For 24 years, VLDB has served the database community as its primary truly international conference.  The current trend in VLDB is towards a forum where researchers and practitioners exchange ideas and experiences, with excellent quality ensured by rigorous refereeing. The VLDB '98 conference will continue and strengthen this trend.

We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results in the general field of databases.  Starting in 1998 the VLDB research paper track will be divided into three sections.  The regular section is for standard research papers.  To stimulate new research directions, a separate vision section is introduced for papers on speculative and futuristic topics.  A third experience section will promote papers describing novel and challenging database system implementation aspects or novel applications of database technology. In addition to the research track, there will be an industrial track, as well as panels, tutorials, and exhibits.

Since the conference will take place in New York City, we are especially interested in papers, tutorials, panels, and exhibits that may be of interest to the financial community.
 
Topics of Interest

The topics of interest in VLDB '98 include but are not limited to:
 

Active Databases  Authorization and Security  Concurrency Control and Recovery  DBMS Architectures  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery  Data Models and Database Design  Data Warehousing  Database Benchmarks  Database Constraint Management  Database Evolution and Migration  Database Languages  Databases and Electronic Commerce  Engineering Databases  Financial Applications of Databases  Heterogeneous and Federated Databases  Interaction Between Database and IR Systems  Internet/Intranet Services and Databases  Knowledge Base Management Systems

Logic and Databases  Mobility and Databases  Multidimensional Databases  Multimedia Databases  On-line Analytical Processing  Object-Oriented Database Systems  Optimization and Performance  Parallel and Distributed Databases  Real-time Databases  Replication, Caching, and View Materialization  Scientific and Statistical Databases  Spatial Databases  Temporal Databases  Text Databases  User Interfaces and Information Visualization  View Management  Visual Query Languages and Tools  Workflow Systems

 
Research Track Paper Submissions

Regular Section

This section provides a forum for dissemination of original, high quality, research results.  Papers reporting and evaluating new structures, methods, systems, and models are encouraged, while papers reporting marginal improvements of well-known solutions are discouraged.  Papers for this section will be evaluated according to standard criteria including originality and innovation, abstraction and technical depth, and potential practical impact.

This separate section provides a forum for discussion of future technological directions and their anticipated impact on databases. Papers for this section are by nature somewhat speculative, however they are expected to be scientific in their technical quality, analysis, and argumentation.

This separate section provides a forum for discussion of experiences in implementing DBMSs and/or applying DBMS technology to real-life applications.  In evaluating papers submitted to this section, the program committee will consider novelty, technical quality, and the value of reported results to developers and/or users of database and information systems.

The industrial track encourages submission of short papers from industry to report on new developments in DBMS technology. Papers should describe experiences using or developing database management systems, or issues arising from handling large volumes of data in an industrial setting.  Positive or negative advice that will help researchers or practitioners is particularly welcome.

Six copies of your paper must be submitted to the Industrial Program Committee Chair representing the geographic region of the first author's current address (see where to send your submission) by February 23, 1988. In addition, an abstract of the paper must be emailed to the same Chair by February 16, 1998. Submitted papers should not exceed 4 pages,  double-spaced and typeset with minimum 11 point font; over-length papers may be rejected without review.
 
Panel Proposals

Panels proposals should address exciting, new and controversial issues and must be debate-oriented rather than a series of short presentations. They should pose specific questions that the panelists will be called to answer, and they should indicate what the controversy around those questions is.  A list of confirmed participants with their affiliations should be included in the panel proposal. Proposals should be submitted to any one of the two panel program co-chairs by email or in hard-copy by February 23, 1998.
 
Tutorial Proposals

Tutorial proposals must clearly identify the intended audience, which should be considerably broader than the database research community. Enough material should be included in the proposal to provide a sense of both the scope of material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered. There are no limits on the length of the tutorial proposal. The intended length of the tutorial (1.5 or 3 hours) should be indicated. Proposals should be submitted to the tutorial program chair by email or in hard-copy by February 23, 1998.
 
Industrial Exhibits Proposals

VLDB'98 plans to showcase exhibits from the industry. The exhibits should include demos illustrating innovative technology, features and implementations of database systems or database applications. Exhibits may be linked to presentations in other tracks. To propose your participation in the exhibits program contact by email any of the two exhibits program co-chairs  or send them  a short (few paragraphs) description by May 1, 1998.
 

 
IMPORTANT DATES
 

All deadlines are firm. There will be no grace period.
 
 

WHERE TO SEND YOUR SUBMISSIONS

 

Program	First author's current location	Address to send submission	What to send
Research  Program	Americas/Australia:	Jennifer Widom  Computer Science Department  Gates Building 4A  Stanford University  Stanford, CA 94305  USA  mailto:vldb98@db.stanford.edu	Fill out the research track abstract submission form by February 16, 1998. Send six hard-copies of paper (no e-mail) by February 23, 1998. See instructions.
	Africa/Asia/Europe:	Oded Shmueli  Computer Science Department  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology  Technion City, Haifa 32000  Israel  mailto:vldb98@cs.technion.ac.il
Industrial  Program	Americas/Australia:	Dennis Shasha  Department of Computer Science  Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences  New York University  251 Mercer Street  New York, N.Y. 10012-1185  U.S.A.  mailto:shasha@cs.nyu.edu	Send email with title, authors and abstract by February 16, 1998.  Send six hard-copies of paper (no e-mail) by February 23, 1998.
	Africa/Asia/Europe:	Patrick Valduriez  INRIA Rocquencourt  B.P. 105  78153 Le Chesney Cedex  France  mailto:patrick.valduriez@inria.fr
Panel  Program	Regardless of author's location, send your submission to any one of the two panel program co-chairs:	Klaus Dittrich  Universitat Zurich  Institut fur Informatik  Winterthurerstrasse 190  CH-8057 Zurich  Switzerland  mailto:dittrich@ifi.unizh.ch  or  Yannis Ioannidis  Univesity of Athens and University of Wisconsin  Department of Informatics  Panepistimioupolis, TYPA Buildings  157-71 Ilisia, Athens  Hellas (Greece)  mailto:yannis@cs.wisc.edu	Send your proposal by email or in hard-copy by February 23, 1998.
Tutorial  Program	Regardless of author's location:	H.V. Jagadish  AT&T Labs  180 Park Avenue  Florham Park, NJ 07932  USA  mailto:jag@research.att.com	Send your proposal by email or in hard-copy by February 23, 1998.
Exhibits   Program	Regardless of author's location, send your submission to any one of the two exhibits program co-chairs:	Nelson M. Mattos  IBM - Database Technology Institute  650 Harry Road, B1-420  San Jose, CA 95120  mattos@us.ibm.com  or  Andy Witkowski  Office: 4OP 770  Oracle Corporation  500 Oracle Parkway  Redwood Shores, CA  94065  awitkows@us.oracle.com	Send a short (few paragraphs) description of the proposed exhibit by email by May 1, 1998.