ICDT97 First Call for Papers

Conferences Directory

From: [email protected] (afrati foto)

ICDT '97 will take place in Delphi, Greece, on January 8-10, 1997. ICDT is a biannual international conference on theoretical aspects of databases and a forum for communicating research advances on the principles of database systems. Previous ICDT conferences were held in Rome (1986), Bruges (1988), Paris (1990), Berlin (1992), and Prague (1995). Since 1992, ICDT has been merged with the Symposium on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), another series of conferences on theoretical aspects of database systems that was initiated in Dresden (1987), and continued in Visegrad (1989) and Rostock (1991).

Topics: ICDT aims to attract papers of high quality, describing original ideas and new results on theoretical aspects of all forms of databases. Major themes to be covered include, but are not limited to:

• active database systems
• complex objects
• complexity and optimization
• concurrency control and recovery
• data models and design theory
• data structures-algorithms for databases
• database programming languages
• deductive databases and logic
• dependencies and constraints
• distributed and parallel databases
• fundamentals of security and privacy
• heterogeneous databases
• incomplete information
• multimedia information systems
• nonmonotonic reasoning
• object-oriented databases
• query evaluation and optimization
• query languages
• spatial and temporal data
• transaction management
• updates

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit 8 copies of a full conference paper (which might be an extended abstract where proofs are only sketched) of about 5000 words (10 typed pages in no less than 11-point font) by June 13, 1996, to one of the program co-chairs:

Program co-chairs:

Foto Afrati                                  Phokion G. Kolaitis
Computer Science Division                    Computer and Information Sciences
National Technical University of Athens      University of California
157 73 Zographou                             Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Athens, Greece                               USA
Tel: +30-1-748-5055                          Tel: +1-408-459-4768
Fax:+30-1-778-4578                           Fax:+1-408-459-4829
email:[email protected]                  [email protected]

Web page:http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/public/AD/icdt97.html

The cover page of each paper should contain the address, e-mail, fax and phone numbers of the contacting author, as well as a short abstract. The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. As in the past, it is planned that the proceedings of ICDT'97 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference.

Program Committee:

F. Afrati (Greece)     M. Cadoli (Italy)        S. Chaudhuri (USA)
S. Cluet (France)      T. Eiter (Austria)       C. Faloutsos (USA)
S. Greco (Italy)       M. Gyssens (Belgium)     P. Kanellakis (USA)
O.H.G.Katona(Hungary)  P. Kolaitis (USA)        G. Kuper (Germany)
T. Milo (Israel)       M. Ozsoyoglu (USA)       J. Pokorny (CzechRepublic)
V. Sazonov (Russia)    H-J. Schek (Switzerland) E. Soisalon-Soininen (Finland)
J. Su (USA)            V. Tannen (USA)          D. Van Gucht (USA)
V. Vianu (USA)         G. Vossen (Germany)      P. Wolper (Belgium)
J. Zlatuska (Czech Republic)
Organization co-chairs: Foto Afrati, Theodora Varvarigou
Important dates:  Deadline for submission:                 June 13, 1996
                  Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 3, 1996
                  Camera-ready papers due:                 October 4, 1996
                  Conference:                              January 8-10, 1997