johnz@latcs1.oz (John Zeleznikow) (07/12/89)
**************************************************************************** FIRST AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE/GATHERING ON DATABASES ************************************************** It is proposed that we have the first Australian Conference/Gathering on Databases to be held at Monash University, Clayton, Victoria on Tuesday, 6 th February 1990, the day prior to the commencement of the Australian Computer Science Conference. In this year the meeting will be more on the awareness of the database research that is carried out in Australia. Following are the possible topics which can be included (but not limited to) in the presentation and discussions. - deductive databases - object-oriented databases - expert databases - semantic data models - query evaluation and optimisation - distributed databases - integrating artificial intelligence and databases - conceptual modelling Following is the tentative plan and deadlines. However in order to acertain whether we will have sufficient people who will be interested in such a conferecne/gathering, we would appreciate if you can inform us your views and the possiblity of submitting or giving a talk by filling up the form enclosed at the bottom of this announcement. Based on the interest further notice will be posted for call for papers. PLAN: Papers will be refereed by a local panel. It is not necessary to submit a full paper, but merely an extended abstract ( 1,000 words ). It is not intended to publish the proceedings in the initial year. However if papers are of sufficient quality, an effort will be made to publish a selection of them after the conference. ABSTRACTS DUE: Wednesday 1 November 1989 ACCEPTANCE MAILED: Monday December 11 1989 CONFERENCE HELD: Tuesday 6 February 1990 For further information contact: Dr. John Zeleznikow, Department of Computer Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3083 Phones: (03)479-1003 or (03)479-2598 [office] or (03)211-5475 [home] or (03)470-4915 [FAX] acsnet: johnz@latcs1.oz OR Dr. Bala Srinivasan, Department of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168. Phones: (03)565-3907 or (03)565-3900 [office] acsnet: srini@bruce.oz ********************************************************************** First Ausralian Database Conference/Gathering, Feb 6, 1990. Name: Address: E-mail address: Will you be interested in this conference: Yes / No Prepared to give a talk: Yes/ No Any Suggestions: *************************************************************************