[net.database] Call for Papers

vardi@diablo.UUCP (05/23/86)

                      CALL FOR PAPERS

        Sixth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on

               PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS

          San Diego, California, March 23-25, 1987


The conference will  cover  new  developments  in  both  the
theoretical   and   practical   aspects   of   database  and
knowledge-base systems.  Papers are solicited which describe
original  and  novel  research  about  the  theory,  design,
specification, or implementation of database and  knowledge-
base systems.

Some suggested, although not exclusive, topics  of  interest
are:  architecture, concurrency control, database and expert
systems, database machines, data models, data structures for
physical  implementation,  deductive  databases,  dependency
theory, distributed systems,  incomplete  information,  user
interfaces,   knowledge  and  data  management,  performance
evaluation, physical and logical  design,  query  languages,
recursive  rules,  spatial  and  temporal  data, statistical
databases, and transaction management.

You are invited to submit ten copies of a detailed  abstract
(not a complete paper) to the program chairman:

    Moshe Y. Vardi
    IBM Research K55/801
    650 Harry Rd.
    San Jose, CA 95120-6099, USA

    (408) 927-1784
    vardi@ibm.com


Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of  significance,
originality,  and  overall quality.  Each abstract should 1)
contain enough information to enable the  program  committee
to  identify  the  main contribution of the work; 2) explain
the importance of the work - its novelty and  its  practical
or theoretical relevance to database and knowledge-base sys-
tems; and 3) include  comparisons  with  and  references  to
relevant literature.  Abstracts should be no longer than ten
double-spaced pages.  Deviations from these  guidelines  may
affect the program committee's evaluation of the paper.

The program committee consists of Umesh Dayal, Tomasz Imiel-
inski,   Paris   Kanellakis,  Hank  Korth,  Per-Ake  Larson,
Yehoshua Sagiv, Kari-Jouko Raiha, Moshe Vardi,  and  Mihalis
Yannakakis.

The deadline for submission  of  abstracts  is  October  10,
1986.   Authors  will be notified of acceptance or rejection
by December  8,  1986  (authors  who  supply  an  electronic
address  might  be  notified earlier).  The accepted papers,
typed on special forms, will be due at the above address  by
January  9,  1987.   All  authors of accepted papers will be
expected to sign copyright release forms.  Proceedings  will
be  distributed  at the conference, and will be subsequently
available for purchase through ACM.

        General Chairman:               Local Arrangements:
        Ashok K. Chandra                Victor Vianu
        IBM Research Center             Dept. of Computer Science
        P.O.Box 218                     Univ. of California
        Yorktown Heights, NY 10598      La Jolla, CA 92093

        (914) 945-1752                  (619) 452-6227
        ashok%yktvmx@ibm.com            vianu@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu