The 13th International Conference on Data Engineering
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
April 7 --- April 11, 1997
This and other information concerning ICDE 1997 are available at
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http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/icde97 (European WWW site)
These home page sites will be kept up to date as new information
becomes available.
This document includes:
- Conference Description and Highlights
- Registration Forms
- Final Technical Program
SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE
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Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering disciplines in the
design, development and evaluation of information systems for
different computing platforms and system architectures. The 13th Data
Engineering Conference will provide a forum for the sharing of
original research results and practical engineering experiences among
researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of data and
knowledge management. The purpose of the conference is to share
solutions to problems that face our information-oriented society and
to identify new challenges and directions for future research.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
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Invited presentations by:
* Bill Baker (Microsoft): "Universal Access Versus Universal Storage"
* Malcolm Atkinson (University of Glasgow): "Java and Databases:
persistence, orthogonality, and independence"
Sessions of research papers on:
* Object Schemas and Versions
* Mobile Computing
* Managing Video Data
* OLAP and Data Mining
* Data Warehousing and Data Mining
* Indexing and Prefetching in OOBDMS
* Transaction Management
* Database Interoperability
* Query Processing
* Performance Issues
* Spatial Databases and GIS
* Scalability in Distributed Systems
* Real-time Databases and Concurrency
* Data Modeling
* Dynamic Roles and Moving Objects
Panel discussions on:
* Databases and the Web: what's in it for the databases?
* Nomadic and Mobile Computing
* Data Mining: where is it heading?
Industrial sessions with practice-oriented presentations on:
* Multimedia Application Requirements
* Data Warehousing
* New Hardware Platforms (Clusters)
TUTORIAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
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1. "CORBA and Distributed Object Technologies," Sean Baker, IONA
Technologies, Ireland. Monday morning, April 7.
2. "Workflow Management Systems: Programming, Architecture, Commercial
Products," Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden. Monday afternoon, April 7.
3. "Intelligent Agents," Michael Wooldridge, Mitsubishi, UK and Nicholas
Jennings, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London UK. Monday afternoon,
April 7.
4. "Databases and the World Wide Web," Marianne Winslett, University of
Illinois, USA. Tuesday morning, April 8.
5. "Geographical Information Systems," Hanan Samet, University of Maryland,
USA. Tuesday afternoon, April 8.
6. "Integration of Data Mining and Data Warehousing Technologies," Jiawei
Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Tuesday afternoon, April 8.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chairs:
Mike Jackson, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
Alex Gray, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Paul Larson, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Industrial Program Chair:
Jose Blakeley, Microsoft, USA
Panel Program Chair:
Wolfgang Klas, University of Ulm, Germany
Tutorial Program Co-Chairs:
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan ROC
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS
North American coordinator
Sharma Chakravarthy, Univ. of Florida, USA
European Coordinator:
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
Far East Coordinator:
Maria Orlowska, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
Exhibits Program:
Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Roger Barga, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
Jon Wallis, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Financial Co-Chairs:
Patrick O. Bobbie, Florida A&M University, USA
Mary Garvey, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Local Arrangements:
Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK
Steering Committee Chair
Joseph E. Urban, Arizona State University, USA
Sponsorships
Jessie Kennedy, Napier University, UK
Publications Co-Chair:
Keith Jeffrey, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
Elke Rundensteiner, Univ. of Michigan, USA
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REGISTRATION AND LOCAL INFORMATION
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ICDE'97 REGISTRATION FORM
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LOCAL INFORMATION
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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,
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* Birmingham University Link at http://bham.ac.uk
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* Birmingham Airport's Web Link at http://www.bhx.co.uk/
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ICDE97 FINAL TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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Wednesday, April 9th
08:00 - 09:30 Registration and Coffee
09:30 - 10:00 Conference Opening
Mike Jackson and Calton Pu
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Speech:
``Universal Access versus Universal Storage"
William Baker, Microsoft.
11:00 - 12:30 Two Parallel Sessions (1,2)
Session 1: Indexing and Pre-Fetching in OODBs
+ "SEOF: An Adaptable Object Prefetch Policy for Object-Oriented
Database Systems"
J-H Ahn, H-J Kim Republic of Korea
+ "Indexing OODB Instances based on Access Proximity"
C.Y. Chan, B.C. Ooi Singapore
+ "The Multikey Type Index for Persistent Object Sets"
T.A. Mueck, M.L. Polaschek Austria
Session 2: Database Interoperability
+ "Distributing Semantic Constraints Between Heterogeneous
Databases"
S. Grufman, F. Samson Sweden S.M. Embury, P.M.D. Gray UK, T.
Risch Sweden
+ "Semantic Dictionary Design for Database Interoperability"
S. Castano, V. De Antonellis Italy
+ "WOL: A Language for Database Transformations and Constraints"
S.B. Davidson, A.S. Kosky USA
12:30 -14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Three Parallel Sessions (3,4,5)
Session 3: Object Schemas and Versions
+ "A Propagation Mechanism for Populated Schema Versiions"
S.E. Lautemann Germany
+ "Representative Objects: Concise Representations of
Semistructured, Hierarchial Data"
S. Nestorov, J. Ullman, J. Weiner, S. Chawathe USA
+ "Supporting Fine-grained Data Lineage in a Database Visualization
Environment"
A. Woodruff USA
Session 4: Mobile Computing
+ "Quantifying Complexity and Performance Gains of Distributed
Caching in a Wireless Mobile Computing Environment"
C.C.F. Fong, J.C.S. Lui, M.H. Wong Hong Kong
+ "On Incremental Cache Coherency Schemes in Mobile Computing
Environments"
J. Cai, K-L Tan, B.C. Ooi Singapore
+ "Adaptive Broadcast Protocols to Support Efficient and Energy
Conserving Retrieval from Databases in Mobile Computing
Environments"
A. Datta, A. Celik, J.G. Kim, D.E VanderMeer, V. Kumar USA
Session 5: Multimedia Applications
+ "System Design for Digital Media Asset Management"
P. Fisher, Communications Arts USA
+ "Managing Complex Data - A Re-Engineering Exercise"
P. DeVries, The Bulldog Group Inc. Canada
+ "Content is king, if you can find it: A new model for knowledge
storage and retrieval"
Fred Wurden, Applied Technical Systems, Inc.
15:30 - 16:00 Break for Coffee and Tea
16:00 - 17:30 Three Parallel Sessions (6,7,8)
Session 6: Query Processing
+ "Relational Joins for Data on Tertiary Storage"
J. Myllymaki, M. Livny USA
+ "Selectivity Estimation in the Presence of Alphanumeric
Correlations"
M. Wang, J.S. Vitter, B. Iyer USA
+ "Similarity Based Retrieval of Videos"
A.P. Sistla, C. Yu, R. Venkatasubrahmanian USA
Session 7: Panel Discussion I
Title: "Databases and the Web: What's in it for Databases?"
Moderator: Erich J. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany
Session 8: Data Warehousing
+ "Teaching an OLTP Database Kernel Advanced Data Warehousing
Techniques"
C. French, Sybase USA
+ "Data warehousing: Dealing with the growing pains"
Robert Armstrong, NCR, USA
17:30 - 18:00 Free time
18:00 - 19:30 Conference Reception
Thursday, April 10th
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speech:
``Java and Databases: Persistence, orthogonality and
independence''
Malcolm Atkinson, University of Glasgow.
10:00 - 10:30 Break for Coffee and Tea
10:30 - 12:00 Two Parallel Sessions (9,10)
Session 9: OLAP and Data Mining
+ "Index Selection for OLAP"
H. Gupta, V. Harinarayan, A. Rajaram, J.D. Ullman USA
+ "Clustering Association Rules"
B. Lent, A. Swami, J. Widom USA
+ "Modeling Multidimensional Databases"
R. Agrawal, A. Gupta, S. Sarawagi USA
Session 10: Transaction Management
+ "Failure Handling for Transaction Hierarchies"
Q. Chen, U. Dayal USA
+ "An Argument in Favour of Presumed Commit Protocol"
Y.J. Al-Houmaily, P.K. Chrysanthis, S.P. Levitan USA
+ "Delegation: Efficiently Rewriting History"
C.P. Martin, K. Ramaritham USA
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Three Parallel Sessions (11,12,13)
Session 11: Data Warehousing and Data Mining
+ "Physical Database Design for Data Warehouses"
W.L. Labio, D. Quass, B. Adelberg USA
+ "Multiple View Consistency for Data Warehousing"
Y. Zhuge, H. Garcia-Molina, J.L. Wiener USA
+ "High-Dimensional Similarity Joins"
K. Shim, R. Srikant, R. Agrawal USA
Session 12: Panel Discussion II
Title: "Nomadic and Mobile Computing: What does it mean for
databases?"
Moderator: TBA
Session 13: Parallel servers
+ "Parallelism in the Oracle Warehouse Server"
Gary Hallmark, Oracle, USA
+ "Subquery Elimination: A Complete Unnesting Algorithm For An
Extended Relational Algebra"
Pedro Celis and Hans Zeller, Tandem
15:00 - 15:30 Break for Coffee and Tea
15:30 - 17:30 Three Parallel Sessions (14,15,16)
Session 14: Managing Video Data
+ "Partial Video Sequence Caching Scheme for VOD Systems with
Heterogeneous Clients"
Y.M. Chiu, K.H. Yeung Hong Kong
+ "Periodic Retrieval of Videos from Disk Arrays"
B. Ozden, R. Rastogi, A. Silberschatz USA
+ "Buffer and I/O Resource Pre-allocation for Implementing Batching
and Buffering Techniques for Video-on-Demand Systems"
M.Y.Y. Leung, J.C.S. Lui Hong Kong, L. Golubchik USA
Session 15: Performance Issues
+ "Interfacing Parallel Applications and Parallel Databases"
V. Gottemukkala, A. Jhingran, S. Padmanabhan USA
+ "Performance Evaluation of Rule Semantics in Active Databases"
E. Baralis, A. Bianco Italy
+ "Titan: A High-Performance Remote Sensing Database"
C. Chang, B. Moon, A. Acharya, C. Shock, A. Sussman, J. Saltz
USA
Session 16: Indexing and optimization
+ "Adding Full Text Indexing to the Operating System"
Kyle Peltonen, Microsoft, USA,
+ "A rule engine for query transformation in Starburst and IBM C/S DBMS"
Hamid Pirahesh, T.Y. Cliff Leung, Wagar Hassan
17:30 - 18:30 Free Time
18:30 - Conference Banquet
Friday, April 11th
8:30 - 10:00 Three Parallel Sessions (17,18,19)
Session 17: Object models and moving objects
+ "A Data Model and Semantics of Objects with Dynamic Roles"
R.K. Wong, H.L. Chau, F.H. Lochovsky Hong Kong
+ "Object Relater+ : A practical tool for developing enchanced
object databases"
Bryon K. Ehlmann, Gregory A. Riccardi, USA
+ "Modeling and Querying Moving Objects"
A.P. Sistla, O. Wolfson, S. Chamberlain, S. Dao USA
Session 18: Query Processing
+ "A Generic Query-Translation Framework for a Mediator
Architecture"
J. Calmet, S. Jekutsch, J. Shue Germany
+ "Semantic Query Optimization for Object Databases"
J. Grant, J. Gryz, J. Minker, L. Raschid USA
Session 19: Data Modeling
+ "Modeling Business Rules with Situation/Activation Diagrams"
B. Lang, W. Obermair, M. Schrefl Austria
+ "Designing the Reengineering Services for the DOK Federated
Database System"
Z. Tari, J. Stokes Australia
10:00 - 10:30 Break for Coffee and Tea
10:30 - 12:00 Two Parallel Sessions (20,21)
Session 20: Spatial Databases and GIS
+ "Integrated Query Processing Strategies for Spatial Path Queries"
Y-W. Huang, N. Jing, E.A. Rundensteiner USA
+ "Active Customization of GIS User Interfaces"
J.L. de Oliveira, C.B. Medeiros Brazil, M.A. Cilia Argentina
+ "STR: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for R-Tree Packing"
S.T. Leutenegger, J.M. Edgington, M.A. Lopez USA
Session 21: Panel Discussion III
Title: "Data Mining: Where is it heading?"
Moderator: Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Canada
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Two Parallel Sessions (22,23)
Session 22: Scalability and Distributed Systems
+ "Memory Management for Scalable Web Data Servers"
S. Venkatraman, M. Livny, J.F. Naughton USA
+ "Scalable Versioning in Distributed Databases with Commuting
Updates"
H.V. Jagadish, I.S. Mumick, M. Rabinovich USA
+ "A Cost-Model-Based Online Method for Ditributed Caching"
M. Sinnwell, G. Weikum Germany
Session 23: Real Time Databases, Concurrency Control
+ "Pinwheel Scheduling for Fault-tolerant Broadcast Disks in
Real-time Database Systems"
S. Baruah, A. Bestavros USA
+ "A Priority Ceiling Protocol with Dynamic Adjustment of
Serialization Order"
K-W. Lam Hong Kong, S.H. Son USA, S-l.Hung Hong Kong
+ "The CORD Appraoch to Extensible Concurrency Control"
G. Heineman, G. Kaiser USA
15:00 - 15:30 Break for Coffee and Tea
15:30 - 16:30 Plenary Panel Discussion
Title: ``New and Forgotten Dreams in Database Research''
Moderator: Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research, USA
Panelists: Rakesh Agrawal, Klaus Dittrich, Andreas Reuter,
Avi Silberschatz, Gerhard Weikum.
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