SIGMOD / PODS 2000 Dallas, Texas  May 14-19, 2000

The SIGMOD conference is a forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore new ideas and exchange tools, techniques, and experiences.  We invite the submission of original research contributions, as well as proposals for panels, tutorials, demonstrations, and industrial presentations.

Topics:

• Access Methods and Data Structures
• Active Databases
• Constraint and Rule Management
• Database Security
• Data Models
• Data Warehousing
• Data Mining
• Database Performance and Benchmarking
• Database Programming Languages
• Distributed Database Systems
• Imprecise and Uncertain Information
• Information Retrieval and Databases
• Legacy Databases
• Mobile Computing and Databases
• Multimedia Database Systems
• Object-Orientation and Database Systems
• On-Line Analytical Processing
• Parallel Databse Systems
• Query Languages
• Query Processing and Optimization
• Scientific and Statistical Databases
• Semi-structured Databases and XML
• Spatial and Temporal Databases
• User and Application Interfaces
• World Wide Web and Databases

Submission format:

Guidelines for submissions for panels, tutorials, demos, and industrial sessions will be posted soon as well.

Chairs:

• Program Committee Chair: Jeff Naughton, Univ. of Wisconsin
• Demo Chair: Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser University
• Industrial Chair: Philip Bernstein, Microsoft
• Tutorial Chair: Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd,
• Panels Chair: Alon Levy, University of Washington

Program Committee:

• Serge Abiteboul,  INRIA
• Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara
• Gustavo Alonso,  ETH Zurich
• Paolo Atzeni,  Universita' di Roma Tre
• Daniel Barbará,  George Mason University
• Yuri Breitbart,  University of Kentucky
• Michael Carey,  IBM Almaden Research Center
• Surajit Chaudhuri,  Microsoft Research
• Sophi Cluet,  INRIA
• Umesh Dayal,  Hewlett-Packard Labs
• Lois Delcambre,  Oregon Graduate Institute
• Leonidas Fegaras, Univ. of Texas Arlington
• Mary Fernandez,  AT&T Labs
• Michael Franklin, Univ. of Maryland
• Phillip Gibbons,  Bell Labs
• Goetz Graefe,  Microsoft
• Wen-Chi Hou,  Southern Illinois University
• Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
• Ben Kao, The University of Hong Kong
• Alfons Kemper,  Univ. of Passau
• Donald Kossman,  Univ. of Passau
• Hongjun Lu,  Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology
• Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto
• Renee Miller,  University of Toronto
• C. Mohan,  IBM Almaden Research Center
• Rajeev Motwani,  Stanford University
• Patrick O'Neil, UMass/Boston
• Seog Park,  Sogang University
• Hamid Pirahesh,  IBM Almaden Research Center
• Timos Sellis,  National Technical University of Athens
• S. Seshadri,  Bell Labs
• Nandit Soparkar,  University of Michigan
• S. Sudarshan,  IIT-Bombay
• Yukuru Tanaka,  Hokkaido University
• Dallan Quass,  Brigham Young University
• Jeffrey Vitter,  Duke University
• Gerhard Weikum,  University of the Saarland

Industrial Program Committee:

• Peter Gassner, PeopleSoft
• Ashish Gupta, Amazon.com
• Paula Hawthorne, Independent Consultant
• H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
• Anil Nori, Ventis
• Pat O'Neil, UMass/Boston
• Pat Selinger, IBM Santa Theresa Lab

Demonstrations Committee:

• Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser Univ. (chair)
• David Levine, Univ. of Texas at Arlington (local chair)
• Guozhu Dong , Wright State Univ.
• Johannes Gehrke, Cornell Univ.
• Tamer Ozsu, Univ. of Alberta,
• Rajeev Rastogi , Bell-Labs
• Vassilis J. Tsotras, Univ. Calif.
• Joerg Sander, Univ. of Munich

Important Dates:

• October 11 - Paper abstracts due.
• October 18 - Full and industrial papers as well as panels, tutorials, demos due.
• January 24 - Notification about acceptance/rejection.
• March 1 - Camera-ready due.