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Date: Fri 10 Jul EDT 1987 16:15 From: mihalis%btl.csnet@relay.cs.net Subject: PODS88 Call for Papers CALL FOR PAPERS Seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS Austin, Texas, March 21-23, 1988 The conference will cover new developments in both the theoretical and practical aspects of database and knowledge-base systems. Papers are solicited which describe original and novel research about the theory, design, specification, or implementation of database and knowledge-base systems. Some suggested, although not exclusive, topics of interest are: architecture, concurrency control, database and expert systems, database machines, data models, data structures for physical implementation, deductive databases, dependency theory, distributed systems, incomplete information, user interfaces, performance evaluation, physical and logical design, query languages, query processing, recursive rules, spatial and temporal data, statistical databases, and transaction management. You are invited to submit ten copies of a detailed abstract (not a complete paper) to the program chairman: Mihalis Yannakakis Room 2C-319 AT&T Bell Laboratories 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of significance, originality, and overall quality. Each abstract should 1) contain enough information to enable the program committee to identify the main contributions of the work; 2) explain the importance of the work - its novelty and its practical or theoretical relevance to database and knowledge-base systems; and 3) include comparisons with and references to relevant literature. Abstracts should be no longer than ten double-spaced pages. Deviations from these guidelines may affect the program committee's evaluation of the paper. Program Committee Serge Abiteboul Alberto Mendelzon Krzysztof Apt Dale Skeen Philip Bernstein Victor Vianu Paris Kanellakis Mihalis Yannakakis David Maier The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 9, 1987. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 8, 1987. The accepted papers, typed on special forms, will be due at the above address by January 8, 1988. All authors of accepted papers will be expected to sign copyright release forms. Proceedings will be distributed at the conference, and will be subsequently available for purchase through ACM. General Chairman: Local Arrangements: Avi Silberschatz Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan Dept. of Computer Sciences Dept. of Computer Sciences Univ. of Texas at Austin Univ. of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 Austin, Texas 78712