[news.announce.conferences] Int'l Conference on Database Theory - Call for Papers

vardi@ibmarc.uucp (Moshe Y. Vardi) (10/21/89)

                                  ICDT-90

                             Call for Papers
              Third International Conference on Database Theory


ICDT is the third in a series of biannual conferences on the theory of
databases held in beautiful European cities,  Rome in 1986,  Bruges in
1988 and now Paris in 1990.


TOPICS: We solicit papers describing original ideas and new results on
the  foundations of  databases,  knowledge bases  and  object-oriented
databases. We suggest the following, although not exclusive, areas:
   data models, data structures, complex objects,
   logic and databases, deductive databases, knowledge representation,
   object-oriented databases, database programming languages,
   queries (languages, optimization...), incomplete information,
   dependency theory, consistency, logical database design,
   dynamic aspects (updates, temporal databases, schema evolution...),
   transaction management (concurrency control, recovery...),
   performance, physical database design, storage management,
   database machines, distributed systems, database security,
   user interfaces, database applications (spatial, statistical...).

INSTRUCTIONS: authors are invited to submit seven copies of an extended
abstract  (no longer that fifteen double-spaced pages)  before April 2,
1990, to the program chairmen:

  Serge Abiteboul - ICDT'90         Paris Kanellakis - ICDT'90
  INRIA                             Brown University
  Domaine de Voluceau-Rocquencourt  Computer Science Dept., PO Box 1910
  78153 Le Chesnay Cedex - France   Providence, RI 02912 - USA
  Tel: 33/1.39.63.55.37             Tel: 1/401.863.76.47
  Email: abitebou@inria.inria.fr    Email: pck@cs.brown.edu

The selection  will be  based  on originality  and  contribution  to the
field. The proceedings of ICDT are traditionally published by  Springer-
Verlag.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
  S. Abiteboul (France)   P. Atzeni (Italy)       C. Beeri (Israel)
  N. Bidoit (France)      S. Cosmadakis (USA)     R. Hull (USA)
  T. Imielinski (USA)     P. Kanellakis (USA)     C. Lecluse (France)
  M. Nivat (France)       J. Paredaens (Belgium)  H. Schek (Switzerland)
  J. Schmidt (Germany)    M. Vardi (USA)          V. Vianu (USA)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION: Myriam Chazal, Sylviane Gosset, Michel Scholl

US COORDINATION: Victor Vianu (UCSD)

IMPORTANT DATES:
    Deadline for submission:                   April 2, 1990
    Notification of acceptance or rejection:   July 7, 1990
    Final paper due:                           August 15, 1990
    Conference:                                December 13-15, 1990

INFORMATIONS: Myriam Chazal, INRIA, Service des Relations Exterieures,
    Domaine de Voluceau-Rocquencourt, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France.
    Tel: 33/1.39.63.56.00. Telex: 697 033 F.



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