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8th International Conference on Management of Data

COMAD '97

Chennai (Madras), INDIA
18 - 20 December 1997
(Sponsored by Computer Society of India)


Theme: INTERNET AND DATABASES


PATRONS

* Microsoft Corporation India Ltd.

* Cognizant Technology Solutions

* IBM Global Services India

SPONSORS

* Tata Consultancy Services

* Singapore Airlines

* Polaris Software Lab Ltd.

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INTRODUCTION
The Eighth International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD
'97) is scheduled to be held at Hotel Park Sheraton, Chennai
(Madras) between 18th and 20th of December 1997. COMAD '97 is being
sponsored by The Computer Society of India (CSI). The conference is
now recognized as the annual meeting point of database researchers
and database professionals of all hues. The conference also offers
a unique opportunity for the attendees to meet world renowned
experts in database and allied areas like Client server computing,
Object technology and Application development.

CONFERENCE THEME
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for
researchers, users, system builders, and database consultants to
discuss issues of common interest, to deliberate on common and
usual challenges, to propose innovative solutions, to share
interesting experiences and to foster cross fertilization of ideas
from different academic disciplines and application environments.
The conference will strive to present through its technical
sessions - contributed and invited papers, tutorials and panels - a
healthy blend of theoretical advancements in the field and
practical innovations and developments.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Today, database support is central to almost all applications. The
acceptance of the technology is also widespread. Therefore, anyone
who is involved in strategic planing, analysis and design,
development, implementation and management of large industrial
grade applications will immensely benefit from attending this
conference.

Thus researchers, students and faculty, trainers, application
specialists, system managers, technology watchers and marketing
executives of RDBMS/Client Server/CASE products will all find
sources of valuable information at COMAD '97.

The central focus, however, will be its rich technical sessions of
contributed papers, projecting a wide spectrum of research results
from all over the globe.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND COMAD '97

* For its technical strength.
* To listen to leading technology experts
* To widen the knowledge about database techniques
* To learn more about the new database features supported by
leading products
* To understand the strengths and the pitfalls of the technology
for use in applications
* To meet leading database personalities
* To expose yourself to debates of practical significance

TUTORIALS

Developing Business Object Applications
Dr Dilip Patel Dr Yuan Sun Ms Saba Zamir

Many leading information technology practitioners advocate that the
success of information systems in organizations lies in the
conceptual and clear understanding of the business, an acceptance
that business is in a constant state of flux and that there is a
need to shift from an application view to a business view. This
tutorial outlines the inadequacies of building business information
systems based on business requirements that are only a snapshot of
a business's dynamic life. It also assesses the concept of Business
Objects as a means of building information systems that meet the
needs of the business. The tutorial will concentrate on the
specification, design and implementation of business object
components and assess their suitability for the delivery of
business application. The tutorial will be based on the work of
Object Management Group's, Business Object Domain Task Force,
Oliver Sims work on Co-operative Business Objects and the research
work undertaken at South Bank University.

About the Speakers:

Dr Dilip Patel

Dr Dilip Patel is currently a Principal Lecturer in Information
Systems and Head of the Centre for Information and Office Systems
at South Bank University, London. His main academic interest lies
in the area of Object-Oriented Information Systems, Conceptual
Modelling and Databases. He has over the years undertaken
consultancy work for British Aerospace, GEC Marconi and Robson
Rhodes. He is currently supervising six PhD. students in the
following areas: Quality Assurance; Decision Support Systems;
Object-Oriented and Temporal Databases.

WWW and databases : from data integration towards information markets
Dr Rudolf Mueller

The talk is divided into three parts, discussing two aspects of Web
and Databases, and extending it by the end to issues of the
personal research of Dr Mueller.

The first part would be on database connectivity, giving an
overview of the past three years that started with CGI scripts, got
to JDBC, and meanwhile to RMI based connectivity and CORBA based
approaches.

The second part would be on querying information sources on the
Web. This gives an overview of efforts in query languages and
integration of semi-structured data.

The third part would elaborate the idea of information markets,
like the DecisionNet, MMM and MatSe.

About the Speaker:

Dr.Rudolf Mueller is an assistant professor of information systems
at Humboldt-University in Berlin. He is also associated with the
National Research Center SFB 373 ``Quantification and Simulation of
Economic Processes''. His research interests are in combinatorial
optimization, information networks and software engineering. His
current work focuses on the design of computational services in the
Internet, investigating applications for combinatorial
optimization, decision support and statistical data analysis Dr.
Mueller has a Diploma in mathematics from the University of Bonn
and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Technical University of
Berlin.

Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support: Foundations and Techniques

Dr Laks V S Lakshmanan

Traditional (especially, relational) database technology is best
suited for robust and efficient Online Transaction Processing
(OLTP) on operational data. Decision support applications require
efficient support for complex analyses and pattern mining on
historical data. The technologies of Online Analytical Processing
(OLAP) and Data Mining are evolving in this direction. Both
technologies often require historical data to be available in a
separate dedicated Data Warehouse, where data from multiple
heterogenous sources are assimilated, their numerous conflicts
reconciled, and integrated. Some of the major steps involved in
this process are (i) interoperating with heterogenous data sources,
and (ii) supporting OLAP breed of "queries" and their efficient
processing. In this tutorial we will discuss the state of the art,
limitations of the technologies as they exist today, as well as
research that has gone into laying the foundations for heterogenous
database interoperability, multi-dimensional OLAP style analysis
queries and their efficient processing, key ingredients for
realizing an effective Data Warehousing/OLAP technology. This
tutorial will cover pragmatic issues as well as foundations and
techniques.

About the Speaker:

Laks V S Lakshmanan is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he
is heading the Database Systems Research Group. He graduated from
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, and spent two
years at the University of Toronto as a post-doctoral fellow. His
research covers numerous aspects of relational, object-oriented and
deductive databases, including multi-database interoperability,
integration of heterogenous data sources (incl. semi-structured and
unstructured ones such as the internet, spreadsheets, documents,
etc.), multi-dimensional databases, data warehousing, OLAP, and
data mining. This tutorial is based on a tutorial on a similar
topic to be given by Laks Lakshmanan and Raymond Ng at the
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management,
Las Vegas, CA, USA, November 1997, and a mini-course on the same
topic given by Lakshmanan at the Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, during March-April 1997.

Data Mining

Mr K Padmanabhan, Dr K Sundar, Dr Santosh Mohanty, Mr Deenanath Kholkar

With efficient construction and verification of models of patterns
embedded in large databases, data mining is emerging as a key
technology for enterprises that wish to improve quality of their
decision making and gain competitive advantage by exploiting
operational and other available data. Data Mining evolved as a
collection of applicative problems and efficient solution
algorithms relative to rather peculiar problems, all focussed on
the discovery of relevant information hidden in databases of huge
dimensions. These tools and techniques are the subject of the
rapidly emerging field of knowledge discovery in databases.

INVITED TALKS


Security, Fault Tolerance, and Information Warfare
Professor Sushil Jajodia

Information warfare has received a great deal of attention in the
press lately; however, most of the focus has been on how an
attacker disrupts an organization's operations. This talk will
discuss issues and methods for survivability of systems under
malicious attacks. To protect from information attacks, it is
necessary to take steps to prevent attacks from succeeding. At the
same time, it is important to recognize that not all attacks can be
averted at the outset; attacks that are successful to some degree
must be recognized as unavoidable, and comprehensive support for
identifying and responding to attacks is required. This places
increased emphasis on the ability to live through and recover from
successful attacks.

Although recovery methods have been studied extensively by
researchers in fault tolerance and in database areas, the existing
methods assume that failures are independent of each other. This
assumption does not hold under information attacks because these
attacks are likely to be coordinated and malicious in nature and,
moreover, the attacker can be assumed to be familiar with the
intricacies of the system being attacked. Therefore, achieving
recovery requires modifications and extensions of existing
techniques together with novel techniques that are only suitable
for surviving information attacks.

We have adopted a fault-tolerance approach that addresses all
phases of survivability: attack detection, damage confinement,
damage assessment and repair, and attack avoidance. This talk will
describe our research dealing with each of these phases.

About the Speaker:

Sushil Jajodia received his PhD from the University of Oregon,
Eugene. He is Director of Center for Secure Information Systems and
Professor of Information and Software Systems Engineering at the
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.

Dr. Jajodia's research interests include information security,
temporal databases, and replicated databases. He has published more
than 200 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference
proceedings and has edited ten books, including Advanced
Transaction Models and Architectures, Kluwer (1997), Multimedia
Database Systems: Issues and Research Directions, Springer-Verlag
Artificial Intelligence Series (1996), Information Security: An
Integrated Collection of Essays, IEEE Computer Society Press
(1995), and Temporal Databases: Theory, Design, and Implementation,
Benjamin/Cummings (1993). He received the 1996 Kristian Beckman
award from IFIP TC 11 for his contributions to the discipline of
Information Security.

Research Issues in Temporal Databases
Professor N.L. Sarda

The real-world events and activities have the context of time, and
entities change their state over time. Many applications require
this time dimension to be explicitly captured within the database
design as well as within the processing, so that time-validity of
data can be examined and history data can be analyzed. Conventional
database systems offer little support for this beyond providing
'date' and 'time' domains and leaving it to users to meet the
requirements through design and programming. Realizing that this is
quite inadequate, there has been considerable research effort
directed towards extending database systems' functionality for
supporting time and history data. In this talk, the major
achievements of this research in temporal databases, the impact
they would have on future DBMSs, and how application designers
should exploit these functionalities will be highlighted.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Nandlal L. Sarda is a professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has been
on the faculty at IIT Bombay since 1976. He also chaired the CSE
department from June 94 to August 97. He was a visiting Associate
Professor at University of New Brunswick in Canada from Sept'86 to
Nov'88.

His research interests are in the areas of database systems and
software engineering. For the last few years, he has focused on
developing research framework for Temporal Databases. This research
has lead to many papers and articles in journals and conferences.

Dr. Sarda has been associated with many journals as reviewer and
editorial board member. He has also served as PC member for many
international conferences in database systems. He was one of the PC
Chairs for the VLDB'96 conference held in Mumbai, India. He also
works as advisor and consultant to many organizations for planning,
acquisition and implementation of information technology based
solutions.



CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

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Paper Session 1 : DataMining and DataWarehousing

A self maintainable view maintenance technique for data
warehouses
Millist Vincent, Mukesh Mohania and Yahiko Kambayashi
University of South Australia, Australia

Incremental Updating Algorithms for mining association rules
Jianlin Feng, Yucai Feng
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Maintenance of Data Warehouse Views Using Normalization
Mukesh Mohania, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Millist
Vincent
University of Southern Australia, Australia..

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Paper Session 2 : Concurrency and Recovery in Databases

An optimized two-safe approach to maintaining remote backup
systems
Kexiang Hu, Sharad Mehrotra and Simon Kaplan
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL,
USA

Performance comparison of main memory database recovery
algorithms
Yutong Wang, Vijay Kumar
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, USA

Formalization and correctness of concurrency control algorithms
for an open and safe nested transaction model using I/O
automation model.
Sanjay Kumar Madria, S N Maheshwari and B Chandra
University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

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Paper Session 3 : Database Design I

Restructuring partitioned normal form relations without
information loss.
Millist Vincent and Mark Levene
University of South Australia, Australia

An Approach to Efficient Data Clustering based on a new
definition for Nested Normal Form
Wai Yin Mok and David W Embley
The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA.

Active database design: Methodology and tools
Amghar Y and Meziane M
LISI-INSA, Villeurbanne, France

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Paper Session 4 : Query Processing and Optimization

A framework for multi query optimization
Sunil choenni, Martin Kersten, Amani Saad and Johan van
den Akker
Nat. Aerospace Laboratory,
The Netherlands

A filter for detecting possible inconsistencies for nulls in
Oracle
S K Gupta, D V L N Somayajulu and Shubha Mani
Dept of CS&E, IIT Delhi, India

RYBE1, a tabular interface for querying a multi-database system

Christian Sallaberry, M N Bessagnet and H Kriaa
Universite' de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France

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Paper Session 5 : Database Design II

Abstraction layered structure-process codesign
Wolfram Clauss and Bernhard Thalheim
Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany

Perspectives for a formal framework for Schema modification in
Object Databases
Heino Gartner
Bremen University, Bremen, Germany

A new interpolation scheme for dynamic databases
S Kuppuswami, R Subraminian, Paul Rodrigues and G
Venkata Sachindra
Dept., of CS, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry,
India

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Paper Session 6 : Pot-pourri

Automating metadata updates exemplified by the environmental
data catalogue UDK
Ralf Nikolai, Arne Koschel, Ralf Kramer and Thomas
Sattler
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany

WWW as a distributed deductive database: D3Web
J F Aldana Montes and M I Yague del Valle,
Dept of Lenguajes Y Ciencias de la computacion, Malaga,
Spain

A formal approach for horizontal fragmentation of disjunctive
deductive databases
Aparna Seetharaman and Yiu-Kai Ng
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

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PANEL DISCUSSION

Theme: Internet and Databases

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

+ Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
+ Bent Brunn Kristensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
+ Dilip Patel, South Bank University, London, UK
+ H V Jagdish, AT&T, USA
+ D Janaki Ram, IIT Madras, India (Chair)
+ Krithi Ramamritham, Univ of Massauchessts, Amherest, USA
+ Laks V S Lakshmanan, Concordia University, Canada
+ A K Majumdar, IIT Kharaghpur, India
+ Mukesh Mohania, University of South Australia, Australia
+ K Padmanabhan, Tata Consultancy Services, India
+ Ramamohanarao Kotagiri,University of Melbourne, Australia
+ Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
+ Ravi Krishnamurthy, HP Labs, USA
+ Rudolf Mueller,Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
+ N L Sarda, IIT Bombay, India
+ S Seshadri, IIT Bombay, India
+ Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
+ Umeshwar Dayal, HP Labs, USA
+ T M Vijayaraman, NCST, India

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chairman : N Lakshminarayanan, CEO, Dun & Bradstreet Satyam
Software Ltd

Members : Latha Ramesh, Search International
Naresh Nagarajan, Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software Ltd
Major V V Chandrasekaran, Vetri Software India Ltd
K AnanthaKrishnan, Tata Consultancy Services
M Nataraj, BHEL
D Selvaraj, Instant Data Systems
T R Vasudeva Rao, Sundaram Motors
S Ramaswamy, Anubhav Plantations Limited
B Sivakumar, L & T Mcneil Ltd
Others : S Padmanabhan, CEO, ASDC - Finance Committee
K Adivarahan, DLS Consultants P Ltd - Registration committee

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COMAD '97
8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF DATA
18th TO 20th DECEMBER 1997 AT PARK SHERATON HOTEL,CHENNAI,INDIA.
THEME: INTERNET AND DATABASES

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