I C D T 2001

The 8th International Conference on Database Theory

(preceded by a new International Workshop on Web Dynamics)

London, United Kingdom, 4-6 January 2001

Call for Papers

The series of ICDT conferences provides a biennial, international forum for the communication of research advances on the principles of database systems.

Topics of Interest

The following is intended to be a representative, but not necessarily exhaustive list.

Access methods and physical design
Active databases
Complexity and performance
Concurrency and recovery
Constraint databases
Data integration and interoperability
Data mining
Data models
Database programming languages
Database updates
Databases and information retrieval
Databases and workflow
Databases in e-commerce
Deductive databases and knowledge bases
Distributed databases
Data on the Web
Integrity and security
Logic and databases
Multimedia databases
Object-oriented databases
Query languages
Query optimization
Query processing
Real-time databases
Semi-structured and XML data
Spatial data
Temporal data
Transaction management
Views and data warehousing

Invited Speakers

Andrei Broder, Chief Technology Officer, AltaVista
Leonid Libkin, Bell Labs
Philip Wadler, Bell Labs

Regular Papers

High-quality research papers, describing original ideas on the fundamental aspects of all forms of database systems and technology, are solicited. Accepted papers will be presented as a talk at the conference. Submissions should be at most twelve pages long, using reasonable font size and page layout.

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science , and will also be part of the SIGMOD Anthology .

Submission Instructions

The submission procedure is electronic.

Best Newcomer Award

The Programme Committee will award a prize to the best regular paper written by newcomers to the field of database theory. (The Committee reserves the right to defer the award.)

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 12 June 2000
Notification of acceptance: 25 September 2000
Camera-ready copy due: 9 October 2000
Conference: 4-6 January 2001

Programme Co-Chairs

Jan Van den Bussche (Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium, vdbuss@luc.ac.be)
Victor Vianu (University of California at San Diego, USA, vianu@cs.ucsd.edu )

Programme Committee

Michael Benedikt (Bell Labs)
Nicole Bidoit (U Bordeaux)
Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research)
Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna)
Martin Grohe (U Freiburg)
Maurizio Lenzerini (U Rome La Sapienza)
Mark Levene (UC London)
Tova Milo (Tel Aviv U)
Limsoon Wong (KRDL)
Ken Ross (Columbia U)
Thomas Schwentick (U Mainz)
Luc Segoufin (INRIA)
Timos Sellis (NTU Athens)
Dan Suciu (AT&T Research)
Val Tannen (U Pennsylvania)
Jerzy Tyszkiewicz (U Warsaw)
Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana U)
Moshe Vardi (Rice U)
Gottfried Vossen (U Muenster)
Peter Widmayer (ETH Zurich)

Local Organisation

George Loizou (Chair)
James Bailey
Mark Levene
Alex Poulovassilis
Daniel Stamate
Betty Walters

School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, University of London