yosikawa@ksuics.kyoto-su.junet (Masatoshi Yoshikawa) (02/15/89)
Call for Papers The First International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD89) Kyoto, Japan December 4-6, 1989 Sponsored by: Advanced Software Technology & Mechatronics Research Institute of Kyoto (ASTEM RI/Kyoto) Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Supported by: ECRC, ICOT, INRIA, MCC in cooperation with: ACM SIGMOD, IEEE CS Location: Conference Hall of the Science Center Bldg. in Kyoto Research Park Aim: Deductive databases and object-oriented databases are at the forefront of research in next generation intelligent database systems. Object-oriented programming and design methodologies hold great promise in reducing the complexity of very large software systems in such domains as computer-aided design and manufacturing, integrated office information systems, and artificial intelligence. Object-oriented database systems will enhance the programmer/user productivity of such systems. Research in deductive databases is aimed at discovering efficient schemes to uniformly represent assertions and deductive rules, and to respond to highly expressive queries against the knowledge base of assertions and rules, and to check for the validity of knowledge. As for logic programming, logic has provided the basis for this area of research and nowadays there are strong interactions between these two fields. Recently, research has been aimed at integrating the object-oriented paradigm and rule-based deduction to provide a single powerful framework for intelligent database systems. The primary objective of this conference is to provide a common forum of technical discussions between researchers in deductive databases and object-oriented databases, thereby accelerating the integration of the technical outputs of these two areas of research. We expect the conference to be continued on an annual basis with sponsorship from major next-generation computer projects around the world, such as ECRC, ICOT, INRIA, and MCC. Topics included: The conference will address new developments in theoretical and practical aspects of deductive databases (DD), object-oriented databases (OOD), and the integration of these two disciplines. Papers are solicited which describe original and novel research within this framework. The following is a partial list of topics of interest. Integrating Logic and Object Paradigms Concurrent Logic/Object Programming Integrity Enforcement in DOOD Artificial Intelligence Techniques in DOOD Query Languages and Query Optimization Advanced User Interface to DOOD Systems Operational DOOD Systems Integration of DOOD with Programming Languages Formalization of the Object-Oriented Concepts Performance of DOOD Systems Applications of DOOD Systems Consistency Checking in DOOD Instructions: Authors should submit five (5) copies of a full paper to one of Program Committee Chairpersons by May 1, 1989. Papers should be no longer than 20 typewritten (double spaced) pages in English. The Author Name(s) and Affiliation(s) should appear on the cover sheet. Program Committee Chairpersons: [American] Won KIM MCC 3500 West Balcones Center Drive Austin, Texas 78759 U.S.A. Computer Mail: kim@mcc.com [European] Jean-Marie NICOLAS ECRC Arabellastr. 17 8000 Munich 81 FR Germany Computer Mail: jmn@ecrcvax.uucp [Far East] Shojiro NISHIO Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences Faculty of Engineering Science Osaka University Toyonaka, Osaka, 560 Japan Computer Mail: nishio%osaka-u.junet@RELAY.CS.NET Important Dates: May 1, 1989 Deadline for paper submission August 1, 1989 Notification of acceptance September 25, 1989 Final version due November 1, 1989 Deadline for advanced registration The Organization of Committees General Chairperson: Yutaka Ohno (ASTEM RI/Kyoto) Steering Committee Chairperson: Jack Minker (U. of Maryland) Organizing Committee Vice-Chairperson: Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyushu U.) Executive Committee Chairperson: Akifumi Makinouchi (Fujitsu) Executive Committee Vice-Chairperson: Koichi Furukawa (ICOT) Local Arrangement and Finance Chairperson: Kiyoshi Agusa (Kyoto U.) Program Committee Members: [American] Hong-Tai Chou (MCC) Umeshwar Dayal (CCA) Dan Fishman (HP) Yannis Ioannidis (U. of Wisconsin) Roger King (U. of Colorado) Frederik Lochovsky (U. of Toronto) John Mylopoulos (U. of Toronto) D. Stott Parker (UCLA) Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew U.) Oded Shmueli (Technion) Satish Thatte (TI) Allen Van Gelder (UC Santa Cruz) Moshe Y. Vardi (IBM Almaden) Carlo Zaniolo (MCC) Stanley Zdonik (Brown U.) [European] Serge Abiteboul (INRIA) Michel Adiba (U. of Grenoble) Peter M. Apers (U. of Twente) Malcom Atkinson (U. of Glasgow) Francois Bancilhon (Altair) Rudolf Bayer (TUM) Catriel Beeri (Hebrew U.) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano) Robert Demolombe (ONERA-CERT) Klaus R. Dittrich (U. of Karlsruhe) Johann C. Freytag (ECRC) Georges Gardarin (INRIA) Alain Pirotte (Philips) Joachim W. Schmidt (U. of Frankfurt) Dionysios Tsichritzis (U. of Geneva) Laurent Vieille (ECRC) [Far East] Hirofumi Katsuno (NTT) Yoshifumi Masunaga (U. of LIS) Takao Miura (Sanno I. of Business) Nobuyoshi Miyazaki (Oki) Setsuo Ohsuga (U. of Tokyo) In-Sup Paik (DACOM of Korea) Shixuan Sa (People's U. of China) Ron Sacks-Davis (RMIT, Melbourne) Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe U.) Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido U.) Yoshihisa Udagawa (Mitsubishi) Kazumasa Yokota (ICOT) Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto Sangyo U.) Requests for further information should be addressed to: Prof. Kiyoshi AGUSA c/o ASTEM RI/Kyoto 9F Asahi-Bldg., Oike Yanaginobanba Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604 Japan Phone:+81-75-256-1677 Telex:5423115ENG KU J Fax: +81-75-256-1670 (bitnet) agusa@jpnkyoto (junet) agusa@astem.junet or [DOOD89 Secretary Address] Ms. Ikuko MIYAZAKI Manager, Marketing Division Science Center International Corp. 17 Chudoji Minami-machi Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, 600 Japan Phone:+81-75-322-7888 Fax: +81-75-322-5348