egon@kub.nl (Egon Verharen) (10/30/89)
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
I F I P
International Federation for Information Processing
Fourth TC2 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-4)
Organised by Working Group 2.6 (Databases)
Object Oriented Databases: Analysis, Design & Construction
2-6 July 1990 at Windermere, United Kingdom
Co-sponsored by COOPERS & LYBRAND
Scope
The 'object' based paradigm is increasingly being used as a
basis for the encapsulation and structure of various
specification, design and implementation approaches within
computing. Object oriented (O-O) approaches offer three major
benefits for the database field: locality of information,
autonomy of operation and flexibility of structure, and
communication within the specification, design and
implementation process itself.
These benefits are highly relevant, and indeed have been
employed by the database arena long before object oriented
paradigms existed. Locality of information surfaces in many
issues including: distributed databases, (para)consistency,
relevance of information (queries), reuse, sub-schemas and
views etc. Autonomy of operation is also relevant to
databases and reflects the need to associate database
operations locally to the information they operate upon. Once
this locality of information and operation is encapsulated
into the object concept there is a further need to formulate
how such objects can be structured to form larger objects and
how they can communicate (cooperatively or competitively) to
support user database processing.
The theme of the conference is the use and benefits of the
object orientation paradigm as applied to the field of
databases. For example, does it: enrich the capacity for data
semantics, provide a better way of expressing database
updates, aid in enforcing integrity constraints, provide a
mechanism for database views, effect the physical
implementation of databases, help in the communication
aspects of federated and distributed databases etc.
Submissions are invited on the fundamental theories
underlying the demonstrable exploitation of the object
orientation paradigm within the database field, specific
design or analysis methods and languages used to model
databases from an object oriented perspective and experience
in the use and construction of object repositories in
appropriate database application areas.
The topic list is not meant to be exhaustive but reflects our
intention of soliciting work that is pertinent to any and all
stages of the database life cycle from requirements to
executable implementation.
Programme Officers DS-4
Conference Chairperson: Samit Khosla (Coopers & Lybrand
UK)
Programme Chairpersons: William Kent (HP Labs USA)
Robert Meersman (Tilburg
University NL)
Programme Committee DS-4
M. Adiba (F), P.M.G. Apers (NL), U. Dayal (USA), R. Demolombe
(F), K. Dittrich (FRG), T. Dhondt (B), H.D. Ehrich (FRG), J.
Fiadeiro (UK), J. Coguen (UK), J. Grimson (IRL), S. Khosla
(UK), H. Kilov (USA), U. Lipeck (FRG), P. Lockemann (FRG), P.
Lyngbaek (USA), T.S.E. Maibaum (UK), D. McLeod (USA), M.
Morgenstern (USA), J. Mylopoulos (USA), S. Navathe (USA),
G.M. Nijssen (NL), E. Ruspini (USA), C. Sernadas (P), A.
Solvberg (N), J. Sowa (USA), J. Stein (USA), O. De Troyer
(NL), D. Tsichritzis (CH), A. Walker (USA), G. Wiederhold
(USA).
Invited Speakers
Four speakers will be invited to address the conference. All
invited speakers will be leaders in the field of object
oriented databases/systems.
Topic List DS-4
1. Object Oriented Analysis Methods
- Knowledge Elicitation & Requirements Capture
- Requirements Specification Approaches and Languages
- Structured Methods for Object Oriented Analysis
- Life Cycle Issues for Object Oriented Systems
2. Object Oriented Modelling
2.1. Design Specification Languages
- Language/Notational Support; Built-in Objects
- Interfaces/Comparisons to Extant Modelling
Approaches
- Structuring Objects; Putting Objects Together &
Refining Objects
- Behavioural and Query Formalisms for Objects
2.2. Foundational Issues
- Object Structure and Description
- Object Behaviour; Interaction and Communication
- Temporal Aspects of Objects
- Typing Schemes for Objects
- Reasoning about Object Systems
3. Object Oriented Database Construction Environments
- Implementation Approaches & Languages
- Intelligent Tool Support; Object Management
- Machine Architectures for Object Bases
4. Object Oriented Database Applications
- Industrial/Commercial Experience
- New Application Areas
Submissions
The programme committee invites contributions, based on the
scope and topic list shown, of a maximum of 10,000 words. In
addition to full papers the programme committee invites short
(500-800 words) statements endorsing and/or challenging any
of the claims made in the scope statement and will select
several of these to form a discussion panel at DS-4.
An invited panel consisting of major hardware vendors and
consultancy houses will present the use and penetration of
object orientation in the commercial marketplace. Position
statements relevant to this panel are also solicited and
should be marked as such. The conference proceedings will be
published in book form by North Holland.
Five copies of all submissions (full papers, short papers,
and panel statements) should be sent to either of the
programme committee chairpersons at the following addresses:
Prof.Dr. R. Meersman Mr. W. Kent
INFOLAB Hewlett-Packard Labs
Tilburg University Department 3U
P.O. Box 90153 1501 Page Mill Road
5000 LE Tilburg Palo Alto, California
The Netherlands USA, Zip: 94304-0971
Deadline for submission: 29 January 1990
Authors notified of acceptance: Before 17 April 1990.
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