From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 1 10:22:35 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA14034 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:22:29 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA06410 for dbworld; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:22:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:22:28 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Suciu Message-Id: <199704011622.KAA06410@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The list of accepted papers at the Workshop on Management of Semistructured Data (http://www.research.att.com/~suciu/workshop-announcement.html) is given below (in the order of submissions, not rank). Dan -------------- 1. Integrating Dynamically-Fetched External Information into a DBMS for Semistructured Data J. McHugh and J. Widom 2. Extracting Semistructured Information from the Web J. Hammer, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Cho, R. Aranha, and A. Crespo 3. Discovery of Schema Information from a Forest of Selectively Labeled Ordered Trees D. Seo, D. Lee, K. Lee, and J. Lee 4. Semistructured and Structured Data in the Web: Going Back and Forth P. Atzeni, G. Mecca, and P. Merialdo 5. Information Extraction for Semi-structured Documents D. Smith and M. Lopez 6. RAW: A Relational Algebra for the Web T. Fiebig, J. Weiss, and G. Moerkotte 7. Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Internet Sources N. Ashish and C. Knoblock 8. Views for Semistructured Data S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, J. McHugh, V. Vassalos, and Y. Zhuge 9. Modeling and Querying Textual Data using E-R models and SQL V. Kashyap and M. Rusinkiewicz 10. Extracting Entity Profiles from Semi-structured Information Spaces R. Nado and S. Huffman 11. A Query Language and Processor for a Web-Site Management System M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, A. Levy, and D.Suciu 12. Inferring Structure in Semistructured Data S. Nestorov, S. Abiteboul, and R. Motwani 13. Integration of Semistructured Data Using Outer Joins K. Munakata ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 1 10:49:19 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA14319 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:49:14 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA06525 for dbworld; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:49:14 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:49:14 -0600 (CST) From: Peretz Shoval Message-Id: <199704011649.KAA06525@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Advance Program and Call for Participation NGITS '97 The Third International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems 30 June - 3 July 1997 Neve Ilan (near Jerusalem), ISRAEL Main Sponsors ============= Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel Ministry of Science and The Arts The Adams Institute, School of Management, Tel-Aviv University Fisher Center for Information Technology and Management, U.C. Berkeley ______________________________________________________________________ Steering Committee ================== Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Noshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel Program Committee Chairs ======================== Avi Silberschatz Peretz Shoval Information Sciences Research Center Information Systems Program Bell Laboratories Dept. of Industrial Engin. & Manage. 600 Mountain Ave Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel avi@bell-labs.com shoval@bgumail.bgu.ac.il Fax: 908 582-6923 Fax: +972 7-647-2958 Organizing and Local Arrangement Chairs ======================================= Opher Etzion and Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000, Israel ngits@ie.technion.ac.il Fax: + 972 4-8235194 ________________________________________________________________________ This announcement contains: 1. Call for participation 2. Advance program 3. Registration information 4. Registration and accommodation forms ________________________________________________________________________ 1. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The next generation information systems will be complex, intelligent, and cooperative, and will utilize various multimedia-media technologies. The goal of the NGITS Workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing issues and solutions related to next generation information systems and the technologies that would make them possible. Following the success of the two previous workshops that were held in 1993 and 1995, the third NGITS Workshop will take place on June 30 - July 3 1997, at Neve Ilan, near Jerusalem, Israel The Workshop will feature: o Twenty seven research papers (14 regular and 13 short (S)) on topics such as the WWW, object-oriented development, knowledge discovery, relational databases and queries, heterogeneous and distributed systems, query evaluation, information retrieval, access methods, active and temporal databases, software engineering and workflow systems. o Three keynote talks by: - David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel - Arne Solvberg, Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology, Norway - Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA o Two panel discussions on: - Data Mining - Digital Libraries o One posters session. ======================================================== 2. ADVANCE PROGRAM Monday, 30 June --------------- 9:00 - 9:30 Opening Remarks 9:30 - 10:30 Keynote Session 1 Speaker: David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Topic: On the Aesthetics of Diagrams 10:30 - 11:00 Refreshments 11:00 - 12:30 Papers Session 1: The WWW Utilizing the multiple facets of WWW contents Y. Kogan, D. Michaeli, Y. Sagiv and O. Shmueli, Israel Automated Negotiation in Electronic Commerce C. Beam and A. Segev, USA Maintaining Information Resources (S) S. Macskassy and L. Shklar, USA 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:10 Papers session 2: Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition Towards Large-Scale Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) by Exploiting Parallelism in Generic KDD Primitives A. Freitas, UK Temporal Knowledge Acquisition from Multiple Experters H. Kaikova and V. Terziyan, Ukraine 15:10 - 15:30 Refreshments 15:30 - 16:45 Panel 1: Data Mining Moderated by Avi Silbeschatz, USA 16:45 - 17:00 Refreshments 17:00 - 18:00 Papers session 3: Software Engineering A Neural Network Approach for Software Development Cost Estimation (S) J. Balakrishnan, Canada; C. Cheng, Hong Kong; and A. Lee, USA ParDes: A Parallel Computing Graphical Desktop (S) S. Karsenty, Israel The Caelum Toolkit for CSCW: The Sky is the Limit (S) T. Anker, G. Chockler, D. Dolev and I. Keidar, Israel Evening: Dinner at the Events Garden, Neve-Ilan. Tuesday, 1 July --------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 2 Speaker: Arne Solvberg, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Topic: Teaching Information Systems Engineering 10:00 - 10:15 Refreshments 10:15 - 12:00 Papers session 4: Relational Databases and Queries OSQL: An Extension to SQL to Manipulate Ordered Relational Databases W. Ng and M. Levene, UK Faster Joins, Self Joins and Multi-Way Joins Using Join Indices H. Lei and K. Ross, USA Maintenance and Self Maintenance of Outer-Join Views A. Gupta, H. Jagadish and I. Mumick, USA 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Afternoon and Evening: Excursion and main social event in Jerusalem. Wednesday, 2 July ----------------- 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 3 Speaker: Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Topic: Limits of microtransaction systems 10:00 - 10:15 Refreshments 10:15 - 11:30 Papers session 5: Heterogeneous and Distributed DBMS Sybil: Supporting Heterogeneous Database Interoperability with Lightweight Alliance R. King, M. Novak, C. Och and F. Velez, USA Modeling Cooperation Among Information Systems Using Control Elements (S) A. Gal, Canada Persistence and Security Support for Distributed System with Mobile Software Objects (S) B. Lavva, O. Holder and I. Ben-Shaul, Israel 11:30 - 11:45 Refreshments 11:45 - 13:00 Papers session 6: Query Evaluation and Information Retrieval Analytical Models and Neural Networks for Query Cost Evaluation J. Boulos, Japan Towards a Crystal Ball for Data Retrieval (S) J. Hellerstein, USA A Common Access Structure for Standard Attributes and Document Representations in Vector Space (S) A. Henrich, Germany 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:45 Panel 2: Digital Libraries Moderated by N. Adam and Y. Yesha, USA 15:45 - 16:00 Refreshments 16:00 - 17:10 Papers session 7: Access Methods and Data Searching Improved hB-Tree with High Space Utilization and Eliminating DAG J. Shudong, S. Xiaowei and F. Yucai, China A Fast Signature Algorithm for Sequence Data Searching S. Lam and M. Wong, Hong Kong 16:00 - 17:10 Poster presentations Modeling and Execution of Editing Processes in Collaborative Writing Applications Supported by Database Systems W. Wieczerzycki, Poland Capture More Data Semantics Through the Expanded Entity-Relationship Model P. Loos, Germany Software Aid for Formulation of Models A. Pollatschek, Israel 17:10 - 18:05 Papers session 8: Workflow Systems Correctness of Workflow in the Presence of Concurrency I. Arpinar, S. Arpinar, U. Halici and A. Dogac, Turkey Predictive Workflow Management (S) E. Panagos and M. Rabinovich, USA Evening - Dinner (on your own) Thursday, 3 July ---------------- 9:00 - 10:15 Papers session 9: Object-Oriented Development and DBMS Perceived Usefulness and Perceived Ease of Use of Three Object-Oriented Modeling Methods: An Empirical Test J. Iivari, Finland Extending Object-Process Diagrams for the Implementation Phase (S) L. Wenyin and D. Dori, Israel Enriching Object-Relational Databases with Relationship Semantics (S) N. Zhang, T. Harder and J. Thomas, Germany 10:15 - 11:30 Papers session 10: Active and Temporal Databases Self-Stabilization in Database Consistency Maintenance O. Etzion an B. Dahav, Israel Comparing the Expressiveness of Temporal Data Models Based on Time Dimension Representation (S) J. Won, R. Elmasri and J. Kwak, USA DFL - A Hybrid Integration of Descriptions and Rules, Using F-Logic as an Underlying Semantics (S) M. Balaban and A. Eyal, Israel 11:30 - 12:00 Refreshments 12:00 - 13:00 Closing session 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch ______________________________________________________________________ Program Committee ================= Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, USA Barbara Blaustein, NSF, USA Yuri Breitbart, University of Kentuky, USA Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Dan Berry, Technion, Israel Ron Brachman, AT&T Research, USA Olga De Troyer, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv, Israel Avigdor Gal, University of Toronto, Canada Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Hans Hansen, Viena U. of Economics & Business Admin., Austria Haim Kilov, IBM at Watson, USA Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Belgium Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA Doron Rotem, LBL, USA Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India Bernhard Thalheim, Cotbus Technical University, Germany Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA Doug Tygar, CMU, USA Jeff Ullman, Stanford University, USA Riend Van De Riet, Vrije University, The Netherlands Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Yelena Yesha, University of Mariland, USA Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA ============================================================ 3. REGISTRATION INFORMATION The workshop will be held at Neve-Ilan, a hotel near Jerusalem, on June 30 - July 3, 1997. Workshop Fees: -------------- Early Registration (received by May 5): 275 US$ Late Registration (received after May 5): 325 US$ Fees include: 1. Participation in all workshop sessions. 2. One copy of the workshop proceedings. 3. Four lunches (Monday - Thursday). 4. Welcome reception and dinner on June 30. 5. Half day excursion in Jerusalem, on July 1. 6. Main social event with dinner in an exotic location, on July 1. Accommodations: --------------- Rooms are being reserved in Neve-Ilan Hotel. Prices per night (Bed & Breakfast): single: 80 US$ double: 90 US$ Additional child 10 US$ Israeli participants add VAT. About Neve-Ilan: Neve-Ilan is located about 30 minutes drive from Ben-Gurion airport, on rout to Jerusalem. The hotel information, including transportation information, can be found at http://www.virtual.co.il/travel/travel/neveilan Proceedings: ------------ Will be distributed to the participants of the Workshop. Extra copies can be purchased for 40 US$ per copy. Extra Tickets: -------------- Available for the two social activities. Prices: 50 US$ for the welcome reception and dinner on June 30. 80 US$ for the excursion and main social event (combined ticket) on July 1. =========================================================================== 4. Registration and accommodation forms -------------------------------- cut here --------------------------------- NGITS '97 REGISTRATION FORM =========================== This form should be returned along with a cheque or money order drawn in US Dollars (Israelis may send an equivalent amount in Shekels) to the order of "NGITS '97". The fees are: US$275 if the form is received by May 5th, and US$325 afterwards. Mail this form to: NGITS '97 c/o Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel Full Name: _______________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _____________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Email: ________________________________ Fax: ________________________________ Amount Enclosed: Workshop Fees: (275/325) US$ __________________ Extra tickets for the Welcome reception and dinner: (50 each) US$ __________________ Extra tickets for the Excursion and main social event: (80 each) US$ __________________ Extra copies of the Proceedings: (40 each) US$ Total: __________________ --------------------------------- cut here -------------------------------- NGITS '97 ACCOMMODATION FORM ============================ This form is for making reservations at Neve Ilan Hotel. No prepayment is necessary for these reservations. The accommodation will be paid directly to the hotel. The hotel accepts all major credit cards. Mail this form by May 5, 1997 to: NGITS 97 c/o Nilly Schnapp Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel or send by email to: schnapp@ie.technion.ac.il or send by fax to: 972-4-8235194, attn: Nilly Schnapp Full Name: ________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________ ________________________________ Mailing Address: ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ Email (optional):________________________________ Fax (optional): ________________________________ 1. Accommodations: [ ] I want to reserve a room at Neve-Ilan hotel. [ ] I will be making my own accommodation arrangements Type of room [ ] Single room [ ] Double room Arrival Date __________ Departure Date __________ Number of Persons __________ ------------------------------ cut here ---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 1 10:51:53 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA14348 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:51:48 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA06540 for dbworld; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:51:48 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:51:48 -0600 (CST) From: Joseph Message-Id: <199704011651.KAA06540@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Database Workshop (formerly International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop) Data Mining, Data Warehousing and Client/Server Databases 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on July 29-31, 1997 Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong Organized by Hong Kong Computer Society(Database Special Interest Group) in cooperation with ACM Hong Kong Sponsored by City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Polytechnic University Informix Software (HK) Limited Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited Sybase Hong Kong Limited WinClient Technologies (HK) Limited BACKGROUND The first International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop was held] in Hong Kong in December 1989, organized by the Hong Kong Computer Society in corporation with Hong Kong Polytechnic. Its main objective was to promote database technologies in Hong Kong. Its scope was a broad coverage of database advanced technologies, methodologies and software tools. The workshop has been an international annual event ever since then. SCOPE In today's information technologies, a single database can rarely meet a company's needs. Instead, multi-databases is the norm for most companies to run their daily operations and decision support systems. The technologies to develop and manage the multi-databases can be divided into data mining, data warehousing and client/server databases. Advances in data gathering, storage, and distribution technologies has out performed than the techniques for analyzing and understanding data. There is an urgent need for automated data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Data mining is used to discover patterns, clusters and models from data which are then rendered in operational forms that are easy for people to visualize and understand. It is a general rule that the bigger the database, the more difficult it is to sustain high levels of performance. The key objective of data warehousing is to provide business executives with flexible access to vast quantities of information through loosely structured queries. Data warehousing is a continual process which enables a corporation to assemble operational and other data from a variety of internal and external sources. It transforms that data into consistent, high-quality, business information, distribute that information to the points of maximum value within the organizations and provide easy, flexible and fast access for busy non-technical users. In a client/server systems, users are capable of interconnecting various platforms efficiently and transparently to distribute data and application program across heterogeneous systems in a computer network. Application processing is developed between client and server workstations. The processing is initiated by the client and performed by the server, and both client and server cooperate to run an application. A client/server system increases processing power by separating the database management system from the application; the client as the front-end system handling the user interface and server as backend system accessing the database. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit previous unpublished contributions for inclusion in the workshop. The papers, limited to 20 pages or 6,000 words will be carefully reviewed. The workshop will accept no more than 200 attendees in order to foster an interactive atmosphere among participants. The program committee co-chairmen are: Dr Joseph Fong Professor John G Hughes Department of Computer Science Faculty of Informatics City University of Hong Kong University of Ulster Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong Co. Antrim BT37 OQB, UK The email address for submission is csjfong@cityu.edu.hk To contribute, please submit 5 copies of the full paper to the Program committee chairman. Tutorial sessions and exhibitions will be held during the conference. Proposal for tutorials and exhibitions on the state of the art of database should be sent to Dr Joseph Fong: PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings which will be published by Springer-Verlag. We anticipate that the proceedings will be published as Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES Important dates: Close of call for paper: April 15, 1997 Notice of acceptance: May 7, 1997 Camera ready copy: May 23, 1997 Please send program suggestion and inquiries to the workshop co-chairmen: Brian Siu Irene S.Y. Kwan Paul Kwan(Commercial Session) Division of technology Department of Computing New World Telephone Ltd City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon, Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: (+852)21336072 Phone: (+852)27889883 Phone: (+852)27667275 Fax: (+852)21333115 Fax: (+852)27888456 Fax: (+852)27740842 Email:paulkwan@nwt.com.hk Email: tcbksiu@cityu.edu.hk Email: csirkwan@comp.polyu.edu.hk PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------------ Professor Chen, Arbee L. P. National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Professor Chen, Huei-huang Tatung Institute of Technology, Taiwan Professor Chin, Francis University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professor Clark, Jon Colorado State University, USA Dr Fong, Joseph City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professor Hughes, John G University of Ulster, UK Professor Liu Chun nian Peking Polytechnic University, China Professor Lochovsky, Frederick Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,HongKong Dr Lu Hougjun National University of Singapore Professor Lum, Vincent Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Professor Maier, David Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA Professor Navathe, Shamkant B. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Professor Orlowska, Maria E The University of Queensland, Australia Professor Paul, Ray Brunel University, UK Dr Siau, Keng University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA Professor Smith, Peter University of Sunderland, UK Professor Thalheim, Bernhard Technische Universit(t Cottbus, Germany Dr Sun, Wei Florida International University, USA Dr Yau, Chuk Griffith University, Australia ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------- Brian Siu General Chair Irene Kwan Organization Chair Paul Kwan Commercial session Chair Tommy Ho, Michael Tsui Registration Vivian Wong Publicity Peter de Vries Publication Benedict Lam Secretary K.H.Lau, Raymond Lo Treasurer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Apr 1 15:27:48 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA17774 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:27:41 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA07380 for dbworld; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:27:41 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:27:41 -0600 (CST) From: Azer Bestavros Message-Id: <199704012127.PAA07380@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please note: 1. Kluwer Academic Publishers has agreed to publish an edited book based on the set of accepted papers to RTDB'97. 2. To accomodate a number of requests for extension, the deadline for paper submissions has been extended to April 21, 1997. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RTDB'97 Second International Workshop on Real-Time Databases Call For Papers September 18-19, 1997 Burlington, Vermont, USA Objectives and Scope -------------------- The International Workshop on Real-Time Databases is the primary forum for the presentation and discussion of the issues involved in the design and implementation of real-time information systems and databases. Following the success of RTDB'96, the goal of this workshop will continue to be the promotion of an active interaction among real-time database researchers and practitioners. To that end, contributions describing recent advances both in the concepts and practice of database design for real-time systems are sought. This includes but is not limited to: - Advances in the state-of-art in real-time database technology, including: novel data and transaction models and standards, and novel protocols for integrating scheduling, overload management, concurrency control, and recovery. - Research in disciplines related to real-time databases such as active databases, temporal databases, and mobile databases. - Research work dealing with real-time database issues in applications such as multimedia, telecommunication networks, financial transaction systems, real-time internet and intranet applications, among others. - Reports describing on-going real-time database system building efforts, including requirement specifications and design tools, integration with active, dependable, and secure database features, and interactions with operating systems and programming environments. Submission Guidelines --------------------- To achieve the above stated goals, both regular papers and short position statements are solicited for presentation at RTDB'97 and for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. Regular papers are limited to 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) and are expected to describe original research or implementation work. Position statements are limited to 4 double-spaced pages (1,000 words) and are expected to report on practical experiences in building real-time database systems and applications, focussing on the insights, lessons learned, and features to beget. The proceedings of the workshop will be distributed in the workshop and also made available on the web. Selected papers from the workshop will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in an edited book. Please contact the Program Co-chairs for more details regarding this book. Papers and position statements should be sent as postscript files via Email---hard copies are acceptable, although not preferred. Please send your submission by April 1, 1997 to one of the Program Co-Chairs listed below: Prof. Azer Bestavros Computer Science Department Email: best@cs.bu.edu Boston University Phone: (617) 353-9726 111 Cummington street, Fax: (617) 353-6457 Boston, MA 02215 Prof. Victor Wolfe Computer Science Department Email: wolfe@cs.uri.edu University of Rhode Island Phone: (401) 874-2499 258 Tyler Hall Fax: (401) 792-4617 Kingston, RI 02881 About Burlington and Vermont ---------------------------- >From diverse cultural activites to back country roads, mountain views, spectacular scenery, world class food, fun, and adventure, Burlington, Vermont is one of America's "Dream Towns". In September, that lovely town attracts tourists from all over the world to enjoy New England's fabulous foliage. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs Sang H. Son, University of Virginia Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine Program Committee Chairs Azer Bestavros, Boston University Victor Wolfe, University of Rhode Island Local Arrangements Chair Paul Fortier, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Program Committee Members Alexandros Biliris, AT&T Laboratories, USA Rebecca Callison, Oregon State University, USA Anindya Datta, University of Arizona, USA Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Jorgen Hansson, University of Skoevde, Skoevde, Sweden Jane Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Janet Prichard, East Carolina University, USA Krithi Ramamritham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Oliva Sheng, Hong Kong Science and Technology University, Hong Kong Kang Shin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Morikazu Takegaki, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan Bhavani Thurasignham, MITRE, Bedford, MA, USA Important Dates --------------- April 21, 1997 -> Deadline for submission of papers & position statements June 15, 1997 -> Notification of acceptance August 15, 1997 -> Final papers and position statements due September 18, 1997 -> Workshop For more information check RTDB'97 Home Page at http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/rtdb97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Apr 2 10:29:52 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA26669 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:29:45 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA08460 for dbworld; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:29:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:29:45 -0600 (CST) From: susan@dcs.gla.ac.uk Message-Id: <199704021629.KAA08460@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Second Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on Persistence and Java (PJW2) 13-15, August 1997 http://www.sunlabs.com/research/forest/pjw2 ======================================================== Following the first successful workshop in this series in Drymen, Scotland, the second international workshop on Persistence and Java will be held in Half Moon Bay in the San Francisco Bay area, California. The overall goal is to stimulate and develop research into all forms of persistence for the language Java(TM). Papers are sought on topics relevant to this goal. They might cover topics such as: * implementation techniques for persistent Java systems * analyses of performance or usability of persistent Java systems * analysis of projects using particular forms of persistence for Java * the influence persistence should have on future Java systems * new models of persistence for Java * comparison of models of persistence for Java * tools supporting application programming using persistent versions of Java We hope to have a focused session on the ways in which the Java Virtual machine might be adapted to better support persistent implementations. Deadline for submission 1 May 1997 Response from PC 1 June 1997 Camera Ready Copy 1 Aug. 1997 Malcolm Atkinson, Mick Jordan & Ron Morrison PC Joint Chairs Mick Jordan Ron Morrison Malcolm Atkinson PC Members Rick Cattell (Sun, JavaSoft & ODMG) Al Dearle (Univ. of Stirling) Sophie Gamerman (O2's rep at ODMG) Tony Hosking (Purdue) Richard Jensen (Persistence Software's rep on ODMG) Ashok Malhotra (IBM) Eliot Moss (UMass, Amherst) Robin Stanton (ANU --- Object stores on parallel architectures) Fernando Velez (UniData --- working with O2 on an OR binding) Drew Wade (Objectivity, Inc.'s rep at ODMG) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Wed Apr 2 10:35:35 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA26690 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:35:30 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA08480 for dbworld; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:35:29 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:35:29 -0600 (CST) From: lpnet@info.umoncton.ca (LP and Internet workshop) Message-Id: <199704021635.KAA08480@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Logic Programming Tools for Internet Applications in conjunction with ICLP'97, Leuven, Belgium July 8--12, 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the paradigm shift to highly inter-connected computers and programming tools, logic programming languages have a unique opportunity to contribute to practical Internet application development. Simplicity, remote executability, robustness, automatic memory management, are among the features some LP languages share with emerging tools like Java. Superior meta-programming and high-level distributed programming facilities, built-in grammars and dynamic databases, declarative semantics are among their competitive advantages. Embedding of LP components in Internet applications as well as recent Java-based implementations of LP languages are promising a quick integration of LP research in widely used mainstream software systems. As its popular predecessor held at JICSLP'96 in Bonn, the workshop explores the use of logic programming tools for developing practical Internet applications as well as theoretical work based on declarative techniques giving new insights on understanding emerging net technologies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * LP-based groupware, collaborative work technologies, virtual worlds * LP-based distributed objects, coordination languages * LP-languages with remote processing abilities, mobile code, Internet agents * LP-based HTML, VRML generators and parsers, HTTP daemons/browsers * LP-based scripting languages, SSIs and CGIs * embedding of logic engines in Internet applications * Java-based Prolog systems and embeddable components * LP-based Internet content analyzers and natural language tools * LP-based hyper-text and electronic publishing systems * interfaces between logic languages and conventional Web tools * LP-based net search tools and spiders, net indexing tools and techniques * LP-originated theoretical work on foundations of Internet technologies The workshop is intended to show the potential of logic programming as a competitive technology for Internet application development and bring logic programming closer to be recognized as a mainstream programming technology. The main focus is on new and original research, but we also encourage the submission of papers describing products, and prototypes in development. Vision papers discussing the potential of LP for Internet programming are also welcome. Expected duration of the workshop is one day. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE : Koen De Bosschere , University of Gent, Belgium (kdb@elis.rug.ac.be) Manuel Hermenegildo , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (herme@fi.upm.es) Paul Tarau, University of Moncton, Canada (tarau@info.umoncton.ca) PROGRAM COMMITTEE : Andrew Davison , Prince of Songkla University, Thailand Koen De Bosschere , University of Gent, Belgium Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada Bart Demoen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Manuel Hermenegildo , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Gustaf Neuman , University of Essen, Germany Leon Sterling, Melbourne University, Australia Paul Tarau, University of Moncton, Canada IMPORTANT DATES : Submission Deadline : April, 18, 1997 Notification : May, 12, 1997 Final Version ready : June, 6, 1997 Workshop : July, 11-12, 1997 to be fixed SUBMISSIONS: * a (gzipped) PostScript file not larger than 15 pages when printed * the URL link to a HTML version should be sent to: lpnet@info.umoncton.ca PROCEEDINGS: * HTML versions of accepted papers will be made available to all the authors who are encouraged to add hyperlinks to relevant work in the workshop as well as to executable demos available at their own sites * final versions (HTML and PostScript) of accepted papers will be linked together in electronic proceedings, made available to major search engines and mirrored at the sites of the organizers * paper copies of the proceedings will be distributed at the conference Updated INFORMATION on the workshop will be available at: http://clement.info.umoncton.ca/~lpnet/iclp97 CONTACT ADDRESS: Paul Tarau, PhD. Associate professor Phone: +1 506 858 4120 Dept. of Computer Science University of Moncton FAX: +1 506 858 4541 Moncton N.B. CANADA E1A-3E9 tarau@info.umoncton.ca WWW: http://clement.info.umoncton.ca/~tarau ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 previous winners of the SIGMOD Innovations Award were Prof. Michael Stonebraker (1992), Dr. James Gray (1993), Dr. Philip Bernstein (1994), Prof. David DeWitt (1995) and Dr. C Mohan (1996). The winners of the SIGMOD Contributions Award were Dr. Maria Zemankova (1992), Prof. Gio Wiederhold (1993)Prof. Yahiko Kambayashi (1995) and Prof. Jeffrey Ullman (1996). This note is intended to inform the database community of the existence of these annual awards, and to encourage the nomination of candidates for the awards. The nomination deadline for this year is April 12, 1997. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- DETAILS OF THE AWARDS -- 1.A Name: SIGMOD Innovations Award. 2.A. For What: Innovative contribution to the development or use of database systems and databases; the contribution must have been reduced to practice and adopted widely in significant use. 1.B Name: SIGMOD Contributions Award. 2.B For What: Outstanding and sustained services to the database field through education, conference organizations, journals, standards activities, research funding, etc. 3. Given: Annually (if there is at least one qualified candidate). 4. Award: $1,000 plus a plaque per person (or group, if it is for a group). 5. Administration: Administered by the SIGMOD Awards Committee. 6. Nomination/Evaluation Procedures: - Anyone in the field can nominate one or more persons or group. - Nominations should include a 200-500 word statement to justify the nomination. - Contributions should date back no more than 10 years. - The nomination procedure, etc., will be published in SIGMOD RECORD once or twice a year. - The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners. - Nominations must be received by April 12, 1997 to be considered for this year's award. 7. Receipient: The recipient will receive the award during the opening ceremony at the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference; he/she will give a short speech (5-10 minutes). 8. Eligibility for Nomination: anyone except the current elected officers of SIGMOD (Chair, Vice Chair, and Treasurer), and members of of the SIGMOD Awards Committee. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WHERE TO SEND NOMINATIONS -- Nominations should be submitted to (either via e-mail or postal mail) to the members of the SIGMOD Awards Committee, and copied to the ACM SIGMOD chair. SIGMOD Awards Committee: Dr. Laura Haas IBM Almaden Research Center, K55/B1 650 Harry Road San Jose, CA 95120 laura@almaden.ibm.com Prof. Peter Scheuermann Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 60208 peters@ece.nwu.edu Professor Witold Litwin Universite Paris 9 Dauphine Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris Cedex 16 France Bureau A410 litwin@etud.dauphine.fr SIGMOD Chair: Dr. Won Kim UniSQL, Inc. 8911 Capital of Texas Highway Austin, Texas 78759 kim@unisql.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Apr 3 09:24:44 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA05326 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:24:38 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA10042 for dbworld; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:24:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:24:37 -0600 (CST) From: Torsten Ripke Message-Id: <199704031524.JAA10042@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER *** REMINDER * submission deadline extended: April 16, 1997 for ************************************************* Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects Distributed Databases Minsen, Germany, September 15 -- 19, 1997 organized by GI-Arbeitskreis ``Grundlagen von Informationssystemen (Foundations of Information Systems)'', supported by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) This international workshop will be the seventh in a series focussing on foundations of models and languages for data and objects. The main principle of this workshop series is to concentrate on one selected topic and to offer the opportunity for in-depth exchange of ideas and experiences. In order to stimulate extensive discussions, the time for the presentation of a long (short) paper is 60 (30) minutes followed by about 30 (15) minutes of discussion. Furthermore, another participant will be asked in advance to prepare a response to the work presented. In addition to the talks, there will be working groups which concentrate on actual research topics and try to develop a common understanding of the problems involved. Due to the special character of the workshop, every participant is expected to stay for the complete duration of the workshop. The 1997 workshop will be held in Minsen, Germany, and focusses on Distributed Databases. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: models and languages, fragmentation and allocation algorithms, transaction management, integrity maintenance, query optimization, optimized data and storage structures, replication, incomplete and uncertain information in distributed and federated databases Submission of Papers. Authors are cordially invited to submit four copies of their contribution (extended abstract) to the program committee chair by April 16, 1997. Papers should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced, 12pt, US letter or A4 paper) for long presentations and 5 pages for short presentations and for working group proposals. Submissions have to be sent to (electronic submissions (PostScript, dvi) are accepted as well): Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Institut f\"ur Informatik, Technische Universit\"at Clausthal Erzstr. 1, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany schewe@informatik.tu-clausthal.de The submissions will be judged not only for scientific quality but also for suitability as a basis for broader discussion. The proceedings will be published to be available at the workshop. Program Committee: Stefan Conrad (U Magdeburg, Germany), Hayan Hasse (ABB, Switzerland), Andreas Heuer (U Rostock, Germany), Stephen J. Hegner (U Vermont, USA), Hans--Joachim Klein (U Kiel, Germany), Winfried Lamersdorf (U Hamburg, Germany), Maria Orlowska (U Queensland, Australia), Torsten Polle (U Dortmund, Germany), Torsten Ripke (TU Clausthal, Germany), Gunter Saake (U Magdeburg, Germany), Klaus--Dieter Schewe (TU Clausthal, Germany, chair), Marc Scholl (U Konstanz, Germany), Kasimierz Subieta (U Warsaw, Poland), Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Organization: Thomas Feyer, Alexander Kuckelberg, Torsten Ripke (chair), Klaus-Dieter Schewe (all TU Clausthal) Important Dates: Submission April 16, 1997 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection June 4, 1997 Camera--ready version July 14, 1997 Workshop September 15--19, 1997 An up-to-date version of this CfP and further information is available at http://www.in.tu-clausthal.de/~ripke/workshop97.html A postscript version of this CfP is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/institute/ifi/schewe/cfp.ps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Apr 3 12:29:05 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA06852 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:28:59 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA10337 for dbworld; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:28:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:28:59 -0600 (CST) From: Dolors Costal Message-Id: <199704031828.MAA10337@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu My sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Participation CAiSE'97 THE 9TH CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Barcelona, Catalonia, 16-20 June 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Up to date information is available via WWW at URL: http://www-fib.upc.es/caise97 The ninth International Conference on Advanced Information Systems=20 Engineering (CAiSE'97) will be held in Barcelona, Catalonia,=20 16-20 June 1997, continuing the tradition of previous editions, when=20 CAiSE was held in Stockholm, Trondheim, Manchester, Paris, Utrecht,=20 Jyvaskyla and Crete. The CAiSE conferences are a platform for researchers= =20 and practitioners, from academy and industry, to discuss and exchange=20 new developments in concepts, methods, techniques and tools, to improve=20 the way we manage, design and implement advanced information systems.=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAMME ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, June 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- 8:00 - 9:30 Workshop registration 9:30 - 11:00 Workshops Workshop W1: The 4th Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshop W2: The 3rd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Workshop W3: International Workshop on Engineering Federated Database Systems Workshop W4: The 2nd International Workshop on End User Development Workshop W5: The 2nd (CAiSE'97/IFIP 8.1) International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Desig= n 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch 15:00 - 16:30 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - 18:30 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 21:00 Workshop informal dinner Tuesday, June 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- 9:30 - 11:00 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch 15:00 - 16:30 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 15:00 - 16:30 Conference registration 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - 18:30 Workshops: Continuation of W1, W2, W3, W4, W5 17:00 - 18:30 Conference registration 20:00 Conference reception Wednesday, June 18 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- 8:00 - 9:00 Late registration 9:00 - 9:30 Conference opening: Antoni Olive, Joan Antoni Pastor 9:30 - 10:30 Keynote speech: Information Modeling in the Time of the Revolution John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada) 10:30 - 11:00 Musical break 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Paper session 1: Requirements Engineering I Chair: Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Germany) Integrating Semi-formal and Formal Requirements Roel Wieringa (the Netherlands), Eric Dubois, Sander Huyts=20 (Belgium) Stimuli and Business Policies as Modelling Constructs: Their=20 Definition and Validation Through the Event Calculus Oscar Diaz (Spain), Norman W. Paton (UK) Using Scenarios to Validate Requirements in a Plausibility=20 Centred Approach Despina Filippidou, Pericles Loucopoulos (UK) 11:30 - 13:00 Paper session 2: Information Systems Design Chair: Gerard M. Wijers (the Netherlands) Behaviour Specification in Database Interoperation Mark W.W. Vermeer, Peter M.G. Apers (the Netherlands) Implementing Semantic-Based Decomposition of Transactions Sushil Jajodia, Indrakshi Ray, Paul Ammann (USA) Negotiation Transactions: An Approach to Increase the=20 Automation of Workflows Juha Puustjarvi (Finland) 11:30 - 13:30 Tutorial T1: Designing Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology Stefano Ceri and Piero Fraternali (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch (13:30 - 14:30 for T1 attendants) 14:30 - 15:00 Poster session 1 15:00 - 16:30 Paper session 3: Requirements Engineering II Chair: Arne Solvberg (Norway) Towards Method-Driven Trace Capture Klaus Pohl, Ralf Domges, Matthias Jarke (Germany) A Multi-Perspective Framework for the Analysis of Legacy=20 Information Systems Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis (Italy) Facilitating Analysis and Diagnosis in Organisations Luis Carrico, Nuno Guimaraes (Portugal) 15:00 - 16:30 Paper session 4: Methods, Environments and Tools I Chair: Yair Wand (Canada) OO-METHOD: An OO Software Production Environment Combining=20 Conventional and Formal Methods Oscar Pastor, Emilio Insfran, Vicente Pelechano, Jose Romero,=20 Jose Merseguer(Spain) Application of a Generator-Based Software Development Method=20 Supporting Model Reuse Joachim Altmeyer, Jan Peter Riegel, Bernd Schuermann, Martin=20 Schuetze, Gerhard Zimmermann (Germany) A Toolkit for Reuse in Conceptual Modelling Raul Ruggia (Uruguay), Ana Paula Ambrosio (Brazil) 15:00 - 16:30 Tutorial T2: Database cooperation: classification and middleware tools Paolo Atzeni (Universita' di Roma Tre, Italy) 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - 18:30 Panel session 1: How Can We Improve the Business Value of Informations Systems? Chair: Janis Bubenko jr. (Sweden) 17:00 - 18:30 Continuation of Tutorial T2 Thursday, June 19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- 9:30 - 11:00 Invited speech: The Story of the IDEA Methodology Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial T3: Determining Requirements for Evolving Systems Colin Potts (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Paper session 5: Methods, Environments and Tools II Chair: Maria-Ribera Sancho (Catalonia) Performance Engineering of Human and Computerised Workflows Gunnar Brataas, Peter H. Hughes, Arne Solvberg (Norway) Meta-CASE in Practice: a Case for KOGGE Jurgen Ebert, Roger Suttenbach, Ingar Uhe (Germany) Augmenting CASE tools with Hypertext: Desired Functionality and Implementation Issues Janne Kaipala (Finland) 11:30 - 13:00 Paper session 6: Conceptual Modelling I Chair: Pericles Loucopoulos (UK) Interval-Based Representation of Spatio-Temporal Concepts Toshimi Tagashira, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Masayoshi Aritsugi, Yoshinari Kanamori(Japan) Temporal Object Role Modelling Andreas Steiner, Moira C.Norrie (Switzerland) Complex Object Versioning Chabane Oussalah, Christelle Urtado (France) 11:30 - 13:00 Continuation of Tutorial T3 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:00 Poster session 2 15:00 - 16:30 Paper session 7: Distributed Information Systems I Chair: Colette Rolland (France) A methodology for the Design of Distributed Web Systems Guido Poncia, Barbara Pernici (Italy) Digital Neighbourhoods: Partitioning the Web for Information Indexing and Searching Pedro Falcao Goncalves, Ana Carolina Salgado, Silvio Lemos=20 Meira (Brazil) Intranet Facilitated Knowledge Management: A Theory and Tool=20 for Defining Situational Methods Marnix Klooster, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Frank Harmsen, Gerard=20 Wijers (the Netherlands) 15:00 - 16:30 Paper session 8: Conceptual Modelling II Chair: John Mylopoulos (Canada) A Conceptual Approach to Meta-Modelling E. Dominguez, M.A. Zapata, J. Rubio (Spain) Preserving Behaviour: Why and How Fabienne Cathala, Pascal Poncelet (France) Modeling Behavior of Geographic Objects: An Experience with=20 the Object Modeling Technique Nectaria Tryfona, Dieter Pfoser (USA), Thanasis Hadzilacos=20 (Greece) 15:00 - 16:30 Tutorial T4: The DEMO methodology: from Information Technol= ogy to Organisation Technology Jan L.G. Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - 18:30 Workshop results: Presentations by the workshop coordinator= s 17:00 - 18:30 Continuation of Tutorial T4 21:00 Conference dinner Friday, June 20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- 9:30 - 11:00 Paper session 9: Distributed Information Systems II Chair: Matthias Jarke (Germany) Design of Distributed Applications based on the OSI Model Peter McBrien (UK) DELOS - A Repository Based Environment for Developing Network=20 Centric Applications P. Klimathianakis, Pericles Loucopoulos (UK) TDE: Supporting Geographically Distributed Software Design with Shared, Collaborative Workspaces Antero Taivalsaari, Sami Vaaraniemi (Finland) 9:30 - 11:00 Paper session 10: Workflow Systems Chair: Oscar Diaz (Spain) Semantics of Reactive Components in Event-Driven Workflow=20 Execution Dimitrios Tombros, Andreas Geppert, Klaus R. Dittrich=20 (Switzerland) Workflow Transparency Peter Bichler, Gunter Preuner, Michael Schrefl (Austria) Towards Real-Scale Business Transaction Workflow Modelling A.P. Barros, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, H.A. Proper (Australia) 9:30 - 11:00 Tutorial T5: Advanced Object-Oriented Concepts James J. Odell (USA) 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:00 Panel session 2: Information Systems in the Era of the Net Chair: Pericles Loucopoulos (UK) 11:30 - 13:00 Continuation of Tutorial T5 13:00 - 13:30 Closing and CAiSE'98 announcement 13:30 - 15:00 Lunch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop W1: The 4th Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ORGANISERS: Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, University of Jyvaskyla Andreas Winter, University of Koblenz-Landau DESCRIPTION: The Doctoral Consortia on Advanced Information Systems Engineering are intended to bring together PhD students within the information systems engineering field and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The worksh= op in Barcelona will be the 4th Doctoral Consortium of a series held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences in Utrecht (1994), in Jyvaskyla (1995), and in Heraklion (1996). The first two days of the CAiSE'97 conference (June 16-17) have been reserved for the Doctoral Consortium. The CAiSE'97 - Doctoral Consortium is accompanied by prominent professors= in the field of information systems which will actively participate and contribute to the discussions. The 4th Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by: Peri Loucopoulos, UMIST Arne Solvberg, Norwegian Institute of Technology Roel Wieringa, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan It is planned to invite further senior scientists as experts to special sessions. CONTACT: Juha-Pekka Tolvanen University of Jyvaskyla Department of Computer Science and Information Systems P.O. Box 35, SF-40351 Jyvaskyla, Finland Tel: +358 41 603 039 Fax: ++358 41 603 011 e-mail: jpt@hyeena.jyu.fi Electronic mail concerning the Doctoral Consortium should be sent to: caise97DC@informatik.uni-koblenz.de The Doctoral Consortium's Web-pages are located at: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~ist/CAiSE97DC/caise97DC.html Workshop W2: The 3rd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ORGANISERS: Eric Dubois, FUND Namur Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen Klaus Pohl, RWTH Aachen DESCRIPTION: The ultimate measurement for software quality is the degree to which user requirements are fulfilled by a system. Early elicitation and correct definition of requirements prevents costly rework during later developmen= t stages and provides the foundation for building high quality systems. Therefore, requirements engineering is considered as a more and more cruc= ial part of the system life cycle. During requirements engineering the user and engineers have to find a way from an initially opaque and diverse system understanding to exact, reconciled and at least partially formalized system specifications. A multitude of methods from software engineering, ethnology, social science= s, and psychology have been adapted to support this process and to achieve a growing quality of the requirements specification as a foundation of high= er system quality. Most of these methods are relying on adequate specificati= on languages which are expressive and formal enough so that the represented quality requirements can be verified or validated. At the REFSQ'94 and REFSQ'95 workshops researchers and practitioners from various disciplines presented approaches that focused on the improvement = of the definition and implementation of (quality) requirements. The success = of REFSQ'94 and REFSQ'95 encouraged us to provide a follow-up workshop REFSQ= '97 as a stage for the discussion of quality-related problems in requirements engineering as they have developed over the last year. CONTACT: Eric Dubois Dep.of Computer Science FUND Namur, Namur, Belgium Tel: +32-81-72 41 11 Fax: +32-81-72 49 67 e-mail: edu@info.fundp.ac.be Workshop W3: International Workshop on Engineering Federated Database Systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ORGANISERS: S. Conrad, University of Magdeburg W. Hasselbring, University of Dortmund A. Heuer, University of Rostock G. Saake, University of Magdeburg DESCRIPTION: A federated database system (FDBS) is a loose integration of autonomous database systems, where both global applications accessing multiple datab= ase systems, and local applications are supported. The techniques for FDBS ar= e employed in various application areas. Workshop topics are: CASE tool support for the development of FDBS Software architectures for FDBS Design and Implementation of FDBS Influence of the application domain on the Design of FDBS Evaluation of FDBS approaches CONTACT: Dr. W. Hasselbring University of Dortmund Informatik 10 (Software Technology), D - 44221 Dortmund, Germany Tel: ++49 +231-7554712 Fax: ++49 +231-7552061 Up to date information is available via WWW at URL: http://ls10-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~willi/EFDBS97/ Workshop W4: The 2nd International Workshop on End User Development -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ORGANISERS: Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Hull Leonardo Bottaci, University of Hull DESCRIPTION: End-user development has the potential to revolutionise information syste= ms development. So far, however, it has been successful only for small stand-alone applications. If larger applications are to be successful, th= ey must be integrated within the enterprise systems infrastructure and it is not clear how end user developers are to do this. A number of research ar= eas appear to be promising, organisational and business process modelling, business objects and customisable applications. In addition, visual programming is considered to be applicable to end-user development. But again, with the exception of work-flow management systems, success in vis= ual programming has been at the level of small stand-alone applications and indeed, visual languages have their own scaling-up problems. Beyond its r= ole as a programming technology, however, little work has been done in explor= ing the potential of visual programming as the means whereby the end-user developer can leverage the "large-scale" technologies of process modellin= g, business objects and customisable applications. CONTACT: Nikolay Mehandjiev, Dept. of Management Systems and Sciences, University of Hull, HULL HU6 7RX, U.K. Tel: +44 1482 465730 Fax: +44 1482 466236 e-mail: N.D.Mehandjiev@msd.hull.ac.uk Up to date information is available via WWW at URL: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/mssndm/workshop.html Workshop W5: The 2nd (CAiSE'97/IFIP 8.1) International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ORGANISERS: Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Yair Wand, University of British Columbia Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland DESCRIPTION: The field of Information Systems Engineering abounds with information modeling methods (e.g., DFD, NIAM, ER and OO). New approaches (e.g., OO) = and new models within an approach (e.g., there are a number of different OO models) are constantly being introduced. Clearly, not all methods are suitable for all situations. A systematic evaluation of modeling methods = is needed to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each method and the appropriate contexts and tasks where each is most suitably applied. This understanding and knowledge has important implications to the use of existing methods and the design of new methods. Three categories of forma= l evaluation techniques can be identified: purely theoretical (e.g., Ontological evaluation), purely empirical (e.g., experimental comparison)= , and a hybrid of the two (i.e., theoretical approach with empirical evidence). Though the need for such studies is well-recognized, there is = a paucity of evaluative research in the literature. Evaluation of modeling methods remains a challenge in information systems engineering. CONTACT: Dr. Keng Siau Department of Management University of Nebraska-Lincoln 209 College of Business Administration, Lincoln, NE68588-0491 Tel: +1-402-472-3078 Fax: +1-402-472-5855 e-mail: klsiau@unlinfo.unl.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- TUTORIALS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial T1: Designing Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- INSTRUCTORS: Stefano Ceri and Piero Fraternali (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano,=20 Italy) TIME: Wednesday, June 18 morning (2 hours) OBJECTIVES: Presenting the IDEA Methodology, a novel approach to Information System development exploiting the advanced features of modern database technolog= y, in particular objects and rules. CONTENTS: The tutorial presents the IDEA Methodology, a novel methodology for the development of information systems. The IDEA Methodology addresses the analysis, design, prototyping, and implementation of database application= s, with a special focus on the use of advanced features of database technolo= gy, and specifically of object orientation, deductive rules, and active rules (triggers). The distinguishing approach of the IDEA Methodology is the emphasis on KNOWLEDGE INDEPENDENCE; by this term, we indicate the ability of extracti= ng semantic knowledge from applications, normally encoded in a procedural format (programs), and placing it into the database schema, encoded declaratively in the form of objects, methods, and rules; in this way, knowledge is system-enforced, shared by all applications, and can be maintained and evolve more easily. An integrated tool environment, developed at the Politecnico di Milano, supports the various phases of the IDEA Methodology, with special emphasi= s on active rules. The IDEA tools assist schema design, active rule generation, rule analysis, application prototyping, debugging, browsing, = and the mapping active rule applications from the IDEA design language Chimer= a into Oracle (Version 7.2), a popular commercial relational product supporting triggers. These tools will be demonstrated during the tutorial. The IDEA methodology is described in the book "Designing database applications with objects and rules: The IDEA Methodology", Addison-Wesle= y, that will be published in 1997 (approximately at the time of the tutorial= ). The IDEA Methodology Web site can be seen at URL http://www.elet.polimi.it/idea. INTENDED AUDIENCE: The tutorial is addressed to researchers and to system analysts, designer= s, and implementors. The tutorial is designed so as to attract the interest = of a large community of people (both from industry and from academia) which = are looking forward to applying new design abstractions, relative to object a= nd rule-based approaches, in the context of current database technology. INSTRUCTOR'S PROFILE: STEFANO CERI is full professor of "Database Systems" at the Dipartimento = di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano; he has been visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University betwe= en 1983 and 1990. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, = and object-orientation. He is author of several articles on International Journals and Conference Proceedings, and is co-author of the books: "Distributed Databases: Principles and Systems" (McGraw-Hill, 1984), "Log= ic Programming and Databases'' (Springer-Verlag, 1990), "Conceptual Database Design: an Entity-Relationship Approach" (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992), ''Act= ive Database Systems'' (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1995), "The Art and Science of Computing'' (Addison-Wesley, in preparation), and "Designing Database Applications with Objects and Rules: the IDEA Methodology" (Addison-Wesle= y, in preparation). He is member of VLDB Endowment, EDBT Foundation and DOOD Steering Committee; he was Associate Editor of ACM-Transactions on Databa= se Systems (1989-92) and he is currently an associated editor of several international journals. He is project manager at the Politecnico of the Esprit Project P6333, "IDEA: Intelligent Database Environments for Advanc= ed Applications". PIERO FRATERNALI was born in Como on April 19, 1962; he has received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1989, and = a PhD in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano in 1994. He is assista= nt professor of Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano since 1991, and a contract professor of Software Engineering at Politecnico di Milano at Co= mo from 1994 to 1996. He acted as a consultant in information systems development projects since 1990. His main research activities are in the areas of advanced database technology, CASE systems, and internet and intranet information systems. Tutorial T2: Database cooperation: classification and middleware tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- INSTRUCTOR: Paolo Atzeni (Dipartimento Informatica e Automazione, Universita' di Roma Tre,=20 Italy) TIME: Wednesday, June 18 afternoon (3 hours) OBJECTIVES: The tutorial will discuss the main issues of database cooperation, trying= to bridge the gap between methodologies and currently available software too= ls. CONTENTS: There will be a discussion of the criteria for the classification of cooperating database systems, based on the nature of the component databases, that go beyond the traditional discussion on heterogeneity, distribution and autonomy, which can be considered more as constraints in the design process, than as design parameters. We discuss a classificatio= n based on three additional criteria: (a) the level of transparency, (b) th= e complexity of distributed transactions and (c) the level of recency of da= ta. This leads us to distinguish three main categories of systems (together w= ith many combined and intermediate cases): (i) multidatabase systems, (ii) da= ta warehouses, and (iii) local information systems with external data. For each of these categories we discuss methodological issues and implementations based on tools offered by currently available technology.= We examine the basic techniques for cooperation and data exchange between a client and a server, and then the more complex architectures for data cooperation, with reference to database gateways, transaction processing monitors, data warehousing tools, distributed hypertext technology, and integrated development and execution environments. (Most of the discussion was developed, in cooperation with L. Cabibbo and= G. Mecca within a project funded by the Italian Authority for Computing in t= he Public Administration, aimed at giving guidelines for cooperation of information systems over a national network) INTENDED AUDIENCE: The tutorial will try to include in a balanced way both abstract and practical aspects. It is mainly directed to practitioners interested in conceptual issues, and their relationship with available tools, but could also be of interest to students interested in reflecting on practical and technological problems related to the methodologies they study. Attendees are expected to have a general knowledge of basic issues in database technology and in conceptual design methodologies. No specific knowledge = of cooperative systems is assumed. INSTRUCTOR'S PROFILE: Paolo Atzeni is Database Professor at Universita' di Roma Tre since 1992. Previously, he was Database Professor at Universita' La Sapienza (1990-92= ), Associate Professor at Universita' di Napoli (1987-90), and Member of Research Staff IASI-CNR (1983-1987). In 1984 he was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Univerity of Toronto. He has done research on various topics in the database field, including: foundations of relational database theory, languages for conceptual model= s, models and tools for the conceptual design of databases, weak instance model: schema analysis and query answering, knowledge representation schemes, deductive and complex object databases, database cooperation, databases and the Web. He has coauthored or edited various books. His papers have appeared in journals that include ACM Transactions in Database Systems, Information Systems, Journal of Computer and System Science, Theoretical Computer Science, Acta Informatica, Information and Control, Data and Knowledge Engineering, and were presented at major database conferences, including ACM-SIGMOD, ACM-PODS, VLDB, DOOD, ICDE, ICDT, EDBT. Tutorial T3: Determining Requirements for Evolving Systems -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- INSTRUCTOR: Colin Potts (Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing) TIME: Thursday, June 19 morning (3 hours) OBJECTIVES: 1. Understand role of design and negotiation in requirements determinatio= n. 2. Develop specific skills for identifying stakeholder viewpoints and clarifying goals, mapping goals onto possible system services and properties, presenting proposed system behaviours through scenarios and storyboards, and recording open issues and assumptions. 3. Exercise these skills in a small but realistic system description. CONTENTS: This tutorial presents a specific method (ScenIC) for determining requirements for evolving systems. However, the tutorial is not a crash-course in ScenIC itself; instead, ScenIC is used as an illustration= of the general principles involved in determining requirements when any of t= he following situations exist: 1. The requirements are for an enhancement to an existing system or new system that is substantially constrained by another system with which it will interact closely; 2. Multiple stakeholders have different requirements, goals or knowledge about the work practices that the system supports; 3. There exist opportunities for varying levels of automation or differen= t automation strategies. INTENDED AUDIENCE: Software developers and project managers working in product development organisations, software engineering subcontractors, and information syste= ms departments of non-computer companies. The tutorial will be of particular value to people working on functional enhancements to existing systems. INSTRUCTOR'S PROFILE: The instructor is an associate professor of computer science at the Colle= ge of Computing, Georgia Tech. He is a prominent researcher in the field of requirements engineering, being a founding member of the IFIP WG 2.9 work= ing group on requirements engineering, co-editor of the Springer journal Requirements Engineering, program committee member of the RE'93 and RE'95 symposia and the ICRE'94, ICRE'96 and ICRE'98 conferences, and is a keyno= te speaker at RE'97. He designed a two-day course "Understanding Customer Requirements" offered by the Georgia Tech Continuing Education Program wh= ich is offered publicly and has been taught under contract to US Army and National Data Corporation. He is an experienced speaker and instructor fo= r academic and industrial audiences. Tutorial T4: The DEMO methodology: from Information Technology to Organisation Technology -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Jan L.G. Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) TIME: Wednesday, June 19 afternoon (3 hours) OBJECTIVES: To understand business processes from the communicative action perspectiv= e, i.e. to understand the working principle of an organisation as the enteri= ng into and complying with commitments by the subjects that constitute the organisation. To acquire hands-on experience with the DEMO methodology in modelling, redesigning and reengineering business processes. CONTENT: DEMO is a way of thinking about work, organisation and information technology that radically differs from the current way of thinking, in wh= ich work means the production of goods and services, and in which organisatio= ns strive for high productivity. This way of thinking (that has been the dominant way for more than a century already) has procreated several successful models, like the logistic flow model, the value chain, and the control model. These models have proven to be very suited for analyzing a= nd manipulating the behaviour of organisations. They are however unsuited fo= r changing their business processes. In order to do that, one needs to know the operation of an organisation, not its behaviour. On the solid ground of the understanding of communicative actions, three pillars are standing: the DEMO system concept, the DEMO transaction conce= pt, and the DEMO levels of abstraction. Together they reveal the essence of a= n organisation. Therefore, a model of the business processes of an organisation in DEMO is called the essential model of the organisation ('DEMO' stands for 'Dynamic Essential Modelling of Organisations'). The essential model consists of a number of partial models, each of which wil= l be explained. The practical relevance of each for the purpose of redesign and reengineering will be elaborated. INTENDED AUDIENCE: Systems analysts, information analysts, business process professionals. INSTRUCTOR'S PROFILE: Jan Dietz started his scientific career in 1980 at the Faculty of Industr= ial Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology, after having worked as practitioner since 1970. In 1987 he obtained his Doctoral Degree on the subject of modelling and specifying information systems. In January 1988 = he was appointed Professor of Management Information Systems at the Universi= ty of Maastricht in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Fr= om September 1994 on he is Professor of Information Systems at Delft Univers= ity of Technology in the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. His focus of interest comprises information systems engineering and business systems engineering. Tutorial T5: Advanced Object-Oriented Concepts -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- INSTRUCTOR: James J. Odell (USA) TIME: Friday, June 20 morning (3 hours) OBJECTIVES: There are many OO analysis and design approaches, but most are fundamenta= lly the same. The purpose of this tutorial is to examine these fundamental notions, and to discuss useful ways of extending this foundation. CONTENTS: In the last few years, many books have appeared on the topic of OO analys= is and design. These books explore the basic issues and techniques for developing systems using an OO approach. This presentation begins by examining and formalising the fundamental notions common to all OO approaches. By separating semantics from syntax, a comparison of the vari= ous approaches is presented. Results of the OMG's Object Analysis and Design Task Force, and Rational's UML will also be exhibited here as proposed foundations. This tutorial initially spends time building and discussing a common OO analysis and design foundation. However, the majority of the time is spen= t presenting useful ways of extending such a foundation--making this tutori= al unique. INTENDED AUDIENCE: While this tutorial proceeds from first principles, it goes into depth at= a fast pace. The audience should be experienced in using one or more OO analysis and design modelling techniques. The attendees that benefit the most are well-seasoned system modellers and meta-modellers with a backgro= und in mathematics. INSTRUCTOR'S PROFILE: James Odell is an IT consultant and practitioner specialising in the object-oriented approach. Throughout most of his 25 year career, he has b= een heavily involved in developing better methods to manage, understand, and express system requirements. He was one of the early innovators of data a= nd process modelling, and information engineering methodologies. Now, he is = one of the first practical implementors of object-oriented modelling and implementation--consulting to major companies world-wide. He is a very experienced and highly-regarded educator and speaker. James Odell is the author of three books on OO and has also written numer= ous papers and articles on the subject. He is also the chairman of OMG's Obje= ct Analysis and Design Task Force. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- POSTERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- A special room is reserved for posters. Poster authors will be present at that room during: Wednesday, June 18: 14.30-15.00 Thursday, June 19: 14:30-15:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- SOCIAL PROGRAMME -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- In addition to the professional sessions, CAiSE'97 includes the following opportunities for participants to get together and further exchange views= in a relaxed atmosphere: Workshop informal dinner: Monday, June 16: 21.00 Conference reception: Tuesday, June 17: 20.00 Conference dinner: Thursday, June 19: 21.00 The workshop dinner is included in the workshop fee. Conference reception and dinner are included in the conference fee. Conference and workshop dinner tickets for accompanying persons can be ordered on the registratio= n form or bought at the registration desk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- CONFERENCE VENUE -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- CAiSE'97 will be held in the Barcelona Hilton hotel, located on the Aving= uda Diagonal in the new business and commercial area of Barcelona and at only= 15 minutes from the International Airport. The address is: Barcelona Hilton Avda. Diagonal, 589-591 08014 Barcelona Tel: +34-3-4192233 Fax: +34-3-4052573 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- REGISTRATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- The registration for the conference is handled by the Registration Secretariat. Questions about registration, payment, etc. should be direct= ed to the Registration Secretariat at: CAiSE'97 Registration Secretariat UPC, Campus Nord Modul C6, Despatx 107 Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona Tel: +34-3-4016997 Fax: +34-3-4017014 e-mail: cquer@lsi.upc.es The conference is open to all registered participants. Workshop participa= nts must also register for and participate in the main conference. The workin= g language of CAiSE'97 is English. The registration form (at the end of this message) should be completed=20 (only one participant per form) and returned to the Registration Secretar= iat. The early registration fee is only applicable if payment is received befo= re=20 May 12, 1997. Instructions for payment are given in the registration form= ..=20 All prices are quoted in Pesetas (Pts). Please note that registration can= =20 only be processed after receipt of payment. Confirmation of registration = will=20 be sent by the Registration Secretariat upon receipt of your registration= =20 and payment.=20 The conference fee includes a copy of the conference proceedings and the attendance to the main conference, tutorials, lunches, coffee breaks, conference reception and conference dinner. Tutorial notes are not includ= ed in the conference fee and will be sold during the conference at the hospitality desk. The workshop fee includes the attendance to the selected workshop, coffee breaks and workshop informal dinner. Cancellation/Refund policy -------------------------- Written notification of cancellation must be sent to the Registration Secretariat. Cancellations made prior to May 12, 1997 will be subject to = a 25% cancellation fee. Thereafter no refunds will be made. However, a substitute may participate instead, after notifying the Registration Secretariat. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- HOTEL ACCOMMODATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Accommodation can be booked via ULTRAMAR EXPRESS Travel Agency, in Barcelona. Please use the form included at the end of this message or=20 contact the travel agency directly at the following address: ULTRAMAR EXPRESS Diputacio, 348, 3er pis E-08007 Barcelona Tel: +34-3-482 71 40 and +34-3-482 71 50 Fax: +34-3-481 71 58 e-mail: msanmiguel@uex.es Rooms have been reserved at the Barcelona Hilton Hotel, the conference venue. A number of rooms are also available at Hotel Victoria (4*), Hotel Pedralbes (3*), Hotel Bonanova Park (2*), around 15-20 minutes walking distance from the conference venue, and Hotel Citadines (3*), in the cent= er of Barcelona but well communicated with the conference venue. Special rat= es are available for reservations made through Ultramar Express. Payment is = to be made directly to the hotel upon departure. Reservations will be made on a first-come first-serve basis. A deposit pe= r reserved room is required, which will be deducted from the hotel invoice. Room availability and special prices can only be guaranteed if your reservation is received before May 12, 1997. Should you cancel your booki= ng before this date, no cancellation fee will be charged. If a more economic lodging is desired, Ultramar Express will offer information about student residences located near the conference venue. Reservations in these lodgings are also performed by Ultramar Express. In this case, full payment of the accommodation is required in advance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- OFFICIAL CARRIER -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- The Official Carrier of the conference is Iberia. Iberia offices througho= ut the world will be happy to assist you in your travel arrangements. Ask to your closest Iberia office about the special prices available for the participants of the conference. The reference "Tour Code" given by Iberia is: BT 71IB21MPE0177. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- GENERAL INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Barcelona --------- Barcelona has a prime location in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula and covers 100 square kilometres between the Mediterranean sea and the mountain of Tibidabo. Its climate is warm and welcoming all the year roun= d. Two thousand years of history coupled with its dynamism and enterprising character, has propelled the city towards the future. Great displays of Modernist architecture can be found anywhere. The latest trends in design have found their way into the squares, streets and side streets. There ar= e enticing routes through the city, full of people and life. Transportation -------------- Barcelona International Airport boasts of daily direct flights to many ma= jor European cities and the USA amongst its range of destinations. It has lin= ks with downtown Barcelona by train, bus and taxi. The Talgo train provides comfortable and rapid daily connections with Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Berne and Milan. A motorway makes Barcelona just an hour and a half away from France. Once in Barcelona, the new ring roads cut travel time round the city quit= e noticeably. The city has five metro lines, which cover its whole area, it also has a wide bus network and eleven thousand taxis, the characteristic black and yellow vehicles, which can be booked or hailed in the street without the slightest delay. The conference venue at the Barcelona Hilton can be easily reached from t= he International Airport by taxi (at a cost of approximately 2500 Pts) or by train and metro. There is a train service from the airport to Barcelona-Sants station every 30 minutes from 6:00 to 22:00. Once in Barcelona-Sants, take metro line 3 to Maria Cristina station which is 5 minutes walking distance from the Barcelona Hilton. See the Official Carrier section of this message to obtain information ab= out special travel prices. Climate and dress ----------------- The climate of Barcelona is Mediterranean and mild. The temperature in Ju= ne is about 21 celsius degrees. It is advisable to bring a sweater or light = jacket for the evening.=20 Currency -------- The currency is the peseta (Pts). Major credit cards are accepted in most hotels and shops and in many restaurants. Banks are open Monday-Friday 8:30-14:00. Foreign currency can usually also be exchanged at hotel desks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- ORGANISATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- Sponsors -------- * Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics - Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona * Asociacion de Tecnicos de Informatica * Centre Informatic de la Generalitat de Catalunya * Institut Municipal d'Informatica de l'Ajuntament de Barcelona * Datamation Espa=F1a * Comissionat per a Universitats i Recerca * Iberia Advisory Committee ------------------ Janis Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Arne Solvberg, University of Trondheim, Norway Programme Chair --------------- Antoni Olive, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Organising Chair ---------------- Joan Antoni Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Tutorial Chair -------------- Toni Urpi, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Workshop and Poster Chair ------------------------- Maria-Ribera Sancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Registration Chair ------------------ Carme Quer, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Accommodation Chair ------------------- Ernest Teniente, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Social Event Chair ------------------ Enric Mayol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Publicity Chair --------------- Dolors Costal, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Programme Committee ------------------- Rafael Andreu, IESE, Barcelona Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Twente, Enschede Janis Bubenko, Stockholm University Corine Cauvet, Universite de Paris I Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano Rosine Ciccheti, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille Panos Constantopoulos, University of Crete, Heraklion Peter Creasy, University of Queensland Oscar Diaz, Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian David W. Embley, Brigham Young University, Provo Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Technische Universitat Braunschweig Anthony Finkelstein, City University, London Burkhard Freitag, Universitat Passau Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn Jacques Hagelstein, S.W.I.F.T. s.c., La Hulpe Juhani Iivari, University of Oulu Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen Keith G. Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University Hannu Kangassalo, University of Tampere Michel Leonard, Universite de Geneve Eva Lindencrona, SISU, Kista Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, Manchester Kalle Lyytinen, University of Jyvaskyla John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto James Odell, James Odell Associates, Ann Arbor Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen Christine Parent, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano Naveen Prakash, Delhi Institute of Technology Isidro Ramos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Colette Rolland, Universite de Paris I Sorbonne Maria-Ribera Sancho, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens Anne-Helga Seltveit, Telenor AS, Oslo Amilcar Sernadas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa Arne Solvberg, University of Trondheim Alistair Sutcliffe, City University, London Bernhard Thalheim, Cottbus Technical University Constantino Thanos, CNR-IEI, Pisa Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, Manchester Yannis Vassiliou, National Technical University of Athens Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Benkt Wangler, Stockholm University Tony Wasserman, IDE, San Francisco Roel J. Wieringa, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Gerard M. Wijers, ID Research B.V., Leusden Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk Roberto Zicari, J. W. Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt am Main -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- FURTHER INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- If you have any further questions about the conference or its organisatio= n please contact the Organising Chair, Joan Antoni Pastor. 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Tamer Ozsu" Message-Id: <199704031832.MAA10428@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology (IADT'98) http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/iadt98.html Berlin, Germany, July 6-9, 1998 In connection with The 3rd World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology Sponsored by: Society for Design and Process Science SCOPE The 3rd World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology is a major international forum for the integration of design and process technologies. The workshop is organized as a part of this conference. The objective of the workshop is to provide an effective forum for the exchange of ideas, techniques, and applications among researchers and practioners from academia, business and industry working in various fields of database systems. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Process Technology - Workflow Management Systems - Novel Database Applications - Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Bases - Advanced Transaction Models - Interoperable and Heterogeneous Database Systems - Information Retrieval - Deductive and Object-Oriented Database Systems - Real-Time and Active Database Systems - Scientific and Engineering Database Systems - Temporal, Spatial and Geographical Database Systems - Multimedia and Hypermedia Database Systems - Database Applications on the WWW - Databases and Programming Systems - Parallel and Distributed Database Systems - Query Processing and Optimization - Mobile Database Systems - Imprecise and Uncertain Information - View Management and Data Warehousing - Client/Server Database Systems - Database Theory and Algorithms - Distributed Object Management - Transaction Models for Object Systems - Databases for Computer-Aided Software Engineering - Intelligent User Interfaces - Document Databases - Digital Libraries IMPORTANT DATES E-mail Abstract Submission(ASCII file) May 30, 1997 Full-Paper Submission (ps file) October 15, 1997 Notification of Acceptance December 15, 1997 Camera-Ready Copy Submission February 2, 1998 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit the abstract of papers before May 30, 1997. The abstracts should not be more than 200 words. The full papers describing relevant, original and unpublished research or experience works should be emailed before October 15, 1997. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended version of their papers either to be published in the Fall 1998 special issue of Journal of Database Management or in the book entitled "Issues of Database Technology and Design" to be published by Idea Group Publishing, USA. A copy of the abstract, including author names and affiliations, should be submitted through email by May 30, 1997 to: Professor Asuman Dogac Program Co-Chair Department of Computer Engineering Middle East Technical University 06531 Ankara, Turkey E-mail: asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr GENERAL CHAIR Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Asuman Dogac (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkiye) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Hamideh Afsarmanesh (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Reda Alhajj (Bilkent University, Turkiye) Erol Arkun (Bilkent University, Turkiye) Geneva Belford (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Elisa Bertino (University of Milano, Italy) Alex Buchmann (Darmstadt University, Germany) Bill P. Buckles (Tulane University, USA) Fazli Can (Miami University, USA) Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Florida, USA) Ahmet Cosar (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Johann Eder (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) Ahmed Elmagarmid (Purdue University, USA) Opher Etzion (Technion, Israel) Cem Evrendilek (Northwestern University, USA) Georges Gardarin (INRIA, France) Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (GTE Laboratories, USA) Ugur Halici (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Leonid Kalinichenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Alfons Kemper (University of Passau, Germany) Nihan Kesim (Bilkent University, Turkiye) Mehdi Khosrowpour (Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, USA) Wolfgang Klas (University of Ulm, Germany) Kia Makki (University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA) Robert A. Meersman (Vrije University, Belgium) Erich J. Neuhold (GMD-IPSI, Germany) Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Thimios Panagos (AT&T Laboratories, USA) Fred Petry (Tulane University, USA) Niki Pissinou (University of Southwestern Louisiana, USA) Faruk Polat (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Peretz Shoval (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Abdullah Uz Tansel (Bernard M. Baruch College, CUNY, USA) Hakki Toroslu (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) Markus Tresch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Adnan Yazici (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Thu Apr 3 20:57:41 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA11137 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:57:35 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA12299 for dbworld; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:57:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:57:34 -0600 (CST) From: Frederic ANDRES Message-Id: <199704040257.UAA12299@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ======================================================================= Workshop Home page: ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS (updated) DEXA Workshop on Query Processing in Multimedia Information Systems (QPMIDS) 1-2 September 1997 in conjunction with 8th International Conference DEXA97 Toulouse, France 1 Description The QPMIDS workshop seeks to bring together distributed multimedia information systems researchers and developers from these fields to assess the state of the art and practice in solving real-time multimedia query processing problems, to identify solution techniques and algorithms, and to introduce promising future research directions. The topics of the workshop cover advanced multimedia computing technologies where new approaches to support on-line accesses to information are needed. Client-server distributed multimedia systems are a practical approach to support heterogeneous data management (video clips, audio, images, and books). The kinds of data referred to by 'multimedia data' expand. Still images, texts, and books were included in this category, several years ago. Recently, moving pictures, especially video, audio, as well as 3D objects in virtual realities are added in the list. As a first issue, modeling these kinds of data is necessary for storing, retrieving, and editing these data adequately. The second issue is concerned with quality of transfer of these data through networks. The data and users are distributed over computer networks and real-time data transfer is required. So good quality transfer of data among them is needed. The third issue is the system architecture issue. Current systems are insufficient to support the management of multimedia data owning to their time-sampled nature. Problems such as data placement, buffer management, admission control and load balancing still exist. The extension of the database systems to support distributed multimedia applications thus require new mechanisms to ensure the synchronized presentation of multimedia data exchanges. 2. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Modeling of multimedia data . Modeling of tempospatial data . Integration of tempospatial data and multimedia data . Multimedia database architecture . Distributed multimedia information/database systems . Distributed and parallel multimedia query processing . QoS in multimedia information system . Applications of multimedia database . Applications of multimedia information system . Geographic information systems . Database for virtual realities . Load balancing and data placement management . Query language for multimedia information/database systems . Optimization of multimedia query processing 3. Submissions Short original contributions regarding the problem solving and/or aims for further research activities in the workshop topics are welcome. Detailed abstract papers or position papers should be in English and not exceed 5 double spaced pages or 1000 words. The cover page should include the title, name and affiliation of the author(s), contact, address, email, fax and telephone. Final paper should not exceed 10 single spaced pages. Papers should be sent electronically (postscript) not later than 19. April 1997 to the following address: qmpids@rd.nacsis.ac.jp The contribution of the workshop will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. 4. Timetable Submission deadline 19 April 1997 Notification of acceptance 10 May 1997 Final paper due 24 May 1997 5. Organization Committee F. Andres (NACSIS, JAPAN) andres@rd.nacsis.acjp B. Folliot (Paris VI University/LIP6-MASI, FRANCE) Bertil.Folliot@masi.ibp.fr A. Makinouchi (Kyushu University, JAPAN) akifumi@is.kyushu-u.ac.jp 6. Coordination Committee A. Hameurlain (IRIT, Univ. P. Sabatier, FRANCE) K. Ono (NACSIS, JAPAN) S. Uemura (AIST-NARA, JAPAN) 7. Program Committee K. Aberer (GMD, GERMANY) H. Arisawa (Yokohama National Univ., JAPAN) C. Bac (INT, FRANCE) B. Folliot (Paris VI/MASI, FRANCE) D. Che (GMD, GERMANY) P. Faudemay (Paris VI/MASI, FRANCE) G. Gardarin (Univ. of St Quentin-Versailles,FRANCE) G. Girault (Paris VI/MASI, FRANCE, RICE, USA) A. Hameurlain (IRIT,Univ P. Sabatier, FRANCE) Y. Kanamori (Univ. of Gunma, JAPAN) H. Ishikawa (Fujitsu Labs., JAPAN) H. Lu (NUS,SINGAPORE) H. Masunaga (Univ. of Library and Information Science, JAPAN) S. Nishida (Osaka Univ., JAPAN) K. Ono (NACSIS, JAPAN) J. Robertson (CSIRO, AUSTRALIA) S. Shimada (Hitachi, JAPAN) K. Tanaka (Kobe Univ., JAPAN) K. Tsuruoka (NEC, JAPAN) M. Yoshikawa (AIST-NARA, JAPAN) 8. Further Information DEXA Workshop Chairperson Prof. R.R. Wagner Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) University of Linz A-4040 Linz Austria Phone: 43 732 244962 Fax: 43 732 243989 emal: rrw@faw.uni-linz.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Fri Apr 4 15:14:29 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA19689 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:14:24 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA13231 for dbworld; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:14:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:14:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, +1-617-466-2080" Message-Id: <199704042114.PAA13231@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu Dear Sir/Madame: IEEE Enterprise Networking Miniconference 1997 (ENM-97) will be held in Palais des Congres, Montreal, Quebec, Canada during June 11-12, 1997 in conjunction with ICC-97. Enclosed herewith is the advance program of ENM-97. Pls register by April.25, 1997. Reg. fee is Canadian $ 250.00 before April-25/97 and Can.$275 after April-25/97. The advance and final program (if there are any changes) will be available at the following web sites: http://www.ieee.org/comsoc/ENM-97.html http://www.bbn.com/enternet/ Thank you, Bhumip. ================================================================== AM of Wednesday, June 11, 1997 08:00 am -- Opening the ENM-97 by B. Khasnabish, GTE Labs. Inc., USA "Next Generation Enterprise Networks" 08:20 am -- Keynote Speech by S. D. Personick, Bellcore, USA "The Information Age: Making the Vision Real" 09:00 am -- Paper Session A: Emerging Enterprise Networks Chairs: K. Pogran, BBN, USA, and S. Weinstein, NEC, USA Presentations: A.1 Planning Enterprise Networks to Meet Critical Business Needs, M. A. Weinstein (michael.a.weinstein@att.com) , AT&T Solns., NJ, USA A.2 A Study of Common Service-Providing Arch. for Future Telecommunications, S.-M. Kang (etxkang@etri.re.kr), B.-I. Kim and Y.-S. Cho, ETRI, Korea A.3 Extending the Corporate Intranet, S. Prakash (pachi@arch4.att.com), AT&T Solutions, NJ, USA A.4 Enterprise Backbone Network: Current and Emerging Technologies Joe Bumblis (bumblis@mcc.com), MCC, TX, USA 10:30 am -- Coffee Break 11:00 am -- Panel Discussion on Designing Enterprise Networks using Open Internet Technologies - I Chair/Moderator: V. Bhagavath, AT&T Labs., USA P. Wirth, AT&T Labs., USA Speakers: * R. Enns, Hybrid Networks, USA * S. Marcus, BBN Planet, USA * J. Pescatore, Trusted Info. Systems, USA * S. Reustle, AT&T Easy World Wide Web, USA 12:30 pm -- Lunch Break ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PM of Wednesday, June 11, 1997 01:30 pm -- Paper Session B: Multimedia and Mobility in Enterprises Chairs: Prof. M. Ahmadi, UW, Canada, and Prof. Y.-B. Lin, NCTU, Taiwan Presentations: B.1 Integrating Multi-Modal Messages across Heterogeneous Networks, R. Liscano (Liscano@iit.nrc.ca), R. Impey, Q. Yu and S. Abu-Hakima, NRC, Canada B.2 An Integrated Multimedia Communication System for Enterprise Networks, B. Maaref (brahim.maaref@imag.fr), S. Nasri, P. Sicard, LLSR/IMAG, France B.3 Resource Planning for Wireless PBX Systems, W.-R. Lai and Y.-B. Lin (liny@liny.csie.nctu.edu.tw), NCT Univ., Taiwan 03:00 pm -- Coffee Break 03:30 pm -- Panel Discussion on Designing Enterprise Networks using Open Internet Technologies - II Chair/Moderator: D. N. Zuckerman, Bellcore, USA V. Bhagavath, AT&T Labs., USA Speakers: * R. Boutaba, CSRI of Montreal, Canada * C. Meske, Sun Microsystems, USA * M. Rabinovich, AT&T Research, USA * E. H.-Valencia, Bell Labs., USA 05:00 pm -- ENM-97 Adjourns ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AM of Thursday, June 12, 1997 08:00 am -- Welcome Back to the ENM-97 (B. Khasnabish, GTE Labs. Inc., USA) 08:05 am -- Keynote Speech by Prof. D. G. Messerschmitt, UC Berkeley, USA "The Convergence of Network Computing and Telecommunications" 08:45 am -- Panel Discussion on Enterprise Network Computing Chair/Moderator: S. Sibal, AT&T Labs., USA Speakers: * To Be Determined (TBD) 10:00 am -- Coffee Break 10:15 am -- Paper Session C: Performance and Security Issues Chairs: R. S. Braudy, BTG, USA, and Prof. M. Devetsikiotis, Carleton Univ., Canada Presentations: C.1 End-to-End Performance Evaluation of Internetworked ATM LANs, V. Mirchandani (v.mirchandani@ee.mu.oz.au) and D. Everitt, U. of Melbourne, Australia C.2 Use of Multilevel Traffic Contracts for Admission Optimization of Multimedia Connections in Enterprise Networks A. Marefat (Ali.Marefat@prism.uvsq.fr), Lab. PRiSM, U. de Versailles, France C.3 Performance and Manageability Design in an Enterprise Network Security Systems, J. He (jingsha@aimquest.com), AimQuest Co., USA 11:00 am -- Panel Discussion on Multimedia Networking in Enterprises Chair/Moderator: S. Erfani, Racal, USA Speakers: * R. Cohen, Paradyne Co., USA * R. Khare, Bellcore, USA * Prof. B. Furht, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA * Prof. T. Li, Concordia University, Canada * S. Epstein, Racal Data Group, USA 12:30 pm -- Lunch Break ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PM of Thursday, June 12, 1997 01:30 pm -- Panel Discussion on Enterprise Network Management Chair/Moderator: M. Malek, Lucent Tech., USA Speakers: * S. Aidarous, Nortel, USA * R. S. Braudy, BTG, USA * W. Buga, Lucent Tech., USA * S Moyer, Bellcore, USA * R. Saracco, CSELT, Italy * S. Yemini, SMARTS, USA 03:00 pm -- Coffee Break 03:15 pm -- Paper Session D: Service and Network Management Chairs: S. Moyer, Bellcore, USA Prof. O. Yang, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Presentations: D.1 A Proposition of Service Protocol on the Service Platform Functionality, B.-I. Kim (bikim@etri.re.kr), H.-S. Lee, S.-M. Kang and Y.-S. Cho, ETRI, Korea D.2 Towards Service Management with the SIS Distributed Platform, H. C. M. Andrade (hcma@dcc.ufmg.br), J. M. S. Nogueira, A.A.F. Loureiro and C. M. Machado, UFMG and Telemig, Brazil D.3 Web-Based Customer Network Management, J.-T. Park, K.-C. Sohn, J. W.-K. Hong (jwkhong@postech.ac.kr), POSTECH, Korea D.4 Co-operative Management of Enterprise Networks in a Mobile Environment, P.K. Ray (p.ray@st.nepean.uws.edu.au) et al, Australia D.5 Integrating Proprietary Managed PDH Networks using TMN-Based Platforms, C. Guerrero (clopez@des.fi.udc.es), D. Sanchez, V. Carneiro, A. Vina and J. Coego, University of A Coruna, Spain 04:30 pm -- Closing Discussion of ENM-97 Chair/Moderator: R. Saracco, CSELT, Italy Speakers: * Attendees of ENM-97 05:00 pm -- Closing of ENM-97 (B. Khasnabish, GTE Labs. Inc., USA) ______________________________________________________________________________ Thanks a lot, with all the best wishes and regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, GTE Labs. Inc., MS-48, Rm.4-292 40 Sylvan Road, Waltham, MA 02254, U.S.A. Tel: +1-617-466-2080 (office), +1-617-647-5356 (Res.) Fax +1-617-890-9320 (central), +1-617-466-2130 (dept.) E-Mail: bhumip@gte.com, bhumip@acm.org, b.khasnabish@ieee.org GTE IntraNet: http://cnsmacic.gte.com/users/bhumip/ Internet URL: http://www1.acm.org:82/~bhumip/ ===================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Sat Apr 5 12:32:09 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA24013 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:32:03 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA14110 for dbworld; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:32:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 12:32:03 -0600 (CST) From: Dietmar Seipel Message-Id: <199704051832.MAA14110@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION ! the new deadline for submission of papers is APRIL 28, 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on DEDUCTIVE DATABASES AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING - DDLP'97 in conjunction with the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGIC PROGRAMMING ICLP'97 Leuven, Belgium, July 8-12, 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WWW - Sites: http://www-info1.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ddlp_97 European Site http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~ruiz/ddlp_97.html USA Site http://www.first.gmd.de/~geske/ddlp_97.html European Site ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the previous meetings in Budapest, Hungary (1993), Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy (1994), Kanagawa, Japan (1995), and Bonn, Germany (1996), this Fifth ICLP-workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming DDLP'97 will be held in Leuven, Belgium. The meeting will be run as a post-conference workshop of the 1997 International Conference on Logic Programming, which will be held on July 8-12, 1997. The integration of deductive databases and logic programming leads to intelligent information systems. Techniques from deductive databases must be used for achieving efficient retrieval and reasoning in large knowledge bases, or databases which are distributed over the Web. Logic programming provides a powerful declarative language for accessing and maintaining knowledge in databases. Recent results in logic programming, constraint logic programming, program transformation and optimization, and non-monotonic reasoning are useful for extending the expressive power and the computational efficiency of deductive database systems. Suggested topics for submissions include, but are not limited to: * disjunctive deductive databases, uncertain information * non-monotonic semantics * query languages and optimization * program transformations * integration of heterogeneous knowledge * execution and debugging models * data mining * management of semi-structured information * querying the World-Wide-Web * constraint databases * object-oriented databases * active databases, updates * temporal databases The workshop is planned to be one day, with presentations of half an hour. A fundamental goal is to give opportunities for active discussions on new research directions and the exchange of latest results. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ulrich Geske (GMD-First Berlin, Germany) Carolina Ruiz (Worcester Polytech. Inst. and U. Pittsburgh, USA) Dietmar Seipel (Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dmitri Boulanger (Keldesh Institute, Moscow, Russia) Maurice Bruynooghe (Kath. Univ. Leuven, Belgium) Frangois Bry (Univ. Munich, Germany) Burkhard Freitag (Univ. Passau, Germany) Ulrich Geske (GMD-First Berlin, Germany) Fosca Giannotti (CNUCE-CNR Pisa, Italy) Jorge Lobo (Univ. Illinois, Chicago, USA) Jack Minker (Univ. Maryland, USA) Dino Pedreschi (Univ. Pisa, Italy) Carolina Ruiz (Worcester Polytech. Inst. and U. Pittsburgh, USA) Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama Univ., Japan) Dietmar Seipel (Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany) Carlo Zaniolo (UCLA Los Angeles, USA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 28, 1997 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 1997 Camera ready version: June 16, 1997 SUBMISSIONS The primary focus is on new and original research. But we also encourage the submission of papers describing products, prototypes in development or benchmarks. Full papers or extended abstracts in English of 6 to 10 pages are welcome on any aspects of deductive databases and new concepts of logic programming supporting it. Authors are invited to send their papers to one of the organizers until April 28, 1997. Submission in LaTeX or plain TeX format by e-mail is encouraged. Notification of acceptance will be no later than May 20, 1997. The final, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers must be received by June 16, 1997 to be included into the workshop proceedings. Ulrich Geske: GMD-FIRST Berlin Rudower Chaussee 5, D - 12489 Berlin, Germany Email: geske@first.gmd.de Carolina Ruiz: University of Pittsburgh Department of Computer Science, 209A MIB Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA Email: ruiz@cs.pitt.edu Dietmar Seipel: University of Wuerzburg Department of Computer Science Am Hubland, D - 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany Email: seipel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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