From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon May 13 10:18:58 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 KAA20374 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 10:18:53 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA24051 for dbworld; Mon, 13 May 1996 10:18:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 10:18:53 -0500 From: Athman Bouguettaya Message-Id: <199605131518.KAA24051@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in the School of Information Systems at Queensland University of Technology ((QUT), Brisbane, Australia. The successful applicant will be part of a team of researchers working in the Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) center. The posi- tion is initially for one year and may be extended for another year. Our research interests are in the fields of interopera- bility in autonomous and heterogeneous databases, language support for large networks of databases, and resource discovery in large networks of information systems. QUT is one of the largest universities in Australia and has approximately a student population of 25,000 students. It is located in the capital of Queensland, one of the six states of Australia. Brisbane is located on the East Coast and not far from the world renowned Barrier Reef. Candidates are expected to have completed a PhD in com- puter science or closely related field and have a strong background in databases. Experience in substantial systems oriented implementation is desirable. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and names and addresses of three referees. Applicants should request their referees to send the recommendation letters directly to the address below. Salary: LEVA (A$30K to A$40K) Further information: Duty statement and selection cri- teria are available from Human Resources Department. Tele- phone +61-7-3864-3166. For further inquiries, please con- tact Dr. Athman Bouguettaya, phone : +61-7-3864-1925, fax: +61-7-3864-1969, email: athman@icis.qut.edu.au. Applications must address the selection criteria and include evidence of academic qualifications plus the names, addresses, telephone, facsimile numbers, and emails of three referees. Applications should reach the Human Resources Director, QUT, Locked Bag No 2, Red Hill Qld 4059 Australia, by June 7, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Conference of the ACPC with special emphasis on Parallel Databases and Parallel I/O September, 22-25, 1996 Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA Preliminary Program (last update: May 13, 1996) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, September 22, 1996 * 19:00 Welcome Reception Monday, September 23, 1996 * 8:30 - 8:45 Opening Ceremony * 8:45 - 9:30 Invited Talk on Parallel Databases * 9:45 - 11:15 Parallel Databases o Skew handling in the DBS3 Parallel Database System BOUGANIM Luc INRIA Rocquencourt, France FLORESCU Daniela INRIA Rocquencourt, France DAGEVILLE Benoit Bull, France o Dynamic Declustering Methods for Parallel Grid Files CIACCIA Paolo University of Bologna, Italy VERONESI Arianna Casalecchio di Reno, Italy o Encapsulation of Intra-Operator Parallelism in a Parallel Match Operator BISCONDI Nadejda LISI, France BRUNIE Lionel LIP, France FLORY Andre LISI, France KOSCH Harald LIP, France * 11:30 - 13:00 Tools & Languages o Statement-Sets - Parallelism Enabled by Independence KNUDSEN Svend Erik ETH Zuerich o Synthetic Workload Generation for Parallel Processing Systems PFNEISZL Hannes University of Vienna KOTSIS Gabriele University of Vienna o Parallel Program Visualization with MUCH KRANZLMUELLER Dieter University of Linz KOPPLER Rainer Ch. University of Linz GRABNER Siegfried University of Linz VOLKERT Jens University of Linz * 14:00 - 17:00 Tutorial on Parallel Databases * 18:00 Poster Session Will be announceed soon. Tuesday, September 24, 1996 * 8:45 to 9:30 Invited Talk on Parallel I/O * 9:45 to 11:15 Parallel I/O o Disk Arrays: An Array-Oriented I/O Library for Out-of-Core Computations NIEPLOCHA Jarek Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA FOSTER Ian Argonne National Laboratory, USA o The Performance of I/O Management and Data Replication Strategies in Multiprogrammed Parallel Systems KWONG Peter Carleton University, Canada MAJUMDAR Shikharesh Carleton University, Canada o An Experimental Evaluation of the Parallel I/O Systems of the IBM SP and Intel Paragon Using a Production Application THAKUR Rajeev Argonne National Laboratory, USA GROPP William Argonne National Laboratory, USA LUSK Ewing Argonne National Laboratory, USA * 14:00 - 15:00 Parallel Hardware o Switcherland - A Scalable Interconnection Structure for Distributed Computing EBERLE Hans ETH Zuerich o Performance Aspects of Virtual Circuit Connections over a Local ATM Network PUCHER Franz TU Graz HOANG Anh Huy TU Graz * 15:00 - 16:00 Parallel Numerics o Investigation in the Salzburg NTN-Method for the Radon Transform HAUSENBLAS Erika University of Salzburg o Parallel Computation of Optimal Parameters for Pseudo Random Number Generation BRUNNER Dieter University of Salzburg UHL Andreas University of Salzburg * 16:30 - 18:00 Industrial Session Will be announceed soon. * 19:00 Banqet and Cultural Event Will be announceed soon. Wednesday, September 25, 1996 In co-operation with the german Gesellschaft der Informatik, we offer five invited talks on different topics of the computer science. At the moment, Avi Silverschatz, Deborah Johnson and Kurt Mehlhorn have already approved their talks. Two other personalities will be notified in the next days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information see WWW http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/Conferences/ACPC96/ or contact via e-mail: acpc96@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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If you are currently teaching or doing research in database technology or object technology, you can participate in the O2 University Program. The O2 University Program provides educators and researchers with an ODMG compliant object database management system, a complete graphical development environment, graphical user interface generator, an OQL interpreter, a C++ language binding, and a web connection tool. Training material includes a complete set of transparencies for an Object Database course and an O2 course and a full set of exercises with solutions. Over 200 Universities worldwide are currently using this program. For more information, contact us via e-mail at o2tech@o2tech.com, call us directly at 1-800-798-5454 and ask for the University Program, or look up our Web server at www.o2tech.com. ___________________________________________________________________________ Francois Bancilhon Email francois@o2tech.com O2 Technology Tel 415 842 7008 3600 West Bayshore Road, Suite 106 Fax 415 842 7001 Palo Alto, California 94303 Web http://www.o2tech.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Mon May 13 13:51:30 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 NAA24832 for ; Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:24 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA24471 for dbworld; Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:51:23 -0500 From: Weiyi Meng Message-Id: <199605131851.NAA24471@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Email Submission of Abstract: May 15, 1996 (firm deadline) Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 1996 (firm deadline) Tutorial Proposal Submission: May 15, 1996 ******************************************************************* * FOR MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT PDIS'96, PLEASE SEE * * World Wide Web page: http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html * ******************************************************************* ============================================================== Call for Papers Fourth International Conference on PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS December 18-20, 1996 Eden Roc Resort & Spa, Miami Beach, Florida Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering ACM SIGMOD Parallel and distributed database technology is at the heart of many mission-critical applications such as online transaction processing, data warehousing, business workflow management, interoperable information systems, and information brokering in global networks. While commercial systems in this arena are gradually maturing, new challenges are posed by the growing demand for large-scale, enterprise-wide solutions and the proliferation of services on the "information superhighway". Future parallel and distributed information systems will have to support millions of clients and will face tremendous scalability challenges with regard to massive data volume, performance, availability, and also administration and long-term maintenance. The scope of this conference includes all aspects of parallelism and distribution in information systems. Submissions are solicited particularly but not exclusively on the following topics: * high-performance online transaction processing * data integration and warehousing * online analytical processing and data mining * parallel query optimization and scheduling * parallel and distributed object management * data distribution and replication * multimedia databases * parallel and distributed document management * storage system administration and tuning * tertiary storage management * data management on networks of workstations * mobile and disconnected clients * business workflow management * extended transaction models and management * distributed middleware * interoperability and heterogeneous systems * directory services and information discovery * information and resource brokering * WWW-based query processing * distributed real-time and active database systems * highly available large-scale systems * applications on parallel and distributed systems Submission Instructions: ----------------------- Original papers on the above topics are invited. These should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages with no smaller than 11 point fonts. To promote cross-fertilization between works in progress, short synopses of substantial projects are invited as well. These should be no longer than 5 double-spaced pages with no smaller than 11 point fonts. A synopsis should contain enough information for the program committee to understand the scope of the problem being addressed and to evaluate the novelty of the proposed solution. The current status of the project should also be indicated. Time and space will be provided in the program and proceedings to discuss innovative aspects of selected projects. Please submit six copies of an original paper or a project synopsis no later than May 15, 1996 (firm ``drop-dead'' deadline) to the following address: Jeffrey Naughton Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706, USA Phone#: (608) 262-8737 In addition, the authors should send electronic mail by May 15, 1996 to pdis@cs.wisc.edu with the title of the manuscript, authors' names, contact author and address (include email and fax information), and an abstract not to exceed 80 words. Authors will be interested to know that a special issue of the Distributed and Parallel Database Journal containing best papers from the PDIS conference is being planned. For further information, please contact the general chair, Wei Sun (weisun@fiu.edu), one of the program co-chairs, Jeffrey Naughton (naughton@cs.wisc.edu) and Gerhard Weikum (weikum@cs.uni-sb.de), or browse http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html. Important Dates: ---------------- Email Submission of Abstract: May 15, 1996 (firm deadline) Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 1996 (firm deadline) Tutorial Proposal Submission: May 15, 1996 Notification of Authors: August 15, 1996 Tutorials and Conference: December 18-20, 1996 General Chair: Wei Sun School of Computer Science Florida International University Miami, FL 33199, USA Phone: (305) 348-3751 Fax: (305) 348-3549 weisun@fiu.edu Program Co-Chairs: Jeffrey Naughton Gerhard Weikum Computer Science Department Computer Science Department University of Wisconsin University of the Saarland 1210 West Dayton Street Im Stadtwald Madison, WI 53706, USA D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany naughton@cs.wisc.edu weikum@cs.uni-sb.de Steering Committee: Sushil Jajodia (Chair), George Mason University Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology Naphtali Rishe, Florida International University Amit Sheth, University of Georgia Program Committee: Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara Peter Apers, University of Twente Sean Baker, IONA Technologies Chaitanya Baru, IBM Santa Teresa Labs Yuri Breitbart, University of Kentucky Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland Alan Fekete, University of Sydney Mike Franklin, University of Maryland Sumit Ganguly, Rutgers University Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC Los Angeles Leana Golubchik, Columbia University Theo Harder, University of Kaiserslautern Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Kien Hua, University of Central Florida Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Telenor Trondheim Yannis Ioannidis, University of Wisconsin H.V. Jagadish, AT&T Research Anant Jhingran, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Martin Kersten, CWI Amsterdam Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo David Kotz, Dartmouth College David Lomet, Microsoft Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore Tadeusz Morzy, Technical University of Poznan Eliot Moss, University of Massachussets Marie-Anne Neimat, Hewlett-Packard Labs Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden Research Center Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Labs Marek Rusinkiewicz, MCC Hans Schek, ETH Zurich Donovan Schneider, Red Brick Systems Marc Scholl, University of Konstanz Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota Patrick Valduriez, INRIA Paris Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois Tutorials: Henry Korth, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies Inc. Finance: Chungmin Chen, Florida International University Registration: Paul Attie, Florida International University Publicity: Weiyi Meng, SUNY Binghamton Local Arrangements: Cyril Orji, Florida International University Industrial Program: Honesty Young, IBM Almaden Research Center Eugene Shekita, IBM Almaden Research Center wq ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue May 14 09:52:16 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 JAA11344 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:52:06 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA25352 for dbworld; Tue, 14 May 1996 09:52:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:52:05 -0500 From: "Keng Siau" Message-Id: <199605141452.JAA25352@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear colleagues The following is the program for CAiSE workshop -- Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design. The workshop is part of the program for CAiSE'96. Thanks. Regards Keng Siau ====================================================================== Workshop Program ================ Monday, May 20 -------------- 08:30-12:30 Registration 08:50-09:10 Workshop Opening & Introduction of Participants Keng Siau & Yair Wand (Canada) 09:10-10:40 Session 1 -- Research Issues in Evaluation Session Chair: Keng Siau (Canada) Paper 1 -- Between Controlled Irrelevance and Unrepeatable Complexity: Initial Evaluation of the Concepts of Domain Modelling Techniques Jens J. Kaasboll (Norway) Paper 2 -- Validation of Modeling Techniques Michiel Schipper & Stef Joosten (Netherland & US) 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 2 -- Evaluation Framework 1 Session Chair: Jeffrey Parsons (Canada) Paper 1 -- Evaluating Modeling Methods: A Cognitive Perspective Keng Siau, Yair Wand & Izak Benbasat (Canada) Paper 2 -- Criteria-Based Evaluation of Information Systems Modelling Languages John Venable & Julie Travis (New Zealand & Australia) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 Session 3 -- Evaluation Framework 2 Session Chair: Jens J. Kaasboll (Norway) Paper 1 -- A Critique of Current Systems Engineering Methods: The Case for Ontology-Augmented Methodologies Jean-Paul Van Belle (South Africa) Paper 2 -- A Pattern Oriented Approach to A Methodical Evaluation of Modeling Methods Michael Amberg (Germany) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Session 4 -- Comparing Modeling Methods 1 Session Chair: Peter Hartel (Germany) Paper 1 -- Structured and Object-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Framework and A Comparison Roel Wieringa (Netherlands) Paper 2 -- Expressiveness and Legibility in Conceptual Modelling: A Comparison of Three Techniques Antonio P. C. Chaves & Joao A. Carvalho (Portugal) 19:00 Workshop Reception Tuesday, May 21 --------------- 09:00-10:30 Session 5 -- Comparing Object-Oriented Methods Session Chair: Juha Puustjarvi (Finland) Paper 1 -- Formal Specification Techniques in Object-Oriented Analysis: A Comparative View Monique Snoeck, Jozef Wijsen, Guido Dedene (Belgium) Paper 2 -- Evolution of OO Methods: The Unified Case Matti Rossi (Finland) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 6 -- Comparing Modeling Methods 2 Session Chair: Michiel Schipper (Netherland) Paper 1 -- An Attempt to Compare Object-Oriented and Functional-Decomposition in Communicating Information System Functionality to Users Tony Moynihan (Ireland) Paper 2 -- Experimenting Systems Analysis Teaching Using a Comparative Approach -- A Position Paper Avigdor Gal & Opher Etzion (Canada & Israel) 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 Session 7 -- Empirical Evaluation Session Chair: Joao Alvaro Carvalho (Portugal) Paper 1 -- On Experimental Evaluation of Classification in Information Modeling: Local vs Global Schemes Jeffrey Parsons (Canada) Paper 2 -- Experimental Comparisons of Entity-Relationship and Object-Oriented Data Models Peretz Shoval (Israel) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Session 8 -- Design Rationale Methods and Business Process Models Session Chair: Jean-Paul Van Belle (South Africa) Paper 1 -- A Framework for Evaluating Design Rationale Methods Panos Louridas & Peri Loucopoulos (UK) Paper 2 -- A Content Specification for Business Process Models Akhilesh Bajaj & Sudha Ram (US) 19:00 Conference Reception ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed May 15 12:31:39 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 MAA09152 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:31:32 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA26660 for dbworld; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:31:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:31:31 -0500 From: Leana Golubchik Message-Id: <199605151731.MAA26660@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Papers Special Issue of Parallel Computing journal on PARALLEL DATA SERVERS AND APPLICATIONS Publisher: Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands *************************************************************** * World Wide Web page: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~leana/pc * *************************************************************** The scope of this special issue will cover various applications of parallel I/O systems. Submissions are solicited particularly but not exclusively in the following application areas: * video on demand * interactive 3-D world environments * database/object servers * data mining * scientific computing * image processing * banking * publishing * medicine * design and manufacturing (enterprise computing) Submission Instructions: ----------------------- Original papers on the above topics are invited. These should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages with no smaller than 11 point font. If you intend to submit a paper, please email an abstract of your paper (no longer than 500 words) to pc96@cs.columbia.edu by July 10, 1996. Please submit seven copies of an original paper no later than August 10, 1996 to the following address: Prof. Richard R. Muntz 3731 Boelter Hall Computer Science Department UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 phone: (310) 825-3546 fax : (310) UCLA-CSD email: muntz@cs.ucla.edu URL : http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~muntz For further information, please contact one of the guest co-editors (contact information is given below) or browse http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~leana/pc. Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract Submission Deadline: July 10, 1996 Paper Submission Deadline: August 10, 1996 Notification of Authors: December 10, 1996 Final Manuscripts: February 10, 1997 Guest Co-Editors: ----------------- Richard R. Muntz 3731 Boelter Hall Computer Science Department UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 phone: (310) 825-3546 fax : (310) UCLA-CSD email: muntz@cs.ucla.edu URL : http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~muntz Leana Golubchik 450 Computer Science Building Department of Computer Science Columbia University 500 West 120th Street New York, NY 10027 phone: (212) 939-7057 fax : (212) 666-0140 email: leana@cs.columbia.edu URL : http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~leana ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed May 15 14:37:54 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 OAA12062 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 14:37:46 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA26988 for dbworld; Wed, 15 May 1996 14:37:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 14:37:45 -0500 From: "M. Tamer Ozsu" Message-Id: <199605151937.OAA26988@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FINAL PROGRAM FOR THE JOINT CONFERENCE 1996 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data & Fifteenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Canada June 3-6, 1996 ******* For a postscript version of the final program, please check *********** ******* the web page at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~database/sp96/info.html **** ============================================================================== Letter from the Chairs ============================================================================== The ACM SIGMOD/PODS '96 Joint Conference aims at fostering close collaboration between the applied and theoretical database communities. In the 1990's, databases are a critical technology for dealing with complex and interdependent information. Our society can benefit greatly from the development of database technology, and we hope that the collaboration that will result from the joint conference will play a key role in stimulating this process. The SIGMOD and PODS conferences will overlap for two days to form a joint conference, but each will have a separate third day without overlap. There will be only one registration process for the joint, four-day conference. Attendees will receive both proceedings and be encouraged to attend sessions in both conferences. The award session, reception, lunch and the banquet are joint events. A highlight of SIGMOD will be Industry Day, its first day, with participation from local professionals and simultaneous translation between English and French. The general chair of PODS '96, Paris Kanellakis, will be greatly missed at the conference. His life was tragically cut short in an airplane accident last December. The PODS conference is dedicated to his memory. It includes a tutorial session on some of his major contributions to our field. Montreal is one of the world's major French-speaking cities. With a history from the first European contact with North America, Montreal is a taste of the Old World in the New. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has world renown, but culture is as easily found in our polyglot streets and markets, and in our international cuisine and restaurants. Montreal is an island of the St. Lawrence, the mightiest river on the continent, which drains the Great Lakes. Montreal is set in Quebec, a land of ancient mountains (once joined with Scotland), of sea (and sea fjords), of farmland, and of real seasons: snow when we want it for winter sports, and hot summers. The ACM SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conference represents the combined efforts of the theoretical and applied database communities to tackle the new challenges facing database professionals. You are invited to participate in what we hope will be an important event. Tim Merrett Mihalis Yannakakis SIGMOD General Chair PODS Acting General Chair ============================================================================== Highlights ============================================================================== PODS * Invited Talk by Alfred V. Aho (Columbia U.). * 2 Invited Tutorials on: - Geographic Database Systems - Future Directions and Research Problems in the WWW * Presentation of 22 papers in the Technical Program. SIGMOD * Presentation of the SIGMOD Awards. * 4 Invited Industrial Talks by: - Bill Griffin (GTE Laboratories) - Dennis Tsichritzis (GMD) - David Vaskevitch (Microsoft) - Blayne Maring (Blayne Maring Associates) * Presentation of 47 papers in the Technical Program, including 5 experience papers indicated by "*". * 2 Panel Sessions: - Environmental Shoot-Out: The Next Generation Platform - Mountains of Weird Data -- The Vendors Scramble to Capture New Markets * 5 Industrial Sessions: - Databases and the WWW - Data Warehousing - Distributed Object Computing and Databases - Workflow Management, Transactions, and Advanced Applications - Set-top Boxes * 5 Tutorials: - The Ins and Outs (and everything in between) of Data Warehousing - Repository System Engineering - Databases and Visualization - State of the Art in Workflow Management Systems: Research and Products - Data Mining Techniques * 12demonstrations of experimental database prototypes. ============================================================================== Venue ============================================================================== A world fashion capital and creative centre for many of Canada's leading designers, Montreal is a shopper's dream. The underground city stretches over 18 miles of shop-lined pedestrian walkways linking major office towers, hotels and apartment blocks, department stores, restaurants and cafes, subway stations and even rail and bus terminals. In fact, it's possible to live in the "city below" without ever having to face winter blizzards or summer heat waves. However, dedicated diners might want to emerge to sample one of the thousands of restaurants that have made Montreal a culinary capital on a par with European cities. Whether you're gourmet or gourmand, you have a choice of cuisine from 75 countries in a variety of settings, from grand hotel dining room to cosy cafe. For more information you may call or write: The Greater Montreal Convention and Tourism Bureau 1555 Peel Street, suite 600 Montreal, Quebec H3A 1X6 Tel: (514) 844-5400 or (800) 363-7777 Local Transportation Montreal is well served by Metro (underground train service) and bus. Together they cover almost all the places of interest in the city. The cost of one trip between any two points is $1.65. You may also purchase unlimited bus/metro passes at the Berri/UQAM metro station: 1 day for $5 and 3 days for $12. You may call (514) 288-6287 for more information regarding public transportation in Montreal. Weather In June, we will be on the verge of Summer. Expect nice sunny days with temperature ranging from a high of 23C (73F) to a low of 12C (54F). ============================================================================== Special Events ============================================================================== Sunday, June 2nd, 6:00--9:00pm Welcoming Reception at Pointe-`a-Calli`eres archaeological museum in Old Montreal. Monday, June 3rd, 9:00--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting. Tuesday, June 4th, 12:00--2:00pm SIGMOD Business Lunch. Welcome by Sylvie Dupuis, President of F.I.Q.: F'ederation de l'informatique du Qu'ebec. Tuesday, June 4th, 5:30--7:00pm Industry Day Cocktail. Sponsored by the Minist`ere de l'Industrie, du Commerce, de la Science et de la Technologie du Qu'ebec. Wednesday, June 5th, 6:30--8:00pm Microsoft Reception. Wednesday, June 5th, 8:00--10:30pm Conference Banquet. ============================================================================== Sunday, June 2nd ============================================================================== 8:00--12:00am; 5:00--9:00pm Registration (Foyer, Level 4) 6:00--9:00pm Welcoming Reception at Pointe-`a-Calli`eres Archaeological Museum ============================================================================== Monday, June 3rd ============================================================================== 7:30--8:45am Continental Breakfast (Foyer, Level 4) 8:00am--7:00pm Registration (Foyer, Level 4) 8:45--10:00am PODS Session 1: Invited Talk (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Richard Hull (U. Colorado) Accessing Information from Globally Distributed Knowledge Repositories Alfred V. Aho (Columbia University) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break ( (Foyer, Level 4) 10:30am--12:30pm PODS Session 2: Constraint Query Languages (Ballroom East, Level 4) Tova Milo (Tel-Aviv U.) TalkRelational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages Michael Benedikt (Bell Labs), Guozhu Dong (U. of Melbourne), Leonid Libkin (Bell Labs), and Limsoon Wong (Inst. of Systems Science) TalkLinear vs. Order Constrained Queries Over Rational Databases Alexei P. Stolboushkin (UCLA) and Michael A. Taitslin (Tver State U.) TalkTowards Practical Constraint Databases Stephane Grumbach (INRIA-Rocquencourt) and Jianwen Su (UC Santa Barbara) TalkVariable Independence and Aggregation Closure Jan Chomicki (Monmouth U), Dina Q. Goldin (Brown U), and Gabriel Kuper (ECRC) 12:30--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 3: Temporal Databases (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Heikki Mannila (U. Helsinki) Temporal Versus First-Order Logic to Query Temporal Databases Serge Abiteboul (INRIA-Rocquencourt and Stanford U.), Laurent Herr (INRIA-Rocquencourt), and Jan Van den Bussche (U. of Antwerp and INRIA-Rocquencourt) Point vs. Interval-based Query Languages for Temporal Databases David Toman (U. of Toronto) Testing Complex Temporal Relationships Involving Multiple Granularities and Its Application to Data Mining Claudio Bettini (U. of Milan), X. Sean Wang (George Mason U.), and Sushil Jajodia (George Mason U.) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 4: In Memoriam: Paris C. Kanellakis (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Mihalis Yannakakis (Bell Labs) Speakers: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA-Rocquencourt and Stanford U.), Gabriel Kuper (ECRC), Christos H. Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley), and Moshe Vardi (Rice U.). 9:00--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting (Ballroom East, Level 4) ============================================================================== Tuesday, June 4th ============================================================================== 7:30--8:30am Continental Breakfast (Foyer, Level 4) 8:00am--6:00pm Registration (Foyer, Level 4) 8:30--10:00am SIGMOD/PODS Plenary Address (SIGMOD Session 1) (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Rafael Alonso (Sarnoff Labs.) The Web: Next Generation Platform William Griffin, GTE Laboratories 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 10:30am--12:00pm PODS Session 5: Invited Tutorial (Salon A--B, Level B) Chair: Divyakant Agrawal (UC Santa Barbara) Geographic Database Systems: Issues and Research Needs Instructor: Max. J. Egenhofer (U. Maine) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Industrial Session 2A: Databases and WWW (Ballroom West, Level 4) Leon Shklar (Bellcore and Rutgers U.) Web Access to Legacy Data Leon Shklar (Bellcore and Rutgers U.) Web Access to IBM Legacy Systems Donna Dillenberger (IBM T. J. Watson) TBA Serge Abiteboul (O2 Technology) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 2B: Data Mining (Salon 4--5, Level 2)) Chair: Dennis Shasha (NYU) Mining Quantitative Association Rules in Large Relational Tables Ramakrishnan Srikant and Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden) Data Mining Using Two-Dimensional Optimized Association Rules: Scheme, Algorithms, and Visualization Takeshi Fukuda, Yasuhiko Morimoto, Shinichi Morishita, and Takeshi Tokuyama (IBM Tokyo Res. Lab.) IDEA: Interactive Data Exploration and Analysis* Peter G. Selfridge (AT\&T Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT\&T Research), and Lynn O. Wilson (AT\&T) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 2C: Reordering Optimization (Salon C, Level B) Ken Ross (Columbia U.) Rapid Bushy Join-order Optimization with Cartesian Products Bennet Vance and David Maier (OGI) SQL Query Optimization: Reordering for a General Class of Queries Piyush Goel and Bala Iyer (IBM Database Tech. Ins.) Fundamental Techniques for Order Optimization David E. Simmen (IBM Santa Teresa Lab.), Eugene J. Shekita (IBM Almaden), and Timothy Malkemus (IBM Austin) 12:00--2:00pm Lunch and SIGMOD Business Meeting (Ballrooms Centre & East, Level 4) Welcome by Sylvie Dupuis, President of F.I.Q.: F\'ederation de l'informatique du Qu\'ebec. 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 6: Data Modeling and Query Languages (Salon A--B, Level B) Chair: Guozhu Dong (U. Melbourne) Topological Queries in Spatial Databases Christos H. Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley), Dan Suciu (AT\&T Research), and Victor Vianu (UC San Diego) Tables as a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring Marc Gyssens (U. of Limburg), Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Concordia U.), and Iyer Subramanian (Concordia U.) On Genericity and Parametricity Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.), Tova Milo (Tel-Aviv U.), and Paula Ta-Shma (Hebrew U.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 3A: OCTAS (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Mario Robert (Novasys, Inc.) Featuring finalists from the Octas Competition. Octas are Quebec professional awards for excellence in computing: innovation, technology, and commercial success. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 3B: Multimedia (Salon 4--5, Level 2) Chair: Michael Ubell (Informix) Prospector: A Content-Based Multimedia Server for Massively Parallel Architectures* William O'Connell (Bell Laboratories), Ion T. Ieong (NCR), David Schrader (NCR), Cam Watson (NCR), Grace Au (NCR), Alexandros Biliris (AT\&T Research), Susan Choo (NCR), Pierre Colin (NCR), Glenn Linderman (NCR), Euthimios Panagos (AT\&T Research), June Wang (NCR), and Todd Walter (NCR) Fault-tolerant Architectures for Continuous Media Servers Banu Ozden (Bell Laboratories), Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Laboratories), Prasant Shenoy (University of Texas, Austin), and Avi Silberschatz (Bell Laboratories) Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories Surajit Chaudhuri (HP Labs.) and Luis Gravano (HP Labs. and Stanford U.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 3C -- Tutorial: The Ins and Outs (and everything in between) of Data Warehousing (Salon C, Level B) Donovan Schneider and Phil Fernandez (Red Brick Systems) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 7: Query Processing (Salon A--B, Level B) Chair: Christos Faloutsos (U. Maryland) Are Window Queries Representative for Arbitrary Range Queries? Bernd-Uwe Pagel and Hans-Werner Six (U. of Hagen) A Model for the Prediction of R-tree Performance Yannis Theodoridis and Timos Sellis (National Technical U. of Athens) Efficient and Accurate Cost Models for Parallel Query Optimization Sumit Ganguly (Rutgers U.), Akshay Goel (Rutgers U.), and Avi Silberschatz (Bell Labs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 4A: Invited Talk (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Pierre Bourque (U. Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal) Research, Innovation and Economic Advantage (or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre revisited) Dennis Tsichritzis (GMD) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 4B: Clustering and Indexing (Salon 4--5, Level 2) Chair: Alex Biliris (AT\&T Research) BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases Tian Zhang, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Miron Livny (U. Wisconsin) On-line Reorganization of Sparsely-populated B+trees Chendong Zou and Betty Salzberg (Northeastern U.) Two Techniques for On-Line Index Modification in Shared Nothing Parallel Databases Kiran J. Achyutuni (Informix), Edward Omiecinski (Georgia Tech.), and Shamkant B. Navathe (Georgia Tech.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Industrial Session 4C: Data Warehousing: Architectures, Tools, and Applications (Salon C, Level B) Chair: Jennifer Widom (Stanford U.) 5:30--5:45pm Break 5:45--6:30pm SIGMOD Awards and Ministerial Address (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Ghislain L\'evesque (U. Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal) Mme. Rita Dionne-Marsolais, ministre d\'el\'egu\'ee de l'Industrie, du Commerce, de la Science et de la Technologie du Qu\'ebec. 6:30--7:30pm SIGMOD/PODS Cocktail Reception (Foyer, Level 4) Sponsored by the Minist\`ere de l'Industrie, du Commerce, de la Science et de la Technologie du Qu\'ebec. ============================================================================== Wednesday June 5th ============================================================================== 7:30--8:30am Continental Breakfast (Foyer, Level 4) 8:00am--6:00pm Registration (Foyer, Level 4) 8:30--10:00am PODS Session 8: Constraints and Transactions (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.) Recovery for Transaction Failures in Object-Based Databases Man Hon Wong (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) Chasing Constrained Tuple-Generating Dependencies Michael Maher (Griffith U.) and Divesh Srivastava (AT\&T Research) Verifiable Properties of Database Transactions Michael Benedikt, Timothy Griffin, and Leonid Libkin (Bell Labs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 5: Plenary Address (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Michael Brodie (GTE Labs.) Database in the '00's: Can We Reach the Promised Land? David Vaskevitch (Microsoft) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 10:30am--12:00pm PODS Session 9: Rules and Mining (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden) Mining Optimized Association Rules for Numeric Attributes Takeshi Fukuda, Yasuhiko Morimoto, Shinichi Morishita, and Takeshi Tokuyama (IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory) Managing Rule Conflicts in an Active Database H. V. Jagadish (AT\&T Research), Alberto Mendelzon (U. of Toronto), and Inderpal Singh Mumick (Bell Labs) Static Analysis of Intensional Databases in U-Datalog Elisa Bertino and Barbara Catania (U. degli Studi di Milano) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Industrial Session 6A: Distributed Object Computing and Databases: Status and Challenges (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Michael Brodie (GTE Labs.) Participants: Sean Baker (Iona Technologies) Trevor Hoath (ICL) Mark Anderson (Texas Instruments) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 6B: Integrating Systems (Ballroom Centre, Level 4) Chair: Hans-Jorg Schek (ETH) Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems Sibel Adal\i (U. Maryland), Kas\im Sel\ccuk Candan (U. Maryland), Yannis Papakonstantinou (Stanford U.), and V.S. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing Michael J. Franklin, Bjorn Thor Jonsson, and Donald Kossmann (U. Maryland) Data Access for the Masses through OLE DB* Jose Blakeley (Microsoft) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 6C: Replication and Storage (Salon A--B--C, Level B) Chair: Jon Solworth (U. Illinois) The Dangers of Replication and a Solution Jim Gray (Microsoft), Pat Helland (Microsoft), Patrick O`Neil (U. Massachusetts), and Dennis Shasha (NYU) Hot Mirroring : A Study to Hide Parity Upgrade Penalty and Degradations During Rebuilds for RAID5 Kazuhiko Mogi and Masaru Kitsuregawa (U. Tokyo) Random I/O Scheduling in Online Tertiary Storage Systems Bruce K. Hillyer and Avi Silberschatz (Bell Labs.) 12:00--1:30pm Lunch (on your own) 1:30--3:00pm PODS Session 10: Invited Tutorial (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Yannis Ioannidis (U. Wisconsin) Future Directions and Research Problems in the World Wide Web Instructor: Udi Manber (U. Arizona) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Industrial Session 7A: Multi-Media and Databases: Set-Top Boxes, Interactive TV, Video (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Rafael Alonso (David Sarnoff Research Ctr.) Towards Non-Linear Content-Based Video Access: Videos as Database and VR Objects Harpreet Sawhney (David Sarnoff Res. Ctr.) Using Oracle Video Server for Broadband and Enterprise Multimedia DeliveryJeffrey R. Cirese (Oracle) The Advent of the Video SupercomputerHerb Taylor (Sarnoff Real Time Corp.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 7B: Decision Support (Ballroom Centre, Level 4) Chair: Ted Johnson (U. Florida) Implementing Data Cubes Efficiently Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeff Ullman (Stanford U.) Providing Better Support for a Class of Decision Support Queries Sudhir Rao, Antonio Badia, and Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana U.) A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques Leonid Libkin (Bell Laboratories), Rona Machlin (University of Pennsylvania), and Limsoon Wong (Institute of Systems Science) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 7C -- Tutorial: Repository System Engineering (Salon A--B--C, Level B) Chair: Philip Bernstein (Microsoft) 3:00--3:30pm Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 3:30--5:00pm PODS Session 11: Integration (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Gabriel Kuper (ECRC) Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems Ronald Fagin (IBM Almaden) Answering Queries Using Limited External Processors Alon Y. Levy (AT\&T Research), Anand Rajaraman (Stanford U.), and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U.) Integrating Information by Outerjoins and Full Disjunctions Anand Rajaraman and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 8A: High Performance Algorithms (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Hans-Peter Kriegel (U. Munich) A Super Scalar Sort Algorithm for RISC Processors* Ramesh C. Agarwal (IBM T.J. Watson) Spatial Hash-Joins Ming-Ling Lo and C. V. Ravishankar (U. Michigan) Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join Jignesh M. Patel and David J. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 8B: Estimation (Ballroom Centre, Level 4) Chair: Jeff Naughton (U. Wisconsin) A Sampling Algorithm for Estimating Join Size Sumit Ganguly (Rutgers U.), Phillip B. Gibbons (Bell Labs.), Yossi Matias (Bell Labs.), and Avi Silberschatz (Bell Labs.) Estimating Alphanumeric Selectivity in the Presence of Wildcards P. Krishnan (Bell Laboratories), Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Duke U.), and Bala Iyer (IBM Santa Teresa Lab.) Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates Using Histograms Viswanath Poosala (U. Wisconsin), Yannis E. Ioannidis (U. Wisconsin), Peter J. Haas (IBM Almaden), and Eugene J. Shekita (IBM Almaden) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 8C -- Tutorial: Databases and Visualization (Salon A--B--C, Level B) Chair: Daniel Keim (U. Munich) 5:00--5:15pm Break 5:15--6:45pm SIGMOD Session 9 -- PlenaryWWW or OS - The Environmental Shootout and Where DBMSs Fit (Ballroom Centre, Level 4) Chair: Jim Gray (Microsoft) Panelists: David Vaskevitch (Microsoft) Rob Pike (Bell Labs) Michael Stonebraker (UC Berkeley) Bruce Lindsay (IBM Almaden) Roger Bamford (Oracle) Annrai O'Toole (Iona) 6:30--8:00pm Microsoft Reception (Foyer, Level 4) Microsoft requests the pleasure of your company. Please join us at our Reception to meet casually with some of the key technical contributors and recruiters. Discuss new developments and future directions at Microsoft, and find out about potential career opportunities. Refreshments will be served, casual attire. 8:00--10:30pm Conference Banquet (Ballrooms West \& Centre, Level 4) ============================================================================== Thursday, June 6th ============================================================================== 7:30--8:30am Continental Breakfast (Foyer, Level 4) 8:00am--1:00pm Registration (Foyer, Level 4) 8:30--9:45am SIGMOD Session 10: Plenary Address (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Michael Brodie (GTE Labs.) Lessons Learned with Object-Oriented Development of Large Applications Blayne Maring (Blayne Maring Associates) 9:45--10:15am Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 10:15--12:15am SIGMOD Session 11A: Object-Oriented Systems (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: M. Atkinson (U. Glasgow) Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates in Object-Oriented Databases Michael Doherty, Richard Hull, and Mohammed Rupawalla (U. Colorado) Safe and Efficient Sharing of Persistent Objects in Thor Barbara Liskov (MIT), Atul Adya (MIT), Miguel Castro (MIT), Mark Day (Lotus), Sanjay Ghemawat (Digital Sys. Res. Lab.), Robert Gruber (AT\&T Research), Umesh Maheshwari (MIT), Andrew C. Myers (MIT), and Liuba Shrira (MIT) An Open Storage System for Abstract Objects Stephen Blott, Lukas Relly, and Hans-Joerg Schek (ETH-Zurich) Static Detection of Security Flaws in Object-Oriented Databases Keishi Tajima (Kyoto U.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 11B --Tutorial: State of the Art in Workflow Management Systems: Research and Products (Ballroom Centre, Level 4) Instructor: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 11C: Resource Management (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Krithi Ramamritham (U. Massachusetts, Amherst) Goal-Oriented Buffer Management Revisited Kurt P. Brown (64k Inc.), Michael J. Carey (IBM Almaden), and Miron Livny (U. Wisconsin) Multi-dimensional Resource Scheduling for Parallel Queries Minos Garofalakis and Yannis Ioannidis (U. Wisconsin) Effectively Controlling Garbage Collection Rates in Object Databases Jonathan E. Cook, Artur W. Klauser, Alexander L. Wolf, and Benjamin G. Zorn (U. Colorado) Towards Effective and Efficient Free Space Management Mark L. McAuliffe (U. Wisconsin), Michael J. Carey (IBM Almaden), and Marvin H. Solomon (U. Wisconsin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 11D: Query Optimization (Salon 4--5, Level 2) Chair: Xiaolei Qian (SRI) Rule Languages and Internal Algebras for Rule-Based Optimizers Mitch Cherniack and Stanley B. Zdonik (Brown U.) Evaluating Queries with Generalized Path Expressions Vassilis Christophides (INRIA ), Sophie Cluet (INRIA), and Guido Moerkotte (U. Aachen) Query Execution Techniques for Caching Expensive Methods Joseph M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley) and Jeffrey F. Naughton (U. Wisconsin) Cost-Based Optimization of Complex Queries: The Magic of Theta-Semijoins Praveen Seshadri (U. Wisconsin), Joseph M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley), Hamid Pirahesh (IBM Almaden), T.Y. Cliff Leung (IBM Santa Teresa Lab.), Raghu Ramakrishnan (U. Wisconsin), Divesh Srivastava (AT\&T Research), Peter J. Stuckey (U. Melbourne), and S. Sudarshan (Indian Ins. Tech.) 12:15--1:45pm Lunch (on your own) 1:45--3:45pm (some sessions end 3:15) SIGMOD Session 12A: Views (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Laks Lakshmanan (Concordia U.) Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time Chair: Kenneth A. Ross (Columbia U.), Divesh Srivastava (AT\&T Research), and S. Sudarshan (Indian Ins. Tech.) Maintaining Database Consistency in Presence of Value Dependencies in Multidatabase Systems Claire Morpain, Michele Cart, Jean Ferrie, and Jean-Francois Pons (LSI Lab.) Algorithms for Deferred View Maintenance Latha Colby, Timothy Griffin, Leonid Libkin, Inderpal Singh Mumick, and Howard Trickey (Bell Labs.) A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches Richard Hull and Gang Zhou (U. Colorado) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Industrial Session 11B: Advanced Workflow Technology and Applications (Ballroom Centre, Level 4) Chair: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (GTE Laboratories) A Telecommunications Industry Perspective on Enterprise-wide Workflow Technology and Research Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (GTE Laboratories) Realizing Workflow Technology in Manufacturing Jay Ramanathan (UES, Inc.) OpenPM: An Enterprise Business Process Flow Management System Ming-Chien Shan (HP Labs.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Session 12C: New Applications (Ballroom East, Level 4) Chair: Dean Daniels (Oracle) Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information S. Chawathe, A. Rajaraman, H. Garcia-Molina, and J. Widom (Stanford U.) A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data Peter Buneman (U. Pennsylvania), Susan Davidson (U. Pennsylvania), Gerd Hillebrand (U. Pennsylvania and Karlruhe U.), and Dan Suciu (U. Pennsylvania) Can Database Techniques Solve the GUI Programming Problem? N. Goyal, C. Hoch, R. Krishnamurthy, B. Meckler, and M. Suckow (HP Labs.) Accessing Relational Databases from the World Wide Web* Tam Nguyen and V. Srinivasan (IBM Santa Teresa Lab.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGMOD Tutorial: Data Mining Techniques (Salon 4--5, Level 2) Instructor: Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U.) 3:15--4:00pm Coffee Break (Foyer, Level 4) 4:00--5:30pm SIGMOD Session 13 -- PlenaryMountains of Weird Data -- The Vendors Scramble to Capture New Markets (Ballroom West, Level 4) Chair: Stanley Zdonik (Brown U.) Participants: Jacob Stein (Sybase) Bill Madill (Informix) Jim Reimer (IBM Santa Teresa) ============================================================================== SIGMOD Annual Awards %============================================================================== Innovations Award For innovative contributions to the development or use of database systems and databases. The contribution must have been put into practice and adopted widely in significant use. Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. Contributions Award For significant contributions to the growth and promotion of the database field through services to the database community, including, but not limited to, publications, technical meetings (conferences, workshops), research funding, and education. Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. Awards Administration By the SIGMOD Awards Committee. Each award consists of an honorary plaque per recipient and $1,000 total. Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or groups. Nominations must be received by March 1 to be considered for that year's award by the SIGMOD Awards Committee (see SIGMOD Record). 1996 Award Recipients SIGMOD Innovations Award: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) SIGMOD Contributions Award: Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U.) ============================================================================== Plenary Addresses & Invited Talks ============================================================================== PODS Invited Talk Accessing Information from Globally Distributed Knowledge Repositories Speaker: Alfred V. Aho (Columbia U.) Monday, June 3rd, 8:45am Abstract This paper discusses some of the major technical obstacles standing in the way of achieving cost-effective universal access to multimedia information stored in globally distributed knowledge repositories. Opportunities for contributions from the database research community are highlighted The Speaker Alfred V. Aho became professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in 1995. From 1991 to 1995 he was General Manager of the Information Sciences and Technologies Research Laboratory at Bellcore in Morristown, New Jersey. The work of this laboratory was directed at advancing the national information networking infrastructure. From 1987 to 1991 he was Director of the Computing Science Research Center at AT\&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Dr. Aho received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science) from Princeton University. Upon graduating from Princeton, Dr. Aho joined Bell Laboratories in 1967 as a Member of Technical Staff in the Computing Techniques Research Department, and in 1980, was appointed Head of the Computing Principles Research Department. He has also been an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and at the Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Aho's personal research is centered on algorithms and data structures, programming languages and their compilers, database systems and query languages, and the theory of computing. He has published more than sixty technical papers in these areas and ten textbooks that are widely used in computer science research and education. He is a coinventor of the AWK programming language and other UNIX system tools. Dr. Aho has received numerous awards including Fellow of AT\&T Bell Laboratories, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the IEEE. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki and the University of Waterloo for his contributions to computer science research. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer at many of the world's leading universities. Dr. Aho is active on a number of national and international advisory boards and committees. He has served as Chairman of the Advisory Committee for the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He has also been Chairman of ACM's Special Interest Group on Automata and Computability Theory and a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. SIGMOD Plenary Addresses & Invited Talks The Web: Next Generation Platform Speaker: William Griffin (GTE Laboratories) Tuesday, June 4th, 8:30am Abstract During the past two years, the Internet has become data "dial-tone" for the world because of the technology and applications enabled on the World Wide Web. This presentation will discuss the new content technologies and applications which have become available on the Internet during 1995 and 1996. Audio-on-demand, packet voice, desktop videoconferencing, Java, Shockwave, information filters, intelligent agents, electronic directories, virtual reality, electronic commerce and meta technology will be demonstrated and discussed. With all these incredible applications on the Web today, who needs the National Information Infrastructure? The Speaker Bill Griffin has 20 years management experience in all aspects of software and computing in the telecommunications industry. He is currently Vice President and Director of the Advanced Systems Laboratory of GTE Laboratories, Incorporated in Waltham, MA. For many years he directed the Computer and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at GTE Laboratories. He is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of IEEE Software, the Visiting Committee of the University of Texas Computer Science Department, and the Executive Committee of the Cross Industry Working Team (XIWT). Mr. Griffin received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from Clarkson College of Technology and the M.S. degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research, Innovation and Economic Advantage (or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre revisited) Speaker: Dennis Tsichritzis (GMD) Tuesday, June 4th, 4:00pm Abstract Database Management evolved from an interesting scientific area to an important economic activity. Lessons from past developments will be discussed about the difficulties to move from research to wealth creation. Some examples of opportunities won or lost will be given. A framework for a better technology transfer will be outlined. The Speaker Prof. Dr. Dennis Tsichritzis obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 1968. From 1968 to 1985 he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. During this period, he also founded the Computer Science Institute, Research Center of Crete, Greece. In 1985 he was appointed as a professor for Computer Science at the Business School of the University of Geneva. In 1991 he became Chairman of the Management Board of GMD (The German National Research Center for Information Technology). Prof. Tsichritzis has worked in many areas of Computer Science, Theory, Software Engineering, Data Base Management, Office Automation, Object-oriented Systems and Multimedia; he has published extensively. He is President of ERCIM, member of the Swedish Strategic Foundation Board, the Board of Trustees of the European Software Institute, the Board of Directors of the Real World Computing Partnership in Japan, and the Board of Directors of ICSI in Berkeley. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Database in the '00's: Can We Reach the Promised Land? Speaker: David Vaskevitch (Microsoft) Wednesday, June 5th, 8:30am Abstract Four years from now, as we head into the '00's, databases will either be ubiquitous and central or they will have been proven to be finally irrelevant. Two years ago at SIGMOD, I laid out a technical agenda for the year 2000 with the explicit goal of ensuring the survival and growth of databases. Since then the advent of the Web and the continued -- even accelerated -- evolution of personal computer technology have made the need for change only more compelling. At the same time, in many ways, the database community, on both the industrial and the academic fronts, seems to be consolidating, building on what it knows how to do, and settling more than ever into an established track. How do we avoid this collision between two realities? In this paper I update the technical agenda and clarify further the strategic and technical challenges facing the database community as we head into the future. The Speaker David Vaskevitch manages the planning, design and development of Microsoft's database and transaction processing engines. In this position he is helping lead the company in defining a new vision for database driven applications; a vision which reaches from the largest enterprise with high volume transaction requirements all the way to the needs of small businesses and homes where simplicity and ease of use are key requirements. Prior to assuming his current position, Mr. Vaskevitch served as Director, Enterprise Computing, developing the initial vision of ubiquitous servers, highly distributed computing, and component driven development. Before that he helped found Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) and served as Chief Technologist in MCS for two years, working closely with large corporations worldwide as they struggled with the transition to the client/server world. Mr. Vaskevitch has also served for 4 years as Director of U.S. Marketing at Microsoft, playing a key role in the development of the current distribution, sales and marketing approaches for all domestic products. Mr. Vaskevitch has over thirty years experience in the computer industry in a variety of roles which range from detailed technical involvement to high-level usiness planning. His work experience prior to Microsoft includes 3Com, where he helped launch their software division; Standard Software, where he served as founder and manager; and PlanDesign, serving as a principal in this strategic planning consulting organization. Mr. Vaskevitch holds a Bachelor of Science in Math, Computer Science \& Philosophy and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lessons Learned with Object-Oriented Development of Large Applications Speaker: Blayne Maring (Blayne Maring Associates) Thursday, June 6th, 8:30am Abstract Object-oriented development technologies are the hope of the future in terms of delivering faster time-to-market, better costs, and improved quality. However, development methodologies have not yet matured to the point where object-oriented technologies can be applied with predictable results in large applications. Reuse, the holy grail of object-oriented technology, has been difficult to achieve across large applications and large development groups. This paper discusses some lessons learned in attempting to scale object technology to large applications and it proposes some management principles that are believed to greatly increase the odds of success. The principles discussed are part of a long term vision which is intended to make future application development an assembly process, using preconstructed enterprise software components. Application planning techniques need to be modified to focus on automating re-engineered business processes, not traditional functional decomposition. The business process, the business rules, and the schemas of shared date repositories. All of the results are not in at this time, however, the pieces that have been implemented have met expectations. There is confidence that implementation of the remaining pieces will be as successful as the results achieved to date. The Speaker Blayne Maring is currently Principal of Blayne Maring Associates an object-oriented development consulting company, with focus on the control-centric problem domain. This domain is exemplified with the need to automate business processes, create intelligent network services, and to automate manufacturing processes. It involves the use of context independent classes where context is applied dynamically. Context includes the control-flow thread, business rules, and relationships to enterprise persistent data stores. Prior to this position, Mr. Maring was the Assistant Vice President of Technology Specification, GTE Telephone Operations, Irving, Texas. In this position, Mr. Maring was responsible for specifying the components that make up Telops' Infrastructure. These components include computing platforms, computing middleware, public and internal networking, and office systems. Earlier in GTE, Maring was Assistant Vice President of Architecture, where he lead the group to develop, plan, and design the architecture for integration of all systems, including network and business support. Maring joined GTE from Development Productivity Inc. where he was founder and president. Prior to DPI he was with Encore Computer Corporation, where he was vice president of development and product marketing, and Paradyne Corporation, where he held various executive positions. During his 18 year tenure with IBM, he was awarded three patents. Mr. Maring holds Electrical and Mechanical Engineering degrees from Iowa State University. ============================================================================== Tutorials ============================================================================== PODS Invited Tutorial 1. Geographic Database Systems: Issues and Research Needs Instructor: Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine) Tuesday, June 4th, 10:30am Abstract Geographic information systems (GISs) have been a growth market for the last 15 years. The user communities include domain scientists and professionals in such areas as city planning and land use planning, resource allocation, vehicle navigation, emergency management, archeology, marine applications, and geology. The design of GISs is based on Geographic Information Science, a multi-disciplinary field that includes contributions from geographers, cartographers, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, and more recently cognitive scientists and psychologists. This tutorial will give an overview of database issues related to geographic information systems. GISs are typically very large software systems dealing with highly structured geographic data and complex spatial relationships. Since data collections are shared for a variety of purposes, multiple conceptual perspectives must be supported. This implies that frequently dramatic conceptual changes must be supported. The tutorial will focus on the state of the art in three areas: * The cognitive foundations, which will give answers to questions about what spatial concepts are necessary and how GIS users interact with them through GIS user interfaces. * The formal models in GIS, including spatial data models and spatial reasoning methods. * The computational implementations, being concerned with storage of and access to complexly structured spatial objects, spatial relations, and spatial processes. The tutorial will also discuss research needs that are of particular concern to the database community. We will close with an overview of the multi-disciplinary GIS research community, covering its conferences, journals, principal players, funding agencies, and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. Instructor Max J. Egenhofer is an Associate Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Associate Professor in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, and Cooperating Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maine. His web site is http://www.spatial.maine.edu/ max/max.html. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PODS Invited Tutorial 2. Future Directions and Research Problems in the World Wide Web Instructor: Udi Manber (University of Arizona) Wednesday, June 5th, 1:30pm Abstract The web is changing the world of computing. This is no longer a prediction; it's a fact. The need for sophisticated techniques to handle data, be it text, images, numbers, video, sound, molecular sequences, or whatever, will grow more rapidly than ever before. Databases, and in particular database research, has not played a major role in the web so far, just as it didn't play a major role in the first 20 years of the history of computers. We are moving in an order of magnitude faster pace now, so this may be exactly the right time for a major database influence. As an introduction to the kind of challenges we face, let's look at an obvious example: How does one find on the web current information about database research related to the web? It's possible, and even easy, to find information about specific topics that have unique names, like finding the manual for agrep. But it's much harder to find topics like current database research, current operating system advances, or new ideas in WWW search. It's even harder to find "quality" information related to such topics, of the kind that research journals or conference proceedings like this one contain. This tutorial will look at database research directions opened by the web. I will discuss the current place of databases on the web and the many possibilities and potential for the future. Since my work centers around the web (I am not a database expert), I will look at databases from the point of view of the web, rather than at the web from the point of view of databases. I will try to survey the areas where the web can benefit from database research and database expertise. Among the issues to be discussed are integration with information retrieval, handling diversity, handling scale, integrating query mechanisms, extending query mechanisms, collecting data, indexing mechanisms, client/server and hybrid paradigms, customization vs. indoctrinization, security, user interfaces, browsing, consistency, and visualization. The full paper for this tutorial is posted on the web: http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/PODS.html. Instructor Udi Manber (http://glimpse.cs.arizona.edu/udi.html) is a professor of computer science at the University of Arizona, where he has been since 1987. His research interests include computer networks and the World Wide Web, software tools, especially search and resource discovery tools, design of algorithms, and pattern matching. He is the author of Introduction to Algorithms - A Creative Approach, and over 50 technical articles. Among the tools he developed or co-developed are Agrep, Glimpse, Harvest, GlimpseHTTP, Siff, Warmlist, and NetShell. He received three best-paper awards, two patents, and one PYI. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGMOD Tutorial 1. The Ins and Outs (and everything in between) of Data Warehousing Instructors: Phil Fernandez and Donovan Schneider (Red Brick Systems) Tuesday, June 4th, 2:00pm Abstract Data warehousing has become the hot topic of the day in the database industry. This has been fueled by analyst projections of a market value of $8 billion by the year 2000. Data warehousing is clearly the next big growth area. Vendors of all different flavors have thusly been extolling the virtues of their products for this market segment. However, there is a large degree of confusion about what is and isn't data warehousing. Terms such as OLAP, Decision Support (DSS), and data warehousing are used interchangeably although people may have widely varying interpretations for each of these terms. This tutorial seeks to provide clarity to the current confusion by focusing on the following five core functions of a data warehouse: Data Extraction and Preparation, Data Modeling and Schema Design, Data storage within the warehouse, Data access within the warehouse, and Client analysis and applications. Similarities and differences between OLTP and data warehousing systems will be highlighted. Furthermore, emphasis will be placed on discussing features of database vendors' products, as well as on-going research projects. Open research problems at all levels will be discussed. Examples derived from data warehousing customers will be used heavily in the presentation. Instructors Phil Fernandez is the Vice-President of Research and Development at Red Brick Systems in Los Gatos, CA. From March 1989 to Nov. 1991, he was the Director of Systems Software Development at Metaphor Computer Systems. Prior to that time, he was employed by Stanford University from March 1986 to March 1989, most recently as Director of Data and Technology Resources. Mr. Fernandez holds a B.A. in History from Stanford University. He has over seven years experience in the data warehousing industry. Donovan Schneider is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Brick Systems in Los Gatos, CA where he is working on their next generation data warehousing server. From Sept. 1990 to Nov. 1994, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto where he worked on a number of research projects involving parallel query processing. Dr. Schneider received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1990 for his work on parallel join query processing in the Gamma database machine. He has published over 20 research papers, served on numerous program committees including SIGMOD, VLDB, PDIS, and Data Engineering, and was the editor for SIGMOD '95. He received the Best Paper Award at SIGMOD in 1990. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGMOD Tutorial 2. Repository System Engineering Instructor: Philip Bernstein (Microsoft) Wednesday, June 5th, 1:30pm Abstract Repositories manage metadata. Demand for them is growing, fueled by enterprise re-engineering, integrated CASE, data warehousing, computer system management, information resource management, etc. It's arguably already a \$billion/year business, and is likely to get a lot bigger. A repository is part of a complex system, consisting of a database system, repository manager, tools, and information model. To understand repository technology, it's essential to understand all these pieces and how they inter-relate. This tutorial therefore looks at repository systems from a variety of system-level viewpoints: technical requirements, products, example applications, and tool integration. It then summarizes repository engine internal mechanisms: objects, properties, type and class definitions, relationship semantics, and version and configuration management offered in other types of systems, such as file systems and DBMSs. Instructor Philip Bernstein is Repository Architect at Microsoft, where he leads a joint design effort with Texas Instruments to design an open repository system. He was formerly an architect at Digital Equipment Corp., a professor at Harvard University and Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and VP Software at Sequoia Systems. Dr. Bernstein has published over 70 articles on the theory and implementation of database systems, and is coauthor of Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1987). He received the 1994 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award for "innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGMOD Tutorial 3. Databases and Visualization Instructor: Daniel Keim (U. Munich) Wednesday, June 5th, 3:30pm Abstract The tutorial provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in data visualization, classifying the existing data visualization techniques into eight groups: Geometric, Icon-based, Graph-based, Pixel-oriented, Hierarchical, 3D, Dynamic, and Hybrid Techniques. Besides describing each of these classes, the tutorial focuses on new developments in data visualization, which are relevant to the area of database systems. In particular, we describe a wide range of recently developed techniques for visualizing large amounts of arbitrary multi-attribute data which does not have any two- or three- dimensional semantics and therefore does not lend itself to an easy display. A detailed comparison shows the strengths and weaknesses of the existing techniques and reveals potentials for further improvements. Several examples demonstrate the benefits of visualization techniques for real database applications. The tutorial concludes with an overview of existing database visualization systems, including research prototypes as well as commercial products. Instructor Daniel Keim is a teaching and research assistant (approximately equivalent to assistant professor) at the Institute for Computer Science, University of Munich, Germany. His research interests include database visualization, visual support for querying databases, visual data mining, similarity search in 2D and 3D spatial databases, and indexing high-dimensional data. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGMOD Tutorial 4. State of the Art in Workflow Management Systems: Research and Products Instructor: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden) Thursday June 6th, 10:15am Abstract In the last few years, workflow management has become a hot topic in the research community and, especially, in the commercial arena. Workflow management is multidisciplinary in nature encompassing many aspects of computing: database management, distributed client-server systems, transaction management, mobile computing, business process reengineering, integration of legacy and new applications, and heterogeneity of hardware and software. Many academic and industrial research projects are underway. Numerous successful products have been released. Standardization efforts are in progress. As has happened in the RDBMS area with respect to some topics, in the workflow area also, some of the important real-life problems faced by customers and product developers are not being tackled by researchers. This tutorial will survey the state of the art in workflow management research and products. Instructor C. Mohan has been a Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center since 1981 and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology since 1992. He is currently leading the Exotica project on advanced transaction management and workflow systems which involves FlowMark, MQSeries and Lotus Notes. He is a designer and an implementor of R*, Starburst and DB2/6000. He is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of locking and recovery algorithms, and the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. His research ideas are incorporated in numerous products (e.g., DB2/MVS, DB2/6000, S/390 Parallel Sysplex Coupling Facility, Encina, MQSeries, ADSM). Mohan has received 5 IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, 2 Research Division Awards and the 8th Plateau Invention Achievement Award for his patent activities (20 issued and 8 pending). He was the PC Chair of the 1987 International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems and a PC Vice-Chair of the 1994 International Conference on Data Engineering. He is the Americas PC chair for the 1996 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. He is an editor of VLDB Journal and Distributed and Parallel Databases - An International Journal. Mohan has a PhD from University of Texas at Austin and a BTech from IIT Madras. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGMOD Tutorial 5. Data Mining Techniques Instructor: Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University) Thursday June 6th, 1:45pm Abstract Data mining, or knowledge discovery in databases, has been popularly recognized as an important research issue with broad applications. We provide a comprehensive survey, in the database perspective, on the data mining techniques developed recently. Several major kinds of data mining methods, including generalization, characterization, classification, clustering, association, evolution, pattern matching, data visualization, and meta-rule guided mining, will be reviewed. Techniques for mining knowledge in different kinds of databases, including relational, transaction, object-oriented, spatial, and active databases, as well as global information systems, will be examined. Potential data mining applications and some research issues will also be discussed. Instructor Jiawei Han is Professor of the School of Computing Science and Director of Database Systems Research Laboratory, Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has conducted research in the areas of knowledge discovery in databases, deductive and object-oriented databases, spatial databases, multimedia databases, and logic programming, with over 100 journal and conference publications. He is a project leader of the Canada NCE/IRIS:HMI-5 project ("data mining and knowledge discovery in large databases"), and has served or is currently serving in the program committees of over 20 international conferences and workshops, including ICDE'95 (PC vice-chair), DOOD'95, ACM-SIGMOD'96, VLDB'96, and KDD'96 (PC co-chair). ============================================================================== Research Prototype Demonstrations ============================================================================== June 4 June 5 June 6 9:00--10:30am Group A Group D Group C 10:30--12:00pm Group B Group A Group D 1:00--2:30pm Group C Group B Group A 2:30--4:00pm Group D Group C Group B Group A: Complex \& Semistructured Documents (Salons 6--7, Level 3) Thinksheet: A Tool for Tailoring Complex Documents (D02) Peter Piatko, Roman Yangarber, Daoi Lin, and Dennis Shasha (New York U.) HyperStorM - Administering Structured Documents Using Object-Oriented Database Technology (D03) Klemens Bohm and Karl Aberer (GMD - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute) LORE: A Lightweight Object REpository for Semistructured Data (D06) Dallan Quass, Jennifer Widom, Roy Goldman, Kevin Haas, Qingshan Luo, Jason McHugh, Svetlozar Nestorov, Anand Rajaraman, Hugo Rivero, Serge Abiteboul, Jeffrey D. Ullman, and Janet Wiener (Stanford U.) B: Data Mining \& Multimedia (Salons 6--7, Level 3) DBMiner: Interactive Mining of Multiple-Level Knowledge in Relational Databases (D07) Jiawei Han, Yongjian Fu, Wei Wang, Jenny Chiang, Osmar R. Zaiane, and Krzysztof Koperski (Simon Fraser U.) SONAR: System for Optimized Numeric Association Rules (D10) Takeshi Fukuda, Yasuhiko Morimoto, Shinichi Morishita, and Takeshi Tokuyama (IBM Tokyo Res. Lab.) Prospector: A Content-Based Multimedia Server for Massively Parallel Architectures (D08) Grace Au (NCR), Alexandros Biliris (AT\&T Research), Homer Chen (Bell Labs.), Susan Choo (NCR), Kicha Ganapathy (Bell Labs.), Glenn Linderman (NCR), William O'Connell (Bell Labs.), Euthimios Panagos (AT\&T Research), and David Schrader (NCR) Group C: Data Warehousing (Salons 6--7, Level 3) METU Interoperable Database System (D09) Asuman Dogac, Ugur Halici, Ebru Kilic, Gokhan Ozhan, Fatma Ozcan, Sena Nural, Cevdet Dengi, Sema Mancuhan, Budak Arpinar, Pinar Koksal, and Cem Evrendilek (Middle East Technical U., Turkey) The MultiView Project: Object-Oriented View Technology and Applications (D13) Elke Rundensteiner, Harumi A. Kuno, Young-Gook Ra, Viviane Crestana-Taube, Matthew Jones, and Pedro Marron (U. of Michigan) The Garlic Project (D15) Mary Tork Roth, Manish Arya, Laura M. Haas, Michael J. Carey, William Cody, Ron Fagin, Peter M. Schwarz, John Thomas, and Edward L. Wimmers (IBM Almaden) Group D: Miscellaneous (Salons 6--7, Level 3) DBSim: A Simulation Tool for Predicting Database Performance (D04) Mike Lefler, Mark Stokrp, and Craig Wong (PRC Inc.) CapBasED-AMS: A Capability Based and Event-driven Activity Management System (D12) Patrick C. K. Hung, Helen P. Yeung, Kamalakar Karlapalem (Hong Kong U. Sci. \& Tech.) BeSS: Storage Support for Interactive Visualization Systems (D14) Alex Biliris (AT\&T Research), Thomas Funkhouser (Bell Labs.), William O'Connell (Bell Labs.), and Euthimios Panagos (AT\&T Research) ============================================================================== SIGMOD Committee ============================================================================== General Chair T.H. Merrett (McGill University) Program Chair H.V. Jagadish (AT\&T Research) Industrial Program Co-Chairs Michael Brodie (GTE Laboratories) Rafael Alonso (Sarnoff Labs.) Industrial Advisory Board Philip Bernstein (Microsoft Corporation) Andrew L. Laursen (Oracle) Mike Stonebraker (U.C. Berkeley) Norman Winarsky (David Sarnoff Laboratory) Industry Day Co-Chairs Pierre Bourque (U. Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal) Mario Robert (Novasys Inc.) Industry Day Publicity C\'eline Lavoie (Standard Life) Demonstrations Chair Christos Faloutsos (U. Maryland) Exhibits Coordinator A. Clou\^atre (U. Montr\'eal) Tutorials Chair Alberto Mendelzon (U. Toronto) Panel Program Jacob Stein (Sybase) Proceedings Editor Inderpal Singh Mumick (Bell Labs.) Best Paper Award Committee Umesh Dayal (Hewlett-Packard) Jim Gray (Microsoft) Dick Muntz (UCLA) Program Committee Malcolm Atkinson (U. Glasgow) Alexandros Biliris (AT\&T Research) Anthony Bonner (U. Toronto) Yuri Breitbart (U. Kentucky) Mike Carey (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.) W. Bruce Croft (U. Massachusetts, Amherst) Dean Daniels (Oracle) Susan B. Davidson (U. Pennsylvania) Jeffrey Eppinger (Transarc Corporation) Shashi K. Gadia (Iowa State University) Sumit Ganguly (Rutgers University) Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University) Mei Hsu (Electronic Data Systems) Theodore Johnson (U. Florida) Myoung Ho Kim (KAIST) Hiroyuki Kitagawa (U. Tsukuba) Hans-Peter Kriegel (U. Munich) Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Concordia U.) Dennis McLeod (U. Southern California) Tova Milo (Tel-Aviv University) Guido Moerkotte (RWTH-Aachen) C. Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.) Richard Muntz (UCLA) Jeffrey Naughton (U. Wisconsin-Madison) Jack Orenstein (Object Design, Inc.) M. Tamer Ozsu (U. Alberta) Xiaolei Qian (SRI International) Fausto Rabitti (CNUCE of Italy) Raghu Ramakrishnan (U. Wisconsin-Madison) Kenneth Ross (Columbia University) Hans-Joerg Schek (ETH) Dennis Shasha (New York University) Oded Shmueli (Technion) Eric Simon (INRIA) Jon A. Solworth (U. Illinois at Chicago) S. Sudarshan (IIT, Bombay) Craig W. Thompson (Object Serv. \& Consulting) Michael Ubell (Illustra) Jeffrey Ullman (Stanford University) Laurent Vieille (BULL) ============================================================================== PODS Committee ============================================================================== Executive Committee Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, Rocquencourt) Richard Hull (U. Colorado) Paris Kanellakis (Brown U.) Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice U.) Victor Vianu (UCSD/INRIA, Rocquencourt) Mihalis Yannakakis (Bell Labs) General Chair Paris Kanellakis (Brown U.) Acting General Chair Mihalis Yannakakis (Bell Labs.) Program Chair Richard Hull (U. Colorado) Program Committee Divyakant Agrawal (UC Santa Barbara) Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center) Guozhu Dong (U. Melbourne) Christos Faloutsos (U. Maryland) Yannis Ioannidis (U. Wisconsin--Madison) Gabriel Kuper (ECRC) Heikki Mannila (U. Helsinki) Tova Milo (Tel-Aviv U.) Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.) Allen Van Gelder (UC Santa Cruz) Proceedings Chair Jianwen Su (UC Santa Barbara) ============================================================================== SIGMOD/PODS Conference ============================================================================== Treasurer G. L\'evesque (U. Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal) Publicity M. Tamer Ozsu (U. Alberta) Registration Laks Lakshmanan (Concordia U.) Local Arrangements Rokia Missaoui (U. Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal) Brigitte Kerherv\'e (U. Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal European Coordinator Michel Adiba (U. Joseph Fournier, France) Asian Coordinator Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto U., Japan) South American Coordinator C.B. Medeiros (UNICAMP, Brazil) ============================================================================== Things to Do and See in Montreal ============================================================================== In Old Montreal * Mus\'ee de la Pointe-\`a-Calli\`ere * Harbour front (walk, bike, roller blade, ..): * Saute-Mouton (boat on Lachine Rapids) * Bateau-Mouche (river boat) * Images du futur (computer/laser graphics) * Notre Dame Basilica * Sailors' church * Chateau de Ramezay * March\'e Bonsecours * Caf\'e Electronique In the Golden Square Mile (just north of the Sheraton) * Mount-Royal lookout * Crescent Street (Friday, Saturday evenings) * Museum of Fine Arts * McCord Museum (Canadian history) * Canadian Center for Architecture * The Montreal Forums (old and new) In the Underground City * Place Ville-Marie * Place Bonaventure * La Baie (Hudson's Bay Company) * Eaton Center * Complexe Guy-Favreau (Chinatown) * Complexe Desjardins * Place des Arts In the Quartier Latin (restaurants!) * rue St-Denis (Ste-Catherine -- Mont-Royal) * rue Duluth * rue Prince-Arthur * Foufounes Electriques (punk club) * blvd St-Laurent (Sherbrooke -- Rachel) * Cin\'emath\`eque qu\'ebecoise (National Film Board) * Mus\'ee d'Art Contemporain In the Plateau Mont-Royal * The Main (rue St-Laurent) * Tam-tam (Sunday drumming) In the Pole Maisonneuve * Olympic Stadium * Botannical Gardens On \^Ile Ste-H\'el\`ene * La Ronde * Site of Expo'67 In Outremont * rue Laurier (shopping) In Westmount * Greene Avenue (shopping) Outdoor markets * Jean Talon * Atwater More on http://www.cum.qc.ca/cum/mtlFaq.html. ============================================================================== Technical Program at a Glance ============================================================================== PODS SIGMOD1 SIGMOD2 SIGMOD3 MONDAY Invited Talk Al Aho AM Constraint Query Languages --------------------- Temporal Databases PM In Memoriam: Paris Kanellakis PODS Bus. Mtg =============================================================================== TUESDAY SIGMOD/PODS Plenary Address: W. Griffin AM Tutorial: Industrial: Data Mining Reordering Geographic DB DBs & WWW Optimization ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Modeling & OCTAS Multimedia Tutorial: Data Query Languages Finalists Warehousing PM Query Processing Invited Talk: Clustering & Industrial: D. Tsichritzis Indexing Warehousing SIGMOD Awards Ceremony =============================================================================== WEDNESDAY Constraints & SIGMOD Plenary Address: D. Vaskevitch Transactions AM Rules & Mining Industrial: Integrating Replication & Dist. Obj. Man. Systems Storage ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial: WWW Industrial: Decision Tutorial: Multimedia Support Repository Systems Eng. PM Integration High Perf. Estimation Tutorial: Algorithms DB Visual. (End of PODS) Plenary Panel: Environmental Shoot-Out =============================================================================== THURSDAY SIGMOD A SIGMOD B SIGMOD C SIGMOD D SIGMOD Plenary Address: B. Maring AM OO Systems Tutorial: Resource Query Workflows Management Optimization ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Views Industrial: New Appl. Tutorial: Workflow Data Mining PM Plenary Panel: Mountains of Weird Data =============================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Presentations by experienced users, leading consultants, developers and researchers describe the utility and directions of techniques, approaches, products, and prototypes. It is a meeting place for key people on all aspects of reengineering. REF presents a broad perspective snapshot of the present state of the field. A major focus of the Forum is to allow ample opportunity for one-on-one and group discussion among presenters and attendees. Interaction is paramount. The Forum is held as much to be a meeting place for the speakers to compare notes on the future of the field as it is for attendees to learn more about the state-of-the-art and new developments. The Reengineering Forum includes the Year 2000 Summit sessions, and begins with an Exhibits Reception on Wednesday, June 26, 5:30 to 8 PM. The first plenary session begins at 8:30 AM on Thursday, June 27. For latest information, see http://www.reengineer.org/forum or contact forum@reengineer.org ========================================================================= TUTORIALS - WED. JUNE 26 Two concurrent full-day tutorials are offered for Reengineering Forum attendees on Wednesday, June 26 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm), parallel with part of the NSC Forum. INTRODUCTION TO JAVA WITH A LITTLE C++ THROWN IN Dr. John H. Carson - George Washington University, USA Java is being touted as the next revolution in client/server architectures. A programming language derived from C++, Java promises to revolutionize the use of the Internet. This seminar introduces the participant to the Java programming language, the Java run time environments, object oriented programming, and the differences between Java and C++. Concentrating on the Java language and application and applet development, the tutorial employs examples to demonstrate the concepts presented. Participants will learn the fundamentals of the Java language and also how Java applets are employed for Internet applications. Finally, since Java is descended from C++, the features present in C++ but not in Java, are presented. * Overview of Java: Architecture; Internet applications * Java Basics: Data Types; Variables; Operators; Control Flow * Java Classes; Class organization; Methods/Behaviors; Object constructors and finalizers; Inheritance (subclassing) * The Java Run-Time Environment; The HotJava Browser * Multithreading in Java * Differences Between Java and C++ Dr. Carson is a Professor of Management Science at the George Washington University where he serves as Program Director of the Information Systems Program. He has lectured throughout the world on a diverse set of topics including: Local Area Networks, Distributed Processing, Real-Time Systems Design, Software Engineering, the C and C++ programming languages, and the Unix operating system. Dr. Carson's recent experience includes positions as a Principal Scientist with The MITRE Corporation and as the Manager of Systems Engineering for the Software Productivity Consortium. He has published numerous papers and texts on a variety of topics dealing with computer science. Dr. Carson is a senior member of the IEEE and member of ACM, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Xi. He holds a B.S.E.E., M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Science from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. SOFTWARE LEADERSHIP FROM THE TECHNICAL SIDE Norman L. Kerth, Elite Systems, USA Patricia Snipp, Kasper, Snipp & Associates, USA This workshop is about designing a long term, satisfying career as a software leader. We learn how to develop influence and power to effect changes in an organization from a senior technical perspective. Many software professionals think the only choices we have for career advancement are either to move into software development or into management -- this is not the case! We explore the various aspects of being an effective technical leader across an organization. We examine how to advance our careers and identify the skills that we must master along the way. As we have grown in our software job, our careers have been advanced by becoming very good at mastering the latest technical advances -- methods, tools, metrics, and the like. But to cause these advances to be used widely across our companies, we need to learn how to lead from a role without position power. We need to learn how to sell our ideas and steward them into reality. This workshop is for technical people who want to become change agents in their organizations. Norman Kerth is an experienced software engineer and researcher focusing on specification and design activities, quality assurance, continuous process improvement, project management and growing effective teams. A full time consultant since 1984, many of his assignments involve growing a software quality assurance function and improving software engineering discipline. He was a professor at Univ of Portland and had a decade of engineering experience with Tektronix. Patricia Snipp is founder and owner of Kasper, Snipp and Associates in management consulting and training. With a PhD in Organic Chemistry, she was a research chemist for Gillette Corp. She has since been a college professor, an administrator in adult education, and a trainer on change, creativity, and leadership. She also has an MBA in management and marketing. ========================================================================= YEAR 2000 DATE CRISIS SUMMIT MEETING 27 & 28 June 1996 Hosted by: IEEE-CS TCSE Millennium Task Force Open to all Reengineering Forum attendees. The Year 2000 Summit Meeting is a working meeting of people from across the software industry and business organizations who are actively pursuing solution to this pressing problem. This is an opportunity to work with Year 2000 solution leaders on forming a combined strategy to achieve better attention by management and a greater chance of success across the industry. Speakers, presentations, and reports of work-in-progress will be added to the agenda throughout May and June. This will be a *very* timely snapsnot of the state of our readiness, ways we can succeed, and ways in which we may fail. For latest information on the agenda for the Summit Meeting portion of the Reengineering Forum, see http://www.tcse.org/year2000 Strategy Working Sessions These will be active workshops and discussions involving all participants in the room. Come prepared to roll up your sleeves and contribute. * How to Convince Management of the Seriousness * Can't Get Done in Time; How Much is Good Enough? * If Some Failures Are Inevitable, What Systems Must Society Concentrate On? * How Can Industry Pick Up the Pieces Afterwards? Technical Presentations YEAR 2000 STRATEGIES Perspectives by Leading Analysts Key speakers to be announced. See the Web site for latest info. USAF's Strategy for the Year 2000 Problem Tom Ashton - US Air Force AFC4A Have We Forgotten Our Non-Mainframe Systems? - From Traffic Lights to HVAC Michael Sperling - City of Phoenix Governments and the Century Date Change Stan Price - Arizona Millennium Group Get A Process...Then Get Going Ronny Petrie - AVATAR Solutions YEAR 2000 SOLUTIONS An Overview of Year 2000 Tools and Services Michael R. Olsem - USAF Software Technology Support Ctr Solutions for the Year 2000 Problem J.A. van Doorn - Y2K Solution, Netherlands Application of Program Slicing to Year 2000 Problem Lawrence Markosian - Reasoning Systems Year 2000 via SPELS (Sw Performance Engineering) Mike Carver - EDS 2000MD: Millennium Data Mining, Dependency Mapping, Decomposition Modification & Deployment using MultiDimensional MetaData Brian Boyle - NOVON Research Group Year 2000 Users Groups - Their Value and How They Can Succeed Stan Price - Arizona Millennium Group ========================================================================= 5TH REENGINEERING FORUM 27 & 28 June 1996 Preliminary Program - as of May 10, 1996 What makes the Forum unique? This is a working meeting for the advancement of the field. The listings here are subject to change. Presentations will be added and revised throughout May and June to achieve the highest quality program, spanning the breadth of the reengineering field. Some speaker slots are kept open until days before the meeting to enable previously undiscovered work, new results, and latest developments to be presented. This yields a high-quality, timely, and very current program for Forum attendees. Multimedia Applications The SYNDAMMA Project - Synthesis of Database & Multimedia Applications Donald McFall - University of Ulster, No. Ireland Client/Server Implementation How to Set Up a Successful Client/Server System Sandra Alejandre, Heather Ziegler - Client/Server Connection Object-Oriented Approaches Discovering a System Modernization Decision Framework - Lessons Learned Paul Clements, Kurt C. Wallnau - Software Engineering Institute Reengineering Software Using Object Technology Wei Li - University of Arkansas - Little Rock Business Reengineering Synergistic Dependencies: the Role of Information Technologies in BPR & Systems Reengineering Lynda Hodgson, Peter Aiken - Virginia Commonwealth Univ Transform20: Transforming the Value Delivery System Rob Friday - EDS Reengineering for the Intranet & Internet Reengineering and E-Mail: Effects and Impact Lessons from Case Studies Kai Jakobs, Rob Procter, Robin Williams - Univ of Edinburgh Experience Report: Targeting Reengineering Implementation to the Intranet and Web Elliot Chikofsky - DMR Group Managing the Reengineering Process Software Reengineering Assessment Handbook, v 2.0 John Clark - Comptek Robert Johnson - Joint Logistics Commanders Measuring and Assessing IT Investment in Reengineering: A Case Study James T. Tatum, Peter Aiken - Virginia Commonwealth Univ Systems Reengineering Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS) Mark Wilson - Naval Surface Warfare Center From Software Rehosting to System Reengineering Scott Tilley - Software Engineering Institute Reengineering Tools and Approaches Reengineering and Trustworthy Software Robert Moore - NSA REENEW: REENgineering Environment & Workbench David Workman - SAIC and Univ Central Florida CMS-2 Conversion Mark Wilson - Naval Surface Warfare Center DIGICON Enterprise Engineering Methodology Stephen Rutz - DIGICON Software Performance Engineering for Legacy Systems (SPELS) Deployment Keith Andrews - EDS Reverse Engineering Design Capture as a Side Benefit of Reverse Engineering Christopher Pidgeon - Semantic Designs Application of Program Slicing to Business Rule Extraction Lawrence Markosian - Reasoning Systems Data Reverse Engineering Peter Aiken - Virginia Commonwealth University Reports on Reengineering R&D SEI Reengineering Center - Current Activities Scott Tilley, Dennis Smith - Software Engineering Institute For latest additions to the agenda, see http://www.reengineer.org/forum ========================================================================= Registration & Payment For a registration form, see http://www.reengineer.org/forum or send email to forum@reengineer.org Make checks payable to "Reengineering Forum" in U.S. dollars payable on a U.S. bank. 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With its central location, St. Louis is the 5th largest U.S. city in number of Fortune 100 corporate headquarters, and is the site of many corporate data centers. AIRLINE DISCOUNTS Discount airfares are available on TWA (based in St. Louis), such as 5% off super-saver fares and discounts on other fares. Contact Gary Dunn of Ross Travel at +1-415-461-6022, toll free in the U.S. 1-800-634-4445. HOTEL RESERVATIONS The Adam's Mark hotel, at the foot of Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis, will host the conference sessions, tutorials and exhibits. The rate for all meetings is $119 single or double, plus 14.1% taxes. The room block is under both "Reengineering Forum" and "National Software Council". 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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@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 16 11:49:09 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 LAA03314 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:48:48 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA28009 for dbworld; Thu, 16 May 1996 11:48:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 11:48:47 -0500 From: "Jaroslav Pokorny" Message-Id: <199605161648.LAA28009@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS 16th Annual Database Conference DATASEM'96 October 2022, 1996, Brno, Czech Republic Program Chair: Information technology and databases Jaroslav Pokorny cannot be disjoined. International MFF UK Praha conference DATASEM'96 brings Malostranske nam. 25 again the wide spectrum of themata, 118 00 Praha 1 from general problems of databases pokorny@kki.ms.mff.cuni.cz methodologies for information system Phone:+42 2 2451 0286 design and to INTERNET. The conference will include tutorials, invited lectures and short contributions. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: Program Committee: o strategic planning; Miroslav Benesovsky o Internet; Jiri Gregor o executive information systems; Petr Hujnak Dusan Chlapek o project life cycle; Jaroslav Pokorny o data mining; Lubomir Popelinsky o performance measurement; Karel Rychta o architecture 2000; Zdenko Stanicek o object orientation; Jan Valenta Vlastimil Vesely o transactions; Jaroslav Zeleny o distributed databases; o groupware; Arrangement Chair: o software quality and reliability. Petr Cervinka Paper submission: Send 3 copies of a full paper (max. 10 pages) CS-COMPEX, a.s. to the program chair to be received by May 31. Authors will Olomoucka 84 be notifieded of acceptance or rejection by July 8. Accepted papers 618 00 Brno in a specified format for the proceedings will be due September 27. datasem@ro.vutbr.cz Phone: +42 5 536 483 Fax: +42 5 533 711 The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publi- cation elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or Secretary: workshops. All authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign copyright release forms. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. Bohumila Kylianova CS-COMPEX, a.s. 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The previous workshop was held in Lithuania in 1994. The Baltic workshops are thought as an international forum for technical discussion among researchers and developers of database and information systems. The aim of the workshop is to consolidate views as well as to enhance communication between the database researchers and the community that uses database systems for building information systems. STRUCTURE The workshop language is English. The workshop is planned to include two main tracks: traditional research track and advanced technology track. To activate and motivate PhD students the workshop programme will be preceeded by one-day Doctoral Consortium. The consortium is intended to bring together PhD students within the database and information systems field and give them the opportunity to present their research, to discuss it with other doctoral students and to get feedback. During the Consortium, a panel consisting of at least two prominent professors in the field of Databases and Information Systems will actively participate and contribute to the discussions. WORKSHOP PROGRAMME The Programme of the Doctoral Consortium at BalticDB'96 ======================================================= Tuesday, JUNE 11, 1996 _______________________ 8.30 - 9.00 Introduction Session 1: Information Systems 9.00 - 9.30 Wu B. FLYING: an assistant system for automatically mapping conceptual information systems into active databases. 9.30 - 10.00 Jacobson T. Project Organisation's Information System 10.00 - 10.30 Kowsari M. Formal Object-oriented Specification Language Troll in Information System Design Coffee break Session 2: Object-oriented Databases I 11.00 - 11.30 Heijenga W. View Definition in ooDBS without Queries: A Concept to Support Schema-like Views 11.30 - 12.00 Nekrestyanov I. Evaluation of Update Operation Cost for Access Support Relations 12.00 - 12.30 Martynov M.G. Automatic adaptation of indices in object bases Lunch Session 3: Object-oriented Databases II, Real-time Databases 13.30 - 14.00 Lipsky S. An object-oriented database programming system based on Oberon-2 14.00 - 14.30 Wrembel Robert On inheritance in multiversion databases 14.30 - 15.00 Meckenstock A. Concurrency Control and Recovery for Transactions in Cooperative Design Environments 15.00 - 15.30 Pavlova E. Optimistic Concurrency Control Algorithm with Dynamic Serialization Adjustment for Firm Deadline Real-Time Database Systems for Nested Transaction Model Coffee break Session 4: Software agents 16.00 - 16.30 Taveter K. Design and Use of Virtual Machines for Portable Implementation of Programming Languages 16.30 - 17.00 Rahe K. Learning from Incomplete Examples 17.00 - 17.30 Sidarkeviciute D. & Addibpour M. Experimenting with Object-oriented Software Understanding 17.30 - 18.00 Concluding discussion 18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception together with students from DC 8:00-18:00 Registration to WS and DC Preliminary Programme of Second International Baltic Workshop on DB and IS ========================================================================== Wednesday, JUNE 12, 1996 __________________________ 8:00-10:00 Registration 10:00-10:30 OPENING 10:30-11:00 Keynote Speech Bubenko J Business, Requirements, and IS Engineering-Relationships and Research Issues 11:00-12:30 Invited talks Development of Information Infrastructure in Estonia Agur U. National information infrastructure in Lithuania: state report, problems and perspectives Caplinskas A. Development of Latvian Information Infrastructure Karnitis E. 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Session 1. Object-oriented Databases A Case Study on Object-Oriented Database Schema Design Biskup J. Menzel R. Polle T. Sagiv Y. mT-Tree: An Indexing Structure for OODBs Wyne M.F. Bocca J. B. An Algorithm for Vertical Fragmentation in Distributed Object Database Systems Bellatreche L. Simonet A. 14:00-15:30 Session 1T. Business Modeling Business Modeling Language GRAPES-BM and Related CASE Tools Kalnins A., Barzdins J., Auzins A., Etmane I, Kalis A., Podnieks K., Tenteris J., Vilums E., Zarins A. System and Business Process Re-engineering with GRADE Tenteris J. Vilums E. Information Systems Development on the basis of the Role-Model Roost M. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-18:00 Session 2. Interoperable Databases and Information Systems A Common Data Model for Meta-data in Interoperable Environments MacFarlane A. McCann J.A. Liddell H. An Architecture to Support Interoperability of Autonomous Database Systems Zisman A. Kramer J. Rule-based concept definitions intended for reconciliation of semantic conflicts in interoperable information systems Kalinichenko L. A. Algebraic graph-based approach to management of multi-base systems Beylin I. Cadish B. Diskin.Z 16:00-18:00 Session 2T. Performance Aspects Performance Aspect of Tree-based Spatial Indexing Methods in Multidimensional Databases Tran N. Sier B. Placement of Data in Multi-Zone Disk Drives Ghandeharizadeh S. Ierardi D. J. Kim D. Zimmermann R. 2 talks by representatives of Software Companies will be announced 19:00-... BUFFET DINNER at the Glehn Castle Thursday, JUNE 13, 1996 _________________________ 9:00-10:00 Invited Speech by J. Folkmanis Title will be announced 10:00-10:30 Invited talk New uses of the Internet, its banking and smart card applications, and new user authentication schemes Otala M. 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Session 3. DOOD Technology Active and Deductive Rules in an Object-Oriented Database Programming Language Roncancio C.L., Dechamboux P. Federating Databases using DOOD Technology to Support Provisioning of Telecommunication Services Jonker W., Kloosterman S., Sommer E., Woudstra A. A Logic Approach for Schema Integration Saoudi A., Nachouki G., Briand H. 11:00-12:30 Session 3T. Requirements Engineering Components Analysis: An Approach to Non-functional Requirements Modelling Song W. W. Requirements for an electronic newspaper Saarela J., Turpeinen M., Sulonen R. On the Concept of Information Security Leiwo J., Heikkuri S. 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-21:00 Excursion to the Lahemaa National Park Friday, JUNE 14, 1996 _____________________ 9:00-9:30 Invited talk Solvberg A. A Referent Model of Data 9:30-10:30 Session 4. Conceptual modeling A Generic Model for Reusable Components Lee S. P On Ensuring Keys and Referential Integrity in the Temporal Database Language TSQL2 Myrach T., Knolmayer G.F., Barnert R. 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:30 Session 5. Concurrency, Recovery and Security Towards a Model for Asynchronously Communicating Objects Denker G., K|ster-Filipe J. Rolling Back in a Selective Way - an Approach to Recovery for Interactive and Long-Running Transactions Meckenstock A., Zimmer D., Unland R. A semi-formal method for security estimation Buldas A., Priisalu J. 11:00-12:30 Session 5T. Infrastructure IS Development Framework for Potential Latvian Software Engineering Standards Adamsone A., Borzovs J., Cevere R., Luckina M The Estonian Customs Information System Pruuden J. Sarv A. Maasik R. Pruuden E. Tamme L. Integrated University Information System as Part of National Information Infrastructure Caplinskas A., Lupeikiene A., Vasilecas O. 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Session 6. Knowledge Base Systems Deductive and Active Processing in Database and Knowledge Base Systems Desouki M. S., Simonet M. Automation of knowledge base development using model supported knowledge acquisition Grundspenkis J. 14:00-15:30 Session 6T. Database applications and IS An Integrated Information Systems Infrastructure to Support Quantitative Research in Socio-human Systems Linger H., Zaslavsky A., Burstein F., Crofts N. OPEN/FAKS An Online monitoring and diagnosis system for diesel engines Hiirsalmi M., Lehikoinen P., Kinnunen T., Bdckstrvm C. Estonian Phonetic Database: Development and Realisation Meister E., Eek A. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-17:00 Session 7. Discussion or short presentations based on posters. Will be announced 17:00-17:15 CLOSING POSTER SESSION =============== A Support System for Discovering Causal Relationships Fleury L., Djeraba C., Briand H., Philippe J., Baquedano S., Gras R. Some suggestions on mathematics relevant to the database theory Diskin Z., Cadish B Multilanguage interpreter Arnicane V., Arnicans G., Bicevskis J. Efficient Management of Data and Transaction Replicas in Distributed Mobile Computing Systems Zaslavsky A., Rasheed A. Data Respository Based Software Development Using Universal Shell Selavo L. SOCIAL PROGRAMME In addition to the professional sessions, Workshop includes the following opportunities for participants to get together and further exchange views in a relaxed atmosphere: WELCOME RECEPTION: Tuesday, June 11 BUFFET DINNER: Wednesday, June 12 Buffet dinner tickets for accompanying persons can be ordered on the registration form or bought at the registration desk. EXCURSION TO THE LAHEMAA NATIONAL PARK A half day guided excursion to the Lahemaa National Park is planned for Thursday June 13 in the afternoon. Tickets for this event for accompanying persons are to be ordered on the registration form. WORKSHOP VENUE The Workshop will be held at the Institute of Cybernetics, located in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Address: Institute of Cybernetics Akadeemia tee 21 EE0026 Tallinn ESTONIA REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION =============================== REGISTRATION The Workshop is open to all registered participants. The working language of the Workshop is English. The attached registration form should be completed and returned to the Workshop Secretariat. The early registration fees apply ONLY if payment is received BEFORE MAY 20, 1996. Instructions for payment are given on the registration form. Please note that registration can only be processed after receipt of payment. Confirmation of registration will be sent by the Workshop Secretariat upon receipt of both registration form and payment. The Registration Fee includes: attendance at the Workshop, a copy of proceedings and the other WS materials, lunches, refreshments during the breaks, Welcome Reception, Buffet Dinner, excursion. The Student Registration Fee includes: attendance at the Doctoral Consortium and at the Workshop, a copy of the handouts of DC, lunches, refreshments during the breaks, Welcome Reception, Buffet Dinner, excursion. PLEASE NOTE! The Student Registration Fee has been made possible by the sponsors of the Workshop. ACCOMMODATION Hotel reservations are made by Workshop Organizers according to your choise shown on the Registration Form. CANCELLATION Cancellation of registration or hotel reservation must be communicated in writing/sending email to the Workshop Organizers. GENERAL INFORMATION ==================== CLIMATE Normally the weather in June is warm with temperatures between 18-22 C. Nights are very short and light at this time of year, but can be cool. ESTONIAN VISA FORMALITIES For many nationals no entry visa to Estonia is required. Please ask your travel agent or the Estonian Consulate concerning possible visa requirement. You can also visit www page http://www.vm.ee/geninfo/visalon.html for more information about Estonian Visa Formalities. To solve your possible visa problems, please, do not hesitate to contact workshop organizers as soon as possible. INSURANCE The workshop organizers cannot provide any kind of insurance coverage to participants or accompanying persons. Participants are requested to make their own arrangements. CURRENCY The Estonian currency is the Estonian Crown (EEK). Major credit cards are accepted in most hotels and shops and in many restaurants. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ======================== Advisory Committee: Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Arne Solvberg, University of Trondheim, Norway Programme Chair: Hele-Mai Haav Institute of Cybernetics Akadeemia tee 21 EE0026 Tallinn ESTONIA Tel: +372 2 527 314 Fax: 372 6 397042 Email: helemai@cs.ioc.ee Organizing Chair: Ahto Kalja Institute of Cybernetics Akadeemia tee 21 EE0026 Tallinn ESTONIA Tel: +372 2 527 314 Fax: 372 6 397042 Email: ahto@cs.ioc.ee Technology Track: Tarvi Martens, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Email: tarvi@ioc.ee Doctoral Consortium: Jaan Penjam, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia Email: jaan@cs.ioc.ee Diana Sidarkeviciute, Vilnius University/Royal Institute of Technology Email: diana@it.kth.se Workshop Secretariat: Mrs. Marje Tamm Institute of Cybernetics Akadeemia tee 21 EE0026 Tallinn ESTONIA Fax: 372 2 527 901 Email: balt96@cs.ioc.ee PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Janis Barzdins, Latvia Alfs Berztiss, USA Sjaak Brinkkemper, The Netherlands Albertas Caplinskas, Lithuania Klaus R. Dittrich, Switzerland Janis Grundspenkis, Latvia Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Germany Juhani Iivari, Finland Leonid Kalinichenko, Russia Peri Loucopulos, UK Mihhail Matskin, Norway Julie McCann, UK Jorgen Fischer Nilsson, Denmark Bronius Paradauskas, Lithuania Jaan Penjam, Estonia Reind van de Riet, The Netherlands Kazimiers Subieta, Japan Tiit Tammiste, Estonia Janis Tenteris, Latvia Jaak Tepandi, Estonia Bernhard Thalheim, Germany Enn Tyugu, Sweden Naoki Yonezaki, Japan Benkt Wangler, Sweden FURTHER INFORMATION For questions, send email to: balt96@cs.ioc.ee or visit our homepage http://greta.cs.ioc.ee/~balt96 Up-to-date information will appear here as it becomes available. ===================================================================== REGISTRATION FORM - SECOND INTERNATIONAL BALTIC WORKSHOP ON DB AND IS Tallinn, June 12-14, 1996 Doctoral Consortium June 11,1996 ===================================================================== Last name:___________________________________________________________ First name:__________________________Title (Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms):______ Name for badge:______________________________________________________ Organization and Department:_________________________________________ Mailing address:_____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Phone:_______________________________Fax:____________________________ Email:_______________________________________________________________ Accompanying person(s):______________________________________________ The Registration Fee includes: attendance at the Workshop, a copy of proceedings and the other WS materials, lunches, refreshments during the breaks, Welcome Reception, Buffet Dinner, excursion. The Student Registration Fee includes: attendance at the Doctoral Consortium and at the Workshop, a copy of the handouts of DC, lunches, refreshments during the breaks, Welcome Reception, Buffet Dinner, excursion. NOTE! The Student Registration Fee has been made possible by the sponsors of the Workshop. PAYMENT INFORMATION =================== before May 20 after May 20 Workshop registration: [ ] 200.- USD [ ] 250.- USD Student registration: [ ] 75.- USD [ ] 100.- USD Extra Buffet Dinner Ticket [ ] 25.- USD [ ] 25.- USD for accompanying person Extra Excursion Ticket [ ] 30.- USD [ ] 30.- USD for accompanying person __________________________________________ Total enclosed: __________________________________________ Remarks(special diet, etc.)___________________________________________ Form of payment: We cannot accept credit cards for payment. All money transfers must be free of charge for the recipient. For money transfer use the following account. Hansabank, So'pruse 237/239, Tallinn, Estonia, EE0034 Code 767, Account 'BALTDB96' of the Institute of Cybernetics Account No. 22-712281 Please give also full name of the participant. Please note! Payment must accompany the registration form and on-site registration is considered as an exception to be agreed with organizers. Personal cheques cannot be accepted. HOTEL INFORMATION =================== Please book me from ______ to ______ [ ] Hotel Olympia [ ] Single 90.- USD [ ] Double 115.-USD international class (Share room with___________) (centre of the city) [ ] Three star [ ] Single 70.- USD [ ] Double 85.-USD hotel in the centre of city (Share room with___________) [ ] Two star, 5 km [ ] Single 35.- USD [ ] Double 50.-USD from centre, near (Share room with___________) the conference venue Please note that accommodation is to be paid directly to the hotel upon departure. Reservations will be made on a "first-come, first-serve" basis. Please send this form by email, fax or post no later than 20 May to: Email:balt96@cs.ioc.ee Fax:+372 6 397042 Address: Dr. Ahto Kalja Institute of Cybernetics Akadeemia 21 Tallinn, Estonia, EE0026 For further questions regarding registration, please contact Dr. Ahto Kalja. Phone: +372 2 527314 Fax:+372 6 397042 Email:balt96@cs.ioc.ee Signature(if sending by post):___________________________ Date:______________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 17 11:43:11 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 LAA22483 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:43:06 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA29121 for dbworld; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:43:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:43:05 -0500 From: samarati@imiucca.csi.unimi.it (Pierangela Samarati) Message-Id: <199605171643.LAA29121@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [Please accept my apologies if you receive this message multiple times] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - PRELIMINARY PROGRAM The Tenth Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Database Security Villa Olmo - Como, Italy July 22-24, 1996 Deadline for registration June 17th, 1996 Additional copies of this Program and registration form are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.dsi.unimi.it/IFIP96 PURPOSE AND SCOPE ------------------ The conference provides a forum for presenting original unpublished research results, practical experiences, and innovative ideas in database security. Papers and panel proposals are solicited. Submissions will be refereed by the members of the Working Group and selected based on technical merit and their relevance to the aim of the IFIP Working Group 11.3. A summary of current issues which are considered by the WG 11.3 is provided below. The conference is limited to about forty participants so that ample time for discussion and interaction may occur. Preliminary conference proceedings will be distributed to participants; revised papers and an account of the discussions at the meeting will be published as the next volume in the "Database Security: Status and Prospects" series according to IFIP publishing policy and standards. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM -------------------- Sunday, July 21, 1996 ---------------------- 15:00 - 19:00 Arrival and Check In (Grand Hotel, Tavernola - Como) 19:30 Dinner Monday, July 22, 1996 --------------------- 9:30-10:00 Welcome 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk T. Lunt ``Strategic Directions in Computer Security Research'' 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Invited Talk B. Thuraisingham ``Data Mining, Data Warehousing, and Security'' 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Federated systems Z. Tari and G. Fernandez ``Security Enforcement in the DOK Federated Database System'' M.S. Olivier ``Integrity Constraints in Federated Databases'' S. Castano ``An Approach to Deriving Global Authorizations in Federated Database Systems'' 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Panel Session ``Multilevel Secure Transaction Processing: Is It Well Understood?'' Chair: S. Jajodia. (Panelists to be announced.) 19:30 Dinner 21:00 Business Meeting Tuesday, July 23, 1996 ---------------------- 9:00-10:30 Object-Oriented security J. Hale, J. Threet and S. Shenoi ``A Framework for High Assurance Security of Distributed Objects'' R. van de Riet and E. Gudes ``An Object-Oriented Database Architecture for providing High-level Security in Cyberspace'' F. Cuppens, A. Gabillon ``A Logical Approach to Model a Multilevel Object Oriented Database'' 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Panel Session ``Open Questions in Database Security''. (Panelists to be announced.) 12:30-14:00 Lunch (Afternoon free) 20:00 Social dinner Wednesday, July 24, 1996 ------------------------ 9:30-11:00 Multilevel databases S. Jajodia, L. Mancini and I. Ray ``A Secure Locking Protocol for Multilevel Database Management Systems'' G. Grossman and M. Schaefer ``A Data Model for a Multilevel Replicated X.500 Server'' J. Aisbett ``An Information Theoretic Analysis of Architectures for Multilevel Secure Databases'' 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 New directions T. Hinke, H. Delugach and R. Wolf ``A Framework for Inference-Directed Data Mining'' V. Atluri and W.K. Huang ``An Extended Petri Net Model for Supporting Workflows in a MLS Environment'' 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Panel Session (To be announced.) 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Role-based security S. Osborn, L. Reid and G. Wesson ``On the Interaction Between Role-Based Access Control and Relational Databases'' S.A. Demurjian, T.C. Ting, M. Price and M.-Y. Hu ``Generics and Exception Handling for Supporting User-Role Based Security in Object-Oriented Systems'' 17:00-17:30 Closing REGISTRATION AND REGISTRATION FEE --------------------------------- Your registration form, accompanied by your payment should be received by CENTRO "A. VOLTA" no later than June 17, 1996 to ensure that you will have a room. The Conference is limited to 40 participants so we encourage you to apply early. A confirmation of the registration will be send out to all participants. The registration fee is 925000 Lit. (Italian Lira). The registration fee for the conference includes: * air conditioned private room with bath for three nights (July 21-23) * all meals and refreshments (other than from the cash bar) from dinner on Sunday (July 21) through lunch on Wednesday (July 23) * social dinner * full use of the Hotel facilities during the conference period * a copy of the preliminary proceedings for the conference. If you want to extend your stay or arrive early, indicate the nights of your stay on the registration form. This will ensure reservation of the room. You will pay the additional nights, at the special conference price, directly to the hotel. The special conference price is Lit 130000 for single room and Lit 200000 for double room (taxes included, half board). THE CONFERENCE SITE -------------------- Villa Olmo is an imposing neoclassic building of the 18th century, now in 7F trust of the Como Town Council and routinely used as a= conference center. The weel-renowned architect Simone Cantoni (1736-1818) designed the Villa, which is the height of neoclassic architecture in Lombardy. The interiors of the Villa are magnificent, starting from the three-storey entrance hall and the main hall (a former ballroom), surrounded by a wrought iron railing and decorated with stucco-works, statues and reliefs. The framework of the Villa is a century-old park where originally there was an elm-tree after which the building was named; along the lakeshore geometrical flowers beds decorate the front garden in a pure Italian style. A pictoresque promenade leads downtown in about ten minutes walking along the ancient and elegant villas of the Borgovico District ("Borgo di Vico"). The Villa is the seat of the "A. Volta" Centre for Scientific Culture, a non profit organization acting since 1982. A special Covenant connects the centre to the University of Milano, the "Politecnico di Milano", the University of Pavia and Brescia, and the Catholic University of Milan. The city of Como is located near Milan, and overlooks the lake of Como, one of the most beautiful lakes in Northern Italy. The city has many historical remains, from the Middle Age up to the Renaissance and Baroque times. The origin of Como as an urban town dates back to the Roman Era (previous civilization is to be found during the Bronze and Iron Ages). At that time, Como was the birthplace of many illustrious figures such as naturalist Pliny the Elder and writer Pliny the Younger. Como has the appearance of a medieval town; remains of this period are the Baradello tower overlooking the entrance to the city, the fortress walls and three towers surrounding the city with its closely built houses, its narrow streets and stone-paved "piazza" (squares), the "Broletto" Town tower and the magnificent Cathedral. The construction of this church began in 1396 and lasted four centuries; its structure reflects the artistic life blossomed from Middle Age up to Renaissance and Baroque times. Worth visiting are two major churches of great architectural interest ("San Fedele" and "Sant'Abbondio") witnessing the Romanesque stage of the town and many other modern monuments, such as "Tempio Voltiano", where the instruments found out and used by the great scientist Alessandro Volta can be seen, "Palazzo Terragni" and "Palazzo Novocomum", both erected by G. Terragni, a rationalistic architect. TRAVELING INFORMATION ---------------------- Como is located about 50 Km. north of Milano. By Air ------ 46rom Milano Linate Airport to Como by public transportation. 1. Bus to Central Railways station (30 min. approx.; frequency every 20 min. from 5:40 to 20:40, later in connection with flights; price one way Lit. 4000) or Taxi to Central Railways station (30 min. approx.; price max Lit. 50000) or Bus n.73 to S.Babila square (20 min., Lit.1.400, tickets not available on buses) and connection with underground line 1 (red) to Duomo and then line 3 (yellow) to Central Railways station 2. Train from Central Railways station to Como S.G. station (frequency: every hour during morning and afternoon, ITL. 5000) 46rom Milano Linate Airport to Como by taxi. Taxi to Como (approx. 90 min., price max ITL. 160000, define the fare with the taxi driver before leaving) 46rom Milano Malpensa Airport to Como by public transportation.= 1. Bus to Central Railway station (60 min. approx.; frequency every 30 min. from 8:00 to 11:30, later in connection with flights; price one way Lit. 12000) or Taxi to Central Railways station (50 min. approx.; price max Lit. 130000) 2. Train from Central Railways station to Como S.G. station (frequency: every hour during morning and afternoon, ITL. 5000) 46rom Milano Malpensa Airport to Como by taxi. Taxi to Como (approx. 90 min., price max ITL. 130000, define the fare with the taxi driver before leaving) 46rom Zurich Airport to Como by public transportation. 1. Train to Zurich C. station (10 min. approx.) 2. Fast train from Zurich C. station to Como S.G. station (frequency: every about two hours, price one way ITL. 150000) By Train --------- International railway lines North Europe - Basel - Chiasso - Como or North Europe - Zurich - Chiasso - Como By Car ------- 46rom Milano or Swizerland motorway A9, exit Como Monte Olimpino or Como Nord. Villa Olmo is located on the lake shore, west of Como (left shore, looking at the lake from piazza Cavour). To reach Villa Olmo from Piazza Cavour, walk towards the lake pier and around the soccer stadium and take the walking path along the lake shore (about 20 min.) You can also take buses no. 1, 6, 11, 14 (Lit. 1.100, tickets not available on buses). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: -------------------- General Chair: ------------- Elisa Bertino Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione Universita' di Milano Via Comelico, 39/41 20135 - Milano,Italy phone: +39-2-55006227 fax: +39-2-55006253 e-mail: bertino@disi.unige.it Program Co-Chairs: ----------------- Pierangela Samarati Ravi Sandhu Dipartimento di Scienze ISSE Dept., MS4A4 dell'Informazione George Mason University Universita' di Milano 4400 University Drive Via Comelico, 39/41 Fairfax, VA 22030 -4444 20135 - Milano, Italy U.S.A. phone: +39-2-55006257 phone: +1-703-993-1659 fax: +39-2-55006253 fax: +1-703-993-1638 e-mail: samarati@dsi.unimi.it e-mail: sandhu@isse.gmu.edu Local Organization and Publicity Chair: -------------------------------------- Silvana Castano Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione Universita' di Milano Via Comelico, 39/41 20135 - Milano, Italy phone: +39-2-55006319 fax: +39-2-55006253 e-mail: castano@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it IFIP WG11.3 Chair: ----------------- David L. Spooner Computer Science Department 107 Amos Eaton Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York 12180-3590 USA phone: +1-518-276-6890 fax: +1-518-276-4033 e-mail: spoonerd@cs.rpi.edu ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------Cut Here and Return by June 17, 1996 ------------ The Tenth Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Database Security Villa Olmo - Como, Italy July 22-24, 1996 R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M Deadline for registration June 17th, 1996 Please use capital letters or a typewriter and return this form before 17th June 1996 to: CENTRO "A. VOLTA" fax +39.31.573395 - phone +39.31.572213 Title: [ ] Prof. [ ] Dr. [ ] Mr. [ ] Mrs. Last Name:.......................................................... 46irst Name:.........................................................= M/F: .............................................................. Institution:........................................................ Mailing Address:.................................................... Zip Code / City:.................................................... Country: ........................................................... Phone: ............................................................. 46ax:................................................................ E-Mail:............................................................. Arrival: ................. Departure: ............................... Please reserve: [ ] Single room [ ] Double room* Registration Fee: 925000 Lit. (taxes included) Payment of the fee (in Italian Lira) [ ] Eurocheque addressed to "Centro Volta", Villa Olmo, via Cantoni 1 - 22100 COMO (Italy). [ ] Banker's Draft with reference to IFIP drawn on CARIPLO, via Rubini 6, 22100 COMO (Italy), c/c 21407/1 "Centro Volta" ABI 06070 - CAB 10900 (please enclose proof of payment). Important: I would like to have: [ ] receipt/ricevuta [ ] invoice/fattura Invoice to be sent to / intestazione fattura: ...................................................................... ...................................................................... ...................................................................... V.A.T. identification n./P.IVA or Codice Fiscale ..................................................................... (Without the V.A.T. identification number we cannot make the invoice) Payments and payment information will be forwarded to the hotel. * For double room for accompanying person, hotel is 70000 Lit. (half board, taxes included) per day. Social dinner is 60000 Lit. for each accompanying person. Date................................................................ Signature............................................................ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 17 11:43:49 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 LAA22493 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:43:44 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA29129 for dbworld; Fri, 17 May 1996 11:43:43 -0500 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:43:43 -0500 From: samarati@imiucca.csi.unimi.it (Pierangela Samarati) Message-Id: <199605171643.LAA29129@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [Please accept my apologies if you receive this message multiple times] Deadline for submissions: September 30, 1996 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ===================================================================== The Journal of Computer Security Special Issue on Security in the World Wide Web (WWW) ===================================================================== This call for papers is also available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.dsi.unimi.it/Users/jcs-www. Despite its initial goal as a tool to support scientists in their research, WWW has today become essential whenever information needs to be widely and rapidly disseminated. WWW is now used in a large variety of organizations, including social, business, and government organizations, and applications, such as education, entertainment and commerce. As an increasing number of organizations and applications start depending on WWW for some of their functions, security becomes crucial. Moreover, the novel applications, enabled by WWW, introduce new security requirements and raise issues that have not been addressed before. The focus of this special issue will be on research and development efforts leading to identify requirements and viable solutions for WWW security. Papers are solicited on all security aspects of the WWW and its applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: - Secure networking and protocols - Authentication and decentralized trust - Authorization and access control - Certification authorities and mechanisms - Auditing and logging - Accounting - Digital timestamping and signatures - Electronic marking and document identification techniques - Assurance of service - Credentials, anonymity, and pseudonyms - Privacy issues - Security in hypermedia environments - Electronic billing systems - Electronic commerce and virtual banking - Intellectual property and copyright The primary focus is on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies and implementation experiences. We strongly encourage submissions of papers discussing the development of WWW applications where security has been a relevant concern. Two kinds of paper will be considered: regular papers presenting new research results, and short papers describing ongoing projects. INTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS --------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit five copies of their contributions to any of the special issue editors. Submissions should be received by {\bf September 30, 1996}. Manuscripts must be in English (dbl-spaced; 12 pt; 30 pages max. for regular papers, 10 pages max. for short papers). Each copy should have a cover page with title, name and address (including e-mail address) of author(s), an abstract of no more than 200 words, and a list of identifying keywords. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- September 30, 1996 Due date for five (5) copies of full manuscript January 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance/rejection March 15, 1997 Due date for final version May 1997 Tentative date for publication of special issue EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------- Elisa Bertino Gian Paolo Rossi Pierangela Samarati Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informatione DSI - Universita' di Milano Via Comelico, 39 20135 Milano (Italy) phone(voice): +39-2-55006227/272/257 phone(fax): +39-2-55006253 e-mail: {bertino,rossi,samarati}@dsi.unimi.it THE JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SECURITY -------------------------------- It is an archival journal published quaterly. Its purpose is to present research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis and application of secure computer systems. The Journal of Computer Security represents today a main forum for ideas about the meaning and implications of security and privacy, particularly those with important consequences for the technical community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-