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* NEW DATES FOR THE SSDBM CONFERENCE! *
* MOVED TO 8/11-13/97 *
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* AVOIDS CONFLICT WITH THE KDD CONFERENCE *
* (KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND DATAMINING) *
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* SSDBM NOW IMMEDIATELY PRECEDES KDD *
* FACILITATING THE ATTENDANCE OF BOTH *
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* SSDBM SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING *
* FEBRUARY 7, 1997 *
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F I N A L
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Ninth International Conference on
Scientific and Statistical Database Management
The Evergreen State College campus
Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.
August 11-13, 1997
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~yannis/ssdbm.html
CONTENTS
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The 9th International SSDBM Conference will bring together database
researchers, practitioners, and developers, as well as domain scien-
tists from multiple scientific disciplines to explore new concepts,
tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applica-
tions. It will provide a forum for original research contributions as
well as practical system design, implementation, and evaluation. The
conference will feature keynote talks, panel sessions, and demonstra-
tions of research prototypes and industrial systems. It will continue
the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in providing a stimulating
environment to encourage discussion and the exchange of ideas in a
quiet setting.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Scientific DBs Statistical DBs
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System Architectures System Architectures
Data/Process Models Data Models
User Interfaces User Interfaces
Data Visualization Data Visualization
Query Processing Query Processing
Data Compression Data Compression
Tertiary Storage Tertiary Storage
Data Mining Data Mining
Metadata Management Metadata Management
Uncertainty Management Knowledge-based Methods
Collaborative Work Data Cube Operations
Data Integration View Materialization
Multi-media Data
Temporal/Spatial Data
Experiment Management
Of particular interest are results that address issues arising in pro-
viding database support to specific scientific disciplines or statist-
ical application areas, such as those below:
Scientific Disciplines Statistical Application Areas
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Biological Sciences Biostatistics
Chemistry Census Databases
Earth and Space Sciences Decision Support
Engineering Economics and Finance
Geography Enterprise Analysis
Medicine Environmental Epidemiology
Physics On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Social Sciences
To increase the synergy between database researchers and domain scien-
tists, SSDBM-97 invites two separate types of papers.
(1) RESEARCH PAPERS, which describe recent important advances in sta-
tistical and/or scientific databases. Theoretical papers in this
category should include a solid motivation for why the specific
results are important to domain scientists and how they are going
to influence the development of statistical or scientific data-
base systems. Systems papers in this category should describe
either complete working systems that are being tested by domain
scientists or specialized techniques that can significantly
enhance the power of actual statistical or scientific database
systems.
(2) EXPERIENCE/CHALLENGE PAPERS, which describe actual prototype or
product implementations, pose problems that current technology
cannot handle well, or identify important industrial trends that
could affect the future research directions in the field. Papers
in this category should be based on real-life experiences and
should clearly place their contribution in the context of the
current state of the art and relevant literature.
Submitted papers should be clearly marked on the front page by the
appropriate category for which they are intended. The Program Commit-
tee may, at its discretion, switch papers that are deemed more
appropriate for the other category.
In addition to papers, SSDBM-97 invites proposals for panels, as well
as prototypes for demonstration at the conference.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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PAPERS should be up to 20 pages long, 2-spaced, in font size at least
10 (8000 words).
PANEL PROPOSALS should be at most 2 pages long and should include at
least a tentative list of panelists.
DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS should be at most 2 pages long and should
specify the kind of hardware required.
All papers and proposals should be sent electronically (in POSTSCRIPT)
or in hard-copy form (6 copies) to the program chair at the addresses
below.
IMPORTANT DATES
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February 7, 1997 Deadline for submission of papers
April 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 31, 1997 Deadline for having final papers at the publisher
ORGANIZATION
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Steering Committee
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Arie Shoshani (USA, Chair)
Hans Hinterberger (Switzerland)
Jim C. French (USA)
Per Svensson (Sweden)
General Chair
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David Maier
Oregon Graduate Institute
PO Box 91000
Portland, OR 97291-1000, USA
phone: +1 (503) 690-1154
fax: +1 (503) 690-1553
email: maier at cse.ogi.edu
Program Chair
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Yannis Ioannidis
Computer Sciences Department
1210 W. Dayton St.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706, USA
phone: +1 (608) 263-7764
fax: +1 (608) 262-9777
email: yannis at cs.wisc.edu
Program Committee
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Tony Bonner (University of Toronto, Canada)
Tiziana Catarci (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research, USA)
Martin David (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Jeff Dozier (University of California - Santa Barbara, USA)
Jim French (University of Virginia - Charlottesville, USA)
Bob Grossman (University of Illinois - Chicago, USA)
Oliver Guenther (Humboldt University, Germany)
Nabil Hachem (Worcester Polytechnic University, USA)
Hans Hinterberger (ETH, Switzerland)
Yannis Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH - Aachen, Germany)
Epaminondas Kapetanios (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
John Klensin (MCI Telecommunications, USA)
Peter Lewis (University of Wales, UK)
Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA)
Francesco Malvestuto (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Victor Markowitz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Doron Rotem (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
C. V. Ravishankar (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA)
Duri Schmidt (Union Bank, Switzerland)
Bo Sundgren (Statistics Sweden, Sweden)
Per Svensson (National Defence Research Establishment, Sweden)
X. Sean Wang (George Mason University, USA)
Andrew Westlake (Survey & Statistical Computing, UK)
Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign, USA)
Maria Zemankova (National Science Foundation, USA)
Local Arrangements
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Judy Cushing
Member of the Faculty (Computer Science)
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505, USA
phone: +1 (360) 866-6000 x-6652
fax: +1 (360) 866-6794
email: judyc at elwha.evergreen.edu
Proceedings Editor
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David M. Hansen
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
P.O. Box 999 MSIN K7-22
Richland, WA 99352-0999, USA
phone: +1 (509) 375-2362
fax: +1 (509) 375-3641
email: dm_hansen at pnl.gov
VENUE
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At the end of the Oregon Trail and the southern tip of Puget Sound
(Budd Inlet) lies Olympia, Washington, and The Evergreen State Col-
lege. Within 60 miles lie the Pacific Ocean, the Olympic Rain Forest,
the highest mountain in the contiguous United States (Mount Rainier),
and hundreds of miles of premier hiking trails in the Olympics and
Cascades, and Seattle. 100 miles to the south is Portland, the Colum-
bia River, Mt. St. Helens (the most recent active volcano in the
U.S.), and more mountain trails and ocean beaches. Within 100 miles to
the north, accessible by ferry, is Victoria, British Columbia. Though
yearly rainfall can top 60 inches (120 in the rain forest), August is
one of two drought months -- and is typically rain-free.
Olympia offers the state capital (a replica of the 'other'
Washington's capital building) and Gardens, the second largest farm-
ers' market in Washington State, boating, salt and freshwater fishing,
clam digging (including Evergreen's mascot - the geoduck), fresh
oysters (Olympia oysters!), excellent golf courses and tennis courts,
and five miles from the center of town, The Evergreen State College.
Founded in 1972 as the state's four-year liberal arts college, Ever-
green has a national reputation as an innovator in interdisciplinary
education and science and arts education. The campus is a 1,000 acre
ecological study area, with 1300-feet of frontage on Puget Sound.
Conference participants will be welcome on the College's beach and at
the 'Rec' Center, which boasts an 11-lane swimming pool, raquetball
and tennis courts, and other facilities.
Affordable housing will be available on campus in new housing facili-
ties in carpeted double and single rooms with semi-private bathrooms
and kitchen and laundry facilities nearby. Rooms downtown at Olympia's
Governor House are available at a special conference rate, and a shut-
tle will run several times daily between the hotel and the campus.
