The China Computer Federation Database Technical Committee (CCF DBTC) is one of the societies of China Computer Federation (CCF). CCF is the largest national academic organization in China established in 1956. In 1977, database researchers formed a Database Group, a third level unit in the CCF hierarchy, under the Software Society of CCF. After 22 years, the group was upgraded to Database Society, a second level unit in CCF hierarchy, in August 1999. The aim of CCF DBTC is to promote research, development and application of database related technologies by uniting database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers and end users from the mainland of China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and other overseas Chinese.
CCF DBTC functions as a steering committee for database related academic activities in China. Its members are prominent researchers and developers nominated by and selected from leading universities, research institutes, and industrial organizations. During the 16th National Database Conference held in Lanzhou last August, 43 researchers from more than 30 universities, institutes and companies were selected by the database community as the members of the society. Among them, Professor Shan WANG (swang@mail.ruc.edu.cn) of the School of Information, Renmin University was elected as the chair. Other eight members, Jianzhong LI (jzl@hlju.edu.cn), Department of Computer Science of Harbin Institute of Technology Xiaopei LUO, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Science, Bole SHI (bshi@fudan.edu.cn), Department of Computer Science of Fudan University, Changjie TANG (Chjtang@scu.edu.cn) Department of Computer Science of Sichuan University, Shiwei TANG, Department of Computer Science of Peking University, Nengbin WANG (nbwang@seu.edu.cn), Department of Computer Science of Southeastern University, Lizhu ZHOU (dcszlz@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn), Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, Longxiang ZHOU (Lxzhou@math20.math.ac.cn), Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Science, were elected as the vice chairs. Shixuan SA, a veteran database research at the School of Information of Renmin University is the honorary chair of the Society.
As a professional organization at the national level, CCF DBTC actively organize and coordinates database related activities in China, including providing consultation and supporting services to both government organizations and the database community, and helping government departments in drawing related regulations, technical standards, and etc.
CCF DBTC actively organizes, sponsors and supports conferences, symposiums, workshops, and training classes to facilitate information and technology dissemination and exchange. The China's national database conference (NDBC) organized by the society is an important event to the database community in China. It has been held for 16 years. It has played very important role in promoting database related education, research and development in China. It is CCF DBTC' objective to improve the paper selection process and conference organization so that NDBC can become one of the leading database conferences internationally in the new millennium. For year 2000, the 17th National Database Conference (NDBC) will be held in Baoding, an ancient city about 200 kilometers southern from Beijing. Overseas researchers and practitioners are warmly welcomed to participate this activity. Compiling a book series on database related technology is another effort of the society. Six books published in the series so far cover various areas including parallel and distributed database systems, data warehouse, and database security.
Strengthen collaboration with sister database societies in the other countries, especially ACM SIGMOD and other ACM special interests groups, is among the top list of tasks of CCF DBTC' agenda. In its 16th NDBC, CCF DBTC helped the first SIGMOD membership recruitment drive and will continue to do so. It is also planed to initiate certain exchange programs with SIGMOD such as inviting prominent database researchers to visit China, exchanging publications, and etc.
A Web-site has been recently setup for the society with the following URL: http:\\www.ccf-dbtc.org.cn. The Secretary General, Xiaofeng MENG can be reached through E-mail ccfdbs@mail.ruc.edu.cn
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