From: rys@inf.ethz.ch (Michael Rys)
Subject: The VLDB Journal: Call for Papers and Announcements
Followup-To: comp.databases
Originator: rys@apelc8.inf.ethz.ch
Organization: Publication Board, The VLDB Journal
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:55:07 GMT




                        THE VLDB JOURNAL
          	 Call for Papers/Announcements



SPECIAL ISSUES

The following special issues are committed and are coordinated by 
invited editors:

 - Deductive    Database    Systems    Prototypes,   Editor:   K.
   Ramamohanarao, Univ. of Melbourne

   March 1, 93        Due date for manuscript
   June 1, 93         Notification of acceptance
   August 1, 93       Due date for final revised version

 - Persistent  Object  Systems,   Editor:   M. Atkinson, Univ. of 
   Glasgow

   June 1, 93         Due date for manuscript
   October 1, 93      Notification of acceptance
   December 1, 93     Due date for final revised version

 - Spatial Database  Systems,  Editor:  R.H.  Gueting,  Fernuniv.
   Hagen

   July 1, 93         Due date for manuscript
   November 1, 93     Notification of acceptance
   January 1, 94      Due date for final revised version

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Issues 2(1)  and 2(2)  are general issues  and have a publication 
date of Jan 1st  resp. Apr 1st 1993. They tentatively include the 
following contributions:

 - P. Yu,  D. Cornell:  Buffer  Management  Based  on  Return  on 
   Consumption in a Multi-Query Environment
 - T. Haerder, K. Rothermel: Concurrency Control Issues in Nested
   Transactions
 - C.S. Jensen, L. Mark, N. Roussopoulos,  T. Sellis:  Using Dif-
   ferential Techniques to Efficiently Support Transaction Time
 - W. Du,  A. Elmagarmid,  W. Kim:  Support Consistent Updates in
   Replicated Multidatabase Systems
 - A. Neufeld, G. Moerkotte, P. Lockemann:  Generating Consistent
   Test  Data  for a  Variable Set  of  General  Consistency Con-
   straints
 - J. Grant:  An Algebra  and Calculus  for Relational Multidata-
   bases
 - V. Storey: Understanding Semantic Relationships
 - J.R. Haritsa, M.J. Carey, M. Livny: Value-Based Scheduling  in
   Real-Time Database Systems
 - G. Weikum, C. Hasse: Multi-Level  Transaction  Management  for
   Complex Objects: Implementation, Performance, Parallelism
 - D. Georgapoulos, Rusinkievicz, Litwin: Chronological  Schedul-
   ing of Transactions with Temporal Dependencies

Issue 2(3) will be a special issue on 

 - Parallelism in Database Systems (Ed. M.J. Carey, University of 
   Wisconsin and P. Valduriez, INRIA)

PAPERS SUBMITTAL INFORMATION

Please contact one of the Editors-in-Chief for  further  informa-
tion and the guidelines for manuscript preparation.

Editors-in-Chief

Fred J. Maryanski                       Hans-J. Schek
(Americas and Asia)                     (Europe, Africa and Oceania)
University of Connecticut               Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology
Storrs, CT 06269-2086, USA		CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
Fax: +1-203-486 6379                    Fax: +41-1-262 3973
E-Mail: fred@provost.vpa.uconn.edu      E-Mail: schek@inf.ethz.ch

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