Database Theory Column * Report on PODS 200 0 Georg Gottlo b Institut fur Informationssystem e Technische Universitat Wie n A-1040 Wien, Austri a E-mail: gottlob@dbai . tuwien . ac . at The Nineteenth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2000, was held in Dallas, Texas from May 15 to May 17, 2000 . As in previous years , the PODS Symposium was a joint event with the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2000, with a two day overlap . The organization of this joint event was excellent . SIGMOD General Chair Maggie Dunha m and her crew did their best to make the conference a full success . PODS featured an invited talk by Prabhakar Raghavan, an invited tutorial by Moshe Vardi, an d 26 contributed papers that were selected by the Program Committee out of 119 submissions . This number of submissions is relatively high and is consistent with the growing interest of compute r science researchers in database theory in the past few years . Some submission/acceptance statistic s by world regions is given in the following table, where each paper was assigned to the region of it
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