[news.announce.conferences] CFP: Fourth Internatinal Conference on Data Engineering

juang@eecs.NWU.EDU (J.Y. Juang) (04/30/87)

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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

    Fourth International Conference on Data Engineering

                     February 2-4, 1988
                Los Angeles, California, USA
       Sponsored by The Computer Society of the IEEE


CONFERENCE TIMETABLE AND INFORMATION

Papers due:                   June 15, 1987
Tutorial proposals due:       June 15, 1987
Acceptance letters sent:      September 15, 1987
Camera-ready copy due:        November 15, 1987
Tutorials:                    February 1 and 5, 1988
Conference:                   February 2-4, 1988

For further information contact the General Chairperson:
                      Benjamin W. Wah
     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
                   University of Illinois
                      Urbana, IL 61801
                       (217) 333-3516
                    wah%uicsld@uiuc.arpa


                           SCOPE


     Data engineering is concerned with  the  semantics  and
structuring  of  data in information system design, develop-
ment, management, and use. It encompasses  both  traditional
applications  and  issues, and emerging ones. The purpose of
this conference is to provide a forum  for  the  sharing  of
practical   experiences   and   research  advances  from  an
engineering  point  of  view  among  those   interested   in
automated data and knowledge management.  Our expectation is
that this sharing will enable future information systems  to
be  more  efficient and effective, and future research to be
more relevant and timely.

     We are particularly soliciting industrial contributions
and  participation.   We  know  it  is vital that there be a
dialogue between practitioners  and  researchers.   We  look
forward to reports of experiments, evaluations, and problems
in  information  system  design  and  implementation.   Such
reports  will  be  processed,  scheduled, and published in a
distinguished track.



                     TOPICS OF INTEREST


     We invited you to submit papers on topics including but
not limited to these:
          Applications
          Architecture for database and knowledge systems
          Autonomous, distributed systems
          Data engineering tools
          Data management methodologies
          Data security and integrity
          Design of knowledge-based systems
          Distribution of data and knowledge
          Expert systems
          Logical and physical database design
          Performance evaluation
          Statistical databases


                     PAPER SUBMISSIONS


     Each paper's length should be limited to  8  proceeding
pages,  which  is about 5000 words, or 25 doubl-spaced typed
pages.  Four copies of completed  papers  should  be  mailed
before June 15, 1987 to:

                       John V. Carlis
                Computer Science Department
                  University of Minnesota
                    207 Church Street SE
                   Minneapolis, MN 55455
                       (612) 625-6092
                       carlis@umn-cs


                         TUTORIALS

The days before and after the conference will be devoted  to
tutorials.   Proposals  for  tutorials  on  Data Engineering
topics, especially advanced topics, are wellcome. Send  pro-
posals by June, 15 1987 to:
                       Amit P. Sheth
             Honeywell Computer Sciences Center
                  1000 Boone Avenue North
                  Golden Valley, MN 55427
                       (612) 541-6899


     AWARDS, STUDENT PAPERS AND SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATION


     Awards will be given to the best paper and to the  best
student  paper  (denoted as such when submitted and authored
solely by students).  The latter will receive  the  K.S.  Fu
award,  honoring  one of the early supporters of the confer-
ence.  Up to three grants of $500 each to help defray travel
costs  of  student authors.  Outstanding papers will be con-
sidered for publication in the IEEE Computer Society  Publi-
cations:  Computer,  Expert,  Software,  and transactions on
Software Engineering.  For more information contact the gen-
eral chairman.


                         COMMITTEE

Steering Committee:

     C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California, Berkeley

     P. Bruce Berra, Syracuse University

     Gio Wiederhold, Stanford University


General Chairperson:

     Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois


Program Chairperson:

     John Carlis, University of Minnesota


Program Co-Chairpersons:

     Tadeo Ichikawa, Hiroshima University, Japan

     Sushil Jajodia, Naval Research Laboratory

     Iris Kameny, Rand Corporation

     Roger King, University of Colorado

     Witold Litwin, INRIA, Le Chesmay, France

     Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western University

     Joseph Urban, University of S.W. Louisiana

     Tutorials:

     Amit P. Sheth, Honeywell Corporation


Industrial and Inter-Society Coordinator:

     Dick Shuey, Consultant
     2330 Rosendale Rd., Schenectady, NY 12309


Awards:

     K.H. Kim, University of California, Irvine


Publicity:

     Jie-Yong Juang, Northwestern University


International Coordination:

     G. Schlageter, Fern Universitat, Hagen, FRG


Treasurers:

     Kate Baumgartner, University of Illinois

     Aldo Castillo, Cray Research


Local Arrangements:

     Walter Bond, SDC

     Homideh Afsarmanesh, Cal State, Dominquez Hills

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