CFP:9th International Database Conference on Heterogeneous and Internet Databases

###     CALL FOR PAPERS         ### 

                            9th International Database Conference 
                        (formerly International Database Workshop) on
                
                        Heterogeneous and Internet Databases (IDC'99)
                                Hong Kong, July 15-17, 1999
                             http://gateway.cs.cityu.edu.hk:8168/idc99

        In conjunction with 6th International Symposium on Spatial Databases
                        http://www.cs.ust.hk/~ssd99

                                Sponsored by:
                        Sybase Hong Kong Limited
                    Informix Software(China) Co., Ltd.
                     Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited
                        IBM China/Hong Kong Limited
                    Sun Microsystems of California Limited
                        System Ace International Limited 

                                Organized by:
                        City University of Hong Kong
                        Open University of Hong Kong
                                ACM Hong Kong

SCOPE:
Among today's information technologies, it has become apparent that the Internet has
incredible 
potential to form the basis or foundation of an infrastructure. It is clearly an important
part 
of the emerging electronic commerce market. Companies are establishing external home pages
to 
communicate product and service information to potential and existing customers, and
investing in
Internet home pages that spread internal textual data throughout the organization. A more 
interesting manifestation of the Internet is the foundation of the client/server
infrastructure.
Companies that produce tools for  database access are beginning to tie their products into
the 
Internet. The issue of accessing a remote database through the Internet has posed
interesting 
problem for many database practitioners and researchers, especially in the area of
performance, 
security and reliability of an Internet database system.  

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers, limited to 20 pages or 6,000 words long
for 
inclusion in the conference to the program chair and industrial sessions chair. The area
of 
interest include, but are not limited to the followings:

                        Web Database Development
                        Internet Databases
                        New Applications
                        Case Studies
                        User Interfaces
                        Multimedia Databases
                        Security and Integrity Maintenance
                        Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
                        Object Relational Database
                        Interoperable Databses

Accepted paper will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by City 
University Press. Best paper award will also be given. Selected papers will be included in
the 
Journal of Applied Internet Research.

PROGRAM CHAIR                                 INDUSTRIAL SESSIONS CHAIR
Joseph Fong                                   Horace Chow 
Department of Computer Science                Sybase Hong Kong Limited  
City University of Hong Kong                  23rd floor, Lincoln House
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong           Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road,Hong Kong
email: csjfong@cityu.edu.hk, fax:(852)2788614 email:horacec@sybase.com, fax:(852)25066050

TUTORIAL:
One day tutorial proposals on July 15 at City University of Hong Kong should be addressed
to 
Stephen Yao of Informix Software (China) Co., Ltd., Beijing 100044, P.R.China. email: 
syao@informix.com

IMPORTANT DATES:
Close of call for paper:        January 11, 1999
Notice of acceptance:           March 1, 1999
Camera ready copy:              May 1, 1999

VENUE:
The 9th International Database Conference will be held between 15-17 July 1999, at the
City 
University and Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. The 6th International Symposium on Spatial
Databases
(in join promotion with IDC'99) (http://www.cs.ust.hk/~ssd99/) will take place in Hong
Kong on 
July 20-23, 1999.  A conference dinner will be hosted by Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited
at 
City University of Hong Kong.
        
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Balasubramanian N V             City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chakravarthy, Sharma            University of Florida, USA
Chen, Arbee L. P.               National Tsing Hua Univesity, Taiwan
Cheung, David                   University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cheung, T Y                     City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chin, Francis                   University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wolfgang Halang                 FernUniversit(t, Germany
Huang, Shi-ming                 Tatung Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Hughes, John                    University of Ulster, UK
Ip, Horace                      City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hsiao, David                    Naval Postgraduate School, USA
Kwan, Elisa                     IBM China/Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong
Lam, Ernest                     Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Lee, Dik                        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Leung, Ho-fung                  Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Leung, K.S.                     Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Li, Qing                        Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Liu Chun nian                   Beijing Polytechnic University, China
Lochovsky, Frederick            Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Hong Kong
Lu, Hougjun                     National University of Singapore, Singapore
Maier, David                    Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, USA
Navathe, Shamkant B.            Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Orlowska, Maria, E.             University of Queensland, Australia
Paul, Ray                       Brunel University, UK
Papadias, Dimitris              Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Hong Kong
Pu, Calton                      Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, USA
Sian, Keng                      University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Smith, Peter                    University of Sunderland, UK
Su, Stanley                     University of Florida, USA
Thalheim, Bernhard              Technische Universit(t Cottbus, Germany
Sun, Wei                        Florida International University, USA
Wong, K.F.                      Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wong Tat Meng                   Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wong, Vivian                    Oracle Systems Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong
Yao, Stephen                    Informix Software (China) Co., Ltd., China
Yeung, Danial                   Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong


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