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22nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 1996
September 3-6, 1996
Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai (Bombay), India
http://bhishma.cse.iitb.ernet/~vldb96
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/vldb
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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IMPORTANT:
Early bird registration deadline has been extended to AUGUST 15.
Registration information is attached at the end of this document.
The International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) is one of the
most renowned conferences in the field of databases. The annual VLDB
conference is run by the VLDB Endowment and has a distinguished history of 22
years which has established the conference at the centre of the
international database community.
The 22nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'96) will be
held in Mumbai (Bombay), India, from September 3rd to 6th. VLDB'96 is
sponsored by the Computer Society of India.
The VLDB Endowment, which runs the VLDB conferences, is a non-profit
organisation, and is governed by a board of trustees consisting of
pre-eminent members of the dtabase community, both academic and industrial.
The VLDB conferences are sponsored by leading database vendor companies as
well as leading companies that make extensive use of databases. Each year
the conference is held in a different location. In the recent past, VLDB
conferences have been held in locations such as Zurich, Switzerland (1995),
Santiago, Chile (1994), Dublin, Ireland (1993), Vancouver, Canada (1992),
Barcelona, Spain (1991) and Brisbane, Australia (1990).
Registration Information
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Note: Early bird registration deadline has been extended to AUGUST 15.
Registration information is attached to the END of this document.
Registration forms, as well as more information about the conference,
can be found on the Web at either of the URLs:
http://bhishma.cse.iitb.ernet/~vldb96
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/vldb
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INVITED TALKS
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Invited talks are given by leading persons in the field illuminating
recent trends, and in some cases providing enlightening retrospective
accounts as well. This years program includes four invited talks.
o Umang Gupta (Chairman, Centura Corp.)
The Changing Landscape of the Software Industry and its Implications
for India,
Umang Gupta, the Chairman of Centura Corp will deliver the keynote
address on the opening day. Gupta is the founder of Gupta
Technologies, the creators of Gupta SQL.
o Michael Carey
Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil
(with David J. DeWitt)
Michael Carey, from IBM Almaden Research Center, is an author of the
paper on EXODUS which appeared in VLDB 1986. This paper has been
selected as the paper with the maximum impact in the last ten years
from those published in VLDB'86. EXODUS is an extensible database
system developed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison while Michael
Carey was a faculty member there.
o Don Haderle
Title to be announced
Don Haderle is an IBM Fellow and Director of Data Management
Architecture and New Technology in the Software Solutions Divison of
IBM Santa Teresa Labaratory. He is well known for his role as one of
the founding architects of the IBM relational database product DB2 and
is its chief architect since the early '80s.
o Karl-Heinz Hess
Very Large Databases in a Commercial Application Environment
Karl-Heinz Hess is from SAP AG corporation which is a leading software
vendor, providing solutions in the business applications arena.
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RESEARCH SESSIONS
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Session 1 : Spatial Access Methods
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Filter Trees for Managing Spatial Data over a Range of Size
Granularities
K. Sevcik, N. Koudas
The X-tree : An Index Structure for High-dimensional data
S. Berchtold, D. A. Keim, H.-P. Kriegel
Analysis of n-dimensional quadtrees using the Hausdorff Fractal
Dimension
C. Faloutsos, V. Gaede
Session 2 : Data Warehousing
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WATCHMAN : A Data Warehouse Intelligent Cache Manager
P. Scheuermann, J. Shim, R. Vingralek
Efficient Snapshot Differential Algorithms for Data Warehousing
W. J. Labio, H. Garcia-Molina
Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views
M. Staudt, M. Jarke
Session 3 : Query Optimization
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Optimization of Queries with User-defined Predicates
S. Chaudhuri, K. Shim
The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System
P. Seshadri, M. Livny, R. Ramakrishnan
EROC: A Toolkit for Building NEATO Query Optimizers
W. McKenna, L. Burger, C. Hoang, M. Truong
Session 4 : Data Mining
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A new SQL-like Operator for Mining Association Rules
R. Meo, G. Psaila, S. Ceri
Sampling Large Databases for Finding Association Rules
H. Toivonen
Constructing Efficient Decision Trees by using Optimized Numeric
Association Rules
T. Fukuda, Y. Morimoto, S. Morishita, T. Tokuyama
Session 5 : Query Processing - 1
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Reordering Query Execution in Tertiary Memory Databases
S. Sarawagi, M. Stonebraker
Query Processing Techniques for Multiversion Access Methods
J.v.d. Bercken, B. Seeger
Coalescing in Temporal Databases
M. H. Bohlen, R. T. Snodgrass, M. D. Soo
Session 6 : Querying and Information Retrieval
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Effective & Efficient Document Ranking without using a Large Lexicon
Y. Ogawa
PESTO : An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases
M. Carey, L. Haas, V. Maganty, J. Williams
Fast Nearest-Neighbor Search in Medical Image Databases
F. Korn, N. Sidiropoulos, C. Faloutsos, E. Siegel, Z. Protopapas
Session 7 : Heterogeneous Databases - 1
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Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for
Unstructured Data
D. Suciu
SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational
Multi-database Systems
L. V. S. Lakshmanan, F. Sadri, I. N. Subramanian
Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions
A. Levy, A. Rajaraman, J. Ordille
Session 8 : Database Applications
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Supporting State-Wide Immunisation Tracking Using Multi-Paradigm
Workflow Technology
A. Sheth, K. Kochut, J. Miller, D. Worah, S. Das, C. Lin, D. Palaniswami,
J. Lynch, I. Shevchenko,
ZOO : A Desktop Experiment Management Environment
Y. E. Ioannidis, M. Livny, S. Gupta, N. Ponnekanti
Applying Data Mining Techniques to a Health Insurance Information
System
M. S. Viveros, J. P. Nearhos, M. J. Rothman
Session 9 : Query Processing - 2
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Querying Multiple Features of Groups in Relational Databases
D. Chatziantoniou, K. Ross
Modeling Skewed Distribution Using Multifractals and the `80-20' Law
C. Faloutsos, Y. Matias, A. Silberschatz
Answering queries with aggregation using views
D. Srivastava, S. Dar, H. V. Jagadish, A. Levy
Session 10: I/O Optimization
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Semantic Data Caching and Replacement
S. Dar, M. J. Franklin, B. T. Jonsson, D. Srivastava, M. Tan
Clustering Techniques for Minimizing External Path Length
A. A. Diwan, S. Rane, S. Seshadri, S. Sudarshan
Disseminating Updates on Broadcast Disks
S. Acharya, M. J. Franklin, S. Zdonik
Session 11: Object Oriented Query Processing
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Implementation and Analysis of a Parallel Collection Query Language
D. Suciu
Calibrating the Query Optimizer Cost Model of IRO-DB, an
Object-Oriented Federated Database System
G. Gardarin, F. Sha, Z. -H. Tang
Cost-based Selection of Path Expression Processing Algorithms in
Object-Oriented Databases
G. Gardarin, J. -R. Gruser, Z. -H. Tang
Session 12: Heterogeneous Databases - 2
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Obtaining Complete Answers from Incomplete Databases
A. Levy
Object Fusion in Mediator Systems
Y. Papakonstantinou, S. Abiteboul, H. Garcia-Molina
The Role of Integrity Constraints in Database Interoperation
M. W. W. Vermeer, P. M. G. Apers
Session 13: Parallel Query Processing
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Dynamic Load Balancing in Hierarchical Parallel Database Systems
L. Bouganim, D. Florescu, P. Valduriez
Estimation of Query-Result Distribution and its Application in
Parallel-Join Load Balancing
V. Poosala, Y. Ioannidis
Intra-Transaction Parallelism in the Mapping of an Object Model to a
Relational Multi-Processor System
M. Rys, M. C. Norrie, H. -J. Schek
Session 14: Data Integrity/Security
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Supporting Periodic Authorizations and Temporal Reasoning in Database
Access Control
E. Bertino, C. Bettini, E. Ferrari, P. Samarati
Querying a Multilevel Database: A Logical Analysis
F. Cuppens
Further Improvements on Integrity Constraint Checking for Stratifiable
Deductive Databases
S. Y. Lee, T. W. Ling
Session 15: OLAP
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On the Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates
S. Agarwal, R. Agrawal, P. M. Deshpande, A. Gupta, J. F. Naughton,
R. Ramakrishnan, S. Sarawagi
Storage Estimation for Multidimensional Aggregates in the Presence of
Hierarchies
A. Shukla, P. M. Deshpande, J. F. Naughton, K. Ramaswamy
Information Retrieval From an Incomplete Data Cube
C. Dyreson
Session 16: Potpourri
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SPRINT: A Scalable Parallel Classifier for Data Mining
J. Shafer, R. Agrawal, M. Mehta
Modeling Design Versions
R. Ramakrishnan, D. Janaki Ram
Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database
Sytems
R. Cochrane, H. Pirahesh, N. Mattos
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INDUSTRY SESSIONS
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Session A:
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Practical Issues with Commercial Use of Federated Databases
Jim Kleewein, IBM
Supporting Procedural Constructs in SQL Compilers
Nelson Mattos, IBM
Extracting Large Data Sets using DB2 Parallel Edition
Sriram Padmanabhan, IBM
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Cache Coherency in Oracle Parallel Server
Boris Klots, Oracle
Scaleablity and Availability in Oracle7 7.3
Dieter Gawlick, Oracle
Bellcore's ADAPT/X Harness System for Managing Information on
Internet and Intranets
Amit Sheth, University of Georgia.
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DISNIC-PLAN: A NICNET Based Distributed Database for Micro-level
Planning in India
M. Moni, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi
Large Databases for Remote Sensing and GIS
A. R. Dasgupta, Space Applications Centre - ISRO
DWMS: Data Warehouse Management System
Narendra Mohan, Software AG of Far East Inc., Japan
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The XPS Approach to Loading and Unloading Terabyte Databases
Sanket Atal, Informix
How System 11 SQL Server Became Fast
T.K. Rengarajan, Sybase
Using Referential Integrity To Easily Define Consistent Subset
Replicas
Brad Hammond, Microsoft
Session E:
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The Query Optimizer in Tandem's new ServerWare SQL Product
Pedro Celis, Tandem
TPC-D: The Challenges, Issues and Results
Ramesh Bhashyam, NCR
Tribeca: A Stream Database Manager for Network Traffic Analysis
Mark Sullivan, Bellcore
Session F:
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MineSet(tm): A System for High-End Data Mining & Visualization
Database Mining and Visualization Group, SGI Inc.
The Structured Information Manager: A Database System for SGML
Documents
R. Sacks-Davis, RMIT (Australia)
Loading the Data Warehouse Across Various Parallel Architectures
Vijay Raghavan, Red Brick Systems
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PANEL DISCUSSIONS
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These provide a forum for industry and academic experts to discuss
current issues in database technology. This years VLDB will have panels
on the following topics:
o Performance Challenges for Future DBMS
Organizer: Chaitanya K. Baru (San Diego Computer Center)
o Internet and Databases
Organizer: Susan Malaika (IBM Hursley, UK)
o Data Warehousing
Organizers: Ashish Gupta (Junglee Corpn.) and
Inderpal Mumick (AT&T Research)
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TUTORIALS
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Tutorials on the latest developments in databases are conducted by
leading personalities. These are targeted at practitioners as well as
researchers. The conference this year will feature seven tutorials
(typically half-day each).
Tutorial 1
Object-Relational Database Management Systems
Anil K. Nori, Oracle Corporation
Anil K. Nori has been a key architect for the support of
object-relational features in the Oracle DBMS, Oracle Corporation USA
since 1994. . He has been in database research and product development
for the last 17 years.
This tutorial provides a comprehensive view of the new class of DBMSs
known as Object-Relational DBMSs. Object-relational systems -
relational systems enhanced with object modeling capabilities provide
best of both RDBMS and ODBMSs. They support SQL with object extensions
for accessing complex data, and provide the performance and robustness
of relational systems. Application and software developers in India
would benefit immensely by learning about this new wave of
Object-Relational DBMS. This tutorial would provide a comprehensive
summary of RDBMSs, OODBMSs, and ORDBMSs.
TARGETED AUDIENCE & WHY:
The tutorial is targeted for database application designers, DBMS
researchers, and DBMS implementors. The tutorial will summarize what
RDBMSs can do; what ODBMSs can do; and how ORDBMS can provide features
and benefits of both. The participants will become more aware of these
different DBMSs technologies, differences between them. They will get
a good overview of what ORDBMSs are and how they can be built.
Tutorial 2
Image and Video Databases
Ramesh Jain, University of California, San Diego
Ramesh Jain is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
Computer Science and Engineering at University of California at San
Diego. He was the founder and the Chairman of Imageware Inc., an Ann
Arbor based company dedicated to revolutionize software interfaces for
emerging sensor technologies. He is the founding chairman of Virage, a
company developing systems for visual information retrieval.
Importance and Relevance:
In this tutorial, we will first address the basic problems in the area
of content-addressable image databases, and then briefly review the
state of the art in this emerging field. We will discuss both
commercial systems and research prototypes in our review. We will have
a demonstration system for showing operations in at least one
commercial system.
Who Should Attend and Why:
People interested in multimedia information systems will benefit from
this tutorial. This tutorial will present basic concepts and
techniques in emerging field image and video databases. Currently
there is no book available that addresses this field. Since images and
video are new to database people, a good understanding of the basic
concepts will help people either entering or already engaged in this
exciting field.
Tutorial 3
On the Design and Development of Large Scale Cooperative Information
Systems
Michael Brodie, GTE Laboratories Inc.
Dr. Michael L. Brodie is a Senior Staff Scientist at GTE Laboratories
Inc., Waltham, Mass. He has consulted to research advisory
organizations of the governments of USA, Canada, France, Italy,
Germany, Colombia, Brasil, Denmark, Australia, Russia, Ukraine, and
the EEC. Michael has authored over 70 books.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Distributed object computing (DOC) visions, such as underlies ISO's
Open Distributed Processing (ODP) and OMG's Common Object Request
Broker Architecture (CORBA ), are being realized as a basis for
enterprise wide cooperative information systems. These DOC
technologies may provide an infrastructure but they do not provide a
basis for application interoperation, a key requirement of cooperative
information systems. This tutorial addresses cooperative information
systems from a variety of points of view. It will address core
technology, systems management, distributed computing architectures,
engineering, standards, and methodologies.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
IT managers, planers, etc., will get a view of future technology and
its current status. Researchers will get exposed to next generation
computing vision and real cases and technical challenges to be faced.
IS designers and implementers will learn the vision and the reality in
developing distributed object computing systems.
Tutorial 4
Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support
Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research
Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
The tutorial will cover : Introduction - Role of decision support
Existing Products and Technology - their interrelationships. Query
Model, Language, Processing ; Multidimensional Databases (e.g.,
Express IQ, IRI) ; Relational Approach (e.g., Oracle 7, Redbrick);
Hybrid Approach (e.g., Metacube, Microstrategy); Novel Indexing and
Processing Role of Parallelism ; Maintaining a Data Warehouse ; -
Replication Strategies View maintenance ; Triggers; A Case Study
Target Audience:
Researchers and Developers interested in applications, tools and
processing related to decision-support, a growing field.
Tutorial 5
An Overview of SQL3 - The Emerging New Generation of the SQL Standard
Nelson M. Mattos, IBM Database Technology Institute, Almaden Research
Jim Melton, Sybase Inc.
NELSON MATTOS, Ph. D., is with the Database Technology Institute of
IBM in San Jose, California. He is IBM's Standard Project Authority
for SQL as well as a member of the ANSI Technical Committee X3H2 for
Database and a USA representative to the International Organization
for Standardization (ISO) Committee for database. Nelson has
contributed extensively to the design of SQL3.
JIM MELTON is a senior architect with the Strategic Planning Group,
Sybase, Inc. Jim is the Editor of the SQL-92 standard and the emerging
next generation of the SQL3 standard, currently called SQL3. Jim
contributed very heavily to the technical content of SQL-92 and SQL3.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
The emerging new generation of the SQL Standard, called SQL3, has been
under development by ANSI X3H2 and ISO DBL over the last several
years. SQL3 is a multi-volume, upward compatible extension to SQL92
containing a very large number of extensions over its predecessor.
These new capabilities are specified in separate, independent volumes
which have started to emerge as new International Standards for
Database Language in 1995. The enhancements included in SQL3 can be
divided into 4 main areas: "relational" enhancements, procedural
extensions, object-oriented support, and call level interface. The
tutorial will give an overview of the SQL3 standard, focusing on the
substantial enhancements that are a part of SQL3.
Tutorial 6
Data Mining
Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center
Rakesh Agrawal is the founder and project leader of the Quest project
on Data mining and Decision Support Technologies at the IBM Almaden
Research Centre, San Jose, California.
BRIEF OUTLINE
Data mining is the efficient discovery of previously unknown patterns
in large databases, and is emerging as a major application area for
databases. Many of the data mining problems have been motivated by the
practical decision support problems faced by most large organizations.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The tutorial should be of interest to both database researchers and
practitioners. The speaker will draw upon his practical experience
with Quest to discuss current data mining technologies and present
some open problems. He will also include on-going research work in
other institutions.
Tutorial 7
Open Standard Developments for Database Interoperability
Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington
Ramez A. Elmasri is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has been
involved in database research and teaching for over fifteen years.
Dr.Elmasri is co-author, with Professor S. Navathe, of the bestselling
textbook "Fundamentals of Database Systems".
Adbelsalam (Sumi) Helal is a visiting assistant professor at Purdue
University.
IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE OF TUTORIAL:
Because of the explosion in the number of new platforms, applications,
tools, languages, and DBMSs, and the rapid growth of computer networks
in practically all computing environments, an acute need for standards
that allow independently-developed applications that run on
heterogeneous platforms to communicate. These Open Standards are
designed to allow individual applications and tools to communicate
with other tools through standard interfaces and systems.
This tutorial will present many of the Open Standards for database and
distributed systems, and discuss the current state of these standards
and how they may progress in the future. It will motivate the need for
database standards in general, as well as the need that led to the
development of each of the standards we discuss.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND AND WHY:
Database designers, systems analysts, programmers, and data processing
managers who design, manage, and develop applications for database and
distributed environments should benefit from attending this tutorial.
The tutorial will provide the motivation behind each standard, and an
overview of the standard itself.
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Pre-Conference Workshop
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The International Workshop on Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures
(ATMA) '96 is to be held in Goa just preceding VLDB'96.
For more information about the workshop send mail to jajodia@isse.gmu.edu .
Important Dates
* Electronic abstract submission: 16 February 1996
* Paper, Panel, Tutorial, Industry/Applications submissions: 23 February
1996
* Notification of acceptance: 10 May 1996
* Camera-ready copies due: 1 July 1996
* Early Bird Registration: 15 August 1996
* Conference: 3-6 September 1996
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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The conference fee structure is shown below.
IMPORTANT: Note the new early bird registration deadline of Aug 15!
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Category International Indian
General, by Aug. 15 1996 US$ 350 Rs. 9500
General, after Aug. 15 1996 US$ 390 Rs. 12000
Student US$ 175 Rs. 4750
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For regular participants, the fee includes:
* admission to all conference sessions, including all tutorials,
* conference proceedings (tutorial notes cost extra)
* inaugural function at the Bhabha Auditorium
* conference banquet
* lunch on all four days
The reduced student fee does not include the conference banquet.
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Official Travel Agents
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The official travel agents for the conference are Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
Thomas Cook handles all hotel reservation as well as additional travel and
tour information. The contact information for Thomas Cook is as follows:
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.
Attn: Mr. Hiren Parekh
Thomas Cook Building
Dr. D. Naoroji Roadi
Mumbai - 400 001
India
(tel) +91 (22) 204 8556
(fax) +91 (22) 287 1069 and
+91 (22) 204 6769
Thomas Cook may also be contacted by email, for VLDB related travel,
at vldbtrvl@cse.iitb.ernet.in.
(This will be available from 27th of May 1996).
Thomas Cook may also be contacted by email, through the VLDB account, at
vldb96@cse.iitb.ernet.in
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Hotel And Travel Information
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The conference venue, the Taj Mahal Hotel , is in downtown Mumbai, near the
historic Gateway of India, and the Taj Intercontinental Hotel is located
close by. All other hotels are within about ten minutes (one and a half
kilometres) of the conference venue. Arrangements for other hotels to suit
specific requirements can be arranged through Thomas Cook.
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About Mumbai
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Mumbai is located on the west coast of India. Mumbai was till recently known
as Bombay, so you will see both names in use. Mumbai Bombay which is located
on the west coast of India is the capital of Maharashtra state, and the
business capital and economic powerhouse of India. It is the fastest moving,
most affluent and most industrialised city in India. Mumbai's very
cosmopolitan population is estimated to be around 10 million. The main
languages spoken in the city are Hindi and Marathi, but a visitor can easily
manage his/her business and travel with English. Mumbai is also the home of
the Hindi film industry, which is the largest in the world.
There are several tourist attractions in and around Mumbai: ancient cave
paintings, sculptures, quaint hill-stations and more.
Mumbai is very well connected by air, and numerous international airlines
provide connections to Mumbai.
The time zone in India, Indian Standard Time, is 5 hrs 30 min ahead of UTC
(GMT), which makes it 9:30 ahead of EST in the U.S.A. The climate in Mumbai
in September is warm, with a maximum temperatures of around 30 C (86 F), and
a minimum temperature of around 24 C (75 F).
Mumbai receives copious amounts of rain in the monsoon season, which starts
in mid June. Although the monsoon usually ends by early September, rains are
a possibility during the conference.
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Tourism
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India is a vast country with a varied geography and climate. From the snow
capped mountains of the Himalayas, to the sandy deserts of Rajasthan, from
the lovely beaches of Goa and Kovalam to the vast plains of the Ganges, you
can find any climate at any time of the year. But the biggest attraction of
India is its rich cultural heritage spanning over 3000 years. The Taj Mahal
in Agra (near New Delhi) is one of the seven wonders of the world and
presents a truly breathtaking sight by the light of the full moon. The
ancient cave paintings and sculptures of Ajanta and Ellora (Maharashtra
state, in the west), the Sun temple at Konark (Orissa state, on the Eastern
coast), the magnificent forts in Delhi and its vicinity (in the North), the
awe-inspiring palaces and temples of Mysore (near Bangalore, in the south)
are a sample of the varied heritage India has to offer her visitors.
The official travel agent Thomas Cook will organize pre and post conference
tours.
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Travel Tips
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Most visitors to India require visas to come to India. Visas can be obtained
in Indian Embassy or the High Commission in your country. Requirements for
getting visas vary from country to country. Please check with the Indian
Consulate in your country for specific requirements. We will send you
personalized invitation letters if you desire and will inform the Indian
consulate in your area if you desire. Please note that to get a visa, your
passport must be valid for six months past the date you are travelling. THe
process of obtaining a visa may take from 24 to 73 hours depending on where
it is obtained.
India is a land of many languages with each state or region having its own
language or dialect. Hindi is widely spoken in the northern parts of India.
However, English is also widely used and visitors can easily manage their
business and travel in English. Most of the important cities and tourist
places have excellent (four and five star) hotels.
Most cities in India have several excellent restaurants serving a wide
variety of cuisines from the different regions of India. Many restaurants
also serve Chinese food, while restaurants in the better hotels also serve
Continental fare. Although Indian food is typically spicy, many restaurants
will serve food to suit milder tastes, on request. Visitors are advised to
avoid drinking tap water, but bottled mineral water is available in all
hotels, restaurants and grocery shops, and is very safe.
Credit cards are widely accepted at hotels, airlines and major shops and
better restaurants. However, it is a good idea to carry cash for other
expenses, such as at smaller shops that sell handicraft items. Visitors can
convert cash and traveler's checks in major currencies to rupees at airports
and hotels. There are a large number of telecommunication centres,
practically at every street corner, which offer international and national
direct dial facilities on cash payment.
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For More Information
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The VLDB Endowment as well as the local organizers are looking forward to
welcoming you at the conference. If you need any assistance or for further
information, please send email to
vldb96@cse.iitb.ernet.in
or if you are on the Internet, look up the VLDB'96 home page on the World
Wide Web, at either of the URLs
http://bhishma.cse.iitb.ernet/~vldb96
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/vldb
You can also contact the VLDB Secretariat at the following address:
VLDB Secretariat,
Attn. Prof. D.B. Phatak
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
I.I.T. Powai
Mumbai 400076
India
fax: +91 (22) 578 3480
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
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PROGRAM CHAIRS
ASIA/AUSTRALIA
Nandlal L. Sarda
Department of Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Powai
Mumbai (Bombay) 400 076, India
email: nls@cse.iitb.ernet.in
(also, vldb96@cse.iitb.ernet.in)
Ph: (+91 22) 578 2545 Fax: (+91 22) 578 3480
AMERICAS
C. Mohan
K55/B1, IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120, USA
email: mohan@almaden.ibm.com
Ph: (+1 408) 927 1733 Fax: (+1 408) 927 4307/3215
EUROPE
Alejandro Buchmann
DVS-I, TH Darmstadt, Frankfurter Str. 69A
D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany
email: buchmann@dvs1.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Ph: (+49 6151) 165 253 Fax: (+49 6151) 165 554
INDUSTRY/APPLICATION CHAIRS
ASIA/AUSTRALIA
Anand Deshpande
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.
'Kapilavastu', First Floor
397/9 Senapati Bapat Road
Pune 411 053, India
email: anand@pspl.ernet.in
Ph: (+91 212) 351 510 Fax: (+91 212) 356 110
AMERICAS
Jim Gray
Microsoft
580 California St., 5th Fl., San Francisco, CA 94101, USA
email: gray@microsoft.com
Ph: (+1 415) 778 8222 Fax: (+1 415) 283 3301
EUROPE
Peter Lockemann
Fakultaet fuer Informatik
Universitaet Karlsruhe, Postfach 6980
D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
email: lockeman@ira.uka.de
Ph: (+49 721) 608 3968 Fax: (+49 721) 694 092
TUTORIAL CHAIRS
P. Sadanandan
National Center for Software Technology
6th Floor, Major Tower, Visvesvaraya Centre
Bangalore 560 001, India
email: ps@ncb.ernet.in
Ph: (+91 80) 226 1531/3100 Fax: (+91 80) 226 1531
Sharma Chakravarthy
CIS Department
University of Florida, Gainsville, FL 32611, USA
email: sharma@cis.ufl.edu
Ph: (+1 352) 392 2697 Fax: (+1 352) 392 1220
PANEL CHAIRS
V.R. Govindarajan
Tata Information Systems Ltd
Golden Enclave, Aiport Road
Bangalore 560 017, India
email: TISL1@almaden.ibm.com
Ph:(+91 80) 526 2355/7117 Fax: (+91 80) 558 7374
Amit Sheth
Department of Computer Science
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
email: amit@cs.uga.edu
Ph: (+1 706) 542 2310 Fax: (+1 706) 542 2966
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Deepak B. Phatak
Department of Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Powai
Mumbai (Bombay) 400 076, India
email: dbp@cse.iitb.ernet.in
Ph: (+91 22) 578 2545 Fax: (+91 22) 578 3480
Sham Navathe
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
email: sham@cc.gatech.edu
Ph: (+1 404) 853 0537 Fax: (+1 404) 894 9442
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Harish Mehta
Onward Novell Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Krislon House, II Floor, Saki Vihar Road
Mumbai (Mumbai) 400 072, India
email: hmehta@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
Ph: (+91 22) 822 1569 Fax: (+91 22) 836 4180
AREA COORDINATORS
ASIA/AUSTRALIA
Ron Sacks-Davis, CITRI, Australia
email: crsd@citri.edu.au
AMERICAS
Ravi Krishnamurthy, HP Labs, USA
email: krishnam@hpl.hp.com
EUROPE
Martin Kersten, CWI, Holland
email: mk@cwi.nl
PROCEEDINGS EDITOR
T.M. Vijayaraman
National Center for Software Technology, India
email: vijay@ncst.ernet.in
VLDB FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE
Hector Garcia-Molina
Stanford University, USA
email: hector@cs.stanford.edu
TREASURER
Shriprakash M. Dhopeshwarkar (Baba)
Tata Unisys Ltd.
Manish Comm. Centre, 216A Dr. A.B. Road
Worli, Mumbai (Bombay) 400 025, India
Ph: (+91 22) 493 3560 Fax: (+91 22) 495 0318
PUBLICITY
M.R. Datar
MSEB, Mistry Bhavan
Dinshaw Vachha Road
Mumbai (Bombay) 400 020, India
Ph: (+91 22) 282 1428/0220 Fax: (+91 22) 2832544
CSI Mumbai Chapter Chairman
Anis Milwala (Indian Register of Shipping)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, Le Chesnay
* Michel Adiba, Universite de Grenoble
* Antonio Albano, University of Pisa
* Francois Bancilhon, O2 Technology, Versailles
* Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino
* Dirk Bartels, Poet Software GmbH
* Catriel Beeri, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
* Kjell Bratbergsengen, University of Trondheim
* Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research
* Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu
* To-yat Cheung, City University of Hong Kong
* Chang Chin-Chen, National Chung Cheng University, Chai-I
* Richard Cooper, University of Glasgow
* Daniel M. Dias, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne
* Oscar Diaz, The Basque Country University
* Guozhu Dong, University of Melbourne
* Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara
* Alan Fekete, University of Sydney
* Michael J. Franklin, University of Maryland, College Park
* Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund
* Shashi K. Gadia, Iowa State University, Ames
* Peter Gray, University of Aberdeen
* Ralf Hartmut Gueting, University of Hagen
* Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
* Eric N. Hanson, University of Florida, Gainsville
* Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
* Bala Iyer, IBM Santa Teresa Laboratory, San Jose
* H.V. Jagadish, AT&T Research, Murray Hill
* Keith G. Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton
* Leonid A. Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences
* Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University
* Kamal Karlapalem, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* Martin Kersten, CWI, Amsterdam
* Hans-Peter Kriegel, LMU Muenchen
* Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg
* Rosana S.G. Lanzelotte, Pontificia Univ Catolica, Rio de Janeiro
* P.-A. (Paul) Larson, University of Waterloo
* Georg Lausen, Universitaet Freiburg
* Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Frederick H. Lochovsky, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* David Lomet, Microsoft Research, Redmond
* Hongjun Lu, National University of Singapore
* A.K. Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
* Heikki Mannila, University of Helsinki
* Dewang Mehta, NASSCOM, New Delhi
* Klaus Meyer-Wegener, TU Dresden
* Tova Milo, Tel-Aviv University
* Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern
* Atsushi Ohori, Kyoto University
* Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
* Maria E. Orlowska, The University of Queensland
* Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
* Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano
* Stefano Paraboschi, Politecnico di Milano
* Jan Paredaens, University of Antwerp
* Norman W. Paton, University of Manchester
* Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig
* Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Colette Rolland, Universite Paris 1 Sorbonne
* Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE Corporation, Bedford
* Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland, College Park
* Marek Rusinkiewicz, University of Houston
* Felix Saltor, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
* Donovan Schneider, Red Brick Systems, Los Gatos
* Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens
* S. Seshadri, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
* Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto
* Eugene Shekita, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
* Oded Shmueli, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
* Arie Shoshani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
* Eric Simon, INRIA, Le Chesnay
* Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Research, Murray Hill
* Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
* D.K. Subramanian, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
* S. Sudarshan, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
* Arun Swami, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View
* Riccardo Torlone, Terza Universita' di Roma
* Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, Houston
* Jari Veijalainen, VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo
* T.M. Vijayaraman, National Center for Software Technology, Mumbai
(Bombay)
* Gerhard Weikum, University of the Saarland, Saarbruecken
* Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
* Gio Wiederhold, Stanford University
* Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, Chicago
* Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
* Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne
* Stan Zdonik, Brown University, Providence
ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
o The Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,
Indian Institute of Technology , Bombay, India.
o National Center for Software Technology (NCST) , Bombay
o Computer Society of India
DISCLAIMER
We are putting our best efforts into organizing VLDB'96, to make it an
enlightening and enjoyable experience for participants. However,
neither the VLDB endowment nor the local organizers or Thomas Cook take
any responsibility for any damage, loss or inconvenience participants
might incur in connection with the conference. We also cannot be held
responsible for the correctness or appropriateness of the contents of
the talks and papers included in this conference.
In particular, changes to the published conference program or
cancellations of parts thereof do not entitle participants to a refund
of the conference fee or parts thereof.
Names/addresses of attendees will be electronically processed and
included in a participants list that may be posted/distributed during
and in connection with the conference.
By registering for the conference, participants express their
agreements with these regulations.
PRE AND POST CONFERENCE TOURs
-----------------------------
Thomas Cook will organize three pre and post conference tours.
These tours are being arranged by Thomas Cook who are solely responsible for
the arrangements.
For more information contact vldbtrvl@cse.iitb.ernet.in
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22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VERY LARGE DATA BASES
September 3-6, 1996, Taj Mahal Hotel,
Mumbai (Bombay), India
Registration Form
Please type or print clearly in large letters.
Last Name:......................... First Name:.........................
Affiliation:.............................................................
Mailing Address: .........................................................
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Tel:............................... Fax:.................................
E-mail:...................................................................
Registration Fees:
On or before August 1st After August 1st
Regular registration fee US$ 350 Rs. 9500 US$ 390 Rs. 12000
Student registration fee US$ 175 Rs. 4750 US$ 175 Rs. 4750
Note: Only participants from India are permitted to
make payment in rupees. Others have to pay in US dollars.
Amount enclosed: US$................. or Rs. ...........................
To be allowed to pay the student registration fee, this form must be
signed by the student's advisor:
Advisor's name:...................... Advisor's signature: ...............
Advisor's affiliation:.....................................................
Payment will be accepted by credit cards or by draft/banker checks
payable to "Hongkong Bank A/C VLDB'96".
If paying by credit cards:
(1) Please add an additional 2 percent processing fee.
(2) Please enclose a photocopy of both sides of your credit cards.
(3) Please sign the following authorisation:
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to my
Credit Card number:.....................
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issued by:................................................ (Name of the Bank)
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visa application: (Yes/No)...................................
Please indicate which tutorials you plan to attend:
Tutorial 1 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 2 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 3 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 2 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 4 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 5 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 6 (Yes/No) .............
Tutorial 7 (Yes/No) .............
Special offer :(Yes/No)............ Check here if you want to
subscribe to the VLDB journal (starting 1997) and get the last
issue of 1996 (Vol. 5, No. 4) for FREE. Yearly cost:US$ 48 for
individuals, US$ 192 for institutions.
(Issue 5(4) will be sent to you along with a bill later.)
Please mail this registration form (with payment enclosed) to:
VLDB Secretariat, Attn: Prof. D.B. Phatak,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
I.I.T. Powai, Mumbai 400 076. INDIA
Fax: +91.22 578 3480
email: vldb96@cse.iitb.ernet.in
Web : http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in/
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22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VERY LARGE DATA BASES
September 3-6, 1996, Taj Mahal Hotel,
Mumbai (Bombay), India
Hotel Reservation & Tours Booking Form
Please type or print clearly in large letters.
Mailing Address:..............................
Last Name:.............................. First Name:.......................
Affiliation: ..............................
Mailing Address: ..............................
Tel:..................... Fax:.....................
E-mail: .....................
Arrival date:..................... Time: .....................
Hotel Reservation
I wish to reserve a
Single room .......
Double room .......(Check here if you would prefer a double bed)
Check-in:............ Check out:............ No. of nights:............
at the following hotel:......................
Hotel Star rating Single Double Single Double
(US ) (US ) Indian Rs. Indian Rs.
Taj Mahal (Old Wing) Five-Deluxe 258 276 11400 12360
Taj Intercontinental Five-Deluxe 228 246 8220 9000
The Oberoi Five-Deluxe 276 306 11400 12360
Oberoi Towers Five-Deluxe 228 252 8220 9120
President Five 192 210 6600 7200
The Ambassador Four 126 147 4200 4800
Fariyas Four 88 110 2880 3360
West End Four 40 55 1250 1710
Godwin Three 39 50 1320 1700
Hotel Suba Palace Three 39 48 1200 1500
Hotel Diplomat Two 40 50 1300 1660
Chateau Windsor Two 32 46 1000 1450
Note : 1. If two attendees are sharing a double room, only one of
them should submit the hotel reservation form.
2. You may give your order of preference, in case of non-availability of
rooms in a hotel, by writing numbers (1=first,2=second ...) next to
the boxes.
To make sure that you get rooms in the hotel of your choice, please
make your reservations as early as possible.
3. The deposit for reservation is equal to the charge for one nights
accomodation, and is non-refundable (it may be transferable in
some cases).
4. All hotel rates are inclusive of presently applicable taxes and
service charges.
5. Contact Thomas Cook if you are looking for cheaper accommodation.
Tours Reservation
I wish to make reservations in the following tours: (please check the
supplement boxes wherever required)
Tour Days/Nights Cost per Supplement Cost Tour Start Seats Total
person Air Fare Single Date Cost
in US$ in US$ in US$ in US$
Aurangabad 3/2 145/- 102/- 26/-
Weekend
Golden 6/5 510/- 116/- 160/-
Triangle
Taj 2/1 95/- 5/-
Experience
Total in US$.............
Note:
1. The cost includes accommodation at hotels mentioned in the itinerary
on twin sharing room basis, and sight-seeing and transfer as per
itinerary. If single room is required please add cost of
single room supplement.
2. Tour costs are subject to a minimum of six persons travelling together
3. Full payment is required for booking tours.
4. Please see brochure for full details.
Payment Details
Hotel Deposit:
Tours cost:
1-2
Total Amount enclosed US$/Rs:
by draft..... bankers check........ credit card........
telegraphic transfer...............
Payment will be accepted by credit card or by draft/banker check or telegraphic
payable to THOMAS COOK(INDIA) LIMITED, BOMBAY.
Participants from outside India must pay in US dollars.
If paying by credit card, please attach a copy of both sides of the credit
card and sign the following authorisation:
I authorise THOMAS COOK to debit my Visacard....... Mastercard ........
Credit Card number: .......... Exp. Date: ..........
a sum of US /Rs: ..............
Passport Number:.............. issued on: ..............
at: ..............
Date of expiry of passport:...................
Date of birth as in passport:............................
Cardholder's name:.............. Signature: ..............
Use the following details if you make your payment by telegraphic transfer:
Account Code : 01CBC8501301
Account Name : Thomas Cook (India) Limited
Bank : ANZ Grindlays Bank plc, M.G.Road, Fort, Bombay, INDIA
Please send this form to:
Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. Attn: Mr. Hiren Parekh
Thomas Cook Building, Dr. D. Naoroji Road
MUMBAI - 400 001 India.
(tel) +91.22 204 8556
(fax) +91.22 204 6769 and +91.22 287 1069
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