SOFSEM’98 - The Successful Silver Jubilee
by Gabriela Andrejkova and Jan Vinar
SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is a full seven-day international conference
devoted to the theory and practice of software systems. Its aim
is to foster cooperation among computer science professionals
from academia and practice. Last year’s Silver Jubilee Session
was organized by the Slovak and Czech Societies for Computer Science
and SRCIM (Slovak Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics).
SOFSEM'98 was held from 21-27 November 1998 and attracted 137
participants from fifteen countries, about two thirds from Bohemia
and Slovakia.
Sponsors played a very important role, the main sponsors were
the Andersen Consulting, IBM, Digital Slovakia, SAP Slovensko,
with other companies and organizations (ERCIM, Microsoft Slovakia,
ORACLE Slovensko, VSZ Informatika) providing important contributions.
Thanks to the support, equip- ment, and staff of Telenor Slovakia
the participants enjoyed the Internet connection for the first
time in the history of SOFSEM.
The scientific program of the seminar was divided into four principal
areas: Distributed and Parallel Systems, Electronic Commerce,
Electronic Documents and Digital Libraries, and Trends in Algorithms.
There was also a Silver Jubilee Track devoted to major achievements
of computer science. There were twenty invited lectures and eighteen
contributed papers which were selected from among 48 contributions
by the Program Committee chaired by Branislav Rovan of the Comenius
University of Bratislava.
Invited Lectures
- Invited lectures were given under the following tracks:
- Major Achievements (The Silver Jubilee track)
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Electronic Commerce
- Electronic Documents and Digital Libraries
- Trends in Algorithms.
The Proccedings of the conference appeared as volume 1521 of the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science of the Springer-Verlag.
The next conference, SOFSEM’99, will be held at Milovy in the
Bohemian Highlands (approximately two hours by car from Brno).
We hope that it will be as successful as it was on numerous previous
occasions in the same venue.
For more information, see:
SOFSEM ‘88 web page: http://www.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/~sofsem98
SOFSEM’99web page: http://www.ics.muni.cz/sofsem/sofsem.html
Please contact:
Gabriela Andrejkova and Jan Vinar - SRCIM
Tel: +421 95 6221128
E-mail: andrejk@kosice.upjs.sk
