From richardson_jim@htc.honeywell.com Wed May 11 14:39:19 EDT 1994 Article: 10351 of comp.lang.prolog Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:6130 comp.databases:34618 comp.lang.misc:15749 comp.infosystems:3172 comp.theory:9723 comp.ai:21917 comp.lang.prolog:10351 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!udel!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!not-for-mail From: richardson_jim@htc.honeywell.com (Jim Richardson) Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences,comp.databases,comp.lang.misc,comp.infosystems,comp.theory,comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog Subject: 1994 SIGMOD/PODS advance registration deadline Followup-To: poster Date: 28 Apr 1994 11:12:18 -0500 Organization: Honeywell Technology Center Lines: 972 Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Distribution: inet Expires: 29 May 1994 8:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <2pon92$114@sparky.sterling.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.sterling.com May 3 is the advance registration deadline for the 1994 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data and SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS). Registration forms postmarked by then will receive reduced rates. Mail-in registration forms arriving by May 16 will be accepted, but on-site rates will apply. Get those registration forms in! For your convenience, an abbreviated advance program with hotel and conference registration forms is attached. The complete advance program and the conference and hotel registration forms are available in PostScript and text format via anonymous ftp at ftp.cs.arizona.edu (directory sigmodpods94) and in the SIGMOD Information Server, accessible via Mosaic at URL http://bunny.cs.uiuc.edu/README.html. ---- To Members of the Database Community: The ACM SIGMOD/PODS 94 Joint Conference continues the tradition of the last few years in bringing together the theoretical and applied database communities. The joint conference will feature the presentation of original research papers, invited talks, tutorials, industrial sessions, a panel, and demonstrations of experimental database prototypes. The SIGMOD and PODS conferences will overlap for two days, but each conference will have a separate third day without overlap. There will be, however, only one registration process for the joint, four-day conference. Attendees will receive both proceedings and be encouraged to attend sessions in both conferences. The award session, reception, lunches and the banquet are joint events. The computing environment in the 90s is changing rapidly into a truly distributed one with processors ranging from PCs to supercomputers linked together via high-speed networks. Enormous amount of diverse information is becoming available to individuals through the Internet or the future information superhighway. The development of database technology for dealing with very large multimedia, complex, and interdependent information is critical for our society to benefit fully from the new environment. The SIGMOD/PODS Joint Conference represents the combined efforts of the theoretical and applied database communities to tackle the new challenges facing the database professionals. We encourage you to participate in what promises to be an exciting and important event. David Du, SIGMOD General Chair Mihalis Yannakakis, PODS General Chair HIGHLIGHTS PODS * Invited Talk by David Harel (Weizmann Institute). * 3 Tutorials on: - Data Mining - Languages for Collection Types - Text Databases * Presentation of 28 papers in the Technical Program. SIGMODACm * Presentation of the SIGMOD Awards. * 3 Invited Industrial Plenary Talks by: - Andy Laursen (Oracle Corporation) - David Vaskevitch (Microsoft Corporation) - Wes Melling (Gartner Group) * Presentation of 40 papers in the Technical Program. * Panel on Parallel Database Systems in the 1990's. * 4 Industrial Sessions on: - Object-Relational Systems - Object Standards Efforts - Parallelism for Decision Support - Replicated Data * 3 Tutorials on: - Object-Oriented Databases - Advanced Transaction Models---Survey and Critique - Databases for Networks * Demonstrations of 15 experimental database prototypes. * Exhibits by several major publishers. LOCATION Minneapolis, Minnesota combined with St. Paul (called the "Twin Cities") is the largest metropolitan area in the upper mid-west with 2.4 million population. The Twin Cities are famous for their clean and healthy environment with hundreds of lakes, more than 50 golf courses, and numerous city, county and state parks. It has been ranked in the top 5 most liveable cities in the United States in the last few years. Minneapolis has a pleasant climate in late May. The average temperature is 65F (19C). The conference will be held at Minneapolis Hilton and Towers Hotel which is located in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. The hotel is connected via skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center, Orchestra Hall and all of the downtown shopping attractions. Nearby tourist attractions include the Mall of America (the largest shopping mall in the United States, with more than 300 shops), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Science Museum, Minnesota State Capitol, Minnesota Zoo, and several music groups and theaters. SOCIAL EVENTS Monday, May 23rd, 7:00--11:00pm Welcoming Reception. Come mingle and enjoy some hors d'oeuvres and music. Wednesday, May 25th, 8:30--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting will be held at the hotel, after dinner. Thursday, May 26th, 12:00--2:00pm Lunch and SIGMOD Business Meeting. Thursday, May 26th, 6:45--10:30pm Conference Banquet. MONDAY, MAY 23RD 7:00--11:00pm Registration Welcoming Reception TUESDAY, MAY 24TH 8:15--9:00am Continental Breakfast 9:00--10:00am PODS Invited Talk "`Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?': Some Thoughts on Theory vs. Practice in Systems Engineering", David Harel (Weizmann Institute) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30am--12:30pm PODS Session 1: Access Methods & Sampling Chair: Dennis Shasha (Courant Institute) "Beyond Uniformity and Independence: Analysis of R-trees Using the Concept of Fractal Dimension", Christos Faloutsos and Ibrahim Kamel (University of Maryland) "On the Relative Cost of Sampling for Join Selectivity Estimation", Peter J. Haas (IBM Almaden Research Center), Jeffrey F. Naughton (University of Wisconsin) and Arun N. Swami (IBM Almaden Research Center) "Path Caching: A Technique for Optimal External Searching", Sridhar Ramaswamy and Sairam Subramanian (Brown University) "Optimal Response Time Retrieval of Replicated Data", Ling Tony Chen and Doron Rotem (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) 12:30--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 2: Constraints Chair: Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin) "Constraint Checking with Partial Information", Ashish Gupta (Stanford University), Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University), Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University) and Jennifer Widom (Stanford University) "Compiling Query Constraints", Peter J. Stuckey (University of Melbourne) and S. Sudarshan (AT&T Bell Laboratories) "Constraints among Argument Sizes in Logic Programs", Kirack Sohn (University of California, Santa Cruz) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 3: Data Mining Chair: Richard Hull (University of Southern California/University of Colorado, Boulder) Tutorial: "Data Mining", Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center) "The Power of Sampling in Knowledge Discovery", Jyrki Kivinen (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki) WEDNESDAY, MAY 25TH 7:45--8:30am Continental Breakfast 8:30--9:00am SIGMOD Awards Ceremony Chair: David Du (University of Minnesota) 9:00--10:45am PODS Session 4: Datalog Chair: Georg Gottlob (Technical University of Vienna) "Can Datalog be approximated?", Surajit Chaudhuri (Hewlett Packard Laboratories) and Phokion G. Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Bounded Arity Datalog ($\neq$) Queries on Graphs", Foto Afrati (National Technical University of Athens) "On the Complexity of Equivalence between Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs", Surajit Chaudhuri (Hewlett Packard Laboratories) and Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) SIGMOD Session 1A: Mobile Databases Chair: Arie Segev (University of California, Berkeley) "Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments", Daniel Barbara (Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory) and Tomasz Imielinski (Rutgers University) "Data Replication for Mobile Computers", Yixiu Huang, Prasad Sistla and Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago) "Indexing on Air", Tomasz Imielinski, S. Viswanathan and B. R. Badrinath (University of Rutgers) "Challenges: Database Issues in Tele-Communications Network Management", Ilsoo Ahn (AT&T Bell Laboratories) SIGMOD Session 1B: Transaction Processing Chair: Jennifer Widom (Stanford University) "ASSET: A System for Supporting Extended Transactions", A. Biliris (AT&T Bell Laboratories), S. Dar (AT&T Bell Laboratories), N. Gehani (AT&T Bell Laboratories), H. V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Laboratories) and K. Ramamritham (University of Massachusetts) "ARIES/CSA: A Method for Data Base Recovery in Client-Server Architectures", C. Mohan and Inderpal Narang (IBM Almaden Research Center) "Ensuring Relaxed Atomicity for Flexible Transactions in Multidatabase Systems", Aidong Zhang (Purdue University), Marian H. Nodine (Brown University) and Omran Bukhres (Purdue University) SIGMOD Tutorial: Object-Oriented Databases Instructor: Jose Blakeley (Texas Instruments) 10:45--11:00am Coffee Break 11:00am--12:30pm PODS Session 5: File Structures & Concurrency Chair: Vassos Hadzilacos (University of Toronto) "A Decomposition-Based Simulated Annealing Technique for Data Clustering", Kien A. Hua, S. D. Lang and W. K. Lee (University of Central Florida) "Reducing Recovery Constraints on Locking Based Protocols", G. Alonso, D. Agrawal and A. El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Relative Serializability: An Approach for Relaxing the Atomicity of Transactions", D. Agrawal, J. L. Bruno, A. El Abbadi and V. Krishnasawamy (University of California, Santa Barbara) SIGMOD Session 2A: Multimedia Databases and Hash Joins Chair: Meral Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University) "Staggered Striping in Multimedia Information Systems", Steven Berson, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Richard Muntz and Xiangyu Ju (University of California, Los Angeles) "Data Modeling of Time-Based Media", Simon Gibbs, Christian Breiteneder and Dennis Tsichritzis (University of Geneva) "Processor Allocation and Hash Filtering for Parallel Execution of Hash Joins", Hui-I. Hsiao, Ming-Syan Chen and Philip S. Yu (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center) SIGMOD Industrial Session 1: Replicated Data Chair: Ahmed Elmagarmid (Purdue University) "Oracle's Symmetric Replication Technology and Implications for Application Design", Dean S. Daniels (Oracle Corporation) "DEC Data Distributor for Data Replication and Data Warehousing", Daniel J. Dietterich (Digital Equipment Corporation) "Sybase Replication Server", Alex Gorelik (Sybase Corporation) SIGMOD Tutorial: Object-Oriented Databases, continued Instructor: Jose Blakeley (Texas Instruments) 12:30--2:00pm Lunch (on your own) 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 6: Collection Types I Chair: Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University) Tutorial: "Languages for Collection Types", Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania) "New Techniques for Studying Set Languages, Bag Languages, and Aggregate Functions", Leonid Libkin, Limsoon Wong (University of Pennsylvania) SIGMOD Session 3A: Deductive Databases Chair: Leonore Zink (University of Stuttgart) "Implementation of Magic-sets in Starburst", Inderpal Singh Mumick (AT&T Bell Laboratories) and Hamid Pirahesh (IBM Almaden Research Center) "XSB as an Efficient Deductive Database Engine", Konstantinos Saganas, Terrance Swift and David S. Warren (State University of New York at Stony Brook) "A Performance Study of Transitive Closure Algorithms", Shaul Dar and Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin) SIGMOD Session 3B: Query Optimization I Chair: Guy M. Lohman (IBM Almaden Research Center) "Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans", Richard L. Cole (University of Colorado) and Goetz Graefe (Portland State University) "Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback", Chungmin Melvin Chen and Nick Roussopoulos (University of Maryland) "Estimating Page Fetches for Index Scans with Finite LRU Buffers", Arun Swami (IBM Almaden Research Center) and K. Bernhard Schiefer (IBM Canada Laboratory) SIGMOD Panel: Parallel Database Systems in the 1990's Chair: Michael J. Carey (University of Wisconsin) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 7: Collection Types II Chair: Nicole Bidoit (University of Paris XIII) "A Query Language for NC", Dan Suciu and Val Breazu-Tannen (University of Pennsylvania) "A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects", Latha S. Colby (Data Parallel Systems), Edward L. Robertson (Indiana University), Lawrence V. Saxton (University of Regina) and Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University) "Universal Finiteness and Satisfiability", Inderpal Singh Mumick (AT&T Bell Laboratories) and Oded Shmueli (Technion) SIGMOD Invited Industrial Plenary Talk Chair: H. V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Laboratories) "Oracle Media Server: Providing Consumer Based Interactive Access to Multimedia Data", Andy Laursen, Senior Director, Media Server Development, Oracle Corporation 8:30--11:00pm PODS Business Meeting THURSDAY, MAY 26TH 7:45--8:30am Continental Breakfast 8:30--10:00am PODS Session 8: Query Languages and Complexity Chair: Victor Vianu (University of California, San Diego/INRIA Rocquencourt) "Any Algorithm in the Complex Object Algebra with Powerset Needs Exponential Space to Compute Transitive Closure", Dan Suciu (University of Pennsylvania) and Jan Paredaens (University of Antwerp) "Dyn-FO: A Parallel, Dynamic Complexity Class", Sushant Patnaik and Neil Immerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Functional Database Query Languages as Typed Lambda Calculi of Fixed Order", Gerd G. Hillebrand (Brown University/INRIA Rocquencourt) and Paris C. Kanellakis (Brown University) SIGMOD Session 4A: Discovery Chair: Christos Faloutsos (University of Maryland) "Combinatorial Pattern Discovery for Scientific Data: Some Preliminary Results", Jason T. L. Wang (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Gung-Wei Chirn (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Thomas G. Marr (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Bruce Shapiro (National Cancer Institute), Dennis Shasha (New York University) and Kaizhong Zhang (University of Western Ontario) "The Efficacy of GlOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem", Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina and Anthony Tomasic (Stanford University) "Incomplete Path Expressions and their Disambiguation", Yannis E. Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin) and Yezdi Lashkari (MIT Media Laboratory) SIGMOD Industrial Session 2: Object Standards Efforts Chair: Umeshwar Dayal (HP Laboratories) "Object-Oriented Extensions in SQL3: A Status Report", Krishna Kulkarni (Tandem Computers) "COSS: The OMG Common Object Services Specifications", Bruce Martin (SunSoft) "ODMG-93: A Standard for Object-Oriented Databases", Rick Cattell (SunSoft) SIGMOD Tutorial: Advanced Transaction Models---Survey and Critique Instructor: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30am--12:00 PODS Session 9: Object-Oriented Databases Chair: Jianwen Su (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Object Migration", Alberto O. Mendelzon (University of Toronto), Tova Milo (University of Toronto) and Emmanuel Waller (INRIA Rocquencourt/University of Paris XI) "Making Object-Oriented Schemas More Expressive", Diego Calvanese and Maurizio Lenzerini (Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") "A Polymorphic Calculus for Object Sharing and View Definitions", Atsushi Ohori (Kyoto University) and Keishi Tajima (University of Tokyo) SIGMOD Session 5A: High Performance Algorithms Chair: Donovan Schneider (HP Laboratories) "Managing Memory for Real-Time Queries", HweeHwa Pang, Michael J. Carey and Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin) "AlphaSort: A RISC Machine Sort", Chris Nyberg, Tom Barclay, Zarka Cvetanovic, Jim Gray and Dave Lomet (Digital San Francisco Systems Center) "Quickly Generating Billion-Record Synthetic Databases", Jim Gray (Digital San Francisco Systems Center), Prakash Sundaresan (Digital San Francisco Systems Center), Susanne Englert (Tandem Computers), Ken Baclawski (Northeastern University) and Peter Weinberger (AT&T Bell Laboratories) SIGMOD Session 5B: Distributed Processing Chair: Johann Christoph Freytag (Humboldt University, Berlin) "Distributed File Organization with Scalable Cost/Performance", Radek Vingralek (University of Kentucky), Yuri Breitbart (University of Kentucky) and Gerhard Weikum (ETH Zuerich) "Distributing a Search Tree Among a Growing Number of Processors", Brigitte Kroell and Peter Widmayer (ETH Zuerich) "Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing", Hasanet M. Dewan, Mauricio Hernandez, Salvatore J. Stolfo and Jae-Jun Hwang (Columbia University) SIGMOD Tutorial 2: Advanced Transaction Models, continued Instructor: C. Mohan (IBM Almaden Research Center) 12:00--2:00pm Lunch and SIGMOD Business Meeting 2:00--3:30pm PODS Session 10: Incomplete and Spatial Databases Chair: Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) "Adding Disjunction to Datalog", Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Vienna), Georg Gottlob (Technical University of Vienna) and Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki) "Towards a theory of spatial database queries", Jan Paredaens (University of Antwerp), Jan Van den Bussche (University of Antwerp) and Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University) "Finitely Representable Databases", Stephane Grumbach (INRIA Rocquencourt) and Jianwen Su (University of California, Santa Barbara) SIGMOD Session 6A: Textual Databases Chair: Maria Zemankova (MITRE Corporation) "Incremental Updates of Inverted Lists for Text Document Retrieval", Anthony Tomasic (Stanford University), Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University) and Kurt Shoens (IBM Almaden Research Center) "Optimizing Queries on Files", Mariano P. Consens and Tova Milo (University of Toronto) "From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities", V. Christophides, S. Abiteboul, S. Cluet and M. Scholl (INRIA Rocquencourt) SIGMOD Session 6B: Query Optimization II Chair: Ed Omiecinski (Georgia Tech University) "Practical Predicate Placement", Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of Wisconsin) "Optimizing Disjunctive Queries with Expensive Predicates", A. Kemper (Universitaet Passau), G. Moerkotte (Universitaet Karlsruhe), K. Peithner (Universitaet Passau) and M. Steinbrunn (Universitaet Passau) "Outerjoins as Disjunctions", Cesar Galindo-Legaria (CWI, Amsterdam) SIGMOD Industrial Session 3: Object-Relational Systems Chair: Jose Blakeley (Texas Instruments) "UniSQL/X Unified Relational and Object-Oriented Database System", Won Kim (UniSQL) "The Montage Extensible Datablade Architecture", Mike Ubell (Montage Software) "Object-Oriented Features of DB2/6000 Version 2", Hamid Pirahesh (IBM Almaden Research Center) 3:30--4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00--5:30pm PODS Session 11: Text Databases Chair: Peter Buneman (University of Pennsylvania) Tutorial: "Text Dominated Databases, Theory Practice and Experience", Gaston H. Gonnet (ETH Zuerich) "Reasoning about Strings in Databases", Gosta Grahne, Matti Nykanen and Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki) SIGMOD Invited Industrial Plenary Talk Chair: Shel Finkelstein (Montage Software) "Database: Crisis and Transition", David Vaskevitch, Director of Enterprise Computing, Microsoft Corporation 6:45--10:30pm Conference Banquet FRIDAY, MAY 27TH 7:45--8:30am Continental Breakfast 8:30--10:00am SIGMOD Session 7A: Object Servers Chair: Tekin Ozsoyoglu (Case Western Reserve University) "Fine-Grained Sharing in a Page Server OODBMS", Michael J. Carey (University of Wisconsin), Michael J. Franklin (University of Maryland) and Markos Zaharioudakis (University of Wisconsin) "Partition Selection Policies in Object Database Garbage Collection", Jonathan E. Cook, Alexander L. Wolf and Benjamin G. Zorn (University of Colorado) "Shoring Up Persistent Applications", Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Franklin, Nancy Hall, Mark McAuliffe, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Daniel T. Schuh, Marvin H. Solomon, C. K. Tan, Odysseas Tsatolos, Seth White and Michael J. Zwilling (University of Wisconsin) SIGMOD Industrial Session 4: Parallelism for Decision Support", Gerhard Weikum (ETH Zuerich) "Evolving Teradata Decision Support for Massively Parallel Processing on UNIX", Carrie Ballinger (AT&T/Teradata) "NonStop SQL: Scalability and Availability for Decision Support", Susanne Englert (Tandem Computers) "Red Brick Warehouse: A Read-Mostly RDBMS for Open SMP Platforms", Phil Fernandez (Red Brick Systems) SIGMOD Tutorial 3: Databases for Networks Instructor: H. V. Jagadish (AT&T Bell Laboratories) 10:00--10:30am Coffee Break 10:30--11:30am SIGMOD Session 8A: Object Storage Chair: David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute) "QuickStore: A High Performance Mapped Object Store", Seth J. White and David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin) "Self-Adaptive, On-Line Reclustering of Complex Object Data", William J. McIver, Jr. and Roger King (University of Colorado) SIGMOD Session 8B: Sequence Data", Yannis Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin) "Fast Subsequence Matching in Time-Series Databases", Christos Faloutsos, M. Ranganathan and Yannis Manolopoulos (University of Maryland) "Sequence Query Processing", Praveen Seshadri, Miron Livny and Raghu Ramakrishnan (University of Wisconsin) SIGMOD Session 8C: Spatial Joins Chair: Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University) "Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins", Thomas Brinkoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneider and Bernhard Seeger (University of Munich) "Spatial Joins Using Seeded Trees", Ming-Ling Lo and Chinya V. Ravishankar (University of Michigan) 11:30am--12:15pm SIGMOD Invited Industrial Plenary Talk Chair: Michael J. Carey (University of Wisconsin) "Enterprise Information Architectures: They're Finally Changing", Wes Melling, Program Director for Midrange Computing Strategies, Gartner Group RESEARCH PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS "Relaxed Transaction Processing", Munindar P. Singh, Christine Tomlinson and Darrell Woelk (Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation) "IMPRESS Database Design Tool", Jan Flokstra, Maurice van Keulen and Jacek Skowronek (University of Twente) "The MEDUSA Project: Autonomous Data Management in a Shared Nothing Parallel Database Machine", George M. Bryan, Wayne E. Moore, B. J. Curry, K. Lodge and J. Geyer (University of Western Sidney, Nepean) "MOSAICO: A System for Conceptual Modeling and Rapid Prototyping of Object-Oriented Database Applications", Michele Missikoff and M. Toiati (IASI-CNR, Rome) "A Language Based Multidatabase System", Wva Kuhn, Konrad Schwarz and Thomas Tschernko (Technische Universitaet Wien) "Ptool: A Scalable Persistent Object Store", Robert L. Grossman (University of Illinois at Chicago) "The ORES Temporal Database Management System", Babis Theodoulidis, Aziz Ait-Braham, George Andrianopoulos, Jayant Chaudhary, George Karvelis and Simon Sou (UMIST) "XSB as a Deductive Database", Konstantinos Sagonas, Terrance Swift and David S. Warren (State University of New York at Stony Brook) "METU Object-Oriented DBMS", Asuman Dogac, Cetin Ozkan, Budak Arpinar, Tansel Okay and Cem Evrendilek (Middle East Technical University) "Quest: A Project on Database Mining", Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center) "Query by Diagram: A Visual Environment for Querying Databases", Tiziana Catarci and Guiseppe Santucci (Universita degli Studi di Roma) "DBLEARN: A System Prototype for Knowledge Discovery in Relational Databases", Jiawei Han, Yongjian Fu, Yue Huang and Nick Cercone (Simon Fraser University) "EOS: an Extensible Object Store", Alexandros Biliris and Euthimios Panagos (AT&T Bell Laboratories) "The MYRIAD Federated Database Prototype", S-Y. Hwang, E-P. Lim, H-R. Yang, K. Mediretta, M. Ganesh, D. Clements, J. Stenoien and J. Srivastava (University of Minnesota) "GENESYS: A System for Efficient Spatial Query Processing", Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneider and Bernhard Seeger (University of Munich) ACCOMMODATION Hotel Information ACM SIGMOD/PODS '94 will be held at the Minneapolis Hilton and Towers Hotel, located in the heart of downtown Minneapolis. The hotel is connected via skyway to the Minneapolis Convention Center, Orchestra Hall and all of the downtown shopping attractions. A block of rooms has been reserved until April 22, 1994. Please reserve a room by using the enclosed form or by calling 1-800-HILTONS or (612) 376-1000. Please be sure to identify yourself as a SIGMOD/PODS attendee when making your reservation and at check-in. The first night's deposit is required. Room rates and availability are not guaranteed past April 22. Local Transportation There are two choices for ground transportation from the airport to the hotel. (1) A Airport Express van service is available; arrangements can be made by contacting Airport Express Desk located near the baggage claim area between Carrousels 8 and 9 at the airport or by calling 612-827-7777 or 1-800-333-1532 for a reservation. The fare is $10.00 per person one way or $15.50 per person round-trip. (2) Taxi fare to the hotel is about $25.00. For participants driving to Minnapolis, the address of the hotel is 1001 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis. It occupies the whole block of the downtown between 10th ST and 11th ST and Second Ave and Marquette Ave. Parking is available at the hotel. The charge is $9 per day for overnight guests who are SIGMOD/PODS attendees. Air Transportation Northwest Airlines is the "Preferred Airline" of ACM SIGMOD/PODS '94, offering special discount fares to North American conferees. International conferees would be eligible for Northwest VISIT USA program which provides greatly reduced prices. To take advantage of these discounts, call 1-800-328-1111 (Monday through Friday 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, Central Time) and cite WorldFile/Ticket Designator NST3S, or give this information to your travel agent. For additional information concerning local arrangements, contact: John Riedl Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: (612) 624-7372 Fax: (612) 625-0572 Email: riedl@cs.umn.edu =============================================================================== HOTEL RESERVATION FORM ACM SIGMOD/PODS May 22-28, 1994 DEADLINE: April 22, 1994 Complete this form and mail directly to hotel: Minneapolis Hilton and Towers Reservations Department 1001 Marquette Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55403 Phone: (612) 376-1000 or (800)-HILTONS FAX No.: (612) 397-4888 We are pleased that you have chosen the Minneapolis Hilton and Towers for your stay in Minneapolis. Our staff looks forward to extending a warm welcome to you upon your arrival. 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