October 11 - 13, 1999
Call for Papers
XIV Brazilian Symposium on Databases - SBBD'99
| Florianópolis - Santa Catarina - Brazil October 11 - 13, 1999
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SBBD'99 is the official database event of the Brazilian Computer Society and aims mostly at publicizing research results. In its fourteenth edition, SBBD should congregate between 350 and 500 attendees in the beautiful Florianópolis --- one of the most charming cities in the country. The SBBD symposium usually gathers students and researchers (from Brazil and abroad) who discuss problems related to the main topics in modern databases. Besides technical sessions, the symposium will also include invited talks given by distinguished speakers of the international research community.
SBBD'99 covers research in all aspects of modern databases. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Applications of Databases
Architectures for Databases
Concurrency Control and Recovery
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Database Design
Data Warehousing
Query Languages
Electronic Commerce
Federated Databases
Geographical Information Systems
Information Retrieval Applied toDatabases
Knowledge Bases
Metadados
Mobile Data
Multimedia Databases
Object-Oriented Databases
Parallel and Distributed Databases
Scientific and Statistical Databases
Semi-structured Data
Spatial Databases
Temporal Databases
Text Databases
User Interfa
Visual Query Languages
Visualization of Data
Web Database Services
Paper submission: MAY 3rd, 1999 (posting date or electronic submission)
Authors notification: JUNE 18th, 1999
Camera ready: JULY 9th, 1999
Best Paper
Award
Submission
Instructions
The criteria for judgment are originality, relevance, technical soundness
and clarity of presentation.
Postal Mail Submissions
Authors are requested:
To prepare 4 copies of an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most
15 pages in standard 11pt Latex style to be sent to the chair of the Program
Committee no later than MAY 3rd, 1999(posting date).
To prepare a cover page containing the paper title, the names of all authors,
an indication of the author to be contacted, and the affiliation of such
author (including full address, phone/fax numbers, and email address).
To send the submission package (4 paper copies plus the cover page) to the
address of the chair as follows.
To send an email message to the program chair by May 3rd, 1999, communicating
the intention to submit, the paper title, and its abstract.
Authors are requested:
To prepare an extended abstract or full draft paper of at most 15 pages in
standard 11pt style, IN PDF FORMAT, to be submitted no later than MAY 3rd,
1999. Formats other than PDF will NOT be accepted. In case you do not have
a generator of PDF available you might try to convert postscript to PDF using,
for instance, the package available at
ftp://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex
To submit your paper in PDF format using the Web page at the address
http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/sbbd99
and following the instructions there. This page is under construction and
should be available by the end of March. Your submission must be completed
by midnight of May 3, 1999.
To send an email message to the program chair by May 3rd, 1999, communicating
the intention to submit, the paper title, and its abstract. Email:
berthier@dcc.ufmg.br
The city of Florianopolis is situated in the island of Santa Catarina and
is the capital of the state of Santa Catarina in Brazil. One of the
most beautiful cities in the country, Florianopolis counts with 42 charming
beaches, 2 magnificent lagoons, a good infrastructure, and a high standard
of living. The weather is pleasant with temperatures in the range of 15 to
30 degrees Celsius (summer is in the months of December, January, and February)
and relative air humidity around 85%.
The main economic activities in the island of Santa Catarina, which counts
with a population of 260 thousand people, are tourism, services, and
manufacturing. Recently, the city of Florianopolis promoted the implantation
of the Informatics and Tecnology agglomerate (called Tecnopolis) which responds
for an important portion of the software industry in Brazil.
Florianopolis is 300 kilometers distant from Curitiba, 705 kilometers distant
from Sao Paulo, and receives regular flights from main cities in the Mercosul
and in the world.
Program Committee
(Partial)
Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE
Ana Maria Moura, IME/Rio
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, UFMG (chair)
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Unicamp
Clesio Santos, UFRGS
Duncan Ruiz, PUC/RS
Geraldo Xexeo, UFRJ
Javam Machado , UFC
Juliano Oliveira, UFG
Marcelo Finger, USP
Marcus Sampaio, UFPB
Marina Vieira, UFSCAR
Ralf Hartmut Gueting, Germany
Rubens Melo, PUC/Rio
Since 1998, the papers accepted for the SBBD symposium are considered for
the Jose Mauro Castilho Award. The award is given to the best paper as selected
by the program committee.
Papers in Portuguese or English may be submitted through postal mail or
electronically, as detailed below. Papers must not be submitted simultaneously
to another conference and/or publication in a Journal, nor should they have
already been published elsewhere. Submission of a paper is assumed to imply
that at least one of the authors will register for the conference and thus
present the paper.
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (SBBD'99)
Depto. de Ciencia da Computacao - ICEx - UFMG
Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627
31270-010 Belo Horizonte MG
Brazil
Email: berthier@dcc.ufmg.br
Electronic Submissions (must be in PDF format)