For 23 years, VLDB has served the database community as its major truly international conference all over the world. From an arena where just research results are presented, VLDB has evolved to a forum where researchers and practitioners exchange ideas and experiences, without sacrificing quality ensured by rigorous refereeing. The VLDB '97 conference will continue and strengthen this trend. Scope
We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results in the general field of databases. To further the goal of stimulating new research directions, we solicit papers and panel proposals on speculative and futuristic topics. We also encourage papers on novel and challenging applications of database technology in designing and building complex information systems. Papers reporting marginal improvements of well-known solutions will receive less priority than in some past years.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Topics of Interest
- Temporal and Spatial Databases - Optimization and Performance - Parallel and Distributed Databases - Persistent Object Systems - Multimedia Databases - Database Languages - Storage Management - View Management and Data Warehousing - Active Databases - Knowledge Base Management Systems - Text Databases - Engineering and Scientific Databases - Heterogeneous and Federated Databases - Graphical Query Languages and Tools - DBMS Architectures - Concurrency Control and Recovery - Data Consistency, Integrity and Security - Database Mining - Data Models and Database Design - Database Evolution and Migration - Mobile Databases - Internet Information Servers - Interaction Between DB and IR Systems - User Interfaces - Database Benchmarks - Logic and Databases - Implementation Reports/Case Studies - Transactional Workflow
Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words should be submitted to the appropriate program co-chair depending on the geographic region in which the authors of a paper reside. The submissions must be received by the "drop-dead" deadline of 21 February 1997; there will be no grace period. Research and Experience Paper Submission
We encourage submission of short papers describing work of significant interest to industry, particularly in applications and areas providing interesting directions for the development of DBMSs. We seek to provide a forum to discuss experiences in applying DBMSs to real-life situations. Papers intended for this track will receive special consideration by the Program Committee. They should be clearly marked as industrial/commercial papers and submitted to the regular PC chairs corresponding to the author's geographic region. In the evaluation of the papers submitted to this track, the committee will consider novelty, technical quality and the value of reported results to developers and users of information systems. Questions concerning possible submissions to this track should be directed to the Industrial/ Commercial Track Chair. One-page abstracts of accepted papers in the industry/commercial track will be published in the conference proceedings. The "drop-dead" deadline is also February 21, 1997. Submissions to Industry/Commercial Track
Authors intending to submit a paper to either the research/experience or the industry/commercial track must send an electronic abstract by February 14, 1997, as follows: If you have access to the World Wide Web, please fill in the abstract submission form that can be found under Abstract Submission
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/VLDB97/Abstracts/ If you have no access to the World Wide Web, you can instead send an email to the the following address:vldb97abstract@sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de This email must conform to the following format:
Subject: VLDB97, Reg, Track where Reg is the regional PC where you plan to submit to AM=Americas, MF=Middle/Far East, EU=Europe Track is either IN (industry track) or RE (research track)and the following contents
AUTHORS = List of all authors TITLE1 = Title of submitted paper TITLE2 = optional TOPIC1 = most relavant topic from above 'topics of interest' TOPIC2 = 2nd most relevant topic TOPIC2 = 3rd most relevant topic ADDRESS1= Full address of contact author ADDRESS2= optional EMAIL = Email address of contact author ABSTR01 = 1st line of abstract ABSTR02 = 2nd line of abstract .. ABSTR20 = 20th line of abstractThe abstract must not be longer than 250 words (20 lines with at most 70 characters).Panel and tutorial proposals should be submitted to the respective chairs. Panels should address exciting new and controversial issues rather than being short paper sessions. Tutorial proposals should clearly identify the intended audience which should be broader than a small research community. Panels and Tutorials
Important Dates
- Electronic abstract submissions: 14 February 1997
- Paper, Panel, Tutorial, Industry/Applications submission: 21 February 1997 (firm deadline)
- Notification of acceptance: 9 May 1997
- Conference: 25-29 August 1997
Key Conference Officials
- Program Committee Chair:
- Matthias Jarke, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany; jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de; Ph: +49-241-802 1500; Fax: +49-241-888 8321
- European PC Chair:
- Klaus Dittrich, Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, CH 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; dittrich@ifi.unizh.ch; Ph: +41-1-257 4312; Fax: +41-1-363 0035
- American PC Chair:
- Mike Carey, IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, K55/B1, San José, CA 95120-6099, USA; carey@almaden.ibm.com; Ph: +1-408-927 2732; Fax: +1-408-927 4304
- Middle- and Far-East PC Chair:
- Fred Lochovsky, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay Rd., Kowloon, Hong Kong; fred@cs.ust.hk; Ph: +852-2358 6996; Fax: +852-2358 1477
- Industrial/Commercial Track Chair:
- Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, Dept. of Computing, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom; pl@sna.co.umist.ac.uk; Ph: +44-161 200 3332; Fax: +44-161 200 3364
- Tutorial Chairs:
- Yannis Ioannidis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; yannis@cs.wisc.edu; Ph: +1-608 263 7764; Fax: +1-608 262 9777
- Tamer Ozsu, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1; ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca; Ph: +1-403 492 2860; Fax: +1-403 492 1071
- Panel Chairs:
- Ramez Elmasri, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; elmasri@cse.uta.edu; Ph: +1-817 272 3785; Fax: +1-817 272 3784
- Arie Segev, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California,Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; segev@csr.lbl.gov; Ph: +1-415 642 4731; Fax: +1-415 642 2826
- General Conference Chair:
- Yannis Vassiliou, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science Division, National Technical University of Athens, 157 73 Zografou, Greece; yv@cs.ntua.gr; Ph: +30-1-772 2526; Fax: +30-1-772 2527
- Organizing Committee:
- John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada; jm@cs.toronto.edu
- Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, USA; nick@cs.umd.edu
- Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; timos@cs.ntua.gr
- Area Coordinators
- Europe: Joachim Schmidt, University of Hamburg, Germany; J_Schmidt@dbis1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
- Americas: Jim Gray, Microsoft, USA; gray@microsoft.com
- Middle- and Far-East: Ron Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia; rsd@citri.edu.au
- VLDB Endowment Liaison:
- Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ceri@elet.polimi.it
- Publicity Chair:
- Panagiotis Georgiadis, Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA Buildings, 157 71 Athens, Greece; georgiad@di.uoa.gr; Ph: +30-1-729 1885; Fax: +30-1-721 9561
Program Committee
Divy Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara, USA Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Apers, U Twente, The Netherlands Ricardo Baeza-Yates, U Chile, Chile David Bell, U Ulster, Northern Ireland Tony Bonner, U Toronto, Canada Athman Bouguettaya, QUT, Australia Francois Bry, U Munich, Germany G. v. Bültzingslöwen, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany Arbee L.P. Chen, NTHU, Taiwan Ming-Syan Chen, NTU, Taiwan David W.L. Cheung, HKU, Hong Kong Sophie Cluet, INRIA, France Christine Collet, LSR-IMAG, France Susan Davidson, U Pennsylvania, USA Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA Claude Delobel, LRI, France Asuman Dogac, Middle East TU, Turkey Pamela A. Drew, HKUST, Hong Kong Curtis Dyreson, James Cook U, Australia Christos Faloutsos, U Maryland, USA Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, U Lisbon, Portugal Ada Fu, CUHK, Hong Kong Antonio Furtado, PUC-Rio, Brazil Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC, USA Andreas Geppert, U Zurich, Switzerland Goetz Graefe, Microsoft, USA Jane Grimson, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ashish Gupta, Oracle, USA Laura Haas, IBM Almaden, USA Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Theo Härder, U Kaiserslautern, Germany Jayant Haritsa, IISc Bangalore, India M. Hatzopoulos, U Athens, Greece Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley, USA Andreas Heuer, U Rostock, Germany Sushil Jajodia, George Mason U, USA Christian Jensen, Aalborg U, Denmark Anant Jhingran, IBM Hawthorne, USA Alfons Kemper, U Passau, Germany Roger King, U Colorado, USA Wolfgang Klas, GMD-IPSI, Germany Ravi Krishnamurthy, HP Labs, USA Yoon-Joon Lee, KAIST, Korea David Maier, OGI, USA Yoshifumi Masunaga, ULIS, Japan Tova Milo, U Tel Aviv, Israel Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy Bernhard Mitschang, TU Munich, Germany Inderpal Mumick, AT&T Research, USA Jeff Naughton, U Wisconsin, USA Raymond Ng, UBC, Canada Christos Nikolaou, FORTH, Greece Shojiro Nishio, Osaka U, Japan Patrick O'Neil, U-Mass Boston, USA Beng-Chin Ooi, NUS, Singapore G. Ozsoyoglu, Case-Western Reserve U, USA Tamer Ozsu, U Alberta, Canada Jan Paredaens, U Antwerp, Belgium Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden, USA Fausto Rabitti, CNUCE-CNR, Italy Krithi Ramamritham, U Massachusetts, USA Ken Ross, Columbia U, USA Ken Salem, U Waterloo, Canada Betty Salzberg, Northeastern U, USA N.L. Sarda, IIT Bombay, India Heinz Schweppe, FU Berlin, Germany Bernhard Seeger, U Marburg, Germany Avi Silberschatz, Bell Labs, USA Martin Staudt, RWTH Aachen, Germany Kazimierz Subieta, Academy of Sciences, Poland Changjie Tang, Sichuan U, P.R. China Jeff Ullman, Stanford U, USA Ke Wang, NUS, Singapore Shan Wang, PUC, P.R. China Howard Williams, Heriot-Watt U, Scotland Heon-Young Yeom, Seoul National U, Korea Industry/Commercial Program Committee
C.C. Chang, NCCU, Taiwan Shel Finkelstein, MATISSE Software (Liaison), USA Michael Kay, ICL, UK Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands Klaus Küspert, U Jena, Germany Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore John McGuire, Datel, United Kingdom John McPherson, IBM Toronto, Canada Mike Olson, Informix, USA Tore Risch, EDSLAB, Sweden Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia Donovan Schneider, RedBrick Systems, USA Arun Swami, Internet Profiles, USA Laurent Vieille, Bull, France Toyohide Watanabe, Nagoya U, Japan Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea VLDB '97 will be held near Athens, Greece, a place equally famous for its historical attraction, beautiful landscape and weather, lively database community, and hospitality. This is the first time that VLDB comes to a European country in the South East Mediterranean region - the cross-roads of Western and Eastern Europe, Middle-East and Africa. The conference will serve as a catalyst for the development and dissemination of database technology in this region and will also offer inroads into new markets in Eastern Europe and the Middle-East. About the Conference Location
The gods, who, as they say, never left Athens, are waiting for you in 1997.
For further information, please send email to vldb97@dbnet.ece.ntua.gr, or visit the home page of VLDB'97 at http://www.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr/VLDB97/ or http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/VLDB97/