Foreword
The 2000 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data was
held May 16-18, 2000, in Dallas, Texas. The SIGMOD Conference is an
annual international form for the presentation, discussion, and
dissemination of new results on database technology and application,
and for the demonstration of prototype implementations of this
technology. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and its Special Interest Group on Management of Data
(SIGMOD). This year, as in preceding years, two days of the
conference were overlapped with the Symposium on Principles of
Database Systems(PODS.)
Once again, acceptance into the conference proceedings was extremely
competitive. From the 248 research program submissions, the program
committee selected 42 papers for inclusion into the proceedings. We
received papers on a wide range of topics, ranging from "traditional"
topics such as query optimization and evaluation, to data mining, to a
new emphasis on the web and XML. Needless to say, to accept only 42
papers we were forced to reject many high quality papers. We would
like to thank all the authors for submitting to SIGMOD.
In addition to the research program, the conference featured an
excellent industrial program, thought provoking panels, illuminating
tutorials, and 20 software prototype demonstrations.
Producing this proceedings took a great deal of work. The program
committee members each reviewed a daunting pile of papers. We are
extremely indebted to Surajit Chaudhuri and the Microsoft Conference
Managment Tool team for developing the software and hosting the site
that handled the submission, distribution, and reviewing of the
papers.
Phil Bernstein chaired an industrial program committee that assembled
the strong industrial program. Jiawei Han did the same for the demo
program. Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd solicited and selected the tutorials,
while Alon Levy organized the panels.
The conference would not have been a success without help from so many
people. Leo Fegaras organized and planned the local
arrangments. Mario Nascimento served as publicity chair and acted as
webmaster. Vijay Kumar was in charge of finances. Alex Delis ensured
the successful registration. Masaru Kitsuregawa, Christian S. Jensen,
and Claudia Bauzer Medeiros served as our Asian, European, and South
American coordinators. As corporate sponsor's chair, Sharma
Chakravarthy, successfully raised enough support to keep our
registration fees low. David Levine ensured the successful operation
of demos by serving as our local demo chair. This year we began a new
undergraduate scholarship program with Le Gruenwald in charge, and
awarded scholarships to support the attendance to SIGMOD by five
undergraduate students.
Maggie Dunham - General Chair
Jeffrey Naughton - Program Chair
Weidong Chen - Proceedings Chair
Nick Koudas - Electronic Proceedings Chair
