The 3rd Eastern European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information
Systems (ADBIS’99) took place on 13-16- September 1999, in Maribor, Slovenia.
It was organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD, the Moscow chapter of
ACM SIGMOD, Slovenian Society Informatika, and the Slovenian Ministry of
Technology.
The aim of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum for the exchange
of scientific achievements and experiences using innovative methods and approaches
between the research communities of Central and Eastern Europe and the rest of the
world in the area of databases and information systems.
The 1999 conference continues the series of ADBIS events held in Moscow, St.
Petersburg, and Poznan. The ADBIS steering committee has the ambition to make the
ADBIS conference the premiere database and information systems conference in
Central and Eastern Europe, to increase interaction and collaboration between
researchers from East and West, and to provide an internationally recognized forum
for the presentation of research and experiences in all aspects of modern database
technology and information systems.
To achieve these goals an international program committee selected 26 full
research papers in a rigorous reviewing process from a total of 94 submissions from
33 different countries. This high number of submissions from so many different areas
shows the truly worldwide recognition of and interest in the ADBIS series.
The accepted papers cover a wide range of topics from storage structures to web
applications, from type theory to performance issues. Furthermore, three invited
papers give a broader overview of research achievements and insights into the current
“hot topics” of databases and information systems: Internet and multimedia,
electronic commerce, and ODMG object models.
In addition to the presentation of invited papers and full research papers, the
program consists of three tutorials and the presentation of short papers that either
allow a glimpse into promising ongoing projects, present novel ideas at an early stage,
or give an account of experiences with the application of databases and information
systems. These short papers are published in a separate proceedings volume.
