object-support operating systems intended for use in a variety of distributed applications ranging from embedded soft realtime systems to concurrent engineering environments. Some of the novel features of Tigger including its use of framework technology, a distributed shared memory (DSM) system supporting a new approach to consistency maintenance, and the use of meta-object protocols to allow system behaviour to be altered at run-time will be described. Vinny Cahill is a lecturer in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. As a member of the Distributed Systems Group, he has been conducting research into system and language support for object-oriented distributed programming for a number of years. He is currently applying this research to areas such as the development of distributed virtual worlds and concurrent engineering environments. ............................................................................ Daniel Hagimont, INRIA Rhone-Alpes/ Bull-IMAG Systemes, France Arias: A Distributed Shared Memory System Integrated with Unix The goal of the Arias project is to provide extensions to Unix, that support distributed environments. These extensions should at the same time allow distributed applications to share data, allow protection of shared data, and allow data to be stored permanently (i.e., stored on secondary storage). The Arias system builds on a unique virtual address space, where each object is named by the same virtual address on all the machines in the system. Data is duplicated on all sites that share it, and coherency is guaranteed on the basis of zones (a consecutive number of bytes), according to an coherency protocol. Protection is based on the notion of capabilities and protection domains. Daniel Hagimont is "Charge de Recherche" (research scientist) at INRIA Rhone-Alpes (Grenoble). He received his PhD from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1993. In 1993-94, he held a post-doctoral position at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). He is currently a member of the Sirac project at INRIA, Grenoble, where he leads a group working on distributed shared memory. ............................................................................ Jan Kleindienst, Frantisek Plasil, Petr Tuma, Charles University, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Rep. On the Role of Object Services in CORBA The main intention of this contribution is to provide the readers with the fundamental knowledge of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) with an emphasis upon one of its basic components: CORBA Object Services (COSS). The brief history of CORBA development from CORBA 1.1 to CORBA 2.0 supporing interoperability features is given. Key concepts specified in CORBA 1.1 and CORBA 2.0 are reviewed: Interface Description Languge (IDL), client stub, server skeleton, Basic Object Adapter (BOA), Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), request-level bridging and inline bridging. Based on OMG series of Requests for Proposal (RFP), the evolution of enlarging the family of CORBA Object Services is analyzed and commented. Jan Kleindienst works at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and makes his PhD studies at the Charles University, Prague. Frantisek Plasil is an associated professor of Computer Science and the vice-chair to the Department of Software Engineering at the Charles University, Prague. From 1989 to 1991 he was a visiting professor in Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Denver. His recent research interests included programming languages and compiler construction. Petr Tuma is a PhD student in the Department of Sofware Engineering at the Charles University in Prague. ............................................................................ C. AI and Control Systems ------------------------- Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research,Redmond Washington, USA Decision-Theoretic Reasoning and the Human-Computer Interface: Advances in Embedded Intelligent Agents Recent advances in the use of automated decision-theoretic reasoning to enhance the human-computer interface will be presented. First, Bayesian networks and influence diagrams will be reviewed and how these graphical knowledge representations can be used in systems that compute beliefs and actions will be described. Following a brief survey of work in decision-theoretic reasoning, principles and applications of embedded decision-theoretic agents will be presented. Key concepts in the contexts provided by the Vista and Lumiere projects will be introduced. The Vista project centered on building an intelligent interface to assist NASA Mission Control flight engineers with managing the complexity of information about Space Shuttle propulsion systems in time-critical contexts. Eric Horvitz is a Senior Researcher in the Decision Theory Group at Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington. He received a PhD and MD at Stanford University. His current interests include decision-theoretic models of problem solving and applications of probability and utility to solve problems in time-critical decision making. ............................................................................ Mark Overmars, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Probabilistic Approaches to Motion Planning In recent years many different approaches to motion planning have been suggested. In this talk we describe a new, probabilistic paradigm for solving the motion planning problem, which proves to be very time-efficient for a great variety of robots. An advantage over existing methods is its generality. There are only a few components that are robot specific, and these are, as will be pointed out, easy to define/implement. Furthermore, it is a learning approach, that is, it builds data-structures that, once constructed, can be used for retrieving arbitrary paths quasi-instantaneously. The power of the method will be demonstrated both by theoretical results and experimental results. ............................................................................ Dan Roth, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Learning in Order to Reason While the central role of learning in cognition is acknowledged by many, most lines of research nevertheless study reasoning phenomena separately from learning phenomena. We present a new framework for the study of reasoning, in which a learning component has a principle role. The Learning (in order) to Reason approach combines the interfaces to the world used by known learning models with the reasoning task and a performance criterion suitable for it. In particular, we show cases where simultaneously (1) reasoning from a given representation of the world is intractable, (2) learning representations of the world is intractable, but (3) directly learning to reason about the world is feasible. Dan Roth received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1994. From 1981 until 1990 he was a software engineer and researcher for the Israeli Defense Forces -- R&D Unit and is now on the faculty at the Weizmann institute of Science, Israel. Interested in theories of learning and inference and in particular in developing an understanding of how learning supports other high level cognitive tasks. ............................................................................ D. Databases and electronic documents ------------------------------------- Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep. Database Semantics In Heterogenous Environment The notion of attribute is presented as a universal construct for describing conceptual and database models. Unifying tools based on the typed lambda calculus give possibilities to define appropriate notions for expressing an equivalency of schemes in different models. Moreover, the expressiveness of conceptual and data models is defined and compared to the recent approaches. A taxonomy of conceptual and database models based on these notions is proposed. Particular models will be compared with respect to their expressiveness. Finally, a method for integrating heterogeneous environment is designed. Practical consequences of the theory developed could help in constructing so called co-operative information systems as well as in transforming user requirements between two different kinds of information environment. Jaroslav Pokorny received the Ph.D. degree in theoretical cybernetics from the Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1984. Currently he is an associate professor of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University and head of its Department of Software Engineering. His research interests include also database design, information retrieval and software engineering methods. ............................................................................ Ken Robinson, RAL, Oxon, UK Business Case Processing - Rationale, Survey and Trends Modern businesses are increasingly under pressure to improve competitiveness. In recent years, it has been realised that a significant way to improve effectiveness is to identify and optimise the key processes that organisations undertake to achieve their business objectives. One element that is often important is IT support, and one important aspect of modern IT support is business case processing (often called workflow). This talk will cover: - Why process is important to organisations. - A survey of available business case processing/workflow systems, highlighting those features which are most significant. - A description of the results of a recent European project to develop a state of the art business case processing system. Ken Robinson runs User Interface Design Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Originally trained as a physicist, he soon gravitated to computing and has worked in a number of areas. For the last 15 years, he has been working with user interfaces for highlyinteractive systems, with application to real-world applications. Recent projects have included both formal and informal business case processing/workflow systems. ............................................................................ Arno Siebes, CWI, The Netherlands The KESO project: towards an inductive query language system. State-of-the-art Data Mining technology offers a toolbox of algorithms and techniques developed for precisely defined applications. The usage of data mining technology requires therefore an intimate knowledge of this field. The KESO-project will develop a data mining system that is applicable for a wide variety of data mining problems by domain experts rather than data mining specialists. In the first part of this talk I will present an overview of the current state-of-the-art in data mining. The second part of the talk presents an overview of the KESO project: what are the concepts underlying its ``inductive query language'', how is it related to current algorithms, and how can it be implemented efficiently? Arno Siebes received his his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990 from Twente University. His research interests are the semantics of Object-Oriented databases, the integration of database schema's, active databases, and data mining. Currently he leads both the data mining project at CWI and the ESPRIT-IV project KESO. ............................................................................ E. Programming and SE --------------------- David Harel,The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Statecharts: Past, Present And Future This will be an informal talk about the graphical specification language of statecharts, and the related STATEMATE system. Some of the issues that arose in developing the language and the tool will be discussed from both personal and technical points of view. A number of research areas that have evolved from this work in the 12 years since the language was proposed will be discussed. Time permitting, recent work on a version of statecharts tailored for object-oriented development will be described too. ............................................................................ Arie de Bruin, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands New Trends in Game Tree Search In this talk we consider algorithms that search game trees, defined by full information zero sum games, like chess, checkers and the like. In such a tree the nodes are board positions and there is an edge between two nodes of a move from the position corresponding to the source node results in the position corresponding to the target node. Almost every game tree search algorithm computes the so called minimax value of the root position which is defined as the value of the end position that the first player will obtain under optimal play of both adversaries. ............................................................................ Jeremy Dick,B-Core, Oxford, UK VDM Through Pictures: A Visual Approach to Formal Specification One of the strengths of structured methods in software engineering is their use of diagrams to visualize the structure of a system. By contrast, the use of formal notations, does not provide a good medium for communication with the non-mathematician. The aim of the work reported here is to combine formality with visual appeal, to alleviate the communication problem with the non-specialist, and to accelerate the uptake of formal methods into industry. The inadequacies of traditional Entity-Relationship, Data-Flow and State-Transition diagrams are discussed in relation to VDM, and two new kinds of diagram are proposed as more appropriate to the underlying expressiveness of VDM. ............................................................................ Paul Klint, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Core Technologies for System Renovation Maintenance, migration and renovation are becoming the predominant concerns of the large users of software in business and industry. How can problems in these areas be addressed from a software engineering perspective? First, the need for system renovation will be explained and an outline of the problems and opportunities involved will be given. Next, an incremental renovation strategy that is based on two complementary technologies will be sketched: abstract datatypes as a basis for generic program manipulation tools and processes as the foundation for coordination languages. ............................................................................ F. Scientific Computing and Visualization ----------------------------------------- Henk A. van der Vorst,University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Iterative Methods For Nonsymmetric Systems Iterative solution methods are very attractive for classes of very large linear systems, for which direct approaches are impractical because of CPU- and computer memory requirements. We will present an overview of a number of related modern iterative methods for the solution of unsymmetric linear systems of equations. Some more attention will be given to modern hybrid methods, such as Bi-CGSTAB, Bi-CGstab(l), and GMRESR. Iterative methods are often used in combination with so-called preconditioning operators (approximations for the inverses of the operator of the system to be solved) in order to speed up convergence. In our lectures we will also discuss general implementation aspects of iterative methods. ............................................................................ Gitta Domik, University of Paderborn, Germany Computer Visualization The challenge of a new, fundamental approach to building visuali- zation systems finds currently much resonance in the computer science community. The rendering pipeline used as a fundamental concept in computer graphics systems is found to be inadequate for visualization systems. The need for optimizing cost factors, such as storage size (large search spaces needed) or the time needed for human decision-making based on large, complex information structures, has to be recognized. Partial answers are being found in the use of new paradigms, such as the paradigm of information workspaces; in the use of intelligent agents to apply contraints to the mapping process; or in the formulation of hardware requirements to support adequate user interaction. Gitta Kienegger-Domik is Professor at the University of Paderborn, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Her M.Sc. at the Graz University of Technology (Austria) in 1981 was followed with a Ph.D. at the same University in 1985. Her research interests are in the area of visualization concepts and techniques, user interface design, and scientific data analysis. ............................................................................ ----------- Submissions ----------- The categories for submissions include Contributed Talks and Posters. Each submission should have a title giving the following information: - name, address, e-mail address, and phone number of each author; - specification of one of the authors as the contact person. Please send five printed copies or a postscript file for each submission. Contributed Talks ----------------- 8-page drafts in English are expected. A full camera-ready copy of contributed talks on current topics in Computer Science should be no longer than 8-pages. Presentation time for contributed talks is 25 minutes. Contributed talks will be included in the Proceedings of SOFSEM '96, published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. The Organizing Committee will supply the authors of accepted contributed talks with a leaflet of detailed technical instructions and the LaTeX style file for the preparation of the camera-ready copy. Posters ------- We actively encourage poster describing work in progress. Final versions of two A4 page poster are expected. Deadlines --------- Submission of the contributed talk/poster May 15, 1996 Notification of acceptance/rejection July 30, 1996 Camera-ready copy of the contributed talk Sept. 1, 1996 --------------- Contact Address --------------- Submissions, all communications and enquires should be adressed to: Lenka Motyckova Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno Czech Republic e-mail: lenka@informatics.muni.cz ---- Fees ---- Total cost covers the organizational expenses, accommodation, and meals for the whole (eight-day) seminar as well as the Proceedings: Early payment (by 1st September 1996) (Kc stands for Czech Crowns) --------------------------------------------------------------------- type single_room double_room Explanation of fee --------------------------------------------------------------------- S0 *) 6 360 Kc 5 000 Kc total costs for CZ ACM, CIS, SIS S1 6 860 Kc 5 500 Kc total costs for CZ/SK participants S2 **) 295 USD 240 USD total costs for others ACM members S3 315 USD 260 USD total costs for others --------------------------------------------------------------------- *) only for members of CZ ACM, Czech Informatics Society (CIS) and Slovak Informatics Society (SIS), **) only for other ACM members, Important! The early prices specified above are only valid until 1st September. After September 1, the prices are increased by 1 300 Kc / 50 USD. ================================================================== Banking : Ceska sporitelna Brno - mesto, Brno, Czech Rep. Account Name : Ceska informaticka spolecnost, pobocka Brno Account Number : 6851659-628/0800 Details of Payment: Fill in your name and affiliation. ------------ Cancellation ------------ Before 1-st November, 80% of the total cost will be refunded; after 1-st November, 50% of the total cost will be refunded. No refund will be made once the seminar has started. ----------------- Financial support ----------------- You may apply for financial support to partially cover your accommodation expenses. A strong preference will be given to undergraduate and graduate students whose submissions for contributed talks and/or posters have been accepted. Your application for financial support must reach the Organizing Committee by 1-st August. We will let you know by 15-th August whether requested support will be granted for you. ----------- Exhibitions ----------- Organizations and individuals are invited to participate with demonstrations of non-profit research results and literature exhibitions. Please submit a description of the demonstration and exhibitions to the address at the end of this page. It is the responsibility of the demonstrator to provide suitable equipment. Organizations are invited to submit exhibitions of commercial software systems, organisation profiles, literature exhibitions, etc. Exhibitors should contact the following address for further details: J. Staudek - SOFSEM '96 FI MU Brno Botanicka 68a 602 00 Brno Czech Republic phone: +42-5-4151 2354 FAX: +42-5-4121 2747 e-mail: staudek@fi.muni.cz --------------- Culture Program --------------- Jaroslav Cejka, Ivan Dominak, Dump Show, Jazz Quartet ------------------ Local Arrangements ------------------ For more information regarding SOFSEM'96 and Local Arrangements please contact sofsem@ics.muni.cz --------------- Sofsem www-page --------------- http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html ----- Venue ----- The winter school will be held at the Hotel Devet-skal (Nine Rocks), Milovy. The hotel is located in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands (central part of the Czech Republic) near the town of Zdar nad Sazavou. The recreation facility offers swimming pool, sauna, fitness centre, day-club, coffee-rooms, and other services. The location is easily accessible from airports at Prague or Vienna (2-3 hours by car, bus or train). ------------ Registration ------------ To register, please mail the filled-in registration form and the notification of your payment to the OC secretary: Z. Walletzka, SOFSEM '96 UVT MU, Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +42-5-4121 1646 fax: +42-5-4121 2747 e-mail: sofsem@ics.muni.cz ======================================================================== REGISTRATION FORM AND PAYMENT NOTICE Please e-mail or fax to: Z. Walletzka --- SOFSEM '96 UVT MU Botanicka 68, 602 00 Brno Czech Republic fax: +42-5-4121 2747 e-mail: sofsem@ics.muni.cz Family name (Mr, Ms) : ........................ First name: ........................ Affiliation: ........................ Current position: ........................ Address: ........................ Phone: ........................ E-mail: ........................ Amount of Payment: ........................ Date of Payment: ........................ Details of Payment: ........................ Single or Double Room: ........................ Vegetarian Meals: YES NO Type of Fee: S0 S1 S2 S3 ACM member number: ........................ Member of CIS/SIS YES NO Passport: ........................ (CZ/SK participants "rodne cislo / COP" ........................) Comments: ........................ ........................ Date: ........................ ===================================================================== Sponsors -------- ApS Brno, s.r.o., Digital Equipment, s.r.o., Help Service, s.r.o., Hewlett Packard, s.r.o, IBM CR, s.r.o., Oracle Czech, s.r.o., Prington, a.s., financial leasing ------- History ------- SOFSEM is a seminar with a long term tradition that has been evolving into its present form for more than 20 years. Soon after its establishing in 1974 SOFSEM became the foremost Czechoslovak seminar devoted to theoretical and practical problems of software systems. In fact, during those early days of computer science and technology SOFSEM supplemented the university education and academic research by mediating a fast transfer of the latest relevant knowledge to the SOFSEM audience. Traditionally, this audience consisted of university professors, academic researchers, university teaching staff, advanced students, and professionals from the field. First local and later on also international experts have been invited. Each of them was to present a series of lectures related to some recent topics in computer science. The basic format of each SOFSEM consisted of several series of invited talks. Each of them had the duration of 3 to 5 hours. This was complemented by selected contributions of participants presented during two half-days in two parallel sessions. Until 1994, the total duration of SOFSEMs was two weeks. The most substantial changes concerning SOFSEM have been realized after the 'velvet' revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989. By that time, SOFSEM has subsequently transformed from a mainly national seminar into a truly international conference. In 1993, an international advisory board was created to provide assistance to the program committee in the preparation of a scientific program. Beginning with SOFSEM'95, after two years of exhaustive discussions SOFSEM was shortened to eight days while almost preserving the number of invited lectures. At the same time SOFSEM proceedings now appear as a volume in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Also after the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993 it is still assumed that SOFSEM will continue to be held in either the Czech Republic or the Slovak Republic. Thus, through its numerous invited papers and selected contributed papers as well as its excellent working atmosphere, the current SOFSEM is a mix of a winter school, a conference, and an advanced workshop. Driven by an international advisory and endowment boards and international program committe in reflecting the recent trends both in theory and practice, the current SOFSEM prolongs its tradition in striving for multidisciplinarity and generalizations in informatics. At the same time it intends to foster international co-operation among professionals working in various areas of computer science. =========================================================================== One-sheet LaTeX form of CALL FOR PAPER follows: =========================================================================== \documentclass[10pt]{article} \setlength{\textwidth}{160mm} \setlength{\textheight}{220mm} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0mm} \pagestyle{empty} \newsavebox{\savepar} \newenvironment{boxit}{\begin{lrbox}{\savepar} \begin{minipage}[b]{135mm}} {\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\fbox{\usebox{\savepar}}} \begin{document} \parbox{20mm}{ \noindent \begin{picture}(52,20) \multiput(8,1)(0,22){2}{\circle*{16}} \multiput(24,-6)(0,22){2}{\rule{38\unitlength}{14\unitlength}} \end{picture}} \parbox{140mm}{ \begin{center} {\Large\textbf{CALL FOR PAPERS -- {\Huge\textbf{\textsf{SOFSEM '96}}}}} \\[1ex] {\large\textbf{XXIII-rd Annual Winter School on \\Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics}\\[1ex] \textbf{November 23 -- 30, 1996, Milovy, Czech Republic}} \end{center} } \begin{center} \noindent {\footnotesize \textbf{Organized by}\\[0.5ex] Czech ACM Chapter, Czech Society for Computer Science, Czech Research Consorcium on Informatics and Mathematics,\\ Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Masaryk University, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, \\[-0.7ex] Slovak Society for Computer Science} \end{center} \noindent SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is an international winter school devoted to the theory and the practice of software systems. Its program consists of a series of \textbf{invited talks} given by prominent academic professionals and researchers. \textbf{Contributed talks} and \textbf{posters} of participants are also included in the program of SOFSEM. The working language is English. Invited talks and contributed talks are published by Springer-Verlag in the series \emph{Lecture Notes in Computer Science} and distributed at the seminar. SOFSEM is intended to foster cooperation among people working in various areas of computer science. Its scientific program offers a unique opportunity to gain a relatively quick and representative overview about the selected parts of computer science, presented by top researchers. \begin{description} \setlength {\itemsep}{-0.5ex} \setlength {\topsep}{-0.5ex} \item[Topics:] Fundamentals, Parallel and Distributed Computing, AI and Control Systems, Databases and Electronic Documents, Programming and SE, Scientific Computing and Visualization \item[Advisory Board:] D. Bj{\o}rner, P. van Emde Boas, M. Broy, M. Chytil, G. Gottlob, K. G. Jeffery, \\ \mbox{M.~Zemankova} \item[Program Committee:]\textbf{\emph{K. G. Jeffery, Chair, J. Kral, Vice-Chair}}, P. Asirelli, P. Hajek, V. Hlavac, J.~Grimson, P. Jancar, M. Kersten, J. Kohoutkova, M. Kretinsky, L. Matyska, A. Micovsky, H.~M\"{o}ssenb\"{o}ck, L. Motyckova, M. Neilsen, N. Paton, J. Pavelka, F. Plasil, I. Privara, J. Pokorny, S.~Robinson, B. Rovan, H. Siegelmann, S. Shrivastava, A. Solvberg, J. Staudek, G. Tel, J.~Valenta, J.~Wiedermann P. Zemcik, J. Zlatuska \item[Submissions / Contributed Talks:] Papers of original research on current topics in Computer Science are solicited. A postscript files of 8-page draft in English are expected. Presentation time for contributed talks is 25 minutes.\\[0.5ex] Each submission should start with the title of the paper, author(s)' name(s) and affiliation e-mail address, a short abstract and specification of one of the authors as the contact person. Paper submissions are also possible: Please send five printed copies for each submission.\\[0.2ex] Unprintable postcript files and late submissions will be rejected. \item[Deadlines:]\ \\[-2ex] \begin{center} \begin{boxit} \begin{description} \setlength {\itemsep}{-0.5ex} \setlength {\topsep}{-0.5ex} \item Submission of the contributed talk/poster: \hfill \textbf{May 15, 1996}, \item Notification of acceptance/rejection: \hfill \textbf{July 30, 1996}, \item Camera-ready copy of the contributed talk: \hfill \textbf{Sept. 1, 1996}. \end{description} \end{boxit} \end{center}\ \\[-4ex] \item[Contact Address:] Lenka Motyckova, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, \\ \hspace*{24mm}Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic,\\ \hspace*{24mm}e-mail: \texttt{lenka@informatics.muni.cz} \item[For more information] regarding SOFSEM'96 and Local Arrangements: \texttt{sofsem@ics.muni.cz} \item[Sofsem www-page:] \texttt{http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html} \item[Conference Chair:] J. Staudek (\texttt{staudek@fi.muni.cz}) \end{description} \noindent \begin{center} {\footnotesize\textbf{Sponsored by}\\[0.5ex] ApS Brno, s.r.o., Digital Equipment, s.r.o., Help Service, s.r.o., Hewlett Packard, s.r.o, \\[-0.6ex] IBM CR, s.r.o., Oracle Czech, s.r.o., Prington, a.s., financial leasing } \end{center} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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More recently, object-oriented database management systems have entered the marketplace, which apply object technology to information processing. This course provides a solid grounding in object-oriented database fundamentals, current commercial systems, advanced prototypes and important research trends in the area. The course is particularly useful for those facing a choice among object-oriented DBMSs, or between databases and other advanced DBMS systems. This tutorial starts with the motivation for object-databases, from the programming language and data management sides. It covers basic object-oriented concepts and presents object database features through examination of three example systems. It continues with an examination of object database features, with particular attention to how commercial products differ and the consequences of those variations. After touches briefly on the role of object databases in program and data interoperability, it concludes with an exploration of alternative approaches, including object-relational hybrids, and a discussion of selection criteria for choosing an object-oriented database management system. Preliminary Industrial Stream Program(May 24, 1996) Time Program Speaker 9:00-9:30 Oracle Release 7.3 Universal Doug Farber database (Oracle Systems Hong Kong Ltd) 9:30-10:00 Object-Oriented Middleware Ray Ruff(Sybase Hong Kong Ltd) 10:00-10:30 Tea Break 10:30-11:00 Database Technology from IBM Ernest Lee(IBM China/Hong Kong Corporation) 11:00-11:30 Rough Sets and Data Mining Andrew Wong(Microsoft Hong Kong Ltd) 11:30-12:00 Object Relational Databases: Tony Banham(Informix Software (HK) Ltd) Towords a Universal Server 12:00-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-2:30 Building the Virtual Enterprise Stuart Seow with OO Technology Computer Associates International Ltd) 2:30-3:00 A case study on the capability Pong Chee Hoi(Epson Hong Kong Ltd) on object-oriented database under UNISQL 3:00-3:30 Enabling the Integration of C.K.Wong(Uni-Tech Technology Ltd) Object Application with Relational Database 3:30-4:00 Tea Break 4:00-4:30 DRDA Implementation A Sze(Information Technology Services Department) 4:30-5:00 UniSQL and World Wide Web A Lam(International Transport Information Systems Ltd) Organized by Hong Kong Computer Society(Database Special Interest Group) in cooperation with ACM Hong Kong Sponsored by Borland(HK)Ltd, City University of Hong Kong, Computer Associates International Ltd, Hong Kong Polytechnic Unviersity, Informix Software(HK)Ltd, Microsoft Hong Kong Ltd, Oracle Systems Hong Kong Ltd, Sybase Hong Kong Ltd, Winclient Technologies(HK) Ltd Preliminary Academic Program(May 25, 1996) Time Program Speaker 9:00-9:10 Welcome Speech Joseph Fong(Workshop Program Committee co-Chairman) 9:10-10:00 Bring in Knowledge to David Maier(Oregon Graduate Institute, USA) Bear: Challenges for Decision Support Databases 10:00-10:50 Why Users cannot 'Get What Ray Paul(Brunel University) They Want' 10:50-11:20 Tea Break 11:20-11:50 Parallel Sessions (30 minutes/session) Translating Database Update Paul Chitson Statement from Relational to (City University of Hong Kong) Object-Oriented for Database Reengineering Using active rules to maintain Shi-Ming Huang and Jung-Kwi Liu the data consistency in (Tatung Institute of Technology) heterogeneous database system An Object-Oriented Approach to the John Hughes, P Ye, Y Song, M Mulvenna and D Glass Knowledge-based Scheduling (University of Ulster) Environment 11:50-12:20 OODB Support for Software Process Chunnian Liu Management (Beijing Polytechnic University) Survey on the Approach of Distributed Object Xiuzhen Zhang Database Design (Beijing Polytechnic University) Multiple Granularity Locks for the Fernando De Ferreira Rezende and Theo Harder KBMS Environment (University of Kaiserslautern) 12:20-2:00 Lunch Break 2:00-2:30 Cost-Controlled OFL Rewriting Rules Didier Chretien, F Machuca, P Om and Z Tang for Multiple Collection Traversals (University of Versailles/Saint-Quentin) An S-signature Scheme on Path Hakgene Shin and Jaewoo Chang Dictionary for Efficient Query (Chonbuk National University) Processing in Object-Oriented Database Systems Modeling Transactions for Distributed Weihai Yu(University of Troms0) Multimedia Database Systems 2:30-3:00 Using Semantic Enrichment to Provide Uwe Hohenstein(Siemens AG) Interoperability between Relational and ODMG Databases A Grammar-Based Approach for the Nabil Kamel Integration of Text-Dominated (City University of Hong Kong) Databases Query Translation: The Query Carlos Wong and W.S. Luk Interoperability Approach (Simon Fraser University) 3:00-3:30 Parallel Sessions (30 minutes/session) An Object-Oriented Hypermedia Application Julia, M McCusker-Whiting and Craig Swietlik System (Argonne National Laboratory) Supporting An Object-Oriented Sources Ling Liu(University of Alberta) Concurrency Control in an Object-Oriented Mohsen Beheshti and Lois M.L. Delcambre DBMS by Exploiting Navigation (University of Houston-Downtown) 3:30-4:00 Tea Break 4:00-4:30 A Production Rule Approach to Weijia Jia Modeling Complex Objects (City University of Hong Kong) Extending Path Expression to Tree John Lee and Stephen Chan Expression in OODM (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Schema Translation from Relational to Brian Siu and T Y Cheung Object-Oriented Databases (City University of Hong Kong) 4:30-5:00 An Information Architecture to Support Maria E Orlowska Modern Information System Development (University of Queensland) Towards a Knowledge-based System for Irene Kwan Database Re-engineering (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION Fees for the 2 full-days workshop, which includes a copy of proceedings, a Chinese dinner banquet, two lunches and four tea refreshments, are as follows: HK$1,300 for Hong Kong Computer Society members HK$1,600 for non-Hong Kong Computer Society members All attendees must fill in the following with a cheque of registration fee sent to the following address: Theresa Leung Hong Kong Computer Society Unit D, 1st Floor, Luckifast Building No. 1 Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai, Hong Kong I am ___________ Hong Kong Computer Society member ___________ non-Hong Kong Computer Society member I am enclosing a cheque payable to Hong Kong Computer Society for HK$___________ Name ______________________________________________ Hong Kong Computer Society member number _____________________________ Phone ______________________ Fax __________________________________ Email address ______________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 15 08:21:05 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA11169 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:20:56 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA28264 for dbworld; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:20:55 -0600 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:20:55 -0600 From: wagner@lion.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at (Roland Wagner) (by way of Roland Wagner ) Message-Id: <199603151420.IAA28264@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ******************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S ******************************************** D E X A 96 **************** September 9-13, 1996 Zurich, Switzerland ******************************************** 7th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications ******************************************** http://www.faw.uni-linz.ac.at/dexa96 The aim of DEXA 96 is to present both research contributions in the area of data and expert systems and a large spectrum of already implemented or just being developed applications. DEXA will offer the opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in the field. General Chairperson: K. Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland Panel Chairperson: A M. Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Program Chairpersons: R.R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria C.H. Thoma, Ciba-Geigy, Switzerland INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Papers should be double-spaced and no longer than 5.000 words. A separate cover sheet must be included which provides the following information: title, name of author(s), postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Authors are invited to send 4 copies of their paper to: Prof. Dr. Roland R. Wagner Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) University of Linz Phone: ++43 732 244962 A-4040 Linz Fax: ++43 732 243989 Austria e-mail: dexa@faw.uni-linz.ac.at The Program Committee will assign accepted papers either to sessions of the workshop or of the conference. All accepted papers of the workshop and conference will be published in DEXA proceedings. ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: March 31, 1996 Notification of acceptance: May 24, 1996 Camera-ready copies: June 15, 1996 ****************************************************** SUGGESTED TOPICS The main topics of DEXA 96 will include, but are not limited to: - Active and Deductive Databases - CIM - Applications - Client Server and Open Network Databases - Connectionist Models - Constraint Based Reasoning - CSCW - Data Mining - Databases in the Humanities - Datawarehouses - Digital Libraries - Distributed and Parallel Database Systems - Expert Systems Architecture - Hypertext / Hypermedia - Information Modelling - Information Retrieval - Interoperable Databases - Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge Engineering - Legal Information Systems - Mobile Information Systems - Multimedia Databases - Natural Language Interfaces/Processing - Object-Oriented Databases - Office Information Systems - Qualitative Reasoning - Realtime Databases - Scientific/Engineering Applications - Security - Social/Governmental Inform. Systems - Statistical Databases - Temporal and Spatial Databases - Uncertainty Handling - Uncertainty Reasoning - User Interfaces to Databases - Workflow and Process Automation - WWW Interfaces Program Committee Members: H. Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H.J. Appelrath, University of Oldenburg, Germany K. Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland T. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK B. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA J. Bing, NRCCL Oslo, Norway S. Christodoulakis, University of Crete, Greece B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA W.S. Cellary, Technical University of Poznan, Poland J. Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia S.M. Deen, Keele University, UK P. Drazan, RIKS Maastricht, The Netherlands J. Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria T. Eiter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria A.L. Furtado, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil G. Gardarin, INRIA, France C.A. Goble, University of Manchester, UK F. Golshani, Arizona State University, USA G. Gottlob, Technical University of Vienna, Austria A. Hameurlain, University of Toulouse, France I. Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia D. Hsiao, Naval Postgraduate School, USA M. Jarke, University of Aachen, Germany K.G. Jeffrey, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, UK M. Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA N. Kamel, City University of Hongkong, Hong Kong Y. Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan G. Kappel, University of Linz, Austria D. Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria M.A. Ketabchi, Santa Clara University, USA P. Kroha, University of Dortmund, Germany J. Lazansky, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic T.W. Ling, University of Singapore, Singapore V. Lum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong V. Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic G. Mueller, University of Freiburg, Germany M. Murphy, San Francisco State University, USA M.-A. Neimat, HP Laboratories, USA E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany T.W. Olle, T.W. Olle & Associates, UK G. Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA G. Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece M. Papazoglou, Queensland University of Technology, Australia G. Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria I. Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain N. Revell, Middlesex University, UK C. Rolland, University Paris I, France N. Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA A. Sernadas, University of Lisbon, Portugal J.C. Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada H. Sonnberger, European University Institute, Italy D. Specht, University of Cottbus, Germany R. Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan K. Tanaka, Kobe University, Japan S. Teufel, University of Zurich, Switzerland C. Thanos, IEI-CNR, Italy H.W. Thimbleby, Middlesex University, UK C.H. Thoma, Ciba-Geigy, Switzerland A M. Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria R. Traunmueller, University of Linz, Austria K. Vidyasankar, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada V. Wietrzyk, Macquari University Sydney, Australia Conference Organisation Office: G. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria ----- End Included Message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 15 11:24:13 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 LAA03344 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:23:37 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA28547 for dbworld; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:23:36 -0600 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:23:36 -0600 From: Martin Beer Message-Id: <199603151723.LAA28547@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu RESEARCH ASSISTANT Knowledge Based Systems University of Liverpool A vacancy exists for a research Assistant to join the KRAFT project at the University of Liverpool. KRAFT is a multi-site project in which Liverpool is collaborating with Aberdeen, Cardiff and BT. The project is supported by EPSRC with matched funding from BT. The aim of the research is to investigate the ontology of knowledge bases, and develop procedures based on design constraints which will make possible a form of knowledge fusion, and hence a 'distributed information base' which provides added value for users. The objectives of the team at Liverpool, within the overall project, are concerned particularly with the high-level ontological aspects of KBS, and the design of a common format through which knowledge can be shared. The present vacancy will focus primarily on system design, development and support. For more details see http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~apreece/Research/KRAFT.html Initial salary will be in the range 14317-15154 pounds sterling, depending on age, qualifications and experience. The post is tenable for 3 years. Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be requested from the Director of Personnel(B), The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, or via email: jobs@liv.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof MJR Shave, email:mshave@csc.liv.ac.uk. Closing date: 29 March 1996. Dr. Martin Beer, Department of Computer Science, Telephone 051-794-3672 University of Liverpool, Fax: 051-794-3715 Chadwick Tower, P.O. Box 147, EMail mdb@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk LIVERPOOL. L69 3BX. United Kingdom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 15 13:49:23 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA05485 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:49:12 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA28782 for dbworld; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:49:11 -0600 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:49:11 -0600 From: Carole Goble Message-Id: <199603151949.NAA28782@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ACM MULTIMEDIA'96 November 18 - 22, 1996 Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA, USA PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION THE FOURTH ACM INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION Sponsored by the ACM SIG Multimedia, SIGCOMM, SIGLINK, SIGMIS and SIGGRAPH, in cooperation with SIGBIT, SIGIR, SIGCHI, and SIGOIS. Multimedia technology can substantially improve the communication between information providers and consumers. It contributes to the general accessibility of information, through new interactive media as well as through new forms of production, delivery and perception of existing media. ACM Multimedia'96 will provide an international forum for papers, panels, videos, demonstrations, courses, workshops, and exhibits focusing on all aspects of this multi-disciplinary field: from underlying technologies to applications and issues, and from theory to practice. We invite your participation. Topics include, but are not limited to: applications in art, education, entertainment, government, medicine, etc.; collaboration environments; databases; digital libraries; distributed systems; documents and authoring; hardware and architectures; image, video and audio compression techniques; information retrieval; interactive television; media integration and synchronization; networking and communication; operating system extensions; programming paradigms and environments; standards and legal issues; storage and I/O architectures; tools; user interfaces; and virtual reality. ACM Multimedia'96 will be co-located with SPIE's Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications, and Broadband Communications Expo. It will overlap with CSCW, to be held in nearby Cambridge. Papers: ------- Technical papers on completed or in-progress research, innovative applications, or experience with multimedia systems are solicited. Submissions must use a minimum of 10-point typeface, and be up to 12 pages (preferably double sided), including figures, tables, and references. Where applicable, prototype demonstrations or videotape presentations are encouraged to supplement the papers. Papers must be accompanied by an electronic cover sheet (see submission instructions below). Submit complete papers to: Wendy Hall, Program co-Chair. Outstanding papers on different areas of multimedia will be given awards. Papers with a student as the primary author will enter a student paper award competition. A cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate for the student paper competition. Selected papers will be forwarded to ACM/Springer-Verlag Multimedia Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, or ACM Transactions on Information Systems. Multimedia and Art: ------------------- Submissions by artists presenting innovative work in the field are encouraged. A specific selection process and a special Multimedia and Art session will take place. Submissions by artists should include a paper presentation, a single VHS NTSC video and demonstration requirements when applicable, and a biography. Submit to: Art chair. Panels: ------- Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Proposals should be limited to 2 pages, plus a biography of at most one paragraph for each participant. Submit panel proposals to: Bob Allen, Panels Chair. Demonstrations: --------------- We solicit demonstrations of working systems in technical and artistic categories. Submissions (at most 2 pages) should include a description of the exhibit, demo requirements, a biography, and a single VHS NTSC video. Submit demonstrations to: Arding Hsu, Demonstrations Chair. Courses: -------- There will be a series of 1/2-day tutorial courses, focused on issues relevant to researchers and/or practitioners of multimedia technology. Proposals (at most 5 pages) should include a description of the subject matter and brief biographical sketches of the instructors. Evaluation of proposals will be based on expertise and experience of instructors, relevance of subject matter, and the use of multimedia technology in the presentation. Submit tutorial proposals to: Rajiv Mehrotra, Tutorials Chair. Workshops: ---------- Workshops preceding the conference will allow participants to exchange ideas on a topic. Workshop results and issues will be integrated into the main body of the conference. Submit workshop proposals to: Wayne Wolf, Workshops Chair. Exhibits: --------- Exhibits for ACM Multimedia'96 will be combined with those for SPIE's Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, offering vendors and publishers a unique opportunity to exhibit and demonstrate multimedia products. For more information, contact exhibits@spie.org IMPORTANT SUBMISSION INFORMATION Authors should consult the World Wide Web at http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM96/ for more detailed submission guidelines and up-to-date information about ACM Multimedia'96. Authors of accepted submissions will be required to submit both a camera-ready copy of the manuscript for the printed proceedings and an electronic copy for the CD ROM proceedings. Authors must assign copyright to ACM as a condition of publishing their work in the proceedings. An author who embeds an object, such as an art image, copyrighted by a third party is expected to obtain that party's permission to include the object with the understanding that the entire work may be distributed as a unity to ACM members and others. IMPORTANT DATES All Submissions (6 copies for papers) due: April 24, 1996 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 1996 Final submissions due: August 26, 1996 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chairs: Philippe Aigrain, IRIT, Univ. P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France and V. Michael Bove, MIT Media Laboratory Proceedings: Lena Davis, MIT Media Laboratory Electronic Information: Stephan Fischer, University of Mannheim, Germany and H. Zhang, CMU Publicity: Bob Lamm, Cync Corp. Treasurer: John Buford, University of Massachusetts Eurographics Liaison: Jose Encarnacao, Fraunhofer-IGD, Darmstadt, Germany Asian/Pacific Liaison: Yoshinobu Tonomura, NTT Human Interface Laboratory, Japan Steering Committee Chairs: Steve Bulick, US West and Allan Kuchinsky, Hewlett Packard Labs. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Wendy Hall Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr. University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Phone: +44-1703-592388 Fax: +44-1703-592865 W.Hall@ecs.soton.ac.uk T.D.C. Little ECS Dept. Boston University 44 Cummington St. Boston, MA 02215, USA Phone: +1-617-353-9877 Fax: +1-617-353-6440 tdcl@bu.edu Program Committee Members (to date): John Buford, University of Massachusetts at Lowell Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim Carole Goble, Manchester University Jorge Haake, GMD-IPSI Wolfgang Klas, GMD-IPSI Wendy Mackay, University of Paris Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champ. Ian Richie, British Computer Society Brian Smith, Cornell Univiversity Dan Swinehart, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido University William Tetzlaff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Hirotada Ueda, Hitachi Denshi, Ltd. Harrick Vin, University of Texas at Austin HongJiang Zhang, HP Labs Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University PANELS CHAIR: Bob Allen Bellcore, 1A352R 445 South Street Morristown, NJ 07960 Phone: +1-201-829-4315 Fax: +1-201-829-5981 rba@bellcore.com DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR: Dr. Arding Hsu Head, Multimedia/Video Dept. Siemens Corp. Research 755 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: +1-609-734-6548 Fax: +1-609-734-6565 ahsu@scr.siemens.com TUTORIALS CHAIR: Rajiv Mehrotra Dept of Math. and Comp. Sci. Univ. of Missouri - St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, MO 63121-4499 Phone: +1-314-516-6342 Fax: +1-314-516-5400 rajiv@mayura.cs.umsl.edu WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Wayne Wolf Dept. of Electrical Engineering Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-5263 Phone: +1-609-258-1424 Fax: +1-609-258-3745 wolf@ee.princeton.edu ART CHAIR: Watch the Web pages for further information. GENERAL INFORMATION: http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM96/ or http://www.uni-mannheim.de/acm96/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sat Mar 16 13:18:10 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 NAA17843 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:18:03 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA00409 for dbworld; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:18:03 -0600 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:18:03 -0600 From: nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com (Kingsley Nwosu) Message-Id: <199603161918.NAA00409@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu DEADLINE EXTENSION =================== Due to several requests for extra days to submit papers for IW-MMDBMS'96, we are, hereby, extending the deadline to March 30, 1996. With this extension, prospective authors are allowed to submit extended abstracts of their papers. Postscript files are acceptable. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ================= 1996 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTI-MEDIA DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (IW-MMDBMS'96) Minnowbrook Conference Center Blue Mountain Lake, New York August 14-16, 1996 WWW page: http://drum.ncsc.org/~nwosuck/iwmmdbms96.html ----------------------------------------- Sponsored by - New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE) at Syracuse University in cooperation with - IEEE Computing Society - IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing - IEEE SIG Multimedia - ACM SIG Multimedia* - ACM SIGMOD* - The Data Management Specialty Group of the MITRE Corp. ----------------------------------------- The rapid advances in many facets of Computer Technology have intensified Research and Development interests in Multi-Media Information Processing(MMIP). Despite the current existence of some forms of Multi-Media Systems, the true realization of MMIP rests on the ability to access and manipulate the multi-media objects. That can only be adequately addressed and achieved via Multi-Media Data Base Management Systems (MMDBMSs). For conventional text-based information, data access and manipulation have advanced considerably; however, for multi-media systems that incorporate continuous media objects, e.g., audio and video, and other media types like images, voice, and graphics, they pose novel problems. IW-MMDBMS'96 is an international technical forum for active researchers and practitioners who are involved in various aspects of multimedia database management isues. The workshop will emphasize the issues relevant to designing, developing, and utilizing MMDBMSs. The paper presentations, panel, and working group discussions will address the following issues as they relate to MMDBMSs: - Multi-Media Database Modelling - Decomposition/Organization Strategies - Storage Structures and Techniques - Distributed Multimedia DBMS - Multimedia Database Applications - Data transmission - Multimedia Network Protocols and Infrastructures - Query Language Designs, Specifications, and Optimizations - Retrieval/Search Techniques/Strategies/Algorithms - Access Methods, Browsing, and Indexing Techniques - Multimedia Data Synchronization - QoS Delivery/Presentation Issues - Image Processing (Storage, Retrieval, etc.) - Conventional Database Compatibility Issues - Operating Systems Implications - System, Schema, and Functional Architectures - Metadata Management - Performance Evaluation - Access Security Issues - Object-Oriented Paradigms Information for Authors: ======================== Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of each paper not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages, including figures, pictures, etc. Each paper must include an abstract of about 200 words. Previously published papers will not be considered. Each author must clearly describe the nature of the work, significant contributions to the body of work, the novel features, and its current status. A one page cover which contains the full name, affiliation, phone numbers, e-mail address, and full mailing address of each author must accompany each paper. The cover page must also indicate a contact author in the case of multiple authors. If a paper is accepted, the author(s) will prepare the final manuscript, as requested, in time for inclusion in the Workshop proceedings. Postscript files (via email) are also acceptable. A number of papers will be selected for special issues of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) and the IEEE Multimedia. The special issues of these journals will primarily deal with multimedia database issues. Paper submissions should be sent to: Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com AT&T Bell Labs. Phone:(201)386-4211 67 Whippany Rd., Rm 2C-256 Fax:(201)386-6235 Whippany, NJ 07981-0903 Important Dates: =============== Papers due: March. 15, 1996. Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 1996. Camera-ready copies due: June 14, 1996. General Chair: Vice General Chair: ============== =============== Prof. P. Bruce Berra Prof. Erich Neuhold Director, CASE Center, GMD-IPSI Suite 2-212, CST, Dolivostrasse 15 Syracuse Univ., D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany Syracuse, NY 13244. Program Chairs: Steering Committee: ============== =================== Dr. Kingsley C. Nwosu P. Bruce Berra AT&T Bell Labs., Eric J. Neuhold 67 Whippany Rd., Rm. 2C-256, Ramesh Jain Whippany, NJ 07981-0903. Venkat P. Rangan Phone:(201)386-4211. Kingsley C. Nwosu Fax:(201)386-6235. Bhavani Thuraisingham email:nwosuck@harpo.wh.att.com Arding Hsu T. D. C . Little Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Cyril Orji The Mitre Corp., Patrick Bobbie K329, Burlington Rd., Bedford, MA. 01730. Phone:(617)271-8873. email:thura@mitre.org Program Co-Chairs: ================= Dr. Patrick Bobbie Dept of CIS, Florida A&M Univ. Tallahassee, FL 32307. Phone:(904)599-3022. email:bobbie@serel.cis.famu.edu Dr. Cyril Orji School of Computer Science Florida International Univ. Miami, FL. 33199 email:orji@geneva.fiu.edu Working Group Chair =================== Prof. T. D. C. Little Boston University Publications Chair: ============================ Prof. Soon M. Chung Dept. of CS and Engr Wright State Univ. Dayton, OH 45435 email:schung@cs.wright.edu Local Arrangements/Registration: =============================== Emileen Butler CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST, Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1062. Emily Yakawiak CASE Center Suite 2-212, CST Syracuse Univ. Syracuse, NY 13244. Phone:(315)443-1060. Program Committee: ================== Michel Adiba (IMAG-LGI, France) Longy Anyanwu (Montclair St. Univ.) A. 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