Information Systems

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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:51:30 -0500 (EST)

Information Systems

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ISSN: 0306-4379 

Databases: Their Creation, Management and Utilization
An International Journal

AIMS AND SCOPE 

Information systems are the software and hardware systems that support
data-intensive applications.  Information Systems publishes articles
concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models,
software and hardware for information systems. Subject areas include data
management issues as presented in the principal international database
conferences (eg ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, VLDB and EDBT) as well as
data-related issues from the fields of knowledge-based systems,
information retrieval, programming languages, and organizational behavior. 
We seek papers that improve on, and are aware of, the best industrial
practice and the best academic research. The style should be clear,
direct, active and even occasionally amusing. The English should be
fluent. Submitted papers should motivate the problems they address with
compelling examples from real or potential applications. Systems papers
must be serious about experimentation either on real systems or
simulations based on traces from real systems. Papers from industrial
organizations that discuss the practical implementation of systems are
welcome. Theoretical papers should have a clear motivation from
applications. They should either break significant new ground or unify and
extend existing algorithms. Such papers should clearly state which ideas
have potentially wide applicability. In addition to publishing submitted
articles, the Editors-in-Chief will invite retrospective articles that
describe significant projects by the principal architects of those
projects.  Authors of such articles should write in the first person,
tracing the social as well as technical history of their projects,
describing the evolution of ideas, mistakes made, and reality tests.
Technical results should be explained in a uniform notation with the
emphasis on clarity and on ideas that may have applications outside of the
environment of that research. Particularly complex details may be
summarized with references to previously published papers.  The IBM
articles about System R constitute one example. Information Systems is
establishing a firm association with leading European database
conferences, in particular the bi-annual EDBT conference, and will
contribute to the broader dissemination of outstanding results through
occasional special issues based on expanded versions of selected papers
from such conferences.