Thirteenth British National Conference on Databases

MANCHESTER, U.K.

12-14 July 1995

CALL FOR ATTENDANCE

Conference Announcement

The annual series of British National Conference on Databases has been a forum for database workers and a focus for database research since 1981. The conference provides an exciting opportunity for academics and industrialists to meet, discuss ideas, debate current developments and look into the future.

We are delighted to announce that BNCOD13 is to be held at the University of Manchester from 12th-14th July 1995. BNCOD13 will include scientific papers, panels, poster sessions and industrial presentations.

Programme

Wednesday 12 July

14:00-15:30 Welcome and Invited Speaker
 `Object Databases and Standards'
 Rick Cattell (SunSoft Inc, USA)

15.30-16:00 Tea

16:00-17:00 Functional Databases
 `Combining inheritance and parametric polymorphism in a functional database language'
Courtenage & Poulovassilis (UK)

`Extending functional database languages to update completeness'
Sutton & Small (UK)

17:00-18:00 Panel Session
 Significant Database Problems for Industry

19:30 Reception
 Welcoming reception sponsored by Prentice-Hall

Thursday 13 July

09:00-09:30 Poster session

09:30-11:00 User Interfaces to Databases
`Recognising graphic detail - an experiment in user interpretation of data models'
Nordbotten & Crosby (Norway)

`The Pragmatics of Database Enquiry'
Haw, Goble & Rector (UK)

`Using a conceptual data language to describe a database and its interface'
Mitchell, Kennedy & Barclay (UK)

11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-13:00 System-level Algorithms
 `Scheduling query plans with buffer-requirement estimates'
 Sieg, Pinkney, Lamoureaux, (USA)

`Optimisation of n-way spatial joins using filter'
Veenhof, Apers & Houtsma (The Netherlands)

`An efficient transient versioning method'
 Gukal, Omiecinski & Ramachandran (USA)

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14.30-16:00 Queries and Transactions
`Concurrency control of tiered flat transactions'
 Hussak & Keane (UK)

`Two step pruning: a distributed query optimisation algorithm'
 Kim, Lee & Kim (Korea)

`Text Search using database systems revisited - some experiments'
Kaufmann & Schek (Switzerland)

16:00-16:30 Tea

16:30-17:30 Panel Session
 Data Protection & Legal Issues of Databases

18:30 Reception & Banquet

Friday 14 July

09.30-11:00 Parallel and Federated Systems
`Integrity management in an object-oriented federated database environment'

Alzahrani, Qutaishat, Fiddian & Gray (UK)

`Architecture of the ICL GOLDRUSH MegaSERVER'
 Watson & Catlow (UK)

`W-SQL: An interface for scalable, highly parallel database machines'
 Kerridge, Walter & Guiton (UK)

11.00-11:30 Coffee

11.30 Invited speaker
`Multimedia Database Management: Perspectives and Challenges'
Arif Ghafoor (Purdue University, USA)

Close

Invited Speakers

Rick G.G. Cattell
Rick is known world-wide in the object-oriented community, working for Sun Microsystems, where his work currently focuses on next-generation database technologies. He is the founder and chair of the Object Database Management Group.

Rick will talk about the OODB industry in general and the emerging OODB standards. He is the editor of the Object Database Standard, ODMG-93, a recent book which represents a consensus on component technologies for database products and languages. Rick will discuss the emerging standards, giving us a clue what to expect from our OODBs in the future.

Arif Ghafoor
Multimedia applications combine text, video, sound and vision. Multimedia databases extend database systems to include these extra features not normally found in traditional systems. Arif Ghafoor will discuss the state of the art in multimedia databases.

Arif research interests include the design and analysis of distributed and multimedia systems. He has published extensively in leading journals and conferences. Currently, he is directing the Distributed Multimedia Systems Lab. at Purdue University, where a number of projects in distributed multimedia databases and multimedia communications are under way.

Social Programme

On the evening of the 12th there will be an welcoming reception sponsored by Prentice Hall. This will be a splendid opportunity to meet people informally.

On the 13th there will be a reception and banquet dinner at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester's city centre. Manchester was at the very heart of the industrial revolution and the museum is a tribute to some of the UK's, and the world's, finest industrial achievements. The dinner will take place in the museum's Power House, amongst the steam locomotives and power engines of the 19th century.

Manchester has some of the liveliest night life in the UK. There are bars, pubs, clubs and trendy cafes just a short walk from the museum, which provides an excellent opportunity for extra-mural social activities.

Further Information

For further information about the conference, contact:
Ferzana Butt
BNCOD13 Administrator
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6248
fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6286
email: bncod@cs.man.ac.uk
www: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/events/bncod.html

BNCOD-13 Booking Form

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Organisation

BCS membership no. if applicable

Address

Tel. No.

Please tick the appropriate box:

Early registration available until 2nd June 1995

All costs are UK pounds 

With Accommodation         Early                Standard             
Academic/BCS               230 [ ]         	260 [ ]         
Student                    180 [ ]         	210 [ ]         
Other                      260 [ ]	        290 [ ]         

Without Accommodation      Early                Standard             
Academic/BCS               195 [ ]         	225 [ ]         
Student                    145 [ ]         	175 [ ]         
Other                      225 [ ] 	        255 [ ]

The registration fee includes lunch on 13th, dinner on the 12th, banquet on the 13th, all tea and coffee and printed material. Accommodation, if requested, is for the nights of 12th and 13th and includes breakfast on the 13th and 14th. Ensuite accommodation is available at an extra cost.

Optional extras

Please tick any required:

Lunch on 12th                                  10 [ ]         
Lunch on 14th                                  10 [ ]         
Extra ticket for conference dinner             40 [ ]         
Ensuite facilities (extra for 12th/13th)       25 [ ]         
Extra night (11th)                             22 [ ]         
Extra night (11th - ensuite                    32 [ ]

Accommodation for additional guests - #22 per night (#32 per night ensuite)

We regret no credit cards are accepted

Total Booking Fee ...................... 

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All charges are inclusive of VAT

Please note that payment must be made at the time of booking. Make cheques payable to "The University of Manchester"

Return completed booking form to:
Ferzana Butt
BNCOD13 Administrator
Department of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL

tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6248
fax: +44 (0) 161 275 6286

Exhibition

An exhibition of commercial database related software products will accompany the conference. Companies who wish to exhibit should contact:

Babis Theodoulidis
BNCOD13 Conference
Department of Computation
UMIST
P.O. Box 88
Sackville Street
Manchester M60 1QD
U. K.

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