From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Mar 11 15:04:01 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 PAA11083 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:03:53 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00657 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:03:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:03:52 -0600 (CST) From: Alun Preece Message-Id: <199703112103.PAA00657@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu The KRAFT project is an exciting new project in Constraint Knowledge Fusion from distributed sources involving Aberdeen, Cardiff and Liverpool universities and BT, and coordinated by Professor P.M.D. Gray at Aberdeen University (see EPSRC IMPACT newsletter December 96). Full details are available via URL http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~pgray A vacancy has arisen at Aberdeen, and we are looking for a RESEARCH FELLOW (1A post at upto 29 age point) for two full years, starting around 1st JUNE 1997. The candidate must have a Ph.D. in Computing or AI (or be writing up), and have published research papers. The Research Fellow is funded by EPSRC and will have overall responsibility for the design of Mediator software in Prolog, which will take constraint information and knowledge from facilitators at other sites and transform it for various purposes. One of these includes sending it to Constraint Solvers using constraint logic. Experience in using PROLOG is essential. Understanding of Databases, Program Transformation, Formal Logic or Constraint Logic Programming are highly desirable. This is a team project, and the RF will be expected to work as a team with co-investigators at Aberdeen (Dr. G.Kemp and Dr. A.Preece) and a Research Assistant (K.Hui) who is concentrating on Constraint Logic Programming, as well as contributing to regular consortium meetings, in order to meet a challenging target. As a consortium, we intend to stand comparison with related work on Knowledge-Sharing in the USA ! Aberdeen University has a long history of work in Databases and Artificial Intelligence and has just celebrated its 500'th birthday. We are two and a half hours from Edinburgh by rail or car, with frequent daily flights to London and other UK and European destinations. For more background information see URL http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/pgstudy.html#S7 If you are attracted by this project and think you have the capabilities for this post please email or Fax your CV to pgray@csd.abdn.ac.uk by 22 MARCH. You will then be sent formal application papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof Peter M.D. Gray email: pgray@csd.abdn.ac.uk Department of Computing Science pgray@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk University of Aberdeen tel: (+44) 1224 272292 Kings College, ABERDEEN fax: (+44) 1224 273422 Scotland, UK, AB24 3UE www: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~pgray/ ________________________________________________________ Alun Preece http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~apreece/ University of Aberdeen Department of Computing Science Aberdeen, Scotland AB24 3UE, UK; FAX: +44 1224 273422 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 15:04:39 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 PAA11092 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:04:34 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00662 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:04:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:04:34 -0600 (CST) From: Frederic ANDRES (by way of "Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner" ) Message-Id: <199703112104.PAA00662@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (Preliminary) 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) 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. 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Thanks. +++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING The IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.5 FIRST WORKING CONFERENCE ON INTEGRITY AND INTERNAL CONTROL IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS Zurich, Switzerland December 4-5, 1997 Sponsored and organized by: * IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.5 In cooperation with: * International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), IT-Committee * Swiss Informaticians Society (SIS), Sub-Group Information Security * Dutch Computer Society (NGI), Special Interest Group on Information Security Hosted by: * SIS / University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science GENERAL INFORMATION Although it is well-known that confidentiality, integrity and availability are high-level objectives of IT security, much of the attention in the security arena has been devoted to the confidentiality aspect of security. IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.5 has been charged with exploring the area of the integrity objective within IT security and the relationship between integrity in information systems and the overall internal control systems that are established in organisations to support the corporate governance codes. In this our first working conference we wish to establish the basis for an ongoing dialog between the IT security specialists and the internal control specialists so that both may work more effectively together to assist in creating effective business systems in the future. The goals for this first conference are to find an answer to the following questions: * what precisely do business managers need in order to have confidence in the integrity of their information systems and their data; * what is the status quo of research and development in this area; * where are the gaps between business needs on the one hand and research and development on the other and what needs to be done to bridge these gaps. To achieve these goals, papers and panel proposals are solicited from both areas: practical experiences and business needs as well as original researc= h results and developments. This call for papers therefore addresses specifically all arenas that have an interest in trustworthy information systems: business managers, accountants and auditors, security specialists, researchers and system developers. Innovative ideas are hoped for and expected. Submissions will be refereed by members of the Programme Committee and members of the Working Group. Papers will be selected based on the technical merit and their relevance to the goals of the working conference and the ai= m and scope of WG 11.5 (Integrity and Internal Control). For the avoidance of any doubt, the working group considers integrity to cover the integrity of the system, of the data stored and/or transmitted and of the information supplied by the system to people to perform necessary business tasks. TOPICS We solicit papers describing original ideas and results on foundations and applications related to the subject of integrity and internal control in information systems. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: o integrity maintenance in databases and distributed databases o integrity maintenance in legacy systems and in non-traditional systems o active mechanisms for integrity maintenance o static and dynamic integrity constraints o methods for dealing with incomplete or inconsistent information o autonomy versus global integrity in multi-database systems o efficient methods for checking integrity o users and organizational requirements with respect to integrity o integrity requirements necessary to implement an internal control structure within an organization o system and data integrity maintenance during recovery processes o integrity of archival data o methods for implementing data retention policies o methods to repair integrity of data warehouses o methods to integrate managerial judgement on the action to take in relation to identified data errors o integrity of data dictionaries INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Authors are invited to submit six copies of papers before May 15, 1997. The text must be submitted in English. Papers should be limited to 7000 words, full page figures being counted as 300 words. Each paper must include a short abstract and a list of keywords indicating subject classification. The full names and addresses of the authors should only be printed only on the first title page (no names in the rest of the paper). The author who is the contact person should be identified as such. Acceptance of a paper means an obligation for at least one of the authors to attend the working conference and present the paper. Papers must be sent to: Professor Sushil Jajodia Sci & Tech II, Room 430 George Mason University Fairfax VA 22030-4444, USA telephone: +1 703 993 1653 fax: +1 703 993 1638 E-mail: jajodia@isse.gmu.edu Selection will be based on originality and contribution to the field. The proceedings will be published in the form of an edited book and will be available at the working conference. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: Deadline for submission: May 15, 1997 Notification for acceptance or rejection: August 1, 1997 Final camera-ready copy due: September 15, 1997 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: mr. Leon Strous, chairman of IFIP TC-11 Working Group 11.5 Gistel 20, 5707 GV Helmond, The Netherlands telephone: +31 20 5242748 (business) / +31 492 548636 (private) fax: +31 492 548636 E-mail: strous@iaehv.nl PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Chairman: prof. dr. Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA Co-chairs: mr. William List CA, The Kingswell Partnership, UK mr. Graeme McGregor CA, The Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Australia MORE INFORMATION: Additional and updated information about the conference can be found on the World Wide Web at URL: http://www.ifip.tu-graz.ac.at/TC11/CONF/CFPINS.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER- From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Tue Mar 11 15:07:17 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 PAA11147 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:07:12 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00676 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:07:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:07:11 -0600 (CST) From: Peter Scheuermann Message-Id: <199703112107.PAA00676@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu 1997 ACM SIGMOD AWARDS In 1992, ACM SIGMOD started the Annual "SIGMOD Innovations Award" and "SIGMOD Contributions Award" as part of its Awards Program. 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 Tue Mar 11 15:13:42 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 PAA11249 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:13:36 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00704 for dbworld; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:13:35 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:13:35 -0600 (CST) From: Chengwen Liu Message-Id: <199703112113.PAA00704@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR Participation ______________________________________________________________________________ The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST97) April 3-5, 1997 Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois, USA THEME: MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Enabling Technology for the Cyberspace __________________________________________________________________________ http://www.cs.depaul.edu/ICMIS97.html http://www.depaul.edu/~cliu/icmis97 __________________________________________________________________________ The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST97) will be held at Motorola University in Schaumburg, Illinois, on April 3-5, 1997. The conference is sponsored by Chinese Academic and Professional Association in Mid-America (CAPAMA), DePaul University and Motorola Inc. Other co-sponsors include ICSE of University of Illinois at Chicago, IEEE Chicago Section, C-SPIN, etc. The theme of the conference is multimedia information systems. Multimedia technology can substantially improve the communication between information providers and consumers. It contributes to the general accessibility of information, through new interactive media as well as through new forms of production, delivery and perception of existing media. The modeling, specification, analysis and application of multimedia information systems present many challenging problems to both researchers and practitioners. The purpose of ICAST' 97 is to promote the exchange of information and ideas between academia and industry, faculty, practitioners and students. It provides a forum for practitioners, researchers and students to get together to share ideas with and learn from each other. The conference program include 2 tutorials, 3 panel discussions and 7 technical paper sessions. The tutorial topics are "Multimedia Communications Protocols" and "Distributed Semantic Multimedia Information Retrival". The panel discussions are "Multimedia Technology", "Software process for developing cyberspace applications" and "Multimedia in Higher Education". The technical papers are selected by the program committee from many submissions from many countries and regions including Australia, Austria, Brizil, China, England, France, Greece, Isaril, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United states. The topics of the technical paper sessions include Multimedia Databases, Multimedia Modeling, Multimedia Technology, Video/Audio on Demand, Software Engineering, Telecommunicaitons and WWW. The conference also has a special YUFORIC (Youth Forum in Computer Science) track. The YUFORIC track include an interviewing skills workshop, personal feedback sessions, student paper presentations and internship interviews with Motorola for all student attendees. Please see the home page (http://www.depaul.edu/~cliu/icast97) for further information or you can contact Dr. Paosheng Chang (email: pschang@lucent.com, phone: 630-979-2232, fax: 630-224-2393) or Prof. Chengwen Liu (email: liu@cs.depaul.edu, phone: 312-362-8722, fax: 312-362-6116). ======================= Prelminary Program ================================== ICAST97/ICMIS97 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology in conjunction with The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems April 3-5, 1997 Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois, USA Thursday, April 3: 10:00-12:00 Tutorial 1: Protocols for Multimedia Communications Dr. Francis Leung (Motorola Inc.) 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-5:00 Tutorial 2: Distributed Semantic Multimedia Information Retrieval Professor William I. Grosky (Wayne State University) Professor Venkat N. Gudivada (University of Missouri at Rolla) Friday, April 4: 8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:15 Opening 9:15-10:00 Session 1: Keynote 1 Dr. Herbert Y. Chang 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Sessions 2 (2A & 2B) Session 2A: Panel 1 What Will be the Next Generation Multimedia Network? Panel Chair: Francis Leung (Motorola Inc.) The panel assembles expert visionaries from leading networking technology companies in the Chicago area to debate their visions of the future network. These experts come from service providers AT&T and Ameritech, and equipment (software and hardware) vandors Spyglass, Tellabs, Lucent and Motorola. They will discuss future services, drivers for the new sevices, technology necessry to support these services and the way the network will evolve. Session 2B: Multimedia Database Design and Implementation of Object-based Video Navigation Y. Okamura (Stanford University), K. Hirata and Y. Hara (NEC USA) Indexing Multi-Visual Feature in Multimedia Database Rong Lei, anne H. H Ngu, Jesse J. Jin (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia) Retrieval and Extraction by Content in an Object Oriented Database Chabane Djeraba, Patrick Fargeaud, Henri Briand (IRIN, France) Knowledge-based Document Filing: TEXPROS Approach Xien Fan, Qianhong Liu and Peter A. Ng (New Jersey Institute of Technology) 12:00-1:15 Lunch 1:15-2:00 Session 3: Keynote 2 TBA 2:00-3:30 Session 4 (4A & 4B) Session 4A: Multimedia Modeling Whole-Part Relationships in Hypermedia Database Thomas Pruckler and Michael Schrefl (University of Linz, Austria) A Dynamic Hypermedia Model for Interactive Video Long Yan, Wei Sun, Nagarajan Prabhakaran, Sha Guo and Yi Deng (Florida Intl Univ.) Behavior in Aggregation Hierarchies S. Vauttier, M. Magnan and C. Oussalah (EERIE Parc Scientifique, France) An Object-Oriented Approach to Modeling and Querying in Multimedia Information Systems Ya-Hui Chang (Providence University, Taiwan), Jia-Ling Koh and Arbee L.P. Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Session 4B: Panel 2 Software Process for developing cyberspace applications Panel Chair: Hamid Ghezavat (Honeywell) To understand and improve the way Cyberspace applications have been and will be developed, this panel assembles practitioners who have devoted time and effort in developing such applications. The panelists will share their lessons learned in developing Cyberspace applications and the issues surrounding such developments. 3:30-4:00 Break 4:00-5:30 Session 5 (5A & 5B) Session 5A: On Demand Servers Dynamic Grouping: An Efficient Buffer Management Scheme for Video-on-Demand Servers Simon Shen, Kien A. Hua and Wallapak Tavanapong (Univ. of Central Florida) Buffer Management Based on Forecasting Methodology in Multimedia DBMS Kwang-Chul Jung, Ung-Kyu Park, Dae-Young Hur, Myung-Joon Kim ABRN (ETRI, KOREA) Pre-Admission Control for Movie-on-Demand Systems Wallapak Tavanapong, Kien A. Hua and Simon Sheu (Univ. of Central Florida) An efficient Data Striping and Layout Scheme on Zoned-Disks for Continuous Media Servers Shiao-Li Tsao and Yueh-Min Huang (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan) Session 5B: Software Engineering Visualization of Data Dependency Analysis in Parallel Program Design E. Trichina, J. Oinonen and B. Thoms (Univ. of South Australia) A Visual Software Construction Approach D. J. Chen, W. C. Chen, C. C. Hwang and C..S. Kung (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) A Testing Maturity Model for Software TestProcess Assessment and Improvement Ilene Burnstein, Gary Saxena, Robert Carlson, Ariya Hoymen, Taratip Suwanassart (Illinois Institute of Technology) Inspections Don't Do It All Nicole Bianco (Motorola, Inc.) 7:00-9:30 Banquet Saturday, April 5: 8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00-10:30 Session 6: Invited Talks ISDN, Its Present and Future Albert Chen (Telamon Corporation) An Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard: Enabling Digital Multimedia Compression Mark Banham and Jim Brailean (Motorola Inc.) 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Session 7 (3 parallel sessions) Session 7A: Telecommunications Experiences with QoS Brokerage and Enforcement in Distributed Multimedia Applications Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) An Adaptive Algorithm for Managing Queues with Multiple Delay and Loss Priorities in ATM Networks Francis Kai (Dynamics Research Corporation), Hong Andy Chen (Northeastern Illinois University), Chuan-I Chu (Hong Kong Baptist University) and I-Ping Chu (Depaul University) IP Switching: Destination Triggered Redirection and Reclaim Solicit Matius Soneru, Heng-Hsin Liao (Lucent Technologies, Illinois Institute of Technology) Speech Prosody Representation for synthesis and Compression Wojciech Kurek and Rashid Ansari (University of Illinois at Chicago) Session 7B: Multimedia Technology A Dynamic Type System Supports Structure Multimedia Presentation Timothy K. Shih, Yule C. Lin and Chun-Chia Wang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) A Preliminary Study of Current Multimedia Information Technology Julia C. lee (Argonne National Laboratory) Documents and Multimedia Objects Tony Elliman (Brunel University, England) Testing a Set of Image Processing Operations for Completeness Leonard Brown, Le Gruenwald (The University of Oklahoma) Session 7C: Yuforic Workshop: JOb Interview Skills Joan Quinn, DePaul University 12:30-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:30 Session 8 (3 parallel Sessions) Session 8A: Panel 3 Multimedia in Higher Education Panel Chair: Tze-chung Li (Dominican University) Panelists: Hong Andy Chen (Northeastern Illinois University) Wilfred W. Fong (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee) Bor-sheng Tsai (Wayne State University) In-lan Wang Li (John Marshall Law School) Session 8B: WWW and Distributed Systems A Taxonomy on the Architecture of Database Gateways for WEB Pyung-Chul Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea) Multi-user Interactive Script Model of Collaborative Hypermedia Systems on WWW Cheng-Ju Hsu, Horng-Jyh Yu, Jia-Sheng Heh (Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan) Process assistant Laura Seidensticker, Karin Melberg (Motorola INC.) Distributed Concurrency Control Based on wait-Depth Priority Jiahong Wang, Jie Li and Hisao Kameda (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Session 8C: Yuforic Paper Session The Future of Information Technology, Global Competition and Struggle of Traditional Industries Jacek R. Brzezinski (DePaul University, USA) Exploiting Group Communication for Highly Available Video-On-Demand Services Tal Anker, Gregory V. Chockler, Idit Keidar, Michael Rozman, and Jonathan Wexler (Hebrew University, Israel) Image Retrieval Based on Texture, Color and Objects of Interest Jia Wang and Wen-jann Yang (State Univ. of New York - Buffalo) Classification in Data Mining: A Look at Traditional Methods in a Non-Traditional Environment Caroline St. Clair (DePaul University, USA) A MHEG-5 Objects Server for Multimedia Applications Marilde Terezinha Prado Santos (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Fabiano Calixto dos Santos, and Marina Teresa Pires Viera (Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil) ===================== tutorials ========================================== Tutorial 1: Protocols for Multimedia Communications Dr. Wu-Hon Francis Leung (Motorola Inc.) This talk will summarize the results of a multimedia conference system implemented in an experimental fast packet network (ATM networks are standardized fast packet networks). These results allow a user to engage in several multimedia conferences at the same time, each conference can have several conferees using an arbitrary number of information streams of varying bandwidth. The end-user can set up, tear down and change the conference configurations in real time. Adding and dropping information streams from a conference, merging and splitting conferences are special cases of what the user can do in changing the conference configurations. Furthermore, the user can specify that an information stream to be shared by a subset of the conferees and restrict a conferee's access to an information stream. These multimedia conferencing capabilities are supported by a set of results at different protocol layers. At the user interface level, a multimedia conference is a window. Icons inside the window represent conferees and applications shared by the conferees. In the Session Layer, we use a software device called a connector to manage the information streams used in the multimeida conference. The connector can be considered as a generalization of the UNIX pipe, providing full duplex and multicast connectivity among UNIX processes. A multimedia virtual circuit mechanism is used in the Transport Layer to maintain the temporal synchronization of the information streams and to provide coordination of upper layer software (for example, by signalling the addition of a new stream). A subset of the multimedia virtual circuit concept is now an essential part of the ATM layer protocol. In the Network Layer, the conference is a multicast connection. We will describe the modeling, properties and routing of multicast connections. This talk will review these concepts and in particular, show how they work together as a system to support multimedia conference configuration change in real time. Instructor Biography: Dr. Wu-Hon Francis Leung presently heads the System Architecture Department of Motorola's GSM Product Division. For the past twelve years, he managed development and exploratory research teams, at Motorola and Bell Laboratories, on areas like cellular infrastructure architecture, interactive video server on public switched network, switching system software, multimedia communication protocols, ATM technology and application oriented language. Prior to that he was a developer in a large real time software development project and a researcher in local switch architecture and technology for several years. For these work, he was granted 10 U.S. patents and with several more pending. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His graduate research was on the specification and verification of parallel programs in operating systems and parallel processing of sequential programs. Tutorial 2: Distributed Semantic Multimedia Information Retrieval William I. Grosky, Wayne State University Venkat N. Gudivada, University of Missouri at Rolla Bulk of the data processed by computers in the near future will be audio-visual in nature. With the proliferation of multimedia computing into the ubiquitous desktop computers, multimedia data will be as common to computers of the near future as what text data is to today's computers. Structured data, text, graphics, animation, images, audio and video comprise multimedia data. With the advent of the World-wide Web (or simply Web), more and more multimedia information sources are being made available for on-line access. Semantic multimedia information retrieval is characterized by the ability of the system to perform retrieval based on textual, visual, and auditory contents of the media in a transparent way to the system user. Tools and techniques for multimedia data organization, search, retrieval, and presentation comprise the enabling technology to realize semantic retrieval. The objective of this tutorial is to present various issues concerning the evolving theory, design, and development of systems for distributed semantic multimedia information retrieval (DSMIR). The tutorial include the following topics: - A survey of multimedia information retrieval applications - A taxonomy for existing approaches to multimedia information retrieval - Characteristics of and problems in distributed semantic multimedia information retrieval - Multimedia data types, storage and compression standards - Multimedia information retrieval models: Information retrieval models for text, graphics, images, audio, and video will be presented. - Issues in capturing multimedia features and semantics. - Query processing and similarity measures - Issues in the query language or specification scheme design. - Indexing structures - Incorporating user subjectivity - Distribution issues - Test collections for benchmarking retrieval algorithms - System implementation issues - Research prototypes and commercial systems. - Research directions - Prototype demonstrations. Instructor Biography: Dr. William I. Grosky received his B.S. from M.I.T. in 1965, his M.S. from Brown University in 1968, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He was an assistant professor of Information and Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1971-1976 and is currently a professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. His research interests lie in the fields of database management systems, multimedia information systems, hypermedia, and object-oriented analysis and design. An author of over 90 papers, he has participated in numerous projects sponsored by governmental agencies and multinational corporations, including the ARO, AFOSR, IBM, and Ford Motor Company. He has given many short courses in the area of database management for local industries and has been invited to lecture on multimedia information systems. Serving also on many conference program committees in the database area, he is currently on the editorial boards of the publications IEEE Multimedia, International Journal of Applied Software Technology, Journal of Database Management, and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Venkat N. Gudivada received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Center for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1986 and 1993. His Ph.D. dissertation was concerned with developing a unified approach to modeling and retrieving images based on their semantic contents. Currently, he is on the computer science faculty at the University of Missouri at Rolla. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in database and multimedia systems. His major research interests lie in distributed semantic multimedia information retrieval and multimedia database management. Other areas of interest include digital libraries, and geographic information systems. His research was funded by ARO, NASA, and DOE. He has published about 25 technical articles in multimedia information retrieval area. Dr. Gudivada served as a co--guest editor for September 1995 IEEE Computer (theme issue featuring Content-based Image Retrieval Systems) and December 1995 symposium issue of ACM Computing Surveys on multimedia systems. He has served on the program committees for several conferences and is co-chairing 1997 SPIE conference on Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems. ============================= registration ================================ The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST 97) in conjunction with The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems (ICMIS 97) Motorola University, Schaumburg, Illinois April 3-5, 1997 ___________________________________________________________________________________ PRE-REGISTRATION FORM Deadline: March 22, 1997 Last Name: ___________________ First Name: _________________ M.I: ____ Affiliation: _____________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________ City: ______________________ State: ______________ ZIP: ___________ Country: ___________ Telephone: _________________ Fax: _________________ eMail: __________________________ Registration Fee Speaker Member Non-Member Student Tutorial* [ ] $40.00 [ ] $40.00 [ ] $60.00 [ ] $20.00 Registration* [ ] $95.00 [ ] $95.00 [ ] $120.00 [ ] $20.00 Proceedings Included Included Included [ ] $20.00 Banquet Included Included Included [ ] $35.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total $ $ $ $ Total Amount Enclosed: $ Notes: * Tutorial fee includes lunch. * Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch. * $25.00 ($20.00 for student) per additional copy of the Proceedings for purchase based on availability. * $35.00 for each extra banquet ticket. * An extra $10.00 will be charged for late or on-site registration. 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Its main purposes are the dissemination of the research work in Databases, and to provide an environment for the interchange of experiences and knowledge among researchers and practitioners in that field. The XII SBBD will be held at Fortaleza and supported by Federal University of Ceara, from 13 to 15 October. The Symposium will contain Technical sessions, international talks, basic and advanced tutorials, panels involving academics, manufacturers and users, exhibitions of commercial products in the database domain. Also, as traditional, The XI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering will be held at the same place from 15 to 17 October; both events are coordinated by the same organizing committee. Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing relevant, original and unpublished research or experience works, as well as tutorials, related (but not restricted to) the following topics: * Database theory and algorithms * User Interfaces to databases * DBMS implementation aspects * Object-oriented databases * Active, deductive, temporal and spatial databases * Cooperative databases * Multimedia and Hypermedia databases (data storage, retrieval and synchronization in a multimedia database) * Knowledge discovery in database * Extensible systems * Parallel and Distributed databases * Interoperability * Data modelling and database design techniques * Query processing * Database support for advanced applications * Data mining, workflow and data warehouse --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors should send 4 copies of the full paper, limited to 15 pages to the Symposium's General Chair. Papers must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference and/or publication in a Journal, nor should it have already been published elsewhere. Submissions must be sent to the address below (no E-mail or Fax submissions are allowed). Submission of a paper is assumed to imply that at least of the authors will register for the conference and thus present the paper. The criteria for judgment are originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation. Papers must be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English, and printed in A4 format (21,0 cm x 29,7 cm), with top margin 3,5 cm, bottom margin 2,0 cm and side margins 2,5 cm. They must be printed preferably with 12 points roman fonts and include title, information of all authors (name, institution, address, fax number and e-mail ), a short abstract (150 words), and keywords. Proceedings will be printed reduced by 70%, so small details should be avoided. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATIONS Profa. Vania Maria Ponte Vidal General Chair - XII SBBD Universidade Federal do Ceara Departamento de Computacao Caixa Postal 12166 CEP: 60455-760 Fortaleza - CE - Brazil Phone: (085) 288.9847 e-mail: sbbd97@lia.ufc.br --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper (and tutorial) submission: April 25, 1997 Notification of acceptance: June 06, 1997 Camera-ready papers due: July 04, 1997 Symposium: October 13-15, 1997 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Names confirmed until now: * Alberto F. Laender (UFMG) * Ana Carolina Salgado (UFPE) * Ana Paula Ambrosio (UFG) * Antonio L. Furtado (PUC-Rio) * Asterio Tanaka (IME-RJ) * Bruno Defude (Institut National des Telecommunications, Evry, FR) * Carlos A. Heuser (UFRGS) * Duncan Dubugras Ruiz (PUCRS) * Marcus Sampaio (UFPb) * Margaret H. Dunham (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX) * Marina Teresa Pires Vieira (UFSCar) * Mario Nascimento (Embrapa) * Moshe Zloof (Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA) * Sandra de Amo (UFU) * Theo Harder (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Vania Maria Ponte Vidal (UFC) (Coordinator) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Claudio Marques - UFC Denise Carneiro - UFC Dulcinda Carneiro - UNIFOR Javam de Castro Machado - UFC (Coordinator) Mauro Barbosa - UFC Roberta Sousa Almeida Pontes - UECE Vania Maria Ponte Vidal - UFC Valneide Cabral - UFC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FORTALEZA Fortaleza stands by the sea, it's hot and sunny. The temperatures (in Celsius) in the city of Fortaleza range from 20 C (winter) to 35-45 C (summer), and there is a nice and constant breeze blowing from the Atlantic ocean. The city is clean and if you love beaches you will find paradisiac ones, with white sand and green water. The nights in Fortaleza are wonderful if you love to listen to live music, eat good fish meals, talk to people, and feel the sea breeze on your face. The population is around 1.8 million people, the people are nice and friendly. We have an an airport with daily connections to the main cities in Brazil (it's one hour flight to Recife where you have international connections). Finally Fortaleza has, in the technical area, 3 universities: Federal University of Ceara, which is responsible for both SBBD and SBES, University of Fortaleza, and Ceara State University. _____________________________________________________________ Javam C. Machado E-mail: javam@lia.ufc.br Dep. de Computacao Fone: (085) 288.9847 Univ. 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Although extensive work has been carried out on supporting active rules and deductive rules in database systems, many questions are still open in order to turn these kinds of database systems into a practical technology. The RIDS '97 workshop intends to examine the current state of the art, to present novel and innovative approaches to rule systems, to discuss experiences with operational systems and real-life applications, and to identify future trends and developments. Suggested topics and issues include, but are not limited to: - application experiences - architectural issues and implementation experiences - deductive rules and integrity constraints - distribution aspects of rules - performance issues and tuning of active database systems - rule design, analysis, and simulation - rules for coordination, cooperation, and workflow management - rules in multi database environments - temporal aspects of rules - theoretical foundations of rules - tools (debuggers, browsers, etc.) Paper Submission ---------------- Each submission should include original work not exceeding 20 double spaced pages or 5000 words. The cover page should include the title, name and affiliation of the author(s), contact address, email, fax and telephone. Papers can be submitted as hard copies (5 copies) to: RIDS '97 Andreas Geppert Institut fuer Informatik Universitaet Zuerich Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zuerich Switzerland Email: rids97@ifi.unizh.ch Fax: +41-1-363 0035 Ph.: +41-1-257 4576 We also encourage electronic submissions, PROVIDED they consist of PostScript files that can be printed and ghostviewed under a Unix-like system. The Proceedings will be published as a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Pre-proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Workshop Format --------------- Participation in the workshop will be limited to people actively contributing to the meeting. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: March 21, 1997 Notification of acceptance: May 23, 1997 Camera ready copies: June 13, 1997 Workshop: June 26-28, 1997 Organizing Committee -------------------- Andreas Geppert, University of Zurich, Switzerland Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skoevde, Sweden Program Committee ----------------- Mokrane Bouzeghoub, France=09 Alex Buchmann, Germany Stefano Ceri, Italy Sharma Chakravarthy, USA Umesh Dayal, USA Oscar Diaz, Spain Klaus R. Dittrich, Switzerland Suzanne Embury, UK Narain Gehani, USA Martin Kersten, Netherlands Manolis Koubarakis, UK Brian Lings, UK Peter Lockemann, Germany Norman Paton, UK Tore Risch, Sweden Timos Sellis, Greece Eric Simon, France Howard Williams, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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A discount is offered for multiples of any two tutorials attended. o Funds will be refunded if a written request is received at least 30 days prior to the event. Such cancellations will attract a $50 administration charge. No refund will be made for cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the event. Substitutions may be made at any time. o The student rate does not include a copy of the proceedings. o Students must provide a letter from a recognized educational institution confirming that they are a full time registered student. LOCAL INFORMATION ---=================--- Birmingham is the Regional Capital of the UK's West Midlands. The city is situated at the centre of Britian's motorway network approximately 115 miles (185 km) to the north-west of London and is surrounded by the countries of Warwickshire, Hereford and Worcester, Staffordshire and Shropshire. There is direct access to the city from the North, South, East and West by the M5, M6, M40 and M42. The unrivalled rail communications network provides direct links to all major UK cities. Birmingham International Airport is growing rapidly and boasts daily direct flights to the USA, Canada and many major European cities amongst it extensive range of destinations. For additional information to plan your visit to Birmingham, UK. * Birmingham Assist at http://birmingham.gov.uk/ A number of relevant links, including weather, whats on, restaurants, photos, hotels, Birmingham international airport; probably most useful is to go to the "What's On" section and look under Tourist Information. * General Information from Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Regional/ Countries/United_Kingdom/England/Counties_and_Districts/Birmingham/ * Birmingham University Link at http://bham.ac.uk Contains campus maps with travel info by road, rail and air. * Computer Science Department at http://cs.bham.ac.uk Link to the computer science department of the university. * Birmingham Airport's Web Link at http://www.bhx.co.uk/ Offers information on scheduled services, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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DEXA will offer the opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in the field. Suggested Topics ---------------- The main topics of DEXA 97 will include, but are not limited to: Active and Deductive Databases CIM - Applications Client Server and Open Network Databases Connectionist Models Constraint Based Reasoning CSCW Data Mining Databases in the Humanities Datawarehouses Digital Libraries Distributed and Parallel Database Systems Expert Systems Architecture Hypertext / Hypermedia Information Modelling Information Retrieval Interoperable Databases Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Engineering Legal Information Systems Mobile Information Systems Multimedia Databases Natural Language Interfaces/Processing Object-Oriented Databases Office Information Systems Qualitative Reasoning Realtime Databases Reverse Engineering Scientific/Engineering Applications Security Social/Governmental Information Systems Statistical Databases Temporal and Spatial Databases Uncertainty Handling Uncertainty Reasoning User Interfaces to Databases Workflow and Process Automation WWW Interfaces General Chairperson: V. Marik, Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic --------------------------------------------------------------- Panel Chairperson: H. Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Program Chairpersons: A. Hameurlain, Universit Paul Sabatier, France A M. Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairperson: R.R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Members: -------------------------- H. Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H.J. Appelrath, University of Oldenburg, Germany K. Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland P. Bazex, IRIT, Universit Paul Sabatier, France T. Bench-Capon, University of Liverpool, UK B. Bhargava, Purdue University, USA J. Bing, NRCCL Oslo, Norway J. Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden L. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal S. Christodoulakis, University of Crete, Greece B. Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA W.S. Cellary, Technical University of Poznan, Poland J. Debenham, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia P. Drazan, RIKS Maastricht, The Netherlands D. Dubois, CNRS, IRIT, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France J. Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria T. Eiter, Technical University of Vienna, Austria G. Gardarin, INRIA, France S. Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California, USA F. Golshani, Arizona State University, USA G. Gottlob, Technical University of Vienna, Austria I. Hawryszkiewycz, Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia S. Jajodia, George Mason University, USA M. Kamel, Naval Postgraduate School, USA N. Kamel, City University of Hongkong, Hong Kong Y. Kambayashi, IMEEL, Japan G. Kappel, University of Linz, Austria D. Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria M.A. Ketabchi, Santa Clara University, USA M.H. Kim, KAIST, Korea W. Klas, University of Ulm, Germany J. Kouloumdjian, LISI-INSA, Lyon, France P. Kroha, Technical Univ. of Chemnitz, Germany J. Lazansky, Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic T.W. Ling, University of Singapore, Singapore V. Lum, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong R. Marty, IFA, Switzerland A. Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada J. Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany T.W. Olle, T.W. Olle & Associates, UK G. Ozsoyoglu, University Case Western Research, USA G. Pangalos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece M. Papazoglou, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy G. Pernul, University of Essen, Germany H. Prade, CNRS, IRIT, Univ. Paul Sabatier, France G. Quirchmayr, University of Vienna, Austria I. Ramos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain N. Revell, Middlesex University, UK C. Rolland, University Paris I, France N. Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA R. Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia M. Scholl, CNAM&INRIA, Paris, France A. Sernadas, University of Lisbon, Portugal M. Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA A. Smeth, University of Georgia, USA J.C. Smith, University of British Columbia, Canada H. Sonnberger, European University Institute, Italy R.B. Stanton, ANK, Australia M. Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan K. Tanaka, Kobe University, Japan Z. Tari, RMIT, Australia S. Teufel, University of Zurich, Switzerland H.W. Thimbleby, Middlesex University, UK C.H. Thoma, Ciba-Geigy, Switzerland R. Traunm=FCller, University of Linz, Austria K. Vidyasankar, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada S. Zdonik, Brown University, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Organization Office: G. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Local Organization: J.P. Arcangeli, P. Bazex, S. Bonneau, P. Maurice, J.M. Thvenin all from the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT),= France ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************* *C o n f e r e n c e* ********************* Information for Conference Authors: ----------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. Papers should be double-spaced and no longer than 5.000 words. A separate cover sheet must be included which provides the following information: title, name of author(s), postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Authors are invited to send 4 copies of their paper to the Conference -------------------------- Program Chair: Dr. A. Hameurlain IRIT Universit Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse Cedex France Phone: ++33 05 61 55 82 48 Fax: ++33 05 61 55 62 58 e-mail: hameur@irit.fr --------------------------- The Program Committee will assign accepted papers to the workshop if they are better suited for the workshop. All accepted conference papers will be published in =84Lecture Notes in Computer Science=93 (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. ------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: March 21, 1997 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 1997 Camera-ready copies: June 15, 1997 ------------------------------------------ ********************************************** *8th International Conference on * *Database and Expert Systems Applications * * * *in cooperatin with: * *- IRIT, Universit Paul Sabatier, France * *- DEXA Association * *- Austrian Computer Society * *- GI (Gesellschaft f=FCr Informatik) * *- FAW - University of Linz, Austria * *- Swiss Informaticians Society * ********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 14 10:03:39 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 KAA04310 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:03:32 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA06479 for dbworld; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:03:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:03:32 -0600 (CST) From: Srinivas Ganta Message-Id: <199703141603.KAA06479@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND ACM WORKSHOP ON ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL http://www.list.gmu.edu/rbac.html Date: November 6-7, 1997 Place: George Mason University SPONSORED BY: ACM SIGSAC* and ACM Washington DC Chapter* HOSTED BY: George Mason University The central idea of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is that users acquire and use permissions based on their current job functions, assignments and activities in an organization. The driving motivation for RBAC is to simplify security policy administration while facilitating the definition of flexible, customized policies. RBAC has been successfully applied since the mainframe era. Modern information systems will continue to use classical RBAC models, but the development of new modeling concepts and techniques will be required to support large-scale, enterprise-wide, distributed systems. The ACM workshop on RBAC brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners to discuss new ideas, developments, applications, requirements, problems, and solutions in the field of RBAC. The workshop invites participation from the database, network, distributed systems, operating system, security and application communities.=20 Attendance is limited to 40 participants to foster a workshop atmosphere. The inaugural workshop, held in November 1995, was successful in its modest goal of taking a first step towards a consensus reference model for RBAC. There was substantial agreement among attendees regarding the general concepts that RBAC can represent. Yet, there were many manifestations, elaboration=92s, and applications of these demonstrating that RBAC is a rich and fruitful area for future work. Proceedings of the first workshop are available from ACM. Users, developers and researchers are invited to submit seven copies of their papers (limit 7500 words) to the Program Chair at the address given below before the due date. Papers must be original and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Copyrights for accepted papers must be transferable to ACM (except for Government work). Outstanding papers will be considered for publication in ACM=92s new=20 Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC). Proposals for panels and group discussions should be sent, preferably by email, to = the=20 Program Chair at ecoyne@seta.com. Proceedings of the workshop will be published by ACM and will be distributed at the workshop. Submissions should be sent to: Ed Coyne SETA Corporation 6862 Elm Street McLean, Virginia, 22101-3833 Internet: ecoyne@seta.com SCHEDULE: Papers and Panel Proposals due: June 1, 1997 Notification of acceptance and advance program: July 15, 1997 Deadline for final version of papers: August 15, 1997 Workshop: November 6-7, 1997 REGISTRATION: Information on registration and accommodations will be provided. There will be a registration fee for all participants to cover meeting costs. For further information about the workshop, contact Srinivas Ganta at sganta@cygnacom.com or consult our web site. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Steering Committee Chair: Ravi Sandhu, George Mason University General Chair: Charles Youman, SETA Corporation Program Chair: Ed Coyne, SETA Corporation Proceedings Chair: Trent Jaeger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Local Arrangements and Publicity Chair: Srinivas Ganta, CygnaCom Solutions Inc. Panel Chair: David Ferraiolo, NIST PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David Ferraiolo, National Institute of Standards and Technology Srinivas Ganta, CygnaCom Solutions, Inc. Trent Jaeger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center LouAnna Notargiacomo, Oracle Corporation Sylvia Osborn, University of Western Ontario Steven Greenwald, Independent Consultant * Pending Approval. --------------66D95FAB2625-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. 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