Dear collegues, 

we are now approaching the final stretch of the preparations for VLDB
2003. The hot phase has started, with a record number of about 460
submissions waiting to be reviewed by the more than one hundred
program committee members. They will have the difficult task of
selecting the topmost 50 submissions. Looks like we will again have a
conference of the highest quality!

That's about the right time to start our regular newsletter to keep
you up-to-date on all progress we are making. Sure enough, most if not
all can also be glanced from our Web site

http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de. 

But a newsletter is a more personal affair, and we try to make VLDB
2003 also a very personal success to each one of you who plans to
attend the conference and visit Berlin, a fascinating metropolis, in
September 2003. 

In order to reveal the wide spectrum of the VLDB conference, you find
the geographical and topic statistics of this year's paper
submissions.


Track		Total
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CORE		249
IIS		162
Industrial	46
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Grand Total	457


Paper counts by nation (according to contact author's affiliation) 
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Country			Total
Australia		5
Austria			1
Brazil			1
Bulgaria		2
Canada			18
Chile			1
China			8
Czech Republic		2
Denmark			3
Finland			1
France			13
Germany			35
Greece			8
Hongkong		13
Hungary			2
India			11
Ireland			3
Israel			5
Italy			10
Japan			17
Korea			9
Lithaunia		1
Norway			1
Poland			4
Portugal		3
Romania			2
Russia			10
Serbia and Montenegro	1
Singapore		18
Spain			1
Sweden			2
Switzerland		3
Taiwan, ROC		7
Turkey			2
Ukraine			3
United Kingdom		13
USA			218
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Grand Total		457



CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUBMITTED PAPERS 
(multiple subjects per paper possible)
Total subject name	
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 63 Access Methods
  4 Active Database
 17 Adapting DB Technology in industrial Settings to industral Requirements
 84 Advanced Search, Query, and Approximation
  5 Agent-based Systems and Technology
  6 Appl. Area: Bio-Informatics/Life Science
  6 Appl. Area: Digital Librahes/Document Management
  4 Appl. Area: Electronic Commerce
  5 Appl. Area: Engineering
 11 Appl. Area: Enterprise Data Management
  3 Appl. Area: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  3 Appl. Area: Environmental Management
  8 Appl. Area: Geographic Information Systems
  1 Appl. Area: Government
  2 Appl. Area: Medical Systems
  1 Appl. Area: Telecommunications
 10 Application Servers / Object Brokers
  2 Application Service Provisioning
 14 Authorization and Security
  5 Business Process Engineering and Execution Support
 15 Collaboration/Cooperation
  9 Concurrency Control and Recovery
  2 DAG Labeling and Recursion Computation in Relational Databases
 15 Data and/or Process Models and Design Tools
 29 Data Integration / Federation / Mediation
 44 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  5 Data Quality
 18 Data Transformation, Integration, Evolution, and Migration
 11 Data Warehousing
  7 Database Benchmarks and Measurement
 15 Database Languages
  4 Database Systems and Grid Computing
  5 Databases and database services: Collaboration/Cooperation
  2 Databases and database services: Embedded Databases
 30 Databases and database services: Internet and the WWW
 10 Databases and database services: Mobile Applications
  8 Databases as Components in Enterprise Systems
 17 Designing & Implementing Systems using DB Technology
  5 Distributed Transaction Management
  3 Embedded Databases
  8 Enterprise Data Services
 10 Industrial Strength Systems based an DB Technology
 19 Information and Data Semantics
 29 Information Retrieval with Database Systems
 32 Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities
  3 Integrating Programming Languages with Databases
 64 Internet and WWW Databases / Query Systems
  8 Logic and Databases
 10 Manageability of Database Systems
 17 Meta-data Management
 29 Middleware Data Architectures
  7 Mobile Applications
 30 Novel / Advanced Database Applications
 12 On-line Analytical Processing
 98 Optimization and Performance
 13 Personalized or Profile-based Data Management
  7 Protection
  2 Reliability
 19 Replication, Caching, and View Materialization
  3 Reporting Pitfalls and Difficulties
  4 Robustness
 70 Semi-structured Data, XML
 29 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Multidimensional Databases
 16 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Multimedia Databases
  5 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Object-Oriented Database Systems
  6 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Object-Relational Database Systems
 14 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Parallel and Distributed Databases
  3 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Real-time Databases
 13 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Scientific and Statistical Databases
 23 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Spatial Databases
 16 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Temporal Databases
  9 Special Purpose DB Techn.: Text Databases
  3 Special Purpose DB Technologies: Management Systems
  6 Special Purpose DBTechnologies: Fuzzy Databases
  3 Special Purpose DBTechnologies: Knowledge Base
 10 Unique Experiences in using DB Technology
 10 User Interfaces & Visualization
 16 Views and View Management
  5 Visual Query Languages and Tools
  7 Workflow Systems

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