by VLDB'94
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
VERY LARGE DATA BASES
September 12-15, 1994
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel
Santiago, CHILE
Welcome to Santiago! A distinguished history of twenty years has
established VLDB at the center of the international data base community.
It is one of the oldest established forums of discussion in the
international database community and, without doubt, one of the most
eminent.
VLDB'94 is to take place in Santiago, Chile, a hospitable modern capital
city landmarked by the Mapocho river and the impressive heights of the
Andes mountains.
Like its predecessors, VLDB'94 will bring together researchers,
developers and users of database management systems from academia and
industry to share information and explore recent developments and future
directions in the field of database management.
This year's conference features research papers, industrial cases and a
number of tutorials offered by leading researchers in the field.
Plan now to attend this exciting event!
Location. Santiago, the capital city of Chile, is the largest
metropolitan area in the country, with over five million inhabitants. It
is the political, administrative, business and financial center of the
country. Located in a valley at the feet of the Andes mountains, it
is only 100 kilometers away from the sea, and just 50 kilometers from
ski centers. Santiago is a city that combines modern architecture with
landmarks dating from Colonial times.
The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel, a
modern hotel located in downtown Santiago. Many attractions are within
walking distance, and the hotel is located very close to a Metro station.
The Metro (underground) is fast, clean and safe, and it is a convenient
way to reach the shopping and restaurant district of Providencia, where
the other conference hotels are located.
Conference Program
Monday September 12
09:00-10:30 Registration
10:00-10:45 Opening Ceremony
Sr. Jaime Ravinet, Alcalde de Santiago
Sr. Alvaro Garcia, Ministro de Economia
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30
Heterogeneous and Federated Databases (Stream 1)
Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks,
Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton - USA
Providing Dynamic Security Control in a Federated Database, N.B.
Idris, W.A. Gray and R.F. Churchhouse - UK
An approach for Building Secure Database Federations, Dirk Jonscher
and Klaus R. Dittrich - Switzerland
Issues on Architectures (Stream 2)
Optimization Algorithms for Exploiting the Parallelism-Communication
Tradeoff in Pipelined Parallelism, Waqar Hasan and Rajeev Motwani -
USA
Dali: A High Performance Main Memory Storage Manager, H.V. Jagadish,
Daniel Lieuwen, Rajeev Rastogi, Avi Silberschatz and S. Sudarshan -
USA
Some Issues in Design of Distributed Deductive Databases, Mukesh K.
Mohania and N.L. Sarda - India
Tutorial 1/1 (Stream 3)
Geographical Information Systems, Claudia Medeiros - Brazil
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30
Performance and Optimization (Stream 1)
Towards Automated Performance Tuning for Complex Workloads, Kurt P.
Brown, Manish Mehta , Michael Carey and Miron Livny - USA
Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection - Why Use Transformations?,
Cesar Galindo-Legaria, Arjan Pellenkoft and Martin Kersten -
Netherlands
Query Optimization by Predicate Move-Around, Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal
Singh Mumick and Yehoshua Sagiv - USA
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Object Oriented Databases (Stream 2)
Supporting Exceptions to Schema Consistency to Ease Schema Evolution
in OODBMS, Eric Amiel, Maria-Jo Bellosta, Eric Dujardin and Eric Simon
-France
Bulk Loading into an OODB: A Performance Study, Janet L. Wiener and
Jeffrey F. Naughton - USA
NAOS - Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object
Oriented Database System, C. Collet, T. Coupaye and T. Svensen -
France
Tutorial 1/2 (Stream 3)
Geographical Information Systems, Claudia Medeiros - Brazil
15:30-16:30 Break
16:00-17:30
Spatial Databases (Stream 1)
Efficient and Effective Clustering Methods for Spatial Data Mining,
Raymond R. Ng and Jiawei Han - Canada
Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations, Erik G. Hoel and
Hanan Samet - USA
The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems, Thomas
Brinkhoff and Hans-Peter Kriegel - Germany
Indexing (Stream 2)
Indexing Multiple Sets, Christoph Kilger and Guido Moerkotte - Germany
Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval, Eric W.
Brown, James P. Callan and W. Bruce Croft - USA
The hcC-tree: An Efficient Index Structure for Object Oriented
Databases, B. Sreenath and S. Seshadri - India
Panel 1 (Stream 3)
User Interfaces
17:45-18:30 Invited Speaker: Herve Gallaire (to be confirmed)
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Tuesday September 13
09:00-10:30
Transaction Management (Stream 1)
A Transaction Replication Scheme for a Replicated Database with Node
Autonomy, Ada Wai-chee Fu and David Wai-Lok Cheung - Hong Kong
A Top-Down Approach for Two Level Serializability, M. Ouzzani, M.A.
Atroun and N.I. Belkhodja - Algerie
New Concurrency Control Algorithms for Accessing and Compacting
B-Trees, V.W. Setzer and A. Zisman - Brazil
Object Oriented Databases (Stream 2)
OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database, N.
Gehani, H.V. Jagadish and W.D. Roome - USA
Implementing Lazy Database Updates for an Object Database System,
Fabrizio Ferrandina, Thorsten Meyer and Roberto Zicari - Germany
Access to Objects by Path Expressions and Rules, Juergen Frohn, Georg
Lausen and Heinz Uphoff -Germany
Tutorial 2/1 (Stream 3)
Persistent Programming Systems: The Future of Databases?, Ron
Morrison & Malcolm Atkinson - UK
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30
Modelling and Querying (Stream 1)
Towards Event Modelling for Database Design, M. Teisseira, P. Poncelet
and R. Ciechetti - France
GraphDB: Modelling and Querying Graphs in Databases, Ralf Hartmut
Guting - Germany
Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences, Terry
Gaasterland and Jorge Lobo - USA
Storage Management (Stream 2)
V-Tree - A Storage Method for Long Vector Data, Mauricio R. Mediano,
Marco Casanova and Marcelo Dreux - Brazil
On Index Selection Schemes for Nested Object Hierarchies, Sudarshan S.
Chawathe, Ming-Syan Chen and Philip S. Yu - USA
RP*: A Family of Order-Preserving Scalable Distributed Data
Structures, W. Litwin, M-A Neimat and D. Schneider - USA
Tutorial 2/2 (Stream 3)
Persistent Programming Systems: The Future of Databases?, Ron
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Morrison & Malcolm Atkinson - UK
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30
Query Processing (Stream 1)
Including Group-By in Query Optimization, Surajit Chaudhuri and
Kyuseok Shim - USA
The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence, Odysseas G.
Tsatalos, Marvin H. Solomon and Yannis E. Ioannidis - USA
Memory-Contention Responsive Hash Joins, Diane L. Davison and Goetz
Graefe - USA
Database Programming Languages (Stream 2)
Database Graph Views: A Practical Model to Manage Persistent Graphs,
Alejandro Gutierrez, Philippe Pucheral, Hermann Steffen and Jean-Marc
Thevenin - France
Persistent Threads, Florian Matthes and Joachim W. Schmidt - Germany
Investigation of Query Optimisation Techniques for Database
Programming Languages, Alexandra Poulovassilis and Carol Small - UK
Tutorial 3/1 (Stream 3)
Parallelism in Database Systems, Jim Gray - USA
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30
Buffering (Stream 1)
Dual-Buffering Strategies in Object Bases, Alfons Kemper and Donald
Kossmann
2Q: A low overhead high performance buffer management replacement
algorithm, Theodore Johnson and Dennis Shasha - USA
Maximizing Buffer and Disk Utilizations for News On-Demand, Raymond T.
Ng and Jinhai Yang - Canada
Panel 2 (Stream 2)
Scientific Databases
Tutorial 3/2 (Stream 3)
Parallelism in Database Systems, Jim Gray - USA
17:45-18:30 Invited Speaker: Alice Muntz (to be confirmed)
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Wednesday September 14
09:00-10:30
Deduction and Rules (Stream 1)
An Effective Deductive Object-Oriented Database Through Language
Integration, Maria L. Barja, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A.A. Fernandes,
M. Howard Williams and Andrew Dinn - UK
An Algebraic Approach to Rule Analysis in Expert Database Systems,
Elena Baralis and Jennifer Widom - USA
Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases,
Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant - USA
Posters Session 1 (Stream 2)
Tutorial 4/1 (Stream 3)
Interoperability and Database Networking, Amit Shet & Dennis McLeod
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30
Implementation Issues (Stream 1)
Hilbert R-tree: An Improved R-tree using fractals, Ibrahhim Kamel and
Christos Faloutsos - USA
Cache Conscious Algorithms for Relational Query Processing, Ambuj
Shatdal, Chander Kant and Jeffrey F. Naughton - USA
Join Index Hierarchies for Supporting Efficient Navigations in
Object-Oriented Databases, Zhaohui Xie and Jiawei Han - Canada
Panel 3 (Stream 2)
Databases on PCs
Tutorial 4/2 (Stream 3)
Interoperability and Database Networking, Amit Shet & Dennis McLeod
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