(DBWORLD) ADBIS'97 Preliminary Call for Participation

Boris Novikov (borisnov@acm.org)
Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:09:00 -0500 (CDT)

Preliminary Call for Participation

First East-European Symposium on Advances in Databases and
Information
Systems
ADBIS=9297

St.-Petersburg (Russia), September 2 - 5, 1997

In cooperation with the ACM SIGMOD
Sponsored by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Hosted by University of St.-Petersburg

The latest information about ADBIS is available on WWW at:

http://www.niimm.spb.su/~borisnov/ADBIS97/adbis97CfPart.html

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Aims and Scope Topics Technical Programme Location and Venue Travel and Accommodation Registration Important Dates Organizational bodies

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Aims and Scope

The East European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS) - a series of annual high quality international conferences - will provide a forum for the exchange of scientific achievements between the research communities of Eastern Europe and the rest of the world in the area of databases and information systems. It continues and consolidates

the series of ADBIS workshops organized by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter

and the East-West Database workshops. The new annual Symposium will be hosted by different countries of the Eastern Europe including the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Ukraine (this

list is open and only indicates an immediate possibility of the countries to host the Symposium).

The symposium will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program commitee, invited talks by leading experts, tutorials, and special sections like industrial programs and posters on ongoing research projects in Eastern European countries.

ACM SIGMOD will actively support the organization of the Symposia and warrant the high quality of the program. The Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter serves as a focal point of the event. The organizers have the ambition to make the ADBIS Symposium the premier database and information systems conference in Eastern Europe, to increase interaction and collaboration between researchers from East and West and to provide an internationally

recognized tribune for the presentation of research.

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Topics

The ADBIS=9297 Symposium focuses on emerging and innovative approaches through which advanced information systems (IS) and system-level functions can be developed within the distinct frameworks. New large- and middle-scaled IS components, their performance issues, their reliability, their architectures and applications, and progress in their design, implementation and deployment technologies will continue to be emphasized.

Additionally, the symposium addresses to the uprising subjects and topics. Among which are the emerging theories, computational principles, technologies and architectures within which novel principles and techniques can be developed and applied to address practical issues for large- and middle-scaled information systems, such as integrity constraints, consistency, performance, object management, interoperability, cooperative systems, transaction management, distributed computations, client-server

systems, etc.

The topics include, but not limited to, the following:

* Object-oriented and computational models * Ontological modeling and specification * Enterprise Modeling * Requirements engineering * Design engineering * Re-engineering and legacy systems * Methodologies and tools * Activity modeling and advanced transaction and workflow models * Data Warehousing * Parallel and distributed databases * Deductive and object-oriented databases * Data mining, knowledge discovery and knowledge bases * Interfaces to databases and information systems * Novel database application areas * Scientific databases and information systems * Large area information systems on the Internet (based on WWW, CORBA, Java technologies) * Multimedia information systems * Interoperable, heterogeneous environments and systems * Semantic interoperability, megaprogramming and reuse

The ADBIS workshops have provided special sections to Russian Basic Research Foundation (RBRF) contributions as well Ph.D students contributions over the past few years. Selected presentations and contributions are continue to be identified for development into full proceedings papers.

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Technical Programme

The technical programme will include keynote, tutorials, invited and regular talk, and special RFBR project reports and will be available later.

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Location and Venue

The symposium will be held in St.-Petersburg, the second largest city and former capital of Russia. Founded by Peter the Great, this city was international in spirit from the very beginning and is very different from other Russian cities.

Saint-Petersburg is a very beautiful city. It is a city of numerous sights: magnificent architectural ensembles, granite embankments, large squares, broad symmetrical avenues. Monuments, museums, exhibition halls, parks and gardens. Many outstanding architects took part in the designing and construction of the city. The oldest and the most striking building are the Peter and Paul fortress and the Admiralty. One of the most beautiful places is the Palace Square with the remarkable world's tallest monolith the Alexander column. The first thing you should visit in Saint-Petersburg is the Hermitage - the world famous museum. The city is exceptionally rich in monuments, the best being the monument to the founder of the city, Peter I on the Neva embankment which is called "The Bronze Horseman".

You can have a look at the suburbs. It will take you an hour to reach Peterhof, the residence of Russian tsars. The history of Peterhof goes back to the early XVIII century when it was built as a monument to the victories by Russia to find an outlet to the Baltic. All the ornamentation of the ensembles is permeated with the idea of glorifying the country's naval power. It was executed by the most prominent architects, sculptors and fountain builders. Not far from Saint-Petersburg is situated another town - Tsarskoye selo where you can visit the Great Catherine's Palace built by

Rastrelli. This town is also famous by its park which is very beautiful in autumn.

The best season to visit St.-Petersburg is June. In September the weather is not stable, the temperatures may vary in a wide range of 5-20 C (40-70 F). Rains are very probable.

You can obtain more detailed information about St.-Petersburg here.

The conference venue is the main building of University of St.-Petersburg. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city, constructed by Domenico Trezzini, Italian architect invited by Peter the Great, in the beginning of 18-th century. It is located in walking distance from major city sightseeing's, including the Hermitage.

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Travel and Accommodation

St.-Petersburg has air connections with major European cities, provided by several airline vendors. Although the number of flights is significantly

less than to Moscow, we do not recommend flights via Moscow unless you have special reasons to visit Moscow.

Visa support

In most cases you'll need Russian visa to visit Russia. Tourist visa support (necessary for Russian consulates over the world) can be obtained from travel agencies (listed below). Please contact one of these agencies directly - this will save you both time and money.

Hotel reservation

Hotel may be booked from the travel agencies (which provide significant discounts) together with visa support:

Cosmos

Provides visa support, hotel reservation, and transfer from airport (if requested). Various hotels are available, in the price range $40 - $300 per night.

We strongly recommend to get a service pack from them, which includes visa support, transfer from/to airport, and hotel reservation. Optionally, they can provide a city tour ride with a guide in the same pack.

We recommend to ask them for hotel "Sovetskaya" (price range, if booked via this agency, is $40-$65). The address of travel agency is:

35, 2nd Line Vasilievsky Island Saint Petersburg 199053, RUSSIA Tel: +7 (812) 327-7256 Fax: +7 (812) 327-7429 E-mail: cosmos@infopro.spb.su

They can also provide tickets to theatres and other tourist services.

Sindbad Travel

Provides visa support and low-budget accommodation ($19 per night) in "an international student's hostel".

They are located at:

3rd Sovetskaya Ulitsa, 28, St. Petersburg, 193036, Russia tel: +7 (812) 327-8384 fax: + 7 (812) 329-8019 e-mail: sindbad@ryh.spb.su

Their postal address is:

(to Russia via Finnish post) Sindbad Travel PO Box 8, SF-53501 Lappeenranta, Finland

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Registration

To attend the symposium, in general you need to do the following:

1. Obtain visa support, book hotel (see accommodation for method of doing this in one shot), and then get visa from nearest Russian consulate; 2. Send the filled registration form (below), please send the form before August 20, 1997; 3. Pay applicable registration fee.

Fees

The regular Symposium fee US $210 ACM and/or ACM SIGMOD members US $190. Student's fee US $50 RFBR grantees free Regular and ACM member registration fees include admission to the technical sessions, tutorial, reception, refreshment breaks, and one copy of the symposium proceedings.

Student fee includes only the technical sessions, proceedings, and refreshment breaks.

The participation is free for researchers involved in projects supported

by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Registered RFBR grantees may attend all technical sessions and refreshment breaks. The authors will receive a copy of proceedings (on one-per-paper basis). To participate in the reception, RFBR grantees should buy reception tickets.

(Additional) tickets for reception will be available at registration desk.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit cards. Two methods of payment are

available:

* bank transfer (free of charges for us, please) to: "Boris Novikov" account 849070125 Bank Saint-Petersburg, Ostrovskogo, 7 St.-Petersburg 191011 Russia SWIFT: JSBSRU2P

Please specify the purpose of the transfer as: "ADBIS'97 registration fee"

* by cash at the registration desk.

The payments via bank transfer should arrive before August 20, 1997.

Cancellation policy

The requests to cancel registration will not be accepted.

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ADBIS'97 Registration form

(please fill in and e-mail it before August, 20, 1997 to:

Boris Novikov <borisnov@acm.org>

Name: (First, Middle, Last): __________________________________________

Affiliation: ____________________________________________________

Mailing Address: ________ ________________________________________

City, State, Mail Code/Zip: __________________________________________

Country: ______________________________________________________

Telephone _______________________ Fax _________________________

Email _________________________________________________________

RFBR grant (Russian participants only): Name of grantee (if different from participant)____________________

_________________________________________Grant No:_________________

Registration Fee US $ _______________

Method of Payment: _____Bank transfer _____Cash

Hotel reserved via travel agency_________________________________

Arrival date___________________Flight__________________________

Departure date__________________Flight_________________________

Important Dates

Full papers by email for Symposium June 15 Symposium September 2 - 5 Final version of paper for the proceedings October 30

Organizational bodies

General Co-Chairs

Mikhail Alfimov

Russian Foundation for Basic Research Leninsky prosp. 32a, 117334 Moscow

Leonid Kalinichenko

Institute for Problems of Informatics Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Vavilov str., 30/6, 117900, Moscow Phone: (095) 237-20-31 e-mail: leonidk@synth.ipi.ac.ru

Yuri Zhuravlev

Computing Center RAS Vavilov str., 40, 117967, Moscow Phone: (095) 135-24-89

Organization Committee Chair

Boris Novikov

University of St. Petersburg, Russia e-mail: borisnov@acm.org

Organizational Committee Members

Juris Borzovs (Latvia) Albertas Caplinskas (Lithuania) Ahto Kalja (Estonia) Tadeusz Morzy (Poland) Pavol Navrat (Slovakia) Jaroslav Pokorny (Czech Republic) Anatoly Stogny (Ukraine) Tatjana Welzer (Slovenia)

Programme Committee Co-Chairs

Rainer Manthey (Germany)

Viatcheslav Wolfengagen (Russia) e-mail: vew@jmsuice.msk.ru

Programme Committee

Suad Alagic (Wichita State University, USA) Yuri Breitbart (Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies, USA) Nikolay Emelyanov (Institute for Systems Analysis, RAS, Russia) Janis Grundspenkis (Riga Technical University, Latvija) Remigijus Gustas (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania) Leonid Kalinichenko (Inst. for Problems of Informatics RAS, Russia) Hannu Kangassalo (University of Tampere, Finland) Wolfgang Klas (University of Ulm, Germany) Mikhail Kogalovsky (Institute for Market Economy, RAS, Russia) Sergey Kuznetsov (Institute for Systems Programming, RAS, Russia) Peri Loucopoulos (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg, Germany) Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece) Ron Morrison (St.-Andrews University, Scotland) Tadeusz Morzy (Tech. Uniersity of Poznan, Poland) Pavol Navrat (Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia) Nikolay Nikitchenko (Kiev University, Ukraine) Priit Parmakson (Concordia International University Estonia, Tallinn) Colette Rolland (Sorbonne, France) Silvio Salza (University of Rome, Italy) Julius Stuller (Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha) Kazimierz Subieta (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) Bernhard Thalheim (Tech. University of Cottbus, Germany) Benkt Wangler (Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden) Tatjana Welzer (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Alexandre Zamulin (Inst. of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia) ACM SIGMOD Advisor Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC, USA) European Coordinator Johann Eder (Klagenfurt University, Austria)

A welcome

We welcome your contribution to this new symposium. We are confident you

will find exciting and thoughtful discussions of principles and practices of future information systems, innovative information technologies and presentations. We hope and belive that the Symposium will assist you to pursue the choice of forward-looking testbeds.

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