Preliminary
CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on
Efficient Data Retrieval in Distributed Information Systems
ERDIS-97
December 11-12 (tentative)
Montreux, Switzerland
in conjunction with
International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
DOOD-97
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SCOPE
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The efficient acquisition of information in distributed
heterogeneous systems becomes increasingly important for
decision-making. In business and scientific applications
it is often necessary to issue queries that not only
involve traditional database systems (e.g., relational,
deductive, object-oriented) but also require access to
scientific and statistical databases, spatiotemporal information
systems, text archives, legacy systems and so on.
Recent research in distributed information systems has greatly
facilitated the cooperation of such systems, particularly in the
context of corporate intranets. However, the viability of this
achievement depends on the efficiency with which distributed
information systems respond to the requests of complex applications.
The development of optimization techniques guaranteeing efficiency
requires expertise from different related research fields, such as
query processing in advanced databases and multidatabases, over
multimedia, unstructured documents and spatiotemporal data. It is
imperative to investigate how methodologies from those fields can
be combined to support applications like data mining and decision
support.
This workshop is the first one aiming to provide a forum on the very
subject of efficient data retrieval in distributed and heterogeneous
information systems.
TOPICS
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The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
o Efficient database techniques for data mining
o Decision support queries
o Querying in a data warehouse
o Querying data on tertiary storage
o Querying over scientific databases
o Querying over federated databases and multidatabases
o Querying over distributed and parallel databases
o Querying services over legacy systems
o Information retrieval over multimedia data
o GIS querying
o Efficient document processing
o Thesauri and meta-data
o Query processing and optimization over semistructured documents
o Querying the Web
Experience reports on the deployment of efficient data retrieval
in information systems in research and industrial projects are
particularly welcome.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for Paper Submission September 1
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection October 20
Deadline for full paper version November 15
Workshop (tentative) December 11-12, 1997
The workshop proceedings will be made available electronically
on the Web.
SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit unpublished manuscripts of no more
than 5000 words. The submission should include an extra page with
title, names and affiliations of authors, a 200-word abstract and
a list of keywords. A contact author should be specified.
The language of the workshop is English.
We strongly encourage email submissions in postscript-format by
email to erdis97@wiwi.hu-berlin.de.
Postscripts should be in a ghostview readable-format. If mail
attachements are used, they should not be encoded.
Otherwise, 4 hardcopies can be submitted to the address below:
ERDIS'97 (attn: Dr. Myra Spiliopoulou)
Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik
Spandauer Str. 1
D-10178 Berlin
Germany
CHAIR:
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Myra Spiliopoulou
Institut fuer Wirstschaftsinformatik, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin, GERMANY
Phone: +49.30.2093-5716 Fax: +49.30.2093-5741
Email: myra@wiwi.hu-berlin.de http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~myra
CO-CHAIR:
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Volker Gaede
CSIRO MIS
GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA
Email: gaede@cbr.dit.csiro.au
PROGRAMM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
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David Abel (CSIRO, Australia)
Johann Christoph Freytag (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
Oliver Guenther (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
Martin Kersten (CWI, The Netherlands)
Ralf-Detlef Kutsche (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Yannis Papakonstantinou (Stanford University, CA)
Heinz Schweppe (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Michalis Vazirgiannis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
ACTUAL INFORMATION:
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http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~myra/erdis97
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