CALL FOR PAPERS of the
10th International Conference on
SCIENTIFIC and STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT
(10th SSDBM)
(See also http://www.iasi.rm.cnr.it/conferences/SSDBM98/ )
Capri, Italy - July 1-3, 1998
Organizer: Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica
Italian National Research Council
The 10th International SSDBM Conference will take place in Capri, in
July 1-3, 1998. This International Conference will bring together
database researchers, practitioners, and developers, as well as domain
scientists from multiple scientific disciplines, for the presentation
and exchange of current research and on concepts, tools, and techniques
for scientific and statistical database applications.
The 10th SSDBM will provide a forum for original research contributions
and practical system design, implementation, and evaluation. The
conference will also feature keynote talks, panel sessions, and
demonstrations 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 the
drawing-room of the world: Capri.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
System Architectures, Modeling and Semantics, Process Models, Query
Languages and User Interfaces, Data Visualization, Metadata Management,
Physical Organization, Data Compression, Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining, Uncertainty Management, Data Integration, Multi-media Data,
Probabilistic DB, Privacy/Security, Distributed SDB, Data
Warehouse,Temporal Data, Spatial Data, Collaborative Work, Experiment
Management, Tertiary Storage.
Of particular interest are results that address issues arising in
providing DB support to specific statistical applications or scientific
disciplines, such as the following:
Biological Sciences, Biostatistics, Census DBs, Chemistry, Decision
Support, Earth and Space Sciences, Economics and Finance, Engineering,
Enterprice Analysis, Environmental Risks, Geography, Medicine, On-Line
Analytical Processing, Physics, Pollution, Social Sciences.
The 10th SSDBM invites two separate types of papers:
1. Research Papers. They will describe the most recent and important
advances in Scientific and Statistical DBs.
Theoretical papers 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 scientific or
statistical database systems. System papers should describe either
complete working systems which are being tested by domain scientists or
specialized techniques which can significantly increase the power of
actual scientific and statistical database systems.
2. Experience/Challenge Papers. They will describe actual prototype
implementations, pose problems which current technology cannot handle
well, or identify important industrial trends which could affect the
future research directions. They 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 at the top of the first page
by the appropriate category for which they are intended. The Program
Committee will decide , at its discretion, the class (full or short
paper) in which to put the accepted research papers, as well as to
switch papers that are deemed more appropriate for the other category
(Research to Experience/Challenge or vice versa). In addition, the 10th
SSDBM invites proposals for panels, as well as prototypes for
demonstration at the Conference.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
PAPERS should be up 20 pages long, 2-spaced, in font size at least 10
(8,000 words) and submitted in five copies. PANEL PROPOSALS should be at
most 2 pages long and should at least include a tentative list of
panellists. 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 or in hard-copies
to the Program Chairman.
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IMPORTANT DATES
DATE MILESTONE
January 12, 1998 Deadline for submission of papers
March 31, 1998 Notification of acceptance/rejection
May 1, 1998 Deadline for having final papers at the
publisher
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ORGANIZATION
Steering Committee:
Arie Shoshani (USA, Chair)
Hans Hinterberger (Switzerland)
James C. French (USA)
Per Svensson (Sweden)
Yannis Ioannidis (Greece)
General Chairman
Maurizio Rafanelli
IASI - CNR
viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Roma, Italy
Phone: +39.6.77161 - Fax: +39.6.771 6461
e-mail: rafanelli at iasi.rm.cnr.it
Program Chairman
Matthias Jarke
Informatik V, RWTH Aachen
52056 Aachen, Germany
Phone: +49.241.802 1500 - Fax: +49.241.888 8321
e-mail: jarke at informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
Organization Secretariat / Technical Support
Mary Carbone, Armanda Filacchioni
Antonia Bezenchek, Angelo Maliziola, Sergio Medici
Local Arrangment
P. De Gennaro
Hotel La Residenza, Capri
Phone:+39.81.8370833 - Fax:+39.6.8377564 - Telex: 720075 SADHOTEL
e-mail: Laresidenza at capri.it
Internet: http://caprionline.com/laresidenza
