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
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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
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Steering Committee
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Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA
Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA
Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel
Noshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel
Program Committee Chairs
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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
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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
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URL of the Workshop: http://iew3.technion.ac.il:8080/Home/NGITS97.phtml
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This announcement contains:
1. Call for participation
2. Program
3. Registration information
4. Registration and accommodation forms
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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 Ten papers sessions including 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.
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2. PROGRAM
Monday, 30 June
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9:00 - 9:30 Opening remarks
Program Chairs and Organization Chair.
Prof. Nahum Finger, Rector, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Prof. Niv Ahituv, Head of the Adams Institute, Tel-Aviv University.
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
Chair: Catriel Beeri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
"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
Chair: Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA
"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 - where is it heading?
Moderated by Avi Silbeschatz, USA
16:45 - 17:00 Refreshments
17:00 - 18:00 Papers session 3: Software Engineering
Chair: Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
"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
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9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 2
Chair: Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
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
Chair: Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey
"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
13:30 - Evening: Excursion and main social event in Jerusalem.
Wednesday, 2 July
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9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Session 3
Chair: Avi Silberschatz, Bell Labs., USA
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
Chair: Arie Segev, U.C. Berkeley, USA
"Sybil: Supporting Heterogeneous Database Interoperability with
Lightweight Alliances",
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, I. Ben-Shaul and O. Holder, Israel
11:30 - 11:45 Refreshments
11:45 - 13:00 Papers session 6: Query Evaluation and Information Retrieval
Chair: Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
"Analytical Models and Neural Networks for Query Cost Evaluation",
J. Boulos, Japan; Y. Viemont, France; K. Ono, 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 Nabil Adam and Yelena Yesha, USA
15:45 - 16:00 Refreshments
16:00 - 17:10 Papers session 7: Access Methods and Data Searching
Chair: Dov Dori, Technion, Israel
"Improved hB-Tree with High Space Utilization and Eliminating DAG",
J. Shudong, X. Sun and F. Yucai, China
"A Fast Signature Algorithm for Sequence Data Searching",
S. Lam and M. Wong, Hong Kong
17:10 - 18:05 Papers session 8: Workflow Systems
Chair: Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
"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
18:05 - 18:50 Poster presentations
Chair: Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel
"Modeling and Execution of Editing Processes in Collaborative Writing
Applications Supported by a Database System",
W. Wieczerzycki, Poland
"More Static Data Semantics through the Expanded Entity-Relationship
Model (PERM)",
P. Loos, Germany
"Software Aid for Formulation of Models",
A. Pollatschek, Israel
Evening - Dinner (on your own)
Thursday, 3 July
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9:00 - 10:15 Papers session 9: Object-Oriented Development and DBMS
Chair: Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Austin, USA
"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, J. Thomas, Germany; T. Hadar, Canada
10:15 - 11:30 Papers session 10: Active and Temporal Databases
Chair: Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"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
Chairs: Avi Silberschatz, Peretz Shoval and Opher Etzion
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
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Program Committee
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Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, USA
Barbara Blaustein, National Science Foundation, 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, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Opher Etzion, Technion, Israel
Phillip Ein-Dor, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Avigdor Gal, University of Toronto, Canada
Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Hans Hansen, Viena U. of Economics & Business Admin., Austria
Haim Kilov, Merill Lynch, USA
Robert Meersman, Vrije University, Belgium
Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Aris Ouksel, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL), USA
Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India
Bernhard Thalheim, Cottbus Technical University, Germany
Shalom Tsur, Hitachi, USA
Doug Tygar, Carnegie Mellon University (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
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3. REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The workshop will be held at Neve-Ilan, a hotel near Jerusalem,
on June 30 - July 3, 1997.
Workshop Fees:
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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:
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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:
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Will be distributed to the participants of the Workshop.
Extra copies can be purchased for 40 US$ per copy.
Extra Tickets:
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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.
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4. Registration and accommodation forms
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NGITS '97 REGISTRATION FORM
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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$325 afterwards.
Mail this form to:
NGITS '97
c/o Nilly Schnapp
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel
Full Name: _______________________________________
Affiliation: _______________________________________
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Mailing Address: _____________________________________
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Email: ________________________________
Fax: ________________________________
Amount Enclosed:
Workshop Fees: (275/325) US$ __________________
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: __________________
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NGITS '97 ACCOMMODATION FORM
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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:
or send by fax to:
972-4-8235194, attn: Nilly Schnapp
Full Name: ________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________
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