IFIP 2.6 Working Conference
VISUAL DATABASE SYSTEMS - 4
L'Aquila, Italy
May 27-29, 1998 (following AVI'98)
http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/dbis/VDB4/
OBJECTIVE
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Both the way we look at data through a database system, and the nature
of data we ask such a system to manage, have drastically evolved over
the last decade, moving from text, images, sound, and video to compo-
sitions of these media as known from multimedia applications. Visual
representations are used extensively within new user interfaces and
are an essential requirement for accessing data through a database
system. Powerful visual approaches are being experimented for data
manipulation, including the investigation of three-dimensional display
techniques and animated interfaces. On the other hand, many existing
applications use images to enhance the quality and richness of data
manipulation services.
Both areas need further research and applications to experiment and
improve actual solutions or to invent new ones. IFIP 2.6 has already
devoted three successful conferences to explore the domain of visual
information management. This conference is the fourth in the series.
As the preceding editions, it aims at covering both areas: visual
interfaces to database systems and management of visual datai by data-
base systems. Its target audience and participants are researchers
and practitioners active or interested in user interfaces, human-
computer communication, knowledge representation and management, image
processing and understanding, multimedia database techniques, and com-
puter vision.
TOPICS
======
VDB-4 invites high-quality papers, exciting panel proposals, and novel
prototype demonstration proposals on any topic related to visual data-
bases. The following non-restrictive list is given to illustrate
items of particular interest for this conference:
next generation interfaces modeling of visual information
visual representations image understanding
three-dimensional interfaces image processing
visual query languages and browsers visual programming
feature based indexing techniques feature extraction
query processing image-based queries
iconic systems animated interfaces
spatio/temporal reasoning on images visualization of results
parallel computing for image processing video databases
automatic generation of visual interfaces maps
visual user interface management systems data compression
memory organization and data structures benchmarks
spatial data management applications (e.g., scientific
and educational)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
=====================
PAPERS should be up to twenty pages long, at least one-and-a-half-
spaced, in font size at least 10 (8000 words).
PANEL PROPOSALS should be at most two pages long and should include at
least a tentative list of panelists.
DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS should specify the kind of hardware required.
All submissions should be sent in paper form (six copies) to one of
the program chairs at the addresses below.
IMPORTANT DATES
===============
November 30, 1997 Deadline for submission of papers
February 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance/rejection
March 15, 1998 Deadline for having final papers at the publisher
ORGANIZATION
============
General Chair
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Stefano Spaccapietra
EPF Lausanne
EPFL-DI-LBD
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
phone: +41 (21) 693-5210
fax: +41 (21) 693-5195
email: spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch
Program Chairs
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Yannis Ioannidis
University of Athens and University of Wisconsin
Department of Informatics
Panepistimioupolis, TYPA Buildings
157-71 Ilisia, Athens
Hellas (Greece)
phone: +30 (1) 721-7941 (x 124)
fax: +30 (1) 721-9561
email: yannis@di.uoa.gr
Wolfgang Klas
Computer Science Department
University of Ulm
D-89069 Ulm, Germany
phone: +49 (731) 502-4135
fax: +49 (731) 502-4134
email: klas@informatik.uni-ulm.de
Local Arrangements
------------------
Laura Tarantino
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica
Universita degli Studi dell' Aquila
Poggio di Roio, L' Aquila, Italy
phone: +39 (862) 434-415
fax: +39 (862) 434-403
email: tarantino@vaxaq.cc.univaq.it
Program Committee (tentative)
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Karl Aberer (GMD, Germany)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University of Chile, Chile)
Christian Breiteneder (University of Vienna, Austria)
Dick Bulterman (CWI, The Netherlands)
Tiziana Catarci (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Stavros Christodoulakis (Technical University of Crete, Hellas (Greece))
Isabel Cruz (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Max J. Egenhofer (University of Maine - Orono, USA)
A. Ghafoor (Purdue University, USA)
Simon Gibbs (GMD, Germany)
William I. Grosky (Wayne State University, USA)
0liver Guenther (Humboldt University, Germany)
Wendy Hall (Univ. of Southampton, UK)
Ramesh Jain (University of California - San Diego, USA)
Hannu Kangassalo (University of Tampere, Finland)
Daniel Keim (University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
Jessie Kennedy (Napier University, UK)
Ravi Krishnamurthy (HP Labs, USA)
Tosiyasu L. Kunii (University of Aizu, Japan)
Stefano Levialdi (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
T.D.C. Little (University of Boston, US)
Pericles Loucopulos (UMIST, UK)
Robert Meersman (The Netherlands)
Rajiv Mehrotra (University of Missouri - St. Louis, USA)
Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto, Canada)
E.J. Neuhold (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Tamer Ozsu (University of Alberta, Canada)
F. Rabitti (CNUCE-CNR, Italy)
Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Elke Rundensteiner (orcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Hanan Samet (University of Maryland - College Park, USA)
Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland - College Park, USA)
Lisa Tweedie (Imperial College, UK)
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