3rd CFP: ICDT'97

Conferences Directory

From: afrati@central.ntua.gr (afrati foto)

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 an extended abstract 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$   
afrati@cs.ece.ntua.gr                     kolaitis@cse.ucsc.edu 

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, and 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 The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops.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. 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.

Best Student Paper Award:
As judged by the program committee, an award will be given for the best paper authored solely by one or more students. The cover page of eligilble papers should indicate that all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program committee may decline to make the award.

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)           O.H.G. Katona(Hungary)      
P. Kolaitis (USA)        G. Kuper (Germany)             T. Milo (Israel)  
M. Ozsoyoglu (USA)       J. Pokorny (Czech Republic)    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 Rep) 

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