From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sun Oct 13 15:08:00 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 PAA12914 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:07:55 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA14792 for dbworld; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:07:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:07:55 -0500 From: Jennifer Widom Message-Id: <199610132007.PAA14792@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu After the upcoming issue of SIGMOD Record I'll be retiring my position as editor-in-chief. I'm passing the job into the capable hands of Prof. Michael Franklin at the University of Maryland. Effective immediately, please direct all SIGMOD Record inquiries and submissions to Mike: Michael Franklin Dept. of Computer Science A.V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 franklin@cs.umd.edu http://www.cs.umd.edu/~franklin Outgoing (overworked) editor-in-chief, Jennifer Widom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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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). *************************************************************************** ICDT'97 HIGHLIGHTS * Invited talks by S. Abiteboul and J. Ullman * Invited tutorial on data mining by H. Mannila * Presentations of 29 technical papers selected out of 119 submissions *************************************************************************** INVITED TALKS ============= Speaker: S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford University) ------------ Title: Querying Semi-Structured Data Abstract: Semi-structured data can be found in many data sources available electronically (most notably in the WWW). They also arise naturally as the result of the integration of independent heterogeneous sources. In such contexts, the structure of data is not as regular or rigid as in standard databases systems, e.g., in the relational or object-oriented database systems. Also, the notion of schema is altered in essential ways, e.g., the schema may become implicit. We will try to highlight the main aspects and particularities of semi-structured data. We will also survey some proposals of models and query languages for semi-structured data. About the speaker: Serge Abiteboul obtained his Ph.D. from U.S.C, Los Angeles, in 1982, and a Th`ese d'Etat from Paris University, Orsay, in 1985. He is Senior Researcher at I.N.R.I.A., Rocquencourt, France where he managed a Database Group from 1989 to 1995. He is also Maitre de Conf'erence at Ecole Polytechnique. He is currently visiting for two years the Computer Science Dept. at Stanford U. Speaker: J. Ullman (Stanford University) --------- Title: Information Integration Using Logical Views Abstract: A number of ideas concerning information-integration tools can be thought of as constructing answers to queries using views that represent the capabilities of information sources. We review the formal basis of these techniques, which are closely related to containment algorithms for conjunctive queries and/or datalog programs. Then we compare the approaches taken by AT&T Labs' "Information Manifold" and the Stanford "Tsimmis" project in these terms. About the speaker: Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering and acting chair of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. He has served as chair of the CS-GRE Examination board, Member of the ACM Council, Chair of the New York State CS Doctoral Evaluation Board, on several NSF advisory boards, and is past or present editor of several journals. He is presently a member of the Computing Research Association Board. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989, has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships, and is the 1996 winner of the Sigmod Contributions Award. He is the author of 14 books, including a 2-volume series on Database Systems. His research interests include information integration, warehouse design, and data mining. ***************************************************************************** INVITED TUTORIAL ================ Speaker: H. Mannila (University of Helsinki) ---------- Title: Methods of data mining Abstract: Data mining, also called knowledge discovery in databases, aims at the discovery of interesting knowledge from large masses of data. We review some recent developments in data mining methods for relational, sequential, and time-series data, and present some theoretical results and challenges in the area. About the speaker: Heikki Mannila is a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1985. After that he has been an associate professor at the Universities of Tampere and Helsinki, a visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna, and a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institut fur Informatik in Saarbrucken. He has also worked at the National Public Health Institution in Helsinki, as well as consultant in industry. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, database design, and text databases. He is the coauthor of the book "Design of Relational Databases" (Addison-Wesley) as well as numerous articles in algorithms, databases, machine learning and data mining. He is one of the editors-in-chief of the new scientifc journal "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery". ***************************************************************************** CONFERENCE PROGRAM =================== TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 ------------------------ 16:00 and 20:00 Conference buses depart from Athens airport to Delphi 19:00 - 23:00 Registration 20:00 - 22:00 Reception (with light dinner) ------------------------------------------------------ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1997 ------------------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk by J. Ullman (Stanford Univ.) Information Integration Using Logical Views 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Session 1: Conjunctive Queries in Heterogeneous Databases Conjunctive query containment revisited --- C. Chekuri (Stanford Univ.), A. Rajaraman (Stanford Univ.) Semantics and containment with internal and external conjunctions --- G. Grahne (Univ. Helsinki), N. Spyratos (LRI, Orsay), D. Stamate (LRI, Orsay) Efficient complete tests for conjunctive query constraints with negation --- N. Huyn (Stanford Univ.) Selection of views to materialize in a data warehouse --- H. Gupta (Stanford Univ.) 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Session 2: Logic and Databases I Total and partial well-founded Datalog coincide --- J. Flum (Univ. Freiburg), M. Kubierschky (Univ. Freiburg), B. Ludaescher (Univ. Freiburg) Fine hierarchies of generic computation --- J. Tyszkiewicz (RWTH Aachen) Local properties of query languages --- G. Dong (Univ. Melbourne) , L. Libkin (Bell Labs), L. Wong (I.S.S., Singapore) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:30 Session 3: Active Databases Expressiveness and complexity of active databases --- P. Picouet (E.N.S.T.), V. Vianu (UC San Diego) A model theoretic approach to update rule programs --- N. Bidoit (Univ. Paris XIII), S. Maabout (Univ. Paris XIII) Abstract interpretation of active rules and its use in termination analysis --- J. Bailey (Univ. Melbourne), L. Crnogorac (Univ. Melbourne), K. Ramamohanarao (Univ. Melbourne), H. Sondergaard (Univ. Melbourne) Structural issues in active rule systems --- J. Bailey (Univ. Melbourne), G. Dong (Univ. Melbourne), K. Ramamohanarao (Univ. Melbourne) 19:00 - 20:00 Business Meeting ------------------------------------ THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1997 ------------------------- 8:30 - 10:00 Invited tutorial by H. Mannila (Univ. Helsinki) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:30 Session 4: New Applications Discovering all most specific sentences by randomized algorithms --- D. Gunopoulos (MPI), H. Mannila (Univ. Helsinki), S. Saluja (MPI) A formal foundation for distributed workflow execution based on state charts --- D. Wodtke (Univ. Saarland), G. Weikum (Univ. Saarland) Incorporating user preferences in multimedia queries --- R. Fagin (IBM Almaden), E.L. Wimmers (IBM Almaden) Queries and computation on the web --- S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford Univ.), V. Vianu (UC San Diego) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 16:30 Tour of the Delphi archaeological site and museum 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:00 Session 5: Logic and Databases II The complexity of iterated belief revision --- P. Liberatore (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza") Expressive power of unary counters --- M. Benedikt (Bell Labs), H.J. Keisler (Univ. Wisconsin) 18:00-19:00 Session 6: Concurrency Control Concurrency control theory for deferred materialized views --- A. Kawaguchi (Columbia Univ.), D. Lieuwen (Bell Labs), I. Mumick (Bell Labs), D. Quass (Stanford Univ), K. Ross (Columbia Univ.) Serializability of nested transactions in multidatabases --- U. Halici (METU, Ankara), B. Arpinar (METU, Ankara), A. Dogac (METU, Ankara) 20:30 Conference Banquet --------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1997 ------------------------ 9:00 - 10:00 Invited talk by S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford Univ.) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 7: Unstructured Data Adding structure to unstructured data --- P. Buneman (Univ. Pennsylvania), S.Davidson (Univ. Pennsylvania), M. Fernandez (AT&T Research), D. Suciu (AT&T Research) Correspondence and translation for heterogeneous data --- S. Abiteboul (INRIA and Stanford Univ.), S. Cluet (INRIA), T. Milo (Univ. Tel Aviv) 11:30 - 12:30 Session 8: Object Oriented Databases Type consistency problems for queries in object-oriented databases --- Y. Ishihara (Nara Institute), H. Seki (Nara Institute), M. Ito (Nara Institute) Object-oriented database evolution --- J.-B. Lagorce (LRI, Orsay), A. Stockus (LRI, Orsay), E. Waller (LRI, Orsay) 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 16:00 Session 9: Access Methods Performance of nearest neighbor queries in R-trees --- A. Papadopoulos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki), Y. Manolopoulos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki) Optimal allocation of two-dimensional data --- K. Abdel-Ghaffar (UC Davis), A. El Abbadi (UC Santa Barbara) Efficient indexing for constraint and temporal databases --- S. Ramaswamy (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations) 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 18:00 Session 10: Spatial Data and Bulk Data On topological elementary equivalence of spatial databases --- B. Kuijpers (Univ. Antwerp), J. Paredaens (Univ. Antwerp), J. Van den Bussche (Univ. Antwerp) Dynamic constraint databases for spatial data --- P.Z. Revesz (Univ. Nebraska) Tractable iteration mechanisms for bag languages --- L. Colby (Bell Labs), L. Libkin (Bell Labs) 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner (at the conference center) 20:00 Conference buses depart for Athens ***************************************************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ======================= Program co-chairs: Foto Afrati (NTUA Athens) Phokion G. Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz) Program committee members: 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 Rep.) V. Sazonov (Russia) H-J. Schek (Switzeland) 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.) Organizing committee co-chairs: Foto Afrati, Theodora Varvarigou (NTUA Athens) Organizing committee members: Izambo Karali (Univ. Athens), Theodore Kavalieros, Theodore Mitakos, Costas Petropulos, Francesca Toni (NTUA Athens) WWW: http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/public/AD/icdt97.html For further information, contact teo@softlab.ece.ntua.gr ***************************************************************************** +---------------------------------------------------------+ | DEADLINES | | | | Early Registration 12 November 1996 | | Hotel Reservation 12 November 1996 | +---------------------------------------------------------+ ****************************************************************************** GENERAL INFORMATION =================== LOCATION --------- ICDT 97 will be held at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece. Delphi (elevation 573 m.) is located in a magnificent natural setting about 170 km N/W of Athens on the undercliffs of Mount Parnassus. The drive from Athens to Delphi takes about three hours. Delphi hosts one of the most significant archaeological sites in Greece. Although today it is just a small village, historically Delphi has been one of the cornerstones of ancient Greek civilization. Indeed, in antiquity Delphi was the seat of the oracle of Apollo, which was particularly active during the 7th and the 6th centuries BC and had to be consulted for essentially every major political decision. Ancient Greeks considered Delphi to be the "navel of the world". The shrine was administered by a panhellenic confederation, which every four years organized the Pythian Games; these were second only to the Olympic Games, but with more prominence on music and drama, as they were dedicated to Apollo. WEATHER -------- January is winter time in Greece. The temperature at Delphi in January typically ranges from 5 to 15 degrees C (41-59 degrees F), with a small probability of being lower than 5 degrees C (41 degrees F). CURRENCY AND EXCHANGE --------------------- The Greek currency is the drachma (DR). In September 1996, 1 US Dollar was approximately 235 DR. Currencey can be exchanged either at the Athens airport or in Delphi. TIME ---- Greece uses +2 hour GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). THINGS TO DO ------------- Delphi's archeological site has many interesting monuments and temples, including the sanctuary of Apollo, the theatre where the Delphic festivals were held, the stadium, the Kastalia Fountain where the Pythia, priestess of Apollo, would bathe before uttering her oracular utterances, and the tholos or rotunda, one of the most remarkable architectural constructions of antiquity (depicted on the conference poster). The collection of the Delphi museum consists exclusively of objects found on the archaeological site, including the famous bronze statue of the charioteer and an ancient copy of the sacred stone "omphalos" (the "navel of the world"). In Delphi and the surrounding villages you can find tavernas, restaurants, coffee houses, and bars. From Delphi you can visit the ski facilities of Mount Parnassus (elevation 2400 m), the town of Itea (17 km), a pleasant summer resort by the sea, the town of Amfissa (22 km), surrounded by a forest of olive trees, and the monastery of Hosios Loukas (36 km), an outstanding example of Byzantine art and architecture. PROCEEDINGS =========== The conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series, published by Springer-Verlag, and will be available at the conference. Each registered participant will receive a copy of the proceedings (except for students). REGISTRATION ============ PROCEDURE ---------- People wishing to attend the conference should fill out a copy of the registration form attached to the end of this announcement and return it, via e-mail, fax, or postal mail, to the address: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Foto Afrati, ICDT 97 | | P.O. Box 64042 Email:teo@softlab.ece.ntua.gr | | 15710 Zographou, Athens tel : +30-1-7722498 | | GREECE fax : +30-1-7722499 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ E-mail registration is strongly preferred. In addition to sending the registration form, the proper registration fee should be paid via cheque or bank transfer, as explained below in the METHOD OF PAYMENT section. On-site registration will be available at the conference office during ICDT 97 starting Tuesday, January 7, 19:00. PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION ------------------------ Before 12 November 1996 After 12 November 1996 ----------------------- ----------------------- Member* US$ 430 US$ 500 Regular US$ 500 US$ 550 Student US$ 270 US$ 300 * For members of ACM and IEEE. A separate form must be completed by each participant. Please make sure that your society affiliation (membership number) and/or university affiliation are shown on your registration form, or that proof of your full time student status comes together with it. Otherwise, the reduced registration fee will not be applied. It is suggested to register for the conference at your earliest convenience. As soon as both registration form and fee have been received, an e-mail confirmation will be sent. To qualify for the early registration fee, payment must be received by November 12, 1996. The conference fee includes admission to all sessions of the conference (including the invited talks and tutorial), a copy of the proceedings (not included in the student fee), refreshments during the breaks, lunches, transportation from and to Athens via the transfer buses of the conference, and the social events (reception on January 7, tour of the archaeological site and conference banquet on January 9 -the latter not included in the student fee). A SPECIAL NOTE FOR EAST EUROPEAN PARTICIPANTS ---------------------------------------------- A limited number of free participations for people from Eastern Europe (free conference attendance and accomodation) will be offered. To become eligible for the support, please apply to Foto Afrati by e-mail (afrati@softlab.ece.ntua.gr) before November 12, 1996. CANCELLATION AND REFUND ----------------------- Cancellation must be made in written form to the organizers. If cancellation notification is received before December 11, 1996, 80% of the registration fee will be refunded; no refunds will be made thereafter. For registered participants who cannot attend, the proceedings will be mailed after the conference. METHOD OF PAYMENT ----------------- Payment of the registration fees should be made in US dollars in one of the following ways: * cheque payable to "ICDT 97", mailed with the registration form, * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A., Zographou Branch Acc. No: 088/03741-00010/19 SWIFT address: ERGOGRAA, 90 Papagou av, and Maratou, 15772 Athens, Greece Fax: +30-1-7486824 Tel: +30-1-7486822 If using a bank transfer, please send a copy of the receipt via postal mail or fax to the address used for the registration above. It is allowed to send a single check or make a single bank transfer covering more than one registration fee. * Upon arrival at the secretariat desk (full fee has to be paid). SOCIAL EVENTS ============= TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1997 Welcome reception with light dinner at 20:00 AND 22:00 the EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER OF DELPHI. THURSDAY, JANUARY 9,1997 Tour of Delphi archeological site and museum. 14:00 - 16:30 20:30 Conference Banquet.* During the banquet, a performance of Greek music will take place. *The cost of a banquet ticket (for those not registered or students) is US $50 per person. TRAVEL INFORMATION ================== VISA ---- No entry visa is required for visitors from EEC countries, USA, and Canada. For other countries, information about visa can be obtained from the Greek Consulates or airlines. LETTERS OF INVITATION --------------------- Upon request, the secretariat of the conference will send a personal invitation for participation in the conference. It should be understood that such an invitation is only to help participants obtain a visa and does not constitute a commitment on the part of the organizers to provide any financial suport. TO AND FROM DELPHI ------------------ THROUGH ATHENS By plane: Athens International Airport has two terminals. OLYMPIC AIRWAYS passengers arrive at the Western Terminal. Passengers of all other airlines arrive at the Eastern Terminal. You can travel from Athens to Delphi and from Delphi to Athens using the conference buses or public transportation as described below. For those who want to stay overnight in Athens before or after the conference, a block of rooms in the Chandris hotel (address: Sygrou 385, tel: +30-1-9414824) has been reserved. Conference buses will pick up participants both from the airport and the Chandris Hotel (see below). To reach the Chandris Hotel take a taxi from the airport (approximatively 8 US$). ATHENS-DELPHI USING THE CONFERENCE BUSES (trip takes about three hours) * There are two conference buses on Tuesday, January 7, from Athens to Delphi: the first bus departs: at 16:00 from the airport (arrivals) and at 16:30 from the Chandris Hotel the second bus departs: at 20:00 from the airport (arrivals) and at 20:30 from the Chandris Hotel * There is a conference bus on Friday, January 10, from Delphi to Athens, departing at 20:00 (and stopping both at the Chandris Hotel and at the airport). Conference bus transportation is included in the registration fee. USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Public buses from ATHENS TO DELPHI depart from the Central Bus Station located at Liossion St, according to the following schedule. +---------------------+---------------+ | FROM | TO | +=====================+===============+ | Athens@Liossion St | Delphi | +=====================+===============+ | 7:30 | 10:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ | 10:30 | 13:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ | 14:30 | 17:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ | 17:30 | 20:30 | +---------------------+---------------+ +-------------+-----------------------+ | FROM | TO | +=============+=======================+ | Delphi | Athens@Liossion St | +=============+=======================+ | 5:30 | 8:30 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 9:00 | 12:00 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 10:30 | 13:30 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 13:30 | 18:00 | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 16:00 | 19:00 (Fri&Sun only) | +-------------+-----------------------+ | 18:00 | 21:00 | +-------------+-----------------------+ The bus fare is DR 2600 one-way. To reach the Central Bus Station at Liossion St, either take a taxi from the airport (approximatively 15 US$) or first take the bus number 091 from the airport to Syntagma Square (160 DR) and then a taxi from there to the Central Bus Station at Liossion St. (approximatively 10 US$). It is recommended to take a taxi directly from the airport. Once in Delphi, all hotels are within easy walking distance. ACCOMMODATION ============= HOTEL RESERVATION ----------------- Reservations have to be made directly with the person in charge at the address below. A block of rooms has been reserved at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, as well as in a number of small and cozy hotels in the village of Delphi. Rooms are also reserved in the Chandris hotel in Athens for those who stay in Athens before or after the conference. The special rates that were arranged are as follows: (in US $) HOTEL SINGLE DOUBLE ----- ------ ------ ATHENS CHANDRIS 117 147 EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER 61 88 OF DELPHI HOTEL GROUP I (DELPHI) 85 102 HOTEL GROUP II (DELPHI) 50 78 All rates are per room and night and include breakfast, taxes, and services. ACCOMMODATION FEES ------------------ Those wishing to book accommodation in Athens, Delphi and conference bus transportation Athens-Delphi-Athens are requested to complete the attached Accommodation Form and send before NOVEMBER 12 to: M. Bessieri (for ICDT 97) 24 Voulis str., 10562 Athens, Greece fax: +30 1 3221023 TOGETHER with payment in one of the two following ways (payment should be made in US dollars): * a cheque payable to M. BESSIERI, or * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A, Voulis Branch Acc. No: 75/02148-01251/58, c/o M. BESSIERI SWIFT Address ERGOGRAA, 3 Kolokotroni str. 10562 Athens-Greece Fax: 301-3222 264. It is allowed to send a single cheque or make a single bank transfer covering more than one person (also covering more than one room). A confirmation will be send to each participant with details for the hotel. The reservation will be confirmed only upon receipt of the payment. Cancellation must be made in written form to the organizers. If cancellation notification is received before December 11, 1996, 80% of the accommodation fee will be refunded; no refunds will be made thereafter. FORMS ===== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION FORM [Please type or print. ONE FORM PER PERSON] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Name ___________________________________First Name______________________ Affiliation ____________________________________________________________ Street Address _________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code _______________________________________________ Country ________________________________________________________________ Phone(s) _______________________________________________________________ Fax ____________________________________________________________________ E-mail _________________________________________________________________ Dietary Restrictions (circle if applicable): Vegetarian Before 12 November 1996 After 12 November 1996 ----------------------- ----------------------- Member* US$430 US$500 Regular US$500 US$550 Student# US$270 US$300 Accompanying US$300 US$350 The fee for accompanying persons covers meals and all the special events of the conference. * For members of ACM and IEEE. Please quote the membership number. # If you apply for the student fee, please attach a copy of your student identification for the ongoing year or a letter signed by the head of your department confirming that you are a student. Total Cost US$:____________ Number of extra Banquet tickets______ (US$50.00 per person) Total Cost US$:____________ Total Due US$: ______________________________ Payment: please send either ------- * cheque payable to "ICDT 97", mailed with the registration form, (do not forget to sign and write your name(s) on the back of the check) or * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A., Zographou Branch Acc. No: 088/03741-00010/19 SWIFT address: ERGOGRAA, 90 Papagou av, and Maratou, 15772 Athens, Greece Fax: +30-1-7486824 Tel: +30-1-7486822 (do not forget to write your name(s) and refer to ICDT 97) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCOMMODATION FORM [Please type or print. ONE FORM PER REGISTERED PERSON] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name __________________________________First Name________________________ Affiliation _____________________________________________________________ Street Address __________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code ________________________________________________ Country _________________________________________________________________ Phone(s) ________________________________________________________________ Fax _____________________________________________________________________ E-mail _________________________________________________________________ Arrival Date______________________Airline/No. Flight____________________ Arrival Time____________________________________________________________ Departure Date____________________Airline/No. Flight____________________ Departure Time__________________________________________________________ [Prices are per room per night. Please write the required number of ------ rooms in the appropriate cells] HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN ATHENS ============================= CHANDRIS HOTEL: US$ 117 (single) US$ 147 (double) single [ ] double [ ] name of other occupant:_____________________ Before the conference --------------------- FROM _________(date of arrival) TO __________________(date of departure) After the conference -------------------- FROM _________(date of arrival) TO __________________(date of departure) Total cost US $________________ HOTEL ACCOMMODATION IN DELPHI ============================= SINGLE DOUBLE EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTER US$61 US$88 HOTEL I US$85 US$102 HOTEL II US$50 US$78 EUR. CUL. CEN. HOTEL I HOTEL II single [ ] [ ] [ ] double [ ] [ ] [ ] name of other occupant:_____________________ FROM _________(date of arrival) to __________________(date of departure) Total cost US $________________ Total due US $________________ BUS RESERVATION (free) ---------------------- Write on the appropriate cells the required number of seats: +-----------------+------------------+ | from airport | from Chandris | + -------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ | first bus on January 7 |(16:00 hours) | (16:30 hours) | | | | | +--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ | second bus on January 7 |(20:00 hours) | (20:30 hours) | | | | | +--------------------------+-----------------+------------------+ + -------------------------+---------+ | bus on January 10 | | | | | +--------------------------+---------+ Payment: please enclose either ------- * a cheque payable to M. BESSIERI or (do not forget to sign, write your name and refer to ICDT'97 on the back of the check) or * bank transfer to ERGOBANK S.A, Voulis Branch Acc. No: 75/02148-01251/58, c/o M. BESSIERI SWIFT Address ERGOGRAA, 3 Kolokotroni str. 10562 Athens-Greece Fax: 301-3222 264, (do not forget to write your name and refer to ICDT'97) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 15 09:55:31 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 JAA16291 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:55:26 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA16722 for dbworld; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:55:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 09:55:26 -0500 From: Klaus-Dieter Schewe Message-Id: <199610151455.JAA16722@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects Distributed Databases Minsen, Germany, September 22 -- 26, 1997 organized by GI-Arbeitskreis ``Grundlagen von Informationssystemen (Foundations of Information Systems)'', supported by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) This international workshop will be the seventh in a series focussing on foundations of models and languages for data and objects. The main principle of this workshop series is to concentrate on one selected topic and to offer the opportunity for in-depth exchange of ideas and experiences. In order to stimulate extensive discussions, the time for the presentation of a long (short) paper is 60 (30) minutes followed by about 30 (15) minutes of discussion. Furthermore, another participant will be asked in advance to prepare a response to the work presented. In addition to the talks, there will be working groups which concentrate on actual research topics and try to develop a common understanding of the problems involved. Due to the special character of the workshop, every participant is expected to stay for the complete duration of the workshop. The 1997 workshop will be held in Minsen, Germany, and focusses on Distributed Databases. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: models and languages, fragmentation and allocation algorithms, transaction management, integrity maintenance, query optimization, optimized data and storage structures, replication, incomplete and uncertain information in distributed and federated databases Submission of Papers. Authors are cordially invited to submit four copies of their contribution (extended abstract) to the program committee chair by April 1, 1997. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced, 12pt, US letter or A4 paper) for long presentations and 5 pages for short presentations and for working group proposals. Submissions have to be sent to (electronic submissions (PostScript, dvi) are accepted as well): Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Institut f\"ur Informatik, Technische Universit\"at Clausthal Erzstr. 1, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany schewe@informatik.tu-clausthal.de The submissions will be judged not only for scientific quality but also for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. The proceedings will be published as a technical report to be available at the workshop. After the workshop we will consider publication of a revised version of the proceedings including working group summaries. Program Committee: Stefan Conrad (U Magdeburg, Germany), Hayan Hasse (ABB, Switzerland), Andreas Heuer (U Rostock, Germany), Stephen J. Hegner (U Vermont, USA), Hans--Joachim Klein (U Kiel, Germany), Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany), Maria Orlowska (U Queensland, Australia), Torsten Polle (U Dortmund, Germany), Torsten Ripke (TU Clausthal, Germany), Gunter Saake (U Magdeburg, Germany), Klaus--Dieter Schewe (TU Clausthal, Germany, chair), Marc Scholl (U Konstanz, Germany), Kasimierz Subieta (U Warsaw, Poland), Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Organization: Thomas Feyer, Alexander Kuckelberg, Torsten Ripke (chair), Klaus-Dieter Schewe (all TU Clausthal) Important Dates: Submission April 1, 1997 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection June 4, 1997 Camera--ready version July 14, 1997 Workshop September 22--26, 1997 An up-to-date version of this CfP and further information is available at http://www.in.tu-clausthal.de/~ripke/workshop97.html A postscript version of this CfP is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.rz.tu-clausthal.de/pub/institute/ifi/schewe/cfp.ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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NOTE THAT THESE KITS ARE INTENDED TO SUPPORT RESEARCH IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (NOT JUST NETWORKING RESEARCH). The National Science Foundation has recently made a grant to Washington University to support the distribution of Gigabit Network Kits to U.S. universities for research and educational uses. These kits will provide an open research platform that systems researchers can modify and extend to support a wide variety of different research agendas in networking (both IP and ATM), distributed systems and high performance computing. Eligible institutions (U.S. colleges and universities) can apply to receive one or more kits by submitting a short research proposal. Details of the program can be found at http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~jst/gigatech/cfp.html Provisions are also being made to make kits available for purchase by researchers in industrial or government labs and non-U.S. universities. ================================================================== Barbara Blaustein Internet: bblauste@nsf.gov Database and Expert Systems Program Bitnet: bblauste@nsf National Science Foundation Phone: 703-306-1926 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Fax: 703-306-0599 Arlington, VA 22230 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DBEShome.html ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Oct 15 11:59:22 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 LAA19398 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:59:08 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00747 for dbworld; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:59:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:59:08 -0500 From: Nandit Soparkar Message-Id: <199610151659.LAA00747@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Event: Workshop on Databases: Active & Real-Time (Concepts meet Practice) (DART'96) Location: Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland Date: November 15, 1996. (The day following CIKM'96) Association: 5th Int'l Conference on Information & Knowledge Management 1996. CIKM'96 is sponsored by ACM SIGART & SIGIR, in cooperation with CAIR/KAIST and DISA. Contact: Prof. Nandit Soparkar Prof. Krithi Ramamritham (Program Chair) (General Chair) EECS Department CS Department Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst soparkar@eecs.umich.edu krithi@cs.umass.edu (313) 647-4849 (413) 545-0196 Web URL: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~soparkar/Dart96/ Registration via CIKM'96 which has the URL http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ Scope: Applications such as manufacturing automation, automated stock-trading, avionics, medical informatics, intelligent transportation systems, telecommunications, multimedia systems, workflow systems, etc. make substantial use of databases but require support beyond those provided by traditional databases. These include support for timeliness and for rule-based activiation of tasks -- topics that are being investigated by researchers working on active and real-time database technologies. However, the understanding of the application requirements, the available technology, and the nexus between research and practice, are still nascent. This one-day workshop is to provide a forum whereby practitioners and researchers can exchange ideas -- primarily with a focus on data management issues in applications with active and real-time requirements. Rather than being a forum in which to report only new research results, this workshop is to provide a means for researchers to understand the needs that application developers have, and for developers to learn about solutions available today. This should assist in the discussion of specific issues, problem areas, and potential solutions, and provide impetus for further research as well as the transition of available technology. In order to promote the discussions, we have chosen brief papers that describe technical contributions in the area w.r.t. research, on-going work, implementation efforts etc. The selected papers will be provided to the participants at the Workshop, and will be published subsequently by ACM. The workshop will consist of brief invited and paper presentations in the first half of the day, followed by in-depth discussions during the latter half of the day. The suggested topics included, but were not limited to: Practice - Research - Manufacturing technology Triggers and constraints Multimedia applications Real-time concurrency control Avionics systems Quality of service Process control Distributed data management Telecommunications Scheduling for data accesses Intelligent transportation Object-oriented paradigms Medical informatics Specifications and tools Real-time Web applications Interactions with OS & network Program stock-trading Reliability and dependability Synchronous collaboration Monitoring and activation Invited Speakers: (Topics and abstracts to be announced shortly) Alex Buchmann (TU Darmstadt) S Chakravarthy (Univ Florida) Umesh Dayal (HP Labs) Madhur Kohli (Bellcore) Hank Korth (Bell Labs) Doug Locke (Lockheed Martin) James Moyne (DTM Michigan) Hiro Shimakawa (Mitsubishi, Japan) Sang Son (Univ Virginia) Tentative Program: 08:00 am - 08:15 am - Coffee 08:15 am - 08:30 am - Chairs' opening remarks 08:30 am - 12:15 am - Invited presentations (nine, 15 min each), select position papers (nine, 5 min each); with a short break 12:15 pm - 01:30 pm - Lunch 01:30 pm - 05:00 pm - Focus groups (three, Practice/Applications), focus groups (three, Concepts/Technologies); with a short break 05:00 pm - 05:15 pm - Closing remarks Focus Group Topics: Practice / Applications: a. Manufacturing process automation b. Telecommunications & Multimedia c. Internet-based applications Concepts / Technologies: a. Programming & middleware support b. Active & rule-based systems c. Real-time data management List of Accepted Papers: (Selection based on reviews and discussion potential) "Adaptive Real-Time Transactions and Risk-Based Load Control" Dogdu, Oszoyoglu CSE Dept, Case Western Res Univ, Cleveland "Incorporation of Multimedia Capabilities in Distributed Real-Time Applications" Gonzalez, Sen, Ramamritham, Stankovic CS Dept, Univ Massachusetts, Amherst "RODAIN: A Real-Time Object-Oriented Database System for Telecommunications" Taina, Raatikainen CS Dept, Univ Helsinki, Finland "The Monitoring of Complex Active Rules with Vector Representation" Kim, Kim, Lee CS Dept, Korea Adv Insti Sci & Tech, S Korea "Research Issues in Real-Time DBMS in the Context of Electronic Commerce" Konana, Gupta, Whinston MSIS Dept, Univ Texas, Austin "Escalations in Workflow Management Systems" Panagos, Rabinovich AT&T Labs - Research, New Jersey "Using Petri Nets for Rule Termination Analysis" Zimmer, Meckenstock, Unland C-LAB Paderborn and Univ GH Essen, Germany "Sensor Data Management in Manufacturing Systems" Parikh, Shin, Soparkar EECS Dept, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor "Porting an Expert Database Application to an Active Database: An Experience Report" Obermeyer, Warshaw, Miranker Adv Res Labs, Univ Texas, Austin "Design of a Knowledge Base for Network Monitoring" Singhal, Mishra, Weiss AT&T Network & Computing, New Jersey "Timely and Fault-Tolerant Data Access from Broadcast Disks: A Pinwheel-Based Approach" Baruah, Bestavros CS&EE Dept, Univ Vermont and CS Dept, Univ Boston "Why Commercial Database Systems are NOT Real-Time Systems" Jhingran IBM Watson Res Center, New York "Impact of Timing Constraints on Real-Time Database Recovery" Huang, Gruenwald IBM Roanoke and CS School, Univ Oklahoma, Norman "Behavioral Situations and Active Database Systems" Front, Roncancio, Giraudin Lab Logiciel, Grenoble, France "Process Systems and Databases" Berztiss CS Dept, Univ Pittsburg, Pittsburg "An Architecture and Two New Research Problems in ARCS Databases" Datta, Chakravarthy, Thomas, Viguier Univ Arizona, Tucson and Univ Florida, Gainesville "Active Real-Time Database Management for Command and Control Applications" Gengo, Hughes, Krupp, Schafer, Squadrito, Thuraisingham Mitre Corp, USA "Production Information Management for Batch Manufacturing Plants based on ECA Mechanism and View Generation" Takada, Shimakawa, Asano, Takegaki Mitsubishi Elec Corp, Japan "Project Synopsis: Evaluating STRIP" Adelberg, Garcia-Molina CS Dept, Stanford Univ, Palo Alto "Real-Time System Design using Complementary Processing Design Methodology" Trout, Tai, Lee Superior Prog Services, Houston Program Committee: Elisa Bertino (Univ Milano) Azer Bestavros (Boston Univ) Alejandro Buchmann (Tech Univ Darmstadt) Stefano Ceri (Politec di Milano) Umesh Dayal (HP Laboratories) Aleks Gollu (PATH, UC Berkeley) Le Gruenwald (Univ Oklahoma) H V Jagadish (AT&T Research) Anant Jhingran (IBM Research) Madhur Kohli (Bellcore) Jane Liu (Univ Illinois) Doug Locke (Lockheed Martin) James Moyne (DTM, Michigan) Banu Ozden (Bell Labs, Lucent) Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case West Res Univ) S Seshadri (Ind Inst Tech Bombay) Sang Son (Univ Virginia) Bhavani Thuraisingham (Mitre) Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent Univ) --------------------------------------- nandit soparkar cs&e division soparkar@eecs.umich.edu elec.engin. & comp.sci. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~soparkar the university of michigan phone: (313) 647-4849 1301 beal ave., 3215 eecs bldg. fax: (313) 763-1503 ann arbor, mi 48109-2122 ssr lab. & rtc lab. ================================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 15 12:06:19 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 MAA19605 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:05:46 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00783 for dbworld; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:05:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:05:45 -0500 From: (DBWORLD) M.Ramoni@open.ac.uk (Marco Ramoni) Message-Id: <199610151705.MAA00783@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Special Issue of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Distributed Artificial Intelligence in Medicine over the World Wide Web Call for Papers It is hard to believe that, less than five years ago, the World Wide Web (WWW) did not even exist. In such a short time, the WWW has dramatically changed the way in which knowledge is produced, delivered, used and - most of all - regarded. Artificial Intelligence (AI) could not be left aside by this revolution: several efforts have been undertaken to explore the opportunities and accept the challenges offered by the WWW revolution. Medical applications have always played a leading role in the development of AI research and it is therefore not surprising that some of the pioneering efforts to exploit the potential of the WWW for AI research are coming from the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine community. Time is now up for a check point. The Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal invites submissions to a special issue devoted to Distributed Artificial Intelligence in Medicine over the World Wide Web. The aim of this special issue is to summarize the current state of the art in the field in order to provide future reference and a firmer ground for further developments: we want the issue to be an up-to-date and authoritative source of information about the main results achieved so far in the field. The issue will include papers investigating aspects of the enabling potential of the WWW to support the development of distributed AI applications in Medicine, such as: o Distributed AI architectures in medicine over the WWW. o Interaction, integration, and negotiation of AI applications over the WWW. o Distributed access to medical knowledge and data bases. o Intelligent medical terminology servers over the WWW. o Agent-based medical applications using the WWW. o Distributed medical reasoning systems over the WWW. o Distributed medical ontologies over the WWW. Papers addressing broad interest methodological issues - supported by at least proof-of-concept applications - and papers describing cutting-edge applications with highly innovative content are especially welcome. Manuscripts will be evaluated by originality, technical quality and clarity of presentation by at least two independent referees who are authorities in the field. Papers should be submitted by March 30th, 1997 in one of the following ways: Surface Mail: Send 5 (five) copies of the manuscript to the guest editor at address below. Electronic Mail: Send an electronic version to M.Ramoni@open.ac.uk. Ftp: Upload an electronic version to ftp://kmi.open.ac.uk/pub/marco/projects/wai/aimj/submissions Login as ftp using your email address as password. Then, notify your submission via email to the guest editor at the address below. Electronic versions of papers can be submitted in any format, including LATEX, Postscript, MSWord, RTF, and should be preferably compressed in .Z, .zip, or .gz format. If you submit a compressed file via Electronic Mail, be sure to uuencode it for proper transmission. Perspective authors are strongly encouraged to contact the guest editor at: Marco Ramoni Knowledge Media Institute The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes United Kingdom MK7 6AA Phone: +44 (1908) 655721 Fax: +44 (1908) 653169 Email: M.Ramoni@open.ac.uk Important dates are: March 30th, 1997: Submission of full paper. July 15th, 1997: Notification of acceptance or rejection. September 15th, 1997: Submission of final manuscript. The Special Issue is expected to appear by mid 1998. Until the publication of the Special Issue, a WWW site will report information about the submission, review, and publication process at: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/"marco/projects/wai/aimj Guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts are available from the WWW site or from the guest editor. Marco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 15 12:08:23 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA19676 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:08:01 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00797 for dbworld; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:08:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:08:00 -0500 From: bostjan.brumen@uni-mb.si Message-Id: <199610151708.MAA00797@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for paper CBMS'97 The 10th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems June 11-13th 1997 Maribor, Slovenia, Europe The Symposium ============= The symposium is intended for engineers and computer scientists in industry and academia who are developing Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Particular emphasis is placed on the issues associated with the development and manufacture of robust safety critical medical systems and the current regulatory environment for those devices. The symposium provides an excellent opportunity for government regulators to interact with the medical device industry. Papers regarding device and software safety in the design of systems, as well as software development practices, methods, and tools are encouraged. Reports about applications in progress are also encouraged. Medical device engineers, medical professionals, biomedical engineers and computer scientists who are working on medical computing projects are especially encouraged to submit papers describing their work. The Program =========== CBMS combines technical papers, poster presentations, panel discussions and research laboratory tours. Papers covering the following related areas are requested: Main themes * knowledge needed for successful application and development of computer based medical systems, * computer based medical systems and ultrasound, * perspectives of using knowledge based concepts in computer based medical systems Topics ====== Basic knowledge knowledge needed for successful application and development of computer based medical systems, education, methods Management process systems, methods, applications, cost-benefit analysis, optimisation of diagnostic processes, risk analysis Medical System Reliability and Safety fault-tolerance, system testing, validation, verification, software robustness, system safety Information Systems information systems, Roentgen Information Systems (RIS); Medical Information Systems (MIS); Hospital Information Systems (HIS), networks, databases, methods, applications, Picture Archiving Computer Systems (PACS) Softwarer Development Processes, Methodologies and Tools OO methods, method engineering, automatic code generation Image Processing and Analysis registration, compression, enhancement, restoration, reconstruction, hardware, visualisation, comosynthesis Signal Processing real-time processing, monitoring, computerised tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (NMR), embeded systems Knowledge Based Systems theory, implementations, pattern recognition, applications, expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy systems Prosthetic Devices environmental control, devices for the hearing and vision impaired, standards, orthopaedics prosthesis Cardiovascular Technologies imaging, bioimpendances, measurements, micro-computer applications, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Holter monitoring, ECG monitoring, ECHO cardigraphy Others virtual reality, multimedia systems, telemedicine, ... Important dates =============== October 31th, 1996 Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (2 pages) December 15th, 1996 Notification of acceptance will be announced togother with recommendations to prepeare the final version January 31th, 1997 Deadline for submission of camera ready papers Submission Process Potential participants are invited to submit abstracts no longer than 2 pages (1200 words) by October 31th, 1996. The abstracts should outline methodology and emphasize how the methodology has been applied. The abstracts may be sent to: Peter Kokol, PhD Gen-chair, CBMS97 University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Smetanova 17 2000 Maribor Slovenia or in ASCII format to: cbms97@uni-mb.si ---------------- Home page: http://www.uni-mb.si/~cbms97 Email: cbms97@uni-mb.si fax: +386 62 225 013 or +386 62 226 232 tel: +386 62 221 112 Sincerely, Organising committee of CBMS'97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 15 14:18:48 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 OAA23733 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:18:38 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01167 for dbworld; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:18:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 14:18:38 -0500 From: dov gabbay Message-Id: <199610151918.OAA01167@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning ECSQARU / FAPR '97 9-12 June 1997 Seminaris, Bad Honnef, Germany URL: http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/FAPR Aims and Scope ************** We are happy to announce that from the year 1997, the biannual European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty (ECSQARU'97) and the biannual International Conference on Formal and Applied Practical Reasoning (FAPR'97), have merged into one joint biannual conference. The first in the series is ECSQARU/FAPR 97. The joint two conferences are open to the international community of researchers interested in reasoning and uncertainty. The three predecessors of ECSQARU'97 were sponsored and organized by the consortium of DRUMS (Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems, ESPRIT III BRA 6156). This project involved 21 European universities and research organizations with the goal of developing and synthesizing approaches in the fields of belief change, non-monotonic deduction, inconsistency in reasoning, abduction, efficient inference algorithms, and dynamic reasoning with partial models. FAPR 96 was sponsored by MEDLAR, the european project on practical reasoning, involving over 15 major european groups in mechanised deduction in qualitative practicsal reasoning. TOGETHER BOTH CONFERENCES COVER ALL ASPECTS OF HUMAN PRACTICAL REASONING! Areas of Contribution Theories of agents Theories of actions New logics (informal, dialogue, etc.) Argumentation theory Belief functions Aggregating arguments Combining reasoning mechanisms Case studies Formal models for reasoning Non-monotonic practical reasoning mechanisms Application of agent oriented programming Fallacies and their role in practical reasoning Inconsistency and actions Temporal and spatial practical reasoning Tools for the practical reasoner Practical reasoning application in robotics Practical reasoning application in knowledge bases Logic programming and practical reasoning Legal reasoning User modelling The numerical aspects of handling imperfect knowledge as uncertainty Vagueness, imprecision, incompleteness, and partial inconsistency. Probability theory Possibility theory Fuzzy logic Evidence or Dempster-Shafer theory Uncertainty in knowledge-based systems Data fusion Knowledge discovery from data bases Data mining Graphical models General concepts of belief change. Theoretical results, algorithms, and applications that address the unification and integration of different approaches are especially encouraged. Conference Chairs ***************** Dov M. Gabbay Imperial College, London, England Rudolf Kruse University of Braunschweig, Germany Program Committee ***************** Luigia Carlucci Aiello, (Rome) J. Baldwin, (Bristol) J. Bell, (QMW, London) Wolfgang Bibel, (Darmstadt) J. Bigham, (QMW, London) F. Bergadano, (Torino) Ph. Besnard, (Rennes) J. Anthony Blair, (Windsor) B. Bouchon-Meunier, (Paris VI) Gerd Brewka, (Wien) Alan Bundy, (Edinburgh) Anthony Cohn, (Leeds) Jim Cunningham, (London) M. Delgado, (Granada) Robert Demolombe, (Toulouse) Patrick Doherty, (Linkoping) D. Dubois, (Toulouse) Luis Fariqas del Cerro, (Toulouse) J. Fox, (ICRF, London) Christine Froidevaux, (Orsay) P. Gardenfors, (Lund) J. Gebhardt, (Braunschweig) E. Gregoire, (Artois) Dov Gabbay, (London) Rob Grootendorst, (Amsterdam) P. Hajek, (Czech. Acad. of Science, Prague) H. Herre, (Leipzig) Tony Hunter, (London) David Israel, (Menlo Park) Ralph A. Johnson, (Windsor) Andrew Jones, (Oslo) J. Kohlas, (Fribourg) Robert A. Kowalski, (London) P. Krause, (ICRF, London) Rudolf Kruse, (Braunschweig) S. Lauritzen, (Aalborg) R. Lopez de Mantaras, (CEAB,Blanes) W. Lukaszewicz, (Warsaw) E. Mamdani, (QMW, London) Alberto Martelli, (Torino) J.J. Meyer, (Free Amsterdam) S. Moral, (Granada) Bernhard Nebel, (Freiburg) Andreas Nonnengart,(Saarbr|cken) Donald Nute, (Athens, Georgia) Hans J|rgen Ohlbach, (London) David Pearce, (Saarbr|cken) David Perkins, (Cambridge, USA) Henri Prade, (Toulouse) I Pratt, (Manchester) Uwe Reyle, (Suttgart) Hans Rott, (Konstanz) L. Saitta, (Torino) Erik Sandewall, (Linkoping) T. Schaub, (Rennes) Michael Scriven, (Michigan) P. Siegel, (Marseille) ?Jvrg Siekmann, (Saarbr|cken) Philippe Smets, (Brussels) K. Sundermeyer, (Daimler Benz, Berlin) Y.H. Tan, (Amsterdam) Richmond H. Thomason, (Pittsburgh) Jan Treur, (Amsterdam) D. Vermeir, (Antwerpen) F. Voorbraak, (Amsterdam) Doug Walton, (Winnipeg) Emil Weydert, (MPI Saarbr|cken) N. Wilson, (QMW, London) C. Witteveen, (Delft) John Woods, (Lethbridge) Lotfi Zadeh, (Berkeley) H.-J. Zimmermann, (Aachen) Organizing Committee ******************** Christine Harms Andreas Nonnengart GMD, Sankt Augustin, Max-Planck-Institut, Saarbr|cken, Germany Germany Important dates *************** January 06 1997 Submission deadline February 15 1997 Notification of acceptance March 15 1997 Final version of accepted papers June 9-12 1997 The conference Where to submit *************** ECSQARU Papers: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Kruse Dept. of Computer Science TU Braunschweig B|ltenweg 74 - 75 38102 Braunschweig, Germany Phone: +49 531 391 3289 Fax: +49 531 391 5936 Email: kruse@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de FAPR Papers: Dr. Hans J|rgen Ohlbach Dept. of Computing Imperial College 180 Queen's Gate London SW7 2BZ, England Phone: +44 171 594 8208 Fax: +44 171 594 8201 Email: h.ohlbach@doc.ic.ac.uk PROFESSOR DOV GABBAY ALL LATEX COMMUNICATIONS AND DEPT OF COMPUTING DOCUMENTS PLEASE SEND TO JANE SPURR 180 QUEEN'S GATE js@doc.ic.ac.uk LONDON SW7 2BZ TEL ++44 171 5948205 TEL ++44 171 5948200 FAX ++44 171 5948201 FAX ++44 171 5948201 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 15 18:11:10 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 SAA28723 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:11:02 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA01789 for dbworld; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:11:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:11:01 -0500 From: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Message-Id: <199610152311.SAA01789@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu XVII Conferencia Internacional XVII International Conference de la Sociedad Chilena de of the Chilean Computer Ciencia de la Computacion Science Society Valparaiso, Chile, November 12-14, 1997 CALL FOR PAPERS The conference will take place as part of a bigger event together with the XXIII Latin-American Conference in Informatics and the Fourth South American Workshop on String Processing locally organized by the Technical University Federico Santa Maria. Papers presenting original research in Computer Science are being sought. Typical, but not exclusive, topics include: o Algorithms and Data Structures o Complexity Theory o Artificial Intelligence o Distributed Systems o Computer Algebra o Human-Computer Interaction o Computer Architecture o Office Automation o Computer Graphics o Operating Systems o Databases o Performance Evaluation o Data Communications o Programming Languages o Data Security and Cryptography o Software Engineering Program Committee: Eric Allender (Rutgers University, USA) Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Chair, Univ. de Chile) Alvaro Campos (Univ. Catolica de Chile) Raul Camposano (Synopsys, USA) Tiziana Catarci (Univ. di Roma, Italy) Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Queensland U.T., Australia) Christos Faloutsos (Univ. of Maryland, USA) Bill Frakes (Virginia Tech., USA) Juan Garay (IBM Yorktown Heights, USA) David Gries (Cornell University, USA) Ulrich Hoppe (Univ. of Duisburg, Germany) Alberto Laender (Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Brazil) Pablo Noriega (IIIA, Spain) Isidro Ramos (Univ. Polit. de Valencia, Spain) Claudia Roncancio (ENSIMAG/LSR, France) Doaitse Swierstra (Utrecht Univ., Netherlands) Marcello Visconti (U.T. Fed. Sta. Maria, Chile) Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan) Paper submission: An extended abstract written in ENGLISH, of at most ten typed pages, including e-mail address and/or a fax number, should be sent before MAY 16th, 1997. The paper should be sent in PostScript format by e-mail to sccc97@dcc.uchile.cl. If e-mail is not available, five copies must be addressed to the program committee chair to: Ricardo Baeza-Yates Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion E-mail: sccc97@dcc.uchile.cl Universidad de Chile FAX: +56-2-689-5531 Casilla 2777, Santiago, Chile Phone: +56-2-678-4364 Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection via e-mail by JULY 16th, 1997. The full versions of the accepted papers (camera-ready) must be written in English, and will be due by AUGUST 15th, 1997. Valparaiso is located 110 kms. north west of Santiago, the capital city of Chile. It is a picturesque city with houses and cable cars climbing the hills that surround the bay. The city hosts the National Congress and is one of the two busiest ports in Chile. Adjacent is Vi~na del Mar, one of the main beach resorts of Chile. Together, they have more than a million inhabitants, forming the third largest urban area in the country. Vi~na del Mar, ``the Garden City'', is one of the main touristic attractions in Chile with nice beaches, green areas, a casino, hotels and many restaurants. Additional information can be obtained from the Organizing Committee: Organizacion CLEI'97 Depto. de Informatica E-mail: clei97@inf.utfsm.cl Univ. Tecnica Federico Santa Maria FAX: +56-32-625-217 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Phone: +56-32-626-364 http://www.inf.utfsm.cl/clei97/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 16 10:05:48 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 KAA12696 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:05:39 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA02927 for dbworld; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:05:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:05:38 -0500 From: Klaus-Dieter Schewe Message-Id: <199610161505.KAA02927@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Please notice that the correct date for this workshop is September, 15--19, 1997! CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects Distributed Databases Minsen, Germany, September 15 -- 19, 1997 organized by GI-Arbeitskreis ``Grundlagen von Informationssystemen (Foundations of Information Systems)'', supported by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) This international workshop will be the seventh in a series focussing on foundations of models and languages for data and objects. The main principle of this workshop series is to concentrate on one selected topic and to offer the opportunity for in-depth exchange of ideas and experiences. In order to stimulate extensive discussions, the time for the presentation of a long (short) paper is 60 (30) minutes followed by about 30 (15) minutes of discussion. Furthermore, another participant will be asked in advance to prepare a response to the work presented. In addition to the talks, there will be working groups which concentrate on actual research topics and try to develop a common understanding of the problems involved. Due to the special character of the workshop, every participant is expected to stay for the complete duration of the workshop. The 1997 workshop will be held in Minsen, Germany, and focusses on Distributed Databases. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: models and languages, fragmentation and allocation algorithms, transaction management, integrity maintenance, query optimization, optimized data and storage structures, replication, incomplete and uncertain information in distributed and federated databases Submission of Papers. Authors are cordially invited to submit four copies of their contribution (extended abstract) to the program committee chair by April 1, 1997. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced, 12pt, US letter or A4 paper) for long presentations and 5 pages for short presentations and for working group proposals. Submissions have to be sent to (electronic submissions (PostScript, dvi) are accepted as well): Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Institut f\"ur Informatik, Technische Universit\"at Clausthal Erzstr. 1, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany schewe@informatik.tu-clausthal.de The submissions will be judged not only for scientific quality but also for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. The proceedings will be published as a technical report to be available at the workshop. After the workshop we will consider publication of a revised version of the proceedings including working group summaries. Program Committee: Stefan Conrad (U Magdeburg, Germany), Hayan Hasse (ABB, Switzerland), Andreas Heuer (U Rostock, Germany), Stephen J. Hegner (U Vermont, USA), Hans--Joachim Klein (U Kiel, Germany), Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany), Maria Orlowska (U Queensland, Australia), Torsten Polle (U Dortmund, Germany), Torsten Ripke (TU Clausthal, Germany), Gunter Saake (U Magdeburg, Germany), Klaus--Dieter Schewe (TU Clausthal, Germany, chair), Marc Scholl (U Konstanz, Germany), Kasimierz Subieta (U Warsaw, Poland), Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Organization: Thomas Feyer, Alexander Kuckelberg, Torsten Ripke (chair), Klaus-Dieter Schewe (all TU Clausthal) Important Dates: Submission April 1, 1997 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection June 4, 1997 Camera--ready version July 14, 1997 Workshop September 15--19, 1997 An up-to-date version of this CfP and further information is available at http://www.in.tu-clausthal.de/~ripke/workshop97.html A postscript version of this CfP is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.rz.tu-clausthal.de/pub/institute/ifi/schewe/cfp.ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 17 13:42:14 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 NAA06298 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:42:08 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA05446 for dbworld; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:42:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 13:42:07 -0500 From: Mike Florence Message-Id: <199610171842.NAA05446@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The O2 Technology Java Relational Binding product and its documentation can be downloaded from the O2 web server (www.o2tech.com) for a free evaluation. The Java Relational Binding from O2 Technology is middleware that bridges the gap between Java applications and relational databases. Features It consists of a development environment and a run time version. * From the description of a set of Java classes, the development tool generates an equivalent relational schema and methods to read and write objects in the database. These methods perform the mapping between the Java objects and their representation in the relational schema. * The run time version runs on top of a JDBC compliant layer and manages an object cache to improve performance. Other features include: * associative access to class extents * query language support * extensibility * schema evolution * tuning facility * support for code persistence The product is entirely developed in Java except for the thin interface layer to the relational database. ___________________________________________________________________________ Francois Bancilhon Email francois@o2tech.com O2 Technology Tel 415 842 7008 3600 West Bayshore Road, Suite 106 Fax 415 842 7001 Palo Alto, California 94303 Web http://www.o2tech.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Fri Oct 18 10:11:51 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 KAA17998 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:11:45 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA06571 for dbworld; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:11:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:11:44 -0500 From: Jean-Luc Hainaut Message-Id: <199610181511.KAA06571@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu =20 (Apologies if you receive this call more than once) =20 ----------------------------------------------------- L A S T C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ----------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ I I I I I THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS I I CHALLENGES AND PITFALLS I I I I I I Institute of Informatics I I The University of Namur (FUNDP) I I Belgium I I 25 - 26 October 1996 I I I +-----------------------------------------------------------+ << The extended programme and the position paper =20 << can be obtained at: =20 << http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/FIS96 =20 MOTIVATION =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Faced with dramatic changes in their environment, organizations are forced to adapt their enterprise strategies and to shift to new organizational paradigms. In addition, the constant evolution of the information technology can enable these changes, but, at the same time, can induce too strong a pressure on the organization capability to evolve. This situation is true not only for private organizations but also for public ones. As a strategic asset of the enterprise, the information system should support these changes and smooth their impact. However, the current information systems suffer from such deficiencies, such as their rigidity, that they sometimes prevent that organizational evolution. Hence the need for better information systems. The conference is intended to analyse the organizational and technological stress put on today's and future enterprises, the way they are supported by current information systems, and what future information systems should be. PROGRAMME =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D * M. S. Scott Morton, Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge,= Massachusetts The future of IS in supporting changes in the business environment and enterprise strategies,=20 =20 * B. Konsynski,Emory Business School, Atlanta, Georgia Emerging IT and new organization and market possibilities, =20 =20 * A. Solvberg,Norwegian Institute of Technology, University of Trondheim The future of IS engineering,=20 =20 * R. Welke,Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia The evaluation of investments in IS: in search of the philosopher's stone,= =20 =20 * C. Ciborra,University of Bologna and Theseus Institute at Sophia Antipolis Teamwork & Groupware: a challenge for the organization=20 =20 * Y. Pigneur,HEC,University of Lausanne An analysis framework for emergent uses of IS in business =20 * Y. Rene de Cotret,Head of Multimedia DG III, European Commission, Brussels The future of information and communication technologies for the development of IS,=20 =20 * F. Bodart,Institute of Informatics, the University of Namur (FUNDP) Introduction - A Position paper,=20 =20 SESSION CHAIRS and RAPPORTEURS ------------------------------ Michel L=E9onard, University of Geneva J-P de Jamblinne, Comparex Information Systems, Brussels CONTACT ------- Jean-Luc Hainaut Francois Bodart professor professor Institut d'Informatique The University of Namur rue Grandgagnage, 21 B-5000 Namur (Belgium) Fax +32 (0)81 / 72.49.67 tel. +32 (0)81 / 72.49.96 tel. +32 (0)81 / 72.49.72 jlh@info.fundp.ac.be fbo@info.fundp.ac.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 18 10:14:05 1996 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA18159 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:13:56 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA06585 for dbworld; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:13:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:13:55 -0500 From: Sophie.Cluet@inria.fr Message-Id: <199610181513.KAA06585@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Call for Exhibitions 13th International Conference on Date Engineering 7 April - 11 April, 1997 Birmingham, U.K. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~cluet/icde.html The exhibition section of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering provides a unique forum for the exchange of information between the exhibitors and the conference delegates. Exhibitors can make use of this opportunity to unveil their latest developments and share their experiences with delegates of diverse backgrounds. Delegates often find the forum an ideal place to discuss specific issues at depth that may not be possible in other sections. The three categories covered by the exhibition are intended to encompass contributions from different data engineering communities. Together they will present to delegates different perspectives of the state-of-art data engineering technologies. (1) Industrial/application demonstration (2) Academic prototype demonstration (3) Database and knowledge-base related books Proposals of exhibition of the above three categories are invited from database system vendors, research establishments, academic institutions, publishers, as well as other parties who may contribute towards the goals of the section. The exhibition will be held in a spacious room with Internet connections located next to the meeting room. A description of each exhibited item in the first and second categories will be included in the conference proceedings to be distributed at the conference. A description of the proposed exhibition should be within two pages and submitted before December 15 to the following: Sohpie Cluet ICDE'97 INRIA (VERSO) B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex France email: Sophie.Cluet@inria.fr phone: +33 01 39 63 58 20 fax: +33 01 39 63 53 30 Notification of the acceptance or rejection of the proposals will be given by Feb. 28, 1997. Information about the conference, paper submission, panels, and tutorials can be obtained at: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/icde97/cfp97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Fri Oct 18 14:16:26 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 OAA24736 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:16:20 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA07009 for dbworld; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:16:20 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:16:20 -0500 From: Meral Ozsoyoglu Message-Id: <199610181916.OAA07009@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu DEADLINE for PODS submissions is **NOVEMBER 6**. PODS 1997 CFP is included below for your convenience. There are two NEW awards planned for PODS 1997, namely, Best Newcomer Paper Award, and Best Paper Award. Details can be found in the CFP below, and in the SIGMOD/PODS 1997 web page: http://mundos.ifsm.umbc.edu/~ramesh/sigmod97/info.html Sincerely, Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu PODS 1997, PC Chair ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS SIXTEENTH ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS (PODS) 12-15 May 1997 Tucson, Arizona ========================================================================= PODS IMPORTANT DATES PAPER SUBMISSION................NOVEMBER 6, 1996 (FIRM deadline) Notification of Acceptance......January 27, 1997 Camera Ready Copies Due.........February 15, 1997 Conference......................May 12-14, 1997 ========================================================================= The symposium will focus on new developments in the fundamental aspects of database and knowledge-base systems. Original research papers on the theory, design, specification, or implementation of database and knowledge-base systems are solicited. Topics of Interest Some suggested, although not exclusive, topics of interest are: * Access Methods * Active Databases * Complex Objects * Concurrency Control * Constraint Management and Constraint DBs * Database Interoperation * Data Models * Database Programming Languages * Data Structures * Deductive Databases * Distributed Databases * Incomplete Information and Uncertainty * Integrity and Security * Knowledge Discovery * Knowledge Representation * Nonmonotonic Reasoning * Object-Oriented Databases * Parallel Databases * Performance Evaluation * Physical and Logical Design * Query Languages * Query Optimization * Real Time Databases * Spatial and Temporal Data * Transaction Management * Views and Warehousing PAPER SUBMISSION: You are invited to submit twelve copies of a detailed abstract (not a complete paper) to the program chair: Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu Computer Engineering and Science Department, Case School of Engineering Case Western Reserve University Olin Building 511, 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7071 U.S.A. Email: meral@cs.cwru.edu Tel: (216) 368-2818 Fax: (216) 368-2801 Submissions should be received by the program chair by NOVEMBER 6, 1996. This is a FIRM deadline for submissions. A limit of 10 typed pages with roughly 35 lines/page (about 5000 words or 10K bytes in total) is placed on submissions. Font size should be at least 10 points. The abstract must provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper and should include appropriate references to and comparisons with the literature. It is recommended that each submission begin with a succinct statement of the problem, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all suitable for the non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the committee. AWARDS: Two awards are planned for PODS 1997: Best Newcomer Paper Award: An award will be given to the best paper submitted to PODS that is written by one or more authors, none of whom have published in previous PODS proceedings. (Please indicate in your submission letter if no author has published in a previous PODS.) Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best paper submitted to PODS as judged by the program committee. All submissions (see the exception below) are eligible for this award. The program committee may decide to give both awards to the same paper, decline to make an award, or split an award among several papers. Papers (co-)authored by program committee members are not eligible any of the awards. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: General Chair Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto Program Chair Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University PODS Program Committee Phokion G. Kolaitis, University of California, Santa Cruz Leonid Libkin, Bell Laboratories David Lomet, Microsoft Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland Jan Van den Bussche, University of Antwerp Victor Vianu, University of California, San Diego Jeff Vitter, Duke University Proceedings Chair Li-Yan Yuan, University of Alberta PODS Executive Committee Serge Abiteboul, INRIA Richard Hull, Bell Laboratories Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University Moshe Vardi, Rice University Mihalis Yannakakis, Bell Laboratories ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Oct 18 14:23:44 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 OAA24854 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:23:35 -0500 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA07022 for dbworld; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:23:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:23:35 -0500 From: "Shalom (Dick) Tsur" Message-Id: <199610181923.OAA07022@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The R&D Division of Hitachi America, Ltd. (HAL), has recently started a new long-term activity in the area of Enterprise Data Management Systems and Application technology. The Information Technology Group (ITG) was established at Santa Clara, CA. to conduct research in this area. Topics that are expected to be covered include: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in large sources of enterprise data, with an emphasis on parallel computing, information and schema integration in hetergogeneous data sources, visualization as an aid in the data mining process and the distribution of results over enterprise-wide networks. ITG will meet these objectives by closely interacting with a number of large commercial partners in diverse areas of strategic importance to Hitachi, such as healthcare, manufacturing, finance and other domains. At the same time it will closely collaborate with a number of academic institutions so as to be informed of and to contribute to the latest research in these areas. ITG seeks a number of qualified researchers to join this effort. The ideal candidate would have an experience of 2-5 years in the area of database systems technology or large-volume data analysis, and a Ph.D. education in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline. Experience in the requirements formulation of large industrial applications in this area would be considered of additional interest. Interested applicants should contact: Dr. Shalom Tsur Hitachi America, Ltd. Research & Development Division 3101 Tasman Drive, MS-120, Santa Clara, CA., 95054 Tel: 408 492 9070 ext. 225 Fax: 408 988 2041 Email: tsur@hitachi.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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