DASFAA'99 Call for Participation

[Chengwen Liu <chengwen AT ted.cs.depaul.edu>]

From:     Chengwen Liu 
[liu AT cs.depaul.edu]
Subject:  DASFAA'99 Call for Participation

                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                         DASFAA 99

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        6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASE SYSTEMS
                FOR ADVANCED APPLICATIONS (DASFAA)
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                Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., April 19-21, 1999
                
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                http://arbor.ee.ntu.edu.tw/dasfaa99/
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                        ADVANCE PROGRAM
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Sponsored by National Tsing Hua University, R.O.C.
National Science Council of R.O.C.
Ministry of Education of R.O.C.
Information Processing Society of Japan

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                         Important Dates
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        Advance Registration Deadline : March 15, 1999
        Hotel Reservation deadline    : April 3, 1999

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                          About DASFAA
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    This conference provides an international forum for technical
discussion among researchers, developers and users of database
systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses
on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS
technologies, and their advanced applications.

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                        Technical Program
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Sunday, April 18, 1999
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18:3            Reception

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Monday, April 19, 1999
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08:30 - 09:00   Opening/Welcome

09:00 - 10:00   Keynote Speech: Prof. Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University
        Research and Development of Advanced Database Systems for 
        Integration of Media and User Environments

10:00 - 10:30   Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00   Session 1A: WWW

1A.1    Supporting Web-Based Database Application Development
        Quan Xia, Ling Feng, Hongjun Lu
        University of Science & Technology      Hong Kong

1A.2    Adaptive and Incremental Query Expansion for Cluster-based
        Browsing
        Koji Eguchi, Hidetaka Ito, Akira Kumamoto and Yakichi Kanata
        Kansai University       Japan

1A.3    An Interactive Classification of Web Documents by
        Self-Organizing Maps and Search Engines
        Kenji Hatano, Ryouichi Sano, Duan Yiwei, Katsumi Tanaka
        Kobe University         Japan

                Session 1B: Workflow Management and Specfication Language

1B.1    Mining Exception Instances to Facilitate Workflow Exception
        San-Yih Hwang, Jian Tang
        National Sun Yat-Sen University         Taiwan

1B.2    Specifying Complex Process Control Aspects in Workflows
        for Exception Handling
        A.H.M ter Hofstede and A.P. Barros
        Queensland University of Technology     Australia

1B.3    An Approach for Generating Comfortable File Interfaces
        Andreas Ebert,Uwe Hohenstein,Michael Hoeding
        Siemens AG      Germany

12:00 - 13:30   Lunch

13:30 - 15:00   Session 2A: Document Retrieval

2A.1    WebView: A Tool for Retrieving Internal Structures
        and Extracting Information from HTML Documents
        Seung-Jin Lim,Yiu-Kai Ng
        Brigham Young University        U.S.A.

2A.2    Design and Implementation of a Structured Information Retrieval
        System for SGML Documents
        Sung-Geun Han, Jeong-Han Son, Jae-Woo Chang, and Zong-Cheol Zhoo
        Chonbuk National University     South Korea

2A.3    Index Design for Structured Documents by Abstraction
        Jyh-Herng Chow
        IBM Santa Teresa Lab    USA

                Sessioin 2B: Visualization and Multimedia Databases

2B.1    Visualization of Path Expressions in a Virtual Object-Oriented
        Database Query Language
        Jeonghee Kim, Taisook Han, Suk Kyoon Lee
        Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
        South Korea

2B.2    Video Description Model based on Prototype-Instance Model
        Rafael Paulin Carlos, Naoaki Horiuchi, Kuniaki Uehara
        Kobe University         Japan

2B.3    A Fuzzy Object Query Language(FOQL) for Image Databases
        S.Nepal, M.V. Ramakrishna and J.A. Thom
        RMIT University         Australia

15:00 - 15:30   Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00   Session 3A: Mobile Databases

3A.1    Real-Time Transaction Management in Mobile Computing Systems
        Ersan Kayan, Ozgur Ulusoy
        Bilkent University      TURKEY

3A.2    QEM : A Scheduling Method for Wireless Broadcast Data
        Yon Dohn Chung and Myoung Ho Kim
        KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
        Korea

3A.3    An Active Replication Scheme for Mobile Data Management
        Shiow-yang Wu and Yu-tse Chang
        National Dong Hwa University    R. O. C.

                Session 3B: Spatial Databases

3B.1    Spatial Presentation and Aggregation of Geo-Referential Data
        Kengo KOISO
        Kobe University         Japan

3B.2    Early Separation of Filter and Refinement Steps in Spatial
        Query Optimization
        Ho-Hyun Park, Chan-Gun Lee, Yong-Ju Lee, Chin-Wan Chung
        Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
        South Korea

3B.3    Development of Multi-step Filtering Processor
        Miyeon Kim, Sumi Lim, Jangsu Kim
        Multimedia Technology Research Laboratory       Korea

18:30      Banguet

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Tuesday, April 20, 1999
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08:30 - 09:30   Keynote Speech: Dr. Philip S. Yu, IBM
        Data Mining and Personalization Technologies

09:30 - 10:00   Coffee break

10:00 - 12:00   Session 4A: Data Analysis and Mining

4A.1    An Effective Boolean Algorithm for Mining Association
        Rules in Large Databases
        Suh-Ying Wur, Yungho Leu
        National Taiwan Institute of Technology         Taiwan

4A.2    Summary Grids: Improving Multidimensional Histograms
        Pedro Furtado and H. Madeira
        Universidade de COIMBRA         Portugal

4A.3    Feature Reduction for Neural Network Based Text Categorization
        Savio L.Y. Lam, Dik Lun Lee
        University of Science & Technology      Hong Kong

4A.4    Discover Relaxed Periodicity in Temporal Databases
        Tang Changjie, Yu Zhonghua, Zhang Tianqing
        Sichuan University      China

                Session 4B: Index Techniques

4B.1    Approximation Techniques for Indexing Two-Dimensional
        Constraint Databases
        E. Bertino, B. Catania, B. Chidlovskii
        Universita' di Genova   Italy

4B.2    P-Tree: A B-Tree Index for Lists
        Ke Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Sam Yuan Sung
        National University of Singapore        Singapore

4B.3    Restructuring the Concurrent B+-Tree with Non-blocked
        Search Operations
        Sungchae Lim and Myoung Ho Kim
        Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
        Korea

4B.4    Parallel R-tree Search Algorithm on DSM
        Botao Wang, Hiroyuki Horinokuchi, Kunihiko Kaneko,
        Akifumi Makinouchi
        Kyushu University       Japan

12:00 - 13:30   Lunch

13:30 - 15:00   Session 5A: Data Warehousing

5A.1    Materialized views evolution support in Data Warehouse
        Chuan Zhang , Jian Yang
        Univ. College,UNSW      Australia

5A.2    P-Web Join in a Web Warehouse
        Sourav S. Bhowmick, Sanjay Madria, Wee-Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim
        Nanyang Technological University        Singapore

5A.3    Materialized View Maintenance
        Tok Wang Ling and Eng Koon Sze
        National University of Singapore        Singapore

                Session 5B: Object Databases

5B.1    Design and Implementation of a CORBA Query Service Accessing
        EXPRESS-based Data
        Jurgen Sellentin, Bernhard Mitschang
        Technische Universitat Munchen          Germany

5B.2    Fragtique: An OO Distribution Design Methodology
        Marinette Savonnet, Marie-Noelle Terrasse, Kokou Yetongnon
        Universite de Bourgogne                 France

5B.3    Change Management with Roles
        Sven-Eric Lautemann
        University of Frankfurt/M.              Germany

15:00 - 15:30   Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00   Session 6A: Transaction Management

6A.1    A Design and Implementation of Savepoints and Partial Rollbacks
        considering Transaction Isolation Levels of SQL2
        Sun Hwan Kim, Jun Hyun Park, Mi Suk Jung and Young Chul Park
        Kyungpook National University           Korea

6A.2    Recovery of Distributed Extended Long-lived Transaction Models
        M. M. Gore,R. K. Ghosh
        Indian Institute of Technology          India

6A.3    An Adaptable Constrained Locking Protocol for High Data
        Contention Environments
        Shalab Goel, Bharat Bhargava, Sanjay Kumar Madria
        Nanyang Technological University        Singapore

                Session 6B: Distributed Databases

6B.1    Multiple Dynamic View Support for Cooperative Work
        Yusuke Yokota, Hiroyuki Tarumi, Yahiko Kambayashi
        Kyoto University                        Japan

6B.2    Maintenance of Placement Dependency in Distributed
        Multidatabase Systems
        Hao Chen & Chengwen Liu
        DePaul University                       USA

6B.3    A Middleware Implementation of Active Rules for ODBMS
        S. B. Yoo, K. C. Kim, and S. K. Cha
        Inha University                      
   
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                        Tutorial Program
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Wednesday, April 21, 1999
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09:00 - 12:00
14:00 - 17:00   T1      Multimedia Information Systems
                Instructor: Prof. Wolfgang Klas
                University of Ulm, Germany

09:00 - 12:00   T2      Data Management in a Wireless Environment
                Instructor: Prof. Dik Lun Lee
                Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

14:00 - 17:00   T3      Data Mining and its Application to Web Activities
                Instructor: Prof. Ming-Syan Chen
                National Taiwan University
                     

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                      Registration  Information
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Advance registration due: March 15, 1999
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Conference pre-registration is strongly advised. Participants are
therefore requested to fill in and e-mail (payment by credit card only)
or mail the enclosed registration form together with the appropriate
fee to:

             DASFAA'99 Registration Chair
             Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
             Department of Computer Science
             National Tsing Hua University
             Hsinchu, Taiwan
             
E-mail:jang AT cs.nthu.edu.tw
             Fax: 886-3-5742796

Registration will be confirmed only upon receipt of the registration fee.

Registration Fees:
The conference registration fees include admission to all technical
sessions, lunchs, coffee breaks, receiption, banquet (except students),
and a copy of the conference proceedings.

                         Before March 15, 1999     After March 15, 1999
   Regular               US$200                    US$250
   Full-time student     US$80                     US$100

Tutorial fees: US$50 for one-day tutorial, US$25 for half-day tutorial.

For domestic registration within Taiwan, please contact with
Ms. Shu-Jeng Huang at 
sjhuang AT cs.nthu.edu.tw,
 03-5742847.

Payment:
Payment can be made by cash, traveler's check, or
1. bank draft or bank transfer to:
   Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
   Account No. 036-16-0066975,
   Chiao Tung Bank, Hsinchu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2. Credit Card
   Credit Card is available for pre-registration and on-site registration.
   Please fill out the appropriate section on the registration form.

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                    DASFAA'99  Registration  Form
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(Print or Type, one form for each registrant)
Please enter your session/paper number _________________
for authors.

Advance Registration Deadline: March 15, 1999
Any registration after March. 15, 1999 (postmark cut-off) will be charged
the at-conference rate.

Please complete the information below.  Payment with registration must
be made in US dollars and made payable to:  Jyh-Shing Roger Jang

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    Regular:           __US$200 (Before Mar/15/99) __US$250 (After Mar/15/99)

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    Tutorial:          __US$50 (One day tutorial)  __US$25  (Half-day 
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    ___ SD (Deluxe Single)                  ___TW (Standard Twin)
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TRANSPORTATION (One way, between the CKS Airport and Hotel: NT$1,300)

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NOTE: The room rates and availability are guaranteed for the period
      of April 18-22, 1999, only if your reservation form is received
      before April 3, 1999.

Please send this form to:
      ChinaTrust Hotel
      106 Chung Yang Rd., Hsinchu, Taiwan 300
      Fax: +886-3-5269244;  Tel: +886-3-5263181
     (A fax reservation will be acknowledged within 5 days.)
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