From: psa@aifbepsilon.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Peter Sander)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Entity-Relationship Conf. ER92 - Advance Program
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:06:58 GMT
Expires: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe (Baden / Germany)


              11th International Conference on the
                  Entity Relationship Approach

             October 7-9, 1992,  Karlsruhe, Germany
                        -Advanced Program-

The 11th International Conference on the Entity Relationship
Approach ER92 will be held from 7th to 9th October 1992 in
Karlsruhe, Germany. Continuing its tradition the 11th conference
will provide an international and interdisciplinary forum in
which researchers and practitioners can exchange novel research,
tool developments, and management experiences. The ER Approach
is extensively used in many database and information system
design methodologies and has become a de facto standard of most
manual and computerized design tools.

The conference program will consist of 22 presented papers, four
invited papers and three tutorials. As invited speakers are
expected: P. P. Chen (USA), S. B. Navathe (USA), A. W. Scheer
(Germany) and D. Tsichritzis (Germany). In their talks they will
emphasize on new directions and forward-looking topics related
to the ER Approach.
Tutorials will be given by S. B. Navathe and S. Chakravarthy
(Heterogeneous Databases), R. Elmasri (Conceptual Modeling of
Time), and B. Thalheim (Fundamentals of the ER Model).

Furthermore the conference offers the possibility for tool and
prototype demonstrations. Everybody who is interested in
demonstrating software products or prototypes related to the ER
approach should contact the organizers.

The conference is sponsored by GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik)
and ERI (ER Institute), and organized by the "Institut fuer
Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren" of the
University of Karlsruhe.

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                             PROGRAM
Tuesday, October 6

18:00     Registration and Cocktail Reception

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Wednesday, October 7

8:00      Registration

9:00      Opening Session
          Invited Talk: ER Trends, P. P. Chen (USA)

10:30     Coffee Break

11:00     Invited Talk: The Next Ten Years of Modeling, Tools
                        and Methodologies, S. B. Navathe (USA)

12:30     Lunch

14:00     Paper Session 1: INTEGRITY

          B. Thalheim (Germany)
          Fundamentals of Cardinality Constraints

          J. Zhou, P. Baumann (Germany)
          Evaluation of Complex Cardinality Constraints

          G. Kappel, M. Schrefl (Austria)
          Local Referential Integrity

14:00     Tutorial 1:

          R. Elmasri (USA)
          Conceptual Modeling of Time in Databases

15:30     Coffee Break

16:00     Paper Session 2: DATABASE DESIGN ASPECTS

          O. Rauh, E. Stickel (Germany)
          Entity Tree Clustering - A Method for Simplifying
          ER Designs

          J.L. Hainaut (Belgium)
          A Temporal Statistical Model for Entity-Relationship
          Schemas

          W. W. Song, P. Johannesson, J. A. Bubenko Jr. (Sweden)
          Semantic Similarity Relations in Schema Integration

          S. Castano, V. De Antonellis, B. Zonta (Italy)
          Classifying and Reusing Conceptual Schemas

16:00     Tutorial 1 (continued)
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Thursday, October 8

9:00      Invited Talk: Embedding Data Modeling in a General
                        Architecture for Information Systems
                        A. W. Scheer (Germany)

10:30     Coffee Break

11:00     Paper Session 3: APPLICATIONS

          P. Buitelaar, R. van de Riet (Netherlands)
          The Use of a Lexicon to Interpret ER-Diagrams:
          A LIKE project

          H.-M. Chen Garcia, O. R. Liu Sheng (USA)
          An Entity-Relationship-Based Methodology for
          Distributed Database Design: An Integrated Approach
          Towards Combined Logical and Distribution Designs

          M. Gandhi, E. L. Robertson (USA)
          A Specification-Based Data Model

12:30     Lunch

14:00     Paper Session 4: LOGICAL ASPECTS

          F. Pirri, C. Pizzuti (Italy)
          Data Dictionary Design: A Logic Programming Approach

          T. Miura (Japan)
          Nesting Quantification in a Visual Data Manipulation
          Language

          N. Kehrer, G. Neumann (Austria)
          An EER Prototyping Environment and its Implemetation
          in a Datalog Language

14:00     Tutorial 2:

          S. B. Navathe, S. Chakravarthy (USA)
          Heterogeneous Database Systems

15:30     Coffee Break

16:00     Paper Session 5: THEORETICAL ASPECTS

          T.-W. Ling, M.-L. Lee (Singapore)
          A Theory for Entity-Relationship View Updates

          R. Herzig, M. Gogolla (Germany)
          Transforming Conceptual Data Models into an Object
          Model

          M.Tresch, M. H. Scholl (Germany)
          Meta Object Management and its Application to Database
          Evolution

16:00     Tutorial 2 (continued)

19:00     Banquet
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Friday, October 9

9:00      Invited Talk: Modeling of Audio/Video Data
                        D. Tsichritzis (Germany)

10:30     Coffee Break

11:00     Paper Session 6: USER INTERFACES AND QUERY
                           LANGUAGES

          A. Auddino, Y. Dennebouy, Y. Dupont, E. Fontana,
          S.Spaccapietra, Z. Tari (Switzerland)
          Super-Visual Interaction with an Object-Based ER Model

          G. Bono, P. Ficorilli (Italy)
          Natural Language Reproposition of Queries Expressed in
          a Graphic Language

          R. Elmasri, V. Kouramajian (USA)
          A Temporal Query Language Based on Conceptual
          Entities and Roles

11:00     Tutorial 3:

          B. Thalheim (Germany)
          Fundamentals of the ER Model

12:30     Lunch

14:00     Paper Session 7: OBJECT-ORIENTATION

          Z. Tari (Switzerland)
          A Design Methodology for Object Oriented Databases

          M. Halper, J. Geller, Y. Perl (USA)
          'Part' Relations for Object-Oriented Databases

          S. E. Bratsberg (Norway)
          Unified Class Evolution by Object-Oriented Views

14:00     Tutorial 3 (continued)

15:30     Closing Session


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                       GENERAL INFORMATION


Location

The conference will be held at the University of Karlsruhe, the
oldest German technical university. Karlsruhe is the German
"Residence of Justice" with the Federal Supreme Court and the
Federal Constitutional Court in town. Furthermore it is the main
center of the newly founded Technology Region, and the cultural
center of Baden. Karlsruhe offers possibilities for fascinating
excursions due to its unique geographical situation. Alsace, the
Black Forest and the famous cities Heidelberg, Baden-Baden and
Strasbourg are at the city's doorstep.


How to reach Karlsruhe

By airplane:
Frankfurt is the most important airport in Germany. There are
good train connections between Frankfurt airport and Karlsruhe
(approximately two hours).
By train:
Karlsruhe can be reached by train directly from all directions
(Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Muenchen, Basel, Paris, etc.).


Hotel accomodations

Hotel reservations are arranged by the "Verkehrsverein
Karlsruhe". A reservation form is enclosed in this message.
Please complete the form and mail it to the "Verkehrsverein".


Social events

On Tuesday, October 6 at 6pm a cocktail reception will be
offered to the participants in the foyer of the
'Kollegiengebaeude am Ehrenhof'.
Come and enjoy a first drink and take the opportunity to talk to
other people of the ER community.

The conference banquet will be on Thursday, October 8, 7pm, in
the Ramada Renaissance Hotel, Karlsruhe.
Accompanying persons are also kindly invited to join this very
special event.


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                         PROGRAM COMMITTEE


A M. Tjoa          Universitaet Wien, Austria (Chair)
C. Batini          Universita Roma La Sapienza, Italy
M. Bouzeghoub      Universite P. et M. Curie P CNRS, France
C. Breiteneder     Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
J. Bubenko         SISU, Sweden
M. A. Casanova     IBM, Brazil
S. Chakravarthy    University of Florida, USA
V. De Antonellis   Politecnico di Milano, Italy
K. R. Dittrich     Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland
A. Dogac           Middle East Technical University, Turkey
J. Eder            Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
R. Elmasri         University of Texas at Arlington, USA
A. Furtado         Pontificia Universida de Catolica do Rio
                   de Janeiro, Brazil
M. Jarke           RWTH Aachen, Germany
H. Kangassalo      University of Tampere, Finland
G. Kappel          Universitaet Wien, Austria
T.W. Ling          National University of Singapore, Singapore
V.M. Markowitz     Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA
R. Meersman        Tilburg University, Netherlands
S.B. Navathe       Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
E. Neuhold         GMD, Germany
P.A. Ng            New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
A. Oberweis        Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Olive           Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
C. Parent          Universite de Bourgogne, France
G. Pernul          Universitaet Wien, Austria
A. Pirotte         University of Louvain, Belgium
S. Ram             University of Arizona, USA
D. Reiner          Kendall Square Research Corp., USA
C. Rolland         Universite Paris 1, France
G. Saake           Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany
H. Sakai           Chuo University, Japan
F. Saltor          Universitat Politecnica de Catalanya, Spain
P. Sander          Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
G. Schlageter      FernUniversitaet GHS Hagen, Germany
O. Sheng           University of Arizona, USA
S. Spaccapietra    Ecole Polytechnique Federation de Lausanne,
                   Switzerland
K. Tanaka          Kobe University, Japan
B. Tauzovich       COGNOS Incorporation, Canada
B. Thalheim        Universitaet Rostock, Germany
H. Thoma           Cyba-Geigy AG, Switzerland
T.J. Teorey        University of Michigan, USA
Y. Wand            University of British Columbia, Canada

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Conference Chair

P. Lockemann
University of Karlsruhe, Germany


Program Committee Chair

A M. Tjoa
University of Vienna, Austria


Organization Committee Chair

W. Stucky
University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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The conference is sponsored by

GI         Gesellschaft fuer Informatik

ERI        ER Institute


and in cooperation with

AICA       Associazione Italiana per l'Informatica ed il Calcolo
           Automatico

AFCET      Association Francaise pour la Cybernetique Economique
           et Technique

BCS        British Computer Society

OCG        Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft

SI         Schweizer Informatiker Gesellschaft


Organization Committee

W. Stucky, Germany (Chair)
K. Hogshead Davis, USA (US Co-Chair)
P. Jaeschke, A. Oberweis, R. Richter, P. Sander (all Germany)
J. Wheeler (USA)

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                         REGISTRATION FORM

               11th International Conferenceon the
                  Entity Relationship Approach
                        Karlsruhe/Germany


Mail to:   Prof. Dr. W. Stucky
           University of Karlsruhe
           AIFB
           P.O.Box 6980
           D-W-7500 Karlsruhe
           Germany

telephone:   +(49)(721)6083812     fax: +(49)(721)693717
e-mail:      STUCKY@AIFB.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE


Conference fee:
The conference fee covers the whole program (paper sessions,
invited talks, tutorials), and the proceedings. The banquet must
be paid additionally. Reduced fees are applicable to members of
GI and organizations associated to GI as well as to members of
cooperating organizations.



                    reduced         non-reduced         students

before 08/31/92     500 DM          650 DM              50 DM

after  08/31/92     560 DM          710 DM              90 DM

banquet                 60 DM per person (incl. 14% VAT)



American registrants wishing to pay their registration fee in
US$ (using a fixed rate of 1 US$=1.50 DM) should contact Dr.
Kathi Hogshead Davis, Northern Illinois University, Department
of Computer Science, Dekalb, IL 60115 (phone: 815-753-6945,
fax: 815-753-0342, email: t90kad1@niu.bitnet).

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                  REGISTRATION FORM (continued)

Name _______________________ First name _____________________

Company, Organization _______________________________________

Street ______________________________________________________

City _________________________ Postal Code __________________

Country _____________________________________________________

Phone ________________________ Fax __________________________

E-mail ______________________________________________________

O   GI member (or member of associated/cooperating
    organizations)
    (Org.name ___________________________ No ______________ )

O   student (immatriculation enclosed)

Payment

conference fee         ______________ DM

banquet fee (optional) ______________ DM    ( ______ persons)

total                  ______________ DM

All payments are due in German Marks (DM). Please indicate your
method of payment:

O       by enclosed check, to order of ER92

O       by direct bank transfer to: ER92-conference
        account no: 278854-756 at PGA Karlsruhe
        bank no: 66010075

O       by credit card:      O  Visa      O  Eurocard/Mastercard

          card holder+s name________________________________

          credit card number _______________________________

          expiration date __________________________________

          card holder+s signature __________________________


Place and Date _________________ Signature _____________________

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                      HOTEL RESERVATION FORM

              11th International Conference on the
                  Entity Relationship Approach
                        Karlsruhe/Germany

Price ranges:

category   single room    double room        equipment
           (DM)           (DM)

     A     >160           210-350            bath or shower + WC

     B     90-150         130-200            shower + WC

     C     50-85          80-120             rooms without bath,
                                             some with shower

Kindly note:
Hotel reservations are arranged by the "Verkehrsverein
Karlsruhe". Participants who require hotel reservations should
complete this form and return it as soon as possible. The
address of the "Verkehrsverein Karlsruhe" can be found on the
following page. The hotel reservation is based on the
regulations on the hotel-booking contract which comes into
force as soon as the room has been confirmed. The
"Verkehrsverein Karlsruhe" can only act as booking agency
between guests and hotel. Any alteration (cancellation, arrival
after 6pm) must be arranged directly with the hotel. In case of
delayed cancellation or non-appearance the hotel is entitled to
claim compensation.

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               HOTEL RESERVATION FORM (continued)

              11th International Conference on the
                   Entity Relationship Approach
                        Karlsruhe/Germany


Mail to:     KTS
             Verkehrsverein Karlsruhe e. V.
             Bahnhofsplatz 6
             D-W-7500 Karlsruhe
             Germany

telephone: +(49)(721)3553-0    fax: +(49)(721)355343


Sender:
Name ___________________________ First Name ____________________

Company ________________________________________________________

Street _________________________________________________________

Postal code _______________ City _______________________________

Country ________________________________________________________

Phone _________________________ Fax ____________________________


My firm order applies to

number     room        category        date of         date of
                       (A, B or C)     arrival         departure

_______    single      ___________     __________      _________

_______    double      ___________     __________      _________

Special wishes _________________________________________________

Arrival by (car, train, plane) _________ at ____________ o`clock


Date ______________ Signature __________________________________

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