wang@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jih-Fang Wang) (02/12/89)
CALL FOR PAPERS __________________________________________________ Symposium on the Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases __________________________________________________ July 17-18, 1989 Santa Barbara, California The Symposium on the Design and Implementation of Large Spa- tial Databases will be held at the Santa Barbara Sheraton, which is situated on the Pacific seashore. The symposium is sponsored by NASA , EPA, USGS, and by the NSF National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Cooperation with ACM and the IEEE Computer Society has been requested. The symposium is intended as a forum for leading researchers and practitioners in the area of spatial data management. A major focus will be on issues that arise in handling very large spatial databases. We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on spatial data management. Topics include (but are not limited to): Spatial Data Models Representation of Spatial Objects Mappings between Data Representations Spatial Expert Systems Spatial Reasoning Spatial Languages Spatial Access Methods Embedding of Spatial Structures into Extensible Database Systems Query Optimization and Transaction Management for Large Spatial Databases Representation of Sparse Data Sets Data Compression Automated Archiving Optical Disks Hardware Architectures Contributors are invited to send three copies of their manuscript to the Program Chairperson or to the General Chairperson of the Symposium. Manuscripts should arrive until April 1, 1989. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by May 10, 1989. Abstracts of accepted papers will be available at the symposium, and official proceedings will be published later by Springer-Verlag. Invited Speakers: S. K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh; Jurg Nievergelt, University of North Carolina; Hanan Samet, University of Maryland. Program Chairperson: Alex Buchmann XEROX Advanced Information Technology Four Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: (617) 499-4482 E-mail: buchmann@xait.xerox.com General Chairperson: Oliver Gunther Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 961-3236 E-mail: oliver@rossini.ucsb.edu Program Committee: Renato Barrera, University of Maine; Stavros Christodoulakis, University of Waterloo, Canada; Umesh Dayal, DEC; Hans-Dieter Ehrich, University of Braunschweig, FRG; John Estes, NASA; Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland; Andrew Frank, University of Maine; Irene Gargantini, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Klaus Hinrichs, University of Siegen, FRG; Hans-Peter Kriegel, University of Bremen, FRG; Raymond Lorie, IBM Almaden; Frank Manola, GTE; Jack Orenstein, Object Design Inc.; Hans-J. Schek, ETH Zu"rich, Switzerland; Timos Sellis, University of Maryland; Terence Smith, University of California, Santa Barbara; Markku Tamminen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland; Yuan-F. Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eugene Wong, University of California, Berkeley. Registration Fees: Advance Registration (prior to May 15, 1989): $100.00 (students: $40.00) Late/On-Site Registration (after May 15, 1989): $120.00 (students: $50.00) The non-student registration fees include a copy of the proceedings. For more information please contact: Sandi Glendinning Conference Coordinator, NCGIA Ellison Hall, 3rd floor University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 961-8224