Maringa, 12-14 October 1998
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
The Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD) is an annual event
sponsored by the Brazilian Computer Society. It is a major event in
computing in the country, and aims at disseminating both theoretical
and practical results of research in the field. The symposium is
well-known for the quality of the technical papers, as well as the
invited talks delivered by renowned international speakers.
The XIII SBBD will be held at the State University of Maringa.
Programmed activities include technical sessions, tutorials, panels
and tool demonstrations. The XII Brazilian Symposium on Software
Engineering will be held at the same place from October 14 to 16; both
events will be organized by one local arrangements committee.
Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing relevant, original
and unpublished research related (but not restricted to) the following
topics:
- Database theory and algorithms
- Human-computer interaction
- DBMS implementation aspects
- Object oriented databases
- Active, deductive, temporal and spatial databases
- Cooperative databases
- Multimedia and Hypermedia databases
- Extensible systems
- Parallel and distributed databases
- Knowledge discovery in databases
- Data modelling and database design techniques
- Database support for advanced applications
- Data mining, workflow and data warehouses
- Textual and semi-structured databases
INTERNATIONAL TRACK
The Symposium will for the first time host an international track, in
which all papers will be written and presented in English.
PAPER SUBMISSION
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Authors should send 4 copies of the full paper, limited to 5000 words
(20 double spaced pages) to the Symposium's Chair (no E-mail or Fax
submissions are allowed):
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros - SBBD98
IC - UNICAMP - CP 6176
13081-970 Campinas SP - Brazil
Tel: (+5519) 239-3115
e-mail: cmbm@dcc.unicamp.br
Papers must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference
and/or publication in a Journal, nor should they have already been
published elsewhere. Submission of a paper is assumed to imply that at
least one of the authors will register for the conference and thus
present the paper.
The criteria for judgment are originality, relevance, technical soundness
and clarity of presentation.
****** PLEASE NOTE *******
Authors are required to send a short abstract (maximum 150 words) of
the paper by e-mail to the program chair by April 10th, 1998. The
message should be in ASCII format and contain the title of the paper,
authors' names, the abstract and the name of one or two areas most
relevant to the paper.
PUBLICATION
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All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the
Brazilian Computer Society. Papers must be written in Portuguese or English.
IMPORTANT DATES
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. Deadline for abstract submission: April 10, 1998
. Deadline for paper submission: April 17, 1998 (firm deadline)
. Notification of acceptance: June 26, 1998
. Camera-ready papers due: July 17, 1998
. Symposium: October 12-14, 1998
Program Committee Members:
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Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (UNICAMP) (Program chair)
Karin Becker - PUC-RS, Brazil
Mauro Biajiz - UFSCAR, Brazil
Omran Bukhres - Purdue University School of Science, USA
Susan B. Davidson - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Fernando Fonseca de Souza - UFPE, Brazil
Christian Jensen - Aalborg University, Denmark
Sergio Lifschitz - PUC-RIO, Brazil
Marta Matoso - UFRJ, Brazil
Jose Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira - UFRGS, Brazil
Ulrich Schiel - UFPB, Brazil
Berthier Ribeiro Netto - UFMG, Brazil
Vania Maria Ponte Vidal - UFC, Brazil
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