CALL FOR PAPERS 
                            for the

         13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING

                     7 April - 11 April, 1997
                     University of Birmingham
                          Birmingham, UK

              Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

SCOPE
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Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering disciplines in the 
design, development and evaluation of information systems for 
different computing platforms and architectures. The 13th Data 
Engineering Conference will provide a forum for the sharing of 
original research results and practical engineering experiences among 
researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of data and 
knowledge management.  The purpose of the conference is to share 
solutions to problems that face our information-oriented society and 
to identify new challenges and directions for future research.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Data Engineering and the Net
	* Mobile Computing
	* Network Databases and Security
	* Data Management on the Internet

* Object-Oriented Databases and Applications

* Specialized Database Systems
	* Real-time, Temporal and Spatial Systems
	* Scientific and Statistical Databases

* Multimedia Systems and Applications

* Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining

* Core Database Technologies
	* Query Processing and Optimization
	* Transaction Management
	* Data Storage and Indexing

* Parallel and Distributed Database Systems

* Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems

* Extensible and Active Database/Knowledge Base Systems
	* Open Architecture and Extensible Systems
	* Active Database/Knowledge Base Systems

* Industrial Challenges in Data Engineering

Industrial, Panel & Tutorial programs
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There will be a series of sessions focused on issues relevant to 
practitioners of information technology. Proposals for the industrial 
program, panels and the tutorial program are being sought. Proposers 
should submit a short write-up to the Program Co-Chair at the address 
given in the Paper Submission section at the bottom of the preceding 
column.

Publication & Awards
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All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the 
IEEE Computer Society. The authors of selected papers will be invited 
to submit extended versions for possible publication in the IEEE 
Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering and in the Journal of 
Distributed and  Parallel Databases. An award will be given to the 
best paper.  A separate award  honouring K.S. Fu will be given to the 
best student papers (authored solely by students).


Important Dates
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Paper, Panel & Tutorial Submissions: 30 August, 1996

Notification of acceptance: 30 November, 1996

Tutorials: 7-8 April, 1997

Conference: 9-11 April, 1997	  


Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chairs:	
Mike Jackson, University of Wolverhampton, UK
calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA

Program Co-Chairs:  	
Alex Gray, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Paul Larson, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Industrial Program Chair:	
Jose Blakeley, Microsoft, USA                                     

Panel Program Chair:
Wolfgang Klas, GMD/IPSI, Germany

Tutorial Program Co-Chairs:	
Ming-Syan Chen, IBM Research, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK             


Program Vice-Chairs
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Data Engineering and the Net
Malcolm Atkinson, University of Glasgow, UK           

Object-Oriented Databases and Applications
Alfons Kemper, University of Passau, Germany          

Specialized Database Systems 
Ken Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada 

Multimedia Systems and Applications
Christos Faloutsos, University of Maryland, USA 

Data Warehousing, OLAP and Data Mining
Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research, USA

Core Database Technologies 
Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
                        
Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
Peter Apers, University of Twente, The Netherlands   
 
Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems
David Bell, University of Ulster, UK

Extensible and Active Database/Knowledge Base Systems
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK 


Other Committee Members
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North American Coordinator
Sharma Chakravarthy, Univ. of Florida, USA

European Coordinator
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy 

Far East Coordinator
Maria Orlowska, Univ. of Queensland, Australia

Exhibits Program
Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France

Publicity Co-Chairs
Roger Barga, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA             
Jon Wallis, University of Wolverhampton, UK             

Financial Co-Chairs
Patrick O. Bobbie, Florida A&M University, USA
Mary Garvey, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Local Arrangements
Alan Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK              

Publications Co-Chairs
Keith Jeffrey, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK              
Elke Rundensteiner, Univ. of Michigan, USA

Steering Committee Chair
Joseph E. Urban, Arizona State University, USA

Sponsorships
Jessie Kennedy, Napier University, UK


Paper submission
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Six copies of original papers, not exceeding 6000 words (25 double 
spaced pages), should be submitted by 30 August, 1996 to the Program  
Co-Chair:

Paul Larson
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond,  WA 98052-6399
USA

Phone:	 +1-206-882-8080
E-mail: icde97@bluebox.uwaterloo.ca

Authors are also required to send an abstract of the paper by e-mail 
to the above address.  The message should be in straight ASCII format 
and contain the title of the paper,  authors' names,  the abstract, 
the name of one or two areas most relevant to the paper and whether 
the paper is submitted to the Industrial program.

Conference WWW Pages 
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European Site:    http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/icde97/    

USA Mirror Site:  http://www.cse.ogi.edu/icde97/