First Call for Papers - ICDT97

6th International Conference on

Database Theory

Delphi, Greece, January 8-10, 1997

The Sixth International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT '97) will take place in Delphi, Greece, on January 8-10, 1997. ICDT is a biannual international conference on theoretical aspects of databases and a forum for communicating research advances on the principles of database systems. Previous ICDT conferences were held in Rome (1986), Bruges (1988), Paris (1990), Berlin (1992), and Prague (1995). Since 1992, ICDT has been merged with the Symposioum on Mathematical Fundamentals of Database Systems (MFDBS), another series of conferencces on theoretical aspects of database sytems that was initiated in Dresden (1987), and continued in Visegrad (1989) and Rostock (1991).

Topics of interest: ICDT aims to attract papers of high quality, describing original ideas and new results on theoretical aspects of all forms of databases. Major themes to be covered include, but are not limited to:


active database systems          complex objects                          complexity and optimization 
concurrency control and recovery data models and design theory            data structures and algorithms for databases
database programming languages   datalog analysis                         deductive databases 
dependencies and constrains      distributed and heterogeneous databases  fundamentals of security and privacy
incomplete information           multimedia information systems           nonmonotonic reasoning 
object-oriented databases        query evaluation and optimization        query languages 
transaction management           updates    

Submissions: Authors are invited to submit 8 copies of a full conference paper (which might be an extended abstract where proofs are only sketched) of at most 5000 words (10 typed pages in no less than 11-point font) before June 1, 1996, to one of the program co-chairs:

Program co-chair:

                  Foto Afrati                              Phokion Kolaitis
                  Computer Science Division                Computer and Information Sciences
                  National Technical University of Athens  University of California
                  Heroon Polytechniou 9,157 73 Zographou   Santa Cruz, CA 95064
                  Athens, Greece                           USA
                  Tel: +30-1-772-2498                      Tel: +1-408-459-4768 
                  Fax: +30-1-772-2459                      Fax: +1-408-459-4829
                  afrati@softlab.ece.ntua.gr               kolaitis@cse.ucsc.edu

The cover page of each paper should contain the address, e-mail, fax and phone numbers of the contacting author as well as a short abstract. The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the conference. As in the past, it is planned that the proceedings of ICDT'97 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available at the conference.

Program Committee:

 F.Afrati (Greece)        M.Cadoli (Italy)              S.Chaudhuri (USA)           S.Cluet (France)  
 T.Eiter (Austria)        C.Faloutsos (USA)             S.Greco (Italy)             M.Gyssens (Belgium)  
 P.Kanellakis (USA)       O.H.G.Katona (Hungary)        P.Kolaitis (USA)            G.Kuper (Germany)
 T.Milo (Israel)          M.Ozsoyoglu (USA)             J.Pokorny (Czech Republic)  V.Sazonov (Russia) 
 H-J.Schek (Switzerland)  E.Soisalon-Soininen (Finland) J.Su (USA) & V.Tannen (USA) D.Van Gucht (USA) 
 V.Vianu (USA)            G.Vossen (Germany)            P.Wolper (Belgium)          J.Zlatuska (Czech Republic) 

Organization co-chair: Foto Afrati, Theodora Varvarigou

Important dates:

                  Deadline for submission:                 May 31, 1996
                  Notification of acceptance or rejection: September 3, 1996
                  Camera-ready papers due:                 October 4, 1996
                  Conference:                              January 8-10, 1997

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