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First Announcement and Call for Papers

Third East-European Conference on
Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'99
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Maribor, Slovenia, September 13-16, 1999

http://lisa.uni-mb.si/adbis99/

In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter
and Slovenian
Society Informatika

Timetable
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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

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:
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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:
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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:
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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

http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/5001.DSC_Spec_v2.1.pdf

), page size: A4, by e-mail to: [log in to unmask]

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
forquality, 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

http://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:
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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 of the world's oldest (over 400 years)
wine-tree, recorded
in the Guinness book of records. To find more about
Slovenia please
visit
http://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 http://maribor.uni-mb.si or
http://www.uni-mb.si/maribor.html.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
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General Chair:
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 Ivan Rozman
 University of Maribor, Slovenia

Honorary Chair:
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 Ludvik Toplak,
 Rector of University of Maribor, Slovenia

ACM SIGMOD Advisor:
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 Marek Rusinkiewicz, MCC, USA

European Coordinator:
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 Rainer Manthey, University of Bonn, Germany

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
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 Tatjana Welzer
 University of Maribor, Slovenia
 Johann Eder
 University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Program Committee:
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Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara
Suad Alagic, Wichita State University
Yuri Breitbart, Bell Laboratories
Jerzy Brzezinski, Poznan University of Technology
Omran Bukhres, Purdue University
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
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University
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
Ronald Maier, University of Georgia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University
Rainer Manthey, Bonn University
Florian Matthes, TU Hamburg-Harburg
Guido Moerkotte, University of Aachen
Tomaz Mohoric, University of Ljubljana
Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology
Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technology
Nikolay Nikitchenko, Kiev University
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:
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Bruno Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +386-62-2207435, +386-62-2207401
Fax: +386-62-211178, +386-62-2207436

Institute of Informatics (http://lisa.uni-mb.si)
University of Maribor (http://www.uni-mb.si)
Smetanova 17
SI-2000 Maribor (http://maribor.uni-mb.si)
SLOVENIA (http://www.ijs.si/slo)


ADBIS ORGANIZATION:
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Steering Committe Chair
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 Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences,
(Russia)

Steering Committe Members
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 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)







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