[comp.lang.prolog] DOOD Call for papers

kifer@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) (09/22/90)

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                              -  DOOD'91 -

                     2nd  International Conference on
                 Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases


                   December 16-18, 1991, Munich, Germany






sponsored by:
ECRC - Bull, ICL, Siemens; ASTEM RI/Kyoto

supported by:
Commission of the European Communities (requested),ICOT, INRIA, MCC

in cooperation with (requested):
ACM, AFCET, BCS, GI, IEEE, IPS-Japan(approved).


Aim and Topics:
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Deductive databases and Object-Oriented databases are at the forefront of 
research in the next-generation intelligent database systems. Recently, 
research has been aimed at integrating the object-oriented paradigm and
rule-based deduction to provide a single powerful framework for intelligent
database systems. The primary objective of DOOD'91 is to provide a common
forum of technical discussions between researchers/developers of deductive 
databases and object-oriented databases, thereby accelerating the integration 
of the technical outputs of these two areas. This continues the direction 
established by the very successful DOOD'89 conference held in December 1989 
in Kyoto, Japan, which attracted more than 350 participants.

The conference will address new developments in theoretical and practical 
aspects of deductive databases (DD), object-oriented databases (OOD), and
the integration of these two disciplines. Papers are solicited which describe
original and novel research within this framework. The following is a partial 
list of topics of interest:

* Integrating Logic and Object Paradigm
* Operational DOOD Systems
* Concurrent Logic/Object Programming
* Integrity Enforcement in DOOD
* Integration of DOOD with Programming Languages
* Formalization of the Object-Oriented  Concepts
* Artificial Intelligence Techniques in DOOD
* Performance of DOOD Systems
* Query Languages and Query Optimization
* Applications of DOOD Systems
* Advanced User Interface to DOOD Systems
* Consistency Checking in DOOD.


Instructions:
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Authors should submit six (6) copies of a full paper to one of the Program 
Committee Chairpersons by March 15th, 1991. Papers should be no longer than 
20 typewritten (double spaced) pages in English. Name(s) and affiliation(s)
of the author(s) with electronic-mail address and/or Fax number should appear
on the cover sheet.


Conference Chairperson:
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Jean-Marie Nicolas, 
ECRC, 
Germany


Steering Committee Chairperson:
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Jack Minker, 
University of Maryland, 
USA


Program Committee Chairpersons:
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American:                 European:                   Far-East:

Michael Kifer             Claude Delobel              Yoshifumi Masunaga 
Dept. of Comp. Sci.       University Paris-Sud        University of Library
SUNY at Stony Brook       and GIP ALTAIR              and Information Science
Stony Brook,              Rocquencourt B.P. 105       1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba,
NY 11794-4400             78153 Le Chesnay Cedex      Ibaraki 305
USA                       France                      Japan
kifer@cs.sunysb.edu       claude@bdblues.altair.fr    masunaga@ulis.ac.jp



Program Committee Members:
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American:   

A. Borgida, Rutgers University
P. Buneman, Univ. of Pennsylvania
W. Chen, Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas
U. Dayal, DEC
D. van Gucht, Univ. of Indiana-Bloomington
R. Hull, Univ. of Southern California
P. Kanellakis, Brown Univ.
G. Kuper, IBM Yorktown Heights
P. Lyngbaek, HP Labs Palo Alto
D. Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute
A. Mendelzon, Univ. of Toronto (Canada)
S. Naqvi, Bellcore
J. Naughton, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Y. Sagiv, Hebrew Univ. (Israel)
D. Stemple, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
S. Tsur, MCC

European:

S. Abiteboul, INRIA (France)
C. Beeri, Hebrew Univ. (Israel)
F. Bry, ECRC (Germany)
S. Ceri, Univ. of Modena (Italy)
K. Dittrich, Univ. of Zurich (Switzerland)
G. Gottlob, Techn. Univ. of Vienna (Austria)
G. Grahne, Univ. of Helsinki (Finland)
P. Gray, Univ. of Aberdeen (UK)
G. Lausen, Univ. of Mannheim (Germany)
J. Paredaens, Univ. of Bruges (Belgium)
F. Rabitti, CNR Pisa (Italy)
P. Richard, Altair (France)
H. Schek, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
J. Schmidt, Univ. of Hamburg (Germany)
P. Valduriez, INRIA (France)
L. Vieille, Ecole National des Ponts et Chaussees(France)


Far-East:

Q. Chen, Tsing-Hua Univ. (China)
Y. Kambayashi, Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
H. Katsuno, NTT (Japan)
K. Kawagoe, NEC (Japan)
T.-W. Ling, Natl. Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
A. Makinouchi, Kyushu Univ. (Japan)
T. Miura, Sanno College (Japan)
N. Miyazaki, Oki (Japan)
D. Narasimhalu, Natl. Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
S. Nishio, Osaka Univ. (Japan)
R. Sacks-Davis, RIMT (Australia)
K. Tanaka, Kobe Univ. (Japan)
K.-Y. Whang, KAIST (Korea)
K. Yokota, ICOT (Japan)
M. Yoshikawa, Kyoto Sangyo Univ. (Japan)


Coordinators:
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American:  Carlo Zaniolo, MCC, USA
European:  Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France
Far-East:  Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan

Organizing Committee Co-Chairpersons:
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Helmuth Benesch, Siemens, Germany
Rainer Manthey, ECRC, Germany

Treasurer:
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Peter Gotzmann, ECRC, Germany

Executive Committee Chairperson:
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Heinz Schwaertzel, Siemens, Germany


Conference Secretariat:
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Astrid Maerkl,
ECRC,
Arabellastr. 17,
D-8000 Muenchen 81,
Germany
astrid@ecrc.de


Important Dates:
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Deadline for paper submission: March 15th, 1991
Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 1991
Final version due: September 15th, 1991