2000 ADBIS-DASFAA - CALL FOR PAPERS


2000 ADBIS-DASFAA Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems

Enlarged Fourth East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and
Information Systems 

                     September 5 - 8, 2000, Prague, Czech Republic
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                          http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/adbis2000/

In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter
The proceedings of the Symposium will be published by Springer-Verlag.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of electronic abstracts: March 17, 2000
Paper submission: March 24,  2000
Information to authors: May 5, 2000
Submission of the final version: June 2, 2000

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Original papers (regular and short) dealing with both theory and practice
are solicited. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:
      data models and database design
      database performance, query processing and optimization
      data warehousing and warehouse DBMS
      data mining 
      knowledge discovery and knowledge bases
      IS and knowledge management,
      text databases and semi-structured data 
      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
      intelligent agents
      multimedia databases 
      internet databases 
      new applications of information systems technology
Special sessions on "Mobile database technology" will be organized by
Sanjay Kumar Madria (email: [log in to unmask]) with a separate CfP.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
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The symposium accepts two types of submissions - regular and shorts papers.  
Please use the following format for your submissions:
- For regular papers, the text should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding
references).  Top papers in this category will be recommended for a journal
publication.
- For short papers, the paper should not exceed 2,000 words (excluding
references).
- Include a cover page with title of paper as well as the authors' names,
affiliations, phones, faxes, and email addresses.  
- The second page should begin with the title of the paper followed by an
abstract of no more than 150 words.  The main text will follow the abstract.  
Use 1.5 or double spacing (except for references), and fonts no smaller
than 11-point. 
Only electronic submissions will be accepted.  Send your submission
directly on the submission server
http://ADBIS-DASFAA-2000.Informatik.TU-Cottbus.DE/
Accepted formats are PS files and files in PDF format. 
Do not use MS Word for submission (different incompatible, unreadable
formats).
  
CONFERENCE GENERAL CHAIR
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Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Email: [log in to unmask]

EUROPEAN COORDINATOR
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Rainer Manthey, University of Bonn, Germany

ASIAN COORDINATOR
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Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
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Bernhard Thalheim     Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
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Julius Stuller       Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
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Yoshifumi Masunaga   Ochanomizu University
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Leopoldo Bertossi,Yuri Breitbart, Omran Bukhres, Albertas Caplinskas,
Wojciech Cellary, Arbee Chen, Jan Chomicki, Bogdan Czejdo, Johann Eder,
Remigijus Gustas, Tomas Hruska, Hannu Jaakkola, Leonid Kalinichenko, 
Michal Kopecky, Wolfgang Klas, Dik-Lum Lee, Tok Wang Ling,                
Pavol Navrat, Kai-Yui Ng, Nikolay Nikitchenko, Boris Novikov,  
Yannis Manolopoulos, Tomaz Mohoric, Tadeusz Morzy, Maria Orlowska, 
Seog Park, Oscar Pastor, Antonin Riha, Colette Rolland,
Ivan Rozman, Nand Lal Sarda, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Kazimierz Subieta,
     
Gottfried Vossen, Benkt Wangler, Tatjana Welzer, Viacheslav Wolfengagen,
Vladimir Zadorozhny,  Alexander Zamulin               

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Jaroslav Pokorny, Martin Beran, Hana Bilkova, Leo Galambos, 
Guenter Millahn, Lucie Vachova, Milena Zeithamlova

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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Andras Benczur, Radu Bercaru , Albertas Caplinskas, Johann Eder, Janis
Eiduks, 
Hele-Mai Haav , Mirjana  Ivanovic, Mikhail Kogalovsky, Yannis Manopoulos,
Rainer Manthey, Tadeusz Morzy, Pavol Navrat, Boris Novikov ,Jaroslav Pokorny, 
Anatoly Stogny, Tatjana Welzer ,Viacheslav Wolfengagen

STUDENT INFORMATION
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The best student papers will be awarded.





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