From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Nov 17 22:54:56 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA19897 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:54:50 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA21961 for dbworld; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:54:49 -0600 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:54:49 -0600 From: Usama Fayyad Message-Id: <199611180454.WAA21961@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS Below are the contents of the first issue of the new journal: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Kluwer Academic Publishers. The journal is accepting submissions of works from a wide variety of fields that relate to data mining and knowledge discovery in databases (KDD). We accept regular research contributions, survey articles, application details papers, as well as short (2-page) application summaries. The goal is for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery to become the premiere forum for publishing high quality original work from the wide variety of fields on which KDD draws, including: statistics, pattern recognition, database research and systems, modelling uncertainty and decision making, neural networks, machine learning, OLAP, data warehousing, high-performance and parallel computing, and visualization. The goal is to create a reference resource where researchers and practitioners in the area can lookup and communicate relevant work from a wide variety of fields. The journal's homepage provides detailed call for papers, description of the journal and its scope, and a list of the Editorial Board. Abstracts of the articles in the first issue and the editorial are also on-line. The home page is maintained at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine - If you are interested in submitting a paper, please visit the homepage: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine to look up instructions. - if you would like a free sample issue sent to you, click on the link in http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine and provide an address via the on-line form. Usama Fayyad, co-Editor-in-Chief Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (datamine@microsoft.com) ======================================================================= Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine CONTENTS OF: Volume 1, Issue 1 ============================== For more details, abstracts, and on-line version of Editorial, see http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine/vol1-1 ===========Volume 1, Number 1, March 1997=========== EDITORIAL by Usama Fayyad PAPERS ====== Statistical Themes and Lessons for Data Mining Clark Glymour, David Madigan, Daryl Pregibon, Padhraic Smyth Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-by, Cross-Tab, and Sub Totals Jim Gray, Surajit Chaudhuri, Adam Bosworth, Andrew Layman, Don Reichart, Murali Venkatrao, Frank Pellow, IBM, Toronto, Hamid Pirahesh On Bias, Variance, 0/1 - loss, and the Curse-of-Dimensionality Jerome H. Friedman Bayesian Networks for Data Mining David Heckerman BRIEF APPLICATIONS SUMMARIES: ============================ Advanced Scout: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in NBA data Ed Colet, Inderpal Bhandari, Jennifer Parker, Zachary Pines, Rajiv Pratap, Krishnakumar Ramanujam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To get a free sample copy of the above issue, visit the web page at http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/datamine Those who do not have web access may send their address to Kluwer by e-mail at: sdelman@wkap.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 Tue Nov 19 17:39:10 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA26185 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:39:04 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA26326 for dbworld; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:39:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:39:03 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Page Message-Id: <199611192339.RAA26326@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu PRESS RELEASE FREE ONLINE AUSTRALIAN IMAGE LIBRARY http://www.imagenet.com.au Local web production studio, neural.com, have recently launched a new World Wide Web site which has the potential to dramatically change the way in which people search for, use and procure photographic images. ImageNet is an online image library which specialises in Australian content. The majority of the images within the database have a distinct bias towards Australian flora and fauna, landscapes, textures, backgrounds and the Australian environment in general. The images are high quality, having been shot professionally, drum scanned with no unsharp masking applied and are all in four colour. Four colour images (cyan, yellow, magenta and black) are better for print reproduction purposes than RGB (red, green, blue) ones and having no unsharp masking means that they can be easily manipulated digitally. David Will, the Sales and Marketing Manager for neural.com, said that the site was developed with a number of objectives in mind. Firstly, so that anyone developing a web site has easy access to professionally produced photographic images with a distinct Australian flavour. When the low resolution images are downloaded and used within a World Wide Web site they are completely free of any copyright restrictions, financial charges or obligation. Secondly, so that people involved in an industry that requires the construction of layouts for graphical presentations (advertising, marketing, public relations, etc.) can easily obtain photographic images without violating Australian copyright laws. Currently, anyone that produces layouts by scanning from books, magazines, stock library catalogues or just about any other source is in breach of copyright. In most cases, even recycling digital images is against the law. Obviously, this situation does not reflect contemporary work practices, where the wide spread use of desktop digital imaging systems and the explosive growth of image usage on the World Wide Web requires a change in focus. ImageNet gives people the ability to easily access suitable images without having to break the law, sign a contract, flick through magazines, pay someone money, scan, or wait unnecessarily. Lastly, neural.com is hoping that the ImageNet approach will encourage people to buy the high resolution versions of the files. If, for instance, an Art Director uses a low resolution ImageNet file within their presentation and the concept is approved, ImageNet will sell the high resolution file for a 'one off' usage fee of A$250.00, regardless of intended use. This is a radically different approach in that usage rights are traditionally calculated by the size the image is going to appear at, how much exposure it will receive and the length of time it will run. The only additional charges will be to cover the cost of the customer's preferred transfer method. 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With their innovative approach and obvious understanding of the changing requirements of today's imaging professionals, this is one site that is sure to attract more than its share of visitors. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Kevin Page BA (Hons) PgD MA | Voice: +61 (2) 9954.0922 | Fax: +61 (2) 9923.2453 NEURAL.COM | ISDN: +61 (2) 9919.7440 Internet Publishing House. | E-mail: kpage@neural.com.au | URL. http://www.neural.com.au 42-44 Victoria Street, McMahons Point, Sydney NSW 2060, Australia. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Nov 20 09:44:44 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 JAA09229 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:44:36 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA27111 for dbworld; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:44:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:44:36 -0600 (CST) From: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr (Asuman DOGAC) Message-Id: <199611201544.JAA27111@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ========================================================================= Call For Minitrack Proposals ========================================================================= E X T E N D E D D E A D L I N E & B R O A D E R T H E M E *** December 6, 1996 *** ******************************************** * STRATEGIC EMERGING SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES * ******************************************** ========================================================================= The Software Technology Track of HICSS-31 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences The Big Island of Hawaii - JANUARY 6-9, 1998 ========================================================================= You are invited to submit a proposal for a minitrack for the Software Technology Track of HICSS-31. The HICSS series of conferences has become a unique and respected forum in computer and information systems and technology for the exchange of ideas among the researchers and development communities in North America, the Asian and Pacific Basin Nations, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to the Software Technology Track, HICSS-31 will have Tracks in Computer Architecture, Digital Documents and Information Systems. A TRACK consists of three full days of parallel technical sessions, coupled with a set of advanced seminars and tutorials. A MINITRACK is either a half day or a full day of technical sessions. All sessions are conducted in a workshop-like setting and participants often participate in several different tracks. HICSS is sponsored by the University of Hawaii. ========================================================================= Proposal Topics *************** This particular solicitation is for the Software Technology Track which will focus on "Strategic Emerging Software Technologies" The topics include but not limited to the following: - - Adaptive Software - - Client/Servers systems - - Coordination Languages, models, and systems - - Collaboration over the web - - Debugging and performance analysis environments - - Distributed complex systems - - Distributed and mobile Networks - - Distributed objects & emerging standards (CORBA, DSOM, etc.) - - Distributed operating systems - - Distributed real time systems - - Distributed simulation - - Heterogeneous Processing - - High speed networks - - Migration to distributed systems - - Mobile computing - - Multimedia communication and systems - - Multi-threaded systems - - Networked computing (PVM, MPI, etc.) - - New and innovative programming paradigms: languages & constructs - - Open systems - - Parallel & distributed algorithms (design and analysis) - - Parallel & distributed database systems - - Parallel & distributed software tools - - Parallelizing compilers and optimization - - Reliability and fault tolerance issues - - Scalability issues - - Scheduling and load balancing - - Software engineering of parallel & distributed systems - - Software frameworks and design patterns - - Visualization - - Workflow systems ========================================================================= Proposal Contents ***************** The proposals should be on timely and important topics in the field. Your proposal should be about five pages long and should: 1) define the proposed technical area, discuss the topics the minitrack will address, and describe how they fit into the area; 2) discuss how these topics have recently been covered in other conferences and publications to substantiate that HICSS is not only an appropriate and timely forum for the topics but also that there is a body of unpublished good work to draw from; and, 3) contain: a) a short paragraph (50 words) describing the topics of your minitrack for inclusion in final call for papers, if your proposal is approved by the advisory committee. b) a short bio-sketch c) an explicit statement that your organization endorses your involvement and attendance and has the infrastructure to support that involvement as described in enclosed list giving the responsibilities of minitrack coordinators. ========================================================================= Submission Instructions *********************** - All proposals in **plain ASCII** should be e-mailed to the chairman of the track (e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu) no later than December 6, 1996. (** Please DON'T submit latex or postscript files **) - Include a phone number that we can use if we need to reach you during the Christmas break. - Each proposal will be evaluated by the track advisory committee whose decision will be based on the overall technical merit of the proposal. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by e-mail no later than January 6, 1997. ========================================================================= Track Chairman ************** Hesham El-Rewini Department of Computer Science University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE 68182-0500 e-mail: rewini@cs.unomaha.edu Voice: (402) 554-2852 FAX: (402) 554-2975 ========================================================================= International Track Advisory Committee ************************************** - Gul Agha, University of Illinois, USA - Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey - Wolfgang A. Halang, Fernuniversitaet, GERMANY - Abdelsalam Helal, MCC, USA - Innes Jelly, Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Michael A. Langston, University of Tennessee, USA - Alexey Lastovetsky, Russian Academy of Science, RUSSIA - Keqin Li, State University of New York, USA - Gregory A. Riccardi, Florida State University, USA - John Rosenberg, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA - Diane T. Rover, Michigan State University, USA - Alok Sinha, Microsoft, USA - Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University, USA - Alexander D. Stoyenko, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA - Caetano Traina Junior, University of Sao Paulo, BRAZIL - Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE - Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA ------------------------------Enclosures-------------------------------- The Responsibilities of Minitrack Coordinators ============================================= Interacting with authors and referees in a fair and professional manner and employing control mechanisms that increase the overall quality of the meeting are among the major responsibilities. The detailed responsibilities are summarized as follows: 1. Workshop-like Setting ------------------------ A HICSS minitrack consists of two or four 90-minute sessions conducted in a workshop-like setting. Each session consists of three papers; the papers are allotted thirty minutes for presentation and questions. The last session should include a forum which typically is a lively, open dialogue on the issues raised in the presentations. You are to solicit manuscripts, have them refereed, collaborate with the Track Coordinator in determining which manuscripts are to be accepted, structure the sessions, introduce the speakers in your sessions, and act as the moderator of the forum. 2. Solicit Manuscripts for the Minitrack ---------------------------------------- After your minitrack has been approved by your Track Coordinator, you are encouraged to distribute the Unified Call for Papers and Referees and place it on appropriate electronic bulletin boards. This call will be prepared by your track chairman and cover all minitracks in the Software Technology Track. You should solicit high-quality manuscripts from people who are known to do excellent work in the field. We recommend you contact potential authors and referees to describe the overall objectives of the conference and the minitrack and solicit their ideas, a manuscript, or a commitment to referee. Each manuscript should be 22-25 type written, double-spaced pages in length. Do not accept submissions that are significantly shorter or longer than this. The material must contain original results and not have been submitted elsewhere while it is being evaluated for acceptance to HICSS. Manuscripts that have already appeared in publication are not to be con- sidered for this conference. 3. Acquire Referees Who Will Critically Review the Submitted Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quality refereeing is essential to ensure the technical credibility of HICSS. Each manuscript should be stringently reviewed by a number of qualified people who are actively working in the topics dealt with in the paper. You are responsible for having each manuscript submitted to you reviewed by at least five people in addition to yourself. The author should only be given reviews that are technically substantive. If you wish to submit a paper to your own minitrack, six copies should be sent to the Track Chairman who will administer the refereeing process. Do not use authors of manuscripts as referees as this potentially places them in a conflict of interest situation. HICSS does not have "invited" manuscripts; all submissions go through a rigorous peer refereeing process. 4. Accept Manuscripts for the Minitrack --------------------------------------- A full-day minitrack should accept nine papers. A half-day minitrack should accept five. To ensure excellent accepted papers, typically more than two to three times the number of papers needed must actually be solicited. Many papers will not meet our quality standards (i.e., will not make it through the refereeing process) and some authors may not be able to fulfill their initial commitment and complete the paper for you. If nine technically solid papers do not survive the refereeing process, the full-day minitrack can be changed to a half-day minitrack. 5. Re-publication of the Manuscripts ------------------------------------ We encourage you to work with an Editor-in-Chief of a professional society periodical to use your accepted papers as the basis of a special issue of the publication. Such an arrangement encourages quality submission and requires good refereeing standards. Enter into such an agreement as soon as possible. 6. Write an Introduction to the Minitrack for the Proceedings ------------------------------------------------------------- After the authors have been notified of the acceptance of the final version of their manuscript, you are to write a three to four-page introduction to the minitrack for inclusion in the conference proceedings. It should not be an overview of abstracts of the papers, but should introduce the reader to the important problems that exist in the area. 7. Select the Best Paper Candidate from the Manuscripts ------------------------------------------------------- Within ten days after you have selected the manuscripts for inclusion in your minitrack, your candidate best paper selections must be forwarded to the Track Coordinator. If you have your own manuscript accepted in your minitrack, make your selection excluding your own work. An external committee will make the selection for the minitrack, considering your manuscript along with the candidates you have provided. ----------------------------------End------------------------------------ -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Professor Asuman Dogac Director Software R&D Center Internet: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr Department of Computer Eng. Tel: +90 (312) 210 12 98 Middle East Technical University Fax: +90 (312) 210 1259 06531 Ankara Turkey WWW: http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/~asuman/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Nov 20 10:40:36 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 KAA10785 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:40:27 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA27305 for dbworld; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:40:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:40:26 -0600 (CST) From: Weiyi Meng Message-Id: <199611201640.KAA27305@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ************************************************************* * For advanced registration, the registration form with * * payment must be received by November 25, 1996 * * * * FOR MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT PDIS'96, PLEASE SEE * * Our Web page: http://panda.cs.binghamton.edu/pdis96.html * ************************************************************* ============================================================= Call for Participation 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. PDIS'96 would like to invite you to join us for an exciting program on a key technology of the information superhighway age. ============================================================== Wednesday, December 18, 1996 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 Tutorial I (Half Day) Data Warehousing and Parallel Data Systems Instructor: Rick Stellwagen, CTO, Parallel Systems Division NCR Corporation 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 - 12:15 Tutorial I (continue) ------------------------------------------------------------ 12:15 - 1:45 Lunch on Your Own ------------------------------------------------------------- 1:45 - 3:15 Tutorial II (Half Day) Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems Instructor: Albert M. K. Cheng Associate Professor Real-Time Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Houston--University Park 3:15 - 3:30 Coffee break 3:30 - 5:00 Tutorial II (Continue) 6:00 - 8:00 Reception ================================================================== Thursday, December 19, 1996 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Keynote Speech "Parallel Object/Relational DBMS: Challenges and Opportunities" David DeWitt, University of Wisconsin -------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 - 12:30 Session 2A: Data Mining - S.-J. Yen, A. Chen, "An Efficient Approach to Discovering Knowledge from Large Databases" - T. Shintani, M. Kitsuregawa, "Hash-Based Parallel Algorithms for Mining Association Rules" - D. Cheung, J. Han, V. Ng, A. Fu, Y. Fu, "A Fast Distributed Algorithm for Mining Association Rules" 11:00 - 12:00 Session 2B: Recovery - P. Bohannon, J. Parker, R. Rastogi, S. Seshadri, A. Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan, "Distributed Multi-Level Recovery in Main-Memory Databases" - J. Riegel, J. Menon, "Performance of Recovery Time Improvements for Software RAIDs" -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on one's own) -------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00 - 3:30 Session 3A: Web-based Information Systems - H. Garcia-Molina, L. Gravano, N. Shivakumar, "dSCAM: Finding Document Copies Across Multiple Databases" - A. Mendelzon, G. Mihaila, T. Milo, "Querying the World Wide Web" - V. Almeida, A. Bestavros, M. Crovella, A. de Oliveira, "Characterizing Reference Locality in the WWW" 2:00 - 3:30 Industrial Session 3B: Practical Issues in Large-Scale Systems. - Rick Stellwagen, NCR "Production Data Warehouses with Teradata" - Jim Kleewein, IBM "Practical Issues with Commercial Use of Federated Databases" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00 - 5:30 Session 4A: Indexing and Storage Strategies - D. Lomet, "Replicated Indexes for Distributed Data" - W. Litwin, M.-A. Neimat, "k-RP*S: A Scalable Distributed Data Structure for High-Performance Multi-Attribute Access" - C.-I. Lee, Y.-I. Chang, W.-P. Yang, "A New Storage and Retrieval Method to Support Editing Operations in a Multi-Disk-based Video Server" 4:00 - 5:30 Industrial Session 4B: Parallelism in Commercial Systems - Gary Hallmark, Oracle "Parallel Data Warehouse Architecture" - John McPherson, IBM "DB2 Common Server Parallelism" 6:30 - 8:30 Dinner Banquet ============================================================== Friday, December 20, 1996 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast 9:00 - 10:30 Session 5A: Data Warehousing and Mediator Systems - Y. Zhuge, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Wiener, "The Strobe Algorithms for Multi-Source Warehouse Consistency" - D. Quass, A. Gupta, I. Mumick, J. Widom, "Making Views Self-Maintainable for Data Warehousing" - Y. Papakonstantinou, A. Gupta, L. Haas, "Capabilities-Based Query Rewriting in Mediator Systems". 9:00 - 10:00 Session 5B: Replication - I.-R. Chen, D.-C. Wang, "Repairman Models for Replicated Data Management: A Case Study" - T. Shiroshita, O. Takahashi, M. Yamashita, Y. Nakamura, "Reliable Data Distribution Middleware for Large-scale Massive Data Replication" -------------------------------------------------------------- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00 - 12:30 Session 6A: Query Processing - L. Amsaleg, M. Franklin, A. Tomasic, T. Urhan, "Scrambling Query Plans to Cope with Unexpected Delays" - Q. Zhu, P.-A. Larson, "Developing Regression Cost Models for Multidatabase Systems" - S. Hyun, S. Su, "Parallel Query Processing Strategies for Object-Oriented Temporal Database Systems" 11:00 - 12:30 Industrial Session 6B: Availability and Replication - Frank Symonds, Informix "OnLine XPS for Highly Available, High-Volume, Complex OLTP" - Al Demers, Oracle "Parallel Propagation of Updates for Asynchronous Replication" -------------------------------------------------------------- 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch at Eden Roc -------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00 - 3:30 Session 7A: Transactions and Data Consistency - H. Kaufmann, H.-J. Schek, "Extending TP-Monitors for Intra-Transaction Parallelism" - T. Zhou, C. Pu, L. Liu, "Adaptable, Efficient, and Modular Coordination of Distributed Extended Transactions" - S. Gukal, E. Omiecinski, U. Ramachandran, "Transient Versioning for Consistency and Concurrency in Client-Server Systems" 2:00 - 3:30 Industrial Session 7B: Query Evaluation Technology - Prakash Sundaresan, Informix "Data Warehousing Features in OnLine XPS" - Pedro Celis, Tandem "The Query Optimizer in Tandem's New ServerWare SQL Product" - Hans Zeller, Tandem "The Query Execution Engine in Tandem's New ServerWare SQL Product" -------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break -------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00 - 6:00 Session 8: Panel Discussion World Wide What? Moderator: Marek Rusinkiewicz MCC ============================================================== Registration Form Last Name (Dr./Prof./Mr./Mrs./Ms.) _________ First Name __________ Affiliation ______________________________________________________ IEEE/ACM Membership# _____________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Country _____________________ Telephone __________________ Fax ________________ E-mail ______________________________ Check the tutorials you plan to attend: Tutorial 1 ______________ Tutorial 2 ______________ Registration fee (all in US Dollar) ----------------------------------- Delegate Type Advance Registration* Late/On-site Registration ------------------------------------------------------------------ Members (ACM, IEEE) $340.00 $410.00 Non-members $425.00 $510.00 Full-time student $170.00** $205.00** Registration fee includes one proceedings of the conference, a continental breakfast, one lunch, one reception, one dinner banquet, and coffee breaks. Add $40 for each additional dinner ticket. * The cut-off date for advance registration is November 25, 1996. ** Student rate does not include dinner banquet and lunch Tutorial fee (all in US Dollar) ------------------------------ Delegate Type Advance Registration Late/On-site Registration ------------------------------------------------------------------ Members (ACM, IEEE) $170.00* $205.00* Non-members $215.00* $260.00* * The fee is for one tutorial. Those who attend both tutorials will get a 40% discount of the second tutorial fee. The fee includes continental breakfast and coffee break. Total fee: Conference registration: _____________ Tutorial: _____________ Total: _____________ Refund Policy ------------- All requests of (full) refund must be made in writing 2 weeks prior to the date of the conference. However, a $50 processing fee will be collected. Payment ------- Check or Money Order (payable to PDIS'96): amount enclosed ____________ Credit Card (check one): Master Card ____ Visa _____ Discover _____ American Express _______ Cardholder's Name _________________________________________________ Card Number: _________________________ Expire Date ________________ Signature _____________________________ Date ______________________ Do you need help for hotel reservation? If yes, please attach the Hotel Reservation Form (see below). Please mail your registration form with your payment to (note that to qualify for advanced registration, the registration form with payment must be received by November 25, 1996): Paul Attie PDIS'96 Registration Chair School of Computer Science Florida International University Miami, Florida 33199 email: attie@cs.fiu.edu =================================================================== Hotel Reservation Form Eden Roc Resort & Spa is located on 600 feet of prime oceanfront property, overlooking world-renowned Miami Beach and the spectacular intracoastal waterway. During mid and late December, the temperatures in Miami Beach are typically in the 50-70s (Fahrenheit) (day) and 40-60s (nights). Ocean swimming is possible. The resort is just 11 miles east of Miami International Airport. Address: 4525 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33140 Telephone: (305) 531-0000, (800) 327-8337 Fax: (305) 538-4227 Reservations: (800) 327-8337 (Please mention PDIS conference when reserving a room) The reservation CUT-OFF DATE will be Tuesday, November 26, 1996 at 5:00pm Eastern time. According to the hotel, there will be a special event around the same time of the conference at the hotel. Also, mid and late December is the PEAK season in Miami Beach. As a result, the above cut-off date will be STRICTLY observed by the hotel and rooms for late reservations may not be guaranteed. Please make your reservations early whenever you can. Hotel discount rate: Room Type Single Occupancy Double Occupancy ------------------------------------------------- Bay View $109.00 $109.00 Ocean View $129.00 $129.00 The extra per person charge is $20.00 per night. The extra charge for guaranteed balcony terrace rooms is $25.00. The above special rates will apply at least three days prior to and three days after the meeting dates based on availability. If you want the conference to help you make the reservation, please fill out the following form and send it together with your registration form to Paul Attie. Last Name ______________________ First Name ___________________ Arrival time _________________ Departure Time _________________ Room Type __________________ Smoke ________ Non-Smoke _________ Credit Card (check one): Master Card ____ Visa _____ Discover _____ American Express _____ Cardholder's Name _______________________________________________ Card Number: _________________________ Expire Date ______________ Signature ____________________________ Date _____________________ ================================================================= 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 Chaitanya Baru, San Diego Supercomputing Center 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 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 ================================================================== Tutorial 1: Data Warehousing and Parallel Data Systems Instructor: Rick Stellwagen, CTO, Parallel Systems Division NCR Corporation Data warehousing has developed into a rapidly growing business. Today, there are hundreds of production-level data-warehouse installations. Parallel database systems and decision-support systems have provided the foundation for most of these production data warehouses. Currently, thousands of data warehouses and data marts are being planned and installed. A substantial number of new products along with new methods and models have appeared on the market that claim to be data-warehousing "solutions". This has resulted in a wide variety of definitions of the data-warehousing problem. This tutorial will review the current industry definitions of data warehousing. The various components of data warehouse systems will be outlined, including inflows (transformation), administration, user-information access and database processing. More in-depth discussions will center around data warehouse architectures, the types of user access that are most prevalent in commercial data warehouses, and data models and programming models for achieving performance objectives. Also to be discussed are special techniques that are used to address performance issues based on characteristics of the workload. This tutorial will define a framework that allows the true potential for re-use and data sharing. This includes optimizations that are maximized with use of a scaleable parallel system as the hub and spokes in a two- and three- tier data warehouse implementation. Several different database and parallel database products will be studied to show how they fit into the various data-warehousing architectures. Finally, the tutorial will consider the role of the internet and multi-media data in this environment. About the speaker: Rick Stellwagen received his B.S. in Computer Science from S.U.N.Y at Brockport in 1979. He has been active in both research and development of database and information products for the past 17 years. He produced heterogeneous distributed information systems in early 1980s and was the architect and lead developer for DBSR, NCR's first relational DBMS in early and mid 1980s. He has built and designed query tools, message-oriented middleware for data and meta-data placement and integration, along with performance, simulation, and modeling tools. Rick was an architect and director of the Data Navigator and Configurator project (later to be Sybase MPP) that NCR and Sybase pioneered as the first open parallel database system designed for deployment on commodity clusters of servers. His experience includes being a member of the ANSI X3H2 and RDA committee on databases, and a founding member of the SQL Access committee. Today he is responsible for strategy and architecture of NCR's Data Warehouse Program. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial 2: Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems Instructor: Albert M. K. Cheng Associate Professor Real-Time Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Houston--University Park Computer systems embedded in a real-time environment must satisfy stringent response-time constraints in addition to logical correctness constraints. Parallel and distributed computer systems research and development has produced systems capable of attaining very high performance in terms of speed and versatility at very attractive cost-to-speed ratio. Recently, parallel and distributed systems are emerging as a highly promising candidate for implementing the next generation of high-performance embedded real-time systems which are adaptive to the rapidly changing environment. However, "fast" does not necessarily mean "real-time". Therefore, parallel and distributed systems must be fine-tuned before they can be trusted to monitor and control critical real-time processes. The formal verification of real-time systems to ensure that they satisfy the specified integrity and timing requirements is thus essential if such systems are to be used in safety-critical environments. This tutorial introduces a formal framework and powerful techniques for the design and development of this class of systems, including the aspects of specification, design, analysis, implementation, verification, and validation. Programming in real-time/rule-based languages is described. Specification and verification tools such as Statechart, Modechart, and Estella are used to help design experimental parallel and distributed real-time systems. About the speaker: Albert Mo Kim Cheng received the B.A. with Highest Honors in Computer Science, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, the M.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering, and the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1990, all from The University of Texas at Austin, where he also held a GTE Foundation Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Cheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston--University Park, where he directs the Real-Time Systems Laboratory. His research interests include real-time systems, multimedia tools, rule-based expert systems, reliable software systems, and fault-tolerant distributed and parallel systems. He is the author/co-author of over forty refereed publications, and has served or is serving on the program committees of several conferences in his areas of research. Dr. Cheng has received numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Advanced Research Program Award, and the University of Houston Research Initiation Grant. He is a member of the honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Beta Alpha Phi, and Golden Key. He has presented tutorials in several conferences, has given invited seminars at many universities, and has served as a technical consultant for several organizations, including IBM. Dr. Cheng is a senior member of the IEEE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Nov 21 13:20:03 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA01992 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:19:24 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA04639 for dbworld; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:19:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 13:19:24 -0600 (CST) From: Lionel Brunie Message-Id: <199611211919.NAA04639@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please distribute widely! ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE OF LYON, FRANCE. Computer Science Faculty Positions Applications are invited for two tenured faculty positions in computer science, one at the level of full professor and one at the level of assistant professor, commencing in the Fall, 1997. Outstanding applicants are sought in all areas of computer science and from all countries and nationalities. Although parallelism was the founding theme of the ENS-Lyon computer science department (LIP), this is no longer the only priority, and preference will be given to candidates who will develop a new research direction. Special, but not exclusive, attention will be given to joint applications (full professor + assistant professor), which might enable the recruiting of an already formed research group. The teaching requirements (128 hours per year) include teaching the fundamentals of computer science at the junior, senior and graduate levels to students of the Math and Computer Science department (DMI) of ENS-Lyon, in the framework of the Magistere degree (MIM) of ENS-Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I and Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble I. The undergraduate and graduate students are first-rate. The ENS-Lyon computer science department currently has 3 full professors and 5 assistant professors. The ENS-Lyon computer science department is located at ENS-Lyon (not surprisingly, perhaps), and currently has 20 faculty and 40 graduate students. ENS-Lyon has a strong department with a variety of interesting research projects in Parallel algorithms and architecture, parallel databases, parallel compiling and automatic parallelization, program specification and correctness, computer arithmetic, neural networks and connexionism, and theoretical computer science. In addition to its numerous european and international projects and to two joint projects with INRIA, the department is currently collaborating with Matra Cap Systemes for the design and a massively parallel supercomputer and its programming environment. Please consult the description of the department at the website http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP. If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible. The deadline for application is January 16, 1997. Michel Cosnard Head of LIP, Vice-head of the Maths/CS Theaching Dept. Voice: (+33) 4.72.72.80.37 Internet: Michel.Cosnard@lip.ens-lyon.fr Luc Boug\'e Chairman of the Selection Committee Voice: (+33) 4.72.72.84.32 Internet: Luc.Bouge@lip.ens-lyon.fr Adress: LIP, ENS Lyon, 46 All\'e d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France Fax: (+33) 4.72.72.80.80 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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The book Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Stockholm, July 18-20, 1996. Edited by Per Svensson and James C. French Published by IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN 0-8186-7264-1 is available from Centre for Geoinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44, Stockholm, at the discount price of SEK 250:-, VAT included. (1 USD approximately equals 6.60 SEK.) 8SSDBM Proceedings may be ordered by sending an email to medlund@geomatics.kth.se (or fax to Marianne Edlundh, CGI, KTH, +46 8 790 7343) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Nov 21 18:20:32 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 SAA08318 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:20:22 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA05265 for dbworld; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:20:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:20:22 -0600 (CST) From: dimitris@gte.com (Dimitrios Georgakopoulos) Message-Id: <199611220020.SAA05265@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu At GTE Laboratories, we have assembled a uniquely talented group of = researchers to define and support the future software technology needs of GTE-one of = the largest telecommunications companies in the world. As part of the Software Infrastructure Department in the Advanced = Systems Laboratory, you will investigate, prototype, and extend emerging = software technology for very large-scale, component-oriented, complex information = systems. GTE Laboratories is located in the Boston area, with all its = cultural advantages and in easy reach of New England's many historic and scenic attractions. Interoperability and Workflow Research We are staffing two projects to do applied research and proof-of-concept = demonstrations in architectures, models, and distributed services for = supporting large-scale system integration/interoperation, software evolution, = workflow management infrastructure, and/or virtual enterprises/services. Prior = R&D work in one or more of the following areas is required: software architecture workflow management distributed systems/databases data warehouses object-based systems/databases mobile/nomadic computing software engineering technology that promotes these areas Senior positions require a PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent) and = involve technical leadership in a team setting to evaluate research = opportunities and related GTE needs, set appropriate direction, and make technology recommendations to GTE business units. Active involvement in research = community activities is expected. Additional positions require at least an MS in = Computer Science and involve participating in research activities and performing proof-of-concept prototype design and development. Box: DBWORLD-1 Requirements Engineering Research We are seeking an individual to participate in the design and = development of novel prototype software environments and tools to support requirements engineering, enterprise modeling, and other software engineering = applications. Work will involve integration and application of multiple advanced = software technologies, including knowledge representation and reasoning = techniques, (e.g., constraints, TMS, logic programming), OODBMS, GUI, web-based and = other emerging technologies. The objective is to advance the = state-of-the-practice in the corporation and the state-of-the-art in the field of Requirements Engineering. The position requires an MS or PhD in Computer Science, = proven design and prototyping skills, and expert skills using Lisp, Prolog, = Java, KBSs, OODBMSs. Box: DBWORLD-2 We offer an outstanding benefits package, including an on-site fitness = facility, medical/life/dental and long term care insurance, pension, and 401(k) = plan. Please send your resume to C. Richards, indicating the appropriate Box = code: GTE Laboratories Incorporated, MS 40A, 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA = 02254. Fax: (617) 890-9320 email crichards@gte.com An Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. Visit GTE's web site at www.gte.com or GTE Laboratories web site at info.gte.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 Fri Nov 22 10:00:11 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 KAA19095 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:00:06 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA06052 for dbworld; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:00:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:00:00 -0600 (CST) From: mpsingh@eos.ncsu.edu Message-Id: <199611221600.KAA06052@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Hi, Please feel free to forward this ad to students and colleagues. Early applications are especially welcome. Thanks, Munindar Singh ========================================================================= North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science Workflow Management and Data Mining The Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University seeks an assistant professor in the broad area of workflow management and data mining, although candidates with a background in other areas of distributed systems will also be considered. We especially seek candidates with interests and qualifications that complement or strengthen our present faculty. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Computer Science and an extensive research record. This new position has been created to further strengthen our activities in software systems. Our present activities involve a number of relevant areas, such as workflows and relaxed transaction management, software process modeling, formal methods and tools for concurrency, heterogeneous database access, scientific data management, multiagent systems, machine learning, distributed computing, multimedia, and human interfaces. Applications of interest include education, healthcare, process control, and scientific decision-support. The new faculty member will find a lively and collegial work environment. The department is in a period of rapid growth and advancement, and is positioning itself to be at the forefront of selected areas in computer science. We attract research sponsorship from a variety of sources, including ARPA, AFOSR, EPA, NASA, NIH, NSF, and ONR. Industrial sources include IBM, Fujitsu, Glaxo-Wellcome, and others. The candidate will have access to our state-of-the-art high-performance ATM-based networking, computational, and multimedia facilities. In December, the department's Multimedia Laboratory, with which the successful candidate will be affiliated, will move to a 5,000 sq. ft. space in the new $41 million Engineering Graduate Research Center. The university is located in Raleigh which forms one vertex of the world-renowned Research Triangle. The Research Triangle area was recently recognized as one of the "best places to live in" in the U.S. It boasts a large concentration of high technology companies, such as Alcatel, Data General, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Glaxo-Wellcome, IBM, Nortel (Northern Telecom, Bell Northern Research) and the SAS Institute, and research institutions such as EPA, NIEHS/NIH, and RTI. Interested candidates should send their resume (including citizenship and visa status) and the names of four references to: Chair, Workflow Recruitment Committee Department of Computer Science 226 Withers Hall North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8206, USA Prospective candidates are encouraged to access the department's homepage (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu) and to send email to workflow@csc.ncsu.edu. The university is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Fri Nov 22 16:02:09 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 QAA25382 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:02:02 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id QAA06767 for dbworld; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:02:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:02:01 -0600 (CST) From: "Venkat N. Gudivada" Message-Id: <199611222202.QAA06767@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology CISST'97 June 30 - July 2, 1997 Las Vegas, Nevada, USA The first International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'97) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 30 - July 2, 1997. All aspects of computer graphics, image processing, and pattern recognition are included in CISST. You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a technical session (see below for submission information). All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: O Image generation, acquisition, and processing. O Image display techniques. O Image data structures and databases. O Convergence of imaging media (video and computer). O Virtual reality. O Image compression, coding, and encryption. O Tools for multimedia production and services. O Digital imaging for film and television. O Visualization. O Scene and object modeling. O Knowledge acquisition. O Visual inspection. O Document image understanding. O Image algebra. O Mathematical morphology. O Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including parallel architectures and algorithms). O Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic. O Performance analysis and evaluation. O Software tools and environments for imaging. O Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS, remote sensing, ... O Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages) to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below) by the due date. E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 10 pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Each technical session will have 5/6 paper presentations. The session chairs will be responsible in selecting the papers for their own sessions. The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in the conference proceedings. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name and address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, and how you plan to advertise the session and select papers for the proposed session. Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address is given below); E-mail submissions are preferred. EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person. PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Please note that all color pictures/diagrams will be published in gray-scale. ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS: A number of university faculty members in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Hotel (conference division) will be organizing the conference. The conference is sponsored by the Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Tech. (CSREA) in cooperation with the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech. (CVRA), The National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (USA), developers of high-performance machines and systems (pending) and related computer associations (pending.) LOCATION OF CONFERENCE: The conference will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is a new hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles to and from the airport. The hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions, including: casino, waterfalls, spa, kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for families and children. The hotel's room rate is very reasonable ($79 + 8% tax) per night for the duration of the conference. The hotel is minutes from other Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street shows, ...). For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, ... EXHIBITION: An exhibition is planned during the conference. We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conference. Each exhibitor will have the opportunity to include a two-page description of their latest products in the conference proceedings (if submitted by May 19, 1997). IMPORTANT DATES: February 12, 1997 (Wednesday): Draft papers (5-page) due April 8, 1997 (Tuesday): Notification of acceptance May 19, 1997 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Preregistration due June 30, July 1, July 2: CISST'97 Conference Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible (well ahead of the February 12 deadline). All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (as of Nov. 7, 1996): I. Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong; H. R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; C. Colin, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France; J. Farison, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA; M. E. Fayad, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA; O. Frieder, George Mason University & Florida Tech., USA; F. Golshani, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; V. Gudivada, University of Missouri at Rolla, MO, USA; M. Halem, Space Data & Comp. Div., Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, USA; G. Hu, Central Michigan University, MI, USA; K. C. Hui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; O. H. Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; X. Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; J. Jin, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; D. Kazakos, University of Southwestern Louisiana, LA, USA; A. Law, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; D. Luzeaux, Etca/Crea/Sp, France; K. Makki, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV, USA; S. A. M. Makki, University of Queensland, Australia; A. Mana-Gomez, E.T.S.I.Informatica, Malaga, Spain; N. Memon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA; B. Nassersharif, National Supercomputing Center For Energy and the Environment, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; M. S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, NJ, USA; Y. Pan, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA; E. K. Park, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA; W. Peng, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA; N. Pissinou, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA; Rajkumar, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India; S. Sahni, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; H. Sharif, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA; H. Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA; M. Singhal, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA; S. Y. W. Su, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; A. Tentov, University "Sv. Kiril i Metodij", Republic of Macedonia; E. Torng, Michigan State University, MI, USA; N-F. Tzeng, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, USA; Y. Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA; S. You, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA; H. Zhang, Aptronix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA; D. Zhu, Aptronix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA; A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia. CONFERENCE CONTACT: Professor Hamid R. Arabnia (CISST General Chair) The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra@cs.uga.edu LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS: Professor Kia Makki Department of Computer Science University of Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4019, USA kia@koko.cs.unlv.edu Professor Niki Pissinou Center For Advanced Computer Studies University of Southwestern Louisiana Lafayette, LA 70508, USA pissinou@cacs.usl.edu PUBLICITY CHAIR: Professor Yi Pan Department of Computer Science University of Dayton Dayton, OH 45469-2160, USA pan@cps.udayton.edu Tel: (513) 229-3807 Fax: (513) 229-4000 http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sat Nov 23 21:26:31 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 VAA11620 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:26:25 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA07932 for dbworld; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:26:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:26:24 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Pazzani Message-Id: <199611240326.VAA07932@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS) at the University of California Irvine invites applications for a tenured position at the full professor level, although promising candidates at other levels may also be considered. Research emphases of interest include databases; digital libraries; human-computer interaction studies, techniques, and approaches; intelligent information retrieval; multimedia; networking and communications; visualization; and the study of these technologies and their effect including aspects of management, privacy, public policy and security. We are looking for candidates with strong research records who would thrive in a highly productive setting. Duties include research and undergraduate and graduate teaching. Applicants must possess a Ph.D. The ICS Department is an independent campus unit reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor. ICS faculty emphasize core computer science as well as research in emerging areas of the discipline, with effective interdisciplinary ties to colleagues in biology, cognitive science, engineering, management, medicine, and the social sciences. The Department currently has 29 full-time faculty and 120 Ph.D. students. The ICS Department has research groups in the areas of algorithms and data structures; artificial intelligence; computer networks and distributed systems; computer-supported cooperative work; computer systems design; parallel processing; and social and managerial analysis of computing; and software/software engineering. UC-Irvine is located in Orange County, three miles from the Pacific Ocean near Newport Beach, and approximately forty miles south of Los Angeles. The campus is situated in the heart of a national center of high-technology enterprise. Both the campus and the enterprise area offer exciting professional and cultural opportunities. Salaries and benefits are competitive. Mortgage and housing assistance are available. Housing options include newly built, for-sale housing located on campus and within short walking distance from the Department. Send resume and contact information for five references to: ICS Faculty Position c/o Joy Schuler Department of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3425 Application screening will begin immediately upon receipt of curriculum vitae. Maximum consideration will be given to applications received by December 1, 1996. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity. ============================================================================== Michael Pazzani, Chair phone (714) 824-5888 Department of Information and Computer Science fax (714) 824-4056 University of California e-mail pazzani@ics.uci.edu Irvine, CA 92717-3425 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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