Call For Papers, Entity-Relationship 93

CALL FOR PAPERS TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTITY-RELATIONSHIP APPROACH DECEMBER 15-17, 1993 DALLAS MARRIOTT-ARLINGTON TEXAS, USA SPONSORED BY WITH COOPERATION OF ER INSTITUTE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY AND AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON ACM SIGMOD (pending approval) THE CONFERENCE: The Entity-Relationship (ER) approach is extensively used in many database and information system design methodologies and has become a de facto standard of most manual and automated design tools. The ER Conference has become the primary forum for researchers and practitioners in data Modeling. In line with its tradition, the 12-th ER conference will provide an international and inter-disciplinary forum in which researchers and practitioners can share novel research, tool developments and management experiences. The conference will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, tutorials, tool demonstrations and panel sessions. Conference proceedings will be published by ER Institute. Selected papers may be published in Data and Knowledge Engineering (North Holland). TOPICS OF INTEREST: The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Conceptual Modeling Process Modeling Database Design Extending ER Model with Object-Oriented Concepts Federated Information Systems Schema Evolution Schema Integration User Interfaces Query Languages Multimedia Automated Design Tools Reverse Engineering Temporal Databases Spatial Databases Scientific Databases Active Databases Deductive Databases Using ER in Software Engineering IDEF, EXPRESS, STEP/PDES and Other Standards Innovative Applications of the ER Approach INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: Paper submissions must be in English, double space format and at most 6000 words. Authors, affiliations, telephone numbers, email addresses, and fax numbers must be stated. Authors must submit four copies of each paper/tutorial to the program chairman. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 1, 1993 Deadline for Tutorial/Panel Proposals: June 30, 1993 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 1993 Camera Ready Papers Due: September 30, 1993 PROGRAM CHAIR: Professor Ramez Elmasri The University of Texas at Arlington Computer Science Engineering Department P. O. Box 19015 Arlington, TX 76019 Phone: (817) 273-2348 Fax: (817) 273-3784 Email: elmasri@cse.uta.edu CONFERENCE CHAIR: Pei Hsia, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Stefano Spaccapietra, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, Switzerland FINANCE CHAIR: Abdelsalam Helal, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR / REGISTRATION CHAIR: Vram Kouramajian, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Bob Weems, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Chenho Kung, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Nabil Adam, Rutgers University, USA Don Batory, University of Texas, USA Jose Blakeley, Texas Instruments Labs, USA Mokrane Bouzeghoub, University of Versailles, France John Carlis, University of Minnesota, USA Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, USA Noel Craske, Monash University, Australia Bogdan Czejdo, Loyola University, USA Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland Christoph Eick, University of Houston, USA David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA Georges Grosz, University of Paris I, France Yannis Ioannidis, University of Wisconsin, USA Raja Iyer, University of Texas (Arlington), USA Gerti Kappel, University of Vienna, Austria Vram Kouramajian, University of Texas (Arlington), USA Chenho Kung, University of Texas (Arlington), USA Alberto Laender, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Tok-Wang Ling, National University, Singapore Peter Lockemann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Peri Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, England Sal March, University of Minnesota, USA Takao Miura, Sanno University, Japan Guido Moerkotte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Marianne Neimat, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Barbara Pernici, University of Udine, Italy Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA Felix Saltor, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Michael Schrefl, University of Linz, Austria Arie Segev, University of California, Berkeley, USA Peretz Shoval, Ben Gurion University, Israel Craig Slinkman, University of Texas (Arlington), USA Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA Rudi Studer, Karlsruhe University, Germany Toby Teorey, University of Michigan, USA Bernhard Thalheim, University of Rostock, Germany Babis Theodoulidis, University of Manchester, England Paolo Tiberio, University of Bologna, Italy A Min Tjoa, University of Vienna, Austria Bob Weems, University of Texas (Arlington), USA David Wells, Texas Instruments Laboratories, USA Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois, USA Gene Wuu, Bellcore, USA