Databases: Active & Real-Time
			  (Concepts meet Practice)

				(DART'96)

Location:	Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland

Date:		November 15, 1996.  (The day following CIKM'96)

Association:	5th Int'l Conference on Information & Knowledge Management 1996.
		CIKM'96 is sponsored by (pending approval) ACM SIGART & SIGIR,
		in cooperation with (pending approval) NASA, Bellcore, NSF,
		AAAI, IEEE Computer Society, ACM SIGMOD, CACS/USL, UMBC.

Contact:	Prof. Nandit Soparkar		Prof. Krithi Ramamritham
		(Program Chair)			(General Chair)
		EECS Department			CS Department
		Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst
		soparkar@eecs.umich.edu		krithi@cs.umass.edu
		(313) 647-4849			(413) 545-0196

Scope:

Applications such as manufacturing automation, automated stock-trading,
avionics, medical informatics, intelligent transportation systems,
telecommunications, multimedia systems, workflow systems, etc. make
substantial use of databases but require support beyond those provided
by traditional databases.  These include support for timeliness and for
rule-based activiation of tasks --- topics that are being investigated
by researchers working on active and real-time database technologies.
However, the understanding of the application requirements, the available
technology, and the nexus between research and practice, are still nascent.

This one-day workshop is to provide a forum whereby practitioners and
researchers can exchange ideas --- primarily with a focus on data management
issues in applications with active and real-time requirements.  Rather than
being a forum in which to report only new research results, this workshop is
to provide a means for researchers to understand the needs that application
developers have, and for developers to learn about solutions available today.
This should assist in the discussion of specific issues, problem areas, and
potential solutions, and provide impetus for further research as well as the
transition of available technology.

In order to promote the discussions, we solicit brief papers (up to 5 pages,
submitted electronically to the program chair) that describe technical
contributions in the area w.r.t. research, on-going work, implementation
efforts etc.  The selected papers will be provided to the participants at
the Workshop, and are expected to be published subsequently in a proceedings
by ACM.  The workshop will consist of brief invited and paper presentations
in the first half of the day, followed by in-depth discussions during the
latter half of the day.

The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Practice -				Research -

	Manufacturing technology		Triggers and constraints
	Multimedia applications			Real-time concurrency control
	Avionics systems			Quality of service
	Process control				Distributed data management
	Telecommunications			Scheduling for data accesses
	Intelligent transportation		Object-oriented paradigms
	Medical informatics			Specifications and tools
	Real-time Web applications		Interactions with OS & network
	Program stock-trading			Reliability and dependability
	Synchronous collaboration		Monitoring and activation

Dates:

	Submission	- Aug 20, 1996
	Notification	- Sep 30, 1996
	Final versions	- Oct 15, 1996
	Workshop	- Nov 15, 1996


Program Committee:

Elisa Bertino		(Univ Milano)
Azer Bestavros		(Boston Univ)
Alejandro Buchmann	(Tech Univ Darmstadt)
Stefano Ceri		(Politec di Milano)
Umesh Dayal		(HP Laboratories)
Aleks Gollu		(PATH, UC Berkeley)
H V Jagadish		(AT&T Research)
Anant Jhingran		(IBM Research)
Madhur Kohli		(Bellcore)
Jane Liu		(Univ Illinois)
Doug Locke		(Lockheed Martin)
James Moyne		(DTM, Michigan)
S Seshadri		(Ind Inst Tech Bombay)
Sang Son		(Univ Virginia)
Bhavani Thuraisingham	(Mitre)
Ozgur Ulusoy		(Bilkent Univ)


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