[comp.databases] 5 SSDBM

zbyszek@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Zbyszek Michalewicz) (11/04/88)

    
                      CALL FOR PAPERS

               Fifth International Conference
                on Statistical and Scientific
                    Database Management


                    Charlotte, NC, USA

                      April 3-5, 1990



* Sponsors:

Commision of the European Communities Statistics Office (EUROSTAT),
International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC),
University of North Carolina in Charlotte
4th International Conference on Statistical and Scientific Database Management,
Ente Nazionale Energie Alternative (ENEA),

* General Chairman:

              Zbigniew Michalewicz
              Department of Compurer Science
              University of North Carolina
              Charlotte, NC 28223
              USA

* Organizing Committee:

  K-W. Chen (UNC-Charlotte)
  S. Chen (UNC-Charlotte)
  L.Groves (VUW-Wellington)
  C. Janikow (UNC-Charlotte)
  Z. Michalewicz (VUW-Wellington and UNC-Charlotte)
  Z. W. Ras (UNC-Charlotte)

* Program Committee:

  S. Chen (USA)
  R. Cubitt (Luxembourg)
  S. Ghosh (USA)
  H. Hinterberger (Switzerland), co-chairman
  J. Klensin (USA)
  F. Malvestuto (Italy)
  M. McLeish (Canada)
  Z. Michalewicz (New Zealand & USA)
  G. Ozsoyoglu (USA)
  M. Rafanelli (Italy)
  D. Rotem (USA), co-chairman
  Y. Sato (Japan)
  A. Shoshani (USA)
  B. Sundgren (Sweden)
  P. Svenson (Sweden)
  A. Westlake (Great Britan)
  K. Wittkowski (FRG)


* Purpose of the conference:

The 5-th International Conference on Statistical and Scientific Data Base
Management (5 SSDBM) will continue the series of conferences started seven 
years ago in California (1981, 1983), then in Europe (Luxembourg, 1986
and Rome, 1988). 

The purpose of this conference is to bring together database researchers,
users and system builders, working in this specific area of activity,
to discuss the particular issues of interest, to propose new solutions to the
problems of the area and to extend the themes of the previous conferences,
both from the theoretical and from the applicative point of view.
We invite papers on new concepts, new ideas and new research results 
having to do with databases and knowledge bases. Major topics of
interest are, but not limited to: modelling and semantics, query languages
and user interfaces, physical organization, security, scientific databases,
data analysis and performance evaluation, temporal data, applications.

* Time schedule:

May 31 .................Submission of papers
September 30 ...........Notification of acceptance
November 15 ............Final paper to be included in proceedings

* Submission information:

Send five copies of complete papers to one of the conference co-chairmen:

 - for the American continent:

      Dr. Doron Rotem
      Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
      University of California
      One Cyclotron Road
      Berkeley, CA 94720
      USA

- for all other countries:

      Dr. H. Hinterberger
      ETH Zurich
      Institut Informatik, RTH-Zentrum
      CH-8092 Zurich
      Switzerland

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