From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Sun Sep 15 13:56:08 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA04825 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:55:59 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19253 for dbworld; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:55:59 -0500 From: Cecilia Kullman Message-Id: <199609151855.NAA19253@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Multimedia Information Systems, MIS'96 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:55:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 13237 This is just a reminder about the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems to be held September 26-28. The Workshop Program follows. Registrations are still accepted. Thanks, Cecilia Kullman for V.S. Subrahmanian and Satish K. Tripathi ------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems September 26-28, 1996 Hotel Thayer West Point, New York, USA. We invite participants to the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems to be held at the US Military Academy in West Point, NY, Sep. 26-28, 1996. This workshop follows upon the success of the first workshop in this series that was held in Arlington, VA, in Sep. 1995. Hotel Thayer is built on a steep, rocky cliff overlooking the Hudson River. The surrounding terrace provides a spectacular panorama of the Hudson Valley. A dinner at the Military Academy Officers' Club and a river tour on the Superintendent's ferry boat are planned as part of the workshop. A block of rooms with cut-off date of August 26 has been set aside for the workshop. Participants are advised to make their hotel room reservations prior to this date since the rest of the hotel is sold out. We plan to have a small focused workshop, consisting of participants drawn from a wide variety of disciplines (e.g. theory, algorithms, real-time systems, networks, operating systems, graphics and visualization, databases, artificial intelligence, etc.), all of whom are engaged in research on one or more aspects of multimedia systems. Consequently, attendance will be limited to about 80 participants. Please register early. A small amount of funding is available to support student attendees. To apply for support, please send a resume and statement of research interest by August 15 to Cecilia Kullman at address listed below. SPONSORS: U.S. Army Research Office University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies PROGRAM CHAIRS: V.S. Subrahmanian, Univ. of Maryland. Satish K. Tripathi, Univ. of Maryland. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Peter Buneman (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Leana Golubchik (Columbia) David Hislop (Army Research Office) Ramesh Jain (UCSD) Dilip Kandlur (IBM) Jim Kurose (UMass) Dick Muntz (UCLA) Anil Nerode (Cornell) M. Tamer Ozsu (Alberta) V.S. Subrahmanian (Maryland) Satish Tripathi (Maryland) P. Venkat Rangan (UCSD) ADVANCE PROGRAM: Thursday, September 26 09:00-10:00 Invited talk - Richard Muntz, UCLA The RIO (Randomized I/O) Multimedia Object Server 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:00 Optimal Clip Ordering for News On-demand Queries R. Ng and P. Shum, Univ of British Columbia 11:00-11:30 Group Reservation for QOS Support in Multimedia Workstations G. Raghunath, C. M. Woodside and J.E. Neilson, Carleton University 11:30-12:00 On Multilevel Multimedia Storage Systems L. Golubchik, Columbia University and S. Marcus, 21st Century Technologies, Inc. 12:00-01:30 Lunch (provided) 01:30-02:00 A Model for Content-based Retrieval of Multimedia Data G. Amato, IEI-CNR, G. Mainetto, CNUCE-CNR and P. Savino, IEI-CNR 02:00-02:30 Brahma: Browsing and Retrieval Architecture for Hierarchical Multimedia Annotation A. Dan, D. Sitaram and J. Song, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr 02:30-03:00 A Resource Reservation Scheme for Synchronized Distributed Multimedia Sessions W. Zhao and S. Tripathi, Univ of Maryland 03:00-03:30 Break 03:30-04:30 Panel discussion 04:30-05:30 Informal discussions 05:30-07:30 Boat tour of the Hudson River. Refreshments served. Dinner on own. Friday, September 27 09:00-10:00 Invited talk - Inderpal Bhandari, IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr The Relationship between Multimedia and Data Mining 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:00 Querying and Manipulating Multimedia Presentation Graphs T. Lee, L. Sheng, T. Bozkaya, G. Ozsoyoglu and Z.M. Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve Univ 11:00-11:30 Abstractions for Multimedia Database Systems T. Rakow, W. Klas and E. Neuhold, GMD - IPSI 11:30-12:00 A Framework for Multimedia Documents K. Candan, B. Prabhakaran and. V.S. Subrahmanian, Univ of Maryland 12:00-01:30 Lunch (provided) 01:30-02:00 Presentation Constraints for Multimedia Data E. Bertino, B. Catania, E. Ferrari, Universita degli Studi di Milano and A. Trombetta, Universita di Torino 02:00-02:30 Proactive Multimedia Systems to Support Learning While Working J. Sullivan, U.S. Military Academy and G. Fischer, Univ of Colorado 02:30-03:00 xbind Extensions for QOS Controlled Mobility A. Campbell and A. Lazar, Columbia Univ 03:00-03:30 Break 03:30-04:00 An Architecture for Multimedia Information Exchange D. Ulery, Georgia Tech Research Inst 04:00-04:30 A Multimedia Database System for Networked Applications H. Ishikawa, K. Kato, M. Ono, N. Yoshizawa, K. Kubota and A. Kondo, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. 04:30-05:00 Multimedia Databases - Research Interests C. Baral and T. C. Son, Univ of Texas at El Paso 05:00-06:00 Informal discussions 06:00-08:00 Dinner at the Officers' Club at West Point Saturday, September 28 09:00-10:00 Invited talk - Lt. Col. S Steve Woffinden, US Army Pentagon AI Center AI and the Information Interoperability Puzzle 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:00 Semantics and Containment of Queries in Multimedia Information Systems G. Grahne, Univ of Helsinki, N.Spyratos and D. Stamate, Univ de Paris-Sud 11:00-11:30 Video Databases: State of the Art, State of the Market and State of Practice H. Jiang and A. Elmagarmid, Purdue Univ 11:30-12:00 Towards Media-independent Search of Web-accessible Heterogeneous Digital Media A. Sheth and V. Kashyap, Univ of Georgia 12:00-12:30 Wrap-up ========================================================================== REGISTRATION FORM Workshop on Multimedia Systems Hotel Thayer West Point, NY, USA September 26-28, 1996 Name: ___________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Telephone: ___________________________ Fax: ________________________________ e-mail: ______________________________ Affiliation (for badge): ________________________________________________ ___ $ $100 Workshop fee on or before 8/26/96 ___ $ $150 Workshop fee after 8/26/96 (Please note that Hotel Thayer is likely to be sold out) Amount Enclosed: $________________ Method of Payment: ___ Check in U.S. dollars payable to "UMIACS - MIS'96." ___ Visa ___ Mastercard ___ Discover Credit Card Number: _________________________________ Credit Card Expiration Date: _________ Name on card: _______________________________ Signature: ______________________________ Conference fee includes coffee breaks, two lunches, one dinner and a boat tour. Payment must accompany the registration form. RETURN BY AUGUST 26, 1996 TO: Cecilia Kullman UMIACS University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA Tel.: (301) 405-6722, Fax: (301) 314-9658 e-mail: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu ======================================================================== HOTEL RESERVATION FORM Workshop on Multimedia Systems Hotel Thayer West Point, NY, USA September 26-28, 1996 Please reserve the following accommodations: ___ $80 Single Occupancy ___ $80 Double Occupancy Arrival Date: ____________ Departure Date: ____________ ___ Smoking ___ Non-smoking ___ Deposit check enclosed in the amount of $ ____________ ___ Credit card guarantee: Credit card number: _____________________________ Credit card expiration date: ____________ Name on card: _________________________ Signature: ________________________________ Name: ___________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Telephone: _________________________________________ Fax: ______________________________________________ SEND BY AUGUST 26, 1996 TO: Reservations Hotel Thayer West Point, NY 10996 Tel.: (914) 446-4731, (800) 247-5047, Fax: (914) 446-0338 ===================================================================== DIRECTIONS: Stewart Airport (Newburgh: Take a left out of parking lot. At end of road by traffic light, make a left onto Rt 207/300 in the direction of Vails Gate. Proceed a couple of miles, go straight through traffic light. 300 becomes Rt 32. Continue on Rt 32, follow signs for 9W. At the 5th traffic signal, make a left to Cornwall/9W. Turn right on 9W South. Follow 9W South and take third West Point exit. Go straight through Highland Falls and West Point Gate. Hotel Thayer is first building on the right. Limo Service: Upstate Limo Service provides limo service from Stewart Airport to the hotel for $46. The ride takes approx. 35 minutes. Make reservations one day in advance. 1-800-542-0930. JFK Airport: Take Belt Parkway East which turns into the Southern State Parkway. Follow and exit onto the Cross Island Parkway. Follow to Throggs Neck Bridge (toll). Cross bridge to Cross Bank expressway. Follow to George Washington Bridge. Cross the bridge, staying in the right lane. Exit onto the Palisades Interstate Parkway North. Follow to Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. See below. LaGuardia Airport: Take the Grand Central Parkway South to the Whitestone Expressway (687 N). Cross the Whitestone Bridge to the Cross Bronx Expressway. Follow to George Washington Bridge. Cross the bridge, staying in the right lane. Exit onto the Palisades Interstate Parkway. Follow to Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. See below. Newark Airport: Follow signs to Route 7 from Route 78W. Take the Garden State Parkway North. Follow signs to the New York State Thomas Dewey Thruway South (87 and 287). Take exit 13 North on the Palisades Interstate Parkway. Follow to Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. See below. >From Route 84 (Points West) Take 84 East to Route 6 East (exit 17E). Follow to the Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. See below. >From Route 84 (Points East) Take 84 West to New York Thruway South. Follow to Harriman to Route 6 East (exit 16). Follow to the Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. See below. >From the South: Route 95 North all through New Jersey (heading towards George Washington Bridge). Take the last exit BEFORE the G.W. Bridge which is the Fort Lee exit. Follow signs to the Palisades Parkway. Follow to the end onto Bear Mountain Traffic Circle. See below. >From the North: Take Route 84 to 9W South. Take 9W South for approx. 10 miles to the second exit for West Point. Exit says West Point/Highland Falls (exit ramp goes over 9W). Make first right onto Mountain Ave. Go down hill to Main Street. Take next left after Main Street onto Route 218. Stay on 218 for a mile. Hotel Thayer is on the right inside the gate. >From Bear Mountain Traffic Circle: Follow the Bear Mountain Traffic Circle around and exit at 9W North. Follow through Fort Montgomery. Exit at 218. Take 218 through Highland Falls to Thayer Gate. Enter West Point at Thayer Gate. The Hotel Thayer is just beyond the gate on the right. Parking is available across from the hotel. INFORMATION: For more information, please see http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/events/IWMIS/ or contact Cecilia Kullman Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Tel. (301) 405-0304 Fax (301) 314-9658 e-mail: cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N C I K M 9 6 Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management November 12 - 16, 1996, DoubleTree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGART and ACM SIGIR In cooperation with CAIR/KAIST and DISA http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ FROM THE GENERAL CHAIRS The Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'96) will be an opportunity for people working in the areas of database management, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence to meet and discuss problems of mutual interest. The CIKM conference, sponsored again this year by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Groups on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) and Artificial Intelligence (SIGART), is an annual, international forum for the dissemination of original ideas in information and knowledge management. The distinguishing characteristic of the CIKM conference series is to foster close collaboration between the database, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence communities. With the explosive growth of the Internet, and increasing interest in problems associated with unstructured as well as structured data, there has never been a better time for us to enlighten each other. Under Professor Tamer Ozsu's leadership, the Program Committee has selected an excellent set of papers. It is no secret that in today's highly competitive job market, keeping up-to-date has become not so much a luxury as a survival skill. We are pleased to again offer a program of tutorials at CIKM'96, and we hope that many of you will take advantage of these opportunities for professional development. CIKM'96 will continue the conference's tradition of workshops designed to present the newest developments in areas of interest to our community. This year's conference will take place in Rockville, Maryland, a suburban area on the northwest side of Washington, DC. All the sight-seeing, shopping, fine dining, sporting events, and other varieties of entertainment offered by this great city are readily accessible to CIKM'96 attendees. We look forward to seeing you at CIKM'96 in November. Niki Pissinou Charles Nicholas CIKM'96 General Chairs KEYNOTE TALKS AND PANELS Wednesday, November 13: Educating the Next Generation of Information and Knowledge Experts, in Collaboration with Industry. Michael Mulder (NSF) Wednesday, November 13: Keynote Panel: Web, Distributed Object Management, and OLE: Synergy or Competition. Moderator: Bruce Cottman (I-KINETICS/ComponentWare Consortium) Panelists: Mark Ryland (Microsoft), Richard Soley (OMG), and Dan Connolly (W3 Consortium) Thursday, November 14: OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences. Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) Thursday, November 14: Keynote Panel: Smart Mediators and Intelligent Agents. Moderator: V.S. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) Panelists: Jim Hendler (U.Md.), Su-Shing Chen (UNC-Charlotte), Val-Breazu Tannen (U. Pennsylvania), and Richard Hull (U. Colorado) November 7 - 9 IFIP WG2.6 Fall Meeting will be held in conjunction with CIKM'96. TUTORIALS Tuesday, November 12, 08:30 - 12:00 T1 Database Security Sushil Jajodia (George Mason University) T2 Middleware for Distributed Object Management Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich) T3 Temporal Databases: Modeling, Design, and Implementation Issues Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas at Arlington) Tuesday, November 12, 13:30 - 17:00 T4 Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems Venkat N. Gudivada (University of Missouri) and William I. Grosky (Wayne State University) T5 Workflow Management: Technology, Research, Applications and Experiences Amit Sheth (University of Georgia) T6 Reasoning with Actions and Knowledge in Databases Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA) PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS As usual, the CIKM'96 technical program consists of invited and peer refereed technical papers intermixed with panels and surrounded by tutorials and workshops. The invited talks address the important and emerging issues in the development of next generation information systems. The panels focus on some of the issues that are topics of much current debate. The six tutorials represent some of the hottest R&D topics in the areas relavant to the theme of this year's conference. The technical program also includes 36 submitted papers that were selected from a total submission of 99. The three workshops and the IFIP Working Group 2.6 meeting before the conference round out the program. An outline of the technical program is shown below, details can be found at our WWW site at: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~dbgroup/cikm96/ Wednesday, November 13 08:30 - 09:00 Opening & Registration 09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 1, Keynote Address: Educating the Next Generation of Information and Knowledge Experts, in Collaboration with Industry. Presenter: Michael Mulder (NSF) Chair: M. Tamer Ozsu (Univ. of Alberta) 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 2 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 2A: Image and Spatial Databases Chair: Farouzan Golshani (Arizona State University) Efficient Retrieval for Browsing Large Image Databases Daniel Wu (University of California, Santa Barbara), Divyakant Agrawal (University of California, Santa Barbara), Amr El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ambuj Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Terrence R. Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara) Adapting a Spatial Access Structure for Document Representations in Vector Space Andreas Henrich (Universitat Siegen) A Terrain Database Representation Based on an Extended Vector Product Format Mahdi Abdelguerfi (University of New Orleans), Edgar Cooper (University of New Orleans), Christ Wynne (University of New Orleans), Kevin Shaw (Stennis Space Center), Vincent Miller (Planning Systems Incorporated), Robert Broome (Planning Systems Incorporated), and Barbara Ray (Planning Systems Incorporated) SESSION 2B: Query Processing Chair: Maria Zemankova (NSF) Recursive query processing using graph traversal techniques Estrella Pulido (University of Bristol) Processing Queries for First Few Answers Roberto J. Bayardo Jr. (University of Texas at Austin) and Daniel P. Miranker (University of Texas at Austin) Spatial Query Processing Using Object Decomposition Method Yong-Ju Lee (Korea Environmental Technology Research Institute), Ho-Hyun Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Nam-Hee Hong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), and Chin-Wan Chung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) SESSION 2C: Data Mining and Warehousing Chair: Suk-Chung Yoon (Widener University) An Object-Oriented Approach to Multi-Level Association Rule Mining Scott Fortin (University of Alberta) and Ling Liu (University of Alberta) Background for Association Rules and Cost Estimate of Selected Mining Algorithms Jia Liang Han (University of Southern Queensland) and Ashley W. Plank (University of Southern Queensland) A Data Model for Supporting On-Line Analytical Processing Chang Li (George Mason University) and X. Sean Wang (George Mason University) 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 3 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 3A: Access to Unstructured Information Chair: Kia Makki (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) Notes Explorer: Entity-Based Retrieval in Shared, Semi-Structured Information Spaces Scott Huffman (Price Waterhouse Technology Centre) and Catherine Baudin (Price Waterhouse Technology Centre) Fast Retrieval of Cursive Handwriting Ibrahim Kamel (Panasonic Technologies, Inc.) Infomod: A Knowledge-Based Moderator for Electronic Mail Help Lists Robert J. Hall (AT&T Research) SESSION 3B: Object Query Processing & Optimization Chair: Tore Risch (Linkoping University) Dynamic Query Optimization on a Distributed Object Management Platform Fatma Ozcan (Middle East Technical University), Sena Nural (Middle East Technical University), Pinar Koksal (Middle East Technical University), Cem Evrendilek (Middle East Technical University), and Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University) A Model of Object Database Applications and its Use in Cost Estimation Neil Ching (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Erich Hughes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Processing OODB Queries by O-Algebra Jie Lin (Case Western Reserve University) and Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University) SESSION 3C: Information Retrieval Chair: Peter Apers (University of Twente) Incorporating Latent Semantic Indexing into a Neural Network Model for Information Retrieval Inien Syu (Embry-Riddle University), S.D. Lang (University of Central Florida), and Narsingh Deo (University of Central Florida) Object-Oriented and Database Concepts for the Design of Networked Information Retrieval Systems Norbert Fuhr (University of Dortmund) Learning to Extract Information From Text Based on User-Provided Examples Scott B. Huffman (Price Waterhouse Technology Centre) 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break 15:30 - 17:00 SESSION 4, Keynote Panel: Web, Distributed Object Management, and OLE: Synergy or Competition. Moderator: Bruce Cottman (I-KINETICS/ComponentWare Consortium) Panelists: Mark Ryland (Microsoft), Richard Soley (OMG), and Dan Connolly (W3 Consortium) Thursday, November 14 09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 5, Keynote Address: OLAP and Statistical Databases: Similarities and Differences. Presenter: Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 6 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 6A: Object Databases Chair: Markus Tresch (ETH, Zurich) Modeling a Vocabulary in an Object-Oriented Database Li-min Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Michael Halper (Kean College of New Jersey), Huanying Gu (New Jersey Institute of Technology), James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Yehoshua Perl (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Integrating Constraints in Complex Objects C. Oussalah (EMA-EERIE) and V. Puig (EMA-EERIE) Constructing Information Systems Based on Schema Reuse Wen-Syan Li (Rutgers University) and Richard D. Holowczak (Rutgers University) SESSION 6B: Techniques for Query Execution Chair: Randal Peters (University of Manitoba) S-signature: A New Scheme for Efficient Query Processing of Complex Objects in OODB Hakgene Shin (Chonbuk National University), KangSeuk Kim (Chonbuk National University), and Jaewoo Chang (Chonbuk National University) Effective Graph Clustering for Path Queries in Digital Map Databases Yun-Wu Huang (University of Michigan), Ning Jing (Changsha Institute of Technology), and Elke A. Rundensteiner (University of Michigan) Indexing Values of Time Sequences Ling Lin (Linkoping University), Tore Risch (Linkoping University), Martin Skold (Linkoping University), and Dushan Badal (University of Colorado) SESSION 6C: Knowledge Based & Fuzzy Systems Chair: Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University) Fuzzy Methodology for Taxonomy and Knowledge Base Design Paul P. Wang (Duke University) and Fuji Lai (Duke University) Performance Evaluation of G-tree and Its Application in Fuzzy Databases Chengwen Liu (DePaul University), Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago), Prasad Sistla (University of Illinois at Chicago), Jing Wu (University of Illinois at Chicago), Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University) The Personal Electronic Program Guide - Towards the Pre-Selection of Individual TV Programs Michael Ehrmantraut (University of Kaiserslautern), Theo Harder (University of Kaiserslautern), Hartmut Wittig (IBM European Networking Center), and Ralf Steinmentz (IBM European Networking Center) 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break 13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 7 (three parallel sessions) SESSION 7A: Non-Traditional Applications Chair: Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University) CROSS-DB A Feature-Extended Multidimensional Data Model for Statistical and Scientific Databases Wolfgang Lehner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Thomas Ruf (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), and Michael Teschke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Hierarchical Optimization of Optimal Path Finding for Transportation Applications Ning Jing (Changsha Institute of Technology), Yun-Wu Huang (University of Michigan), and Elke A. Rundensteiner (University of Michigan) Handling Uncertainties in Workflow Applications Jian Tang (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and San-Yih Hwang (National Sun Yat-Sen University) SESSION 7B: Unconventional Queries Chair: Keith Humenik (Indiana University South Bend) Distributed Processing of Time-Constrained Queries in CASE-DB Sungkil Lee (Case Western Reserve University) and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University) A New Conflict Relation for Concurrency Control and Recovery in object-based Databases SangKeun Lee (Korea University), SoonYoung Jung (Korea University), and Chong-Sun Hwang (Korea University) Information Agents for Automated Browsing Chanda Dharap (Philips Research Palo Alto) and Martin Freeman (Philips Research Palo Alto) SESSION 7C: Deductive & Rule Systems Chair: Senad Busovaca (Cal. State U., Sacramento) On Implementing SchemaLog - A Database Programming Language Alanoly Andrews (Concordia University), Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Concordia University), Nematollaah Shiri (Concordia University), and Iyer N. Subramanian (Concordia University) A Case Study of Venus and a Declarative Basis for Rule Modules Lane Warshaw (University of Texas at Austin) and Daniel P. Miranker (University of Texas at Austin) Optimal Unification of Bounded Simple Set Terms Sergio Greco (Universita della Calabria) 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break 15:30 - 17:00 SESSION 8, Keynote Panel: Smart Mediators and Intelligent Agents. Moderator: V.S. Subrahmanian (U. Maryland) Panelists: Jim Hendler (U.Md.), Su-Shing Chen (UNC-Charlotte), Val-Breazu Tannen (U. Penns.), and Richard Hull (U. Colorado) WORKSHOPS Friday - Saturday, November 15 - 16 W1 Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'96) General Chairs: Kia Makki, UNLV (kia@muddy.cs.unlv.edu) and Niki Pissinou, USL (pissinou@cacs.usl.edu) Program Chairs: Patrick Bergougnoux, U. Toulouse 1 (bergougn@irit.fr) and Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota (shekhar@cs.umn.edu) Friday, November 15 W2 Databases: Active & Real-Time (DART'96) (Concepts meet Practice) General Chair: Krithi Ramamritham, U. Mass. (krithi@cs.umass.edu) Program Chair: Nandit Soparkar, U. Michigan (soparkar@eecs.umich.edu) Saturday, November 16 W3 New paradigms in information visualization and manipulation General Chair: Charles Nicholas, UMBC (nicholas@cs.umbc.edu) Program Chair: David Ebert, UMBC (ebert@cs.umbc.edu) VENUE Rockville is a suburb of Washington, DC located on the northwest side of the city. Rockville is noted for fine shopping, fine dining, and easy access to Washington's major attractions via the safe and convenient Metro system. Temperatures in November will probably be cool, but snow is unlikely. A reception is planned for the evening of Wednesday, November 13, and the conference banquet is scheduled for Thursday, November 14. The Doubletree Hotel is convenient to Dulles International, Washington National, and Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) airports. Taxi fares are approximately $35 from National, $40 from Dulles, and $50 from BWI. Limo service from each airport is available at $35; please call the hotel 72 hours in advance to arrange for limo pickup. When you make your hotel reservations, please mention the CIKM'96 conference to qualify for the conference room rate. Call 1-800-222-8733, or 1-301-468-1100. The hotel front desk fax number is 1-301-468-0163. If you have any questions, or require additional information, please contact the appropriate person indicated below: On Local Arrangements: Professor Jim Chen, jchen@cs.gmu.edu On registrations: Dr. E.K. Park, eun@usna.navy.mil On technical program: Program Chair, Dr. Tamer Ozsu, ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca On other matters: General Chair, Dr. Charles Nicholas, nicholas@cs.umbc.edu ACCOMMODATIONS CIKM96 will be held at: DoubleTree Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852 USA Telephone: (301) 468-1100; Fax: (301) 468-0308 Room Rate: $105.00. All room rates are US dollars net per room, per night, single or double occupancy plus taxes. Individuals must make their own reservations by calling 1-800-222-TREE (or 301-468-1100), and use the group code "C001" to receive CIKM96 conference group rate. Individuals are on their own for payment of room, tax and any incidental charges. All reservations must be made prior to the cut-off date of October 15, 1996 at 12:01am. All reservations must be guaranteed for late arrival by a valid credit card or an advance deposit of one night room and tax. Check-in time is 3:00pm. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIKM'96 REGISTRATION FORM Please complete this form (TYPE or PRINT), and return with your payment to the address below. Please submit a separate form for each participant. First Name: _____________________ Last Name: _____________________________ Title (Dr/Mr/Ms/Mrs/Prof.): _____ Position: ______________________________ Company/University: ______________________________________________________ Department: ______________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________________ State: _________________________________ Zip/Postal Code: ________________ Country: _______________________________ Phone: __________________________ Fax: ___________________________________ E-mail: __________________________________________________________________ FEE STRUCTURE Attendees may advance register by October 11, 1996. Registrations received after October 11, 1996 fall under the Late/On-site registration fee structure. Please circle your choice of fees and fill in the last column with each fee as appropriate. ADVANCE REGISTRATION by October 11, 1996 ACM Member Non-member Student Selected Fee CIKM96 Conference Fee 260 310 200 $___________ Tutorial Fee (each half day) 200 230 120 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 Please circle tutorial selections and enter total fee: $___________ Workshop Fee (each one day) 190 220 100 Workshop Fee (each two day) 250 300 150 W1 W2 W3 Please circle workshop selections and enter total fee: $___________ All-inclusive Fee 600 700 350 $___________ Includes all tutorials, workshops, and the conference. Total Advance Registration Fees: $___________ LATE/ON-SITE REGISTRATION after October 11, 1996 ACM Member Non-member Student Selected Fee CIKM96 Conference Fee 310 360 250 $___________ Tutorial Fee (each half day) 250 280 150 T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 T6 Please circle tutorial selections and enter total fee: $___________ Workshop Fee (each one day) 220 250 120 Workshop Fee (each two day) 280 330 180 W1 W2 W3 Please circle workshop selections and enter total fee: $___________ All-inclusive Fee (Not applicable. Advance registration only) Total Late/On-site Registration Fees: $___________ Total Registration Fees (from above): $ _______________________ Extra Conf. Reception Tickets ($40/each): $ _______________________ Extra Workshop Reception Tickets ($40/each): $ _______________________ (workshop reg. fee includes this, but NOT the conf. reg. fee) Extra Conf. 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Registrants are liable for their full fees after that date (i.e., NO Refund will be made!). All no-show registrations will be billed in full. ------- end ------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Sun Sep 15 13:58:25 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA04839 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:58:18 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA19297 for dbworld; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:58:18 -0500 From: Br Badrinath Message-Id: <199609151858.NAA19297@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Advance Program, Mobicom96 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 13:58:17 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2926 ACM/IEEE PRESENT M O B I C O M ' 96 RYE, NEW YORK, November 10-12, 1996 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION MOBICOM is the annual international conference, established to serve as the premier forum for addressing research issues on all aspects of the multi-disciplinary field of mobile wireless computing. TECHNICAL TRACKS: NOVEMBER 11-12 Two days of single track sessions, including Mobile and Wireless TCP Issues in Mobile Computing Mobility Management Mobile Applications Resource Allocation and Sharing LAN, MAC and ATM SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS Tutorials (November 10): Mobile networking within IETF, WWW and Mobile Computing, Air interface standards, and Secure mobile communications, Keynote Talk by Dr. Victor Lawrence, Bell Labs of Lucent Technologies Panels on Software architecture for mobile networks and multimedia mobile networks Luncheon Talk by Prof. M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Exhibits: Opportunity to showcase your prototypes, demos Contact Exhibit chair: Peter Honeyman (honey@citi.umich.edu) FOR MORE INFORMATION Complete program and registration information can be obtained from WEB page: http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/conf/mobicom96 if you need more information on mobicom96 contact B. R. Badrinath (badri@cs.rutgers.edu, +1 908-445-2082, Fax +1 908-445-0537) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Mon Sep 16 12:07:09 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA16645 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:06:17 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA23780 for dbworld; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:06:16 -0500 From: BEZALEL GAVISH Message-Id: <199609161706.MAA23780@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) CFP - 5th Inter Conf on Telecomm Sys To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:06:16 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 15906 TSM97CFP C A L L for P A P E R S 5th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modelling and Analysis March 20-23, 1997 Nashville, TN Sponsored by: American Telecommunications Systems Management Association BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. IFIP Working Group 7.3 "Computer system modelling and performance evaluation" INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications INFORMS College of Information Systems The 5th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modelling and Analysis will be held in Nashville on March 20-23, 1997. The conference will build on the tradition of the earlier conferences with a few changes in format due to the new conference location. The general idea is to limit the number of participants, concentrate on a few topics, present new problems and problem areas, encouraging informal interaction and exchanges of ideas. The objective is to advance the state of the modelling and analysis in telecommunications by stimulating research activity on new and important problems. The conference will be divided into segments with each segment devoted to a specific topic. This will allow for little conflict between segments. All papers will be screened by the Program Committee to ensure the quality of presentations. A decentralized paper handling process will be used. The Program Committee has been divided along geographical regions with a separate Program Subcommittee assigned to each region. Abstracts and papers should be submitted directly to the Program Committee Chair of the appropriate area. It is expected that this will expedite the paper review process. In response to suggestions made by last year's participants, social and cultural activities will be included in the 1997 agenda. The conference will be held at two sites, Thursday and Friday meetings will take place at the Tenessee Economic Development Center at the BellSouth Tower in downtown Nashville. The Saturday and Sunday meeting will be held at the Union Station hotel (see description at the end of the message). Lead Speakers and Keynote speakers include: Erol Gelenbe, Andrew Viterbi, Paul Kuehn. The Chairmen of the geographic Program Committees are: ---Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia: Prof. Richard Harris Department of Communication and Electronic Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 723 Swanston Street Carlton, Victoria Australia, 3001 Phone : 61 3 9282 2450 (CATT), 61 3 9660 2457 (RMIT) Fax : 61 3 9282 2490 (CATT), 61 3 9660 1060 (RMIT) E-Mail : richard@catt.rmit.edu.au ---Europe: (except Scandinavia and Baltic states) Prof. Guy Pujolle Laboratoire PRiSM Universite de Versailles - Saint Quentin 45 avenue des Etats-Unis 78 035 Versailles Cedex FRANCE Phone : +33 (1) 39 25 40 61 Fax : +33 (1) 39 25 40 57 E-Mail : guy.pujolle@prism.uvsq.fr ---Europe: (Scandinavia and Baltic states) Dr. Johan M. Karlsson Department of Communication Systems Lund Institute of Technology P.O. Box 118 S-221 00 Lund Sweden E-Mail : johan@tts.lth.se ---North America: Prof. June S. Park Department of Management Sciences The University of Iowa 108 Pappajohn Business Administration Bldg. Iowa City, IA 52242-1000 USA Phone : 319-335-2087 Fax : 319-335-1956 E-Mail : jpark@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu ---North East Asia: Prof. Yutaka Takahashi Graduate School of Information Science Nara Institute of Science and Technology Nara 630-01, Japan Phone : 81 74 372 5350 Fax : 81 74 372 5359 E-Mail : yutaka@is.aist-nara.ac.jp ---South and Central America: Dr. Ernesto Santibanez-Gonzalez Escuela de Ingenieria Industrial Universidad Catolica, Valparaiso Av. Brasil 2147 Valparaiso Chile Phone : 56 32 257331 Fax : 56 2 214823 E-Mail : esantiba@aix1.ucv.cl ---Chairman of the Economics track: Prof. William W. Sharkey Federal Communications Commission 1919 M Street Washington, DC 20554 USA Phone : 202-418-2743 Fax : 202-418-1413 E-Mail : wsharkey@fcc.gov ---All other geographic areas: Prof. Bezalel Gavish Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University Tel: 615-322-3659 401 21st Avenue South FAX: 615-343-7177 Nashville, TN 37203 Email: gavishb@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu Listed below are some of the potential segments: -- Configuration of ATM networks -- Internet and its Impact on Commerce -- Internet and Intranet -- Standards -- Topological Design and Network Configuration Problems -- Design and Analysis of Local Access Networks and Outside Plant Problems -- Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems -- Cellular Systems and PCS Modelling and Configuration -- Time Dependent Expansion of Telecommunication Systems -- Designing Networks for Reliability and Availability -- Network Design Problems in Gigabit and Terabit Networks -- LAN, WAN Global Network Interconnection -- ATM, ISDN, BISDN Modeling and Analysis Issues -- Artificial Intelligence/Heuristics in Telecommunication Systems -- Group Decision Support Systems -- Quantitative Methods in Network Management -- Pricing and Economic Analysis of Telecommunications -- Impact of Telecommunications on Industrial Organization -- Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Systems -- Distributed Computing and Distributed Data Bases -- Security and Privacy Issues in Telecommunications -- Virtual Reality, Multimedia and their Impact The Program Committee is open to any ideas you might have regarding additional topics or format of the conference. The intention is whenever possible, to limit the number of parallel sessions to two. The conference is scheduled over a weekend so as to reduce teaching conflicts for academic participants, enabling participants to take advantage of weekend hotel and airfare rates and of the many events that take place in the downtown area. Due to the limit on the number of participants early conference and hotel registration is recommended. The Union Station Hotel is the official hotel of the conference. To ensure your participation, please use the following steps: 1. Send to the appropriate Program Committee Chair by October 1, 1996, a paper (preferable), or titles and extended abstracts for potential presentations to be considered for the conference. Sending more than one extended abstract is encouraged, enabling the Program Committee to have a wider choice in terms of assigning talks to segments. Use E-mail to expedite the submission of titles and abstracts. 2. Use the forms at the end of this message to preregister for the conference and the hotal. Let us also know if you would like to have a formal duty during the conference as: Session Chair, or Discussant. 3. You will be notified by December 1, 1996, which abstract/s have been selected for the conference. Detailed instructions on how to prepare camera ready copies will be sent to authors of accepted presentations. January 30, 1997, is the deadline for sending a final version of the paper. Participants will receive copies of the collection of papers to be presented. All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in the "Telecommunication Systems" Journal. The Program Committee looks forward to receiving your feedback/ideas. Feel free to volunteer any help you can offer. If you have suggestions for Segment Leaders (i.e., individuals who will have a longer time to give an overview/state of the art talk on their segment subject) please E-mail them to Prof Gavish. Also, if there are individuals whose participation you view as important, please send their names and E-mail addresses to the Program Committee Chairman, or forward to them a copy of this message. I look forward to a very successful conference. Sincerely yours, Bezalel Gavish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cut Here ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifth International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modelling and Analysis REGISTRATION FORM Date: __________________ Dates: March 20, 1997 (afternoon) to March 23, 1997 Name: ________________________________________ Title: __________________ Affiliation: __________________________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Phone: ____________________________ FAX: _______________________________ E-mail: __________________________________________________________________ Potential Title of Paper(s): __________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ I would like to Volunteer as Comments A Session Chair : Yes No ________________________________________________ A Discussant : Yes No ________________________________________________ Organize a Session: Yes No ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ REGISTRATION RATES and DEADLINES Last Applica- Academic Industry Corporate ble Date Rate Rate Rate --------------- -------- -------- -------- 1. Preregistration Until Dec. 9, 1996 $ 400 $ 500 $1,300 2. Registration Until Jan. 15, 1997 $ 500 $ 600 $1,300 3. On Site Registration After Jan. 15, 1997 $ 600 $ 750 $1,500 As part of the conference registration dues you can become a member of the "American Telecommunication Systems Management Association" . Please mark an X in the following entry if you wish to become an ATSMA member. ____ Yes, I wish to become an ATSMA member. ____ No, I don't wish to become an ATSMA member. Mail your registration form and check to: Mrs. Dru Lundeng Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University 401 21st Avenue, South Nashville, TN 37203, USA The check should be endorsed to: ATSMA, Inc. Refund Policy: Half refund, for requests received by February 1, 1997. No refund after February 1, 1997. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Dru Lundeng at 615-322-3694 or through E-mail at lundeng@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu. Hotel Reservation A block of rooms has been reserved at Union Station Hotel for the Conference participants. Please make your hotel arrangements early, to insure getting a room at the special conference rate. You will need to mention that you are a participant of the Telecommunication Systems Conference to receive the best price. Our advice is to make your reservations as soon as possible. Hotel rooms will be released from the Telecommunication Systems Conference blocks on February 15, 1997, so please be sure and reserve your rooms before February 15th. Union Station Hotel 1001 Broadway Nashville, TN 37203 Phone: 615-726-1001 or 1-800-331-2123 Fax: 615-742-3084 $99.00 Single or Double Occupancy Room $109.00 Triple or Quad Occupancy Room - Rates are subject to state and local tax, which is now 12.25 percent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Union Station Hotel Reservation Request Form Name of Conference: Telecommunication Systems Conference Arrival Date _________________ Departure Date __________________ Guest Name:__________________________________________________ Address :__________________________________________________ :__________________________________________________ Phone No. :__________________________________________________ A one night deposit should be enclosed to guarantee the reservation Payment Method: Check Check No.______________ Amount____________ Credit Card Type______________ No.____________________ Expiration Date____________ Type of Room: King or 2 Double Beds Smoking or Nonsmoking -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Union Station Hotel Description A Grand Heritage Hotel Features and Amenities In the heart of "Music City" stands a hotel with the personality of an intimate friend...Union Station Hotel. The heartbeat of Nashville has always been strongest at the Union Station. >From the grand opening in 1890 until the decline of rail travel in the 50s no other building in the city has been the site of more commercial activity and human drama. Nearly a century later, the Union Station Hotel, a National Historic Landmark, is again an integral part of life in Music City 124 guest rooms including 13 suites on seven levels are architecturally distinctive and capture the historic elegance of a bygone era. Stained glass, glittering gold leaf and newly silvered mirrors scatter reflections of an era which has endured for nearly a century. 4 conference rooms with over 10,000 square feet of flexible meeting and banquet space to accommodate groups of 5 to 200. * Arthur's Restaurant - gourmet dining, the recipient of the Mobil Travel Guide's Four Stars, Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence, and the Travel Holiday Award. * Broadway Bistro - casual dining open for lunch and dinner. Selected in the 1996 Zagat Survey as the city's best overall and best dining hotel. Heritage Executive Level with enhanced amenities ideal for the business and leisure traveler including concierge service, continental breakfast and evening cocktails Monday through Friday. * Valet parking. * Complimentary limo service in downtown Nashville. * Complimentary newspaper. * Blocks from downtown area, famed Music Row, Vanderbilt University and Convention Center. Recommended Airport: Nashville Metro Airport, 7 miles to the East. Transportation: Grayline Shuttle to the hotel. $8.00 one way, $14.00 round trip. Complimentary shuttle service within three mile radius of hotel for conference guests.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bezalel Gavish Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, 37203 Bitnet: GAVISHB@VUCTRVAX Internet: GAVISHB@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU Tel: (615) 322-3659 Home: (615) 370-0813 FAX: (615) 343-7177 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Mon Sep 16 12:07:29 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA16662 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:06:45 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA23791 for dbworld; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:06:44 -0500 From: reimer@swssai.uu.ch (Ulrich Reimer) Message-Id: <199609161706.MAA23791@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Int. Conf. on Practical Aspects of Knowledge To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:06:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 3152 The First International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management October 30th - 31st, 1996 Basel, Switzerland Actively managing knowledge - the key asset of your company - enables you to: - make optimal use of valuable resources - cycle experience throughout the whole corporation - dramatically reduce cycle times - dramatically reduce time to market - provide better value to your customers - successfully reengineer your business - increase R & D efficiency and effectiveness The conference covers the following topics: - Knowledge Development - Knowledge Sharing and Reuse - The Learning Organisation - Data Mining - extraction of hidden knowledge from databases - Intelligent Workflow - Information filtering and distribution - Adaptive Information Presentation - WWW and Internet for effective knowledge distribution - Total Quality Management - Measuring and controlling the financial benefits of systematic Knowledge Management The following workshops will be held: - Adaptive Workflow - Data Mining in Real World Databases - Practical Applications of Information Filtering - The Lessons Learned Cycle: Implementing a Knowledge Pump in your Organisation - Product Knowledge Sharing for Integrated Enterprises - Knowledge Media for Improving Organisational Expertise More detailed information can be found at the following URL: http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sgaico/html/pakm.html For further details or to receive a copy of the conference brochure contact : Rene Bach SGAICO c/o NDIT/FPIT Phone: 41 31 998 41 81 Morgenstr. 129 (Technopark) Fax: 41 31 999 46 18 3018 Bern - Switzerland Email: rene@acm.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Mon Sep 16 14:17:04 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA19880 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:16:47 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA24202 for dbworld; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:16:47 -0500 From: Charlie Perkins Message-Id: <199609161916.OAA24202@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Call for Papers for MONET special issue To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:16:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5168 -------- Dear Colleagues, The following Call for Papers is also available on the Web, at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbj/monet-cfp.html A PostScript version of the Call for Papers is available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dbj/monet-cfp.ps Please distribute this notice to anyone you feel may be interested. Also please feel free to add a pointer from your Web pages to the abovementioned URL for the special issue. Regards, Charles E. Perkins ======================================================================== Baltzer Science Publishers in cooperation with ACM announce a Special Issue of the Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET) on Mobile Networking in the Internet with guest editors Charles E. Perkins IBM T.J. Watson Research Center David B. Johnson Carnegie Mellon University OVERVIEW: The continued exponential growth of the Internet, coupled with powerful new technology for wireless computing, has created the need for extensive development of protocols and techniques for handling wireless nodes as they move about and change their point of network attachment. One major technological advance enabling mobile networking within the Internet has been Mobile IP, developed within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), but this is only the beginning of the wave of changes needed to support nomadic Internet users. Problems introduced by mobility have been identified at every level of the network protocol stack, and many innovations are needed to enable the full potential of untethered nodes within the Internet. SCOPE: This special issue will concentrate on the problems associated with mobile and wireless networking in the Internet, primarily at the network layer and above. A representative sampling of topics is provided below: - Mobile IP - Registration and location management - Route optimization - Interactions between geographic and network locality - Mobile multicast protocols - Mobile location of services and resources - Transport layer (TCP, RTP) effects - Multimedia and QOS support - Internet protocols in a wireless ad hoc network - Application adaptation to mobility and changing links - Proxy architectures for Web and other services - Internet security issues - Analysis and simulation of mobile networking protocols - Mobile node traffic analysis and simulation SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors should email an electronic Postscript copy of their paper to one of the guest editors by November 15, 1996. Submissions should be limited to 20 double spaced pages, excluding figures, graphs, and illustrations. If email submission is impossible, then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if possible) should be sent by the due date to one of the guest editors. PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: MANUSCRIPT DUE: November 15, 1996 ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: January 31, 1997 FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: March 31, 1997 GUEST EDITORS: Charles E. Perkins Room H3-D34 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center 30 Saw Mill River Rd. Hawthorne, NY 10532 Tel: +1-914-784-7350 Fax: +1-914-784-6205 Email: perk@watson.ibm.com David B. Johnson Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science Department 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 Tel: +1-412-268-7399 Fax: +1-412-268-5576 Email: dbj@cs.cmu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Mon Sep 16 16:15:49 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA23639 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:15:40 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA24558 for dbworld; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:15:39 -0500 From: Bernhard Thalheim Message-Id: <199609162115.QAA24558@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Workshops during ER'96 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:15:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 10619 Call for Participation & Information on Workshops during ER'96 15 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER'96 October 7--10, 1996 Best Western Hotel Branitz, Cottbus, near Berlin Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, Germany Invited Keynote Speaches: Heikki Mannila Johann A. Makowsky Charles W. Bachman Tutorials: Paolo Atzeni Database Cooperation: Classification and Middleware Tools Richard T. Due Modeling the Enterprise with Objects Barbara von Halle : Objects and Rules: An Emerging Synergy Silvana Castano, Carlo Batini and Barbara Pernici Reuse at the Conceptual Design Level: Models, Methods, and Tools Workshops: Challenges of Applications Challenges of Design International Symposium on Business Process Modeling CASE Tools for Database Design GI Congress on Modeling of Business Information Systems (MoBIS'96) Exhibitions: International Exhibition on ER CASE Tools International Exhibition of Database Systems and Products Brandenburg-based Technology Companies Book Exhibition Information and Registration Telephone: +49 355 69 2700 Fax: +49 355 69 2766 E-Mail: ER96@informatik.tu-cottbus.de WWW: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ER96/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop 2: Challenges of Applications Time: Wednesday, October 9, 14:00--15:30 Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD Darmstadt A Modelling Framework of a Hyperworld Jianhua Ma, Runhe Huang Information Systems in Civil Engineering: Structural Report and Structural Editor Frank Molkenthin A Concept-Case Knowledge Model for Conceptual Database Design Tsair-Yuan Chang, Chien-Ho Wu, R. D. Hurrion Spreadsheet-Based Model Building and Multiple Criteria Group Evaluation Support Miklos Biro, Janos Demetrovics, Tibor Remszo NIAM/OR Modeling: Student and Expert Solutions Gordon C. Everest Managing the Versioning of Complex Objects in the Presence of Polymorphism Zahir Tari, Xue Li CUP Architecture for Developing Information Services Ryszard Raban On Semantics of Context in Functional Constraints Takao Miura Temporal Aspects of Active Databases Opher Etzion -------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop 3: Challenges of Design Time: Wednesday, October 9, 16:00--18:00 Chair: Erich Neuhold, GMD Darmstadt Understanding and Evaluating the Quality of Conceptual Models: Linking Theory and Practice Graeme Shanks, Peta Darke A Generalized Model for Data Serafim Dahl, Kjell Lindqvist On Using Enterprise Models in Resource Discovery Andrew Goodchild, Robert M. Colomb Functional Data Model and a Query Language for Multimedia Databases Takashi Tomii, Hiroshi Arisawa Toward a Methodology for the Totally Supported Knowledge Elicitation through Man-Machine Interaction Hidenori Yoshizumi, Koichi Hori, Shinichi Nakasuka Dependency Preserving Refinements of Relational Database Schemes J. A. Makowsky, E. V. Ravve Taxonomic Reasoning in Schemas Translation Farouk Toumani, Jean-Marc Petit, Jaques Kouloumdjian Modeling Consensus Knowledge from Multiple Sources Based on Semantics of Concepts Seppo Puuronen, Vagan Terziyan Database Architecture for the Representation of Complex and Uncertain Information B. B. Buckles, F. E. Petry, Adnan Yazici -------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop 4: International Symposium on Business Process Modeling Time: Thursday, October 10, 10:30--18:00 \\ Chairs: Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus Eberhard Stickel, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder Business Process Modelling is a key success issue for today's companies and organizations. It was realized that significant improvements may result as a consequence of careful analysis and redesign of existing business processes. This does not only hold for administrative but also for manufacturing processes. Analyzing existing processes requires modelling methods as well as modelling tools. Process improvement calls for methodologies to determine the value a certain process has for a company. Existing applications need to be combined in order to generate support for the whole workflow that is initiated. The aim of the INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the areas of Business Process Modelling Business Process Evaluation Strategic Business Planning Process Cost Analysis Quality Management Workflow Management Software Engineering Data and Process Modelling Manufacturing Simulation in order to discuss the interaction and the relevance of these areas for Business Process Modelling. Interaction between Business Process Modelling and Workflow Management O. Zukunft, F. Rump >From Business Process Modelling to Workflow Management: An Integrated Approach H. Krallmann, G. Derszteler Workflow Management Cycle---An integrated approach to the modelling, execution, and monitoring of workflow based processes W. Wieczerzycki Process Modelling and Execution in Workflow Management Systems G. Schmidt Business Process Modelling for Engineering Processes H. Grabowski, M. Furrer, D. Renner, C. Schmid Implementation of Information Systems supporting Engineering Processes based on World Wide Web St. Berndes, A. Stanke Strategic Business Planning R. Kamel, H. Lesca A proposal approach for Strategic Probe: A support structured scanning information J. L. G. Dietz, H. B. F. Mulder Business Process Modelling---Experiences M. A. Janson, St. Wrycza Information Technology as an Enabler of Business Processes Designing During Macroeconomic Transformation D. J. Chaffey Methodological and Technical Aspects of Business Process Modelling L. Yu A Coordination-based Approach for Modelling Office Workflow M. Rohloff An Object Oriented Approach to Business Process Modelling K. Lang, W. Taumann, F. Bodendorf An Object-oriented and Business Process-based Meta Model of an Architecture for Management Support Systems G. M. Giaglis, R. J. Paul Industrial Track and Exhibition} GPS mbH -- IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH -- UBIS GmbH -- PC-Soft GmbH -- Promatis Informatik GmbH -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop 5: CASE Tools Time: Thursday, October 10, 10:30--18:00 Chair: Bernhard Thalheim, Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus Research Track A Tool for Mapping Binary-Relationship Diagrams to Object-Oriented Database Schemas Peretz Shoval A Method to Transform a Relational Database Schema into an Appropriate ODMG-93 Object Manfred Hackl Conceptual Modeling in KARL and G-KARL J\"urgen Angele Managing Large Entity-Relationship Diagrams Harri Siirtola Draft of an Object-Oriented Query Language and its Transformation in SQL Statements Gerhard Wanner Industrial Track Highlights of CASE tools presented Bachman Database Administrator (Bachman Information Systems) case/4/0 (microTOOL) DB Main (University of Namur) ERwin \& BPwin (asv) InfoModeler 2.0 (Asymetrix) Innovator (MID) Maestro II (Softlab) Magic (Magic Software Enterprises) ModelMart (LogicWorks) Natural (Software AG) S-Designor (Powersoft) Silverrun (Hirschleber \& Partner) Software for Pictures StP (IDE) Highlights of Database Products presented ABAP/4 (SAP) Oracle (rdb) -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop 6 Congress of German GI Section 5.2.1: MoBIS'96 Modeling of Business Information Systems Time: Friday, October 11, 9:00--18:00 Place: Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Building 1 This workshop will be held in German. Fees of workshop 6 are not included into the general workshop fee. For participation please contact the email address grauer@fb5.uni-siegen.de. For general information on workshop 6 see http://www.informatik.uni-siegen.de/winfo/MobIS96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Sep 17 13:31:14 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA10665 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:30:45 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA28657 for dbworld; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:30:42 -0500 From: Kazumasa Yokota Message-Id: <199609171830.NAA28657@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) CODAS in Kyoto To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:30:42 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4844 This is just a reminder about CODAS in Kyoto. Call for Papers International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications December 5-7, 1996, Heian Shrine, Kyoto, JAPAN Organized by Kyoto University and Research Project on Advanced Databases In cooperation with ACM Japan, ACM SIGMOD Japan SIGDBS of Information Processing Society of Japan, and SIGDE of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers This symposium is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (Mombusho), Japan through Kyoto University and Scientific Research on Priority Areas (Research and Development of Advanced Database Systems for Integration of Media and User Environments). The purpose of this symposium is to exchange research results on cooperative database systems and results of the research project on Advanced Databases. The symposium will be held at Heian Shrine, a very famous shrine built as a memorial of Emperor Kammu who determined Kyoto as the Japanese capital 1201 years ago. We solicit papers from all over the world describing original ideas and new results on theory and applications of cooperative database systems. Topics: The topics of this symposium include, but are not limited: High-Level Data Models, Multidatabases, Cooperative Databases / Knowledge-Bases, Multimedia Databases, Scientific Databases, Very Large Knowledge-Bases, Object-Oriented Databases, Multiagent Based Systems, Distributed Problem Solvers, Deductive Databases, Engineering Databases, Real-Time Databases, Database Design Important Dates: October 1, 1996 Paper Submission Deadline November 1, 1996 Notification of Paper Acceptance November 15, 1996 Final Paper due Please send Extended Abstract (over 1000 words) or Full Version (up to 5000 words) of a paper by e-mail to submission-kyoto@isse.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Organizing Committee Members: Chair: Yahiko Kambayashi(Kyoto U.) Members: Kazumasa Yokota(Kyoto U.) Toshihide Ibaraki(Kyoto U.) Atsushi Ohori(Kyoto U.) Akifumi Makinouchi(Kyushu U.) Shunsuke Uemura(NAIST) Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe U.) Yoshifumi Masunaga (U. of Library and Information Science) International Program Committee Members: (to be announced) Schedule: Dec. 5: 10-17 Technical Session, 18- Dinner Dec. 6: 9-17 Technical Session, 18- Tour (Japanese garden / dinner / traditional dance) Dec. 7: 9-17 Technical Session Symposium Secretary: Hitomi Takada Department of Information Science, Kyoto University Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-01 JAPAN Phone: +81-75-753-5375 FAX:+81-75-753-4970, yoshioka@isse.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp For additional information please contact the Symposium Secretary or visit http://banjo.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yokota/juten/ (English) http://banjo.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yokota/juten/J/ (Japanese) The final version of the proceedings is planned to be published from World Scientific Publishing Co.. On December 9-13, 1996, 2nd International Conference on Multiagent Systems will be held in Kyoto. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Sep 17 15:14:19 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA12958 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:14:10 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA29034 for dbworld; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:14:09 -0500 From: Bernhard Thalheim Message-Id: <199609172014.PAA29034@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Tuturials during 15th Entity-Relationship Conference To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:14:09 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 14004 Call for Participation & Information on Tuturials during ER'96 15 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER'96 October 7--10, 1996 Best Western Hotel Branitz, Cottbus, near Berlin Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus, Germany Invited Keynote Speaches: Heikki Mannila Johann A. Makowsky Charles W. Bachman Workshops: ER Concepts in Software Engineering Challenges of Applications Challenges of Design International Symposium on Business Process Modeling CASE Tools for Database Design GI Congress on Modeling of Business Information Systems (MoBIS'96) Exhibitions: International Exhibition on ER CASE Tools International Exhibition of Database Systems and Products Brandenburg-based Technology Companies Book Exhibition Information and Registration Telephone: +49 355 69 2700 Fax: +49 355 69 2766 E-Mail: ER96@informatik.tu-cottbus.de WWW: http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ER96/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorials Chair: Mike Papazoglou, Queensland University of Technology -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuturial 1: Database Cooperation: Classification and Middleware Tools Time: Monday, October 7, 9:00--10:30 Author: Paolo Atzeni, Universita di Roma Tre, Italy The tutorial will discuss the main issues of database cooperation, trying to bridge the gap between methodologies and currently available software tools. There will be a discussion of the criteria for the classification of cooperating database systems, based on the nature of the component databases, that go beyond the traditional discussion on heterogeneity, distribution and autonomy, which can be considered more as constraints in the design process, than as design parameters. We discuss a classification based on three additional criteria: (a) the level of transparency, (b) the complexity of distributed transactions and (c) the level of recency of data. This leads us to distinguish three main categories of systems: (i) multidatabase systems, (ii) data warehouses, (iii) local information systems with external data. For each of these categories we discuss methodological issues and implementations based on tools offered by currently available technology, with reference to database gateways, transaction processing monitors, and data warehousing tools, distributed hypertext technology, and lower level client-server techniques. (Most of the discussion was developed, in cooperation with L. Cabibbo and G. Mecca within a project funded by the Italian Authority for Computing in the Public Administration, aimed at giving guidelines for cooperation of information systems over a national network) Expected Background and Intended Audience The tutorial will try to include in a balanced way both abstract and practical aspects, with the aim of giving a systematic view of concrete problems, bridging the gap between academic methodologies and real-world applications. It is mainly directed to practitioners interested in conceptual issues, and their relationship with available tools, but could also be of interest to students interested in reflecting on practical and technological problems related to the methodologies they study. Attendees are expected to have a general knowledge of basic issues in database technology and in conceptual design methodologies. No specific knowledge of cooperative systems is assumed. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuturial 2: Modeling the Enterprise with Objects Time: Monday, October 7, 11:00--12:30 Author: Richard T. Due Enterprise Object Modeling is the merger of the Object Technology Paradigm with Enterprise Modeling, Business Process Engineering, and Workflow Analysis. Enterprise Object Modeling provides you with a powerful understanding of your organization, it processes, and its Information Systems. Enterprise Object Modeling is a method that allows you to use this new understanding to increase the productivity of your organization's planning, control, and communications functions and the efficiency, economy and effectiveness of your management information and data processing systems. Goals of the Course To transfer the practical skills necessary to evaluate the approach and to intimate Enterprise Modeling projects. Who Should Attend Managers, Corporate Planners, Senior Business Systems Analysts, and Information Modelers interested in new and more productive approaches to planning, controlling their organization and their organizations information systems. What You Will Learn What is Enterprise Object Modeling. How does Enterprise Object Modeling build on and improve Enterprise Modeling and Information Engineering. How to improve productivity through requirements reuse. How to use the Design by Contract approach to modeling and systems development. How to plan and implement layered Object modeling libraries. How to develop dynamic Enterprise Models. How to increase the return on Information Engineering and Strategic Planning investments. How to acquire and use Business Objects. Enterprise Object Modeling Patterns and Frameworks. Instructor Richard T. Due, M.Sc., the developer of Enterprise Object Modeling, has over 30 years of Information Technology experience as a programmer, analyst, manager, consultant, teacher and author. He has developed and present Information Technology courses in over 24 countries. For the last six years, he has been a member of the American National Standards Institute's X3 Object Oriented Database Task Group and the X3H7 Object Information Management Standards Committee. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences on Object Technology including CAiSE, ECOOP, APSEC, ISACC, OOP, OOPSLA, CASEWORLD, and TOOLS. His articles on Object Engineering have appeared in Database Programming \& Design, in Ed Yourdon's American Programmer, and in the Hotline on Object Technology. Tutorial Outline Introductions Definitions What is Enterprise Object Modeling? How did it evolve from Enterprise Modeling and Information Engineering? What are Business Objects? Participant Survey What Successes and Problems have you encountered with Information Engineering and Enterprise Modeling? How can we improve Information Engineering and Enterprise Modeling? The Object Technology Paradigm What is it? How can it be applied to Enterprise Modeling and Information Engineering? Enterprise Object Modeling What is it? What is Design by Contract? What are Layered Class Libraries? What is Play Script Modeling? What are Enterprise Object Patterns and Frameworks? How can we build on investments already made in Information Engineering and Enterprise Modeling? Enterprise Object Modeling---The Concepts Context Models, Layered Libraries, Design Contracts, Play Scripts, View Integration, Roles and Versions, Intrinsic and Derived Attributes, Semantic Models Enterprise Object Modeling---The Method Identifying the Scope and Context, Identifying Business Objects, Identifying Requirements, Identifying Services, Identifying Viewpoints, Developing the Play Script, Using CRC and Use Cases, Process Obliteration, Time Reduction, Scope Expansion, Quality Enhancement, Function Reuse, The Workflow Analysis Approach, Constructing Simulations, Productivity Metrics, Project Management Considerations, Automated Tools for Enterprise Object Modeling Summary and Evaluation Getting Started, How to Avoid the Problems, Critical Success Factors The tutorial will include a demonstration of the SOMATiK CASE tool which I have been used to implement the Object Engineering approach. Participants will receive a copy of the standard version of the SOMATiK tool and the model presented in the tutorial workshops. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuturial 3 Objects and Rules: An Emerging Synergy Time: Monday, October 7, 14:00--18:00 Author: Barbara von Halle, Spectrum Technology Group Inc., New Jersey A parent learns quickly that the child has ultimate control over his/her behavior. A manager learns that this is also true of subordinate employees. However, the creative introduction of rules, complete with penalties and rewards, influence behavior in predictable, desireable ways. This presentation invites the attendee to see their world from a different point of view. It introduces the newly emerging crucial component of business and information systems architectures: the business rule. The presentation defines a business rule and unravels the business rule life cycle. From here, a simple example illustrates a practical approach for uncovering and analyzing business rules from user requirements. This leads to an orderly discovery of data, knowledge, and, eventually, action needed to execute a collection of business rules. The presentation concludes that, even in an object-obssessive world, business rules must be given a visible priority, if we are to have rigor in our deliverables, yet allow the business to instigate creative change. Business rules must come first. Behavior naturally follows the rules. The attendee will learn: four useful categories of business rules a sample business rule analysis and modeling technique (Ross Method) relationship of business rules to data modeling, rule modeling, object modeling, and database access major conceptual breakthroughs from Ross insights for applying these concepts in practice -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuturial 4 Reuse at the Conceptual Design Level: Models, Methods, and Tools Time: Monday, October 7, 14:00--18:00 Authors: Silvana Castano, University of Milan Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano Carlo Batini Reuse at the conceptual design level implies the capability of identifying reference components to be combined to build new application schemas. Two main areas of interest are involved in the reuse process: design by-reuse, in which reference components are selected and combined to build a new application; design for-reuse, with the aim of defining reference components. In the tutorial, models, methods and tools to support these processes will be illustrated. In particular, similarity based selection of components from a repository, and extraction of reference components from a large set of preexisting application schemas will be presented. Such an approach to reuse can be applied to a large set of problems: in addition to constructing new applications, it can be used to reengineer existing applications, to guide the evolution of legacy systems, to identify information flows in an organization, to provide a basis for interoperability of heterogeneous applications. Results from the experimentation of the approach to the analysis of conceptual schemas in the Italian Public Administration domain will be discussed. The following topics will be covered in the tutorial: indexing of schemas by means of descriptors techniques for the evaluation of schema similarity techniques for schema abstraction techniques for grouping similar schemas in families retrieval of reference conceptual components for reuse environments to support reuse processes a case study of analysis of a large inventory of conceptual schemas in the Public Administration domain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Candidates must have a strong quantitative educational background, be active researchers in the management sciences or in information systems, and have either a proven record of scholarly excellence or a demonstrable potential for such excellence. Research achievements and experience in the area of analytical MIS will be given special consideration. Affiliation with Rutgers Center for Operations Research (RUTCOR) is possible. Candidates are expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Business Statistics, Operations Management, Management Information Systems and related topics. Applications should be received by December 31, 1996 to receive full consideration. Visiting positions for one year will also be considered. Send c.v. and names of at least three references to Marie Howard, MS&IS Department Secretary, Rockafeller Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, FAX:(908) 445-6329, email:howard@everest.rutgers.edu Rutgers is an affirmative action equal opportunity employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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(SCR) in Princeton, New Jersey has immediate openings for research and development personnel with experience in one or more of these areas: machine learning expert systems (and other areas of AI) adaptive signal processing fuzzy logic user agents neural networks intelligent control To qualify for one of these positions, you should have a PhD with proven experience in one of the above named areas and a strong interest in applied research and development aimed at delivering working prototypes and products to Siemens companies. You must have very good software development skills including C or C++. Windows API or OLE is a plus. Siemens is a world-wide company with sales of more than $60billion and world-wide employment of almost 400,000. In the US, Siemens has sales of $6billion and almost 40,000 employees. Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. employs approximately 140 technical staff with an emphasis on imaging, multimedia, software engineering and adaptive systems. SCR's mission is to provide technical expertise to develop solutions for Siemens operating companies and groups. Siemens is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If interested, do **NOT** reply to this message. Send your resume to: Russell Greiner Siemens Corporate Research Inc. 755 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Tue Sep 17 19:19:47 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA19439 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:19:20 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA00016 for dbworld; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:19:18 -0500 From: Paul Young Message-Id: <199609180019.TAA00016@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Database Research Positions To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:19:18 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4350 CRC for Distributed Systems Technology operated by DSTC Pty Ltd (ACN 025 372 577) The Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) is researching and developing innovative technologies required for global distributed information systems and services. The main research activities of the CRC are focused on distributed architectures, databases, software tools, security, distributed management and resource discovery. There are several positions available. Distributed Database Unit - Senior Research Scientist & Research Scientist Reference: DBRS There are two positions available. The duties involve research and prototyping of integrated/interoperable database technology, and in particular, the development of the current rapidly expanding technology of workflow management systems focusing on DSTC activities. Development expertise in a distributed systems-related area is mandatory. Programming skills in C and C++, expertise with modern database technology - relational and object-oriented - and front end development would be highly regarded. Some experience with relational DBMSs such as Oracle, Ingres or Sybase is necessary. DCE or CORBA experience would be an advantage. Experience in the management of software development in a small team is required for the Senior Research Scientist position. Project and time management skills, and a familiarity with software design and development methods would be an advantage. Terms The contracts are for 3 years with the possibility to extend. Salary range for a Research Scientist is $29,000-$40,000 and for a Senior Research Scientist $40,000-$55,000 based on qualifications and experience. Applicants with greater qualifications and experience are welcome to apply, but should understand that it will not be possible to negotiate a considerably higher salary. For further information and position description contact the Human Resources Co-ordinator. Tel: +61(7)3365-4310 Fax: +61(7)3365-4311 email: position@dstc.edu.au Written applications should include reference number and names and contact addresses (including e-mail) for 2 referees. Closing date for applications is 4th October, 96. Address applications to: Human Resources Co-ordinator DSTC Pty Ltd Level 7, Gehrmann Laboratories The University of Queensland Queensland 4072 Australia or e-mail (ASCII or Postscript): position@dstc.edu.au DSTC Pty Ltd is an equal opportunity employer and has a smoke-free working environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jill Baltzer CRC for Distributed Systems Snr Admin Officer/Finance & HRM Technology DSTC Pty Ltd Ph: 61 7 3365 4310 Level 7 Gehrmann Labs Fax: 61 7 3365 4311 The University of Queensland Email: jillian@dstc.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Wed Sep 18 12:04:28 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA04371 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:04:19 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA03448 for dbworld; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:04:19 -0500 From: Weiyi Meng Message-Id: <199609181704.MAA03448@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) PDIS'96: Call For Participation To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:04:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 23404 ************************************************************* * 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. 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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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Wed Sep 18 13:51:50 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA06724 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:51:32 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA03954 for dbworld; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:51:32 -0500 From: gaede@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Volker Gaede) Message-Id: <199609181851.NAA03954@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) CFP: CONSTRAINT DATABASES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:51:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5762 CALL FOR PAPERS ESPRIT-NSF Workshop CONSTRAINT DATABASES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS CDB'97 January 11-12, 1997 Delphi, Greece sponsored by ESPRIT Working Group CONTESSA (8666) NSF-ESPRIT cooperative grant on Database Programming Languages and Environments The ESPRIT-NSF Workshop on Constraint Database Systems will be held in the memory of Paris Kanellakis in Delphi, Greece, in conjunction with the International Conference on Database Theory. Constraint database systems represent a new database paradigm that aims at coherently integrating research results from the area of constraint-based programming, logic programming and databases. The recent success of the constraint-based programming paradigm is based on the direct contribution of constraints to program specification, implementation and maintenance. Constraints are the normal language of discourse for many high-level applications; built-in constraint solvers, and active constraints contribute to efficient implementation; and the clarity and brevity of constraint programs simplifies program maintenance. For large scale applications such as geographic information systems (GIS), the efficient processing and management of large sets of constraints is very important. Papers are solicited in the area of storage and indexing of constraints in databases; the use of constraint handling techniques for query optimization; the incorporation of constraints in object data modelling and database specification; constraints on stored objects; and the relationship between constraints as data, active constraints and integrity constraints. Papers describing implementations and applications of constraint databases are particularly welcome. SUBMISSION Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three PC-members. We encourage submissions in postscript-format by email to cdb97@cbr.dit.csiro.au, or otherwise by sending 4 hardcopies to: CDB'97 CSIRO Division of Information Technology, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia PROCEEDINGS A selection of revised full papers will be published as a volume of the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due September 27, 1996 Notification of Acceptance October 28, 1996 Camera-ready copy November 22, 1996 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dave Abel CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Foto Afrati National Technical U. of Athens, Greece Alex Brodsky George Mason University, USA. Rolf de By University of Twente, The Netherlands Andrew Frank Technical University of Vienna, Austria Christos Faloutsos University of Maryland, USA Mike Freeston University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Johann-Christoph Freytag Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Volker Gaede (Chair) CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Stephane Grumbach INRIA, France Oliver Guenther Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Joxan Jaffar University of Singapore, Singapore Gabriel Kuper INRIA, Rocquencourt, France Michael Maher Griffith University, Australia Jan Paredaens University of Antwerp, Belgium Andreas Podelski Max Planck Institut, Saarbruecken, Germany Divesh Srivastava AT&T Research, USA Peter Stuckey University of Melbourne, Australia Michel Scholl INRIA, France Alan Sexton University of Birmingham, Great Britain Victor Vianu University of California, San Diego Mark Wallace IC PARC/ICL, London, Great Britain Michael Worboys Keele University, Keele, Great Britain ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Foto Afrati National Technical U. of Athens, Greece Volker Gaede CSIRO, Canberra, Australia Oliver Guenther Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Victor Vianu University of California, San Diego Mark Wallace IC PARC/ICL, London, Great Britain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Thu Sep 19 11:51:01 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA02193 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:50:53 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA10070 for dbworld; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:50:52 -0500 From: sbbd96@dc.ufscar.br (Simposio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados 96) Message-Id: <199609191650.LAA10070@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) SBBD'96-Call for Participation To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:50:52 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 28778 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION XI BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON DATABASES SBBD'96 October 14-16, 1996 LOCAL: Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (UFSCar) Rodovia Washington Luis, km 235, SAO CARLOS - SP, BR. Promotion: Brazilian Computer Society - SBC Organization: Computer Departament - UFSCar Computer Science Department - ICMSC - USP http://www.dc.ufscar.br/eventos/sbbd96 The XI Brazilian Symposium on Database (SBBD'96) will be held in Sao Carlos, a town 240 kilometers far from Sao Paulo. The Symposium is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of new developments in Database and its applications among researchers, students and database professionals. The SBBD'96 will have technical sessions with the presentation of the current results in research, as well as international talks, minicourses, tutorials and the exhibition of database software products. Sao Carlos is at the center of Sao Paulo state and has one of the most enterprising high tech centers of the state, with more than 300 enterprises developing high technology products. Sao Carlos has two public Universities. Both Universities are ranked among the leading Brazil University institutions for its levels of national and international excellence in research: one of them is the Federal University of Sao Carlos, with research and teaching in 25 undergraduation courses and 15 postgraduation courses of the centers of exact sciences and technology, human sciences, biology sciences and health, and the arts center, and the other is a campus of the Sao Paulo University, with teaching and research in the several areas of engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics and chemistry. An invitation to participate is extended to those who are interested in knowing about what is going on in the area of Database. 10/14/96 (Monday) 8:00 - 8:30 AM Registration 9:00 - 12:00 AM Registration Room 1 (Auditorio 1) : Minicourses -------------------- ----------- 10:40 - 12:10 AM Minicourse A (Part 1) - Temporal Databases Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington) 2:30 - 4:00 PM / 4:20 - 5:50 PM Minicourse B Mobile Computing and Databases Margaret H.Dunham (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas) Teatro Florestan Fernandes (Florestan Fernandes Theater) : -------------------------------------------------------- Technical Sessions and Invited Talks ------------------------------------ 8:30AM Opening Ceremony 9:00AM Invited Talk 1: The Principles of Data Visualizations Moshe Zloof (Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA) 10:20AM Coffee break Technical Session 1 ------------------- 10:40AM Interoperability issues in the HIMPAR heterogeneous architecture (in Portuguese) - Paulo de Figueredo Pires, Marta L. Queiros Mattoso (COPPE/UFRJ) 11:10 An Approach to Multi-User KBMS in Workstation/Server Environments Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Theo Harder (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) 11:40 An Efficient Strategy for Dynamic Knowledge Bases Paulo J. Azevedo (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal) Danilo Montesi (University of East Anglia, Norwich) 12:10 Lunch Technical Session 2 ------------------- 2:00PM An Approach to Knowledge-Discovery for Dealing with Empty Queries in Relational Database Systems - M. M. Fonkam (Universidade Federal do Maranhao) 2:30 Proposal to Extend the SQL Language to Model Management (in Portuguese) - Denilson alves Pereira (UFMG), Jose Luis Braga (UFV) 3:00 A Cooperative Interface for Querying Relational Databases (in Portuguese) - Claudiney V. Ramos (UFMG), Jose L. Braga (UFV), Alberto H.F. Laender (UFMG) 3:30 An Image Contented-Based Recovery and Definition Language for a Object-Oriented Data Base. (in Portuguese) Rildo Ribeiro dos Santos (UNESP, S. J. do Rio Preto), Agma Juci Machado Traina, Caetano Traina Junior (USP, Sao Carlos) 4:00 Coffee break Technical Session 3 ------------------- 4:20PM Controle de Compartilhamento e Acesso em GBDOO Baseado em Composicao de Objetos - Joao Eduardo Ferreira (UNESP, Rio Claro), Caetano Traina Junior (USP, Sao Carlos) 4:50 Design and Implementation of Distributed Databases Using Estelle Clever Ricardo Guareis de Farias, Wanderley Lopes de Souza (UFSCar), Ciro de Barros Barbosa (University of Twente, Netherlands) 5:20 Industry Session 8:30PM Cultural Activity 10/15/96 (Tuesday) Room 1 (Auditorio 1): Minicourses ------ 10:40 - 12:10AM Minicurso A (Parte 2) - Temporal Databases Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington) 2:30 - 4:00 PM / 4:20 - 5:50 PM Short Course C Data Mining Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA) Teatro Florestan Fernandes: Technical Sections and Invited Talks -------------------------- ------------------------------------ Technical Session 4 ------------------- 8:00AM Map-Tree: An Access Method for Very Large Maps Mauricio Riguette Mediano (PUC-RJ), Marco Antonio Casanova (IBM Brasil, Rio de Janeiro), Marcelo Gattass (PUC-RJ) 8:30 Using Parallel B+-trees as a Practical Alternative to the Classical R-tree - Mario A. Nascimento , Margaret H. Dunham (Southern Methodist University, Dallas,Texas) 9:00 Invited Talk 2 - Dynamic Segmented Fuzzy Checkpointing for Main Memory Database - Margaret H.Dunham (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas) 10:20 Coffee break Technical Session 5 ------------------- 10:40AM Hypermedia Authoring Applications Using an Object-Oriented Database (in Portuguese) - Jose Renato L. Milet, Daniel Schwabe, Rosana S.G. Lanzelotte (PUC-RJ) 11:10 Implementation Aspects of Video Objects on top of an Object-Relational Database - Fabio Andre Porto (Eletronic Data Systems do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro), Rubens Nascimento Melo (PUC-RJ) 11:40 An MHEG-5 Objects Server Specification for Multimedia Applications (in Portuguese) - Marina Teresa Pires Vieira, Fabiano Calixto dos Santos (UFSCar), Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos (USP, Sao Carlos) 12:10 Lunch Technical Session 6 ------------------- 2:00PM TFS: A Transaction Management System With Conditional Locking (in Portuguese) - Joao Batista de Abreu Campos, Claudio Fernando Resin Geyer (UFRGS) 2:30 Parallelizing Object-Oriented Database Transactions Javam C. Machado (UFC), Christine Collet (University of Grenoble, France) 3:00 Invited Talk 3 - Data Models and Multi-User Synchronization Theo Haerder (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) 4:00 Coffee break 4:20 Industry Panel 6:20 Database special committee meeting 10/16/96 (Wednesday) Room 1 (Auditorio 1): Minicourses -------------------- ----------- 8:00 - 10:00AM / 10:20 - 11:20AM Minicourse D The Evolution of Visual Tools for DBMS and Application Programming Moshe Zloof (Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA) Florestan Fernandes Theater (Teatro Florestan Fernandes): Invited Talks -------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 10:20AM Invited Talk 4 - Four Dark Corners of Requirements Engineering - Pamela Zave (AT&T) 2:00PM Invited Talk 5 - A Methodology for Conceptual Design of Object-Oriented Databases Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington) North Area Amphitheater (Anfiteatro Area Norte): Technical Sessions ----------------------------------------------- ------------------ Technical Session 7 ------------------- 8:00AM Integrating Plan Recognition and Generation Within a database Context (in Portuguese) - Angelo E. M. Ciarlini, Antonio L. Furtado (PUC-RJ) 8:30 Combinando Banco de Dados Ativos e Sistemas de Informacao Geografica para Manutencao de Restricoes Topológicas Mariano Cilia, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros- UNICAMP 9:00 Checking Bounded History Temporal Constraints using a Natural History Encoding - Sandra de Amo (Universidade Federal de Uberlandia) 9:30 On the Semantics of 'Current-Time' In Temporal Databases Marcelo Finger (USP, Sao Paulo) - Peter McBrien (King´s College London) 10:00 Coffee break Tutorials --------- 10:20AM Schema Evolution (in Portuguese) - Luiz Camolesi Junior, Caetano Traina Junior (USP, Sao Carlos) 11:00 User Interface Architectures, Languages, and Models in Geographic Databases - Juliano Lopes de Oliveira, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (UNICAMP) Technical Session 8 ------------------- 3:20PM Sirius: Object-Oriented Data Model Based on Abstractions Mauro Biajiz (UFSCar), Caetano Traina Junior (USP, Sao Carlos) Marina Teresa Pires Vieira (UFSCar) 3:50 An Architecture for the Logical Design of OO Databases Alexandre Jonatan B. Martins, Carlos A. Heuser (UFRGS) 4:20 Coffee break Technical Session 9 ------------------- 4:40 Definindo Traducoes Corretas de Atualizacoes de Visoes na Presenca de Efeitos Colaterais - Vania Maria Ponte Vidal (UFC) 5:10 A QoS-Oriented Transaction Model Based on Multi-Agent Architecture (in Portuguese) - Farid Nourani (UNESP, S. J. do Rio Preto), Eleri Cardozo (UNICAMP) 5:40 Formal Method for Document Clustering Based on Their Semantics and their Use in Information Retrieval System Mohamed Mohsen Gammoudi, Diógenes Carvalho Aquino (Universidade Federal do Maranhao) 6:10 Closing session ============================================================================= SHORT COURSES ABSTRACT (3h) =========================== MOBILE COMPUTING and DATABASES Margaret H. Dunham Department of Computer Science and Engineering Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas 75275 Recent advances in hardware technologies, such as portable computers and wireless communication networks, have led to the emergence of Mobile Computing systems. No one challenges the idea that Mobile Computing offers many opportunities for research within the Computer Science area. However, one could ask what is really new when examining databases in the Mobile Computing environment. In this tutorial, we provide a brief introduction into Mobile Computing and then concentrate on discussing the differences between data management solutions in a mobile computing environment and those in a distributed database environment. The purpose of this tutorial is twofold: to spawn further interest in Mobile Computing research and to convince the skeptics that there are new research topics in mobile computing worthy of further examination. We highlight some of the problems which mobility adds to databases in a distributed environment. By viewing distributed databases as a special case of mobile databases, we show that some solutions for database problems in the distributed environment do not work well in a mobile environment. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Evolution of Visual Tools for DBMS and Application Programming Moshe M. Zloof Principal Architect, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, CA In the last decade or so, we have been witnessing the following three major trends: 1. Systems are getting more complex due to departure from stand-alone to client-server, multi-user, multi-platform interoperation with other systems, etc. 2. Data Models are getting more sophisticated to accommodate complex objects such as CAD/CAM and multimedia objects. This is accomplished either by ddadding more functionality to the Relational Model or switching altogether to Object Oriented DBMS's. 3. User Interfaces are getting more elaborate due to user demand of graphical user interface which includes direct manipulaton, sophisticated visualization techniques, etc. Another important observation is which the complexity of Application development is increasing, the time to market is decreasing. To mitigate this problem, visual tools were intro- duced to increase the productivity in building such systems. These tools fall into two major categories: a. visual tools intended to help professional programmers to increase their productivity b. tools for non-programmers such as power-users and end-users, using reports, forms, queries, etting menus, etc. In this tutorial, we will first give a historical account of the evolution of UI tools since the early 80's followed by an overview of current DBMS visual tools such as PowerBuilder, SQL Windows, Paradox, Access, and contrast their functionality. We will follow this by discussing visual tools for programming environments such as Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual C++ and a new language being developed at Hewlett-Packard called ICBE (Interoperation and Customization-By-Example). Finally, we will discuss what kind of navigational models are needed for the www so that users will not loose the frame of reference when surfing the web, in particular, issues in the design of web pages to mitigate "lost-in-the-web" problems. --------------------------------------- DATA MINING Rakesh Agrawal IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose, CA 95120, U.S.A. ragrawal@almaden.ibm.com Data mining is the efficient discovery of previously unknown patterns in large databases, and is emerging as a major application area for databases. Many of the data mining problems have been motivated by the practical decision support problems faced by most large organizations. Here are some important data mining technologies that have been developed recently: * Associations: Given a database of transactions, where each transaction consists of a set of items discover all associations such that the presence of one set of items in a transaction implies the presence of another set of items. "30% of people who buy diapers also buy beer." * Sequential Patterns: Given a database of transactions over a period of time, find inter-transaction patterns such that the presence of a set of items is followed by another set of items. "10% of people with diabetes develop a treatable loss in eyesight." * Classification: Given examples of objects belonging to different groups develop profile of each group in terms of attributes of the objects. This profile is then used to predict the group of a new object. "Buyers of expensive sport cars are typically young urban professionals whereas luxury sedans are bought by elderly wealthy persons" * Time Series Clustering: Given a database of time sequences, find sequences similar to a given one, or find all occurrences of similar sequences. "The closing net asset value of the Harbor International mutual fund has been similar to that of Ivy International and Scudder Global Fund." * Segmentation: Partition a database so that the objects that have similar characteristics are grouped together. "Supermarket buyers fall into three groups with distinct buying behaviors: weekend buyers, week- day buys, Friday-evening buyers." The goal of the Quest project on data mining at the IBM Almaden Research Center is to develop technologies to discover useful patterns in huge amounts of data in a short amount of time. The data mining software developed as part of this project has been tested on several customer datasets and is the basis of the IBM data mining product under development. Several customers are actively developing various applications of Quest in retail, finance and other industries. The software currently runs on RS/60000 workstations under AIX on flat files, DB2/CS, DB2/MVS data bases and IBM Power Parallel System. In this tutorial, I will draw upon my practical experience with Quest to discuss current data mining technologies and present some open problems. The tutorial should be of interest to both database researchers and practitioners. ============================================================================================ INVITED TALKS ABSTRACTS ======================= Dynamic Segmented Fuzzy Checkpointing for Main Memory Databases Margaret H. Dunham Department of Computer Science and Engineering Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas 75275 The goal of checkpointing a database is to save the database state in nonvolatile storage in order to reduce the amount of work during the restart operation after a failure. Fuzzy checkpointing, due to its low interference with other database activities, has been shown to be one of the best checkpointing approaches for Main Memory Databases. This talk presents a new fuzzy checkpointing approach, called Segmented Fuzzy Checkpointing (SFC), which can greatly reduce the log processing time during restart with little overhead. Two variants of SFC with the ability to dynamically adapt to changing runtime conditions are also presented. The adaptive approaches segment the database dynamically, without human intervention, making them very appropriate for real world applications. Our performance study shows that both adaptive approaches speed up the restart operation with minimal overhead. ----------------------------------------- The Principles of Data Visualizations Moshe M. Zloof Principal Architect, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto - CA The Data Warehouse places more information where it belongs - in the users workplace. Future systems will employ the "end user" in the application development cycle as the only way to fully achieve the user's requirements. With Data Visualization systems, the user is empowered to "program" precisely the applications they need from available enterprise data. This presentation examines the state of the art and the principles of data visualization and introduces a 'visual' algebra for navigation among the various data widgets which include: 1. Techniques to visualize N dimensional data for large values of N 2. Use of animation for large amounts of data 3. Techniques to provide quantitative and qualitative visualization, interchangeably. 4. Navigational algebra for defining the formal semantics to drag-drop gestures among widgets. And finally, I will demonstrate a visual programming environment called ICBE (Interoperation and Customization-By-Example) being developed at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to capture the above features. ----------------------------------------- A Methodology for Conceptual Design of Object-Oriented Databases Ramez Elmasri Department of Computer Science and Engineering The University of Texas at Arlington Box 19015, Arlington, Texas 76019 elmasri@cse.uta.edu Methodologies for relational database (RDB) design are now well understood, and many CASE tools exist that incorporate these methodologies. There are fewer methodologies for object-oriented database (OODB) design. The differences between OODB and RDB include: encapsulation of operations, inheritance, object identifiers, and representation of relationships by inter-object references. In this talk, we present a methodology for conceptual design of object- oriented databases. The methodology is based on an extended-ER (EER) model. A conceptual schema in the EER model can be mapped to the class declarations of an OODB schema. Our methodology can be used within a CASE tool to automatically generate the class definitions, including the data attributes and the reference attributes that represent relationships. In addition, some of the operations of the classes, called methods, can be automatically generated. In particular, the standard methods for a class: the constructor, destructor, and modifier methods can have the code automatically generated. We will also describe a CASE tool for OODB design that is based on the methodology. ----------------------------------------- Data Models and Multi-User Synchronization Theo Haerder University of Kaiserslautern Germany As ever-larger knowledge or data bases are being built, sharing of information becomes an aspect of paramount importance in the design and implementation of Data or Knowledge Base Management Systems (DBMS, KBMS). At first, we identify the concepts and operations such as user-defined and system-controlled relationships, rules, as well as methods to be supported by a concurrency control algorithm. In the following, we outline important approaches used in relational, object-oriented, and complex-object database systems. A performance-determining factor of locking approaches is the efficient support of multiple locking granules, that is, their ability to apply implicit locking to a set of objects. As performed by the Granular Lock Protocol (GLP), implicit locking for the relational data model and NF2 data model may be achieved by using a tree-like access organization to the relations and tuples of the database. With growing complexity of the access structures and data relationships, lock protocols become more complex. For example, object-oriented data models may allow for multiple inheritance at the class level which transforms the access organization to a lattice. The modelling of instances with multi-class membership makes acess organization even more complex. Finally, some knowledge representation schemes support abstraction concepts such as aggregation and association. These concepts imply multi-parent relationships which make the use of implicit locking a very difficult job. To exploit implicit locking as far possible, we propose the LARS (Locks using Abstraction Relationships' Semantics) approach for concurrency control in KBs. LARS synchronizes transactions through many different granules of locking, which are based on the semantics of the abstraction relationships commonly used in knowledge representation approaches. LARS supports a higher degree of potencial concurrency in that it maintains different logical partitions of a KB graph, a means for representing KBs, and offers many lock types to be used on the basis of each one of the partitions. By such a way, LARS captures more of the semantics contained in a KB; through an interpretation of the (abstraction) relationships between objects, profits from such semantics for synchronizing the transactions, and thus makes feasible the exploitation of the inherent parallelism in a knowledge representation approach. Furthermore, we discuss the way of locking dynamically defined complex objects in th! e framework of the LARS approach. --------------------------------- Four Dark Corners of Requirements Engineering Pamela Zave AT&T Research, United States e-mail: pamela@research.att.com Research in requirements engineering has produced a body of knowledge, but there are four areas in which the foundation of the discipline seems weak or obscure. This talk shines some light in the "four dark corners", exposing problems and proposing solutions. Together they explain the precise nature of requirements, specifications, and domain knowledge, as well as the precise nature of the relationships among then. From a practical perspective, there are two consequences. One is a set of minimum standards for the notations used in requirements engineering. The other is a set of completion criteria that say exactly what it means for requirements engineering to be successfully completed. ====================================================================================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (IME-RJ/BR) Berthier Ribeiro de Araujo Neto (UFMG/BR) Calton Pu (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology/USA) Decio Fonseca (UFPE/BR) Geovane Magalhaes (UNICAMP/BR) Marina Teresa Pires Vieira - General Chair (UFSCar/BR) Marta Lima de Queiroz Mattoso (UFRJ/BR) Nina Edelweiss (UFRGS/BR) Philippe Picouet (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications-Paris/FR) Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-RJ/BR) Vania Maria Pontes Vidal (UFC/BR) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Agma Juci Machado Traina - ICMSC Antonio Carlos dos Santos - UFSCar Antonio Francisco do Prado - UFSCar Caetano Traina Junior - ICMSC Joao Eduardo Ferreira - UNESP/Rio Claro Jose Carlos Maldonado - ICMSC Marcio Delamaro - ICMSC Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos - IFSC Marisa B. Figueiredo - ICMSC Marina Teresa Pires Vieira (CO-CHAIR) - UFSCar Mauro Biajiz - UFSCar Paulo Cesar Masiero - (CO-CHAIR) - ICMSC Plinio R. Souza Vilela - FEE/UNICAMP Renata Fortes - ICMSC Roberto Ferrari Junior - UFSCar Rosangela A. D. Penteado - UFSCar Sandra C. P. F. Fabbri - UFSCar ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Dr. Marina Teresa Pires Vieira General Chair - XI SBBD Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos Departamento de Computacao Via Washington Luis, km 235 - Caixa Postal 676 CEP 13565-905 - Sao Carlos - SP - Brazil Phone: +55-16-274-8232 e-mail: sbbd96@dc.ufscar.br General information: Isabel Broggio (secretary) Phone: +55-16-274-8232 Fax: +55-16-274-8233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Thu Sep 19 13:58:55 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA03873 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:58:47 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA11380 for dbworld; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:58:46 -0500 From: hendler@cs.UMD.EDU (Jim Hendler) Message-Id: <199609191858.NAA11380@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) KBKS 97 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 13:58:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4787 Please note the change of date on the following call - we have added a month to allow for more papers. Also please not that database-related papers on these topics are not only welcome, but encouraged: EXTENSION OF DUE DATE -- Papers due 10/25/96 KB & KS '97 Call for Papers, Panels, and Participation The Third International Conference on Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing: Principles of Information Technology April 7-9, 1997 Marriott Hotel at Key Bridge, Arlington, Virginia ____________________________________________________________________ The series of International Conference on Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing rotates among the three continents - Asia, Europe, and America. The First International Conference on Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing was held in Tokyo, Japan, December 1993. The Second was held in April 1995 at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. The Third will be held in the Washington DC area in April 1997, coinciding with the Cherry Blossoms Festival of the US Capital. The Third International Conference on Knowledge Building & Knowledge Sharing will be organized around the theme of Principles of Information Technology, including but not limited to the following list: Networked Information Repositories and Information Infrastructure Knowledge Infrastructure and Media for Corporate Memory Knowledge Acquisition, Discovery, and Refinement Knowledge Sharing in Collaborative Environment Information and Knowledge Life Cycle Self-Organizing Information and Knowledge Bases Intelligent Agents and Ontology Engineering Uncertainty Management of Incomplete Information Empirical Aspects of Knowledge Building and Sharing Human Factors in Knowledge Building and Sharing Applications of Knowledge Building and Sharing Conference Chair: Su-Shing Chen (UMD and UNCC) Program Co-Chairs: James Hendler (UMD), V.S. Subrahmanian (UMD) Program Committee: A. Bundy (Edinburgh, UK), E. Hovy (ISI, USA), H. Prade (Toulouse, France), F. Lochovsky (HKUST, Hong Kong), N. Mars (Twente, Netherlands), A. Desai Narasimhalu (ISS, Singapore), A. Nerode (Cornell, USA), T. Nishida (Nara, Japan), Erik J. Sandewall (Linkoping, Sweden), L. Saitta (Torino, Italy), L. Shastri (ICSI, USA), C. Zaniolo (UCLA, USA). Panel suggestions should be emailed to the program chairs (jhendler@cs.umd.edu and vs@cs.umd.edu). Please include a title, information on potential panelists, and a short justification of the timeliness of the panel topic and the relation to conference topics. Submit 5 copies of papers by October 25, 1996, to James Hendler or V. S. Subrahmanian, Program Co-Chairs, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA. Papers should be at most 20 pages (6000 words) long, double spaced, and use 11pt font or larger. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 1, 1996. Camera ready versions of accepted papers will be due December 20, 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Fri Sep 20 12:28:29 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA16858 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:28:17 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA15750 for dbworld; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:28:16 -0500 From: kullbach@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de Message-Id: <199609201728.MAA15750@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) SEE97 - 2nd Call For Papers To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:28:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 4592 *** Call For Papers *** +-------------+ | SEE '97 | +-------------+ 8th Conference on Software Engineering Environments Cottbus, Germany, 8-9 April 1997 SEE'97 is the eighth in a series of major conference held on Software Engineering Environments - the premier professional meeting in a European location to review, discuss, debate and learn about the most recent practice and research results in the field. The goal of the conference is to bring together experts on software engineering environments. Papers should contain new and significant results pertaining to this topic. Papers that point out new directions and experience papers from industry are particularly welcome. The following themes are of particular interest - method-based environments - integration infrastructure - architecture - distributed/heterogeneous repositories - user interfaces, multimedia - testing and validation - reengineering - standardisation - empirical evaluation of environments - experience reports of industrial usage - groupware and workflow aspects - formal methods and models - tool generation techniques - adaptability Papers must be original contributions, not accepted or submitted elsewhere. They will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Tool presentations and demonstrations by authors are explicitly solicited. The working language of the conference is English. The Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE. Submissions 5 copies of a draft paper (5000 words maximum) should be sent to the program chair Prof. Dr. Juergen Ebert Institut fuer Softwaretechnik Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Rheinau 1 D-56075 Koblenz Tel. ++49-261-9119-412 Fax. ++49-261-9119-499 email ebert@informatik.uni-koblenz.de Deadlines submission deadline: October, 10th 1996 acceptance notification: December, 15th 1996 camera-ready paper due: January, 30th 1997 Further Information Detailled information about the conference is available from http://www-sst.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~wwwsst/SEE97/ Programme Committee Juergen Ebert, University of Koblenz, D (Programme Chair) Claus Lewerentz, Technical University of Cottbus, D (Conference Chair) Vincenzo Ambriola, University of Pisa, I Walter Bischofberger, Bank of Switzerland, CH Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Twente, NL Gegor Engels, University of Leiden, NL Udo Kelter, University of Siegen, D Boris Magnusson, Lund Institute of Technology, S Fred Long, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Gregor Snelting, Technical University of Braunschweig, D Malcolm Verrall, Sema Group, Reading, UK Ray Welland, University of Glasgow, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 beyer@cs.wisc.edu Fri Sep 20 12:32:46 1996 Received: from loon.cs.wisc.edu (loon.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.77.28]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA16918 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:32:32 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA15801 for dbworld; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:32:32 -0500 From: Richard Holowczak Message-Id: <199609201732.MAA15801@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) CFP: Advances in Digital Libraries 1997 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:32:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 5319 =============================== ADL'97 CFP =========================== ADL '97 Forum Call for Papers/Participation Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries May 7 - 9, 1997 Library of Congress Washington, D. C. SPONSORS: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; The National Library of Medicine; The IEEE Computer Society; and The Library of Congress. IN COOPERATION WITH: Columbia University, George Washington University, Rutgers-Center for Information Management, Integration & Connectivity, The University of Maryland-Baltimore County and The University of Texas at Austin. Digital Libraries is an emerging field that encompasses technologies for information acquisition, processing, distribution, and access, and harnesses these technologies for diverse areas of human needs including education, science, commerce, medicine, and the arts. Successful application of digital libraries will provide people with universal access to virtually all areas of human knowledge with a concomitant hope of improving their health, education, and economic well-being as well as their quality of life. The purpose of this forum is to highlight the important current issues in digital libraries through research papers, panels and invited talks by leading experts, and innovative prototypes and applications of digital library technologies in science and industry. ADL97 will feature novel applications and the associated issues in Arts and culture Environmental change Global marketplaces Health and medicine Socio-economic impacts A summary of the issues discussed will be made available to all forum participants. Papers describing technical advances are solicited in Human-computer interaction Knowledge integration Resource management Systems interoperability Searching and browsing Authoring and scripting systems Collaborative research Standards Intelligent agents User interfaces Telecommunications and networking Information representation Resource discovery Scalability Technical issues in intellectual property Computing environments for creating DL objects Billing mechanisms, accounting and payment systems Novel indexing techniques for multimedia objects Information to Authors: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts (not to exceed 10000 words) or panel proposals (not to exceed 1500 words) by October 31, 1996 in postscript format to adl@cs.columbia.edu . Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 1996. For more information about the technical program, contact the program chair: Professor Alfred Aho Department of Computer Science 500 West 120th Street, Room 450 Columbia University New York, NY 11025 aho@cs.columbia.edu 212-939-7004 Information to Exhibitors: Student Exhibition : Competitive Selection. Apply NOW. Please contact: Dr. Susan Hoban Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Science NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 susan.hoban@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-286-7980 - voice The homepage of ADL'97 Forum Call for Paper/Participation is http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/admin/adl97/adlcall.html Any additional questions can be forwarded to Georgia Flanagan georgia@cesdis.usra.edu =========================== ADL'97 CFP (end) =================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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