From Serge.Abiteboul@inria.fr Wed Sep 7 17:44:14 1994 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id RAA08041; Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:44:10 +0200 Received: from cosmos.inria.fr (cosmos.inria.fr [128.93.11.30]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA21328; Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:41:27 +0200 Received: from chronos.inria.fr (chronos.inria.fr [128.93.11.58]) by cosmos.inria.fr (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11628 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:40:59 +0200 From: Serge Abiteboul (VERSO) Received: (abitebou@localhost) by chronos.inria.fr (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA00571; Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:42:21 +0200 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 17:42:21 +0200 Message-Id: <199409071542.RAA00571@chronos.inria.fr> To: bd3@cosmos.inria.fr Subject: Serge Miranda communique Reply-to: Serge.Abiteboul@inria.fr (Serge Abiteboul) Status: R Subject: DASFAA'95 - Final Call for Papers FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS DASFAA '95 4th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications April 11-14, 1995, National University of Singapore, Singapore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE This conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers, and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development on advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications. In addition, the conference will be a showcase to gather and disseminate information on OODBMS systems, applications and standardization. Papers for implemented systems from academia's prototypes and advanced industry projects are strongly solicited. TOPICS OF INTEREST Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Data Modelling and Database Design Parallel and Distributed Databases Object-Oriented and Interoperable Databases Temporal, Active, and Deductive Databases Spatial Databases Statistical and Scientific Databases Multimedia Databases Engineering Databases Security and Integrity Techniques Query Languages and Query Optimization Database Design Tools Database for CASE, CAI Machine Learning/Knowledge Discovery Intelligent User Interfaces PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit five copies of an original paper on topics including, but not limited to those listed above, to one of the two program committee co-chairs. Manuscripts must be in English, typed in double spaced format in 12 point font, and not more than 5000 words. Proceedings will be printed by World-Scientific Publishing Company. Tok Wang LING Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email: lingtw@iscs.nus.sg Yoshifumi MASUNAGA University of Library and Information Science 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305, Japan fax: (81) 298 52 4326 email: masunaga@ulis.ac.jp PANEL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS Each panel or tutorial proposal should include a one-page description of the subject matter, the name of the organizer, and for panels, a list of proposed panelists. Submissions should be sent to the Panel or Tutorial Chair: Hongjun LU, Panel Chair Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email: luhj@iscs.nus.sg Beng Chin OOI, Tutorial Chair Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email: ooibc@iscs.nus.sg IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: September 17, 1994 Panel & Tutorial proposals due: October 8, 1994 Notification of acceptance: December 3, 1994 Camera-ready copies due: January 7, 1995 VENUE The conference will be held at the National University of Singapore. Singapore is an exciting, clean and modern garden city offering excellent food, shopping and accommodation. English is spoken everywhere and is the common business language of all. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact the conference secretary. Ms Sew Kiok TOH Department of Information Systems and Computer Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511 fax: (65) 779 4580 email:tohsk@iscs.nus.sg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-Organized by : Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore Information Processing Society of Japan In-cooperation with : ACM SIGMOD IEEE Computer Society Korea Information Science Society IEEE Singapore - Computer Chapter Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Information Technology Institute, Singapore Singapore Computer Society Sponsored by : Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (under consideration) Singapore Federation of Computer Industry Official Publication: IT Asia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- K E Y N O T E A D D R E S S E S Keynote Speaker: Professor Yahiko Kambayashi Title : Object Proxy Model and Its Applications Abstract: In this paper object proxy model and it applications are discussed. Although object-oriented data model has a lot of advantages over relational data model, the former does not offer enough flexibility as the latter. Many papers have been published to extend flexibility of object-oriented model, such as papers on view mechanisms, multiple-hierarchy support, roles and object migration. These concepts are very closely related. Multiple-hierarchies can be realized by view mechanism. An object appearing in a view can be regarded as playing a role in that view. Object migration is the change history of set of roles of an object. Object proxy model is introduced to give unified approach to provide enough flexibility for object-oriented databases. It can be also used to realize multibase systems where site autonomy is required. A proxy object can be defined for any object or proxy object (called the source object). It has its own object identifier, attributes and methods. It has a bilateral link to its source object and attribute values and methods of the source object are partially inherited. As applications of this model, we will discuss a flexible system for integration of databases and knowledge-bases under distributed environment, geographic database GeoProxy and virtual office system VIEWoffice , which are currently developed by our research group. Biography: Yahiko Kambayashi received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D degrees in electronic engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1965, 1967, and 1970, respectively. During 1970-1971 he was a Research Associate at Kyoto University. From 1971 to 1973 he was a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana. During 1973-1984 he was with the Department of Information Science, Kyoto University. In 1984 he became a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Since 1990 he has been a professor at Integrated Media Environment Experimental Laboratory of Kyoto University. In 1979, he was a Visiting Professor at McGill University, Montreal, P.Q., Canada, and in 1984 he was a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. His research interests include logic design, switching theory, automata theory, and database theory. Logic design method called transduction method developed jointly by him and Prof. Muroga of University of Illinois is now used by several U.S. and Japanese computer companies. Dr. Kambayashi was a Chairman of SIGDBS (database systems) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). He was a Chairman of SIGCOMP (computation theory) of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan(IEICEJ). He was also a member of the board of IPSJ. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE), a member of IEICEJ, IPSJ and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was an associate editor of ACM TODS (Transaction on Database Systems). He is currently a member of VLDB endowment which organizes International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, vice-chair of ACM Tokyo/Japan Chapter, and members of editorial board of several international journals. He also has organized several international conferences. Keynote Speaker: Dr Won Kim Title : Object-Relational Database Systems Abstract: The past several years have been the gestation period for a new generation of database technology. There has been a flurry of activities to develop and experiment with database systems that support an object-oriented data model or that extend the relational data model with some object-oriented facilities. These activities have been fuelled by the emergence of a broad spectrum of database applications which relational database systems cannot support and the increasing need to achieve another productivity leap in application development. As a result of these efforts, there is now a sufficient body of knowledge for the development of a commercially viable next-generation database system. Such a system should support a unified relational and object-oriented data model; that is, a full object-oriented data model in a way that is completely compatible with the relational model. I will discuss motivations for unifying the relational and object-oriented data models in a single database system, and outline design and implementation issues that must be addressed in building such a system. Biography: Dr. Won Kim is the founder and President of UniSQL, Inc., a next-generation database corporation in Austin, Texas. Before founding UniSQL, he was Director of the Object-Oriented and Distributed Systems Laboratory at MCC. He was also the chief architect of the ORION series of object-oriented database system developed at MCC. Before joining MCC, he was on the research staff at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His Ph.D dissertation was on query processing in relational database systems. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT. He authored a book Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases for MIT Press. He also co-edited Object-Oriented Concepts, Databases, and Applications for Addison-Wesley and ACM Press. He is the Chairman of ACM SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems. Keynote Speaker: Dr Francois Bancilhon Title : The ODMG Standard for Object Databases Abstract: The ODMG standard was defined by a group of object database vendors. It defines a global architecture for an object database system and defines a set of interfaces that ensures the portability of applications from one compliant system to another. It is based on a data model which is an extension of the OMG core data model and includes the specification of ODL and object definition language to specify the database schema, OQL, an object query language to query the database and bindings to popular programming languages such as C++ and Smalltalk. Biography: Francois Bancilhon was born in 1948. He holds an Engineering Degree from the Ecole des Mines de Paris(1970), a PhD from the University of Michigan (1976) and a These d'Etat from the University of Paris XI (1981). He has been with INRIA as a researcher and project leader from 1976 to 1980, a Professor at the University of Paris XI from 1981 to 1984, a Team Leader at MCC, Austin Texas, from 1984 to 1986 and the Director of the Altair research consortium from 1986 to 1990. He is currently the CEO of O2 Technology. His work as a researcher includes stochastic automata theory, relational databases, deductive databases and object-oriented database systems. He is the author of numerous papers on theses topics and the editor of two books. Both at INRIA and at the University of Paris XI, he was the lead architect of the VERSO database machine. At MCC, he was one of the architects of the BUBBA system which included a parallel database machine and a deductive system. At Altair, he managed the project that designed and built the O2 object-oriented database system. O2 Technology is number one on the European object database market. It develops, supports and markets the O2 system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Conference Chair: Chung Kwong YUEN, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Steering Committee: Sukho LEE (Chair), Seoul National University, Korea Yahiko KAMBAYASHI (Vice-chair), Kyoto University, Japan Chin-Chen CHANG, Nat. Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan Myung-Joon KIM, ETRI, Korea Hideko KUNII, Ricoh, Japan Tok Wang LING, NUS, Singapore Yoshifumi MASUNAGA, Univ. of Lib. and Information Science, Japan Songchun MOON, KAIST, Korea Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia America Co-ordinator: Stanley Y W SU, University of Florida, USA Europe Co-ordinator: Stefano SPACCAPIETRA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Program Committee Co-chairs: Tok Wang LING, NUS, Singapore Yoshifumi MASUNAGA, University of Library and Information Science, Japan Panel Chair: Hongjun LU, NUS, Singapore Tutorial Chair: Beng Chin OOI, NUS, Singapore Publicity/Publication Chair: Yong Meng TEO, NUS, Singapore Local Arrangement Chair: Kwok Kee WEI, NUS, Singapore Exhibition Chair: Gary Soon Huat TAN, NUS, Singapore Registration: Sam Yuan SUNG, NUS, Singapore Treasurer: Mong Li LEE, NUS, Singapore Conference Secretary: Ms Sew Kiok TOH, NUS, Singapore PROGRAM COMMITTEE D.J. Abel CSIRO, Australia E. Bertino University of Genova, Italy C.C. Chang National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan Arbee Chen National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan S.K. Dao Hughes Research Laboratories, USA A. Deshpande Persistent System Pte Ltd, India D.W. Embley Brigham Young University, USA J. Grant Towson State University, USA Angela E.S. Goh Nanyang Technological University, Singapore J. Han Simon Fraser University, Canada E.K. Hong Seoul City University, Korea H. Ikeda Ritsumeikan University, Japan U. Inoue NTT, Japan H. Ishikawa Fujitsu Lab., Japan H.F. Korth Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., USA Y. Kambayashi Kyoto University, Japan L.V.S. Lakshmanan Concordia University, Canada S.Y. Lee National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Q. Li Hong Kong University of Science & Tech. S.Y. Ling National Computer Board, Singapore F.H. Lochovsky Hong Kong University of Science & Tech. H.J. Lu National University of Singapore Vincent Lum Chinese University of Hong Kong A. Makinouchi Kyushu University, Japan R. Manthey University of Bonn, Germany T.H. Merrett McGill University, Canada S. Miranda Univ. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France S.C. Moon KAIST, Korea D. Narasimhalu Institute of Systems Science, Singapore Peter A Ng New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA M. Norrie ETH, Switzerland K.L. Ong MCC, USA B.C. Ooi National University of Singapore M. Orlowska University of Queensland, Australia K. Ramamohanarao University of Melbourne, Australia K.H. Ryu Chungbuk National University, Korea Ron Sacks-Davis RMIT, University of Melbourne, Australia H. Samet University of Maryland, USA N.L. Sarda IIT (Bombay), India Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA S. Spaccapietra Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Stanley Y.W. Su University of Florida, USA K.P. Tan National University of Singapore K. Tanaka Kobe University, Japan A. Min Tjoa Tech. University of Vienna, Austria Frank W. Tompa University of Waterloo, Canada K.F. Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong K. Wang National University of Singapore K.Y. Whang KAIST, Korea M. Yoshikawa NAIST, Japan L. Zhou Tsinghua University, China R. Zicari University of Frankfurt, Germany