larry@postgres.uucp (Larry Rowe) (08/26/87)
{one of the organizers of the following conference asked me to publicise
it to the database community. i don't know if it's appropriate to send
these announcements out through this mailing group, but i'll try it
to see if folks are interested. please do not respond to me about the
conference, contact the folks identified below. /larry}
CALL FOR PAPERS
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
EXTENDING DATA BASE TECHNOLOGY
March 14-18, 1988
Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy
Organized by: Sponsored by: In Cooperation with:
IASI-CNR AICA IEEE
INRIA GI ACM
Pol. di Milano AFCET
Univ. Frankfurt BCS
THE CONFERENCE
EDBT 88 will be a forum for presentation of new results in
research, development, and applications of database technology. The
conference will favour the sharing of information between researchers
and practitioners and outline the future developments of database
systems and applications.
Tutorials will be offered in the first two days of the
Conference, and keynote speakers will be invited. The Conference and
Tutorials will be held at the Cini Foundation on S. Giorgio Island in
Venice. Venice will offer an exciting environment for social
activities.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The EDBT 88 Conference will accept scientific and technical
papers on all areas of database development, but will primarily focus
on extensions of database technology in the following directions:
* Deductive databases and knowledge bases
* Heterogeneous and multimedia databases
* Object-oriented database systems and models
* Environments for database design and programming
* New applications of databases: engineering, office automation,
and software administration
* Distributed databases and database machines
* Performance issues and implementation techniques
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors are requested to submit five copies (in English) of a
double-spaced manuscript up to 5000 words by October 10, 1987 to:
Prof. Joachim W. Schmidt
Universitat Frankfurt
Fachbereich Informatik
Dantestrasse 9
D 6000 Frankfurt 1
West Germany
tel.(49)-69-7988101
Short papers (up to 1000 words) describing ongoing projects are also
solicited; selected short papers will be included in the Proceedings
and be the basis of special discussion sections.
The preprints of the Proceedings will be distributed among the
Conference participants. The final version of the Conference
Proceedings will be edited and will be published by a major publishing
house.
IMPORTANT DATES
October 10, 1987 submission deadline (regular papers and short papers)
December 15, 1987 acceptance notification
February 1, 1988 camera-ready copies due
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON Stefano Ceri
(Universita di Modena and Politecnico di Milano)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON
Joachim W. Schmidt
(Universitat Frankfurt)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
S. Alagic (Jugoslavia) H.Kangassalo (Finland)
A.Albano (Italy) M.Missikof (Italy)
P.Apers (Netherlands) J.Mylopoulos (Canada)
M.Atkinson (G.Britain) E.Neuhold (F.R.Germany)
F.Bancilhon (France) J.M.Nicolas (F.R.Germany)
R.Bayer (F.R.Germany) A.Pirotte (Belgium)
C.Beeri (Israel) A.Reuter (F.R.Germany)
G.Bracchi (Italy) G.Schlageter (F.R.Germany)
M.L.Brodie (USA) A.Sernadas (Portugal)
J.Bubenko (Sweden) A.Solvberg (Norway)
S.Ceri (Italy) N.Spyratos (France)
Q.Chen (China) P.Stocker (G.Britain)
P.Dadam (F.R.Germany) K.Subieta (Poland)
R.Demolombe (France) B.Thalheim (D.R.Germany)
D.J.DeWitt (USA) D.C.Tsichritzis (Switzerland)
A.Furtado (Brasil) Y.Vassiliou (Greece)
G.Gardarin (France) G.Wiederhold (USA)
G.Gottlob (Austria) H.Williams (G.Britain)
L.A.Kalinichenko (USSR) C.Zaniolo (USA)
Y.Kambayashi (Japan) C.A.Zehnder (Switzerland)
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS COORDINATOR
A. D'Atri
(Univ. di L'Aquila e Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza'')
US COORDINATOR C. Zaniolo
(MCC USA)
NOTES: For further organization information on EDBT 88 refer to:
Michele Missikoff
IASI-CNR
Viale Manzoni 30
00185 ROMA
Italy
tel. (39)-6-770031