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Charter

 The Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter has been chartered by ACM on September 24, 1992. According to the charter, it was formed to operate under the sponsorship of the ACM, the Local Activities Board, ACM SIGMOD, and the SIG Board. The Chapter supports activities complementary to ACM SIGMOD, the ACM, and other ACM activities in Russia. The Chapter is operated exclusively for educational and scientific purposes without any related financial duties.

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Objectives

General objectives of the Chapter are stated in the charter as:  Improve scientific contacts between the Moscow (Russian) and worldwide database communities.

 Collect and disseminate relevant technical publications to the Moscow database and broader computer science community.

  Contribute to technical development through support of lectures, professional development seminars and technical briefings.

Advance database technology and improve technical interchange through conferences and workshops in Russia and in the former USSR.

The Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter is attempting to serve as a bridge with the Worldwide Database community across the new economical and organizational barriers. The 100 th Seminar of the Chapter

People

 The body of the Chapter is currently includes representatives of research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the industry, professors of the Universities and students.

 Officers:  Leonid A. Kalinichenko (IPI RAS), Chair  Sergei D. Kuznetsov (ISP RAS), Vice-chair  Mikhail R. Kogalovsky (MEI RAS), Secretary The 100 th Seminar of the Chapter

Activities: Seminars

  Regular work of the Moscow Chapter is organized through its monthly seminar held at the Moscow State University. Seminar meetings devoted to various aspects of databases and information systems (such as object-oriented approach in databases, transaction management and workflows, efficient storage structuring, formal aspects of database theory, object design methodologies, compositional information systems development methods, deductive databases, etc.) have been organized during the Chapter’s activity. The speakers at the seminars were researchers from Russia and from abroad.

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Activities: ADBIS Conferences

   The Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter founded the Annual Workshops

"Advances in Databases and Information Systems" (ADBIS).

In 1993 – 1996 these events were held as the Workshops of the Moscow in collaboration with RFBR In 1996 after series of discussions with Dr. Won Kim (the ACM SIGMOD Chair at that time) it was agreed to transform

ADBIS into the East European Conference

to provide a forum for the exchange of scientific achievements in DB&IS between the research communities of the Eastern Europe and the rest of the world It was agreed that ACM SIGMOD will actively support the organization of the Conference and warrant the high quality of the program. The Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter continue to serve as a focal point of the event.

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Activities: ADBIS Conferences

  In 1997 – 2004 eight East European ADBIS Conferences took place in St. Petersburg (Russia), Poznan (Poland), Maribor (Slovenia), Prague (Czech Republic), Vilnius (Lithuania), Bratislava (Slovakia), Dresden (Germany), Budapest (Hungary). Next conferences are planned in Estonia (2005), Greece (2006), Bulgaria (2007).

The ADBIS Steering Committee includes representatives of different countries of the Eastern and Central Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

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YEAR STATUS ADBIS’93 Kiev and Moscow SIGMOD Chapters ADBIS’94 ADBIS’95 ADBIS’96 1st. International Workshop 2nd International Workshop 3rd International Workshop VENUE Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow ADBIS’97 ADBIS’98 ADBIS’99 1st East-European Symposium 2nd East European Symposium 3rd East European Symposium St. Petersburg Poznan Maribor DATES May 11-14, 1993 May 23-26, 1994 June 27-30, 1995 September 10 13, 1996 September 2 - 5, 1997 September 8-11, 1998 PC CO-CHAIRS L.Kalinichenko, A. Stogny L.Kalinichenko, Y.Zhuravlev

J.Bubenko, J.Eder, L.Kalinichenko, Y.Zhuravlev

B.Novikov, J.W. Schmidt R.Manthey, V. Wolfengagen W.Litwin, G.Vossen

September 13 16, 1999 T.Welzer, J. Eder The 100 th Seminar of the Chapter PUBLICATION Proceedings Proceedings Proceedings + Springer WiC Proceedings + Springer WiC Proceedings + Springer WiC Springer LNCS Springer LNCS COOPERA TION --

RFBR RFBR

SIGMOD,

RFBR

SIGMOD,

RFBR

SIGMOD, KBN SIGMOD, Informatika

YEAR STATUS VENUE DATES 2000 ADBIS DASFAA ADBIS’ 2001 ADBIS’ 2002 ADBIS’ 2003 ADBIS’ 2004 4th East-European Symposium 5th East-European Symposium Prague Vilnius 6 th East-European Conference 7 th East-European Conference 8 th East-European Conference Bratislava Dresden (co-located with VLDB) Budapest September 5-8, 2000 September 24 28, 2001 September 8-11, 2002 September 3-6, 2003 September, 2004 ADBIS’ 2005 (planned) ADBIS’ 2006 (planned) 9 th East-European Conference Tallinn 10 th East-European Conference Thessaloniki September 2005 September 2006 PC CO-CHAIRS B.Thalheim, J. Stuller, Y. Masunaga A.Caplinskas

J. Eder Y. Manolopoulos P.Navrat

L.Kalinichenko, R.Manthey

J.Demetrovics, G.Gottlob

J. Eder Hele-Mai Haav PUBLICATION Springer LNCS COOPERA TION SIGMOD, DASFAA Springer LNCS Springer LNCS Springer LNCS Springer LNCS Springer LNCS Timos Sellis Yaroslav Pokorny Springer LNCS SIGMOD SIGMOD SIGMOD SIGMOD SIGMOD SIGMOD The 100 th Seminar of the Chapter

Activities: RCDL Conferences

 The Moscow ACM SIGMOD Chapter participates also in organization of another series of All-Russian National Annual Conferences on Digital Libraries (RCDL). The conferences are supported by RFBR.

 Six conferences of this series took place in St. Petersburg, Protvino, Petrozavodsk, Dubna, St. Petersburg, Puscshino  The seventh conference in this series is planned in October 2005 in Yaroslavl, the ancient Russian city. These conferences are open for participation of foreign specialists.

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Activities: Chapter’s Library

 Taking into account difficulties in Russia with getting access to the worldwide computer science and database research literature a Chapter’s library is collected to be available for the Moscow database and broader computer science community. During several years,

ACM contributed the library with the ACM journals.

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Activities: SIGMOD Cooperation with ACM

 ADBIS Conferences are usually organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD. The Chapter as well as the ADBIS Steering Committee joined the ACM SIGMOD program

"SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC)"

aiming at collecting symposium Anthologies on compact discs. Concerning ADBIS, the

Anthology currently includes papers accepted for ADBIS that took part during 1994 - 2002

. Materials of later conferences will follow as soon as the copyright issues with Springer will be resolved.

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Activities: SIGMOD – VLDB DB Anthology distribution for the Eastern Europe

  The chapter assisted a joint program established by ACM SIGMOD and VLDB foundation to distribute database literature (SIGMOD's Silver Edition and the SIGMOD 2003 DiSC on DVDs) to universities around the world, with the goal of assisting in the expansion of the database community in those countries. Using the ADBIS SC infrastructure, we collected

a list of 72

libraries in Armenia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia (14 libraries), Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine have been collected and DVDs have been distributed to them by ACM.

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Activity: Attempts contacts with ACM to improve

  Recently ACM formed a strategy group that is looking at how ACM can better serve the populations outside North America - such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China -- where there is growing interest in and development of computing, possibly with specialized publications and special access, and that ACM should be taking advantage of the growing number of SIG chapters worldwide, and the many SIG conferences based outside North America John White: “We are rethinking everything about outreach to key areas of the world”. The 100 th Seminar of the Chapter

Experience: direct joint actions with the ACM and ACM SIGMOD

     Cooperating with SIGMOD helped to take an important decision to transform the ADBIS conference into the East European event We were receiving very important support of the ACM SIGMOD for about 5 years since 1997 providing an ability to the ADBIS area people (like 3 – 4 persons per year) to attend the ACM SIGMOD Conference.

We were supported by ACM that for several years provided ACM journals Publishing of the SIGMOD Sister Societies paper (SIGMOD Record, 2000) Preparing a draft Agreement with ACM to form ACM Russia – the Coordinating Centre for ACM Activities in Russia The 100 th Seminar of the Chapter

Experience: negative observations

     There are no regular contacts between SIGs and Chapters. There are no ACM provisions for such form of contacts.

Any efficient SIG procedure of supporting chapters with high ranked, well known ACM professionals for giving courses of lectures, organizing seminars etc. does not exist Organization of conferences “in-cooperation with SIG” is too bureaucratic ACM with publishers agreements are not well regulated.

The ACM RUSSIA idea has been discontinued by ACM without any reasonable arguments.

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