VLDB'94 -- 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

VLDB'94 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VERY LARGE DATA BASES September 12-15, 1994 Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel Santiago, CHILE Welcome to Santiago! A distinguished history of twenty years has established VLDB at the center of the international data base community. It is one of the oldest established forums of discussion in the international database community and, without doubt, one of the most eminent. VLDB'94 is to take place in Santiago, Chile, a hospitable modern capital city landmarked by the Mapocho river and the impressive heights of the Andes mountains. Like its predecessors, VLDB'94 will bring together researchers, developers and users of database management systems from academia and industry to share information and explore recent developments and future directions in the field of database management. This year's conference features research papers, industrial cases and a number of tutorials offered by leading researchers in the field. Plan now to attend this exciting event! Location. Santiago, the capital city of Chile, is the largest metropolitan area in the country, with over five million inhabitants. It is the political, administrative, business and financial center of the country. Located in a valley at the feet of the Andes mountains, it is only 100 kilometers away from the sea, and just 50 kilometers from ski centers. Santiago is a city that combines modern architecture with landmarks dating from Colonial times. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel, a modern hotel located in downtown Santiago. Many attractions are within walking distance, and the hotel is located very close to a Metro station. The Metro (underground) is fast, clean and safe, and it is a convenient way to reach the shopping and restaurant district of Providencia, where the other conference hotels are located. Conference Program Monday September 12 09:00-10:30 Registration 10:00-10:45 Opening Ceremony Sr. Jaime Ravinet, Alcalde de Santiago Sr. Alvaro Garcia, Ministro de Economia 10:45-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Heterogeneous and Federated Databases (Stream 1) Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks, Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton - USA Providing Dynamic Security Control in a Federated Database, N.B. Idris, W.A. Gray and R.F. Churchhouse - UK An approach for Building Secure Database Federations, Dirk Jonscher and Klaus R. Dittrich - Switzerland Issues on Architectures (Stream 2) Optimization Algorithms for Exploiting the Parallelism-Communication Tradeoff in Pipelined Parallelism, Waqar Hasan and Rajeev Motwani - USA Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager, H.V. Jagadish, Daniel Lieuwen, Rajeev Rastogi, Avi Silberschatz and S. Sudarshan - USA Some Issues in Design of Distributed Deductive Databases, Mukesh K. Mohania and N.L. Sarda - India Tutorial 1/1 (Stream 3) Geographical Information Systems, Claudia Medeiros - Brazil 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Performance and Optimization (Stream 1) Towards Automated Performance Tuning for Complex Workloads, Kurt P. Brown, Manish Mehta , Michael Carey and Miron Livny - USA Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection - Why Use Transformations?, Cesar Galindo-Legaria, Arjan Pellenkoft and Martin Kersten - Netherlands Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around, Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick and Yehoshua Sagiv - USA 2 Object Oriented Databases (Stream 2) Supporting Exceptions to Schema Consistency to Ease Schema Evolution in OODBMS, Eric Amiel, Maria-Jo Bellosta, Eric Dujardin and Eric Simon -France Bulk Loading into an OODB: A Performance Study, Janet L. Wiener and Jeffrey F. Naughton - USA NAOS - Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object Oriented Database System, C. Collet, T. Coupaye and T. Svensen - France Tutorial 1/2 (Stream 3) Geographical Information Systems, Claudia Medeiros - Brazil 15:30-16:30 Break 16:00-17:30 Spatial Databases (Stream 1) Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining, Raymond R. Ng and Jiawei Han - Canada Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations, Erik G. Hoel and Hanan Samet - USA The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems, Thomas Brinkhoff and Hans-Peter Kriegel - Germany Indexing (Stream 2) Indexing Multiple Sets, Christoph Kilger and Guido Moerkotte - Germany Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval, Eric W. Brown, James P. Callan and W. Bruce Croft - USA The hcC-tree: An Efficient Index Structure for Object Oriented Databases, B. Sreenath and S. Seshadri - India Panel 1 (Stream 3) User Interfaces 17:45-18:30 Invited Speaker: Herve Gallaire (to be confirmed) 3 Tuesday September 13 09:00-10:30 Transaction Management (Stream 1) A Transaction Replication Scheme for a Replicated Database with Node Autonomy, Ada Wai-chee Fu and David Wai-Lok Cheung - Hong Kong A Top-Down Approach for Two Level Serializability, M. Ouzzani, M.A. Atroun and N.I. Belkhodja - Algerie New Concurrency Control Algorithms for Accessing and Compacting B-Trees, V.W. Setzer and A. Zisman - Brazil Object Oriented Databases (Stream 2) OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database, N. Gehani, H.V. Jagadish and W.D. Roome - USA Implementing Lazy Database Updates for an Object Database System, Fabrizio Ferrandina, Thorsten Meyer and Roberto Zicari - Germany Access to Objects by Path Expressions and Rules, Juergen Frohn, Georg Lausen and Heinz Uphoff -Germany Tutorial 2/1 (Stream 3) Persistent Programming Systems: The Future of Databases?, Ron Morrison & Malcolm Atkinson - UK 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Modelling and Querying (Stream 1) Towards Event Modelling for Database Design, M. Teisseira, P. Poncelet and R. Ciechetti - France GraphDB: Modelling and Querying Graphs in Databases, Ralf Hartmut Guting - Germany Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences, Terry Gaasterland and Jorge Lobo - USA Storage Management (Stream 2) V-Tree - A Storage Method for Long Vector Data, Mauricio R. Mediano, Marco Casanova and Marcelo Dreux - Brazil On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies, Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Ming-Syan Chen and Philip S. Yu - U