From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Mon Sep 23 11:57:12 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 LAA21924 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:57:03 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA00726 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:57:02 -0500 From: "Stephen C. Hayne" Message-Id: <199609231657.LAA00726@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Call for Participation To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:57:02 -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: 15129 I hope that members of this list will be interested in this conference. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DKSME' 96 Tempe, AZ October 24-25 Web page: http://www.west.asu.edu/dksme The Sixth International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering (DKSME '96) will be held in Tempe, Arizona. The theme of the conference is "Processes and Models for Intelligent Collaboration in Heterogeneous Manufacturing Environments". The conference will highlight contributions from researchers and engineers who are developing systems to improve engineering design and manufacturing. Database management and artificial intelligence are key technologies for improving products and reducing the cost of manufacturing. The conference will bring together people from industry and academia to resolve "real world" problems through research that provides new results for manufacturing and engineering system methods and technologies. Invited Keynote Speakers Thomas Atwood, Cinebase Software, "Object-Oriented Systems in Engineering Environments" Michael Monachino, Vice-President, IBM World Wide Solution Operations "A Global Perspective on Manufacturing Methods" Conference Schedule Thursday, October 24, 1996 8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-10:30 Keynote Speaker, Thomas Atwood, Cinebase Software 10:30-12:00 Session 1 KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS "Fuzzy Search Techniques in Knowledge-Based Systems", Sameer Sing and Michael Steinl, University of Plymouth and University of the West of England, UK "Model-Based Diagnosis of PLC Controlled Assembly Equipment", Matthias Zimmermann-Sturm, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany "Modelling of Restrictions on Laws in an Engineering Knowledge Base System", S.P. Loughlin, J.C. Collis and F.J. Smith Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland "Intelligent Computer Aided Concept Development", M.A. Azam, P.C. Hills, Coventry University, England 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Session 2 ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL SYSTEMS "Integrity Validation in A Concurrent Engineering Environment", S.B. Yoo, H.W. Suh and K.W. Koh, Inha University and KAIST, Korea "Conflict Management in CONCORD", N. Ritter, B. Mitschang and T. Harder, Universitat Kaiserslautern and Technical University Munich,Germany "Extending EXPRESS Relationship Templates: Supporting Reusable Modeling and Interface Generation for Technical Applications", T. Kretzberg and W. Wilkes, Fern Universitat Hagen, Germany "Hypermedia Support for the Integrated Systems Engineering Environment MUSE", A. Bapat, M. Loh and J. Wasch, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD) and Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:00 Session 3 APPLIED DATABASE TECHNIQUES "A Cooperative Transaction Model for an Incremental Update Propagation", Am-suk Oh, Jin-oh Choi, and Bong-hee Hong, Pusan National University, Korea "Schema Updates Supporting the Checkout Model Using Long Transactions", E. Hong, Seoul National University, Korea "Management of Product Data Using an Extensible Object-Oriented Query Language", Kjell Orsborn, Linkoping University, Sweden "An Active Schema for a Computer Aided Design Application", B. MacKellar and T. Dube, Western Connecticut State University and Holy Cross College, USA 5:00-6:00 Panel "Database Issues for Distributed and Virtual Manufacturing", Ram D.Sriram, chair, NIST 6:00 Reception 7:00 Conference Banquet Friday, October 25, 1996 8:00-10:00 Session 4 MANUFACTURING AND SCHEDULING SYSTEMS "Utilizing Fuzzy Data and Rules for Discrete Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing", N. Chaudhry, J. Moyne and E.A. Rundensteiner, University of Michigan, USA "Plan Representation and Heuristic Generation of Operation Sequences for Manufacturing Tasks", Joao Rocha and Carlos Ramos, Instituto Superior Engenharia do Porto, Portugal "A Cooperative Scheduling System - CoPlanner- by Interactive Knowledge Acquisition", T. Mishuku, T.Tsuchida, and Satoshi Tanaka, Information Technology R & D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan "A Scheduling Maturity Model", Gilad Amiri, Rob Farrow, and Frank Calliss, Motorola, USA "Flexible Integration of Manufacturing Databases Using a Model-Based Architecture Capable of Wide-Area Networking", Yicheng Tao, Gilbert Babin and Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA and Universite Laval, Canada 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Session 5 OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS "Object Migration: A Constraint-Driven Approach," Y. Amghar, G. El Nemr and A. Flory, Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systeme d'Information (LISI-INSA), France "A Multi-Strategy Propagation Model for Object Versions", C. Urtado and C. Oussalah, Laboratoire de Genie Informatique et D'Ingenierie de Production, France "Computer Aided Software Process Support: Exper ence with an O-O Based Formalism", Noureddine Belkhatir and Nadir Mihoubi, IMAG-LGI, France "Classification and Consistency of Behavior in Complex Object Design Views for Concurrent Engineering", Fawaz S. Al-Anzi and David L. Spooner, Kuwait University, Kuwait and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 12:00-2:00 Lunch Keynote Speaker, Michael Monachino, Vice President, IBM World Wide Solution Operations 2:00-3:30 Session 6 APPLIED AI TECHNIQUES "Automated Quality Control for Manufacturing in the Food Industry using Fuzzy Logic and Fractal Theory", Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana, Mexico "A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Learning Control", I. Jurisica and J. Glasgow, University of Toronto, Canada and Queens University, Canada "An Expert System to Support SI Engine Design and Development", Shahid Naveed, Je Cheng and Jing Xiao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA "Analyzing the Impact of Strategic Decision Making on Manufacturing Performance", P. Bradley, S. Jackson and J. Browne, University College, Galway, Ireland 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:00 Panel Object-Relational and Object-Oriented "Systems for Engineering Applications", Susan Urban, Arizona State University, Chair 5:00 Conference Ends Registration Form FRS 451664 SEM 97PS15012X SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING DKSME'96 October 24-25, 1996 Name ____________________________________________________________ Badge Name ______________________________________________________ Social Security # (US Citizens only)_____________________________ Daytime Phone _________________________ Evening Phone _________________________ Position/Title __________________________________________________ Organization ____________________________________________________ Address _________________________________________________________ City ____________________________________________________________ State_______________________ Zip________________________________ Country _________________________________________________________ Please let us know if you require special service or arrangements due to a disability _________________________________________________________________ FAX # (Be sure to include your international code) _________________________________________________________________ Fee: $250 General Fee $300 Late Registration Fee (after10/10/96) $100 Student Fee Method of Payment: Check payable to: UConn Purchase Order Number ___________________________________________ MasterCard or VISA Number __________________________________________________________ Expiration Date _________________________________________________ Signature _______________________________________________________ Date ____________________________________________________________ Registration applications should be mailed to: University of Connecticut U-56R One Bishop Circle Storrs, CT 06269-4056 You may also register by Phone: 860-486-4905 or Fax: 860-486-3968 Please use photocopy or separate sheets for additional registrants. If you receive duplicate brochures, please share one with a colleague. Program Committee Members: Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University, USA Fawaz S. Al-Anzi, Faculty of Engineering & Petroleum, Kuwait Terry Bahill, University of Arizona, USA Tiehua Cao, Motorola Inc., Illinois, USA Frank Ciarello, University of Arizona, USA Alan Desrochers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Paul Fortier, UMASS at Dartmouth, USA Alfonso Fuggetta, Politechnico di Milano, Italy Carol Goble, University of Manchester, England Art Goldschmidt, IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY, USA Hans Grabowski, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Robert Grobe, Uni Aachen, Germany Shuguang Hong, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Stefan Jablonski, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Manfred Jeusfeld, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Huang Jiandong, Honeywell Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, USA James Kowlaski, University of Rhode Island, USA Frank-Lothar Krause, Instit. fur Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Germany Chin Lu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bonnie MacKellar, Western Connecticut State University, USA Martti Mantyla, Helenski University of Technology, Finland Michael M. Marefat, University of Arizona, USA Alan de Pennington, Leeds University, England Gustav Oling, Chrysler Motors Corp. USA Peter Peters, Uni Aachen, Germany Janet Prichard, East Carolina State, USA Carlos Ramos, Polytechnical Institute of Porto, USA Tore Risch, Linkoping University, Sweden Manbir Sodhi, University of Rhode Island, USA David Spooner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Susan Urban, Arizona State University at Tempe, USA Sandor Vajna, Otto-Von-Guericke, Universitat, Germany Jim Weeldreyer, Honeywell, USA Peter Wilson, NIST, USA Alexander Wolf, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island, USA Steve Woods, Boeing, Seattle, USA Jing Xiao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Kokou Yetong, Universite de Bourgogre, France Conference Chairs: Program: Paula Hawthorn, Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. Joan Peckham, The University of Rhode Island Steering: Fred Maryanski, University of Connecticut Finance: Richard Danis, University of Connecticut Arrangements: Uday Kulkarni, Arizona State University Publicity: Stephen Hayne, Arizona State University Conference: Professor Sudha Ram, Department of MIS, College of BPA, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona 85721 Phone: 520/621-2748 FAX: 520/621-2433 E-Mail: ram@bpa.arizona.edu Location/Accommodations/Transportation The conference will be held at Radisson Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, 60 East Fifth Street, Tempe, Arizona 85281. Each individual will be responsible for making his/her own reservations. You may do so by calling the hotel directly at (602) 894-1400 or (800) 547-8705. Single and Double rooms are available at the rate of $109, triple rooms $119, and Quad rooms $129. All reservations must be made by September 23, 1996. Any reservations received after this cut-off date will be honored on a space available basis only and the group rate may not be available after the cut-off date. When making reservations, please identify yourself as attending the DKSME/1996 Conference, in order to secure the conference rate. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. If your schedule requires an early check-in time, please advise the hotel. They will make every effort to honor your request; however, they cannot guarantee an early check-in. They will be happy to provide luggage storage in the event rooms are not available. Check-out time is 12:00 noon. Arrangements can be made for baggage storage beyond 12:00 noon. Late check-outs must be approved in advance. The Radisson Tempe Mission Palms Hotel provides courtesy transportation for individual travelers to and from the Sky Harbor International Airport every 1/2 hour from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Hotel parking is also available on a complimentary basis. Special Note: During the month of October, the maximum daily temperature in Tempe, Arizona, is 88.6 and the minimum is 52.7. Registration Fees The General registration fee received by 10/10/96 is $250, $300 after 10/10/96, and the student rate is $100. All fees include: Lunch and continental breakfast on both days, the conference banquet, proceedings, and refreshments. -- Stephen C. Hayne, Assistant Professor, MIS, Arizona State University West __!__ (602)543-6256 (w) (602)543-6221 (f) (602)863-2496 (h) _____(_)_____ "I love to fly - my banker will verify." C210 N9734X "http://www.west.asu.edu/hayne" hayne@asu.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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The deadline for submission of electronic abstracts is October 21, 1996. Please see the SIGMOD/PODS home page at http://mundos.ifsm.umbc.edu/~ramesh/sigmod97/info.html for details. thanks, -ramesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 23 14:57:26 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 OAA28262 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:57:18 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA01319 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:57:18 -0500 From: hull@research.bell-labs.com (Rick Hull) Message-Id: <199609231957.OAA01319@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) CFP for Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL) To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 14:57:18 -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: 11756 Call for Papers SIXTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DATABASE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (DBPL) August 18-20, 1997 Estes Park, Colorado http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~cluet/dbpl.html (latex source of call for papers is attached below) The Sixth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL-6) will take place in Estes Park, Colorado, on August 18-20, 1997. The meeting will be held at a lodge that provides grand Rocky Mountain views, horse-back and mountain bike riding, hiking, and other amenities of the wild west. The DBPL workshops focus on the interaction of database theory and practice with the design and development of programming languages. DBPL-6 will continue in the tradition of its predecessors in Roscoff, Finistere (September 1987), Salishan, Oregon (June 1989), Nafplion, Argolida (August 1991), Manhattan, New York (August 1993) and Gubbio, Umbria (August 1995). The meeting will be small and informal, providing forums for prepared presentations, panels, and discussions. Participation will be by invitation of the program committee and will be restricted primarily to authors of accepted papers, and active researchers in the area. Papers describing preliminary as well as completed research on themes related to database programming languages are solicited. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Data Modeling: object-oriented, object-relational, spatial, collection types, advanced type systems; Language Technology: naming, binding, reflection, type inference, abstraction, modularity, persistence; Programming Paradigms: logical, functional, imperative, constraint; Queries and Transactions: expressiveness, optimization, compilation, distributed execution; Dynamic Aspects: updates, temporal databases, schema evolution, active databases; Implementation issues: algorithms, storage structures, benchmarks, analysis of industrial standards; Languages for electronic documents, data exchange formats, and multimedia databases; Cooperative databases; User interfaces; Database programming language environments. SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit seven copies of an extended abstract (not exceeding ten double-spaced pages) by March 10, 1997. The coverpage should include the address and e-mail of the contact author. We also encourage electronic submissions, provided they consist of PostScript files that can be printed and ghostviewed under a Unix-like system. In either case, send separately by email the title, authors and a short summary of the paper. Submit both paper and summary information to only one of the program co-chairs: Sophie Cluet (DBPL97) Richard Hull (DBPL97) Projet Verso Bell Laboratories, 2B-203 INRIA 600 Mountain Avenue BP 105 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 78153 Le Chesnay, FRANCE USA Tel:+33-1.39.63.56.79 Tel:+1-908.582.4509 Fax:+33-1.39.63.56.74 Fax:+1-908.582.5809 Sophie.Cluet@inria.fr hull@research.bell-labs.com Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their papers by May 26, 1997. The extended abstracts of accepted papers will be made available at the workshop. Full papers for the final proceedings are due by October 15, 1997. Following DBPL tradition, these papers will be formally refereed and published in book format. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: March 10, 1997 Notification of acceptance: May 26, 1997 Workshop: August 18-20, 1997 Full papers for proceedings: October 15, 1997 PROGRAM COMMITTEE C. Beeri (Hebrew U.) L. Cabibbo (U. Roma) S. Cluet (INRIA) R. Connor (U. St. Andrews) S. Davidson (U. Penn) M. Derr (U S West)} D. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin) G. Dong (U. Melbourne) M. Gyssens (U. Limburg) R. Hull (Bell Labs) A. Mendelzon (U. Toronto) G. Moerkotte (U. Mannheim) J. Schmidt (U. Hamburg) V. Vianu (UCSD) L. Wong (ISS) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Marcia Derr U S West Advanced Technologies 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO 80303 Tel:+1-303.541.7023 Fax:+1-303.541.8182 mderr@advtech.uswest.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % LATEX VERSION FOLLOWS % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \pagestyle{empty} \topmargin -1 in \oddsidemargin -.2 in \evensidemargin 0 in \textheight 10.5 in \textwidth 6.9 in \setlength{\parindent}{1cm} \setlength{\parskip}{.2cm} % command to make an "itemize" start on a new line (very esoteric) \newcommand{\Newline}{\parbox{1in}{}} \begin{document} \begin{center} {\Large\bf Call for Papers } \\ \medskip {\Large\bf Sixth International Workshop on \\ \smallskip Database Programming Languages (DBPL) } \\ \bigskip {\large\bf August 18-20, 1997 } \hspace*{1.7in} {\large\bf Estes Park, Colorado } \end{center} \small \noindent The Sixth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL-6) will take place in Estes Park, Colorado, on August 18-20, 1997. The meeting will be held at a lodge that provides grand Rocky Mountain views, horse-back and mountain bike riding, hiking, and other amenities of the wild west. \noindent The DBPL workshops focus on the interaction of database theory and practice with the design and development of programming languages. DBPL-6 will continue in the tradition of its predecessors in Roscoff, Finist\`ere (September 1987), Salishan, Oregon (June 1989), Nafplion, Argolida (August 1991), Manhattan, New York (August 1993) and Gubbio, Umbria (August 1995). The meeting will be small and informal, providing forums for prepared presentations, panels, and discussions. Participation will be by invitation of the program committee and will be restricted primarily to authors of accepted papers, and active researchers in the area. Papers describing preliminary as well as completed research on themes related to database programming languages are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, \vspace*{-.1in} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{l} Data Modeling: object-oriented, object-relational, spatial, collection types, advanced type systems; \\ Language Technology: naming, binding, reflection, type inference, abstraction, modularity, persistence; \\ Programming Paradigms: logical, functional, imperative, constraint; \\ Queries and Transactions: expressiveness, optimization, compilation, distributed execution; \\ Dynamic Aspects: updates, temporal databases, schema evolution, active databases; \\ Implementation issues: algorithms, storage structures, benchmarks, analysis of industrial standards; \\ Languages for electronic documents, data exchange formats, and multimedia databases; \\ Cooperative databases; User interfaces; Database programming language environments. \end{tabular} \end{center} \Newline \vspace*{-.2in} \\ \noindent {\bf Web Page:} \hspace*{.15in} {\tt http://www-rocq.inria.fr/\verb+~+cluet/dbpl.html} %\vspace*{.15in}\\ \noindent {\bf Submissions:} Authors are invited to submit {\em seven} copies of an extended abstract (not exceeding ten double-spaced pages) by {\bf March 10, 1997}. The coverpage should include the address and e-mail of the contact author. We also encourage electronic submissions, {\em provided} they consist of PostScript files that can be printed and ghostviewed under a Unix-like system. In either case, send separately by email the title, authors and a short summary of the paper. Submit both paper and summary information to {\em only one of the program co-chairs:} \vspace*{-.05in} $$ \begin{array}{l@{\hspace*{1cm}}l} \mbox{Sophie Cluet (DBPL97)} & \mbox{Richard Hull (DBPL97)} \\ \mbox{Projet Verso} & \mbox{Bell Laboratories, 2B-203} \\ \mbox{INRIA} & \mbox{600 Mountain Ave.} \\ \mbox{BP 105} &\mbox{Murray Hill, NJ 07974} \\ \mbox{78153 Le Chesnay, FRANCE} & \mbox{USA} \\ \mbox{Tel:+33--1.39.63.56.79, Fax:+33--1.39.63.56.74} & \mbox{Tel:+1--908.582.4509, Fax:+1--908.582.5809} \\ \mbox{Sophie.Cluet@inria.fr} & \mbox{hull@research.bell--labs.com} \end{array} $$ \Newline \vspace*{-.1in} \\ \noindent Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their papers by {\bf May 26, 1997}. The extended abstracts of accepted papers will be made available at the workshop. Full papers for the final proceedings are due by {\bf October 15, 1997}. Following DBPL tradition, these papers will be formally refereed and published in book format. \noindent {\bf Program Committee:} $$ \begin{array}{lll} \mbox{C. Beeri (Hebrew U.)} & \mbox{L. Cabibbo (U. Roma)} & \mbox{S. Cluet (INRIA)} \\ \mbox{R. Connor (U. St. Andrews)} & \mbox{S. Davidson (U. Penn)} & \mbox{M. Derr (U S West)} \\ \mbox{D. DeWitt (U. Wisconsin)} & \mbox{G. Dong (U. Melbourne)} & \mbox{M. Gyssens (U. Limburg)} \\ \mbox{R. Hull (Bell Labs)} & \mbox{A. Mendelzon (U. Toronto)} & \mbox{G. Moerkotte (U. Mannheim)} \\ \mbox{J. Schmidt (U. Hamburg)} & \mbox{V. Vianu (UCSD)} & \mbox{L. Wong (ISS)}\\ \end{array} $$ \Newline \vspace*{-.4in} \\ \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ll} {\bf Local Arrangements:\hspace{.5cm}} & Marcia Derr \\ & U S West Advanced Technologies \\ & 4001 Discovery Drive \\ & Boulder, CO 80303 \\ & Tel:+1--303.541.7023, Fax:+1--303.541.8182 \\ & mderr@advtech.uswest.com \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Mon Sep 23 19:07:03 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 TAA07775 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:06:53 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA02110 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:06:53 -0500 From: joan@chaplin.cs.uri.edu (Joan Peckham) Message-Id: <199609240006.TAA02110@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) DKSME '96 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:06:52 -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: 14704 *********************REVISED CFP ************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Sixth International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering (DKSME '96) Tempe, Arizona October 24-25, 1996 The Sixth International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering (DKSME '96) will be held in Tempe, Arizona. The theme of the conference is "Processes and Models for Intelligent Collaboration in Heterogeneous Manufacturing Environments". The conference will highlight contributions from researchers and engineers who are developing systems to improve engineering design and manufacturing. Database management and artificial intelligence are key technologies for improving products and reducing the cost of manufacturing. The conference will bring together people from industry and academia to resolve "real world" problems through research that provides new results for manufacturing and engineering system methods and technologies. Invited Keynote Speakers Thomas Atwood, Cinebase Software, "Object-Oriented Systems in Engineering Environments" Michael Monachino, Vice-President, IBM World Wide Solution Operations, "A Global Perspective on Manufacturing Methods" Conference Schedule Thursday, October 24, 1996 8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-10:30 Keynote Speaker, Thomas Atwood, Cinebase Software 10:30-12:00 Session 1 KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS "Fuzzy Search Techniques in Knowledge-Based Systems", Sameer Sing and Michael Steinl, University of Plymouth and University of the West of England, UK "Model-based Diagnosis of PLC Controlled Assembly Equipment", Matthias Zimmermann-Sturm, Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing, Germany "Modelling of Restrictions on Laws in an Engineering Knowledge Base System", S.P. Loughlin, J.C. Collis and F.J. Smith, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland "Intelligent Computer Aided Concept Development", M.A. Azam, P.C. Hills, G.N. Blount, M. Tovey, and A. Robotham, Coventry University, England 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Session 2 ENGINEERING/TECHNICAL SYSTEMS "Integrity Validation in A Concurrent Engineering Environment Using Step", S.B. Yoo, H.W. Suh and K.W. Koh, Inha University and KAIST, Korea "Conflict Management in CONCORD", Norbert Ritter, Bernhard Mitschang and Theo Harder, Universitat Kaiserslautern and Technical University, Munich, Germany "Extending EXPRESS by Relationship Templates: Supporting Reusable Modeling and Interface Generation for Technical Applications", Thomas Kretzberg and Wolfgang Wilkes, Fern Uni-Hagen, Germany "Hypermedia Support for the Integrated Systems Engineering Environment MUSE", Ajit Bapat, Michael Lohr and Jurgen Wasch, German NationalResearch Center for Information Technology (GMD) and Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:00 Session 3 APPLIED DATABASE TECHNIQUES "Schema Updates To Support the Checkout Model Using Long Transactions", E. Hong and Suk E. Yoo, Seoul National University, Korea "Management of Product Data Using an Extensible Object-Oriented Query Language", Kjell Orsborn, Linkoping University, Sweden "An Active Schema for a Computer Aided Design Application", B. MacKellar and T. Dube, Western Connecticut State University and Holy Cross College, USA 5:00-6:00 Panel: "Object-Relational and Object-Oriented Systems for Engineering Applications", Moderator: Susan Urban, Arizona State University Tempe Panelists: Jeff Garland, Motorola Martin Hardwick, Step Tools, Inc. Paula Hawthorne, Informix John Myser, Objectivity 6:00 Reception 7:00 Conference Banquet Friday, October 25, 1996 8:00-10:00 Session 4 MANUFACTURING AND SCHEDULING SYSTEMS "Utilizing Fuzzy Data and Rules for Discrete Control of Semiconductor Manufacturing", Nauman Chaudhry, James Moyne and Elke A. Rundensteiner, University of Michigan, USA "Plan Representation and Heuristic Generation of Operation Sequences for Manufacturing Tasks", Joao Rocha and Carlos Ramos, Instituto Superior Engenharia do Porto, Portugal "A Cooperative Scheduling System - CoPlanner - by Interactive Knowledge Acquisition", Tetsuya Mishuku, Taji Tsuchida, and Satoshi Tanaka, Information Technology R & D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan "A Scheduling Maturity Model", Gilad Amiri, Rob Farrow, and Frank Calliss, Motorola, USA "Flexible Integration of Manufacturing Databases Using a Model-Based Architecture Capable of Wide-Area Networking", Yicheng Tao, Gilbert Babin and Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA and Universite Laval, Canada 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Session 5 OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS "Object Migration: A Constraint-Driven Approach," Y. Amghar, G. El Nemr and A. Flory, Laboratoire d'Ingenierie des Systeme d'Information (LISI-INSA), France "Computer Aided Software Process Support: Experience with an O-O Based Formalism", Noureddine Belkhatir and Nadir Mihoubi, IMAG-LSR, France "Classification and Consistency of Behavior in Complex Object Design Views for Concurrent Engineering", Fawaz S. Al-Anzi and David L. Spooner, Kuwait University, Kuwait and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA 12:00-2:00 Lunch Keynote Speaker, Michael Monachino, Vice President, IBM World Wide Solution Operations 2:00-3:30 Session 6 APPLIED AI TECHNIQUES "Automated Quality Control for Manufacturing in the Food Industry using Fuzzy Logic and Fractal Theory", Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin, Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana and CETYS University, Mexico "A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Learning Control", Igor Jurisica and Janice Glasgow, University of Toronto, Canada and Queens University, Canada "An Expert System to Support SI Engine Design and Development", Shahid Naveed, Je Cheng and Jing Xiao, University of North Carolina and Ford Research Labs, USA 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:00 Panel "Database Issues for Distributed and Virtual Manufacturing" Moderator: Ram D. Sriram, Group Leader, Engineering Design Technologies, NIST Panelists: Charles McLean, Manufacturing Systems Engineering, NIST Jami Shah, Arizona State University, Tempe Wayne Collier, DH Brown Inc. 5:00 Conference Ends Registration Form SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA AND KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING DKSME'96 October 24-25, 1996 Name_____________________________________________________________ Badge Name_______________________________________________________ Social Security # (US Citizens only)_____________________________ Daytime Phone__________________________¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬__________________________ Evening Phone____________________________________________________ Position/Title __________________________________________________ Organization_____________________________________________________ Work Address _________________________________________________________________ City ____________________________________________________________ State_______________________ Zip________________________________ Country _________________________________________________________ Please let us know if you require special service or arrangements due to a disability _________________________________________________________________ FAX # (Be sure to include your international code) _________________________________________________________________ Fee: $250 General Fee $300 Late Registration Fee (after10/10/96) $100 Student Fee All fees include lunch and continental breakfast on both days, the conference banquet, proceedings, and refreshments. Method of Payment: Check payable to: UConn Purchase Order Number ___________________________________________ MasterCard or VISA Card Number __________________________________________________________ Exp. Date_____________________________________________________________ Signature ____________________________________________________________ Date _________________________________________________________________ Registrations applications should be mailed to: University of Connecticut U-56R One Bishop Circle Storrs, CT 06269-4056 Web page: http://www.west.asu.edu/dksme You may also register by phone or Fax: Phone: 860-486-4905 Fax: 860-486-3968 Please use photocopy or separate sheets for additional registrants. If you receive duplicate brochures, please share one with a colleague. Program Committee Members: Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University, USA Fawaz S. Al-Anzi, Faculty of Engineering & Petroleum, Kuwait Terry Bahill, University of Arizona, USA Tiehua Cao, Motorola Inc., Illinois, USA Frank Ciarello, University of Arizona, USA Alan Desrochers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Paul Fortier, UMASS at Dartmouth, USA Alfonso Fuggetta, Politechnico di Milano, Italy Carol Goble, University of Manchester, England Art Goldschmidt, IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY, USA Hans Grabowski, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Robert Grobe, Uni Aachen, Germany Shuguang Hong, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Jiandong Huang, Honeywell Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, USA Stefan Jablonski, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Manfred Jeusfeld, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong James Kowlaski, University of Rhode Island, USA Frank-Lothar Krause, Instit. fur Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Germany Chin Lu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Bonnie MacKellar, Western Connecticut State University, USA Martti Mantyla, Helenski University of Technology, Finland Michael M. Marefat, University of Arizona, USA Pitu Mirchandani, University of Arizona, USA Gustav Olling, Chrysler Motors Corp. USA Alan de Pennington, Leeds University, England Peter Peters, Uni Aachen, Germany Michael J. Pratt, NIST, USA Janet Prichard, East Carolina State, USA Carlos Ramos, Polytechnical Institute of Porto, USA Tore Risch, Linkoping University, Sweden Manbir Sodhi, University of Rhode Island, USA David Spooner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Susan Urban, Arizona State University at Tempe, USA Sandor Vajna, Otto-Von-Guericke, Universitat, Germany Jim Weeldreyer, Honeywell, USA Peter Wilson, NIST, USA Alexander Wolf, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Victor Fay Wolfe, University of Rhode Island, USA Steve Woods, Boeing, Seattle, USA Jing Xiao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA Kokou Yetong, Universite de Bourgogre, France Conference Chairs: Program: Paula Hawthorn, Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. and Joan Peckham, The University of Rhode Island General Steering: Fred Maryanski, University of Connecticut Finance: Richard Danis, University of Connecticut Local Arrangements: Uday Kulkarni, Arizona State University Publicity: Stephen Hayne, Arizona State University Conference: For more information concerning the conference, contact: Professor Sudha Ram, Department of MIS, College of BPA, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona 85721. Phone: 520/621-2748. FAX: 520/621-2433. E-Mail: ram@bpa.arizona.edu Conference Information available on the Web at http://www.west.asu.edu/dksme Location/Accommodations/Transportation The conference will be held at Radisson Tempe Mission Palms Hotel, 60 East Fifth Street, Tempe, Arizona 85281. Each individual will be responsible for making his/her own reservations. You may do so by calling the hotel directly at (602) 894-1400 or (800) 547-8705 or faxing your reservation to 602-968-7677. Single and Double rooms are available at the rate of $109, triple rooms $119, and Quad rooms $129. All reservations must be made by September 23, 1996. Any reservations received after this cut-off date will be honored on a space available basis only and the group rate may not be available after the cut-off date. When making reservations, please identify yourself as attending the DKSME/1996 Conference, in order to secure the conference rate. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. If your schedule requires an early check-in time, please advise the hotel. They will make every effort to honor your request; however, they cannot guarantee an early check-in. They will be happy to provide luggage storage in the event rooms are not available. Check-out time is 12:00 noon. Arrangements can be made for baggage storage beyond 12:00 noon. Late check-outs must be approved in advance. The Radisson Tempe Mission Palms Hotel provides courtesy transportation for individual travelers to and from the Sky Harbor International Airport every 1/2 hour from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. Hotel parking is also available on a complimentary basis. Special Note: During the month of October, the maximum daily temperature in Tempe, Arizona, is 88.6 and the minimum is 52.7. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Because of their critical importance with almost no substitutes, many health care services are price inelastic. As the pressure of health care reform world wide presses on, cost, access and quality improvements of health care services have become not only economic but also social-political concerns. Such considerations along with high degrees of consumer involvement and customization, and legal and liability considerations of health care services give rise to interesting challenges to decision support for health care. In parallel, such advances in information technology (IT) and bio-medical and medical sciences as medical imaging, multimedia information sharing on information superhighways and virtual reality are transforming health care provision and the associated decision making. At the dawn of a new information age, it is of timely importance to examine the unique opportunities and challenges of decision support facing the health care industry and probe into effective means to decision support enabled by emerging information, medical and decision support developments. As such, the special issue seeks research papers of theoretical and practical implications on clinical, teaching or research decision support for health care such as personal, community, environmental, self and alternative health care. Topics include but are not limited to: . Decision support paradigm for health care, including taxonomy, issues, considerations and evaluation criteria . Management of information and IT for health care decision support . Theory of decision making in and support for health care . Qualitative and quantitative decision models for health care . AI-based decision support techniques and systems for health care . Multimedia and information superhighway technology and health care . Engineerng and evaluation of decision support systems and their supporting information systems for health care . Adoption, diffusion and impact of IT and decision support systems in health care . Decision support and information technology for telemedicine, telecare and telehealth . Re-engineering of health care process, organization and industry . Research methodologies and their effectiveness and constraints for research on health care decision support and information management . Policy, legal, liability, environmental, societal and cultural issues in health care decision support and information technology development and deployment . Workflow management for health care applications . Economics of health care information technology . The making and impact of electronic health markets, including framework, model and analysis . Real-time decision support and database systems for health care Please send five copies of your manuscript with a cover page including the title and abstract of the manuscript and the name(s), affliation(s) and contacting address(es) (postal, internet and fax, etc.) of the author(s) to the guest editor at either address by January 15, 1996. Olivia R. Liu Sheng Dept. of Informationa and Systems Management School of Business and Management Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon, Hong Kong Tel: +852-2358-7645 Fax: +852-2358-2421 Email: olivia@usthk.ust.hk On leave from: Dept. of Management Information Systems College of Business and Administration McClelland Hall University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 Tel: +1-520-621-4450 Fax: +1-520-621-2433 Email: sheng@bpa.arizona.edu The special issue welcomes electronic submissions. Authors should contact the guest editor or visit the web page at http://home.ust.hk/~olivia/dss.html for updated information on means of electronic submissions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 23 19:08:54 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 TAA07789 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:08:48 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA02149 for dbworld; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:08:48 -0500 From: martin@qucis.queensu.ca (Patrick Martin) Message-Id: <199609240008.TAA02149@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Faculty Positions - Queen's University at Kingston To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 19:08:48 -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: 3646 Dear Colleagues, The Department of Computing and Information Science at Queen's University at Kingston invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the assistant professor level (one subject to budgetary approval), starting on 1 January 1997 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants should have, or be on the point of completing, a PhD in Computer Science, and should be working in one of the areas: database theory and practice, software engineering, software systems or graphics. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active research program, to supervise students, and to teach at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated research competence, teaching ability and the potential for collegial service. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Queen's University has an employment equity program, welcomes diversity in the workplace, and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, aboriginal peoples, people with disabilities, and members of visible minorities. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Applications, which should include a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, copies of recent publications, and the names of three referees, should be sent to: Dr Michael Levison, Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 I will be happy to answer any inquiries by email to martin@qucis.queensu.ca Regards, Pat Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 24 12:20:37 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 MAA05133 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:20:00 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06077 for dbworld; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:19:59 -0500 From: lamperti@bsing.ing.unibs.it (Lamperti Gianfranco) Message-Id: <199609241719.MAA06077@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Book and Software Announcement To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:19:59 -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: 5313 *** Book & Software Announcement *** Advanced Relational Programming --------------------------------- By: Filippo Cacace and Gianfranco Lamperti Published by: Kluwer Academic Publishers ISBN: 0-7923-4081-7 Date: June 1996 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This book aims to present the recent advances in database technology from the viewpoint of the novel database paradigms proposed in the last decade. It focuses on the theory of the extended relational model and an extended relational algebraic language, Algres, is described extensively. AUDIENCE: This work will be of interest to graduate students following advanced database courses, advanced data-oriented application developers, and researchers in the field of database programming languages and software engineeering who need a flexible prototyping platform for the development of software tools. EXPERIMENTING WITH ALGRES: A free copy of the Algres system complements this work, and is available on the Internet at the following addresses: (By anonymous ftp) ftp.wkap.nl (By the Web browser) ftp://ftp.wkap.nl/software/advanced_relational_programming/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents ----------------- Preface 1. Introduction 1. Brief History of Database Technology 2. The Relational Approach 3. Data-Intensive Application Domains 4. Requirements of New Data-Intensive Applications 2. Overview of Recent Evolution in Database Technology 1. Semantic Data Models 2. Functional Data Models 3. Temporal Databases 4. Extended Relational Databases 5. Deductive Databases 6. Object-Oriented Databases 7. Active Databases 3. Theory of the Nested Relational Model 1. The Relational Data Model 2. Relational Algebra 3. Relational Calculus 4. Nested Relational Data Model 5. Extended Relational Algebra 6. Equivalence of Extended Relational Algebra Expressions 7. Extended Relational Calculus 8. Expressive Power: Comparing Algebra and Calculus 9. Taxonomy of Nested Relations 10. Further Extensions to the Nested Relational Model 4. Algres, an Extended Database Programming Language 1. A Tour of Algres 2. Rationale of Algres Design 5. Programming in Algres 1. Constants, Identifiers, and Objects 2. Groups and Persistency 3. Operations 4. The Quantification Mechanism 5. Input-Output 6. Control Structures and Blocks 7. Subprograms 8. Links 9. Built in Functions 10. Program Structure 6. Alice, the Application Program Interface of Algres 1. A Tour of Alice 2. Guidelines for Writing Alice Programs 3. Programming in Alice 7. Algraph, the Graphical Interface of Algres 1. Graphical Display 2. Graphical Read 3. Motif Interface for Input-Output 4. Schema Editor Appendix A: Syntax of Algres Appendix B: Syntax of Alice Operators Appendix C: Algres and Alice Keywords Appendix D:Installing and Using the Algres System Bibliography Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 24 12:22:04 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 MAA05179 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:21:51 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA06105 for dbworld; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:21:50 -0500 From: Carole Goble Message-Id: <199609241721.MAA06105@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) Research Post and Studentship available To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:21:50 -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: 3321 University of Manchester, UK Department of Computer Science School of Biological Sciences 1 Research Post 1 Studentship Applications are invited for a position as a research associate and for a PhD studentship on a project funded by Zeneca Pharmaceuticals on the use of database and knowledge representation techniques for integrating biological information sources. Further details can be found at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/tambis/index.html. A background in information management and/or knowledge of molecular biology is desirable. The positions are tenable for 3 years from appointment, which is likely to be on or before 1st January 1997. The research post is at a starting salary of up to 16,836, depending on experience and qualifications. The studentship is at the level of an EPSRC award. For further particulars and an application form for the RA post, please contact the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL (tel: (+44) 161 275 2028, fax: (+44) 161 275 5306). For the studentship, please contact Mrs J. Boyd, Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13, 9PL (tel: (+44) 161 275 6283). Informal enquiries can be made to: Carole Goble (tel: (+44) 161 275 6195; email:carole@cs.man.ac.uk) Dr Norman Paton (tel: (+44) 161 275 6910; email:norm@cs.man.ac.uk) Dr Andy Brass (tel: (+44) 161 275 5096, abrass@manchester.ac.uk) The closing date is 18th October, 1996. The university is an 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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Below, you will find the first Call for Papers of the JFPLC'97. A Latex version is joined at the end of this message. http://www.univ-orleans.fr/LIFO/jfplc97 Please post and/or forward to all interested colleagues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Papers JFPLC'97 Sixth French Conference on Logic and Constraint Programming May 26-28 1997 Orle'ans -- France http://www.univ-orleans.fr/LIFO/jfplc97 The French Conference on Logic and Constraint Programming and UNIF, the International Workshop on Unification, are jointly organized in Orle'ans this year. The aim of the meeting is to review recent research work on the conference topics with a particular focus on the interactions between the different aspects of logic programming, automated deduction, constraint resolution and their application domains. JFPLC'97 follows the series of previous meetings which took place in Clermont-Ferrand,(96), Dijon,(95), Bordeaux,(94), Nimes,(93) and Lille,(92). CONFERENCE CHAIR ---------------- Ge'rard Ferrand (LIFO, Universite' d'Orle'ans, FRANCE) PROGRAM CHAIR ------------- Fre'de'ric Benhamou (LIFO, Universite' d'Orle'ans, FRANCE) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Slim Abdennadher .......... (Munich University, GERMANY) Alexander Bockmayr ........ (MPI, Saarbru"cken, GERMANY) Philippe Codognet ......... (INRIA Rocquencourt, FRANCE) Jacques Cohen ............. (Brandeis University, USA) Alain Colmerauer .......... (Universite' de Marseille, FRANCE) Philippe Devienne ......... (Universite' de Lille, FRANCE) Yves Deville .............. (Universite' Catholique de Louvain, BELGIUM) Franc,ois Fages ........... (CNRS, LIENS, ENS Paris, FRANCE) Laurent Fribourg .......... (CNRS, LIENS, ENS Paris, FRANCE) Franc,oise Gire ........... (Universite' Paris I, FRANCE) Jean-Louis Imbert ......... (Universite' d'Auvergne, FRANCE) Beaudoin Le Charlier ...... (Universite' de Namur, BELGIUM) Ken McAloon ............... (CUNY, NY, USA) Jean-Franc,ois Puget ...... (ILOG, FRANCE) Olivier Ridoux ............ (Universite' de Rennes, FRANCE) Michael Rusinowitch ....... (CRIN, INRIA Lorraine, FRANCE) Pascal Van Hentenryck ..... (Brown University, USA) Marie-Christine Vilarem ... (Universite' Montpellier, FRANCE) SCOPE ----- Papers are welcome on all theoretical or experimental aspects of logic programming and/or constraint programming, including, but not limited to: Semantics Higher-order programming Static Analysis Deductive Databases Theorem Proving Constraint Logic Programming Constraint resolution and optimization Constraint Satisfaction Problems Operations Research Concurrency Parallelism Language Design and Implementation Applications Methodology and environments SUBMISSIONS ----------- Authors are invited to send papers not exceeding 15 pages (2 pages for posters), formatted according to the JFPLC'97 style (available on the WWW conference site). Papers should contain original, previously unpublished results (neither in a conference nor in a journal). Accepted papers should be presented at the conference. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and should be made before January 10, 1997. The e-mail should contain an uuencoded gzipped (or compressed) PostScript file. Details are provided on the WWW page. Authors should also send an e-mail, containing the title, authors, abstract, keywords of the paper and the name, addresses (surface and electronic mail), phone and fax numbers of the main author, to mailto:jfplc97@lifo.univ-orleans.fr before January 4, 1997. When electronic submission is not available, authors should send six copies of the paper (or poster presentation) to the program committee chairman at the conference address before the deadline. ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS http://www.univ-orleans.fr/LIFO/jfplc97 ----------------------- The technical program of the conference will include invited conferences, presentations of refereed papers and posters. A full session will be devoted to industrial participants. This session will be jointly organized with Orle'ans-Technopole and will focus on products and applications of Constraint Programming. A special award will be given to the best paper presented by one or several young researchers (none of the authors having defended his PhD. thesis before December 31, 1996). Authors meeting this requirement must mention it when submitting. The conference proceedings will be published by a French publisher. Official JFPLC'97 languages are French and English. Abstract ........ Jan. 4, 1997 IMPORTANT DATES Submission ...... Jan. 10, 1997 Acceptance ...... Mar. 8, 1997 Final Version ... Apr. 5, 1997 JFPLC'97 -- LIFO -- Faculte' des Sciences SURFACE MAIL Universite' d'Orle'ans -- 4, Rue Le'onard de Vinci B.P. 6759 -- 45067 ORLE'ANS Cedex 2 -- FRANCE ELECTRONIC MAIL mailto:jfplc97@lifo.univ-orleans.fr POSTERS SESSION CHAIR Nirina Andrianarivelo Michel Berge`re, Wadoud Bousdira, Jacques Chabin, Fre'de'ric Goualard, Laurent Granvilliers, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Arnaud Lallouet, Franc,ois Le Berre, Se'bastien Limet, Pierre Rety, Gilles Richard, Fre'de'ric Saubion, Agne`s Tellez-Arenas, Alexandre Tessier. Ministe`re de l'E'ducation Nationale de l'Enseignement Supe'rieur et de la Recherche, SUPPORTS Re'gion Centre, De'partement du Loiret, Mairie d'Orle'ans, Universite' d'Orle'ans, CNRS, INRIA, Orle'ans-Technopole, HITACHI (Orle'ans), CNET (Issy les Moulineaux). The UNIF'97 workshop organized by S. Anantharaman UNIF97 (University of Orle'ans) will be held on May 28-30, 1997 in Orle'ans. For any further information, please contact mailto:unif97@lifo.univ-orleans.fr. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% please cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%% %%%% %%%% LATEX VERSION %%%% %%%% %%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% please cut here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentstyle{article} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % 1st CALL FOR PAPERS JFPLC'97 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \def\head{ % TITRE \begin{center} {\LARGE\bf\sf First Call for Papers {\huge\bf\sf JFPLC'97}}\\[0.2cm] {\Large\bf\sf Sixth French Conference on Logic and Constraint Programming\\[0.2cm] May 26-28, 1997\\[0.2cm] Orl\'eans -- France} \end{center} } \def\body{ % CALL TEXT \vspace{0cm} % CONFERENCE PRESENTATION The French Conference on Logic and Constraint Programming and UNIF$^{(*)}$, the International Workshop on Unification, are jointly organized in Orl\'eans this year. The aim of the meeting is to review recent research work on the conference topics with a particular focus on the interactions between the different aspects of logic programming, automated deduction, constraint resolution and their application domains. JFPLC'97 follows the series of previous meetings which took place in Clermont-Ferrand\,(96), Dijon\,(95), Bordeaux\,(94), N\^{\i}mes\,(93) and Lille\,(92). \myspc % PROGRAM DETAILS The technical program of the conference will include invited conferences, presentations of refereed papers and posters. A full session will be devoted to industrial participants. This session will be jointly organized with Orl\'eans-Technopole and will focus on products and applications of Constraint Programming. \myspc % YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD A special award will be given to the best paper presented by one or several young researchers (none of the authors having defended his PhD. thesis before {\em December 31, 1996}). Authors meeting this requirement must mention it when submitting. \myspc % LANGUAGES AND PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by a French publisher. Official JFPLC'97 languages are French and English. \myspc % TOPICS {\bf Scope\,:} Papers are welcome on all theoretical or experimental aspects of logic programming and/or constraint programming, including, but not limited to\,: \myspc \centerline{\begin{tabular}{ll} \theme{ Semantics}{ Higher-order programming} \theme{ Static Analysis}{ Deductive Databases} \theme{ Theorem Proving}{ Constraint Logic Programming} \theme{ Constraint resolution and optimization}{ Constraint Satisfaction Problems} \theme{ Operations Research}{ Concurrency} \theme{ Parallelism}{ Language Design and Implementation} \theme{ Applications}{ Methodology and environments} \end{tabular}} \myspc % SUBMISSIONS {\bf Submissions\,:} Authors are invited to send papers not exceeding {\em 15 pages} (2 pages for posters), formatted according to the JFPLC'97 style (available on the WWW conference site). Papers should contain original, previously unpublished results (neither in a conference nor in a journal). Accepted papers should be presented at the conference. \myspc % ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged and should be made before {\em January 10, 1997}. The e-mail should contain an uuencoded gzipped (or compressed) PostScript file. Details are provided on the WWW page. Authors should also send an e-mail, containing the title, authors, abstract, keywords of the paper and the name, addresses (surface and electronic mail), phone and fax numbers of the main author, to {\tt jfplc97@lifo.univ-orleans.fr} before {\em January 4, 1997}. \myspc % SURFACE SUBMISSIONS When electronic submission is not available, authors should send six copies of the paper (or poster presentation) to the program committee chairman at the conference address before the deadline. \myspc $^{(*)}$ The UNIF'97 workshop organized by S. Anantharaman (University of Orl\'eans) will be held on {\em May 28-30, 1997} in Orl\'eans. For any further information, please contact {\tt unif97@lifo.univ-orleans.fr}. \myspc % ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS ON THE WEB \fbox{\begin{minipage}[t]{13.75cm}\footnotesize \names{Additional Informations} {\tt http://www.univ-orleans.fr/LIFO/jfplc97} \end{minipage}} } \def\pract{ % PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS \infor{ \names{~\hfill{\normalsize\bf JFPLC'97}\hfill~} \names{ Conference Chair} \lname{G.\,Ferrand}{U.\,Orl\'eans,\,FRA} \names{ Program Chair} \lname{F.\,Benhamou}{U.\,Orl\'eans,\,FRA} \names{ Program Committee} \name{S.\,Abdennadher}{U.\,Munich,\,GER} \name{A.\,Bockmayr}{MPI,\,GER} \name{P.\,Codognet}{INRIA,\,FRA} \name{J.\,Cohen}{Brandeis\,U.,\,USA} \name{A.\,Colmerauer}{U.\,Marseille,\,FRA} \name{P.\,Devienne}{U.\,Lille,\,FRA} \name{Y.\,Deville}{U.\,Louvain,\,BEL} \name{F.\,Fages}{CNRS,\,FRA} \name{L.\,Fribourg}{CNRS,\,FRA} \name{F.\,Gire}{U.\,Paris\,I,\,FRA} \name{J-L.\,Imbert}{U.\,Auvergne,\,FRA} \name{B.\,Le\,Charlier}{U.\,Namur,\,BEL} \name{K.\,McAloon}{CUNY,\,USA} \name{J-F.\,Puget}{ILOG,\,FRA} \name{O.\,Ridoux}{U.\,Rennes,\,FRA} \name{M.\,Rusinowitch}{INRIA,\,FRA} \name{P.\,Van\,Hentenryck}{Brown,\,USA} \lname{M-C.\,Vilarem}{U.\,Mtpellier,\,FRA} \names{ Posters Session Chair} \lename{N.\,Andrianarivelo} \names{ Organizing Committee} M. Berg\`ere, W. Bousdira, J. Cha\-bin, F. Goualard, L. Granvilliers, A. Lallouet, F. Le Berre, S. Limet, P. Rety, G. Richard, F. Saubion, A.~Tellez-Arenas, A. Tessier } \infor{ % SURFACE ADDRESS \names{Surface Mail} JFPLC'97 -- LIFO \\ Facult\'e des Sciences \\ Universit\'e d'Orl\'eans \\ 4, Rue L\'eonard de Vinci \\ B.P. 6759 \\ 45067 ORL\'EANS Cedex 2 \\ FRANCE } \infor{ % ELECTRONIC ADDRESS \names{Electronic Mail} {\tt jfplc97@lifo.univ-orleans.fr} } \infor{ % SPONSORED BY \names{ Supports} %Com. Europ\'eenne (CLN III), Minist\`ere de l'\'Education Nationale de l'Enseignement Sup\'erieur et de la Recherche, R\'egion Centre, D\'epartement du Loiret, Mairie d'Orl\'eans, Universit\'e d'Orl\'eans, CNRS, INRIA, Orl\'eans-Technopole, HITACHI (Orl\'eans), CNET (Issy les Moulineaux). } \infor{ % IMPORTANT DATES \names{ Important Dates} \name{{\em Abstract}}{{\bf Jan. 4, 1997}} \name{{\em Submission}}{{\bf Jan. 10, 1997}} \name{{\em Acceptance}}{{\bf Mar. 8, 1997}} \fname{{\em Final Version}}{{\bf Apr. 5, 1997}} } } % LATEX FORMAT \pagestyle{empty} \textwidth19cm \textheight27cm \topmargin-2.5cm \oddsidemargin-2cm \evensidemargin-2cm \newcommand{\myspc}{\vspace*{0.4cm}} \newcommand{\theme}[2]{$\bullet$ {#1}&$\bullet$ {#2}\\} \newcommand{\names}[1]{{\bf #1}\\[0.1cm]} \newcommand{\name}[2]{{#1}\dotfill{#2}\\} \newcommand{\lname}[2]{{#1}\dotfill{#2}\\[0.2cm]} \newcommand{\fname}[2]{{#1}\dotfill{#2}\\[-0.2cm]} \newcommand{\lename}[1]{{#1}\\[0.2cm]} \newcommand{\infor}[1]{\fbox{\begin{minipage}[t]{4.5cm} \footnotesize\vspace*{0.1cm}\par{#1} \end{minipage}}\vspace*{0.1cm}} % LATEX DOCUMENT \begin{document} \nopagebreak \hspace{1cm} \begin{minipage}[t]{18cm} \head \end{minipage}\\[0.3cm] \begin{minipage}[t]{5cm} \pract \end{minipage} \begin{minipage}[t]{14cm} \body \end{minipage} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From beyer@cs.wisc.edu Wed Sep 25 17:12:05 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 RAA02623 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:12:00 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA12433 for dbworld; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:11:59 -0500 From: "RVINGRAL.US.ORACLE.COM" Message-Id: <199609252211.RAA12433@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) RIDE deadline extension To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 17:11:59 -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: 8957 The deadline for RIDE'97 has been extended to October 8, 1996. This is a FIRM deadline. Please find an updated CFP below. ============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS for RIDE'97 Seventh International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: High Performance Database Management for Large Scale Applications April 7-8, 1997 Birmingham, England Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering (pending approval) http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/events/RIDE97.html SCOPE ----- This is the seventh in a series of annual workshops held in connection with the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering. RIDE'97 will bring together researches, developers and users working on issues related to high performance database management for large scale applications. The Internet and its underlying infrastructure, e.g. the WWW, is restructuring the way in which we interact with service providers- banks, retail stores, government agencies and professional and social organizations. With this growth come new opportunities and challenges to create middleware services and higher level services which will enable millions of clients to make efficient and intelligent use of massive amounts of data. On one hand, electronic commerce will require support for billions of transactions per second; on the other hand, applications involving complex decision making and/or finding relevant patterns, such as those encountered in data mining and data warehousing, will require access to billions of bytes coming from many sources. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ We solicit papers that deal with performance issues enabling the support of database management for large scale applications, in particular for the following: database systems and the WWW electronic commerce data warehousing data mining Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Databases and the WWW Distributed Middleware Services Prefetching and Speculative Services Brokerage and Resource Management Services Scalable, Distributed File Structures Query Processing on the WWW Scalable Multimedia Servers Electronic Commerce Security and Privacy of Transactions Global Directory Services Extended Transaction Models and Workflow Processes Intelligent Agents and Browsers Data Warehousing Complex Query Optimization Intelligent Query Cache Management Efficient Query Subsumption Testing Warehouse Refreshing Indexing and Access Methods Data Mining Efficiency and Scalability Issues in Data Mining Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Techniques Integrating Data Mining with Data Warehousing High Performance Mining of Text, Spatial and Multimedia Data PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Five copies of an extended abstract (at most 12 double-spaced pages in fonts not smaller than 11pt or 3000 words) should be received no later than the FIRM deadline of October 8, 1996 by the program chairman: Peter Scheuermann Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 USA email: peters@ece.nwu.edu tel: (847) 491 7141 fax: (847) 491 4455 In addition, the authors should submit electronically to ride97@ece.nwu.edu a cover page containing the paper title, authors' names, contact author and full address (including e-mail and fax) and an abstract of up to 100 words. In order to encourage closer interaction between the industrial and research communities we are particularly interesting in receiving industrial contributions which address the issues outlined above from a commercial point of view and describe actual products or prototypes. The authors should indicate whether their papers should be considered as regular papers or industrial papers. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for submission: October 8, 1996 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1996 Final papers due: January 15, 1997 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Jon Kerridge Department of Computer Studies Napier University 219 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ UK email: j.kerridge@dcs.napier.ac.uk tel: +(0) 131 455 4395 fax: +(0) 131 455 4552 Yuri Breitbart Bell Labs 600 Mountain Ave., rm 2t-106 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA email: yuri@allegra.att.com tel: (908) 582-3309 fax: (908) 582-5809 Program Chair: Peter Scheuermann Deptartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Nothwestern University Evanston, IL 60208 USA email: peters@ecs.nwu.edu tel: (847)-491-7141 fax: (847)-491-4455 Program Committee: Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, France) Daniel Barbara (Bellcore, USA) Azer Bestavros (Boston University, USA) Stephen Blott (ETH, Switzerland) Michael Carey (IBM Almaden, USA) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Misbah Deen (Keele University, UK) Klaus Dittrich (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, USA) Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Mathias Jarke (RWTH-Aachen, Germany) Martin Kersten (CWI, The Netherlands) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokio, Japan) Simon Lavington (University of Essex, United Kingdom) Witold Litwin (University of Paris 9, France) Kia Makki (University of Nevada, USA) Patrick O'Neil (University of Massachussets, USA) M. Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada) Nikki Pissinou (University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA) Rajeev Rastogi (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) Nick Roussopoulos (University of Maryland, USA) Doron Rotem (Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Oded Shmueli (Technion, Israel) S. Sudarshan (IIT Bombay, India) Gerhard Weikum (University of Saarbrucken, Germany) Yelena Yesha (NASA CESDIS, USA) Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Steering Committee: Ahmed Elmagarmid, co-chair (Purdue University, USA) John Urban, co-chair (Arizona State University, USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC, USA) Publication Chair: Sharad Mehrotra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs: Innes Jelly (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Radek Vingralek (Northwestern University, USA) American Coordinator: Chris Clifton (MITRE Corp., USA) European Coordinator: Michael Arentoft (European Commission, Belgium) Far East Coordinator: Ian Gorton (CSIRO, Australia) Local Arrangements: Alan Sexton (University of Birmingham, UK) Financial Chair: Jim Griffioen (University of Kentucky, USA) Registration Chair: Mary Garvey (University of Wolverhampton, UK) ---- End of Message ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 26 11:06:38 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 LAA16628 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:06:25 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA16303 for dbworld; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:06:24 -0500 From: "David W. Embley" Message-Id: <199609261606.LAA16303@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) ER'97: Preliminary Call for Papers To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:06:24 -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: 11755 Preliminary Call for Papers 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'97) Los Angeles, California, USA 3 - 6 November 1997 Scope of the Conference The international conceptual modeling conferences provide a forum for presenting and discussing current research and interesting applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. These conferences were originally devoted to the Entity-Relationship (ER) model, but have long since expanded to consider all types of semantic data modeling, behavior and process modeling, and object-oriented systems modeling. The conferences embrace all phases of software development including analysis, specification, design, implementation, evolution, and reengineering. Our particular desire for ER'97 is to provide stimulating presentations and discussions on conceptual modeling that will interest consultants and information systems professionals outside the computer industry, as well as information technology academics and researchers in computer-company laboratories. Organizing Committee Steering Committee Representatives Steering Committee Chair: Sal March ER'97 Liaison: Peter Chen General Chair: Wesley Chu Local Arrangements: Alfonso Cardenas Registration Chair: Hua Yang Area Liaisons Asia: Arbee Chen Australia: Igor Hawryszkiewycz Chile & Central America: Javier Pinto Europe: Georges Gardarin Mexico: Alfonso Cardenas Mid East: Peretz Shoval South America: Alberto Laender Topics of Interest Conceptual modeling for: information systems, decision-support systems, office-information systems, information-retrieval systems, hypertext systems, information superhighways, active databases, heterogeneous and federated databases, business process modeling, knowledge bases, multimedia, user interfaces. Conceptual modeling in information-system engineering: CASE tools, integrating application models, rapid prototyping, database administration, database design, maintenance and evolution, reverse engineering and reengineering, workflow management. Theoretical foundations of conceptual modeling: extending modeling concepts, semantics and constraints, query languages, integrating data and behavior modeling, integrating different types of conceptual models. Other related topics where conceptual modeling is the major theme. Submission Guidelines Five copies of original papers, not exceeding 5,000 words (25 double-spaced pages), should be submitted to one of the program co-chairs. In addition, a cover page that includes paper title, author(s), and abstract should be submitted by e-mail. Papers on technology development should be sent to Embley, and papers on technology application should be sent to Goldstein. Program Co-Chairs David W. Embley Department of Computer Science Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 84602, USA email: embley@cs.byu.edu phone: 801-378-6470 fax: 801-378-7775 Robert C. Goldstein Management Information Systems Division Faculty of Commerce and Bus. Administration University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2 email: bob.goldstein@ubc.ca phone: 604-822-8389 fax: 604-822-9574 The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in Lecture Notes on Computer Science. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in Data & Knowledge Engineering. Tutorial proposals should be sent to the tutorial chair: Tutorial Chair Ashok Malhotra IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA email: malhotra@vnet.ibm.com phone: 914-784-6182 fax: 914-784-7455 Proposals for industrial presentations should be submitted to the industrial chair. Presentations may include, but are not limited to, vendor product presentations, panel sessions with an appeal to practitioners, and papers (not intended to compete with academic papers) that present case studies or the application of conceptual modeling techniques in practice. Industrial Chair Douglas M. Tolbert Unisys Corporation 25725 Jeronimo Road, MS 118 Mission Viejo, CA 92691, USA email: Dtolbert@po7.mv.unisys.com phone: 714-380-6606 fax: 714-380-5168 Important Dates Paper, Panel, and Tutorial Submissions: 8 April 1997 Notification: 17 June 1997 Final Version of Papers: 22 July 1997 Venue In 1997, the ER conference returns to its roots at the University of California, Los Angeles. ER'97 will be held at the UCLA Faculty Center, not far from the Anderson Graduate School of management where Peter Chen organized the first ER conference almost twenty years ago. Program Committee Peter Apers The Netherlands Dinesh Batra USA Joachim Biskup Germany Janis A. Bubenko, Jr. Sweden Stefano Ceri Italy Hock Chuan Chan Singapore Roger H.L. Chiang Singapore Carol Chrisman USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau France Bogdan Czejdo USA Pabuddha De USA Yves Dennebouy Switzerland Debabrata Dey USA Phillip Ein-Dor Israel Ramez Elmasri USA Opher Etzion Israel Gordon C. Everest USA Jean-Luc Hainaut Belgium Terry Halpin Australia Igor Hawryszkiewycz Australia Stephen Hayne USA Uwe Hohenstein Germany Paul Johannesson Sweden Alberto Laender Brazil Qing Li Hong Kong Tok Wang Ling Singapore Ling Liu Canada Guy M. Lohman USA Pericles Loucopoulos United Kingdom Leszek A. Maciaszek Australia Ashok Malhotra USA Michael V. Mannino USA Victor M. Markowitz USA Robert Meersman The Netherlands Takao Miura Japan Martin E. Modell USA Renate Motschnig Austria John Mylopoulos Canada Sham Navathe USA Erich J. Neuhold Germany Michael Papazoglou The Netherlands Jeffrey Parsons Canada Sudha Ram USA James Rumbaugh USA Gunter Saake Germany Arie Shoshani USA Arne Solvberg Norway Veda C. Storey USA Markus Stumptner Austria Bernhard Thalheim Germany Alexander Tuzhilin USA Yannis Vassiliou Greece Carson C. Woo Canada Sponsored By The ER Institute UCLA In Cooperation With ACM/SIGMOD (approval pending) More Information: http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/ER97/ (There is a postscript version of this CFP at this URL.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 26 11:08:42 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 LAA16812 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:08:33 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA16317 for dbworld; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:08:32 -0500 From: Rajeev Thakur Message-Id: <199609261608.LAA16317@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) CFP: IOPADS '97 To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:08:32 -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: 6019 CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) URL: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads in conjunction with SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing November 17, 1997 San Jose, CA, USA Current Sponsors: ACM SIGACT, SIGARCH, and SIGOPS IOPADS brings together researchers in all aspects of storage-related I/O in parallel and distributed systems, including algorithms, applications, architecture, and systems software. It is our opinion that the research problems are most effectively addressed by investigating all these areas rather than working in each area in isolation. Although I/O-related papers appear in many other conferences, the value of IOPADS is in gathering interested researchers from all these areas of computer science, encouraging cross-disciplinary interaction. IOPADS '96 was held in conjunction with the FCRC group of conferences and was a huge success. IOPADS '97 will be co-located with SC97 (the 1997 entry in the former "Supercomputing 'XY" series). We expect that ACM Press will again publish the IOPADS proceedings, which will be provided to all registrants and will be available for sale at SC97 and afterwards. We invite you to submit papers that focus on storage-related I/O in high-performance parallel and distributed systems, in the context of parallel or distributed applications. Suggested topics include: * Experimental characterization of I/O demand * Design and implementation of I/O-intensive applications * Real-time and multimedia I/O * Theory and implementation of parallel-I/O algorithms * Interconnect issues, e.g., network-attached storage devices * Devices, including disk arrays and tape robots * Language and compiler support * Run-time libraries * Database systems * File systems Papers submitted to IOPADS must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should be at most twelve pages long (including figures, tables, and excluding references), single- or double-spaced, using an 11-point font. Electronic submission (of PostScript) is required (details will be posted; check the web page). All submissions must arrive by 6 P.M. Eastern Time on March 25, 1997. Decisions will be announced by June 1, 1997. General Chairs Program Chair ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Thomas H. Cormen Alok Choudhary David Kotz Department of Department of Department of Computer Science Elec. and Computer Eng. Computer Science Dartmouth College Northwestern University Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Lab 2145 Sheridan Road 6211 Sudikoff Lab Hanover, NH 03755-3510 Evanston, IL 60208-3118 Hanover, NH 03755-3510 (603) 646-2417 (847) 467-4129 (603) 646-1439 thc@cs.dartmouth.edu choudhar@ece.nwu.edu dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu Program Committee ----------------- Rajesh Bordawekar (Caltech) Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon) Leana Golubchik (Columbia University) Jim Gray (Microsoft) Phil Hatcher (Univ. New Hampshire) David Kotz (Dartmouth College) Orran Krieger (IBM T.J. Watson) Jai Menon (IBM Almaden) David Nagle (Carnegie Mellon) Bill Nitzberg (NASA Ames) Sivan Toledo (IBM T.J. Watson) Darren Vengroff (Univ. Delaware) Jeffrey Vitter (Duke University) Marianne Winslett (Univ. Illinois Urbana) Publicity Chair: Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory For updates and more information, see http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads For general inquiries, send e-mail to iopads@cs.dartmouth.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 Thu Sep 26 14:40:59 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 OAA24017 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:40:50 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA17115 for dbworld; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:40:49 -0500 From: Patrick Valduriez INRIA ROCQUENCOURT Message-Id: <199609261940.OAA17115@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) SIGMOD'97 deadline change - explanation To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:40:49 -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: 3354 Some have asked about the reason for the recent SIGMOD-97 deadline change. Because the 1997 SIGMOD conference is several weeks earlier than last year's, the SIGMOD-97 paper submission deadline also started out being several weeks earlier; it was originally set at October 7th. Recently, it was pointed out to the SIGMOD officers and SIGMOD-97 PC chairs that this was quite unnecessary - in the not-too-distant past, papers were being submitted in December for a late May or early June SIGMOD conference. Moreover, some concerns were raised about how the early deadline might affect SIGMOD-97 paper submissions. In response to these concerns, after consultation with ACM to ensure feasibility, the SIGMOD officers and SIGMOD-97 PC chairs made the decision to push the deadline back by three weeks. We did this in the interest of the research community - we hope that it will allow more researchers to complete their papers in time, increasing submissions and helping to ensure a traditionally strong SIGMOD conference. We hope that you will enjoy, and make fruitful use of, the additional time. Won Kim (SIGMOD Chair) Laura Haas (SIGMOD Vice Chair) Mike Carey (SIGMOD Treasurer) Patrick Valduriez (SIGMOD-97 PC Chair) Hank Korth (SIGMOD-97 Associate PC Chair) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 27 12:10:35 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 MAA16739 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:10:29 -0500 Received: (from beyer@localhost) by loon.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA21551 for dbworld; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:10:29 -0500 From: Carlo Tasso Message-Id: <199609271710.MAA21551@loon.cs.wisc.edu> Subject: (DBWORLD) UM97: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS To: dbworld@loon.cs.wisc.edu Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:10:29 -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: 14851 [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] UM97: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ** *** ********* ** ** *** *** ***** ******** ** ** **** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** *** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ***** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ******** ** ****** ** SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, June 2-5 1997 http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/UM97/ or http://www.crs4.it/UM97/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: Background Conference Topics Conference Organization Brief Submission Instructions Contact Addresses Important Dates -------------------------- BACKGROUND ---------------------------- User modeling has been found to enhance the effectiveness and/or usability of software systems in a wide variety of situations. A user model is an explicit representation of properties of a particular user. A system that constructs and consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance to individual users. Techniques for user modeling have been developed and evaluated by researchers in a number of fields, including artificial intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, and information science. The International Conferences on User Modeling provide a forum in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these fields can exchange their complementary insights on user modeling issues. The size and format of the meetings support intensive discussion, which often continues long after the conference has ended. UM97 follows the Fourth and Fifth International Conferences on User Modeling, which took place in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in August 1994 and Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in January 1996, respectively. UM97 will include tutorials, invited talks, paper and poster sessions, a doctoral consortium, workshops, and system demonstrations. Accepted papers, as well as summaries of other conference contributions, will be published in a proceedings volume. Information about the form of this publication will be made available via the conference World Wide Web site. The Web site will also provide access to electronic versions of contributions to the conference. The journal "User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction" is reserving space for expanded versions of the best papers of UM97. A $500 Best Paper Award is being sponsored by Kluwer Academic Publishers. ----------------------- CONFERENCE TOPICS ------------------------ The following nonexhaustive list gives some examples of topics that are relevant to UM97: Construction of models of users' ... * knowledge, beliefs, and misconceptions, * preferences, * goals and plans, * typical behaviors, * cognitive styles, .... Exploitation of user models to achieve ... * adaptive information filtering and retrieval, * tailored information presentation, * transfer of task performance from user to system, * selection of instructional interventions, * interface adaptation, .... Inference techniques involving ... * neural networks, * psychometric methods, * numerical uncertainty management, * epistemic logic or other logic-based formalisms, * default reasoning and truth maintenance, * stereotype hierarchies, .... Practical issues of ... * privacy and user model inspectability, * user model consistency, * empirical evaluation, * standardization of user modeling shell systems, .... Systems for adaptive ... * tutoring and provision of learning environments, * explanation of system actions, * on-line aiding, * hypermedia and multimodal interaction, * knowledge-based presentation design, * product presentation, * information management on the Internet, * support of end-user programming, * accommodation of users with special needs, * support of collaboration, .... -------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION --------------------- General Chair: Carlo Tasso University of Udine, Italy Organizing Chair: Alessandro Micarelli University of Rome 3, Italy Program Co-Chairs: Anthony Jameson University of Saarbruecken, Germany Cecile Paris University of Brighton, UK Program Committee: Nicholas J. Belkin Rutgers University, USA Beatrice Cahour CNRS Rouen, France Sandra Carberry University of Delaware, USA Albert Corbett Carnegie Mellon University, USA Fiorella de Rosis University of Bari, Italy Oren Etzioni University of Washington, USA Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Helen M. Gigley Office of Naval Research, USA Brad Goodman The MITRE Corporation, USA Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research, USA Judy Kay Sydney University, Australia Alfred Kobsa GMD FIT, Germany Diane Litman AT&T Research, USA Pattie Maes MIT Media Lab, USA Uwe Malinowski Siemens Corporate R&D, Germany Gordon McCalla University of Saskatchewan, Canada Michael McTear University of Ulster, UK Alessandro Micarelli University of Rome 3, Italy Robert J. Mislevy Educational Testing Service, USA Riichiro Mizoguchi Osaka University, Japan Edie M. Rasmussen University of Pittsburgh, USA John Self University of Leeds, UK Julita Vassileva Federal Armed Forces Univ., Germany Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany Geoff Webb Deakin University, Australia Ingrid Zukerman Monash University, Australia Doctoral Consortium Organizers: Nadja De Carolis University of Bari, Italy Fiorella de Rosis University of Bari, Italy Workshop Coordinator: Christoph G. Thomas GMD FIT, Germany Demonstration Organizer: Giorgio Brajnik University of Udine, Italy UM97 is being organized jointly by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine, the Department of Scientific Disciplines of the University of Rome 3, the Department of Informatics of the University of Bari, and CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia), under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc. UM97 is being sponsored by AI*IA - the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. ----------------- BRIEF SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------ PAPERS AND POSTERS Submissions are invited that describe original academic or industrial research on some aspect of user modeling. Papers should describe significant, mature research; they will be published in full length in the proceedings and presented in talks at the conference. Posters typically describe research which does not yet represent a substantial advance but which can stimulate the exchange of ideas. Summaries of posters will be included in the proceedings. The timetable and the length requirements for poster and paper submissions are the same. Submissions to the poster category may make more use of graphics and tables than is usual for paper submissions, but they must be self-explanatory. If the authors do not indicate a preference for the paper or poster category, the program committee will judge which category is more appropriate. Submissions must fit within 12 single-spaced pages printed with a 12-point font. These 12 pages must include all elements of the submission. Page 1 must include the title of the paper, a short abstract (150 words), a list of keywords, and the authors' postal and e-mail addresses and fax and phone numbers. The abstract and the author information on Page 1 must also be included in an e-mail message that is sent to the program co-chairs one week before the submission of the manuscript. A manuscript can be submitted either electronically (as a PostScript file) or as hard copy. Details of the procedure for electronic submission will be found in the full submission instructions for UM97, which authors can obtain via the conference Web site or by e-mail from the program co-chairs. All authors should obtain these full submission instructions, which will also contain information about style files designed to facilitate manuscript preparation and general tips on how to maximize the likelihood of acceptance. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM The doctoral consortium will offer PhD students a chance to discuss their plans and the intermediate results of their research with a diverse and knowledgeable international audience. Summaries of the accepted presentations will be included in the proceedings volume. Further information on the doctoral symposium, including information about possible sources of funding, can be obtained via the UM97 Web site and by e-mail from the doctoral consortium organizers. WORKSHOPS Half-day workshops will permit discussion and debate on topics of current interest. The format for each workshop will be determined by the proposer of that workshop, who will also set any necessary deadlines for participants. Before submitting a proposal, each proposer should obtain instructions and advice via the conference Web site and/or by e-mail from the UM97 workshop coordinator. SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS Various platforms will be available for unrefereed system demonstrations. Prospective presenters should contact the demonstration organizer by e-mail and specify their hardware and software requirements. ----------------------- CONTACT ADDRESSES ------------------------ Up-to-date conference information and detailed submission instructions can be obtained via either of the following World Wide Web sites: http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/UM97/ (site in Germany) or http://www.crs4.it/UM97/ (site in Sardinia) The following addresses can be used for queries and (where applicable) for submissions: ORGANIZING CHAIR um97-organization@cs.uni-sb.de Fax: Alessandro Micarelli, +39-6-5573030 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: um97-papers@cs.uni-sb.de Hard-copy submissions: Anthony Jameson Department of Computer Science University of Saarbruecken Stuhlsatzenhausweg, Building 36.1 66125 Saarbruecken, Germany Phone: +49-681-302-2474 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ORGANIZERS um97-doctoral@cs.uni-sb.de WORKSHOP COORDINATOR um97-workshops@cs.uni-sb.de DEMONSTRATION ORGANIZER um97-demos@cs.uni-sb.de ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- PAPERS AND POSTERS Monday, Receipt by e-mail of abstracts and 25 November 1996 author information Monday, Receipt of electronic submissions 2 December 1996 (optional) Tuesday, E-mail notification to authors if the 3 December 1996 requirement of hard-copy submission is waived Friday, Receipt of 5 hard copies of each 6 December 1996 manuscript (except where the hard-copy requirement was waived on 3 December) Wednesday, Notification of authors by e-mail about 26 February 1997 acceptance or rejection of submissions Monday, Receipt of electronic versions of 31 March 1997 camera-ready papers and summaries of posters DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Wednesday, Receipt by e-mail of 3-page submissions 5 February 1997 as ASCII text Wednesday, Notification to authors by e-mail about 5 March 1997 acceptance or rejection of submissions Monday, Receipt of electronic versions of 31 March 1997 camera-ready summaries of presentations WORKSHOPS Monday, Receipt by e-mail of 3-page workshop 20 January 1997 proposals as ASCII text Friday, Notification by e-mail to workshop 14 February 1997 proposers about acceptance or rejection of proposals Friday, Submission, by proposers of accepted 21 February 1997 workshops, of final calls for participation Tuesday, Availability via the UM97 Web site 25 February 1997 and by e-mail of calls for participation in workshops SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS Tuesday, Registration of system demonstrations 15 April 1997 by e-mail ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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