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From: Jeff Ullman 

                      CALL FOR PAPERS


        FOURTH ANNUAL ACM SIGACT/SIGMOD SYMPOSIUM ON
               PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS

             Portland, Oregon March 25-27, 1985


The conference will  cover  new  developments  in  both  the
theoretical  and  practical  aspects  of  database  systems.
Papers  are  solicited  that  describe  original  and  novel
research into the theory, design, or implementation of data-
base systems.

     Some suggested but not  exclusive  topics  of  interest
are:  application of AI techniques to database systems, con-
currency control, database and database scheme design,  data
models,  data  structures  for physical database implementa-
tion,  dependency  theory,  distributed  database   systems,
logic-based  query languages and other applications of logic
to database systems, office automation  theory,  performance
evaluation  of database systems, query language optimization
and implementation, and security of database systems.

     You are invited  to  submit  9  copies  of  a  detailed
abstract (not a complete paper) to the program chairman:

                  Jeffrey D. Ullman
                  Dept. of Computer Science
                  Stanford University
                  Stanford, CA 94305

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of  significance,
originality,  and  overall quality.  Each abstract should 1)
contain enough information  for  the  program  committee  to
identify  the  main contribution of the work; 2) explain the
importance of the work, its novelty, and  its  relevance  to
the  theory  and/or  practice  of  database  management;  3)
include comparisons with and references to relevant  litera-
ture.   Abstracts  should be no longer than 10 typed double-
spaced pages (12,000 bytes of source text).  Deviations from
these  guidelines may affect the program committee's evalua-
tion of the paper.

                     Program Committee

             Jim Gray            Richard Hull
             Frank Manola        Stott Parker
             Avi Silberschatz    Jeff Ullman
             Moshe Vardi         Peter Weinberger
             Harry Wong

The deadline for submission  of  abstracts  is  October  12,
1984.   Authors  will be notified of acceptance or rejection
by December 7, 1984.  The accepted papers, typed on  special
forms or typeset camera-ready in the reduced-size model page
format, will be due at the  above  address  by  January  11,
1985.   All  authors  of accepted papers will be expected to
sign copyright release forms.  Proceedings will  be  distri-
buted at the conference and will be available for subsequent
purchase through ACM.  The proceedings  of  this  conference
will  not  be  widely disseminated.  As such, publication of
papers in this record will not, of itself, inhibit  republi-
cation in ACM's refereed publications.


        General Chairman:      Local Arrangements Chairman:
        Seymour Ginsburg       David Maier
        Dept. of CS            Dept. of CS
        USC                    Oregon Graduate Center
        Los Angeles, CA 90007  19600 N. W. Walker Rd.
                               Beaverton, OR 97006