18th December
9:00 - 12:00	Tutorials: T2 and T3 in parallel sessions
14:00 - 17:00	Tutorials: T1 and T4 in parallel sessions

T1: Developing Business Object Applications
T2: WWW and databases : from data integration towards information markets
T3: Data Warehousing and OLAP for Decision Support: Foundations and Techniques
T4: Data Mining

19th December
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
9:00 - 9:30	Inauguration
9:30 - 10:30	Invited Talk I: Security, Fault Tolerance, and Information Warfare Professor Sushil Jajodia
10:30 - 10:45	Tea
10:45 - 12:15	Session I: DataMining and DataWarehousing A Self Maintainable View Maintenance Technique for Data Warehouses Millist Vincent, Mukesh Mohania and Yahiko Kambayashi University of South Australia, Australia Incremental Updating Algorithms for Mining Association Rules Jianlin Feng, Yucai Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Maintenance of Data Warehouse Views Using Normalization Mukesh Mohania, Kamalakar Karlapalem and Millist Vincent University of Southern Australia, Australia.
12:15 - 12:45	Product Presentation I (Microsoft)
12:45 - 1:45	Lunch

1:45 - 3:15	Session II: Concurrency and Recovery in Databases An Optimized Two-Safe Approach to Maintaining Remote Backup Systems Kexiang Hu, Sharad Mehrotra and Simon Kaplan University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA Performance Comparison of Main Memory Database Recovery Algorithms Yutong Wang, Vijay Kumar University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, USA Formalization and Correctness of Concurrency Control Algorithms for an Open and Safe Nested Transaction Model Using I/O Automation Model. Sanjay Kumar Madria, S N Maheshwari and B Chandra University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
3:15 - 3:30	Tea
3:30 - 4:00	Product Presentation II (Polaris)
4:00 - 5:30	Session - III: Database Design I Restructuring Partitioned Normal Form Relations Without Information Loss. Millist Vincent and Mark Levene University of South Australia, Australia An Approach to Efficient Data Clustering Based on a New Definition for Nested Normal Form Wai Yin Mok and David W Embley The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA. Active Database Design: Methodology and Tools Amghar Y and Meziane M LISI-INSA, Villeurbanne, France

20th December
9:00 - 10:00	Invited Talk II: Research Issues in Temporal Databases Professor N L Sarda
10:00 - 10:30	Product Presentation III (Computer Associates)
10:30 - 10:45	Tea
10:45 - 12:15	Session IV: Query Processing and Optimization A Framework for Multi Query Optimization Sunil Choenni, Martin Kersten, Amani Saad and Johan van den Akker National Aerospace Laboratory, The Netherlands A Filter for Detecting Possible Inconsistencies for Nulls in Oracle S K Gupta, D V L N Somayajulu and Shubha Mani Dept of CS&E, IIT Delhi, India RYBE1, A Tabular Interface for Querying a Multi-Database System Christian Sallaberry, M N Bessagnet and H Kriaa Universite' de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
12:15 - 12:45	Product Presentation IV (IBM)
12:45 - 1:45	Lunch

1:45 - 3:15	Session V: Database Design II Abstraction Layered Structure-Process Codesign Wolfram Clauss and Bernhard Thalheim Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany Perspectives for a Formal Framework for Schema Modification in Object Databases Heino Gartner Bremen University, Bremen, Germany A New Interpolation Scheme for Dynamic Databases S Kuppuswami, R Subraminian, Paul Rodrigues and G Venkata Sachindra Dept., of CS, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
3:15 - 3:30	Tea
3:30 - 5:00	Session VI: Pot-pourri Automating Metadata Updates Exemplified by the Environmental Data Catalogue UDK Ralf Nikolai, Arne Koschel, Ralf Kramer and Thomas Sattler Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany WWW as a Distributed Deductive Database: D3Web J F Aldana Montes and M I Yague del Valle, Dept of Lenguajes Y Ciencias de la computacion, Malaga, Spain A Formal Approach for Horizontal Fragmentation of Disjunctive Deductive Databases Aparna Seetharaman and Yiu-Kai Ng Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
5:00 - 5:30	Summing up