Welcome
To DASFAA 2004
On behalf
of the conference committee, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Korea
for the Ninth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced
Applications (DASFAA2004).
The DASFAA
conference provides an international forum for technical discussions among
researchers, developers, and users of database systems from academia, business,
and industry. The main focus of DASFAA is on research in database theory,
development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications.
In its ninth year, DASFAA has reached new heights of recognition as a
quality forum for dissemination and discussion of the advanced database
research. This is evident from the
high number of submissions, which is 272--more than doubling those of previous
years—from 23 countries all around the world. We were able to accept only 60 regular papers and 18 short
papers. Today, we have 180
delegates from 18 countries from Americas, Europe as well as Asia-Pacific.
We have the previliage of having two distinguished keynote speakers, Dr. C.
Mohan, an IBM Fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center and Prof. John Mylopoulos
of University of Toronto and two distinguished invited papers and speeches
contributed by Prof. Shamkant B. Navathe of Gerogia Institute of Technology and
by Professor Stefano Spaccapietra of EPFL on behalf of the IFIP WG 2.6 on
databases.
In addition, we also have three tutorials: Query Processing in XML
Databases (by Hongjun Lu and Jefferey Xu Yu), Algorithmic Excursions in Data Streams
(by Sudipto Guha), and Design and Implementation of an E-Catalog Management
System (by Sang-goo Lee).
The
conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Databases (SIGDB) of
Korea Information Science Society and the Advanced Information Technology
Research Center(AITrc) at KAIST—an engineering research center of excellence
(ERC) supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF).
We have a
number of sponsors who made generous contributions to make the conference
successful. They are Oracle Korea,
Samsung SDS, Korea Telecom Data, Inc., United States Air Force Office of
Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development, United
States Army Research Office—Far East, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (KAIST). We also have a
number of academic sponsors: the Korea Information Science Society, Information
Processing Society of Japan, Database Society of China Computer Federation, and
Database Society of Japan, who greatly contributed to organizing and
advertising the conference, and encouraged their members to participate.
At the
banquet on Thursday, we will have performance of Korean traditional dances that
reflect natural beauty of and life in Jeju Island. I hope every one of you would enjoy the performance.
Many
People, including hundreds of authors, reviewers, presenters, and organizers,
contributed to DASFAA 2004. We thank them all for their dedication and help for
a successful conference.
Thank you
very much, and I hope you enjoy the conference and your stay in Korea.
General Chair