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                 Announcement and Call for Papers

                 Second East-European Symposium on

     Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'98
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               Poznan (Poland), September 8-11, 1998

               http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/adbis98/

  Sponsored by the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN)
                              Poland

Aims and Scope
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The  aim  of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange
of   scientific  achievements  between  the  research  communities
of  Eastern  Europe  and the rest of the world   in  the  area  of
databases and information systems.

The  Symposium continues the series of ADBIS events  organized  by
the  Moscow  ACM  SIGMOD  Chapter  and  held  in  Moscow  and  St.
Petersburg.  ACM SIGMOD will actively support the organization  of
the Symposia  and  warrant  the  high  quality of the program. The
organizers  have  the  ambition to make the  ADBIS  Symposium  the
premier  database  and information systems conference  in  Eastern
Europe,   to   increase  interaction  and  collaboration   between
researchers  from East and West and to provide an  internationally
recognized tribune for the presentation of research.

The official language of the conference is English.
The  symposium  will  consist of regular sessions  with  technical
contributions  reviewed and selected by an  international  program
committee,  as  well  as of invited talks and tutorials  given  by
leading experts.

Topics
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The   ADBIS'98  Symposium  focuses  on  emerging   and  innovative
approaches  through which advanced information  systems  (IS)  and
system-level  functions can be  developed  within   the   distinct
frameworks.  New  large- and middle-scaled  IS  components,  their
performance  issues,  their reliability, their  architectures  and
applications,  and  progress in their design,  implementation  and
deployment technologies will continue to be emphasized.

Additionally, the symposium addresses to the uprising subjects and
topics.  Among  these  are  the emerging  theories,  computational
principles,  technologies  and architectures  within  which  novel
principles and techniques can be developed and applied to  address
practical issues for large- and middle-scaled information systems,
such  as integrity constraints,  consistency, performance,  object
management,  interoperability,  cooperative  systems,  transaction
management, distributed computations, client-server systems, etc.

Submissions  are invited on topics including, but not limited  to,
the following:

- Data models and database design
- Database performance, query processing and optimization
- Storage management
- Data warehousing
- Data mining, knowledge discovery and knowledge bases
- Deductive and object-oriented databases
- Engineering and scientific databases
- Multimedia information systems
- Temporal and spatial databases
- Real-time database systems
- Interfaces to databases and information systems
- Activity modeling and advanced transaction and workflow
   models
- Concurrency control, extended transaction models and recovery
- Interoperable, heterogeneous environments and systems
- Component-based information systems development
- Large area information systems on the Internet (based on WWW,
   CORBA, Java technologies)
- Parallel and distributed databases
- Mobile computing and databases

Submission
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We solicit contribution of  the following kinds:
- full research papers,
- short papers,
- proposals for panel discussions and tutorials.

The  category  'research papers' is intended for technical  papers
describing  research  accomplishment. They should  not  exceed  20
double  spaced pages or 5000 words. Short papers are intended  for
papers  that report interesting results and do not justify a  full
paper.  They  should be limited to 8 double spaced pages  or  2000
words.

To  enable  the  'blind reviewing' of the papers,  each  submitted
paper must include the following:
 a) the title,
 b) an abstract (70-150 words),
 c) a list of 4-6 keywords/phrases that characterize the paper,
 d) the body of the paper,
 e) references/bibliography.

The authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in a
device-independent PostScript format following the Adobe  Document
Structuring Conventions (ADSC), page size: A4, by e-mail to:

adbis98@cs.put.poznan.pl

In addition, a separate e-mail message should be sent containing:
 a) the title,
 b) name and affiliation of the author(s),
 c) complete contact address (e-mail, fax and telephone),
 d) the  abstract,
 e) the list of keywords.

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers  for
quality,  correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted  papers
will be presented at the Symposium and printed in the proceedings,
which  will  be  available at the Symposium. Full research  papers
will  be  published  in  the  Springer series  'Lecture  Notes  in
Computer Science', which will be available at the Symposium.
The  final versions of the papers should be formatted using  LaTeX
to  facilitate  the process of preparing camera-ready  copies  for
printing in the proceedings.

Panel proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and
the  names  and  affiliations of 3-4 panelists  who  have  made  a
commitment  to  participate. A mix of industry and academic  panel
members is recommended. Tutorial proposals should also include a 1-
2 page summary. The proposals should be submitted by e-mail.

Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.

Important Dates
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Paper/panel/tutorial submission:        March 15, 1998

Notification of acceptance:             May 15, 1998

Camera ready copy due:                  June 1, 1998

Symposium:                              September 8-11, 1998

Tutorials:                              September 7, 1998

Program Committee Co-Chairs
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Witold Litwin           (University of Paris, France)
Tadeusz Morzy           (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Gottfried Vossen        (University of Muenster, Germany)

ACM SIGMOD Advisor
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Marek Rusinkiewicz      (MCC, USA)

European Coordinator
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Johann Eder             (Klagenfurt University, Austria)

Program Committee
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Divy Agraval            (University of California, USA)
Suad Alagic             (Wichita State University, USA)
Yuri Breitbart          (Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies,
                         USA)
Jerzy Brzezinski        (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Omran Bukhres           (Purdue University, USA)
Bogdan Czejdo           (Loyola University, USA)
Nikolay Emelyanov       (Institute for Systems Analysis, RAS,
                         Russia)
Janis Grundspenkis      (Riga Technical University, Latvija)
Remigijus Gustas        (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)
Sumi Helal              (MCC, USA)
Leonid Kalinichenko     (Inst. for Problems of Informatics RAS,
                         Russia)
Hannu Kangassalo        (University of Tampere, Finland)
Wolfgang Klas           (University of Ulm, Germany)
Mikhail Kogalovsky      (Institute for Market Economy, RAS,
                         Russia)
Ralf Kramer             (FZI, Germany)
Sergey Kuznetsov        (Institute for Systems Programming, RAS,
                         Russia)
Peri Loucopoulos        (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Florian Matthes         (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Yannis Manolopoulos     (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki,
                         Greece)
Rainer Manthey          (Bonn University, Germany)
Ron Morrison            (St.-Andrews University, Scotland)
Guido Moerkotte         (University of Aachen, Germany)
Pavol Navrat            (Slovak University of Technology,
                         Bratislava, Slovakia)
Nikolay Nikitchenko     (Kiev University, Ukraine)
Boris Novikov           (St. Petersburg University, Russia)
Priit Parmakson         (Concordia International University,
                         Tallinn, Estonia)
Erhard Rahm             (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Colette Rolland         (Sorbonne, France)
Silvio Salza            (University of Rome, Italy)
Julius Stuller          (Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha)
Kazimierz Subieta       (Institute of Computer Science,
                         Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Bernhard Thalheim       (Cottbus Technical University, Germany)
Benkt Wangler           (Stockholm University/Royal Institute
                         of Technology, Kista, Sweden)
Tatjana Welzer          (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Viacheslav Wolfengagen  (JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary
                         Education, Russia)
Alexandre Zamulin       (Institute of Informatics Systems,
                         Novosibirsk, Russia)

Steering Committee Members
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Radu Bercaru (Romania)
Albertas Caplinskas  (Lithuania)
Janis Eiduks (Latvia)
Hele-Mai Haav (Estonia)
Leonid Kalinichenko  (Russia) (Chair of Steering Committee)
Mikhail Kogalovsky (Russia)
Tadeusz Morzy (Poland)
Pavol Navrat (Slovakia)
Boris Novikov (Russia)
Jaroslav Pokorny  (Czech Republic)
Anatoly Stogny (Ukraine)
Tatjana Welzer  (Slovenia)
Viacheslav Wolfengagen  (Russia)

Local Organizing Committee Chairs
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Piotr Krzyzagorski
Robert Wrembel

E-mail:  adbis98@cs.put.poznan.pl

Phone: (48) (61) 879 07 90
       (48) (61) 878 23 78
Fax:   (48) (61) 877 15 25

Institute of Computing Science
Poznan University of Technology
ul. Piotrowo 3A
PL-60-965 Poznan
POLAND
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The PostScript and LaTeX versions of this CfP are available at the ADBIS'98 web site: http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/adbis98/