From: iscooibc@nuscc.nus.sg (Beng Chin)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: CONF: 3rd Intl. Symp. on Large Spatial Databases, Singapore, Jun 93
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:02:30 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu


Crossposted from news.announce.conferences


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                          * Call for Papers *
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      SSD'93: The 3rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE SPATIAL DATABASES


                        Singapore, 21st-25th June 1993


                                  Organized by:
              Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
                        National University of Singapore

                                  Sponsored by:
                       IEEE Computer Chapter Singapore Section


                              In Cooperation with:
                                   ACM SIGMOD
                              IEEE Computer Society
                      Information Processing Society of Japan


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                   THE SPATIAL DATABASE SYMPOSIUM

SSD'93 is the third of the Symposia on Large Spatial Database Symposium
series.  As with the previous conferences in Santa Barbara (1989) and
Zurich (1991), it will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to
report advances and to exchange information on topics concerned with
database theory and advanced applications in such areas as Geographic
Information Systems, CAD/CAM and AM/FM.


                           TOPICS

Submissions of papers presenting original research on spatial data
management are invited.

Topics of special relevance to the symposium include:
        * spatial data models and structures
        * spatial access methods
        * spatial query processing and transaction management
        * semantics of spatial databases
        * data representations and mapping between representations
        * user interfaces and languages
        * heterogeneous spatial databases
        * federated and interoperable spatial database management systems

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (Germany) in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series.
Proposals for tutorials and panels are also invited and should be
submitted to the respective Chairs.



                           PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit five copies of your paper to your nearest Programme Committee
Co-chairs by 15th November 1992.  Manuscripts should be in English and not
more than 25 pages (up to 5000 words).  The papers will be reviewed by
at least three programme committee members.


                            IMPORTANT DATES

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* 15th November 1992      Papers, tutorial and panel proposals due       *
* 15th February 1993      Notification of acceptances                    *
* 1st April 1993          Last date for receipt of camera-ready papers   *
* 21st-22nd June 1993     Pre-conference Tutorials                       *
* 23rd-25th June 1993     Conference                                     *
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                    CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

General Chair:

  Yuen, Chung Kwong
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
  National University of Singapore
  Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511.

Organizing Co-Chairs and Coordination:

  Egenhofer, Max (North and South America)
  University of Maine
  Orono, ME, USA

  Ling, Tok Wang (Local)
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
  National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Sacks-Davis, Ron (Asia-Pacific)
  Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute,
  RMIT and The University of Melbourne,
  Victoria, Australia

  Schek, Hans  (Europe)
  Insitut fur Informations Systeme
  ETH-Zentrum, Zurich,  Switzerland

Programme Committee Co-Chairs:

  Abel, David
  Center for Spatial Information Systems
  CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
  Email: abel@csis.dit.csiro.au
  Fax: +61 62 57 1052

  Ooi, Beng Chin
  Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
  National University of Singapore
  Kent Ridge, Singapore
  Email: ooibc@iscs.nus.sg
  Fax: +65 779 4580

Tutorial Programme:

  Lu, Hongjun
  National University of Singapore, Singapore
  Email: luhj@iscs.nus.sg
  Fax: +65 779 4580

Industrial Programme:

  Tang-Kwong, Yuk Wah
  Land Systems Support Unit,  Ministry of Law
  1 Colombo Court #06-12/16, Singapore 0617
  Fax: +65 3342654

Panel Programme:

  Waugh, Tom, U.K.
  University of Edinburgh, U. K.
  Email: tcw@geovax.edinburgh.ac.uk
  Fax: +44 31 229 3250

Programme Committee:

  Ang, Chuan Heng, National U. of Singapore, Singapore
  Casanova, Marco, IBM, Brazil
  Chang, Chin-Chen, National Chung Cheng U., Taiwan
  Chang, Shi-Kuo, U. of Pittsburgh, USA
  Egenhofer, Max, U. Maine, USA
  Frank, Andrew, U. of Vienna, Austria
  Freeston, Mike, ECRC, Germany
  Guenther, Oliver, FAW, Germany
  Gueting, Ralf,  Praktische Informatik IV, Germany
  Han, Jiawei, Simon Fraser U., Canada
  Herring, John, Intergraph, USA
  Jain, Ramesh,  U. of Michigan, USA
  Kambayashi, Yahiko, Kyoto U., Japan
  Kriegel, Hans, U. Bremen, Germany
  Kunii, Tosiyasu, U. of Tokyo, Japan
  Lu, Hongjun, National U. of Singapore, Singapore
  Lum, Vincent, Chinese U. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Masunaga, Yoshifumi, U. of Library and Inf. Sc., Japan
  Nievergelt, Jurg, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Sacks-Davis, Ron,  CITRI, Australia
  Samet, Hanan, U. of Maryland, USA
  Schek, Hans, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Scholl, Michel,  CNAM, France
  Smith, John, CSIRO, Australia
  Smith, Terry,  UC Santa Barbara, USA
  Svensson, Per, Swedish Defence Research Establishment, Sweeden
  Waugh, Tom, U. of Edinburgh, U.K.
  Whang, Kyu-Young, KAIST, Korea

Local Arrangement:

  Wang, Ke, National U. of Singapore, Singapore

Publicity:

  Wee, Soon Kiang, Ministry of Law, Singapore


                            INVITED SPEAKERS

Won Kim, Unisql Inc., Austin, U.S.A.
  Tentative topic:  Object-oriented spatial database systems.
  Dr. Won Kim received B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from MIT, and
  Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He
  joined MCC in 1984 and was Director of the Object-Oriented and
  Distributed System Laboratory.  He was the chief architect of the
  ORION OODB system.  Prior to joining MCC,  he was a research staff at
  IBM Almaden Research Center for four years.  He is currently President
  of Unisql Inc.,  Austin, Texas.  He has co-edited two books: Query
  processing in  database systems (Springer-Verlag), and Object-oriented
  concepts,  databases and applications (Addison-Wesley), and co-authored
  a book, Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases (MIT Press).

Hans-Joerg Schek,  ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
  Tentative topic: Interoperable spatial database systems
  Prof. Schek received M.Sc. degree in mathematics and Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing)
  in civil engineering from University of Stuttgart,  West Germany, in
  1968 and 1972, respectively.  He is currently a Computer Science
  Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich,
  Switzerland,  where he is the head of the Database Research Group and
  responsible for database education.  He is also the head of the Institute
  of Information Systems at ETH.  From 1983 to 1988, he was a Computer
  Science Professor at the Technical University of Darmstardt,  West
  Germany,  where he was responsible for database research and education,
  particularly, for the DASDBS database system.


The third speaker will be announced.


                            SYMPOSIUM  VENUE

The symposium will be held in Singapore, 13 hours flying-time from Europe
and the West Coast of the United States and 19 hours from the East Coast.
Singapore, a multi-racial nation, is an exciting city blending many
cultures and offering excellent food, duty-free shopping and accommodation.
The diversified culture provides a glimpse of the many Asian life styles
in South East Asia.  Singapore has a tropical climate with a temperature
range from 27 to 30 degree C throughout the whole year.

Its location central to many other countries in the region will allow
participants to combine SSD'93 with pre- or post-conference visits to many
other fascinating vacation destinations.  Accommodation will range from
deluxe hotels to luxurious hotels.  Special room rates in the conference
hotel have been arranged for participants to the conference.

Further information on the conference is available from the Conference
Secretariat:

   Mrs. Ho Siew Foong
   Dept. of Information Systems and Computer Science
   National University of Singapore
   Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511
   email: hosf@iscs.nus.sg
   Tel: 772-2730