From: dg02@gte.com (Dimitrios Georgakopoulos)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Special RIDE-IMS'93 Call For Papers
Date: 30 Jul 92 00:00:27 GMT
Expires: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.


                               RIDE-IMS'93

      Call for Industrial, Work-In-Progress and Position Papers
Third International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering:
                INTEROPERABILITY IN MULTIDATABASE SYSTEMS
                    Vienna, Austria, April 18-20, 1993

                  Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

RIDE-IMS'93 is the third of a series of annual workshops on Research
Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE).  RIDE workshops are held in
conjunction with the IEEE CS International Conferences on Data
Engineering.  Following the successful RIDE-IMS'91 held in Kyoto,
Japan, the next RIDE workshop will also focus on interoperability of
heterogeneous and autonomous database and knowledge systems.

The deadline for regular submissions was July 15, 1992.  In response,
we had high quality research submissions.  While regular research
papers are no longer solicited, this special call for papers solicits
submissions that can enhance the workshops characteristics by
promoting debates among researchers and practitioners.  Papers should
discuss problems, solutions and methodology for promoting and
achieving interoperability in systems that support global applications
accessing multiple database and/or knowledge systems. Specifically, we
welcome submissions for:

- Industrial sessions reporting on work of relevance to practitioners
  in industry, experiences in developing prototypes, industrial systems,
  standards, and problem definitions  of interest to researchers.

- Work-in-progress sessions for early dissemination of work from
  active R&D projects.

Interesting position statements that could generate significant
debates are also welcome.

INSTRUCTIONS: Authors are invited to submit six copies of manuscript
before August 31, 1992 (hard deadline!), to the appropriate PROGRAM
CHAIR. Manuscript should be 15-20 pages (one and half or double-spaced).
Position statements can be shorter.

  Europe & Africa                           America, Asia & Australia

  Hans-J. Schek                             Amit Sheth
  Department of Computer Science            Bellcore, RRC 1J-210
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology     444 Hoes Lane
  ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland  Piscataway, NJ 08854-4182, USA
  Tel.: +41-1-254-7240                      Tel: +1-908-699-3300
  Fax: +41-1-262-3973                       Fax: +1-908-336-2969
  Email: schek@inf.ethz.ch                  Email: amit@ctt.bellcore.com

The proceedings consisting of the accepted papers will be published
by IEEE Computer Society and will be widely available.

IMPORTANT DATES:
   Deadline for submission:                 August 31, 1992
   Notification of acceptance or rejection: November 1, 1992
   Final camera-ready due:                  January 1, 1993

WORKSHOP GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
  Elisa Bertino                             Susan Urban
  Dip. di Matematica                        Computer Science Department
  Universita' di Genova                     Arizona State University
  Tel.: +39-10-353-8034                     Tel.: +1-602-965-2784
  Email: bertino@icnucevm.cnuce.cnr.it      Email: urban@asuvax.eas.asu.edu

STEERING COMMITTEE:
  Ahmed Elmagarmid, co-chair (USA)          Joseph Urban, co-chair (USA)
  Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan)                 Marek Rusinkiewicz (USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Rafael Alonso (USA)              Dennis McLeod (USA)
Peter Apers (Netherlands)        Shamkant Navathe (USA)
Yuri Breitbart (USA)             M. Tamer Ozsu (Canada)
Phil Cannata (USA)               Antonella Pelaggi (Italy)
Wolfgang Effelsberg (Germany)    Sudha Ram (USA)
Ahmed Elmagarmid (USA)           Andreas Reuter (Germany)
Tetsuya Furukawa (Japan)         Marek Rusinkiewicz (USA)
Georges Gardarin  (France)       Ron Sacks-Davis  (Australia)
Sandy Heiler (USA)               Felix Saltor (Spain)
David Hsiao (USA)                Peter Scheuermann (USA)
Leonid Kalinechenko (Russia)     Gunter Schlageter (Germany)
Wolfgang Klas (Germany)          Ming Shan (USA)
eva Kuehn (Austria)              Avi Silberschatz (USA)
Witold Litwin (USA)              Letizia Tanca (Italy)
Lothar Mackert (Germany)         Gerhard Weikum (Switzerland)
John Manley (England)            Antoni Wolski (Finland)
Yoshifumi Masunaga (Japan)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:              eva Kuehn & Gerti Kappel (Austria)
US IND. COORDINATOR:             Gomer Thomas (USA)
EUROPEAN IND. COORDINATOR:       Christoph Freytag (Germany)
CEC COORDINATOR:                 Janis Folkmanis (Belgium)
ASIAN COORDINATOR:               Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan)
FINANCIAL CHAIR:                 Patrick Bobbie (USA)
PUBLICITY CHAIR:                 Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (USA)
PUBLICATION CHAIR:               Bogdan Czejdo (USA)
REGISTRATION CHAIR:              Jim Geller (USA)


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