Location: Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
July 8th. - 10th. 1998
FINAL CALL FOR POSTERS AND SOFTWARE DEMOS
IDEAS `98 CFP available at:
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ideas98
Bringing together database technology users, providers
and researchers to address the problems of engineering
modern database solutions to new and demanding
applications.
Aims
The aim of this Symposium is to address the engineering and
application aspects of databases. This is in response to the
increasing demands placed on related theories and technologies
resulting from the widening scope of database solutions within
all forms of enterprise. In particular, we wish to focus on the
engineering of database deployments which exploit theories and
technologies from complementary areas, such as information
retrieval, multi- and hyper-media, human interfaces to databases
and communications.
Accordingly, the Symposium will be structured to address current
issues (see topics listed below), relating to advanced
applications, interfaces to databases and database engineering.
The Symposium will provide an international forum for technical
discussion of Database Engineering and Application issues faced
by the various communities, including technology providers,
users and researchers, in the areas of database and the
complementary technologies of IR, multi- and hyper-media, HCI,
and communications. It will thus foster closer interaction
between these communities by providing an excellent opportunity
for academics and industrialists to meet, discuss ideas, debate
current developments and look to the future. We therefore
invite participants from government, computer and user
industries, and academia to share ideas and experiences.
Posters and Software Demonstrations are invited on, but not
restricted to, the following topics:
Database engineering, including:
requirements engineering;
data/conceptual/enterprise modelling;
database design theory, tools and methods;
integration of database with complementary
technologies (IR, hyper- and multi-media, HCI,
communications);
performance modelling, evaluation, benchmarks,
complexity and optimisation;
transaction engineering and processing;
data distribution and replication;
formal methods for database engineering;
highly available large-scale systems;
real-time and scientific databases;
legacy systems re-engineering;
database programming languages.
New and demanding applications:
electronic commerce;
WWW and database management system interaction;
CSCW;
CIM;
CASE;
CAI;
data warehousing and data mining;
large database applications;
applications on parallel and distributed systems;
databases in the humanities;
digital libraries;
engineering and scientific databases;
document databases;
office information systems;
social/governmental information systems;
applications of temporal, spatial, GIS, image,
video, and multimedia databases;
information systems to support virtual
organisations.
User interfaces to databases, including:
intelligent user interfaces;
direct manipulation interfaces;
graphical and VR interfaces;
hypertext/hypermedia;
natural language interfaces;
speech user interfaces;
interfaces for data mining and knowledge discovery;
user studies; query formulation.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission: January 16, 1998
Notification to author: February 20, 1998
Final submission due: March 27, 1998
Submission Instructions:
Submissions may be sent on paper or alternatively electronically
as a postscript file.
Authors who wish to make submissions electronically are asked to
read the IEEE guidelines for producing device independent
postscript files at
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ideas98/IEEE_Guidelines.htm
Posters and details of software demonstrations should be emailed
to J.Shao@cs.cf.ac.uk
Authors wishing to submit hard copy should send four copies of
their poster or proposal for a software demonstration to:
Dr J. Shao
Ideas '98
Department of Computer Science,
University of Wales, Cardiff,
PO Box 916,
Cardiff, CF2 3XF,
UK.
All submissions must arrive on or before Jan. 16th. 1998 Each
submission will be refereed by three members of the programme
committee.
Addresses
Electronic mail:
J.Shao@cs.cf.ac.uk
WWW page:
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/ideas98
Regular Mail:
Ideas '98
Department of Computer Science, University of Wales,
Cardiff
PO Box 916,
Cardiff, CF2 3XF,
UK.
Programme Committee
Michel Adiba (Grenoble University)
Ken Barker (University of Manitoba)
Tom Carnduff (UWIC, Cardiff)
Andre Clouatre (Universite de Montreal)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts)
Lois Delcambre (Oregon Graduate Institute)
Nevenka Dimitrova (Philips Research Labs)
Bipin C. Desai (Concordia University) Co-chair
Andrzej Duda (IMAG-LSR)
Barry Eaglestone (University of Bradford) Co-chair
Claude Frasson (Universite de Montreal)
Carole Goble (University of Manchester)
Alex Gray (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Bill Grosky (Wayne State University)
Venkat N. Gudivada (Dow Jones)
Mike Jackson (University of Wolverhampton)
Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University)
Jessie Kennedy (Napier University)
V. S. Laksmanan(Concordia University)
Ted Lawson (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Ghislain Levesque (Universite de Quebec a Montreal)
Rokia Missaoui (Universite de Quebec a Montreal)
Pardo Mustillo(Nortel)
Randal J. Peters (University of Manitoba)
Vijay Raghavan (University of S. Louisiana)
Zbigniew W Ras (University of North Carolina)
Norman Revell (Middlesex University)
Peter Revesz (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Mick Ridley (University of Bradford)
Manas Saks Ena (Concordia University)
Jianhua Shoa (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Roger Tagg (Massey University)
Eero Tervonen (CERN/PPE)
Vlad Wietrzyk (Macquarie University)
Steering Committee
Lois Delcambre, (Oregon Graduate Institute)
Bipin C. Desai (Concordia University) Chair
Barry Eaglestone (University of Bradford)
W. Alex Gray, (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Rokia Missaoui (Universite de Quebec a Montreal)
Organising Committee
Bipin C. Desai (Concordia University) Proceedings Chair
Barry Eaglestone (University of Bradford) Co-Organising chair
Nick Fiddian (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Alex Gray (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Mike Jackson (University of Wolverhampton) Publicity chair
Ted Lawson (University of Wales, Cardiff)
Jianhua Shoa (University of Wales, Cardiff) Co-organising chair/treasurer
Symposium Location 1998
Ideas '98 will be held at the University of Wales, Cardiff, U. K.
Cardiff is the capital city of Wales.
Wales is a distinctive part of Britain. Its strong character
stems from its landscape, history and culture. It is located on
the western shore of Britain, separated from Ireland by the
Irish Sea. Most of Wales's industry and population of 2. 89
million is concentrated in the south-east, around the capital
city of Cardiff. The remainder of Wales is predominantly rural
(facts and figures about Wales). It is one of Britain's most
popular holiday destinations, tourism playing a very important
part in its economy.
Cardiff is a modern capital city which enjoys a quality of life
which is the highest of any established university city in
England and Wales, according to independent research which
looked at factors such as cost of living, crime rate, housing
and shopping facilities.
Cardiff's size (population 300,000) together with its status as
a capital city, ensures that it has plenty to offer without
suffering from disadvantages such as high prices or
overcrowding. As one of Europe's youngest capitals, its
cosmopolitan nature affords something for everyone, from the
excitement of the city centre itself, to the peace and quiet of
the surrounding countryside.
Cardiff benefits from excellent road and rail links with
Britain's other major towns and cities. London, for example, is
only 100 minutes away by train, and the M4 links both the west
and south of England, as well as west Wales. Travel to the
Midlands and the North is equally convenient; the journey by
road from Birmingham, for instance, taking only 2 hours. The
main coach and railway stations are both centrally placed, and
Cardiff also boasts an international airport.
The University of Wales, Cardiff is one of Britain's major civic
universities. It has a history of service and achievement which
dates back to the establishment of the University of South Wales
and Monmouthshire in 1883. It has its own Royal Charter and has
virtual autonomy as the largest constituent part of the federal
University of Wales. The University is located in and around
the Portland stone buildings, parks and tree-lined avenues that
form Cardiff's magnificent civic centre.
Cardiff has 25 departments and schools organised into five
faculties: Business Studies and Law; Engineering and
Environmental Design; Health and Life Sciences; Humanities and
Social Studies; and Physical Sciences. There are now over 13 000
undergraduate and postgraduate students drawn from throughout
Wales, the rest of the UK, and from overseas. Its size enables
Cardiff to sustain large departments in all the main subject
areas, and several degree schemes are unique within the
University.
The Symposium banquet will take place in one of Cardiff's oldest
landmarks Cardiff Castle.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The dbworld list reaches many people, and should only be used for
messages of general interest to the database community.
To subscribe or unsubscribe yourself (or optionally (address)) from
dbworld, send a msg to majordomo@cs.wisc.edu with one of these lines:
subscribe dbworld (address)
unsubscribe dbworld (address)
To find out more options send a msg with the line:
help
--------------------------------------------------------------------------