CALL FOR PAPERS
                DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES
          SPECIAL ISSUE ON DATABASES AND MOBILE COMPUTING


BACKGROUND: There has been a tremendous surge of interest recently in
mobile computing and communications. The emergence of relatively
sophisticated, low-power, low-cost and portable computing platforms,
coupled with the availability and exploitation of wireless spectrum,
has opened exciting opportunities for making a wide variety of
applications available to people on the move.

Distributed and parallel databases play two central roles in this new
arena, one as essential components of the infrastructure required to
support mobile users, and another as the repositories of the key
applications of interest to a wide variety of users. In the first
role, databases support the functions required for locating,
authenticating, billing and providing administrative services to
mobile users. In the second role, mobile access to databases, where
the databases are fully or partially distributed across fixed and/or
mobile sites, is an important emerging area, e.g. for applications
such as mobile sales, personalized information services, and factory
operations.

There remain interesting database challenges, however, before the
requirements and constraints imposed by mobile computing can be fully
met. The research community has begun addressing these issues
recently at several workshops and conferences. The aim of this
Special Issue is to invite research contributions which address and
provide solutions to important issues relating to the role of
distributed and parallel databases in mobile computing.

TOPICS OF INTEREST: These include (but are not limited to) the
following.

   - Databases for efficiently locating, billing
	    & maintaining service profiles for mobile users
   - Novel applications & methods for mobile users 
   - Transaction models and correctness issues
   - Impacts of restricted energy & wireless bandwidth
        upon transaction and query processing
   - Data caching & allocation for mobile databases
   - Interfaces & query languages for mobile databases
   - Efficient exploitation of the wireless broadcast
        medium for data access and delivery
   - Performance and reliability evaluation
   - Practice and implementation experience

All papers will be refereed, and papers which clearly define
problems, provide specific solutions, and evaluate the results, are
preferred. Papers investigating both theoretical and experimental
issues are welcome.

SUBMITTING PAPERS: Send six copies of the complete paper by 
                   MAY 1, 1995 to:
    Ms. Judith Kemp, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
    101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA 02061 
    Tel: (617) 871-6300, Fax: (617) 878-0449 
    E-mail:jkkluwer@world.std.com. 
Authors will be notified in Aug., 1995, and the Special Issue is
planned for 1Q 1996.  Instructions for Authors are regularly
published in the Journal and may also be obtained from Ms. J. Kemp.
Distributed and Parallel Databases is an archival, peer-reviewed
journal.

GUEST EDITORS:

Daniel Barbara                Ravi Jain             N. Krishnakumar
Matsushita Info. Tech. Lab.   Bellcore              Bellcore
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