From: anupam@watson.ibm.com (Anupam Bhide)
Subject: Call for Participation for PDIS'93
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:48:22 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Second International Conference on
		PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
		(Issues, Architectures and Algorithms)

		January 20-23, 1993
		Hyatt Islandia Hotel on Mission Bay
		San Diego, California
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Invitation to PDIS'93=======================================================

The database and knowledge base communities have realized the 
importance of using parallelism and distribution for supporting 
data and knowledge-intensive applications. This is underlined 
by the workshops, symposia, conferences and journals addressing this
subarea of information management.

The topics of interest include design, development, and utilization
of information systems systems in a distributed environment together
with all aspects of parallel processing for information management.
The program committee has selected 20 technical papers, representing
research from both academia and industry, out of over 100 submissions.

In addition 8 project synopses provide an opportunity to discuss
substantial system building efforts in progress. Through the keynote
speech, tutorials, and panels, the conference also addresses
the issues of recent advances in Commercial Systems Technology
and pragmatics of real application development. We believe this
program will appeal to researchers, application developers, vendors,
and students active in the area of this conference.

On of the highlights of this year's conference is the newly created
Industrial Program. Topics addressed include Distributed TP Monitors,
Parallel Database Systems and Heterogenous Distributed Database Systems.
A partial list of vendors that are participating in the industrial
program include  DEC, IBM, Informix, KSR, NCR/Teradata, Oracle, Sybase,
Tandem, Transarc and USL.

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For Registration Form, see the PDIS'93 advertisement in the IEEE Computer
October'92 issue or the CACM November'92 issue.

Or send mail to Anupam Bhide at anupam@watson.ibm.com to ask for call for
participation/registration form hard copy or soft copy.


Technical Program========================================================

WEDNESDAY, January 20

09:00-12:30	TUTORIAL #1:
		Database System Interoperability
		Dennis McLeod (U. of Southern Calif.)

14:00-17:30	TUTORIAL #2:
		Parallel and Reliable Disk Systems
		Garth Gibson (Carnegie-Mellon U.)

THURSDAY, January 21

09:00-10:30	OPENING SESSION

		Opening Remarks from General Chair and Program Co-Chairs
		Michael Lambert (NCR), Michael Carey (U. Wisconsin),
		Patrick Valduriez (INRIA)
		
		KEYNOTE ADDRESS: David Patterson(Univ. of California - Berkeley)
		Massive Parallelism and Massive Storage: trends and predictions
		for 1995 - 2000

11:00-12:30	PAPER SESSION: Data Placement
		Chair: Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (U. of Southern Calif.)

		Performance of Inverted Indices in Distributed Text Document
		Retrieval Systems
		A. Tomasic (Princeton U.), H. Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.)

		Declustering Using Fractals
		C. Faloutsos, P. Bhagwat (U. of Maryland)
	
		A Formal Approach to the Vertical Partitioning Problem in
		Distributed Database Design
		J. Muthuraj, S. Chakravarthy, R. Varadarajan (U. of Florida),
		S. Navathe (Georgia Inst. of Technology)


		INDUSTRIAL SESSION: Parallel Database Systems 1
		Chair: Bjorn Bergsten (Bull Research Ctr.)

		Parallelism and Fault Tolerance in Commercial Systems
		A. Goyal  (IBM)

		The Kendall Square Query Decomposer
		D. Reiner (Kendall Square Research)

		The Data Navigator
		R. Stellwagen  (NCR)



14:00-15:30	PAPER SESSION: Distributed Transactions
		Chair: Divyakant Agrawal (U. of California, Santa Barbara)

		Recovering in Large Distributed Systems with Replicated Data
		P. Triantafillou (Simon Fraser U.)

		Using Timestamping to Optimize Two Phase Commit
		D. Lomet (DEC Cambridge Research Lab)

		An Efficient and Highly Available Read-One Write-All Protocol
		for Replicated Data Management
		M. Rabinovich, E. Lazowska (U. of Washington)


		INDUSTRIAL SESSION: Parallel Database Systems 2
		Chair: David Reiner (Kendall Square Research)

		Parallel Database Processing in ORACLE
		B. Linder (Oracle) [tentative]

		Parallel Features of NonStop SQL
		L. Chambers (Tandem)

		Parallel Data Query in Informix DBMS
		G. Kelley (Informix)


16:00-17:45	PAPER SESSION: Parallel Query Optimization
		Chair: Donovan Schneider (Hewlett-Packard Labs.)

		Including the Load Balancing Issue in the Optimization of
		Multi-way Join Queries for Shared-Nothing Database Computers
		K. Hua, Y. Lo (U. of Central Florida),
		H. Young (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.)

		Optimizing Multi-Join Queries in Parallel Relational Databases
		J. Srivastava, G. Elsesser (U. of Minnesota)

		Parallel Query Processing in DBS3
		M. Ziane, M. Zait (INRIA), P. Borla-Salamet (Bull Research Ctr.)

		PANDA: A Testbed for Investigating Strategies for Parallel
		Query Execution (Synopsis)
		G. von Bultzingsloewen, R. Kramer,
		M. Schryro (FZI, U. Karlsruhe)
		
		PANEL SESSION: Hard Real Problems in Distributed
		Heterogeneous Systems
		Chair: Pat Selinger (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.)




FRIDAY, January 22

08:30-09:30	INVITED SPEAKER
		A Common Architecture for Integrating Distributed Applications
		Richard Soley (Object Management Group)

9:30-10:45	PAPER SESSION: Multidatabase Systems
		Chair: Amit Sheth (Bellcore)

		On Global Transaction Scheduling Criteria in
		Multidatabase Systems
		A. Zhang, A. Elmagarmid (Purdue U.)

		Supporting Long-Running Tasks on an Evolving Multidatabase
		Using InterActions and Events
		M. Nodine (Brown U.)

		Using Carnot for Enterprise Information Integration (Synopsis)
		D. Woelk (MCC)

		PAPER SESSION: Performance
		Chair: Richard Muntz (U. of Calif., Los Angeles)

		Goal Oriented, Adaptive Transaction Routing for High
		Performance Transaction Processing Systems
		D. Ferguson, C. Nikolaou,
		L. Georgiadis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr.)

		Performance Analysis of a Dual Striping Strategy for
		Replicated Disk Arrays
		A. Merchant (NEC), P. Yu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr.)

		The COMFORT Project (Synopsis)
		G. Weikum, C. Hasse, A. Moenkeberg, P. Zabback (ETH Zurich)


11:15-12:45	PAPER SESSION: Object Support
		Chair: Liuba Shrira (Mass. Institute of Technology)

		Managing Query Execution for an Advanced Database Programming
		Language
		D. Schneider, T. Connors (Hewlett-Packard Labs.)

		Pointer-based Join Techniques for Object-Oriented Databases
		D. DeWitt, D. Lieuwen, M. Mehta (U. of Wisconsin)

		Omega: A Parallel Object-based System (Synopsis)
		S. Ghandeharizadeh, V. Choi, C. Ker,
		K. Lin (U. of Southern Calif.)

		An Experience in the Design of a Reliable Object Based
		System (Synopsis)
		M. Banatre (IRISA/INRIA), P. Heng (Bull Research),
		G. Muller (IRISA/INRIA), N. Peyrouze, B. Rochat (Bull Research)




		PANEL SESSION: People Who Need Large Parallel
		Databases (User's Panel)
		Chair: Paula Hawthorn (Miro Systems)


14:00-15:30	PAPER SESSION: File Systems
		Chair: Christos Faloutsos (U. of Maryland)

		Multiprocessor File System Interfaces
		D. Kotz (Dartmouth College)

		Log-Based Directory Resolution in the Coda File System
		P. Kumar, M. Satyanarayanan (Carnegie-Mellon U.)
	
		Issues in the Design of Multi-Server File Systems to Cope with
		Load Skew
		D. Sitaram, A. Dan, P. Yu (IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr.)



		INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
			Distributed and Parallel Database Servers
		Chair: Gerhard Weikum (ETH Zurich)

		Interoperable, Distributed Databases
		J. Balboni (SQL Access Group)

		Decision Support with Teradata
		TBD (Teradata)

		Open and Distributed Processing with SQL Server
		M. Colton (Sybase) 


16:00-18:00	PAPER SESSION: Parallel Query Execution
		Chair: Marie-Anne Neimat (Hewlett-Packard Labs.)

		Nested Loops Revisited
		D. DeWitt, J. Naughton, J. Burger (U. of Wisconsin)

		A Methodology for Evaluating Parallel Graph Algorithms
		and Its Application to Single Source Reachability
		O. Wolfson (U. of Illinois), W. Zhang (U. of Lethbridge),
		H. Butani (U. of Illinois), A. Kawaguchi, K. Mok (Columbia U.)

		Implementation and Evaluation of Relational Algebra Operations
		on the Connection Machine (Synopsis)
		W. Hou, J. Kindred (Southern Illinois U.)

		Transitive Closure: An Experimental Case Study of Three
		Multithreaded Database Algorithms on a Shared Memory
		Multiprocessor (Synopsis)
		H. Young-Myers, L. Raschid (U. of Maryland)

		DBS3: A Parallel Data Base System for Shared Store (Synopsis)
		B. Bergsten (Bull Research Ctr.), M. Couprie (ESIEE),
		M. Lopez (Bull Research Ctr.)


		INDUSTRIAL SESSION: Transaction Processing Monitors
		Chair: Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford U.)

		ACMS: Digital's Open, Distributed TP Monitor
		V. Trehan (DEC)

		Transaction Processing with TUXEDO
		A. Huffman (Unix Systems Labs)

		Open Distributed Transaction Processing with Encina
		M. Sherman (Transarc)

		TOP END:  Open Transaction Processing & Parallel Systems
		R. Smerik (NCR)


END OF CONFERENCE

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COMMITTEES===============================================================

GENERAL CHAIR                        STEERING COMMITTEE
Michael Lambert, NCR San Diego       Sushil Jajodia (chair),  George Mason U.
                                     David DeWitt, U. Wisconsin
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS                    Masaru Kitsuregawa, U. Tokyo
Michael Carey, U. Wisconsin          Sham Navathe, Georgia Tech.
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA             Napthali Rishe, Florida Int'l. U.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara  Hank Korth, MITL
Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden          Ravi Krishnamurthy, HP Labs
David Bell, U. Dublin                P.-A. (Paul) Larson, U. Waterloo
Bjorn Bergsten, Bull Research Lab    Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden
Elisa Bertino, U. Genova             Hongjun Lu, Nat'l. U. Singapore
Alex Buchmann, U. Darmstadt          Keith Marzullo, Cornell
Stefano Ceri, Politechnico di Milano John McPherson, IBM Almaden
Umeshwar Dayal, DEC CRL              Richard Muntz, UCLA
David DeWitt, U. Wisconsin           Marguerite Murphy, San Francisco State
Daniel Dias, IBM T.J. Watson         Marie-Anne Neimat, HP Labs.
Dan Duchamp, Columbia                Eric Neuhold, GMD
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue             Shojiro Nishio, Osaka U.
Christos Faloutsos, U. Maryland      Krithi Ramamritham, U. Mass.
Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford       Donovan Schneider, HP Labs.
Georges Gardarin, U. Paris 6         Pat Selinger, IBM Almaden
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, USC         Timos Sellis, U. Maryland
Theo Haerder, U. Kaiserslautern      Amit Sheth, Bellcore
Maurice Houtsma, U. Twente           Liuba Shrira, MIT
Mei Hsu, DEC Mountain View           Avi Silberschatz, U. Texas
H.V. Jagadish, AT&T Bell Labs.       Eric Simon, INRIA
Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto U.          Gerard Weikum, ETH Zurich
Martin Kersten, CWI

TUTORIAL CHAIR                       PUBLICITY CHAIR
Goetz Graefe, U. Colorado            Anupam Bhide, IBM T.J. Watson

PANEL CHAIR                          LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Paula Hawthorn, HP Labs              Geoff Meyer, NCR San Diego

EUROPEAN COORDINATOR                 TREASURER
Kam-Fai Wong, ECRC                   Geoff Meyer, NCR San Diego

ASIAN COORDINATOR                    REGISTRATION
Yasushi Kiyoki, U. Tsukuba           Rick Stellwagen, NCR San Diego

INDUSTRIAL COORDINATORS
Masaru Kitsuregawa, U. Tokyo
David Reiner, Kendall Square Research