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BalticDB&IS'2000

Fourth International Baltic Workshop on DB and IS

May 1-5, 2000, Vilnius, Lithuania

(Selected papers will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

www.science.mii.lt/BalticDB&IS

AIMS AND SCOPE

The aim of the Baltic Workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of scientific achievements between the research communities of Baltic countries and the rest of the world in the area of databases and information systems. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and PhD students and to give the opportunity to present their work and to exchange their ideas.

The workshop programme will be preceded by one-day Doctoral

Consortium chaired by invited professors. The Workshop will consist of regular sessions with technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international program committee, as well as of invited talks and tutorials given by leading scientists. The official language of the Workshop will be English. The Workshop continues the series of BalticDB&IS workshops held in Trakai (1994), Tallinn (1996), and Riga (1998).

TOPICS

Submissions are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

- global information systems,

- distributed information systems and regional (national) information

infrastructure,

- e-business and e-commerce,

- information systems, mobile computing, and agents,

- knowledge management and information systems,

- information systems, data warehousing, OLAP servers, and knowledge

discovery,

- activity modelling, advanced transaction, and workflow management,

- information system security,

- enterprise and information system architectures,

- systems, information systems, and software systems engineering

(specification (especially, formal), analysis, modelling, and design

methods/methodologies, and tools, etc.),

- component-based information systems development,

- domain-oriented inf. systems (GIS, legal IS, technical IS, etc.),

- multimedia information systems,

- foundations of databases,

- database architectures (client-server architectures, parallel and

distributed DB, interoperable DB, mobile DB, Internet DB, etc.),

- object-oriented, deductive and active databases,

- query languages,

- data models and database design,

- database performance, query processing and optimisation, storage

management,

- data quality, security and integrity,

- database and knowledge-base management systems and technology,

- database development tools,

- special databases (text DB, multimedia databases, statistical DB,

scientific DB, engineering DB, real-time DB,

temporal and spatial DB, etc.)

- scientific and engineering data-intensive applications.

SUBMISSION

We solicit contributions of the following kinds:

- full research papers,

- short papers,

- proposals for panel discussions and tutorials.

The category 'full research papers' is intended for technical papers describing research accomplishment. They should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages or 5000 words. Short papers are intended for papers that report interesting results and do not justify a full paper. We also solicit submissions of short papers focusing on industrial experience with information systems, databases, database systems, and other data-related technologies. Short papers should be limited to 8 double-spaced pages or 2000 words. The authors are invited to submit their papers electronically in a device-independent PostScript format following the Adobe Document Structuring

Conventions (ADSC, see:

www.adobe.com/supportservice/devrelations/PDFS/TN/5001.DSC_Spec_v2.1.pdf ),

page size: A4, by e-mail to:

alcapl@ktl.mii.lt .

In addition, a separate e-mail message in ASCII format

should be sent containing:

a) the title of the paper,

b) name and affiliation of the author(s),

c) complete contact address (e-mail, fax and telephone),

d) the abstract,

e) the list of keywords.

For hard copy submission, please send 4 copies to:

Albertas Caplinskas

Baltic DB&IS'2000

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

Akademijos 4

LT-2600 Vilnius

Lithuania

Papers must be original contributions, not accepted or submitted elsewhere. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Accepted papers will be presented at the Workshop and printed in the proceedings.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

PhD students are invited to submit abstracts describing their current work.

Topics will be in line with the main workshop topics.

Abstracts should be send by e-mail to:

Kristina Lapin

Kristina.Lapin@maf.vu.lt

PANEL AND TUTORIAL PROPOSAL

Panel proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of 3-4 panellists who have made a commitment to participate. A mix of industry and academic panel members is recommended.

Tutorial (half day; introductory or advanced) proposals should also include a 1-2 page summary.

Preferred topics:

- e-business and e-commerce,

- mobile computing, and agents,

- knowledge management and information systems,

- data warehousing, OLAP servers, and knowledge discovery,

- system engineering.

The proposals should be submitted by e-mail.

Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.

Panels and tutorial proposals should be send by e-mail to:

Eugenijus Telesius

etelesiu@ssoft.net

TIMETABLE

Deadline for papers: January 4, 2000

Notification of acceptance: February 17, 2000

Camera-ready papers: March 17, 2000

Workshop dates: May 2-5, 2000

Doctoral Consortium: May 1, 2000

WORKSHOP VENUE

The conference is organised by Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (Lithuania), Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Lithuanian Computer Society in cooperation with Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas University of Technology, Klaipeda University, and Department of Information and Informatics (Lithuania Ministry of Public Administration Reforms and Local Authorities). It will be held at the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Lithuania is a small, beautiful country lying in the geographical centre of Europe, on the south eastern coast of the Baltic Sea and inhabited by one of the Baltic nations. The Lithuanians have preserved one of the oldest language, a unique culture and unique customs. Lithuania is in the zone of temperate climate, its average annual temperature is about 6 degrees Centigrade (in May +14 degrees). There are about 4000 lakes, 21 rivers in Lithuania, forests occupy 28,4 per cent of the country. The fauna of Lithuania is similar to north-western Europe.

Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania. It is a city that has to be explored.

A day walking through the narrow, winding streets will gives you a lot of impressions. There is plenty to see. Masterpieces of local gothic, baroque and classicism, Gediminas Castle, folk art museums, restful cafes, swinging bars, modern night clubs, handsome and imposing restaurants. The largest Old Town in Eastern Europe gives you the feeling that you are walking through a museum, for practically every building is a relic of a sort. Behind the scenes the Lithuanian capital counts some thousands of courtyards in all architectural styles from the 14th to the 19th century. 27 km from Vilnius lays the ancient capital of Lithuania Trakai. The Trakai Castle, an original relic of the Middle Ages, has survived on one of the islands of the Galve Lake to this day.

100 km from Vilnius lays the Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas.

There is a number of interesting museums, such as the Ciurlionis Museum with an exposition of more than 200 canvases by the great Lithuanian artist M.K. Ciurlionis, the exposition of folk "devil" sculptures, and the IXth Fort Museum, a memorial to the victims of fascism.

For some years under the Soviet occupation Lithuanian engineers were trained only at Kaunas Polytechnic Institute (KPI). On September 1, 1956 the Evening department of KPI was established in Vilnius as a separate educational unit and later (1969) turned into Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute. On October 31, 1990 the Vilnius Civil Engineering Institute attained the status of Vilnius Technical University.

The structure of study and training organisation has been changed, new courses introduced, more attention has been paid to humanitarian aspects of technical education. On September 17, 1996 the Vilnius Technical University was awarded the name of Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. Now Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) consists of 8 faculties, Institute of Aviation, International Study Centre (ISC), Centre for Continuing Education, 47 academic departments, 7 research institutes and 12 research laboratories.

WORKSHOP ORGANISATION

A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e :

Janis Bubenko, Sweden

Arne Solvberg, Norway

P r o g r a m m e C h a i r :

Albertas Caplinskas, Lithuania

P r o g r a m m e C o m m i t t e e :

Janis Barzdins, Latvia . . . . . . . Algirdas Pakstas, UK

Alfs Berztiss, USA . . . . . . . . . Bronius Paradauskas, Lithuania

Janis Bicevskis, Latvia . . . . . . Jaan Penjam, Estonia

Raimondas Ciegis, Lithuania . . . . Jaanus Poial, Estonia

Vytautas Cyras, Lithuania . . . . . Henrikas Pranevicius, Lithuania

Klaus R. Dittrich, Switzerland . . . Ivan Ryant, Czech

Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Germany . . . . Keng Siau, USA

Remigijus Gustas, Sweden . . . . . . Kazimierz Subieta, Poland

Janis Grundspenkis, Latvia . . . . . Eugenijus Telesius, Lithuania

Hele-Mai Haav, Estonia . . . . . . . Jaak Tepandi, Estonia

Jean-Luc Hainaut, Belgium . . . . . Janis Tenteris, Latvia

Juhani Iivari, Finland . . . . . . . Bernhard Thalheim, Germany

Leonid Kalinichenko, Russia . . . . Kal Toth, Canada

Audris Kalnins, Latvia . . . . . . . Enn Tyugu, Sweden

Pericles Loucopoulos, UK . . . . . . Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, Greece

Kalle Lyytinen, Finland . . . . . . Benkt Wangler, Sweden

Mihail Matskin, Norway . . . . . . . Naoki Yonezaki, Japan

Julie A. McCann, UK . . . . . . . . Edmundas Zavadskas, Lithuania

Jorgen Fisher Nilsson, Denmark

D o c t o r a l C o n s o r t i u m :

Henrikas Pranevicius, Lithuania

Janis Osis, Latvia

Ahto Kalja, Estonia

O r g a n i s i n g C h a i r :

Rimantas Kacianauskas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

O r g a n i s i n g C o - C h a i r :

Olegas Vasilecas, Lithuania

O r g a n i s i n g C o m m i t t e e :

Petras Adomenas, Lithuania

Martynas Bieliunas, Lithuania

Juris Borzovs, Latvia

Raimondas Ciegis, Lithuania

Algimantas Ciucelis, Lithuania

Vitalij Denisov, Lithuania

Dalia Dzemydiene, Lithuania

Saulius Gudas, Lithuania

Ahto Kalja, Estonia

Kristina Lapin, Lithuania

Audrone Lupeikiene, Lithuania

Saulius Maskeliunas, Lithuania

Antanas Mitasiunas, Lithuania

Alfredas Otas, Lithuania

Algirdas Pakstas, UK

Rimantas Petrauskas, Lithuania

Arunas Ribikauskas, Lithuania

Leonas Simanauskas, Lithuania

Ignas Skucas, Lithuania

Raimundas Vaitkevicius, Lithuania

Antanas Zilinskas, Lithuania