lougiea@crl.tek.CSNET (Lougie Anderson) (06/09/86)
Conference Announcement
TEMPORAL ASPECTS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Sophia-Antopolis, France
May 13-15, 1987
Temporal Aspects in Information Systems: A working confer-
ence by IFIP Technical Committee TC 8 "Information Systems"
in cooperation with AFCET, the French Computer Science and
Information Society.
MOTIVATION
Recent developments in the area of information systems
emphasize the role played by time. Research in information
systems design has pointed to the need for a realistic world
model which includes representations not only for snapshot
descriptions of the real world, but also for histories, on
the evolution of such descriptions over time. These
developments still suffer from a lack of concepts, languages
and theoretical foundations dealing with the design of tem-
poral and behavioral aspects of informations systems. More-
over, temporal correctness criteria and analysis are neces-
sary. In addition the management of computerized informa-
tion systems requires new mechanisms to allow the implemen-
tation and the handling of these elements. Papers can be
submitted on the following items.
TOPICS
Theoretical and Modeling Aspects of the Time Dimension of
Information: Time theory, temporal logic, causality theory,
linguistic and philosophic approaches of time. Time model-
ing, behavioral modeling, languages for specification and
query, temporal/causal dependencies and constraints, tem-
poral consistency checking.
Time and Behavior Implementation and Handling: Temporal
dimension of databases, historical databases implementation,
user interface for historical databases, snapshots, time and
behavior handling in computerized systems, time and event
mechanisms, management of multiple versions, data time
versus transaction time, concurrency and synchronization
problems.
Applications with a Temporal Dimension: Time in decision
support systems for prediction and planning achievement,
time dimension in CAD and CAM systems, in large statistical
data bases, in large socio-economic data bases, in medical
systems, and real-time systems.
GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Francois Bodart
Institute Notre-Dame de la Paix
21, rue Grangagnage
500 Namur, Belgium
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Colette Rolland
Universite Paris I
12, place du Pantheon
75231 Paris Cedex, France
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
Michel Leonard
Centre Universitaire d'Informatique
Universite de Geneve
24, rue du General-Dufour
1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
M. Adiba, IMAG, France
J. Allen, University of Rochester, USA
L. Anderson, Tektronix, USA
V. de Antonellis, University of Milano, Italy
G. Ariav, Tel Aviv University, Israel
F. Bodart, Institut Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium
J. Bubenko, University of Stockholm, Sweden
J. Clifford, New York University, USA
A. Furtado, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
M. Jarke, University of Frankfurt, Germany
M. Leonard, University of Geneva, Switzerland
S. Navathe, University of Florida, USA
P. Nobecourt, University Paris I, France
A. Olive, University of Barcelona, Spain
B. Pernici, Milano Polytechnic School, Italy
U. Schiel, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil
A. Sernadas, University of Lisbon, Portugal
HOW TO SUBMIT
Original papers in English of up to 5,000 words are sought
on topics included in, but not limited to, the proposed
list. Papers should be recieved before October 1st, 1986.
Authors should submit four copies of the full paper to:
AFCET
TAIS, Conference
156, boulevard Pereire
75017 Paris, France
IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due: October 1, 1986
Acceptance notification: December 15, 1986
Final copy due: February 15, 1987
Conference: May 13-15, 1987