wang@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jih-Fang Wang) (12/09/88)
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 Spatial Databases will be held at the Santa Barbara Sheraton, which is situated on the Pacific coast. The symposium is sponsored by NASA and by the NSF National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara; sponsorship by 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 Embedding of Spatial Structures into Extensible Database Systems Query Optimization and Transaction Management for Large Spatial Databases Spatial Languages Spatial Index Structures Representation of Sparse Data Sets Data Compression Hardware Architectures Contributors are invited to send three copies of their manuscript to Oliver Gunther Department of Computer Science University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Phone: (805) 961-3236, Arpanet: oliver@rossini.ucsb.edu Manuscripts should arrive until April 1, 1989. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by May 1, 1989. Abstracts of accepted papers will be available at the symposium, and official proceedings will be published later by Springer-Verlag. Invited Speakers include S. K. Chang, University of Pittsburgh; Jurg Nievergelt, University of North Carolina; Hanan Samet, University of Maryland. Organizing Committee John Estes, NASA; Andrew Frank, University of Maine; Oliver Gunther, Terence Smith, and Y-F Wang, University of California at Santa Barbara.