VLDB'99 Call for Papers 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 7th -10th September, 1999

VLDB'99, the Silver Jubilee VLDB conference will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland. It will present and review the latest achievements in database research and applications.  The maturity and judgement developed in this discipline over the last 25 years must now advance rapidly to accommodate dramatic increases in the loads imposed on database systems  and in the diversity of their uses. 

As the engineering for databases improves so the use of metrics to validate achievements becomes progressively more important. Moreover, the emergence of new technologies, such as ubiquitous computing, mobile devices and high-bandwidth communications, makes further demands on database technology. Databases also facilitate the incremental construction of ever larger and more sophisticated information systems.  Are databases a match for the requirements of the next millennium? 

You are invited to submit papers reporting recent results in the general field of databases.  The VLDB paper presentations take three forms.  Standard research papers take the traditional form. More speculative papers explore the future evolution of the database field to develop a vision of future database research, development and use. Papers, mainly from industry, describe the construction or operation of new and challenging applications of databases.  Panels, tutorials, and exhibits will communicate issues, views, new approaches and hard information about the practical leading-edge of database technology, applications and techniques. 
 

Topics of Interest

The topics of interest in VLDB '99 include but are not limited to: 
 

Active Databases  Advanced Applications of Databases  Authorization and Security  Concurrency Control and Recovery  Continuous Operation  DBMS Architectures  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery  Data Models and Database Design  Data Transformation & Integration  Data Warehousing  Databases as Components in large Systems  Database Benchmarks and Measurement  Database-centred Software Engineering  Database Constraint Management  Database Evolution and Migration  Database Languages and Semantics  Databases and Electronic Commerce  Engineering  Databases for Design, Production and Operation  Financial Applications of Databases  Geographic Information Systems  Globally Distributed Databases  Heterogeneous and Federated Databases  Information Retrieval and Database System Synergy  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  Programming Language and Database Integration  Real-time Databases  Replication, Caching, and View Materialization  Scientific and Statistical Databases  Semi-structured Data  Spatial Databases  Telecoms and Call-Centre Applications  Temporal Databases  Text Databases  Tractable, Realistic Models of Database Mechanisms and their Calibration  Ubiquitous Service Provision  User Interfaces  Visualizing the structure and content of databases  View Management  Visual Query Languages and Tools  World-wide Database Services  Workflow Systems

 

Research, Vision and Experience Papers

Research Papers 

Vision Papers 

Experience and Application Papers 

Six copies of original papers should be submitted to the appropriate conference programme co-chair depending on the geographic region in which the authors of the paper reside by February 22, 1999.  Papers must not be under consideration or published elsewhere. 

Papers should not exceed 20 pages, double-spaced and should be typeset with minimum 11-point font; over-length papers will be rejected without review. An abstract of the paper must be submitted electronically by February 15, 1999 with an indication as to whether the paper should be judged under the traditional research, the vision or experience criteria.  Details of the arrangements for electronic and paper submission are now available. 

Panel and Demonstration Proposals 

Demonstrations should demonstrate new technology, advances in applying databases or new techniques.  Often they will complement a presentation. Panels and demonstrations will have up to 4 pages in the proceedings.  Panels will use these to set the context, issues and viewpoint of the planned discussions. Just what are the big questions and why are they important for the database community.  Demonstrations will explain what is being demonstrated and how the demonstration shows the significance of the contribution to database technology, applications or techniques. 

Proposals should be submitted to the panel and demonstration programme chair, Ron Morrison (ron@dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk), electronically or in hard-copy by February 22, 1999. 

Tutorial Proposals 

Enough material should be included in a proposal to provide a sense of both the scope and depth that will be covered.  Evidence should be submitted that a high-quality presentation will be achieved in a standard 3-hour tutorial period.  We seek novel topics emerging in importance and of wide interest. 

Proposals should be submitted to the tutorial programme chair, Carole Goble (carole@cs.man.ac.uk), electronically or in hard-copy by February 22, 1999. 

Exhibits Proposals 

Summary of Where to Send Submissions

Postscript and PDF

Postscript: 

• A4 - cfp-a4.ps 
• US Letter - cfp-us.ps

PDF: 

• A4 - cfp-a4.pdf 
• US Letter - cfp-us.pdf

Full details of the conference can be found at: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~vldb99