From: mukesh@cse.iitb.ernet.in (Mukesh Kumar Mohania)
Subject: CISMOD'93 Call for Papers
Organization: Department of Computer Science,IIT, Bombay
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 04:23:43 GMT


                              CALL FOR PAPERS
                       INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
                         INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND
                            MANAGEMENT OF DATA

    Date    :  October 6 - 8, 1993 

    Venue   :  New Delhi, India

    Organizing Committee
          Chairperson :
          Viswanathan T., India

    Sponsors

          1.  Society for Information Sciences

          2.  Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre
              (INSDOC)  

    Program Committee Chairpersons

      Sarda N.L.,India     (email: cismod93@cse.iitb.ernet.in)
      Majumdar A.K., India (email: sys320!akmj@iitkgp.ernet.in)

    Advisory Committee

          Viswanathan T., India
          Naveen Prakash, India

    Important Dates

          Last date for submissions   :   June 1, 1993
          Notification of acceptance  :   Aug. 1,  1993
          Revised/Camera-ready copy   :   Sept. 15,1993



               The  CISMOD  series  of conference aim  to  provide  an 
    international  forum  to  exchange ideas and  experiences  on  the 
    research,   development  and  applications  of   data   management 
    methodologies,  tools,  techniques and systems.  Covering  a  wide 
    range  of  issues  and topics,  these  conferences  place  special 
    emphasis  on original work connected with evolving  techniques  in 
    databases  and their applications.  State-of-art reviews  and  new 
    perspectives  are  also encouraged.  The  CISMOD  conferences  are 
    therefore  targeted  to serve researchers,  developers,  managers, 
    users  and  others interested in the  state-of-art  activities  in 
    Information Systems and Data Management. CISMOD'93 continues  this 
    tradition.

               This  call for papers is an invitation to you to  share 
    your  ideas, work and experiences with others of the community  by 
    submitting  a  paper  as  well as  attending  the  conference  and 
    participating  in  tutorials,  panel  discussions  and   technical
    sessions.


    TOPICS of Interest :  Suggested but not limited to:

          Database Design Theory and Techniques
          Logic and Deductive Databases
          Knowledge-Based Systems
          Data Modules
          Query Languages
          Query Optimization
          Parallelism in Database Systems
          Distributed and Federated Databases
          Historical/Temporal Databases
          Active Databases
          Statistical Database
          Multimedia Database Systems
          Geographical Databases
          Object-Oriented Database Systems
          Semantic Data Models
          Incomplete, Inexact and Fuzzy Databases
          Schema Evolution
          Hypertext Systems
          Information Systems Modelling
          Software Engineering and CASE
          Concurrency Control and Recovery
          Physical Storage Structures and Access Methods
          Performance Evaluation
          Benchmarking
          Database Applications


    Paper Submission :

          Please  submit  3 copies of the complete paper by  June  1, 
    1993 to:

               Prof. N. L. Sarda
               Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engg.
               I.I.T. Bombay
               POWAI, BOMBAY 400 076, INDIA

          e-mail  :   cismod93@cse.iitb.ernet.in

          FAX     :   091-22-578 3480

          Phone   :   (022) 578 2545 extn 2701 or 2710

          The  papers should be limited to 16 typed (in double  space) 
    pages  of A4 size including abstract, illustrates and  references.  
    The  cover  page should contain title,  authors,  affiliation,  and 
    address and e-mail address of contact author.

          We invite both the original contributions as well as  state-
    of-art reviews on topics of interest to database community.
          We  strongly  encourage  the  participation  of  the  entire 
    international   community  of  database  researchers,  users   and 
    practitioners.

          A  Conference proceedings carrying the accepted  papers  for 
    presentation will be published.
          

                  PAPERS PRESENTED AT CISMOD'92
               (JULY 21-23, 1992, BANGALORE, INDIA


Object-Oriented Conceptual Modelling
C. Rolland and C.Cauvet, IAE-Universite de Paris, France

Generating Object-Oriented Applications with Versions & Histories
M.C.Fauvet, University of Grenoble, France

A Case Study of an Object-Oriented Database System for Engineering
S.K. Tripathy and F.J.Smith, Queen's University of Belfast, UK

A VLSI Chip for Attribute Based Relational: Databases
N.Ranganathan and K.R.Balaji, University of South Florida, 
Tampa, Florida, USA

VMDB:  An OODB Approach Towards Creating a Model-base  of  Visual 
Objects
A.  Gupta  and A. BagchiIndian Statistical  Institute,  Calcutta, 
India

Composite Object Replication in Distributed Database Systems
Bharat  Bhargava,  S.Browne and  Jagannathan  Srinivasan,  Purdue 
University, IN 47907, USA

HYBRID: A Heterogeneous Distributed Database System Testbed
M.P.Reddy and B.E.Prasad, University of Hyderabad, India

Object-Oriented Specifications in a Multimedia Database Project 
Ling Liu and Joost Dijkstra, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Complementing Access Controls for Comprehensive Security
S.Castano,  M.G.Fugini, G.Martella and P.Samarati, Universita  di 
Brescia e Politecnico di Milano

Recent Trends in Historical Databases,
N.L. Sarda, Indian Inst. of Technology, Bombay, India
(Invited Talk)

Formal Procedure for designing a Conceptual Data Model (GDNA)
G.C.Agustin, A.A. Seco and J.L.M. Hernandez

An  Entity-Relationship  Model Extended  to  describe  Historical 
information
P.McBrien, A.H. Selveit and B.Wangler, Imperial College, UK
Limits of Commutativity on Abstract Data Types
C.Malta and J.Martinez, France

Towards Database Optimization by Evolution
P.van Bommel and Th.P. van der Weide, Universiy of Nijmegen,  The 
Netherlands

Fact-Oriented Schema Optimization
T.A.Halpin, University of Queensland, Australia

Equational  Constraints  and storage Organization for  an  Object 
Oriented Database System
T.K.Nayak and A.K.Majumdar, Jadhavpur University, Calcutta, India

A Topological Characterization of the Systems Based on Production 
Rules
Maria  C. Fernandez and R.Portaencasa, University Politecnica  de 
Madrid, Spain

Database Discourse Revisited
N.Parimala, I.I.T. Kanpur, India

Generalization Expert Database System Shell
C.S.R.Prabhu, National Informatics Centre, Hyderabad, India
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