alanb@minster.york.ac.uk (06/08/90)
BNCOD-8
The Eighth British National Conference on Databases,
9th - 11th July 1990,
The University of York, England.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Eighth British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD-8) is to
be held at the University of York from 9th-11th July 1990. This is
the premier British database conference of the year, bringing
recent developments and current research to the attention of both
the industrial and academic communities. The main themes of the
eighth conference of the series will be:
+ Object-Oriented Databases
+ Office Information Systems and User Interfaces
+ Functional and Knowledge Based Systems
+ Database Applications
+ Standards and IRDS
Guest speakers at this year's conference include William Kent of
Hewlett Packard (USA) who will discuss object-oriented database
systems, and David Gradwell, chairman of the ISO Technical Commit-
tee on the Framework for the Information Resource Dictionary System
(IRDS), who will discuss the arrival of IRDS and its likely impact
on the future of database systems.
THE EIGHTH BRITISH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASES - BNCOD-8
The conference will be held over three days - from lunch on Monday,
9th July to lunch on Wednesday 11th July - at the campus of the
University of York.
The cost of the attending the conference includes accommodation for
the evenings of the 9th and 10th July, all meals and refreshments
during the conference and a copy of the conference proceedings (to
be published by Pitman publishing company). In addition, the cost
also includes a conference dinner at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall
in York, preceded by a guided tour of the City of York.
A special reduced fee is available for full-time students, and
members of the British Computer Society (BCS) or academic institu-
tions. A limited amount of additional accommodation is available
both immediately before and after the main conference for those who
wish to extend their stay to explore the beautiful City of York.
Please contact the conference organisers for more details.
On the evening of Monday 9th July, guests at BNCOD-8 have been
invited to a buffet and reception hosted by INGRES (UK) Ltd. This
reception will take the form of a pleasure cruise on the river Ouse
through the heart of the city of York. Buffet, drinks and enter-
tainment will be provided on board.
To book a place at the conference, please complete and return the
attached booking form. For multiple bookings, please photocopy the
form for each participant.
FOR ANY QUERIES CONTACT:
Alan Brown (0904-432746 alanb@uk.ac.york.minster)
Peter Hitchcock (0904-432745 ph@uk.ac.york.minster)
Rebecca Wise (0904-432782 rebecca@uk.ac.york.minster)
P R O G R A M M E
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Monday, 9th July
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*Invited Paper*
The Evolving Role of Database in Object Systems
William Kent
Hewlett Packard (USA)
*Database Architectures*
A Version Model for Object-Oriented Databases
Jean Louis Cheval
Laboratoire LGI (France)
Parallel DB4GL: A Transputer Based Implementation of a Parallel
Database System
J P Gray, F Poole
Sheffield City Polytechnic
TriStarp - An Investigation into the Implementation and Exploita-
tion of Binary Relational Storage Structures
P King, M Deraksham, A Poulovassilis, C Small
Birkbeck College
Tuesday, 10th July
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*Theoretical Issues*
Compilation of Complex DATALOG with Stratified Negation
Thomas Ludwig
University of Trier (W.Germany)
Semantic Transaction Optimization in Relational Databases
X Y Wang, W A Gray, N J Fiddian
University of Wales, Cardiff
Graph Views and Recursive Query Languages
Peter T Wood
University of Cape Town (S.Africa)
*Applications*
Implementing the emerging ISO Standard STEP into a Relational Data-
base
Deborah Thomas
SERC
Object-Oriented Database Design for the Ozone Software Development
Environment
Greg Nicholls, Steve A Demurjian
University of Connecticut (USA)
A Geoscientific Database System Supporting Cartography and Applica-
tion Programming
Friedrich Lohmann, Karl Neumann
Technische Universitat Bruanschweig (W.Germany)
*Commercial Session*
Martin Butler (Butler, Bloor Ltd.)
Theme: Future Commercial Database Systems
(See details below)
Wednesday, 11th July
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*Invited Paper*
The Arrival of the IRDS Standard
David Gradwell
Analyst Workbench Products Ltd.
*Interfaces and Office Information Systems*
A Modelling Paradigm for Retrieval of Office Documents
Augusto Celentano, Maria Grazia Fugini, Silvano Pozzi
Universita di Brescia, Politecnio di Milano, CEFRIEL (Italy)
Trail Management in Hypertext: Database Support for Navigation
through Textual Complex Objects
T J Sillitoe, B N Rossiter, M A Heather
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Design and Construction of Graphical Database User Interfaces Using
Surface Interaction
Alan W Brown, Roger K. Took, William G. Daly
University of York
COMMERCIAL SESSION
The afternoon of Tuesday 10th July will be devoted to a commercial
session addressing the theme: Future Commercial Database Systems.
This session will be led by an experienced independent database
consultant, Martin Butler of Butler, Bloor Associates. Following
his talk a number of speakers from commercial database manufactur-
ers will address the theme, identifying the key approaches as they
see them. Planned speakers will include representatives from the
manufacturers of the Ingres and Empress relational database sys-
tems, and from the Ontologic Corporation, who produce and market
the ONTOS object-oriented database system. The afternoon will be
concluded by a discussion session where the audience can question
the speakers about their presentations.
EXHIBITION
To accompany the BNCOD-8 conference there is an exhibition at which
database manufacturers will be displaying their products. Also in
attendance will be representatives from database consultants and a
wide range of publishers who will be exhibiting their latest data-
base text books.
If any other interested parties wish to exhibit at BNCOD-8, please
contact any of the conference organisers for further details.
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B O O K I N G F O R M
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Return to: Dr. Alan Brown, BNCOD-8, Department of Computer Science,
University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, England.
Please circle the rate that is applicable.
Cheques and invoices should be made payable to "The University of York".
Conference Fees
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The conference fee covers: attendance at all sessions, two nights bed and
breakfast accomodation for the 9th and 10th July,
all meals and refreshments during the conference
(including the conference dinner) and a copy
of the conference proceedings.
Full-time students 130 pounds
Members of the BCS 160 pounds
Members of Academic Institutions 160 pounds
Others 190 pounds
Late Fee (for bookings after 1st June) 30 pounds
Daily Rates
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The daily rate covers attendance at the conference and also includes lunch
and tea or coffee for that day.
Monday 9th July p.m. 40 pounds
Tuesday 10th July all day 80 pounds
Wednesday 11th July a.m. 40 pounds
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