FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 14th International Conference on
Data Engineering
February 23 - 27, 1998
Adam's Mark Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Data Engineering Web Site: http://gump.bellcore.com:8000/icde98/
SCOPE
Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and
methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information
systems for different computing platforms and application
environments. The 14th International Conference on Data Engineering
will continue in its tradition of being a premier forum for
presentation of research results and advanced data-intensive
applications and discussion of issues on data and knowledge
engineering. The mission of the conference is to share research
solutions to problems of today's information society and to identify
new issues and directions for future research and development work.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Data Management on the World Wide Web
- scalability of Web servers.
- cooperative caches
- database applications in the WWW
- search engines for WWW objects
- caching issues in the WWW
* Management of Uncertainty and Information Quality
- models of uncertainty - probabilistic, fuzzy and logic-based
- management of inconsistent information
- specification and estimation of information quality
- approximate answers and partial answers
- timeliness and currency
* Interoperability and Cooperative Information Systems
- distributed object-based systems
- workflow management and task-specific system integration
- collaboration management
- web-based systems and electronic back office
- nomadic systems and applications
* Multimedia Systems and Digital Libraries
- acquisition of digital and multimedia information
- information navigation
- user interfaces for digital and multimedia objects
- security and privacy
- agent technology
- interoperability of different digital and multimedia objects
- electronic commerce
- intellectual property issues
* Extensible and Active Database Systems
- semantics of active rules
- design methods for active rules
- complex events
- detached rules and transactions
- support for complex
- user-defined types
- support for multi-media objects
* Parallel and Distributed Database Systems/Mobile Computing
- parallel query processing
- query optimization
- parallel database architectures
- distributed database processing
- disk arrays
- cache issues for mobile hosts
- transaction management for mobile computing
- replication management for mobile computing
* Object-Oriented Database Systems
- object-oriented views
- extensible object models
- schema and version management
- query processing
- object-oriented role systems
- view materialization
- query processing
- information mediators
- databases for engineering and scientific applications
* Temporal and Spatial Database Systems
- database design and data modeling
- data models and query languages
- query processing and optimization
- indexing
- systems architecture
- sequence data
- geographic data
- version management
* Data Mining/Data Warehousing
- data warehousing architectures
- database design for data warehouses
- data cleaning, transformation, and integration
- OLAP servers
- OLAP languages, interfaces and front-end tools
- query processing for decision support
- loading and refreshing a data warehouse
- data warehouse maintenance
- data warehouse administration
- data warehousing benchmarks, performance, and case studies
- data mining methods and algorithms
- data mining architectures
- efficiency and scalability in data mining
- languages and interfaces for data mining
- visual data mining and data visualization
- data mining on the World Wide Web
- data mining systems and implementations
- data mining toolkits and methodologies
- data mining benchmarks, performance, and case studies
- integration of data mining and data warehousing
* Transaction Processing and Real-Time Systems
- transaction processing
- parallel processing
- performance analysis
- benchmarking
- load balancing
- workflow management
PAPER SUBMISSION
Six copies of original papers not exceeding 6000 words (25 double
spaced pages) should be submitted by June 2, 1997 to the Program
Co-Chair:
Susan Urban
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 875406
Tempe, AZ 85287-5406 USA
Phone: +1-602-965-2784
Fax: +1-602-965-2751
E-mail: s.urban@asu.edu
Authors are also required to send an abstract of the paper by e-mail
to the above address by May 26, 1997. The message should be in ASCII
format and contain the title of the paper, authors' names, the
abstract, the name of one or two areas most relevant to the paper and
whether the paper is submitted to the Industrial program.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM
The conference program will include a number of sessions devoted to
industrial developments, applications, and experience in using
databases. Papers intended for this program should be clearly marked
as industrial track papers at the time of submission. Questions
concerning possible submission to this program should be directed to
the industrial program chair.
PANELS, TUTORIALS and RESEARCH PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS
The research and the industrial track will be complemented by panels,
tutorials, and research prototype demonstrations. Proposals for each
program should be sent to the appropriate track chair by June 2, 1997.
Panel Submissions to:
Calton Pu, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology,
PO Box 91000
Portland, OR 97291-1000
USA
Shipping address (for express mail only):
20000 N.W. Walker Road
Beaverton
OR 97006
USA
E-mail: calton@cse.ogi.edu
Tutorial Submissions to:
M. Tamer Ozsu
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2H1
E-mail: ozsu@cs.ualberta.ca
Research Prototype Demonstrations to:
Sharma Chakravarthy
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
E470 Computer Science and Engineering Building
University of Florida
PO Box 116125
Gainesville, FL 32611-6125
USA
E-mail: sharma@cise.ufl.edu
PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the
IEEE Computer Society. Authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit extended versions for possible publication in the IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and in the Journal of
Distributed and Parallel Databases. An award will be given to the best
paper. A separate award honoring K.S. Fu will be given to the best
student paper (authored solely by students).
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts of paper submissions: May 26, 1997
Paper submissions: June 2, 1997
Panel, Tutorial and Demonstration Proposals: June 2, 1997
Notification of Acceptance: September 22, 1997
Final Papers Due: November 15, 1997
Tutorial Dates: February 23-24, 1998
Conference Dates: February 25-27, 1998
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Steering Committee Chair: Joseph E. Urban, Arizona State University, USA
General Chair: Philip Yu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Program Co-Chairs: Susan D. Urban, Arizona State University, USA
Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy
Industrial Program Chair: Surajit Chauduri, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Panel Coordinator: Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
Tutorial Coordinator: Tamer Ozsu, University of Alberta, Canada
PROGRAM COMMITTEE VICE-CHAIRS
Data Management on the World Wide Web
Daniel Barbara, Bellcore, USA
Management of Uncertainty and Information Quality
Ami Motro, George Mason University, USA
Interoperability and Cooperative Information Systems
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, GTE Laboratories, USA
Multimedia Systems and Digital Libraries
Kien Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
Parallel and Distributed Database Systems/Mobile Computing
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Extensible and Active Database Systems
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Object-Oriented Database Systems
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Temporal and Spatial Database Systems
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Data Mining/Data Warehousing
Umesh Dayal, Hewlett Packard, USA
Transaction Processing and Real-Time Systems
Andreas Reuter, University of Stuttgart, Germany
EUROPEAN COORDINATOR
Wolfgang Klas, University of Ulm, Germany
FAR EAST COORDINATOR
Beng Chen Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Kate Kinsley, Datawise, Inc., USA
Ali Orooji, University of Central Florida, USA
FINANCE CHAIR
Kun-lung Wu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
PUBLICITY CHAIR
George Karabatis, Bellcore, USA
REGISTRATION CHAIR
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA
PUBLISHER EXHIBITS CHAIR
Ling Liu, University of Alberta, Canada
RESEARCH EXHIBITS CHAIR
Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Florida, USA