First Announcement and Call for Papers

Third East-European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'99

In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter and Slovenian Society Informatika

Aims and Scope

The Conference continues the series of ADBIS events held in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Poznan. ACM SIGMOD will actively support the organization of the Conference and warrant the high quality of the program. The organizers have the ambition to make the ADBIS Conference the premier database and information systems conference in Central & Eastern Europe, to increase interaction and collaboration between researchers from East and West and to provide an internationally recognized forum for the presentation of research and experiences.

The conference will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks, tutorials and panels given by leading experts. The official language of the conference will be English.

Topics

• data models and database design
• database performance, query processing and optimization
• storage management
• data warehousing and warehouse DBMS
• data mining, knowledge discovery and knowledge bases
• IS and knowledge management
• semistructured data systems
• deductive and object-oriented databases
• active databases
• engineering and scientific databases
• multimedia information systems
• temporal and spatial databases
• real-time database systems
• database authorization and security
• interfaces to databases and information systems
• activity modeling, advanced transaction, and workflow management
• interoperable, heterogeneous environments and systems
• component-based information systems development
• large area information systems on the Internet (based on WWW, CORBA, Java technologies)
• parallel and distributed databases
• mobile computing and databases
• medical informatics
• intelligent agents.

Submission

• full research papers,
• short papers,
• proposals for panel discussions and tutorials.

Student Information

The best student papers will be awarded. Students who are prepared to assist the organizing committee either before or during the conference will be exempt from paying the participation fee.

Submission Process and Revisions

The authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in a device-independent PostScript format following the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions (ADSC - see http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/5001.DSC_Spec_v2.1.pdf), page size: A4, by e-mail to: adbis@uni-mb.si.

In addition, a separate e-mail message in ASCII format should be sent containing:
a) the title of the paper,
b) the area(s) of the paper (see topics),
c) name and affiliation of the author(s),
d) complete contact address (e-mail, fax and telephone),
e) the abstract,
f) the list of keywords.

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the Conference and printed in the proceedings available at the Conference.

The proceedings containing the full research papers and selected short papers will be published in the series 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' by Springer-Verlag. The final versions of the papers should be formatted according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Short papers will be published in additional proceedings by the University of Maribor.

Authors of outstanding papers will be invited after the conference to submit an expanded and updated version of their paper for possible publication in a special section of a forthcoming issue of the journal "Information Systems". These papers will of course be subject to additional reviewing.

Panel and Tutorial Proposal

Panel proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of 3-4 panelists who have made a commitment to participate. A mix of industry and academic panel members is recommended. Tutorial proposals should also include a 1-2 page summary. The proposals should be submitted by e-mail. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.

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