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- From: rys@inf.ethz.ch (Michael Rys)
- Subject: The VLDB Journal CfP: Special Issue on Persistent Object Systems
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- The VLDB Journal
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- Special Issue on Persistent Object Systems
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- Call for Papers
-
- The VLDB Journal is planning a Special Issue on Persistent
- Object Systems. Persistent programming is concerned with the
- manipulation of data in a manner that is independent of the
- length of time that the data exists. Thus, data that is normally
- short-lived and manipulated by a programming language, may be
- integrated with and used in the same manner as data that is
- long-lived, and manipulated by a database management system. At
- this level of abstraction the programmer concentrates on the
- complexity of the application and is relieved of the burden of
- organising these physical properties of the data. The advantages
- of persistent programming are economic and the concept of
- persistence can be extended to abstract over all the physical
- properties of data, such as how long it is kept, where it is
- kept and in what form it is kept.
-
- Persistence is central to a number of advances in modern
- computer technologies and methodologies. Database programming
- languages are concerned with programming techniques and
- constructs for describing and manipulating persistent data. The
- papers in this Special Issue will report on new advances in
- theory, implementation and applications of Persistent Object
- Systems.
-
- Papers are invited that may be practical or conceptual in nature. Topics of
- interest include, but are not restricted to:
-
- Type Systems and Persistence. What are the appropriate
- technologies and type models for persistent data? The
- equivalence of schema and types. The provision of bulk types
- with associated algebras.
-
- Concurrency in Persistent Systems. The persistence abstraction
- raises the need to identify mechanisms for specifying the
- concurrent use of data and for building transaction based
- systems.
-
- Binding in Persistent Object Systems. What mixture of binding
- is required for persistent data?
-
- Applications of Persistence. As yet persistent applications
- are few and not well publicised. We invite papers on
- applications built in a persistent manner.
-
- Architectures for Persistent Object Systems. These include
- hardware addressing mechanisms, software applications
- architectures and the design and construction of persistent
- object stores.
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- Large Scale Persistent Systems. How can the definition of the
- language and its implementation allow graceful growth for the
- applications where there are genuinely large volumes of data,
- and multiple users?
-
- Data Evolution in Persistent Object Systems. What mechanisms
- are required for evolving persistent data?
-
- Data Integration. Can persistent object systems be designed
- and constructed which allow the interchange of data between
- programs written in different languages, as filing systems do
- now?
-
- Distribution, Integrity & Reliability in Persistent Object
- Systems. It has been suggested that a natural extension of
- persistence is to allow the programmer to code without being
- aware of the locality of data. What are the issues in language
- design which address this?
-
- Use of Tools in Persistent Object Systems. We invite papers on
- the description and use of these tools.
-
- Methodologies for Persistent Programming. What new prograaming
- methodologies are available to the programmer utilising a
- persistent systems for the construction, compilation, binding
- and execution of applications.
-
- Compilers for Languages Supporting Persistence. Compiler
- technology should be able to take advantage that persistent
- programming languages are being compiled and executed in a
- persistent environment. We invite papers that exploit this.
-
- Persistent and Database Programming Languages. We invite
- papers on innovations in the design and implementation of
- persistent programming languages.
-
- Further information on suitable topics may be obtained from the Special
- Issue Editors.
-
- Malcolm Atkinson Ron Morrison
- Department of Computing Science Department of Mathematical &
- University of Glasgow Computational Sciences
- 8-17, Lilybank Gdns University of St Andrews
- Glasgow G12 8RZ North Haugh
- Scotland St Andrews
- UK Fife KY16 9SS
- Scotland
- +44 41 330 4359 +44 334 76161 Ext. 8121
- mpa@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk ron@dcs.st-and.ac.uk
-
- Potential authors are encouraged to submit original, journal quality papers
- to Malcolm Atkinson. Send six copies of a complete manuscript of no more
- than 35 type written, double spaced pages. For more specific information
- see the Guidlines for Manuscript Preparation of the VLDB Journal which can
- be obtained through the Special Issue Editors or the responsible
- Editor-in-Chief Hans-J.Schek (schek@inf.ethz.ch). All papers will be
- reviewed through the Journal's editorial board.
-
- Important dates:
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- June 1, 1993 Due date for manuscript
- October 1, 1993 Notification of acceptance
- December 1, 1993 Due date for final revision
-
- A preliminary statement of your intention to submit would be appreciated.
-
- Papers will be selected with the advice of referees. Should there be an
- excess of good quality papers compared with the number that can be
- accommodated in one issue of the journal then these will be considered for
- subsequent issues of the VLDB Journal if that is acceptable to their
- authors.
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