From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun May 19 16:54:12 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 QAA22338 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 16:54:01 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00737 for dbworld; Sun, 19 May 1996 16:54:00 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 16:54:00 -0500 From: "Phokion G. Kolaitis" Message-Id: <199605192154.QAA00737@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the text version. LaTeX version follows at the end of the document ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth Call for Papers I C D T '97 6th International Conference on Database Theory Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997 In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Previous ICDT conferences were held in Rome (1986), Bruges (1988), Paris (1990), Berlin (1992), and Prague (1995). Since 1992, ICDT has been merged with the Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), another series of conferences on theoretical aspects of database systems that was initiated in Dresden (1987), and continued in Visegrad (1989) and Rostock (1991). Topics: ICDT aims to attract papers of high quality, describing original ideas and new results on theoretical aspects of all forms of databases. Major themes to be covered include, but are not limited to: active database systems complex objects complexity and optimization concurrency control and recovery data models and design theory data structures-algorithms for databases database programming languages deductive databases and logic dependencies and constraints distributed and parallel databases fundamentals of security and privacy heterogeneous databases incomplete information multimedia information systems nonmonotonic reasoning object-oriented databases query evaluation and optimization query languages spatial and temporal data transaction management updates Submissions: Authors are invited to submit 8 copies of an extended abstract of about 5000 words (10 typed pages in no less than 11-point font) by June 13, 1996, to one of the program co-chairs: Program co-chairs: Foto Afrati Phokion G. Kolaitis Computer Science Division Computer and Information Sciences National Technical University of Athens University of California 157 73 Zographou Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Athens, Greece USA Tel: +30-1-748-5055$ Tel: +1-408-459-4768$ Fax: +30-1-778-4578$ Fax: +1-408-459-4829$ afrati@cs.ece.ntua.gr kolaitis@cse.ucsc.edu Web page: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/public/AD/icdt97.html The cover page of each paper should contain the address, e-mail, fax and phone numbers of the contacting author, and a short abstract. The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of ICDT'97 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference. Best Student Paper Award: As judged by the program committee, an award will be given for the best paper authored solely by one or more students. The cover page of eligilble papers should indicate that all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program committee may decline to make the award. Program Committee F. Afrati (Greece) M. Cadoli (Italy) S. Chaudhuri (USA) S. Cluet (France) T. Eiter (Austria) C. Faloutsos (USA) S. Greco (Italy) M. Gyssens (Belgium) O.H.G. Katona(Hungary) P. Kolaitis (USA) G. Kuper (Germany) T. Milo (Israel) M. Ozsoyoglu (USA) J. Pokorny (Czech Republic) V. Sazonov (Russia) H-J. Schek (Switzerland) E. Soisalon-Soininen (Finland) J. Su (USA) V. Tannen (USA) D. Van Gucht (USA) V. Vianu (USA) G. Vossen (Germany) P. Wolper (Belgium) J. Zlatuska(Czech Rep) Organization co-chairs: Foto Afrati, Theodora Varvarigou Important dates: Deadline for submission: June 13, 1996 Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 3, 1996 Camera-ready papers due: October 4, 1996 Conference: January 8-10, 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LaTeX version follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- \documentstyle{article} \textwidth17cm \textheight27cm \topmargin-3cm \oddsidemargin-1cm \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} %\begin{center} %{\Large\sc Preliminary Call for Papers - ICDT97} %\end{center} %\begin{center} %{\large \it 6th International Conference on}\\[1.5ex] %{\Large \bf Database Theory} %\end{center} %\begin{center} %{\large\bf Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997}\\ %\end{center} \begin{center} {\large{\bf Fourth Call for Papers}}\\ \vspace{0.25cm} {\Huge{\bf I C D T\ \ '97}}\\ \vspace{0.25cm} {\large \bf 6th International Conference on Database Theory\\ Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997}\\In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society \vspace{0.25cm} \end{center} \noindent %The Sixth International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT '97) ICDT '97 will take place in Delphi, Greece, on January 8-10, 1997. ICDT is a biannual international conference on theoretical aspects of databases and a forum for communicating research advances on the principles of database systems. Previous ICDT conferences were held in Rome (1986), Bruges (1988), Paris (1990), Berlin (1992), and Prague (1995). Since 1992, ICDT has been merged with the Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), another series of conferences on theoretical aspects of database systems that was initiated in Dresden (1987), and continued in Visegrad (1989) and Rostock (1991).\\ \noindent {\bf Topics:} ICDT aims to attract papers of high quality, describing original ideas and new results on theoretical aspects of all forms of databases. Major themes to be covered include, but are not limited to: %\medskip {\small \begin {tabbing} database programming languages \quad \=distributed and heterogeneous databases \quad \=\kill active database systems \> complex objects \> complexity and optimization \\ concurrency control and recovery \> data models and design theory \> data structures and algorithms for databases\\ database programming languages \> deductive databases and logic \> dependencies and constraints \\ distributed and parallel databases \> fundamentals of security and privacy\> heterogeneous databases\\ incomplete information \> multimedia information systems \> nonmonotonic reasoning \\ object-oriented databases \> query evaluation and optimization \> query languages \\ spatial and temporal data\> transaction management\> updates \end{tabbing}} %\medskip \noindent {\bf Submissions:} Authors are invited to submit 8 copies of an extended abstract of about 5000 words (10 typed pages in no less than 11-point font) by June 13, 1996, to one of the program co-chairs: %\medskip \noindent \begin{tabbing} \noindent {\bf Program co-chairs:} \hspace{1cm} \= Foto Afrati \hspace{5cm} \= Phokion G. Kolaitis\\ \> Computer Science Division \> Computer and Information Sciences\\ \> National Technical University of Athens \> University of California\\ \> 157 73 Zographou \> Santa Cruz, CA 95064\\ \> Athens, Greece \> USA\\ \> Tel: $\: +30-1-748-5055$ \> Tel: $\: +1-408-459-4768$ \\ \> Fax: $+30-1-778-4578$ \> Fax: $+1-408-459-4829$ \\ \> {\tt afrati@cs.ece.ntua.gr} \> {\tt kolaitis@cse.ucsc.edu}\\ \end{tabbing} %\medskip \noindent {\bf Web page:}\hspace{0.5cm} {\em http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/public/AD/icdt97.html}\\ \noindent The cover page of each paper should contain the address, e-mail, fax and phone numbers of the contacting author, and a short abstract. The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of ICDT'97 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference.\\ \noindent {\bf Best Student Paper Award:} As judged by the program committee, an award will be given for the best paper authored solely by one or more students. The cover page of eligilble papers should indicate that all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program committee may decline to make the award. %\vskip 0.075in \noindent \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{llll} \noindent {\bf Program Committee:} & & & \\ F. Afrati (Greece) & M. Cadoli (Italy) & S. Chaudhuri (USA) & S. Cluet (France) \\ T. Eiter (Austria)& C. Faloutsos (USA) & S. Greco (Italy) & M. Gyssens (Belgium) \\ O.H.G. Katona (Hungary) & P. Kolaitis (USA) & G. Kuper (Germany) & T. Milo (Israel) \\ M. Ozsoyoglu (USA) & J. Pokorny (Czech Republic) & V. Sazonov (Russia) & H-J. Schek (Switzerland) \\ E. Soisalon-Soininen (Finland) & J. Su (USA) & V. Tannen (USA) & D. Van Gucht (USA) \\ V. Vianu (USA) & G. Vossen (Germany) & P. Wolper (Belgium) & J. Zlatuska (Czech Republic) \end{tabular} \end{center} %\medskip \noindent {\bf Organization co-chairs:} Foto Afrati, Theodora Varvarigou %\medskip \noindent \begin{tabbing} {\bf Important dates:} \hspace{1cm} \= Deadline for submission: \hspace{2.5cm} \= {\bf June 13, 1996}\\ \> Notification of acceptance or rejection: \> {\bf September 3, 1996}\\ \> Camera-ready papers due: \> {\bf October 4, 1996}\\ \> Conference: \> {\bf January 8-10, 1997} \end{tabbing} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun May 19 22:12:27 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 WAA24846 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 22:12:20 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA00853 for dbworld; Sun, 19 May 1996 22:12:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 22:12:19 -0500 From: mliu@cs.uregina.ca (Mengchi Liu) Message-Id: <199605200312.WAA00853@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive this message multiple times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** * ANNOUNCEMENT * * Release of the * * ROL * * Deductive Object Base * * System * * Version 2.1 * * May 15, 1996 * *********************************************************************** This notice announces the third public release of the ROL system via anonymous ftp. 1. What is it? ROL (Rule-based Object Language) is a deductive object base system developed at the University of Regina in Canada with support from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The ROL language effectively integrates important features in deductive databases and object-oriented databases. It supports object-oriented features such as object identity, complex objects, classes, class hierarchy, multiple inheritance with overriding and blocking, and schema. It also supports structured values such as functor objects and sets and provides powerful mechanisms for representing both partial and complete information on sets. It is a pure declarative query language without any imperative parts. It builds-in important integrity constraints, such as domain, key, referential, functional dependency, and cardinality in a uniform framework. Furthermore, it has a logical semantics that cleanly accounts for all of its object-oriented and value-oriented features. 2. Who may use it? The ROL system has been used by hundreds of users world-wide for various data and knowledge-based applications since its first public release. Some users say that the ROL is so far the only product available that can do everything for their research projects and it is quite easy to learn and use. It is best suited for advanced database applications. The ROL system has also been used to teach advanced database courses on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and/or deductive and object-oriented databases at a number of universities around the world. 3. Where to get it? Release 2.1 of ROL is available via anonymous ftp from server ftp.cs.uregina.ca/pub/rol 4. What platforms does it run on? It runs on the following platforms: Hardware Operating Systems -------- ----------------- SUN SparcStations Solaris 2.4 (both rol and xrol) SGI Workstations IRIX 5.3 (both rol and xrol) DEC Workstations Untrix V4.3 (only rol) IBM PC Compatibles Linux 1.2.8 (only rol) 5. What is new in 2.1: 5.1 Query result control and processing It now provides the write command so that the user can control the way the query results are displayed and can store the results into a file in the way similar to C++. Here is an example: query A[age -> B], B > 20, write(stdout, A, '[age ->', B, ']\n') 5.2 Error message reporting If a ROL program has errors, the error messages are displayed more meaningful so that it is easier to debug the program. 5.3 Graphical database display If the ROL database used is a graphic database containing functor objects such as point, line, circle, polygon, polyline, and inpicture, then the database can be drawn on the screen by using the drawpicture command. 5.4 X-window interface (xrol) The user can simply use mouse to select commands rather than type everything. 5.5 Extensive and classified examples Significantly more examples are included in this distribution. Some of them are contributed by ROL users world-wide. 6. What is new in 2.0 6.1 Simplify and unify user interface 6.2 Support multiple class, object, and rule updates 6.3 Support createdb, destroydb for creating and destroying all database system files within ROL 6.4 Add the data type 'real' and the corresponding operations 6.5 Add string operations such as concat, like, substring 6.6 Add the 'in' (member-of) operation for sets 7. Features of 1.0 7.1 Effectively combining the bottom-up with top-down evaluation strategies together to answer user queries, and return all query results to the user at reasonable speed 7.2 Supporting higher-order features so that the user can write more general rules and issue more general queries 7.3 Providing basic update facilities so that the user can update facts and rules at run-time 8. Future work 8.1 Client-Server architecture 8.2 Interface to C/C++ so that rol can call C/C++ functions and C/C++ programs can embed ROL commands. 8.3 More efficient Object Management 8.4 Work that users suggest 9. An Example Following is a graphic ROL program which can show the power of ROL system: % This is a graphic database represented in ROL format. % This database can be displayed on the screen by using the drawpicture % command. To obtain the complete picture described by this program, % first type query X:inpicture, then type drawpicture, as some objects % in the picture are inferred by rules. Schema object point(integer, integer) % x, y line(point, point) isa object % from, to circle(point, integer) isa object % center and radius polygon(integer, {point}) isa object % location, side #, points polyline(integer, {line}) isa object % location, side #, lines house[ roof => polygon, door => polygon, windows => {polygon}, frame => polygon, paveway => {line} ] isa object human[ head => circle, body => line, arms => {line}, legs => {line} ] isa object tree [ lines => {line} ] isa object inpicture(point, object) Program % Define the graphic object standing human % Here standing is an object identifier which identifies a graphic % structure so that several objects in the picture can use/share the % same structure. standing: human[head -> circle(point(10,25),5), body -> line(point(10,20), point(10,10)), arms -> {line(point(10,15),point(0,10)), line(point(10,15), point(20,10))}, legs -> {line(point(5,0), point(10, 10)), line(point(10,10), point(15, 0))}] % Define the graphic object working human working: human[ head -> circle(point(10,25),5), body -> line(point(11,20), point(13,10)), arms -> {line(point(12,15), point(9,11)), line(point(9,11), point(4,8)), line(point(12,15), point(16,15)), line(point(16,15), point(20,10))}, legs -> {line(point(13,10), point(8, 2)), line(point(8,2), point(8, 0)), line(point(13,10), point(18, 0))}] % Define the graphic object bungalow house bungalow:house[ roof -> polygon(4, {point(10,50),point(60,50), point(70,40),point(0,40)}), door -> polygon(4, {point(30,20), point(30,34), point(40,34),point(40,20)}), windows -> {polygon(4, {point(15,27), point(15,32), point(25,32),point(25,27)}), polygon(4, {point(45,27), point(45,32), point(55,32),point(55,27)})}, frame -> polygon(4, {point(10,20), point(10,40), point(60,40),point(60,20)}), paveway -> {line(point(30,20),point(27,0)), line(point(40,20),point(43,0))}] % Define the graphic object twostorey house twostorey: house[ roof -> polygon(3, {point(0,65),point(40,80), point(80,65)}), door -> polygon(4, {point(35,20),point(35,40), point(45,40),point(45,20)}), frame -> polygon(4, {point(10,20),point(10,65), point(70,65),point(70,20)}), windows -> {polygon(4,{point(15,30), point(15,40), point(30,40),point(30,30)}), polygon(4,{point(50,30), point(50,40), point(65,40),point(65,30)}), polygon(4,{point(15,50), point(15,60), point(30,60),point(30,50)}), polygon(4,{point(50,50), point(50,60), point(65,60),point(65,50)}), polygon(4,{point(35,50), point(35,60), point(45,60),point(45,50)})}, paveway -> {line(point(35,20),point(32,0)), line(point(45,20),point(48,0))}] % Define the graphic object pine tree pine:tree[ lines -> {line(point(18,0),point(18,20)), line(point(0,20),point(36,20)), line(point(0,20),point(18,55)), line(point(18,55),point(36,20))}] maple:tree[ lines -> {line(point(10,0),point(10,30)), line(point(0,25),point(10,15)), line(point(10,15),point(20,25))} ] % Draw initial humans inpicture(point(50,215), standing) inpicture(point(110,215), working) % Draw initial houses inpicture(point(50,220), bungalow) inpicture(point(400,220), twostorey) % Draw an initial tree inpicture(point(10,235), pine) % Draw the road inpicture(point(10,220), line(point(0,0), point(640,0))) inpicture(point(0,210), line(point(0,0), point(630,0))) % Draw the Sun inpicture(point(500,500), circle(point(10,20), 20)) % Draw the mountain inpicture(point(100,300), polyline(2,{line(point(0,0),point(150,150)), line(point(150,150), point(300,0))})) % Draw the garden inpicture(point(50,100), polygon(4,{point(0,0), point(50,50), point(500,50), point(550,00)})) % Draw initial trees arround graden inpicture(point(120,140), maple) inpicture(point(90,110), maple) % Draw the rest humans with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), Z) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), Z), Z:human, X = X1 + 180, X < 650 % Draw the rest pine trees with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), pine) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), pine), X = X1 + 120, X <650 % Draw the rest maple trees with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), maple) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), maple), X = X1 + 50, X <550 % Draw the rest houses with rules inpicture(point(X,Y), bungalow) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), bungalow), X = X1 + 120, X <400 inpicture(point(X,Y), twostorey) :- inpicture(point(X1,Y), twostorey), X = X1 + 120, X <550 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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It lists the almost-final program, hotel and registration information, details of organized tours, tourism tips, etc. I invite you to take a look at it and pass on this information to your colleagues and other friends who may not be subscribing to dbworld. We plan to make copies of the brochure available during SIGMOD96 in Montreal in 2 weeks. I hope to see many of you in Bombay (Mumbai) in September. Some of you may also wish to attend the pre-VLDB workshop in Goa (see the vldb page for pointers). On the VLDB96 page, there are many pointers to touristic and other information on Bombay and the rest of India, including a clickable map of India. Mohan VLDB96 Americas PC chair _________________________________________________________________________ C. MOHAN EXOTICA workflow page - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/exotica/ http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/mohan mohan@almaden.ibm.com K55/B1, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 915120 Work: +1 408 927 1733 Fax: +1 408 927-4307 VLDB96 home page - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/vldb/ Bibliography - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/exotica/ARIES_papers.html _________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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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 21 09:36:42 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA00196 for ; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:36:37 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA02923 for dbworld; Tue, 21 May 1996 09:36:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:36:36 -0500 From: Chiara Renso Message-Id: <199605211436.JAA02923@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement The program and registration information for the International Workshop on Logic In Databases LID96 1-2 July 1996 S. Miniato, Pisa, Italy is now available at the LID96 WWW pages at URL: http://www.di.unipi.it/LID96/info.html or http://clematis.di.unipi.it/LID96/info.html where an electronic registration form is also provided. An ASCII version of the workshop information is attached below. Carlo Zaniolo and Dino Pedreschi LID96 Workshop Co-Chairs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Logic In Databases 1-2 July 1996 Centro Studi "I Cappuccini" Cassa di Risparmio di San Miniato S. Miniato, Pisa Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of the workshop is to identify and promote logic-based methods and techniques most relevant to the design and development of the next-generation of information systems. Toward this goal, the workshop will bring together experts in the areas of databases, computational logic, and intelligent information systems. The workshop takes places in the "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini", an ex-monastry located 2 Km outside the town turned into a conference center and made available to LID'96 by Cassa di Risparmio di San Miniato. San Miniato, at the heart of Tuscany, almost equidistant from Pisa, Florence and Siena, is a historical town whose origins go back to the 10th century, as a military castle. It still mantains the structure and the charme of the old medieval town, with several interesting churches and civil buildings. Due to room limitations, and in order to mantain the workshop size small enough to facilitate discussion, the *** attendance is limited *** . Therefore, if you are neither a (co-)author nor a Program Committee member, please register at your earliest convenience. LID96 Co-Chair: Dino Pedreschi Carlo Zaniolo LID `96 Co- Chair LID `96 Co- Chair Dipartimento di Informatica Univ. of California at Los Angeles University of Pisa Department of Computer Science Corso Italia, 40 Los Angeles, 56125 PISA, ITALY CALIFORNIA, 90024 E-mail: pedre@di.unipi.it E-mail: zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE * P. Asirelli (IEI-CNR, Italy) * M. Boehlen (Univ. Aalborg, Denmark) * A. Bonner (Univ. Toronto, Canada) * J. Chomicki (Kansas State Univ., USA) * H. Decker (Siemens, Germany) * U. Geske (GMD, Germany) * M. Gelfond (UTEP, USA) * F. Giannotti (CNUCE-CNR, Italy) * G. Gottlob (TU Wien, Austria) * S. Grumbach (INRIA, France) * R. Kowalski (Imperial College, UK) * L. Lakshmanan (Concordia Univ., Canada) * I.S. Mumick (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) * K. Ross (Columbia Univ., USA) * D. Sacca' (Univ. Calabria, Italy) * F. Sadri (Univ. North Carolina, USA) * F. Sadri (Imperial College, UK) * S. Sripada (ECRC, Germany) * D. Srivastava (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) * V. S. Subrahmanian (Univ. Maryland, USA) * O. Shmueli (Technion, Israel) * L. Tanca (Univ. Verona, Italy) * S. Tsur (Argonne Nat. Labs, USA) * F. Turini (Univ. Pisa, Italy) * J. Ullman (Stanford Univ., USA) * V. Vianu (UCSD, USA) * J. Widom (Stanford Univ., USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE C. Renso , S. Contiero , S. Ruggieri (Univ. Pisa, Italy) M. Carboni, G. Manco (CNUCE CNR Pisa, Italy) E. Ricciardi (IEI-CNR, Italy) SPONSORS LID'96 is being organized under the aegis of the Commission of the European Communities---EC-US Cooperative Activity ECUS033, and the NSF IRI program, and with the patronage of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Universit\`a di Pisa, CNUCE-Institute of CNR, Area di Ricerca di Pisa del CNR, Area "Logic-Based Databases" of Compulog-Net. PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAM The workshop program includes * 3 invited lectures, by J. Minker, R. Kowalski and S. Tsur * 21 contributions, selected from 48 submissions * a panel discussion _________________________ Monday, July 1 8.30 Registration 9.00 Opening Remarks Keynote lecturer: Jack Minker 9.15 Logic and Databases: a 20 Year Retrospective Jack Minker (Univ. Maryland, USA) Session 1 Uncertainty 10.00 A Parametric Approach to Deductive Databases with Uncertainty L. Lakshmanan, N. Shiri (Concordia University) 10.30 Deductive Database Approach to Planning in Uncertain Environments V. S. Subrahmanian, C. Ward (University of Maryland) 11.00 Coffee break Session 2 Temporal and spatial reasoning 11.30 Termination properties of spatial Datalog programs Bart Kuijpers, Jan Paredaens, Marc Smits, Jan Van den Bussche (University of Antwerp) 12.00 Applying Transition Rules to Bitemporal Deductive Databases for Integrity Constraint Checking Carme Martin, Jaume Sistac (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Lunch Invited lecturer: Robert A. Kowalski 14.00 Towards a unified agent architecture that combines rationality with reactivity. Robert A. Kowalski, Fariba Sadri (Imperial College, London, UK) Session 3 Updates 14.45 Deductive Database Programming with Concurrent Updates A. J. Bonner (University of Toronto), M. Kifer (SUNY at Stony Brook) 15.15 Learning Query Rules for Optimizing Databases with Update Rules Dominique Laurent, Christel Vrain (Universite' d'Orleans) 15.45 coffee break Session 4 Active databases 16.15 Formal Characterization of Active Databases C. Baral (University of Texas at El Paso), J. Lobo (University of Illinois at Chicago) 16.45 Nested Transactions in a Logical Language for Active rules Bertram Ludascher, Wolfgang May, Georg Lausen (University of Freiburg) 17.15 Interval 17.30 Panel discussion _____________________________ Tuesday, July 2 Session 5 Semantics 8.45 r-stable models for logic programs H. Jakobovits, D. Vermier (University of Brussels) 9.15 The Expressive Power of Partial Models in Disjunctive Deductive Databases T. Eiter, N. Leone (Technical University of Wien), D. Sacca' (University of Calabria) 9.45 Stable Model Checking for Disjunctive Logic Programs Nicola Leone (Technical University of Wien), Pasquale Rullo (University of Reggio Calabria), Francesco Scarcello (University of Calabria) 10.15 Coffee Break Session 6 Language extensions 10.45 Arithmetic and Aggregate Operators in Deductive Object-Oriented Databases Gillian Dobbie (Victoria University of Wellington), Rodney Topor (Griffith University) 11.15 Sequence Datalog: Declarative String Manipulation in Databases Anthony Bonner (University of Toronto), Giansalvatore Mecca (University of Basilicata) 11.45 Language Extensions for Semantic Integration of Deductive Databases Patrizia Asirelli (IEI-CNR, Pisa), Chiara Renso, Franco Turini (University of Pisa) 12.15 Unification of Bounded Simple Set Terms in Deductive Databases S. Greco, C. Mateis (University of Calabria), E. Spadafora (ISI-CNR) 12.45 Lunch Invited lecturer : Shalom Tsur 14.00 The IQ System: A Deductive Database Information Lens for Reasoning about Textual Information Bob Kero and Shalom Tsur (Argonne Nat. Lab.) Session 7 Advanced applications 14.45 Analysis of Logic-Based Systems Dmitri Boulanger (CNUCE-CNR Pisa) 15.15 An Axiomatic Interpretation of Confidentiality Demands in Logic-Based Relational Databases Armin B. Cremers, Adrian Spalka (University of Bonn) Session 8 Query evaluation 15.45 Database query evaluation with the STARBASE method Estrella Pulido (University of Bristol) 16.15 The Limits of Fixed-Order Computation K. Sagonas, T. Swift, D. Warren (SUNY at Stony Brook) 16.45 Coffee break Session 9 Logic Constructs and expressive power 17.15 Expressiveness of Semipositive Logic Programs with Value Invention Luca Cabibbo (University of Roma 3) 17.45 A More Expressive Deterministic Query Language with Efficient Symmetry-based Choice Construct F. Gire, H.K. Hoang (University of Paris) The twin conference SEBD offers interesting tutorials, by J. Ullman, V.S. Subrahmanian and A. Siebes. SEBD WWW pages: http://www.pianosa.cnuce.cnr.it/congressi/sebd96 REGISTRATION FEE The workshop Full Registration Fee amounts at 450.000 Italian Lire. This includes: * full board accommodation at "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini" from Sunday, June 30 (dinner) to Tuesday July 2 (lunch) (see the accommodation section) * workshop proceedings * social dinner * coffee breaks * excursion The workshop Reduced Registration Fee amounts at 350.000 Italian Lire. This includes: * meals at "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini" Monday and Tuesday * workshop proceedings * social dinner * coffee breaks * excursion Student Reductions To facilitate student participation of local universities, a special reduced fee for daily attendance is also provided. The students must attest their position. Student Registration Fee is 100.000 Italian Lire. This includes * workshop pre-proceedings * coffee breaks * lunches * Notice that the Student and the Reduced Registration Fee does NOT include overnight stay at "Cappuccini" . Furthermore, the Student Registration Fee does NOT include dinners. Payment All payments must be in Italian Lire. In Italy: payment may be made by * money transfer (see bank account information below), free of charges to the beneficiary * check, payable to 'Ricciardi Ettore LID96 & SEDB96' Outside Italy: payment may be made by * money transfer (see bank account information below), free of charges to the beneficiary * International Bank cheque payable to `Ricciardi Ettore LID96 & SEDB96' Bank account information: Bank: Banca Popolare di Novara - Agency 1 -- via San Francesco, 54 Pisa Beneficiary: `Ricciardi Ettore LID96 & SEDB96' Bank Code: 05608 14002 Account No: 13559 TRAVEL INFORMATION San Miniato can be reached by train plus bus from Pisa or Firenze (Florence). Both Pisa and Firenze are served by several flights from Italian and European locations, and can also be reached easily by train from most locations in Europe. By Train From Pisa, take a direct train from the airport or from the main train station with destination Firenze, and get off at Empoli (35 minutes). From Firenze, take a direct train from the main train station ``Santa Maria Novella'', with destination Pisa and get off at Empoli (20 minutes). By Plane Florence and Pisa airports are daily connected with all italian domestic airports and the most important european airports. LID'96 participants arriving at Florence airport can continue by taxi, by train or by car. In order to continue by train, take the bus to Firenze San Maria Novella (10 minutes). LID'96 participants arriving at Pisa airport can continue by taxi, by train or by car. If you continue by train, then take the train from the Pisa Aereoporto railroad station (just outside of the airport). By Car S. Miniato Basso is placed on the Superstrada Firenze-Pisa-Livorno. Who is running along the Autosole A1 highway (Milan-Rome) should get off at Firenze Signa. After two hundred meters, turn on the right and you'll be on the Superstrada. Follow the sign towards Pisa. Who is running along the A12 Genova-Livorno highway should get off at Pisa Centro and he will immediately be on the Superstrada in the right direction (Florence). Once you are on the Superstrada, exit at San Miniato. Then, first follow the signs to San Miniato (Alto), and finally the yellow signs to the Hospital (Ospedale) and the Centro Studi ''I Cappuccini'', that is about 1 km. after the hospital. >From Empoli there is a regular bus service (APT Buses) leaving from Piazza della Vittoria (3 minutes walking distance from the train station) to San Miniato (30 minutes, connections for some of them at La Scala). Buses leave on week days at 7:25,8:20, 9:10, 10:15, 14:25,17.35,19.30. When in San Miniato, we could provide a shuttle bus to the conference site: please call in advance. Taxis are also available at Empoli train station The approximate cost of a taxi run to the 'Centro Studi' is (1 US$ about 1500 Lire): From/to Florence Airport lire 100.000 From/to Pisa Airport lire 100.000 From/to Empoli railroad station lire 50.000 From/to S. Miniato Basso railroad station lire 20.000 Furthermore, we will organize a shuttle from Empoli Railway Station to "I Cappuccini" on : Sunday, June 30 at 11.00am, 5.30pm and 7.30pm Monday, July 1 at 8.00am, 10.30am >From June 30 to July 2 you can call the reception of "I Cappuccini" at phone number 0571-418121 if you need help. ACCOMMODATIONS The "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini" of Cassa di Risparmio di S. Miniato provides for LID'96 participants 2 days of full board accommodation from June 30 to July 2. Additionals rooms are available at Hotel Miravalle in S. Miniato (at 3 km from conference site). Due to limited availability, we will assign space accordingly on a first come, first served basis as long as rooms are available. Authors and PC members have higher priority. We cannot guarantee to satisfy all requests of single rooms, so please indicate your preferred roommate, if possible. Those who cannot stay at "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini", will be lodged in Hotel Miravalle in San Miniato. Reservation must be made before June 15. Accommodation in "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini" is included in Registration Fee and will cover: * Sunday, June 30 : dinner and overnight stay * Monday, July 1 : breakfast, lunch, social dinner and overnight stay * Tuesday, July 2 : breakfast, lunch Please contact the Organization if you plan to arrive on Saturday 29 and you need help in lodging, since a limited number of rooms is available at "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini" for that night at the cost of 120.000 Italian Lire (full board). The cost for each accompanying person at "Il Centro studi I Cappuccini" is 120.000 Italian Lire (full board) per day. Notice that Tuesday night is NOT included in LID96 Registration Fee. Due to the proximity with SEBD96 room at the Capuccini can only be guarantee to those that have registered for SEBD96. If you decide to stay on Tuesday night we will happy to help you finding alternative accommodations. For those who prefer a Hotel accommodation or cannot stay at "Cappuccini", a limited number of rooms is available at Hotel Miravalle (at 3 km from "Cappuccini"). Again, it is needed to make reservations before June 15. At Hotel Miravalle the cost per person, per day, breakfast included, is * single room 93.000 Italian Lire * double room 75.000 Italian Lire to be paid directly to hotel. Please, notice that the cost of Hotel Miravalle is not included in the full registration fee. The organizers will refund the difference between full and reduced fee to those who will not be lodged at "Il Centro studi I Cappuccini". On Monday evening, a social dinner will be offered at "Il Centro Studi I Cappuccini". On Sunday afternoon, at 14.30 we shall organize a tour to Vinci, the native town of Leonardo. REGISTRATION FORM To register for the LID96 workshop, please fill in this form and email it to: lid96@clematis.di.unipi.it. Name [ ] Mr. [ ] Mrs. First Name: Last Name: Affiliation Organization: Department: Street: Zip Code: City: State: Country: E-mail address: Phone: Fax: Excursion I want to join the excursion: [ ] no [ ] yes ****************************************************************************** Accommodation Please sign your arrival and departure date. Arrival day : Expected arrival time (at Empoli railway station): Departure: [ ] I prefer to stay at "Cappuccini". Please reserve: N.___ single rooms N.___ double rooms Preferred Roommate (in both cases)__________________ [ ] I prefer to stay at Hotel Miravalle. Please reserve for me: N.___ single rooms per N.___ nights N.___ double rooms per N.___ nights [ ] I authorize my lodging at Hotel Miravalle if no rooms are available at "Cappuccini"; [ ] I do not authorize my lodging at Hotel Miravalle. I will find another accommodation on my own Please indicate any dietary restrictions (honored to the best of our ability) ********************************************************************* Conference Fees: All Fees are in Italian Lire Registration Fee L. _______________ Extra Nights N.___ x 120.000 = L. ___ Accompayning Person N.___ x Days x 120.000 = L. ___ Extra Social Dinner N. ___ x 45.000 = L. ___ Extra Excursion N. ___ x 10.000 = L. ___ Total (Registration Fee + Extras) = L. ___ ********************************************************************** Payment: I have sent to the LID96 organization: [ ] Money Transfer [ ] International Bank Cheque [ ] Personal Cheque ********************************************************************** [ ] I am also registered to SEBD96 We will contact you to confirm your registration Any further comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 22 17:55:54 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 RAA02972 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:55:48 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA05797 for dbworld; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:55:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 17:55:47 -0500 From: mumick@research.att.com (Inderpal Singh Mumick) Message-Id: <199605222255.RAA05797@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The complete program for the VIEWS 1996 Workshop is enclosed. More details, including abstracts of all papers and postscript for more than half of the papers can be found at: http://www.tempo.att.com:80/~mumick/views96/views96.html -ism- =-------- Workshop on Materialized Views: Techniques and Applications (In co-operation with ACM Sigmod) Friday, June 7, 1996 Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada. Session 1: Data Warehousing (8:15am - 9:35am) Chair: Laks Lakshmanan (Concordia University) laks@cs.concordia.ca Conservative Timestamp Revisited for Materialized View Maintenance in a Data Warehouse Elena Baralis (Politecnico di Torino), Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano), and Stefano Paraboschi (Politecnico di Milano) Maintaining Join-based Remote Snapshots Using Relevant Logging David Chao (San Francisco State University), George Diehr (California State University, San Marcos), and Aditya N.Saharia (University of Illinois, Chicago) Efficient View Self-Maintenance Nam Quan Huyn~(Stanford University) A System Prototype for Warehouse View Maintenance Janet L. Wiener (Stanford University), Himanshu Gupta (Stanford University), Wilburt J. Labio (Stanford University), Yue Zhuge (Stanford University), Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University), and Jennifer Widom (Stanford University)} %============================================================================== Session 2: Other Applications (10:00am - 11:20am) Chair: Rick Hull (University of Colorado) hull@cs.colorado.edu On Using Materialization Strategies for a Temporal Authorization Model Elena Ferrari (Universita di Milano), Elisa Bertino (Universita di Milano), Claudio Bettini (Universita di Milano), Alberto Motta (Universita di Milano), and Pierangela Samarati (Universita di Milano) The World Wide Web as a Collection of Views: Query Processing in the Information Manifold} Alon Levy (AT\&T Research), Anand Rajaraman (Stanford University), and Joann Ordille (Bell Laboratories) Preliminary Report on (Active) View Materialization in GUI Programming Nita Goyal (Hewlett Packard Labs), Charles Hoch (Hewlett Packard Labs), Ravi Krishnamurthy (Hewlett Packard Labs), Brian Meckler (Hewlett Packard Labs), and Michael Suckow (Hewlett Packard Labs) Distributed Situation Monitoring: Issues and Architectures Ken Smith (MITRE), Len Seligman (MITRE), David Mattox (MITRE), and Arnon Rosenthal (MITRE) %============================================================================== Session 3: Object Oriented Views and Performance (12:45pm - 1:45pm) Chair: Tim Griffin (Bell Laboratories) griffin@research.att.com View Maintenance in Nested Data Models Akira Kawaguchi (Columbia University and Bell Laboratories), Daniel Lieuwen (Bell Laboratories), Inderpal Singh Mumick (AT\&T Research), and Ken Ross (Columbia University and Bell Laboratories) Answering Queries Using OQL View Expressions Daniela Florescu (INRIA), Louiqa Raschid (University of Maryland), and Patrick Valduriez (INRIA) Towards the Study of Performance Trade-offs Between Materialized and Virtual Integrated Views Richard Hull (University of Colorado) and Gang Zhou (University of Colorado) %============================================================================== Panel Discussion: Are Materialized Views Commercially Viable (2:15pm - 3:15pm) Jose Blakeley~(Microsoft Corporation), Tipin~Ben~Chang~(Informix), Alan~Downing~(Oracle), Inderpal~Singh~Mumick~(AT\&T Research), Nick~Roussopoulos~(University of Maryland) %============================================================================== Session 4: View Maintenance Algorithms (3:45pm - 4:45pm) Chair: Leonid Libkin (Bell Laboratories) libkin@research.att.com {An Algebraic Approach to Supporting Multiple Deferred Views Latha S. Colby~(Bell Laboratories) and Timothy Griffin~(Bell Laboratories) Maintenance Expressions for Views with Aggregation Dallan Quass (Stanford University) Staggered Maintenance of Multiple Views Latha Colby (Bell Laboratories) and Inderpal Mumick (AT\&T Research) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 23 00:01:19 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 AAA06938 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 00:01:11 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA06455 for dbworld; Thu, 23 May 1996 00:01:10 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:01:10 -0500 From: Jiawei Han Message-Id: <199605230501.AAA06455@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Note: Early registration deadline of SIGMOD Data Mining Workshop has been extended to May 25! Please register now by fax! We will have difficulty to access the credit card machines in the hotel on Sunday, June 2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you plan to have a data mining system demo there, please contact us immediately. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM-SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Advance Program and Registration Information Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96 and IRIS/Precarn Workshop Venue: Salons 4 & 5 (meeting), Salon 7 (system demo). Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada, June 2, 1996 =========================================== Workshop (SIGMOD'96 DMKD) Home Page: http://fas.sfu.ca/cs/conf/dmkd96.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Ron Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Ming-Syan Chen, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Wesley Chu, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs, USA Christos Faloutsos, AT&T and Univ. of Maryland, USA Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Lab, California Institute of Technology, USA Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Canada Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada Tomasz Imielinski, Rutger University, USA Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA Willi Kloesgen, GMD, Germany Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Munich, Germany Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki, Finland Sham Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada KayLiang Ong, Trilogy, USA Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories, USA Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, Mitre Corp., USA. Shalom Tsur, Argonne National Research Lab, USA S.K. Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada (han@cs.sfu.ca). Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada (laks@cs.concordia.ca). Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada (rng@cs.ubc.ca). IMPORTANT DATES Early registration deadline: May 10, 1996. (Extended to May 25, 1996) ADVANCE PROGRAM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00 -- 9:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:10 -- 9:50 Invited Speaker: Rakesh Agrawal (IBM, Almaden) "The Quest data mining system: current status and future directions" 9:50 -- 10:00 Coffee Break Session I Mining Spatial Data/Classification 10:00 -- 10:20 "Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Databases: Progress and Challenges," K. Koperski, J. Adhikary, and J. Han (SFU) 10:20 -- 10:40 "Spatial Data Mining: Discovering Knowledge of Clusters from Maps," R. Ng (UBC) 10:40 -- 11:00 "On Preprocessing Data for Effective Classification," H. Lu, S. Sung and Y. Lu (Nat. U. of Singapore) 11:00 -- 11:05 "BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases," T. Zhang, R. Ramakrishnan, M. Livny (Wisconsin) 11:05 -- 11:10 "A Visual Language for Interactive Data Exploration," P. Selfridge and D. Srivastava (AT & T) Session II Mining Relational/Transactional Data 11:20 -- 11:40 "Incremental Discovery of Sequential Patterns," K. Wang and J. Tan (Nat. U. of Singapore) 11:40 -- 12:00 "DMQL: A Data Mining Query Language for Relational Databases," J. Han, Y. Fu, K. Koperski, W. Wang and O. Zaiane (SFU) 12:00 -- 12:20 "Distributed Tree Induction for Knowledge Discovery in Very Large Distributed Databases," J. Arguello (Florida) 12:20 -- 12:25 "Internet Search using Information Mining," I. Khosla, B. Kuhn and N. Soparkar (Michigan) 12:25 -- 12:30 "Supporting Information Infrastructure for Distributed, Heterogeneous Knowledge Discovery," M. Novak and R. King (Colorado) 13:30 -- 14:30 Data Mining System Demonstration. 14:30 -- 15:10 Invited Speaker: Tej Anand (AT & T) "Knowledge Discovery for Data Warehouses" Session III Mining Object and Complex Data 15:20 -- 15:40 "From File Mining to Database Mining," T. Imielinski (Rutgers) 15:40 -- 16:00 "Early Experience with a System for Mining, Estimating, and Optimizing Large Collections of Objects Managed Using an Object Warehouse," R. Grossman (Magnify, Inc.) 16:00 -- 16:20 "Mining Knowledge in Object-Oriented Frameworks for Semantic Query Processing," S. Yoon (Widener U.) and L. Henschen (Northwestern) 16:20 -- 16:25 "Data Mining Opportunities in Very Large Object Oriented Databases," B. Wuthrich and K. Karlapalem (HKUST) 16:25 -- 16:30 "Middleware Support for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Large-scale Distributed Information Systems," A. Bestavros (Boston U.) 16:30 -- 16:40 Coffee Break Session IV Miscellaneous 16:40 -- 17:00 "Security and Privacy Implications of Data Mining," C. Clifton (Mitre) and D. Marks (Defense) 17:00 -- 17:20 "Data mining as selective theory extraction in probabilistic logic," M. Jaeger (Max-Planck-Institut), H. Mannila (Helsinki), and E. Weydert (Max-Planck-Institut) 17:20 -- 17:25 "User-Assisted Knowledge Discovery: How Much Should the User Be Involved," A. Silberschatz (Bell Labs) and A. Tuzhilin (New York) 17:25 -- 17:30 "Split_Up system: Data mining in the legal domain," J. Zeleznikow and A. Stranieri (La Trobe U.) 17:30 -- 17:35 "Using inductive learning and data mining to build legal case based reasoners," J. Zeleznikow and G. Vossos (La Trobe U.), Session V Panel Discussion 17:45 -- 18:30 "Bridging Data Mining and Data Warehousing" Data Mining System Demonstration -------------------------------- We encourage the demonstrations of your data mining systems during the system demo session (13:30 -- 14:30). There is no "official" call for demos. If you plan to give a system demo, please e-mail one paragraph demo proposal to han@cs.sfu.ca. You are responsible to bring your own equipments for demonstration. If you need any help on demo equipments, please contact us as soon as possible. Workshop Registration Form -------------------------- SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Registration Form (Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, in cooperation with ACM-SIGMOD'96 and IRIS/Precarn, Montreal, Canada, June 2 1996) For workshop information, please check . For registration information, please call: (514) 847-0522. Sorry, no email registration! Mail or Fax to: SIGMOD'96 Data Mining Workshop Registration UQAM Department of Computer Science C.P. 8888 Station C.V. Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3P8 Canada Email: sigmod96@uqam.ca Fax: (514) 987-8477 PLEASE PRINT: Last Name: First Name: Affiliation: Phone: Address: Fax: Email: (needed_for_email_acknowledgment) _____________________ Workshop registration includes admission to the workshop, one copy of the workshop proceedings, and the coffee breaks. Please print the amount you are paying and circle the currency of payment. ____________________________________________________________________________ Category Duration Early Registration(?) US $ Cdn $ ____________________________________________________________________________ Data Mining Workshop June 2, 1996 Before May 10 80 110 $ _____ Data Mining Workshop June 2, 1996 After May 10 102 140 $ _____ ____________________________________________________________________________ Note: Early registration deadline has been extended to May 25! Payment can be made by check, money order, or credit card. Please make checks or money orders payable, in US or Canadian currency, to ACM SIGMOD/PODS 1996. Note: Credit cards will be charged only in Canadian currency. Please check here __ if you are enclosing a check or money order. Credit Card: __ VISA __ Mastercard Credit Card Number: Cardholder Name: Credit Card Expiration Date: Signature: Total Charge Authorized: Cdn $ ___ Requests for refunds of registration fees will only be honored through May 2. Refunds are subject to a US $50 processing fee. All no-show registrations will be billed in full. Note: Receipts will be given out at the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 23 09:50:45 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 JAA14727 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:50:39 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA07115 for dbworld; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:50:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:50:38 -0500 From: Keun Ho Ryu Message-Id: <199605231450.JAA07115@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Faculty of Computer Science of Chungbuk National University calls for applications for the position of a Assistent/Associate/Full Professor of "Artifical Intelligence" The Chungbuk National University in KOREA is located at Cheongju, it takes about one and half hour from Seoul to Cheongju by any transportation(a car or train). Applicants should send a resume(need a paperwork of university), an academic record of undergraduate, Ms, and Ph.D, and an experience record and Ph.D dissertation and the publications by June 7th, 1996 to: School Affairs of Chungbuk National University, Cheong Chungbuk 360-763, KOREA Further information on the position can be obtained from Department/ Chairman of Computer Science, email: ksicbucc@cbucc.chungbuk.ac.kr OR email: khryu@cs.arizona.edu OR khryu@dblab.chungbuk.ac.kr Phone:+82-431-61-2023, +82-431-61-2260 Fax: +82-431-275-2254 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 23 09:51:29 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 JAA14746 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:51:18 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA07120 for dbworld; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:51:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:51:18 -0500 From: vs@cs.UMD.EDU (V.S.Subrahmanian) Message-Id: <199605231451.JAA07120@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems Sep. 26-28, 1996 West Point, New York, USA. SPONSORS: U.S. Army Research Office University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies The 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems will be held at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY, Sep. 26-28, 1996. This workshop follows upon the success of the first workshop in this series that was held in Arlington, VA, in Sep. 1995. We plan to have a small focused workshop, consisting of participants drawn from a wide variety of disciplines (e.g. theory, algorithms, real-time systems, networks, operating systems, graphics and visualization, databases, artificial intelligence, etc.), all of whom are engaged in research on one or more aspects of multimedia systems. We invite short (max.5 pages, double spaced, 12 point font) position papers on all aspects of multimedia information systems. No formal proceedings will be published before the conference, just an informal set of position papers. Extended versions of selected papers may be published in an edited book or edited journal volume after further rigorous refereeing. PROGRAM CHAIRS: V.S. Subrahmanian, Univ. of Maryland. Satish K. Tripathi, Univ. of Maryland. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Peter Buneman (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Leana Golubchik (Columbia) David Hislop (Army Research Office) Ramesh Jain (UCSD) Dilip Kandlur (IBM) Jim Kurose (UMass) Dick Muntz (UCLA) Anil Nerode (Cornell) M. Tamer Ozsu (Alberta) V.S. Subrahmanian (Maryland) Satish Tripathi (Maryland) P. Venkat Rangan (UCSD) SUBMISSION DETAILS: Submit 5 copies of a short, 5 page (double spaced, 12 point font) position paper by June 10, 1996 to: Cecilia Kullman /MIS-96 Institute for Advanced Computer Studies A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742. TIMETABLE: Submission Deadline: June 10, 1996 Accept/Reject Notification: July 25, 1996 Camera Ready Copy due: Sep. 1, 1996 Workshop: Sep. 26-28, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 23 09:58:53 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 JAA15025 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:31 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA07155 for dbworld; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:30 -0500 From: mumick@research.att.com (Inderpal Singh Mumick) Message-Id: <199605231458.JAA07155@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu In a previous email, I listed an incorrect URL for the VIEWS '96 Workshop. The correct URL is: http://www.research.att.com/home/mumick@research/views96/views96.html -ism- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu May 23 09:59:13 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA15040 for ; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:56 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA07160 for dbworld; Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:55 -0500 From: Hans Burg Message-Id: <199605231458.JAA07160@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [I apoligize if you have received this message several times] [This is a brief version of the full Call for Participation which can be retrieved from http://www.cs.vu.nl/vakgroepen/infsys/nldb96/nldb96.html or from ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/lics/nldb96/nldb96_part.txt ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/lics/nldb96/nldb96_part.ps.gz] Reminder: Early registration closes at June 1st !!!! ==================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NLDB'96 Second International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems 26-28 June, 1996 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dear Colleagues, NLDB'96 is the second International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems. This year it will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 26-28 June, continuing the successful first edition of last year when NLDB was held in Versailles, France. The three-day workshop consists of a scientific programme including 22 paper presentations, and some poster and demo presentations. The papers have been carefully selected by the programme committee through a thorough reviewing process. The papers are of high academic quality and treat the following topics: natural language interfaces to databases, information retrieval, use of linguistic tools and electronic dictionaries, conceptual modelling, paraphrasing and validating information system models, the use of natural language as a specification interface for the design of information systems, linguistic aspects of database view integration and hypertext facilities for database querying. The programme also features keynote speeches that address typical applications of natural language, and that are presented both from a scientific as well as an industrial perspective by Peter Chen, the inventor of the ER model, and Gerald Kristen, the founder of the KISS company. The organizers of NLDB'96 look forward to meeting you in Amsterdam! Hans Burg (Organizing Chair) Reind van de Riet (Programme Chair) Programme Committee: ------------------ Chairman: Reind van de Riet, Vrije U., The Netherlands Ana Paula Ambrosio U. of Goias, Brazil Elisa Bertino U. di Milano, Italy Mokrane Bouzeghoub PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Janis Bubenko U. of Stockholm, Sweden Hans Burg Vrije U., The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau Essec, France Roland Dachelet Inria, France Jan Dietz U. of Delft, The Netherlands Frank Dignum U. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands Paul McFetridge Simon Fraser U., Canada Christian Fluhr CEA, France Sabine Geldof Vrije U. Brussels, Belgium Jon Atle Gulla GMD Darmstadt, Germany Henri Habrias U. of Nantes, France Kees Koster U. of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Jean-Noel Meunier PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Elisabeth Metais PRiSM, U. of Versailles, France Anton Nijholt U. of Twente, The Netherlands Erich Ortner U. of Konstanz, Germany James Pustejovsky Brandeis U., USA Anne de Roeck U. of Essex, UK Bram van der Vos Vrije U., The Netherlands Hans Weigand U. of Brabant, The Netherlands Chien-ho Wu NDMC, Taiwan Preliminary Programme: ---------------------- Wednesday 26 June 09.30 Registration and Opening 10.00 Keynote Speech: English, Chinese, and ER Diagrams Peter P. Chen 11.00 Coffee Break 11.30 Natural and Formal Languages in the Development of Information Systems A.T. Berztiss 12.00 Analyzing Informal Requirements Specifications: A First Step towards Conceptual Modelling J.F.M. Burg, R.P. van de Riet 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Paraphrasing as a Technique to Support Object-Oriented Analysis C.F. Derksen, P.J.M. Frederiks, Th.P. van der Weide 14.30 Exploring Fact Verbalisations for Conceptual Query Formulation A.H.M. ter Hofstede, H.A. Proper, Th.P. van der Weide 15.00 Tea break 15.30 An Information Retrieval Approach to Locating Information in Large Scale Federated Database Systems R. Richardson, A.F. Smeaton 16.00 Metalinguistic Formulas and Semantics Representation of Knowledge in Training Simulators G. Le Bail, R. Cousin, P. Capdeville Thursday 27 June 09.00 Hypertext Facilities to Document Conceptual Database Schemata G. Levreau, M. Bouzeghoub 09.30 Audio Facilities for Hypermedia Consultation S. Djennane, F. Sedes 10.00 Hyper-Text Generation from Databases on the Internet S. Geldof 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 Retrieving Conceptual Models on the Basis of Word Semantics J.A. Gulla, A.J. van der Vos, U. Thiel 11.30 Conceptual Modelling, Indexing and Retrieval for Textual Corporate Knowledge Bases G.P. Zarri 12.00 Extraction of Exact Meaning Using a Keyfact Concept System M.-S. Jeon, S.-Y. Park, M.-S. Kim 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Structured Data Entry for Medical Records and Reports J. Bernauer, A. Benneke, A. Fuesechi, M. Urban 14.30 Natural Language Interpretation for Public Administration Database Querying in the TAMIC Demonstrator C. Bagnasco, P. Bresciani, B. Magnini, C. Strapparava 15.00 Natural Language Interfaces for Environmental Data Bases F. Dinenberg, D. Levin Friday 28 June 09.00 Capturing Information on Behaviour with the RADD-NLI: A Linguistic and Knowledge Based Approach E. Buchholz, A. D u sterh o ft, B. Thalheim 09.30 NL Structures and Conceptual Modelling: The KISS Case J. Hoppenbrouwers, A.J. van der Vos, S. Hoppenbrouwers 10.00 A Basis for Natural Language Analysis of Part-Whole Relationships in Fact-Based Conceptual Modelling P. Gupta, J.A. Sykes 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 NTS-based derivation of KCPM cardinalities: From Natural Language to Conceptual Predesign G. Fliedl, Ch. Kop, W. Mayerthaler, H.C. Mayr, Ch. Winkler 11.30 Keynote Speech: Understanding Business Languages Gerald Kristen 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Linguistic Tool Based Information Elicitation in Large Heterogeneous Database Networks S. Milliner, M. Papazoglou, H. Weigand 14.30 Correspondency Analysis of Dynamic Schema Constructs Using Case Grammar S. Hakkarainen 15.00 Implementation of a Third Generation View Integration Tool E. Metais, Z. Kedad, I. Comyn-Wattiau, M. Bouzeghoub 15.30 Closure Important dates and addresses: ------------------------------ 1 June 1996 Deadline for early registration and hotel reservation Early Registration (paid before 1 June 1996) NLG 500,-- Late Registration (paid after 1 June 1996) NLG 550,-- 26 - 28 June 1996 NLDB'96 For more information: Hans Burg De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)20 4447769 fax: +31 (0)20 4447653 e-mail: jfmburg@cs.vu.nl http://www.cs.vu.nl/vakgroepen/infsys/nldb96/nldb96.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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