From: "NAVRAT PAVOL" <navrat@dcs.elf.stuba.sk> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:25:02 MEZ Subject: ADBIS'99 Call for Papers First Announcement and Call for Papers Third East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'99 ======================================================== Maribor, Slovenia, September 13-16, 1999 lisa.uni-mb.si/adbis99/ In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter and Slovenian Society Informatika Aims and Scope: --------------- The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of scientific achievements, experiences using innovative methods and approaches between the research communities of Central & Eastern Europe and the rest of the world in the area of databases and information systems. The Conference continues the series of ADBIS events held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Poznan. ACM SIGMOD will actively support the organization of the Conference and warrant the high quality of the program. The organizers have the ambition to make the ADBIS Conference the premier database and information systems conference in Central & Eastern Europe, to increase interaction and collaboration between researchers from East and West and to provide an internationally recognized forum for the presentation of research and experiences. The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks, tutorials and panels given by leading experts. The official language of the conference will be English. Topics: ------- Submissions are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following: -data models and database design -database performance, query processing and optimization -storage management -data warehousing and warehouse DBMS -data mining, knowledge discovery and knowledge bases -IS and knowledge management -semistructured data systems -deductive and object-oriented databases -active databases -engineering and scientific databases -multimedia information systems -temporal and spatial databases -real-time database systems -database authorization and security -interfaces to databases and information systems -activity modeling, advanced transaction, and workflow management -interoperable, heterogeneous environments and systems -component-based information systems development -large area information systems on the Internet (based on WWW, CORBA, Java technologies) -parallel and distributed databases -mobile computing and databases -medical informatics -intelligent agents. Submission: ----------- We solicit contributions of the following kinds: - full research papers, - short papers, - proposals for panel discussions and tutorials. The category 'full research papers' is intended for technical papers describing research accomplishments. They should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages or 5000 words. Short papers are intended for papers that report interesting results and do not justify a full paper. We also solicit submissions of short papers focusing on industrial experience with databases, database systems, and other data-related technologies. Short papers should be limited to 8 double-spaced pages or 2000 words. Student information: -------------------- The best student papers will be awarded. Students who are prepared to assist the organizing committee either before or during the conference will be exempt from paying the participation fee. Submission process and revisions: --------------------------------- The authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in a device-independent PostScript format following the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (ADSC - see www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/5001.DSC_Spec_v2.1.pdf), page size: A4, by e-mail to: adbis@uni.mb.si. In addition, a separate e-mail message in ASCII format should be sent containing: a) the title of the paper, b) the area(s) of the paper (see topics), c) name and affiliation of the author(s), d) complete contact address (e-mail, fax and telephone), e) the abstract, f) the list of keywords. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the Conference and printed in the proceedings available at the Conference. The proceedings containing the full research papers and selected short papers will be published in the series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' by Springer-Verlag. The final versions of the papers should be formatted according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS (see www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Short papers will be published in additional proceedings by the University of Maribor. Authors of outstanding papers will be invited after the conference to submit an expanded and updated version of their paper for possible publication in a special section of a forthcoming issue of the journal "Information Systems". These papers will of course be subject to additional reviewing. Panel and Tutorial proposal ------------------------------ Panel proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of 3-4 panelists who have made a commitment to participate. A mix of industry and academic panel members is recommended. Tutorial proposals should also include a 1-2 page summary. The proposals should be submitted by e-mail. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. Timetable ----------- March 1: abstracts due March 5: full and short papers due May 1: notification of acceptance May 31: camera ready copy Sept 13-16: conference Conference venue - Maribor, Slovenia: --------------------------------------------- The conference will be held in Maribor, Slovenia. Slovenia is a small, beautiful country "On the sunny side of the Alps" which geographically and politically has always been a part of Central Europe. Maribor lies close to the Austrian border in the middle of Slovenia's wine-growing region and is surrounded by the vineyards to its north and east and by mountains (with ski slopes) to its south and west. Maribor is proud to be the city with world's oldest (over 400 years) wine-tree, recorded in the Guinness book of records. To find more about Slovenia please visit www.ijs.si/slo. Maribor has good connections to Ljubljana (SLO), Graz (A) and Vienna Airport (A), and thus links to virtually any destination in the world. In September the weather in Maribor is usually pleasant. To find out more about Maribor visit maribor.uni-mb.si or www.uni-mb.si/maribor.html. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: --------------------------- General Chair: -------------- Ivan Rozman University of Maribor, Slovenia Honorary Chair: --------------- Ludvik Toplak, Rector of University of Maribor, Slovenia ACM SIGMOD Advisor: ------------------- Marek Rusinkiewicz, MCC, USA European Coordinator: --------------------- Rainer Manthey, University of Bonn, Germany Program Committee Co-Chairs: ---------------------------- Tatjana Welzer University of Maribor, Slovenia Johann Eder University of Klagenfurt, Austria Program Committee: ------------------ Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara Suad Alagic, Wichita State University Yuri Breitbart, Bell Laboratories Jerzy Brzezinski, Poznan University of Technology Wojciech Cellary, University of Economics at Poznan Jan Chomicki, Monmouth University Bogdan Czejdo, Loyola University Michael Dobrovnik, University of Klagenfurt Nikolay Emelyanov, Russian Academy of Sciences Matjaz Gams, Institute Josef Stefan Janis Grundspenkis, Riga Technical University Remigijus Gustas, University of Karlstad Jozsef Gyorkos, University of Maribor Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida Tomas Hruska, Technical University Brno Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology (Pori) Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences Wolfgang Klas, University of Ulm Mikhail Kogalovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences Peter Kokol, University of Maribor Ralf Kramer, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) Sergey Kuznetsov, Russian Academy of Sciences Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST Florian Matthes, TU Hamburg-Harburg Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University Rainer Manthey, Bonn University Guido Moerkotte, University of Aachen Tomaz Mohoric, University of Ljubljana Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technology Boris Novikov, University of St.-Petersburg Alain Pirotte, University of Louvain Misha Rabinovich, AT&T Tore Risch, Linkoping University Colette Rolland, University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne Silvio Salza, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' Michel Scholl, CNAM and INRIA Julius Stuller, Czech Academy of Science Kazimierz Subieta, Polish Academy of Science Bernhard Thalheim, TU Cottbus Bostjan Vilfan, University of Ljubljana Gottfried Vossen, University of Muenster Benkt Wangler, Stockholm University Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor Viacheslav Wolfengagen, Institute for Contemporary Education "JurInfoR-MSU" Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Maryland Alexander Zamulin, Institute of Informatics Systems Damjan Zazula, University of Maribor Organizing Committee Chair: --------------------------- Bruno Stiglic, Slovenia E-mail: adbis@uni-mb.si Phone: +386-62-2207435, +386-62-2207401 Fax: +386-62-211178, +386-62-2207436 Institute of Informatics (lisa.uni-mb.si) University of Maribor (www.uni-mb.si) Smetanova 17 SI-2000 Maribor (maribor.uni-mb.si) SLOVENIA (www.ijs.si/slo) ADBIS ORGANIZATION: ------------------- Steering Committe Chair ---------------------------- Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, (Russia) Steering Committe Members ---------------------------- Radu Bercaru, (Romania) Albertas Caplinskas, (Lithuania) Janis Eiduks, (Latvia) Hele-Mai Haav, (Estonia) Mikhail Kogalovsky, (Russia-ACM) Tadeusz Morzy, (Poland) Pavol Navrat, (Slovakia) Boris Novikov, (Russia-ACM) Jaroslav Pokorny, (Czech Republic) Anatoly Stogny, (Ukraine) Tatjana Welzer, (Slovenia) Viacheslav Wolfengagen, (Russia-ACM)