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From:     teoym@iscs.nus.sg
Subject:  CFP: Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '95)
Date:     11 Apr 1994 12:11:20 -0500


                              CALL FOR PAPERS

                                DASFAA '95
                      4th International Symposium on
               Database Systems for Advanced Applications
     April 11-14, 1995, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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AIMS OF THE SYMPOSIUM
This symposium 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  on advanced  DBMS technologies, and  their advanced
applications.  Papers for implemented systems from academia's prototypes
and advanced industry projects are strongly solicited.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Original papers  concerned with  both theory and practice are solicited.
The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
    Data Modelling and Database Design
    Parallel and Distributed Databases
    Object-Oriented and Interoperable Databases
    Temporal, Active, and Deductive Databases
    Spatial Databases
    Statistical and Scientific Databases
    Multimedia Databases
    Engineering Databases
    Security and Integrity Techniques
    Query Languages and Query Optimization
    Database Design Tools
    Database for CASE, CAI
    Machine Learning/Knowledge Discovery
    Intelligent User Interfaces

PAPER SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit five copies of an original paper on topics
including,  but not limited  to  those listed  above, to  one of the two
program committee co-chairs.  Manuscripts  must be in  English, typed in
double spaced format  in  12 point font,  and not more than  5000 words.

    Tok Wang LING
    Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
    National University of Singapore
    Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511
    fax: (65) 779 4580     email: lingtw@iscs.nus.sg

    Yoshifumi MASUNAGA
    University of Library and Information Science
    1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba
    Ibaraki 305, Japan
    fax: (81) 298 52 4326  email: masunaga@ulis.ac.jp

PANEL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS
Each panel or tutorial proposal should include a one-page description of
the subject matter, the name of the organizer, and for panels, a list of
proposed panelists.  Submissions should be sent to the Panel or Tutorial
Chair:

    Hongjun LU, Panel Chair
    Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
    National University of Singapore
    Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511
    fax: (65) 779 4580     email: luhj@iscs.nus.sg

    Beng Chin OOI, Tutorial Chair
    Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
    National University of Singapore
    Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511
    fax: (65) 779 4580     email: ooibc@iscs.nus.sg

IMPORTANT DATES
    Paper submissions due:            September 17, 1994
    Panel & Tutorial proposals due:   October 8, 1994
    Notification of acceptance:       December 10, 1994
    Camera-ready copies due:          January 14, 1995

VENUE
The symposium will be  held  at the  National  University  of Singapore.
Singapore  is  an  exciting,  clean  and  modern  garden  city  offering
excellent  food,   shopping   and   accommodation.   English  is  spoken
everywhere and is the common business language of all.

FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the conference secretary.
    Ms Sew Kiok TOH
    Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
    National University of Singapore
    Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511
    fax: (65) 779 4580     email:tohsk@iscs.nus.sg

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Conference Chair:
  Chung Kwong YUEN, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Steering Committee Chair:
  Hideko KUNII, Ricoh, Japan
America Co-ordinator:
  Stanley Y W SU, University of Florida, USA
Europe Co-ordinator:
  Stefano SPACCAPIETRA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Program Committee Co-chairs:
  Tok Wang LING, NUS, Singapore
  Yoshifumi MASUNAGA, University of Library and Information Science, Japan
Panel Chair:
   Hongjun LU, NUS, Singapore
Tutorial Chair:
   Beng Chin OOI, NUS, Singapore
Publicity/Publication Chair:
   Yong Meng TEO, NUS, Singapore
Local Arrangement Chair:
   Kwok Kee WEI, NUS, Singapore
Exhibition Chair:
   Gary Soon Huat TAN, NUS, Singapore
Registration:
   Sam Yuan SUNG, NUS, Singapore
Treasurer:
   Mong Li LEE, NUS, Singapore
Conference Secretary:
   Ms Sew Kiok TOH, NUS, Singapore

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
D.J. Abel               CSIRO, Australia
E. Bertino              University of Genova, Italy
C.C. Chang              National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan
Arbee Chen              National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
S.K. Dao                Hughes Research Laboratories, USA
A. Deshpande            Persistent System Pte Ltd, India
D.W. Embley             Brigham Young University, USA
J. Grant                Towson State University, USA
Angela E.S. Goh         Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
J. Han                  Simon Fraser University, Canada
E.K. Hong               Seoul City University, Korea
H. Ikeda                Ritsumeikan University, Japan
U. Inoue                NTT, Japan
H. Ishikawa             Fujitsu Lab., Japan
H.F. Korth              Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., USA
Y. Kambayashi           Kyoto University, Japan
L.V.S. Lakshmanan       Concordia University, Canada
S.Y. Lee                National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Q. Li                   Hong Kong University of Science & Tech.
S.Y. Ling               National Computer Board, Singapore
F.H. Lochovsky          Hong Kong University of Science & Tech.
H.J. Lu                 National University of Singapore
Vincent Lum             Chinese University of Hong Kong
A. Makinouchi           Kyushu University, Japan
R. Manthey              University of Bonn, Germany
T.H. Merrett            McGill University, Canada
S. Miranda              Univ. of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
S.C. Moon               KAIST, Korea
D. Narasimhalu          Institute of Systems Science, Singapore
Peter A Ng              New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
M. Norrie               ETH, Switzerland
K.L. Ong                MCC, USA
B.C. Ooi                National University of Singapore
M. Orlowska             University of Queensland, Australia
K. Ramamohanarao        University of Melbourne, Australia
K.H. Ryu                Chungbuk National University, Korea
Ron Sacks-Davis         RMIT, University of Melbourne, Australia
H. Samet                University of Maryland, USA
N.L. Sarda              IIT (Bombay), India
Il-Yeol Song            Drexel University, USA
S. Spaccapietra         Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Stanley Y.W. Su         University of Florida, USA
K.P. Tan                National University of Singapore
K. Tanaka               Kobe University, Japan
A. Min Tjoa             University of Vienna, Austria
Frank W. Tompa          University of Waterloo, Canada
K.F. Wong               Chinese University of Hong Kong
K. Wang                 National University of Singapore
K.Y. Whang              KAIST, Korea
M. Yoshikawa            AIST-Nara, Japan
L. Zhou                 Tsinghua University, China
R. Zicari               University of Frankfurt, Germany
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Organised by        : Department of Information Systems and Computer
                      Science, National University of Singapore
In-cooperation with : ACM SIGMOD
                      IEEE Computer Society (under consideration)
Sponsored by        : Information Processing Society of Japan
                      Singapore Federation of Computer Industry (under
                      consideration)
With the support of : IEEE Singapore - Computer Chapter
                      Institute of Systems Science, Singapore
                      Information Technology Institute, Singapore
                      Korea Information Science Society
                      Singapore Computer Society
Official Publication: IT Asia
Official Airline    : Singapore Airlines (under consideration)