>>>>> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS VLDB'97 <<<<<<
23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Athens, Greece, August 25-29, 1997
.... Email for general questions: vldb97@dbnet.ece.ntua.gr
.... Home page: http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/VLDB97/ or
http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/VLDB97/
.... Important: submit electronic abstract by February 14, 1997 !!
.... Hard paper arrival deadline: February 21, 1997
>>>> Scope
For 23 years, VLDB has served the database community as its major
truly international conference all over the world. From an arena
where just research results are presented, VLDB has evolved to a
forum where researchers and practitioners exchange ideas and
experiences, without sacrificing quality ensured by rigorous
refereeing. The VLDB '97 conference will continue and strengthen
this trend.
We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results
in the general field of databases. To further the goal of
stimulating new research directions, we solicit papers and panel
proposals on speculative and futuristic topics. We also encourage
papers on novel and challenging applications of database
technology in designing and building complex information systems.
Papers reporting marginal improvements of well-known solutions
will receive less priority than in some past years.
>>>> Topics of Interest
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Temporal and Spatial Databases
Optimization and Performance
Parallel and Distributed Databases
Persistent Object Systems
Multimedia Databases
Database Languages
Storage Management
View Management and Data Warehousing
Active Databases
Knowledge Base Management Systems
Text Databases
Engineering and Scientific Databases
Heterogeneous and Federated Databases
Graphical Query Languages and Tools
DBMS Architectures
Concurrency Control and Recovery
Data Consistency, Integrity and Security
Database Mining
Data Models and Database Design
Database Evolution and Migration
Mobile Databases
Internet Information Servers
Interaction Between DB and IR Systems
User Interfaces
Database Benchmarks
Logic and Databases
Implementation Reports/Case Studies
Transactional Workflow
>>>> Research and Experience Paper Submission
Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words
should be submitted to the appropriate program
co-chair depending on the geographic region in which the authors
of a paper reside. The submissions must be received by the
"drop-dead" deadline of 21 February 1997; there will be no grace
period.
>>>> Submissions to Industry/Commercial Track
We encourage submission of short papers of about 500 words
describing work of significant
interest to industry, particularly in applications and areas
providing interesting directions for the development of DBMSs.
We seek to provide a forum to discuss experiences in
applying DBMSs to real-life situations. Papers intended for this
track will receive special consideration by the Program Committee.
They should be clearly marked as industrial/commercial papers
and submitted to the regular PC chairs corresponding to the
author's geographic region. In the evaluation of the papers
submitted to this track, the committee will consider novelty,
technical quality and the value of reported results to developers
and users of information systems. Questions concerning possible
submissions to this track should be directed to the Industrial/
Commercial Track Chair. One-page abstracts of accepted papers in the
industry/commercial track will be published in the conference
proceedings. The "drop-dead" deadline is also February 21, 1997.
>>>> Abstract Submission
Authors intending to submit a paper to either the research/experience
or the industry/commercial track must send an
electronic abstract by February 14, 1997, as follows:
If you have access to the World Wide Web, please fill in the
abstract submission form that can be found under
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/VLDB97/Abstracts/
If you have no access to the World Wide Web, you can instead
send an email to the the following address:
vldb97abstract@sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
This email must conform to the following format:
Subject: VLDB97, <Reg>, <Track>
where
<Reg> is the regional PC where you plan to submit to
AM=Americas, MF=Middle/Far East, EU=Europe
<Track> is either IN (industry track) or RE (research track)
and the following contents
AUTHORS = <List of all authors>
TITLE1 = <Title of submitted paper>
TITLE2 = <optional>
TOPIC1 = <most relavant topic from above 'topics of interest'>
TOPIC2 = <2nd most relavant topic>
TOPIC2 = <3rd most relavant topic>
ADDRESS1= <Full address of contact author>
ADDRESS2= <optional>
EMAIL = <Email address of contact author>
ABSTR01 = <1st line of abstract>
ABSTR02 = <2nd line of abstract>
..
ABSTR20 = <20th line of abstract>
The abstract must not be longer than 250 words (20 lines
with at most 70 characters).
>>>> Panels and Tutorials
Panel and tutorial proposals should be submitted to the
respective chairs. Panels should address exciting new and
controversial issues rather than being short paper sessions.
Tutorial proposals should clearly identify the intended audience
which should be broader than a small research community.
>>>> Important Dates
Electronic abstract submissions:
14 February 1997
Paper, Panel, Tutorial, Industry/Applications submission:
21 February 1997 (firm deadline)
Notification of acceptance:
9 May 1997
Conference:
25-29 August 1997
>>>> Key Conference Officials
Program Committee Chair:
Matthias Jarke, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany;
jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de; Ph: +49-241-802 1500; Fax:
+49-241-888 8321
European PC Chair:
Klaus Dittrich, Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Zurich,
Winterthurerstr. 190, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;
dittrich@ifi.unizh.ch; Ph: +41-1-257 4312; Fax: +41-1-363 0035
American PC Chair:
Mike Carey, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, K55/B1,
San Josi, CA 95120-6099, USA; carey@almaden.ibm.com; Ph:
+1-408-927 2732; Fax: +1-408-927 4304
Middle- and Far-East PC Chair:
Fred Lochovsky, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University
of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay Rd., Kowloon, Hong Kong;
fred@cs.ust.hk; Ph: +852-2358 6996; Fax: +852-2358 1477
Industrial/Commercial Track Chair:
Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, Dept. of Computing, PO Box 88,
Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom; pl@sna.co.umist.ac.uk; Ph:
+44-161 200 3332; Fax: +44-161 200 3364
Tutorial Chairs:
Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; yannis@cs.wisc.edu;
Ph: +1-608 263 7764; Fax: +1-608 262 9777
Tamer Ozsu, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1; ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca;
Ph: +1-403 492 2860; Fax: +1-403 492 1071
Panel Chairs:
Ramez Elmasri, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA;
elmasri@cse.uta.edu; Ph: +1-817 272 3785; Fax: +1-817 272 3784
Arie Segev, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of
California,Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; segev@csr.lbl.gov;
Ph: +1-415 642 4731; Fax: +1-415 642 2826
General Conference Chair:
Yannis Vassiliou, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Computer Science Division, National Technical University of Athens,
157 73 Zografou, Greece; yv@cs.ntua.gr;
Ph: +30-1-772 2526; Fax: +30-1-772 2527
Organizing Committee:
Chair: Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens,
Greece; timos@cs.ntua.gr
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada; jm@cs.toronto.edu
Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA; nick@cs.umd.edu
Area Coordinators
Europe: Joachim Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany;
J_Schmidt@dbis1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Americas: Jim Gray, Microsoft, USA; gray@microsoft.com
Middle- and Far-East: Ron Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia;
rsd@citri.edu.au
VLDB Endowment Liaison:
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ceri@elet.polimi.it
Publicity Chair:
Panagiotis Georgiadis, Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens,
TYPA Buildings, 157 71 Athens, Greece; georgiad@di.uoa.gr;
Ph: +30-1-729 1885; Fax: +30-1-721 9561
>>>> Program Committee
Divy Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Peter Apers, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Univ. of Chile, Chile
David Bell, Univ. of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Tony Bonner, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Athman Bouguettaya, QUT, Australia
Francois Bry, Univ. of Munich, Germany
G. v. Bueltzingsloewen, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
Arbee L.P. Chen, NTHU, Taiwan
Ming-Syan Chen, NTU, Taiwan
David W.L. Cheung, HKU, Hong Kong
Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France
Christine Collet, LSR-IMAG, France
Susan Davidson, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA
Claude Delobel, LRI, France
Asuman Dogac, Middle East TU, Turkey
Pamela A. Drew, HKUST, Hong Kong
Curtis Dyreson, James Cook Univ., Australia
Christos Faloutsos, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Ada Fu, CUHK, Hong Kong
Antonio Furtado, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC, USA
Andreas Geppert, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland
Goetz Graefe, Microsoft, USA
Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ashish Gupta, Oracle, USA
Laura Haas, IBM Almaden, USA
Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia
Theo Haerder, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jayant Haritsa, IISc Bangalore, India
M. Hatzopoulos, Univ. of Athens, Greece
Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley, USA
Andreas Heuer, Univ. of Rostock, Germany
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason Univ., USA
Christian Jensen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
Anant Jhingran, IBM Hawthorne, USA
Alfons Kemper, Univ. of Passau, Germany
Roger King, Univ. of Colorado, USA
Wolfgang Klas, Univ. of Ulm, Germany
Ravi Krishnamurthy, HP Labs, USA
Yoon-Joon Lee, KAIST, Korea
David Maier, OGI, USA
Yoshifumi Masunaga, ULIS, Japan
Tova Milo, Univ. of Tel Aviv, Israel
Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy
Bernhard Mitschang, TU Munich, Germany
Inderpal Mumick, AT&T Research, USA
Jeff Naughton, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
Raymond Ng, UBC, Canada
Christos Nikolaou, FORTH, Greece
Shojiro Nishio, Osaka Univ., Japan
Patrick O'Neil, U-Mass Boston, USA
Beng-Chin Ooi, NUS, Singapore
G. Ozsoyoglu, Case-Western Reserve Univ., USA
Tamer Ozsu, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Jan Paredaens, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden, USA
Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
Krithi Ramamritham, Univ. of Massachusetts, USA
Ken Ross, Columbia Univ., USA
Ken Salem, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Betty Salzberg, Northeastern Univ., USA
N.L. Sarda, IIT Bombay, India
Heinz Schweppe, FU Berlin, Germany
Bernhard Seeger, Univ. of Marburg, Germany
Avi Silberschatz, Bell Labs, USA
Martin Staudt, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Kazimierz Subieta, Academy of Sciences, Poland
Changjie Tang, Sichuan Univ., P.R. China
Jeff Ullman, Stanford Univ., USA
Ke Wang, NUS, Singapore
Shan Wang, PUC, P.R. China
Howard Williams, Heriot-Watt Univ., Scotland
Heon-Young Yeom, Seoul National Univ., Korea
>>>> Industry/Commercial Program Committee
C.C. Chang, NCCU, Taiwan
Shel Finkelstein, MATISSE Software (Liaison), USA
Michael Kay, ICL, UK
Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands
Klaus K|spert, Univ. of Jena, Germany
Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore
John McGuire, Datel, United Kingdom
John McPherson, IBM Toronto, Canada
Mike Olson, Informix, USA
Tore Risch, EDSLAB, Sweden
Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
Donovan Schneider, RedBrick Systems, USA
Arun Swami, Internet Profiles, USA
Laurent Vieille, Bull, France
Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea
>>>> About the Conference Location
VLDB '97 will be held near Athens, Greece, a place equally famous
for its historical attraction, beautiful landscape and weather,
lively database community, and hospitality. This is the first time
that VLDB comes to a European country in the South East Mediterranean
region - the cross-roads of Western and Eastern Europe, Middle-East
and Africa. The conference will serve as a catalyst for the
development and dissemination of database technology in this region
and will also offer inroads into new markets in Eastern Europe and
the Middle-East.
"The gods, who, as they say, never left Athens,
are waiting for you in 1997"
-- Matthias Jarke email: jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de RWTH Aachen Informatik V Tel. (49) (241) 80-21500 Ahornstr. 55 Fax (49) (241) 8888-321 52072 Aachen, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community.
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