[news.announce.conferences] Int'l Symp. on Databases in Parallel and Distributed Systems Program

rakesh@andante (R.Agrawal) (11/29/88)

		       ADVANCE PROGRAM

	   INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DATABASES IN
	      PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

		       December 5-7, 1988
			 Austin, Texas

Sponsored by:  IEEE CS Technical Committee on Data Engineering
	       ACM SIG on Computer Architecture
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December 5, 1st Day
2 Tutorials  8:30 - 12:00

Opening Remarks
  1:00 - 1:15  Joe Urban - University of Miami, Florida
  1:15 - 1:30  Won Kim, MCC
Keynote Address
  1:30 - 2:15  J.C. Browne - University of Texas at Austin

Session 1     2:30 - 3:45  Object-Oriented Systems
Chair:	Gerald Karam - Carleton University

"The Relation between Problems in Large-Scale Concurrent Systems and
Distributed Databases (invited paper)"
   Gul Agha - Yale University

"Writing Reliable Servers:  Design and Implementation
in Avalon/C++
   Richard Allen Lerner - Carnegie Mellon University

"Performance Modeling of Distributed Object-Oriented
Database Systems"
   Jeffrey A. Brumfield - University of Texas at Austin
   Janet Miller, Hong-Tai Chou - MCC

Break

Session 2     4:00 - 5:30  Logic-Based Systems
Chair:	Ravi Krishnamurthy - MCC

"Exploiting Concurrency in a DBMS Implementation
for Production Systems"
   Louiqa Raschid, Timos Sellis,
   Chih-Chen Lin - University of Maryland

"Sharing the Load of Logic-Program Evaluation"
   Ouri Wolfson - The Techniion-Israel Institute
   of Technology

"Multiprocessor Transitive Closure Algorithms"
   Rakesh Agrawal, H. V. Jagadish - AT&T Bell Laboratories

Reception  6:00 - 9:00

December 6, 2nd Day
Session 3     9:00 - 10:30  Parallel Database Systems
Chair:	Rakesh Agrawal - AT&T Bell Laboratories

"Parallelism in Bubba (invited paper),"
   Haran Boral - MCC

"Parallelizing FAD, a Database Programming Language:
   Brian Hart, Scott Danforth, Patrick Valduriez - MCC

"JAS:  A Parallel VLSI Architecture for Unformatted
Data Processing"
   K.C. Lee, O. Frieder, V. Mak - Bell Communications
   Research

Break

Session 4     11:00 - 12:30   Parallel Join
Chair:	Anil Nigam - IBM Thomas J. Watson Lab.

"Parallel Join Algorithms on a Network of Workstations"
   Xiao Wang, W.S. Luk - Simon Fraser University

"A Robust Protocol for Parallel Join Operations
in Distributed Data Bases"
   S. Bandyopadhyay, A. Sengupta - University of Windsor

"Effect of Skew on Join Performance in Parallel
Architectures"
  M. Seetha Lakshmi, Philip S. Yu - IBM Thomas J. Watson Lab.

Session 5     2:00 - 3:30
Panel: chair: John Carlis - University of Minnesota
  "Parallelism in Databases: What, Why, and Whither"

Break

Session 6     4:00 - 5:30   Distributed Query Processing
Chair:	Hong-Tai Chou - MCC

"A Case Study for Distributed Query Processing"
   P. Agrawal, D. Bitton, K. Guh, C. Liu,
   C. Yu - University of Illinois at Chicago

"Parallelism in Processing Queries on Complex
Objects"
   T. Harder, H. Schoning, A. Sikeler - University
   Kaiserslautern

"Heuristic Algorithms for Distributed Query
Processing"
   P. Bodorik - Technical University of Nova Scotia
   J.S. Riordon - Carleton University

Reception    6:00 - 9:00

December 7, 3rd Day

Session 7     9:00 - 10:30  Transaction Processing
Chair:	Sunil Sarin - Computer Corp. of America

"Note Autonomy in Distributed Systems (invited paper),"
   Hector Garcia-Molina, Boris Kogan - Princeton University

"Performance Evaluation of Global Reading of
Entire Databases"
   Calton Pu, Christine H. Hong, Jae M. Wha -
   Columbia University

"Multiprocessor Main Memory Transaction Processing"
   Kai Li, Jeffrey F. Naughton - Princeton University

Break

Session 8     11:00 - 12:30  Distributed Databases
Chair:	Ophir Frieder - Bell Comm. Res.

"VIP-MDBS:  A Logic Multidatabase System"
   Eva Kuhn, Thomas Ludwig - Technische Universitat
   Wien, Austria

"Integrating Relational Databases with Support
for Updates"
   M. Samy Gamal-Edin - Clarkson University
   Gomer Thomas - Bell Communications Research
   Ramez Elmasri - University of Houston

"Robust Transaction Routing in Distributed
Database Systems"
   Yann-Hang Lee, Philip S. Yu - IBM Thomas J. Watson Lab.

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Tutorial #1:  Parallel Computing and Database Management

Instructor:  Bruce K. Hilyer, AT&T Bell Labs

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Tutorial #2:  Integrating Heterogeneous Distributed Databases:
	      Requirements, Concepts, and Solutions

Instructors:  Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Purdue U. and
	      Amith P. Sheth, UNISYS

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For registration information, look in the September issues of
CACM or IEEE Computer or send a message to Sushil Jajodia
at jajodia@gmuvax2.gmu.edu.