CALL FOR PAPERS

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


PODS 2000- 19th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of
Database Systems


Topics:

Suggested topics include the following (this list is not exhaustive and
the order does not reflect priorities): 

Access Methods and Physical Design 
Complexity and Performance Evaluation 
Concurrency Control 
Transaction Management 
Integrity and Security 
Data Models 
Logic in Databases 
Query Languages 
Query Optimization 
Database Programming Languages 
Database Updates 
Active Databases 
Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases 
Object-oriented Databases
Multimedia Databases 
Spatial and Temporal Databases 
Constraint Databases 
Real-time Databases 
Distributed Databases 
Data Integration and Interoperability 
Views and Warehousing 
Data Mining 

Databases and Information Retrieval 
Semistructured Data and XML 
Information Processing on the Web 
Databases in E-commerce 
Databases and Workflows 

Submission format:

Titles and short abstracts: this year, authors are required to submit a
paper title and short abstract about 100 words before submitting their
paper (see the important dates below).

Papers: The address, telephone number, FAX number, and e-mail address of
the contact author should appear on the title page of the submission.  
Submissions should be limited to 10 pages (with font size at least 11
pts)
and may consist of extended abstracts.  Each submission must provide
sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess its merits
and
should include appropriate references to and comparisons with the
literature.  It is recommended that each submission begin with a
succinct
statement of the problem, a summary of the main results, and a brief
explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all
suited for the non-specialist.  Technical development of the work,
directed to the specialist, should follow.  If the authors believe more
details are necessary to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they
may include a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of
the
committee.

Submission Instructions:

Paper titles and short abstracts (about 100 words) should be received by
the PC Chair on or before November 2, 1999. Papers are due on November
8, 1999. These are firm deadlines. There will be no exceptions.

Electronic and hard copy submissions are accepted. Note that for
accepted
papers, an electronic version of the final paper is required by the
camera-ready copy due date.

Electronic submission at http://www.seas.smu.edu/sigmod2000/ of both
short abstracts and papers is strongly preferred.

Hardcopy submissions: If an electronic submission is not possible, send
one copy of the short abstract and 16 copies of the paper to the Program
Chair (see address below).

Program Chair:

      Georg Gottlob  
      gottlob@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
      Institut fuer Informationssysteme 
      TU Wien 
      Paniglgasse 16 
      A-1040 Wien, AUSTRIA

Program Committee:

      S. Abiteboul, INRIA, France 
      Y. Breitbart, Bell Labs, USA 
      S. Davidson, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA 
      T. Eiter, TU Wien, Austria 
      G. Gottlob, TU Wien (Chair), Austria 
      R. Hull, Bell Labs, USA 
      G. Lausen, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany 
      M. Lenzerini, Univ. of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy 
      L. Libkin, Bell Labs and INRIA, USA & France 
      T. Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel 
      Z.M. Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve Univ.  USA 
      D. Saccá, University of Calabria and ISI-CNR, Italy 
      H.-J. Schek, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
      J. Ullman, Stanford University, USA 
      J. Van den Bussche, Univ. of Limburg, Belgium 
      M. Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA 

Important Dates:

      November 2 - Paper titles and short abstracts due. 
      November 8 - Papers due. 
      February 8 - Notification about acceptance/rejection. 
      March 5 - Camera-ready due.