VLDB'94 Call for Papers (reminder)

**************************************************************************** * * * VLDB'94 * * * * CALL for PAPERS * * * * 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on VERY LARGE DATA BASES * * * * SANTIAGO - CHILE * * * * SEPTEMBER 12-15, 1994 * * * **************************************************************************** SCOPE ===== A distinguished history of 20 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. We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results in the general field of databases. In addition, to mark the 20th anniversary of VLDB special efforts are being made to further the goal of leading in reporting and stimulating new research directions. To this purpose, we solicit papers and panel proposals on speculative and futuristic topics. We also encourage papers on novel and challenging applications of database technology in designing and building complex information systems. A new aspect of the conference is the industrial cases program. We encourage submission of papers describing work of significant interest to industry, particularly in areas providing interesting directions for the development of databases. We seek to provide a forum to discuss experiences in applying databases to real life situations. In the evaluation of papers submitted to this program, the committee will consider novelty, technical quality and the value of reported results to developers of information systems. A high-quality tutorial program will be offered in both English and Spanish. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The topics of interest include but are not limited to: o Extended Relational Databases o Database Languages o Object Oriented Databases o Data Models and Database Design o Knowledge Base Management Systems o Data Integrity and Security o Temporal and Spatial Databases o Optimization and Performance o Multimedia Databases o Concurrency and Transaction Management o Heterogeneous Databases o Storage Management o Engineering and Scientific Databases o Persistent Object Systems o Parallel and Distributed Databases o Architectures o Text Databases o Implementation Issues o Graphical Query Languages o User Interfaces PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words (double spaced pages, including keywords) should be submitted by the 23th of February 1994, to the appropriate regional program chair: North-american Program Chair: European Program Chair: ---------------------------- ----------------------- Carlo Zaniolo Matthias Jarke USA Germany Computer Science Department RWTH-Aachen UCLA Informatik V, Ahornstr. 55 405 Hilgard Avenue, CA 90024 52074 Aachen, Germany e-mail: zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu email: jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de tel: (+1 310) 825 8137 tel: (+49 241) 80 21501 fax: (+1 310) 825 2273 fax: (+49 241) 80 21529 Latin-America, Pacific Basin and Far-East Program Chair: ---------------------------- Jorge Bocca Chile (Latin-American region) (Other regions) Depto. de Ciencias de la School of Computer Science Computacio'n Universidad de Chile University of Birmingham Blanco Encalada 2120 Edgbaston Santiago Birmingham B15 2TT Chile United Kingdom e-mail: jbocca@dcc.uchile.cl e-mail: J.B.Bocca@cs.bham.ac.uk tel: (+56 2) 689 2736 tel: (+44 21) 414 3711 fax: (+56 2) 689 5531 fax: (+44 21) 414 4281 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Michele Adiba, France Richard R. Muntz, USA Divyakant Agrawal, USA Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Australia Peter Apers, Netherlands Kenneth Ross, USA Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Chile Ron Sacks-Davis, Australia David Bell, Northern Ireland Felix Saltor, Spain Jose Blakeley, Mexico/USA Betty Salzberg, USA Jorge Bocca, UK/Chile Joachim W. Schmidt, Germany Mokrane Bouzeghoub, France Michael Schrefl, Austria Alex Buchmann, Mexico/Germany Amit P. Sheth, USA Peter Buneman, USA Avi Silberschatz, USA Michael Carey, USA Richard Snodgrass, USA Nick J. Cercone, Canada Stefano Spaccapietra, Switzerland Sharma Chakravarthy, USA Sury Sripada, Germany Jan Chomicki, USA V.S. Subrahmanian, USA Stavros Christodoulakis, Greece Patrick Valduriez, France Sophie Cluet, France Yannis Vassiliou, Greece Armin B. Cremers, Germany P. Venkat Rangan, USA S.Misbah Deen, UK Victor Vianu, USA Sergio Delgado, Mexico Gerhard Weikum, Switzerland Klaus Dittrich, Switzerland Jennifer Widom, USA Kam Fai, Hong Kong Christos Faloutsos, USA Raymundo Foradellas, Spain Antonio Furtado, Brazil Sumit Ganguly, USA Georges Gardarin, France Narain Gehani, USA Goetz Graefe, USA Jim Gray, USA Ehud Gudes, Israel Theo Haerder, Germany Paula Hawthorn, USA Richard Hull, USA Sushil Jajodia, USA Christian Jensen, Denmark Manfred Jeusfeld, Germany Alfons Kemper, Germany Michel Kuntz, Japan Rosana Lanzelotte, Brazil Zhou Longxiang Chou Longhsiang, China Claudia Medeiros, Brazil Alberto Mendelzon, Argentina/Canada Michele Missikoff, Italy C. Mohan, USA Ron Morrison, UK Ami Motro, USA Erich Neuhold, Germany Jack Orenstein, USA Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, USA TUTORIALS ========= Tutorial proposals should be sent by air-mail, fax or e-mail to one of: Alberto O. Mendelzon Ricardo Baeza-Yates Canada Chile CSRI Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacio'n University of Toronto Un