****************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N ****************************************************************** Second East-European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems - ADBIS'98 ======================================================== Poznan (Poland), September 7-10, 1998 http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/adbis98/ ****************************************************************** Sponsored by the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) Poland In cooperation with the: ACM SIGMOD, ACM Chapter Poland, Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter, Polish Information Processing Society. -------------- Aims and Scope -------------- The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of scientific achievements between the research communities of Eastern Europe and the rest of the world in the area of databases and information systems. The Symposium continues the series of ADBIS events organized by the Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter and held in Moscow and St. Petersburg. ACM SIGMOD will actively support the organization of the Symposia and warrant the high quality of the program. The organizers have the ambition to make the ADBIS Symposium the premier database and information systems conference in Eastern Europe, to increase interaction and collaboration between researchers from East and West and to provide an internationally recognized tribune for the presentation of research. ------ Topics ------ The ADBIS'98 Symposium focuses on emerging and innovative approaches through which advanced information systems (IS) and system-level functions can be developed within the distinct frameworks. New large- and middle-scaled IS components, their performance issues, their reliability, their architectures and applications, and progress in their design, implementation and deployment technologies will continue to be emphasized. Additionally, the symposium addresses to the uprising subjects and topics. Among these are the emerging theories, computational principles, technologies and architectures within which novel principles and techniques can be developed and applied to address practical issues for large- and middle-scaled information systems, such as integrity constraints, consistency, performance, object management, interoperability, cooperative systems, transaction management, distributed computations, client-server systems, etc. The conference program includes paper presentations in the following fields: - Query Languages, - Query Optimization, - Collaborative Systems, - Schema Integration, - Storage Management, - Version Management, - Object Systems, - Knowledge Discovery, - The World Wide Web, - System Design. ****************************************************************** O R G A N I Z A T I O N ****************************************************************** ------------- General Chair ------------- Tadeusz Morzy (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) --------------------------- Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Witold Litwin (University Paris 9 Dauphine, France) Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany) ---------------------- Industrial Track Chair ---------------------- Witold Staniszkis (Rodan-System, Poland) ------------------ ACM SIGMOD Advisor ------------------ Marek Rusinkiewicz (MCC, USA) -------------------- European Coordinator -------------------- Johann Eder (University of Klagenfurt, Austria) ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Divyakant Agrawal (UC Santa Barbara, USA) Suad Alagic (Wichita State University, USA) Yuri Breitbart (Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories, USA) Jerzy Brzezinski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Omran Bukhres (Purdue University, USA) Wojciech Cellary (University of Economics at Poznan, Poland) Jan Chomicki (Monmouth University, USA) Bogdan Czejdo (Loyola University, USA) Janis Grundspenkis (Riga Technical University, Latvia) Remigijus Gustas (University of Karlstad, Sweden) Abdelsalam Helal (MCC, USA) Leonid Kalinichenko (Institute for Problems of Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Wolfgang Klas (University of Ulm, Germany) Mikhail Kogalovsky (Market Economy Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Ralf Kramer (Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Germany) Sergey Kuznetsov (Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Pericles Loucopoulos (UMIST, United Kingdom) Florian Matthes (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece) Rainer Manthey (University of Bonn, Germany) Guido Moerkotte (Lehrstuhl fuer Praktische Informatik III, University of Mannheim, Germany) Pavol Navrat (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia) Nikolaj Nikitchenko (Kiev Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine) Boris Novikov (University of St.-Petersburg, Russia) Priit Parmakson (Concordia International University, Estonia) Alain Pirotte (University of Louvain, Belgium) Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) Tore Risch (Linkoping University, Sweden) Colette Rolland (University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France) Silvio Salza (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) Michel Scholl (CNAM and INRIA, France) Julius Stuller (Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) Kazimierz Subieta (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Bernhard Thalheim (TU Cottbus, Germany) Benkt Wangler (Stockholm University/KTH, Sweden) Tatjana Welzer (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Viacheslav Wolfengagen (JurInfoR-MSU Institute for Contemporary Education, Russia) Alexandre Zamulin (Institute of Informatics Systems, Russia) -------------------------- Steering Committee Members -------------------------- Radu Bercaru (Romania) Albertas Caplinskas (Lithuania) Janis Eiduks (Latvia) Hele-Mai Haav (Estonia) Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia) (Chair of Steering Committee) Mikhail Kogalovsky (Russia) Tadeusz Morzy (Poland) Pavol Navrat (Slovakia) Boris Novikov (Russia) Jaroslav Pokorny (Czech Republic) Anatoly Stogny (Ukraine) Tatjana Welzer (Slovenia) Viacheslav Wolfengagen (Russia) --------------------------------- Local Organizing Committee Chairs --------------------------------- Piotr Krzyzagorski Robert Wrembel E-mail: adbis98@cs.put.poznan.pl Phone: (48) (61) 878 23 78 (48) (61) 878 25 29 Fax: (48) (61) 877 15 25 Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology ul. Piotrowo 3A PL-60-965 Poznan POLAND ****************************************************************** P R O G R A M ****************************************************************** ------------------- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 ------------------- 8:30-10:00 Tutorial 1: Recent Progress in Data Integration Daniela Florescu (INRIA Rocquencourt), Alon Levy (University of Washington) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Continuation of Tutorial 1 12:00-12:30 Coffee Break 12:30-14:00 Continuation of Tutorial 1 14:00-15:30 Lunch Break 15:30-17:00 Tutorial 2: Managing Multimedia Information in a Database Environment William I. Grosky (Wayne State University) 17:00-17:30 Coffee Break 17:30-19:00 Continuation of Tutorial 2 -------------------- TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 -------------------- 9:00-9:30 Opening Session 9:30-10:30 Keynote Talk: Association rules... and what's next? Towards Second Generation Data Mining Systems Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Session 1: Query Languages Untyped Queries, Untyped Reflective Machines and Conditional Quantifiers Jose Maria Turull Torres Containment of Conjunctive Queries with Built-in Predicates with Variables and Constants over any Ordered Domain Nieves R. Brisaboa, Hector J. Hernandez, Jose R. Parama, Miguel R. Penabad Using Queries with Multi-Directional Functions for Numerical Database Applications Staffan Flodin, Kjell Orsborn, Tore Risch 12:30-14:30 Lunch Break 14:30-16:00 Session 2: Optimization Multiple Range Query Optimization in Spatial Databases Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos Optimizing Command Logs by Exploiting Semantic Knowledge Roland Baumann A Distributed Algorithm for Global Query Optimization in Multidatabase Systems Silvio Salza, Giovanni Barone, Tadeusz Morzy 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:00 Session 3: Collaborative Systems Transaction Management in Databases Supporting Collaborative Applications Waldemar Wieczerzycki Object-Oriented Design of a Flexible Workflow Management System Mathias Weske Extending Transaction Closures by N-ary Termination Dependencies Kerstin Schwarz, Can Tuerker, Gunter Saake 19:30 Reception ---------------------- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 ---------------------- 9:00-10:00 Invited Talk: Workflow Management in the Internet Age C. Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:30 Session 4: East Meets West Distributed Information Systems Ralf Kramer, Peter C. Lockemann Integrated Web - Database Applications for Electronic Business Wojciech Cellary Term Weighting in Query-Based Document Clustering Kai Korpimies, Esko Ukkonen Discovery of Object-Oriented Schema and Schema Conflicts Hele-Mai Haav, Mihhail Matskin On the Ordering of Rewrite Rules Joachim Kroeger, Stefan Paul, Andreas Heuer Towards Data and Object Modelling Jaroslav Pokorny 12:30-14:30 Lunch Break 14:30-16:00 Session 5: Schema Integration Propagation of Structural Modifications to an Integrated Schema Regina Motz Integration of Schemas Containing Data Versions and Time Components Maciej Matysiak, Tadeusz Morzy, Bogdan Czejdo Deriving Relationships between Integrity Constraints for Schema Comparison Can Tuerker, Gunter Saake 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:00 Session 6: Storage and Version Management A Database Interface Integrating a Querying Language for Versions Eric Andonoff, Gilles Hubert, Annig Le Parc The nP-Tree: Region Partitioning and Indexing for Efficient Path Planning Lusiana Nawawi, Janusz R. Getta, Phillip J. McKerrow Replication in Mirrored Disk Systems Athena Vakali, Yannis Manolopoulos 19:30 Choir Concert ---------------------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 ---------------------- 9:00-10:30 Session 7: Object Systems Clustering Techniques for Minimizing Object Access Time Vlad S. Wietrzyk , Mehmet A. Orgun Designing Persistence for Real-Time Distributed Object Systems Igor Nekrestyanov, Boris Novikov, Ekaterina Pavlova Partial Replication of Object-Oriented Databases Michael Dobrovnik, Johann Eder 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-13:00 Session 8: Knowledge Discovery and the Web Optimizing Knowledge Discovery over the WWW Matthew Montebello Data Mining Query Language for Object-0riented Database Vladimir Novacek Itemset Materializing for Fast Mining of Association Rules Marek Wojciechowski, Maciej Zakrzewicz Schema Derivation for WWW Information Sources and their Integration with Databases in Bioinformatics Michael Hoeding, Ralf Hofestaedt, Gunter Saake, Uwe Scholz 13:00-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-16:30 Session 9: System Design Component-based Information Systems Development Tool Supporting the SYNTHESIS Design Method Dmitry O. Briukhov, Leonid A. Kalinichenko Translating Relational Queries to Object-Oriented Queries According to ODMG-93 Ahmed Mostefaoui, Jacques Kouloumdjian A Flexible Framework for a Correct Database Design Donatella Castelli, Serena Pisani 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 Session 9: Industrial Track Human Resources Information Systems Improvement: Involving Financial Systems and Other Sources Data Sergey Zykov Physical Structures Design For Relational Databases Janusz Charczuk Modeling of Census Data in a Multidimensional Environment Holger Guenzel, Wolfgang Lehner, Stein Eriksen, Jon Folkedal ****************************************************************** T U T O R I A L I S T S A N D I N V I T E D S P E A K E R S ****************************************************************** Daniela Florescu is a researcher in the Rodin group in INRIA Rocquencourt. She received her B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1991, Masters of Computer Science from University of Paris VI in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from INRIA and the University of Paris VI in 1996. From November 1996 till December 1997 she was a senior member of the technical staff at AT&T Research Laboratories. Her current research interests are information integration, query optimization in object-oriented database systems, query execution models for parallel databases, semistructured data and web-site management systems. Alon Levy is an assistant professor in the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1993. From 1993 to 1997 he was a principal member of the technical staff at AT&T Research Laboratories. His current research interests are information integration, semistructured data, materialized views, web­site management systems, knowledge representation and connections between database systems and Artificial Intelligence. William I. Grosky is currently professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His current research interests are in multimedia information systems, hypermedia, image databases, and web technology. Dr. Grosky received in B.S. in mathematics from MIT in 1965, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1968, and his Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Yale University in 1971. Serving on many database and multimedia conference program committees, he is currently the Editor-in- Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Database Management and Pattern Recognition. Tomasz Imielinski is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University in New Brunswick NJ, USA. He has received his Ph.D. from Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) in 1982. His initial work dealt with the issues of representation and querying of databases with incomplete information. His current interests include database mining and mobile wireless computing. Dr. Imielinski is currently Director of Mobile Computing Laboratory (DataMan) at Rutgers University which is sponsored by DARPA, NSF and a number of companies. Since coauthoring the original paper introducing association rules Dr. Imielinski has been leading the development of "Discovery Board" the experimental data mining system developed at Rutgers University. He has been active in numerous program committees of conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD and Mobicomm and is currently an Associate Editor of ACM/Baltzer Nomad - journal of Wireless and Mobile Communications and Computing, and Knowledge Discovery Journal (Kluwer). He has edited three books, including "Mobile Computing", (T. Imielinski, H.Korth, Kluwer 1996). Dr. Imielinski is a cofounder and chief technology officer of Hevelius Software - a company which develops data mining applications. Dr. C. Mohan, after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras in 1977 and the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, joined the IBM Almaden Research Center. In June 1997, he was named an IBM Fellow for being recognized worldwide as a leading innovator in database transaction management. He received the 1996 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. Since late 1996, he has been leading the Dominotes project whose goal is to enhance Lotus Domino/Notes by introducing transactional recovery. Earlier, he led the Exotica workflow management project which was focused on IBM's FlowMark, MQSeries and Lotus Notes. During 6/98-6/99, he is on a sabbatical at INRIA, Rocquencourt (France). Mohan has received numerous IBM awards: 1 Corporate Award, 7 Outstanding Innovation Awards, 2 Research Division Awards and the 9th Plateau Invention Achievement Award for patent activities (28 issued, 4 pending). He was a designer and an implementor of the R* distributed DBMS, the Starburst extensible DBMS and DB2. His algorithms have been implemented in several IBM and non-IBM products, and university prototypes. He is the primary inventor of the ARIES family of recovery and locking methods, and the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. His research interests include concurrency control, recovery, commit protocols, index management, semi- structured data management, query optimization, active databases, OODBMSs, workflow, and distributed systems. He was the Americas Program Chair for the 1996 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, the Program Chair of the 1987 International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems, and a Program Vice-Chair of the 1994 International Conference on Data Engineering. He is an editor of the VLDB Journal, and Distributed and Parallel Databases - An International Journal. ****************************************************************** C O N F E R E N C E V E N U E ****************************************************************** The ADBIS'98 Conference will be held at: Osrodek Nauki PAN - Center of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences 17/19 Wieniawskiego Street 61-713 Poznan Poland ****************************************************************** A D B I S' 98 R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M ****************************************************************** Please fax, mail or e-mail (pick only one) this registration form to: ADBIS'98 attn. Piotr Krzyzagorski Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology ul. 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Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie 5 60-965 Poznan, Poland ****************************************************************** A D B I S' 98 H O T E L R E S E R V A T I O N F O R M ****************************************************************** Applications for accommodation should be sent by fax or e-mail no later than July 27, 1998 to: ORBIS TRAVEL 82, Górna Wilda Street 61-564 Poznan Poland fax ++ (48) (61) 833.22.11 phone ++ (48) (61) 833.09.41 , 833.18.11 e-mail: orbis.poznandyr@pbp.com.pl attn. Gabriela Braciszewska --------------------------------------------------------------- Mr/Mrs/Ms: First Name (Given Name): Last Name (Family/Surname): Mailing Address: City: Postal Code: Country: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Choice Hotel Room Nb of rooms ------ -------------- -------------------- ----------- [ ] POLONEZ HOTEL single room (42 USD) [ ] [ ] POLONEZ HOTEL double room (71 USD) [ ] [ ] ON PAN HOTEL single room (32 USD) [ ] [ ] ON PAN HOTEL double room (42 USD) [ ] [ ] ON PAN HOTEL suite (72 USD) [ ] [ ] PNCA HOSTEL single room (25 USD) [ ] [ ] PNCA HOSTEL double room (32 USD) [ ] From the above list check your first (1) and second (2) choice. Arrival Date: Time: Departure Date: Time: ------- Remarks ------- 1. The hotels a) HOTEL ORBIS - POLONEZ Aleja Niepodleglosci 36 (36, Niepodleglosci Avenue) tel. (48)(61) 869.91.41 - three star hotel - 10 minutes' walk from the hotel to the conference venue - rooms with WC & bath, TV set, phone, 395 rooms & 12 suits b) ON PAN HOTEL (Osrodek Nauki PAN = Center of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences Hotel) ul. Wieniawskiego 17/19 (17/19 Wieniawskiego Street) tel. (48)(61) 851.68.42 - two star hotel - located in the same building where the conference will be held - rooms with WC & bath, phone, 10 suits, 7 sgl, 8 dbl rooms, bistro, buffet breakfast c) PNCA HOSTEL (Polsko - Niemieckie Centrum Akademickie = Polish - German Academic Center Hostel) ul. Jana Pawla II 28 (28, Jana Pawla II Street) tel. (48)(61) 878.26.28 - 15 dbl rooms with WC & bath, bistro (price without breakfast) - 2 minutes' walk to the tramway stop, then 15 minutes by tramway to get to the conference venue 2. Payment can be made by: a) Bank transfer. b) A credit card in MAIL ORDER mode. The following cards are accepted: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, PolCard, Diners Club, JCB. After sending hotel reservation form one will receive confirmation including further information concerning methods of payment. 3. Reservations will be made on first-come first-serve basis, therefore you are requested to select at least two hotels as your first and second preferences. Room availability and special low prices can only be granted if your reservation is received BEFORE July 27, 1998. Reservations received after July 27, 1998 will be accepted at the standard rate. Since Poznan is a city where many trade fairs take place round the year, we suggest making reservations in advance. ****************************************************************** A D D I T I O N A L I N F O R M A T I O N ****************************************************************** ---------- TRAVELLING ---------- Some possible ways to get to Poznan 1. To Warsaw by air then either from Warsaw to Poznan by air or from Warsaw to Poznan by rail 2. To Berlin by air then from Berlin to Poznan by rail 3. To Duesseldorf by air then to Poznan by air !!!!!!!!!----------------------------!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! AIRPLANE TICKET DISCOUNT !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!----------------------------!!!!!!!!! A discount on airplane tickets for the ADBIS'98 Conference attendees is currently being negotiated with the high quality Polish Airlines LOT. If the discount is approved you will find additional information on the ADBIS'98 homepage: http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/adbis98/ -------- CURRENCY -------- The currency is "zloty" (PLN). Major credit cards are accepted in most hotels and several shops and restaurants. Foreign currency can be exchanged in banks and exchange offices, called "KANTOR". The current exchange rate is approx. 3,5 PLN to 1$. ----- VISAS ----- Visas are not required for visitors from the following countries (as of June 17th, 1998): Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong-Kong, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Macedonia, Malta, Malaysia, Moldavia, Monaco, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Norway, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Ireland, USA, Ukraine, Uruguay, United Kingdom, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan -> business trips - valid passport with "AB" stamp. If some additional documents are required to acquire the visa, please contact the ADBIS'98 Local Organizing Committee: Piotr Krzyzagorski and Robert Wrembel Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology ul. Piotrowo 3A, PL-60-965 Poznan, POLAND E-mail: adbis98@cs.put.poznan.pl Fax: (48) (61) 877 15 25