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Preface
The series of Baltic DB&IS biennial conferences was started in 1994. The first
conference was held in Trakai, Lithuania. It was initiated by Prof. Janis A. Bubenko Jr.
(Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) and Prof. Arne Sølvberg
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) and organised by Institute
of Mathematics and Informatics (Lithuania), Vilnius University (Lithuania), Vilnius
Technical University (Lithuania). This time was a hard time for Baltic research
community. After the crash of Soviet Union the cooperation with the research centres
in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Novosibirsk was broken. The horizontal cooperation
between research centres in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia was weak developed. We
had almost no touch with the research centres in West countries and even in East
European countries. The idea of Janis A. Bubenko jr. and Arne Sølvberg to organise
Baltic Workshops on databases and information systems was indeed a great idea. It
helped to consolidate research communities in Baltic countries, to establish contacts
with research centres in West and East European countries, and even to renew contacts
with the researchers in Russia. These workshops have become a real incentive for
development of regional research and boost of international cooperation.
Janis A. Bubenko jr. and Arne Sølvberg helped also to receive founding and even
trained us in West European conference organization technologies. Despite the fact that
Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius had big experience in organizing large soviet conferences,
this experience was almost not applicable in organizing conferences according to West
standards. Besides, the time was very hard. It is enough to mention that during the
conference in Trakai the conference venue and diner room were protected by armed
safeguard.
In year 2000, the international workshop was transformed into international
conference. Two years earlier, the selected papers of the conference started to be
published by international publishers. The detail statistic data are presented in the table
below.
The analysis of this table shows not only positive but also some negative trends.
Starting from year 2008, the geography of participants contracted significantly. It
seems that it happened not only for reasons of world-wide financial crisis, but also for
changes in state scientific policies. In our opinion, the trend to ignore international
conferences and to accent publications only in high-quality international scientific
journals is not perspective and even malign.
Another negative trend is the permanently enlarged gap between research
communities and industry. If first conferences had significant industrial tracks and
intensive round table discussions, in three recent conferences the participation of
industry partners is less than minimal. In our opinion, this is the evidence that, at least
in Baltic countries, the state policy oriented to encourage the cooperation among
research centres and industry is not effective. Despite these negative trends, we remain
optimistic and believe that Baltic DB&IS biennial conferences reborn for its new life.
In the final, we express our warmest thanks to all authors who contributed to the
10th Jubilee Conference, to the members of international Programme Committee,
additional reviewers, and to the organizing team. We also express our very special
thanks and deep gratitude to all our sponsors. Last, but not the least, we also thank all
the participants of the conference.
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PC Submissions
Year/ Proceedings
Number of
Number of
Number of
Number of
Venue/
submissions
Accepted
Status
members
countries
countries
1994 Local 16 5 11 43 (Australia-1, Belgium - 1,
Trakai Estonia-+ , Finland-2, France-
Workshop 3, Latvia-5, Lithuania-7,
Norway-3, Sweden-10, UK-3,
USA-2)
1996 Local 25 14 55 19 36 (Australia-3.5, Estonia-5,
Tallinn Finland-3.5, France-5,
Workshop Germany-2.75, Israel-0.25,
Latvia-7, Lithuania-1,
Malaysia-1, Netherlands – 1,
Russia-1, Sweden-3,
Switzerland-1, UK-3, USA-1)
1998 Local 31 16 46 17 39 (Australia-0.5, Brasil-1,
Riga Denmark-1, Estonia-1,
Workshop Finlandia-4.5, France-1,
Germany-2, Hungary-1,
Korea-1, Latvia-10, Lithuania-
5.5, Malaysia-1, Netherlands-
1, Poland-3, Sweden-1, UK-
1.5, USA-1)
2000 Local + 37 18 60 39 (Belarus-1, Brasil-2,
Vilnius Kluwer Estonia-5, Finland-4, France-
Workshop Academic 1, Germany-9.33, Japan-1,
Publishers Latvia-5.8, Lithuania-14,
(selected Norway-1, Poland-5, Russia-3,
papers) Spain-1, Sweden-0.33, UK-
2.03, Ukraine-1, USA-2.5,
Yugoslavia-1)
2002/ Local + 33 18 60 23 41 (Australia-0.5, Czech
Tallinn Kluwer Republic-1, China-1,
Conference Academic Denmark-2, Estonia-11,
Publishers Germany-7, Italy-1, Japan-1,
(selected Latvia-11, Lithuania-3, New
papers) Zealand-1, Norway-1.5,
Poland-3, Portugal-1, Russia-
3, Spain-1, Sweden-1, UK-1,
USA-1)
2004 Local + IOS 35 14 59 17 35 (Czech Republic-3,
Riga Press Estonia-3, Finland-1, France-
Conference (selected 1, Germany-5.5, Latvia-4,
papers) Lithuania-4, New Zealand-1,
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PC Submissions
Year/ Proceedings
Number of
Number of
Number of
Number of
Venue/
submissions
Accepted
Status
members
countries
countries
Norway-1, Poland-3, Russia-
3.5, Spain-2, Sweden-1, UK-1,
USA-1)
2006 Local + IOS 87 35 84 21 48 (Australia-1, Austria-2,
Vilnius Press Belgium-0.3, Brazil-0.5,
Conference (selected China-1, Denmark-0.5,
papers) + Estonia-2, France-5,
IEEE Germany-2, Italy-1.5, Latvia-
(selected 17, Lithuania-11.8, Mexico-
papers) 0.5, Netherlands-0.7, New
Zealand-2, Portugal-1, Russia-
1, Spain-0.5, UK-1.7, USA-1)
2008 Local + IOS 43 22 43 12 29 (Austria-1, Estonia-8,
Tallinn Press Finland-1, Germany-2, Latvia-
Conference (selected 13, Lithuania-5, Poland-1,
papers) Russia-1, UK-1)
2010 Local + IOS 51 15 36 (Austria-0.5, Estonia-6.5,
Riga Press Germany-2.5, Latvia-17,
Conference (selected Lithuania-2, Poland-1, Russia-
papers) 0.5, Sweden-1)
2012 Local + IOS 64 23 69 14 43 (Algeria-1, Canada-1,
Vilnius Press Estonia-6, France-3,
Conference (selected Germany-3, Latvia-17,
papers) Lithuania-9.5, Russia-3,
Slovenia-2, Switzerland-0.5)
July 2012 Albertas Čaplinskas
Olegas Vasilecas