VLDB'98
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
24th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
New York City, U.S.A.
August 24-27, 1998
http://www.research.att.com/conf/vldb98/
For 24 years, VLDB has served the database community as its primary truly
international conference. The current trend in VLDB is towards a forum
where researchers and practitioners exchange ideas and experiences, with
excellent quality ensured by rigorous refereeing. The VLDB '98 conference
will continue and strengthen this trend.
We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results in the
general field of databases. Starting in 1998 the VLDB research paper track
will be divided into three sections. The regular section is for standard
research papers. To stimulate new research directions, a separate vision
section is introduced for papers on speculative and futuristic topics. A
third experience section will promote papers describing novel and
challenging database system implementation aspects or novel applications of
database technology. In addition to the research track, there will be an
industrial track, as well as panels, tutorials, and exhibits.
Since the conference will take place in New York City, we are especially
interested in papers, tutorials, panels, and exhibits that may be of
interest to the financial community.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interest in VLDB '98 include but are not limited to:
Active Databases Logic and Databases
Authorization and Security Mobility and Databases
Concurrency Control and Recovery Multidimensional Databases
DBMS Architectures Multimedia Databases
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery On-line Analytical Processing
Object-Oriented Database Systems
Data Models and Database Design Optimization and Performance
Data Warehousing Parallel and Distributed Databases
Database Benchmarks Real-time Databases
Database Constraint Management Replication, Caching, and View
Database Evolution and Migration Materialization
Database Languages Scientific and Statistical Databases
Databases and Electronic Commerce
Engineering Databases Spatial Databases
Financial Applications of Databases Temporal Databases
Text Databases
Heterogeneous and Federated User Interfaces and Information
Databases Visualization
Interaction Between Database and IR View Management
Systems Visual Query Languages and Tools
Internet/Intranet Services and Workflow Systems
Databases
Knowledge Base Management Systems
RESEARCH TRACK PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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Regular Section
This section provides a forum for dissemination of original, high
quality, research results. Papers reporting and evaluating new
structures, methods, systems, and models are encouraged, while papers
reporting marginal improvements of well-known solutions are
discouraged. Papers for this section will be evaluated according to
standard criteria including originality and innovation, abstraction and
technical depth, and potential practical impact.
Vision Section
This separate section provides a forum for discussion of future
technological directions and their anticipated impact on databases.
Papers for this section are by nature somewhat speculative, however
they are expected to be scientific in their technical quality,
analysis, and argumentation.
Experience Section
This separate section provides a forum for discussion of experiences in
implementing DBMSs and/or applying DBMS technology to real-life
applications. In evaluating papers submitted to this section, the
program committee will consider novelty, technical quality, and the
value of reported results to developers and/or users of database and
information systems.
Six copies of original papers should be submitted to the appropriate
research program co-chair depending on the geographic region in which the
authors of the paper reside by February 23, 1998. Papers must not be under
consideration or published elsewhere. Submitted papers should not exceed 20
pages, double-spaced and typeset with minimum 11 point font; over-length
papers may be rejected without review. An abstract of the paper must be
submitted electronically by February 16, 1998.
Research Paper Submissions:
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Americas/Australia:Jennifer Widom
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
Email:widom@cs.stanford.edu
Africa/Asia/Europe:Oded Shmueli
Computer Science Department
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 32000
Israel
Email:oshmu@cs.technion.ac.il
INDUSTRIAL TRACK PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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The industrial track encourages submission of short papers from industry to
report on new developments in DBMS technology. Papers should describe
experiences using or developing database management systems, or issues
arising from handling large volumes of data in an industrial setting.
Positive or negative advice that will help researchers or practitioners is
particularly welcome.
Six copies of original papers should be submitted to the appropriate
industrial program co-chair depending on the geographic region in which the
authors of the paper reside by February 23, 1998. Submitted papers should
not exceed 4 pages, double-spaced and typeset with minimum 11 point font;
over-length papers may be rejected without review. An abstract of the paper
must be submitted electronically by February 16, 1998.
Americas/Australia:Dennis Shasha
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
1998.
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, N.Y. 10012-1185
U.S.A.
Email:shasha@cs.nyu.edu
Africa/Asia/Europe:Patrick Valduriez
INRIA Rocquencourt
B.P. 105
78153 Le Chesney Cedex
France
Email:patrick.valduriez@inria.fr
PANEL PROPOSALS
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Panels proposals should address exciting, new and controversial issues and
must be debate-oriented rather than a series of short presentations. They
should pose specific questions that the panelists will be called to answer,
and they should indicate what the controversy around those questions is. A
list of confirmed participants with their affiliations should be included in
the panel proposal. Proposals should be submitted to any one of the two
panel program co-chairs electronically or in hard-copy by February 23, 1998.
Regardless of author's location, send your submission to any one of the two
panel program co-chairs:
Klaus Dittrich
Universitat Zurich
Institut fur Informatik
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
Switzerland
Email:dittrich@ifi.unizh.ch
or
Yannis Ioannidis
Univesity of Athens
Department of Informatics
Panepistimioupolis, TYPA Buildings
157-71 Ilisia, Athens
Hellas (Greece)
Email:yannis@cs.wisc.edu
TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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Tutorial proposals must clearly identify the intended audience, which should
be considerably broader than the database research community. Enough
material should be included in the proposal to provide a sense of both the
scope of material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered.
There are no limits on the length of the tutorial proposal. The intended
length of the tutorial (1.5 or 3 hours) should be indicated. Proposals
should be submitted to the tutorial program chair electronically or in
hard-copy by February 23, 1998.
Regardless of author's location:
H.V. Jagadish
AT&T Labs
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
USA
Email:jag@research.att.com
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITS PROPOSALS
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VLDB'98 plans to showcase exhibits from the industry. The exhibits should
include demos illustrating innovative technology, features and
implementations of database systems or database applications. Exhibits may
be linked to presentations in other tracks. To propose your participation in
the exhibits program contact by email any of the two exhibits program
co-chairs or send them a short (few paragraphs) description by May 1,
1998.
Nelson M. Mattos
IBM
Email: mattos@us.ibm.com
or
Andy Witkowski, ,
Oracle Corporation
Email: awitkows@us.oracle.com
IMPORTANT DATES:
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All submissions must be received by the appropriate program chair by
February 23, 1998. There will be no grace period.
In addition, authors intending to submit a paper to the Research or
Industrial Program will be required to send electonically information
regarding their submission (title, authors, and abstract) to the appropriate
program chair by February 16, 1998 (hard deadline). Details on the
electronic submission of paper information will be available on the VLDB'98
home page by January 15, 1998.
Research and industrial program submissions:
Electronic submission of abstract: February 16, 1998 (firm deadline)
Six hard-copies of paper (no e-mail): February 23, 1998 (firm deadline)
Panel and tutorial program submissions:February 23, 1998 (firm deadline)
Notification of acceptance decision: May 10, 1998
Final papers due: June 1, 1998
Hotel reservations deadline: July 27, 1998
Conference dates: August 24 - 27, 1998
CONFERENCE OFFICERS
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General Chairs Alexandros Biliris, biliris@research.att.com,
AT&T Labs
Inderpal Singh Mumick, mumick@savera.com,
Savera Systems
Advisory Council Stavros Christodoulakis, stavros@ced.tuc.gr,
University of Crete
Ron Sacks-Davis, rsd@citri.edu.au, CITRI
David DeWitt, dewitt@cs.wisc.edu, University of
Wisconsin
Peter Lockemann, lockeman@ira.uka.de,
University of Karlsruhe
Sham Navathe, sham@cc.gatech.edu, Georgia Tech
Research Program Chairs
Americas/Australia Jennifer Widom, widom@cs.stanford.edu
Computer Science Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
USA
Africa/Asia/Europe Oded Shmueli, oshmu@cs.technion.ac.il
Computer Science Department
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Technion City, Haifa 32000
Israel
Industrial Program Chairs
Americas/Australia Dennis Shasha, shasha@cs.nyu.edu
Department of Computer Science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
251 Mercer Street
New York, N.Y. 10012-1185
U.S.A.
Africa/Asia/Europe Patrick Valduriez, patrick.valduriez@inria.fr
INRIA Rocquencourt
B.P. 105
78153 Le Chesney Cedex
France
Panel Program Chairs Klaus Dittrich , dittrich@ifi.unizh.ch
Universitat Zurich
Institut fur Informatik
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich
Switzerland
Yannis Ioannidis, yannis@cs.wisc.edu
Univesity of Athens and University of
Wisconsin
Department of Informatics
Panepistimioupolis, TYPA Buildings
157-71 Ilisia, Athens
Hellas (Greece)
Tutorial Program Chair H.V. Jagadish, jag@research.att.com
AT&T Labs
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
USA
Exhibits Program Chairs Nelson M. Mattos, mattos@us.ibm.com, IBM
Andy Witkowski, awitkows@us.oracle.com, Oracle
Corporation
Treasurer Kenneth A. Ross, kar@cs.columbia.edu, Columbia
University
Local Arrangements Alex Dellis, ad@naxos.poly.edu, Polytechnic
University
Euthimios Panagos, thimios@research.att.com,
AT&T Labs
Priscilla Rasmussen, rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu,
ARCS, Ltd
Jason Wang, jason@village.njit.edu, NJIT
Proceedings Chair Ashish Gupta, ashish@junglee.com, Junglee Corp.
Publicity Chair Tamer Ozsu, ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca, University of
Europe Co-ordinator Alberta
Australia Co-ordinator Bernhard Mitschang,
Asia Co-ordinator mitsch@informatik.tu-muenchen.de, Tech. Univ.
Muenchen
David Kemp, kemp@cs.mu.oz.au, University of
Melbourne
S. Sudarshan, sudarsha@cse.iitb.ernet.in, IIT
Mumbai
Awards Chair Jeffrey Ullman, ullman@cs.stanford.edu,
Stanford University
VLDB Endowment Hector Garcia-Molina, hector@db.stanford.edu,
Representative Stanford University
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