BTW (conference)
The BTW (Database Systems for B usiness, T echnology and W eb) is a series of conferences organized by the Society for Computer Science with a focus on databases and their applications. The conference has been held every two years since 1985 and sees itself as the most important scientific conference on databases and information systems in German-speaking countries. It is organized by the Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) department of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
history
Two years before the first BTW conference, a series of conferences was discussed within the framework of the GI, which could show advances in database systems in research, development and applications. In order not to restrict the thematic range too much and to clarify the application, the term “office, technology and science” was chosen, along with the acronym “BTW”, which is still used today. The first BTW conference in Karlsruhe was a success with 320 participants, and the conferences are still very popular today.
Due to new technologies and fields of application, especially in the internet area, the main topics of the conferences changed so that the original name no longer reflected the current applications. For this reason, at the tenth BTW conference in Leipzig in 2003, the new designation "Database systems for business, technology and the web" was established while retaining the acronym "BTW". Further innovations in the course of time were the introduction of an industry program, a demo program, a tutorial and workshop program and the award of the best dissertations on databases and information systems.
The last BTW conference took place in March 2019 in Rostock. The next conference will be held in Dresden in March 2021.
List of BTW conferences
| year | place | Organizers | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Karlsruhe | Peter C. Lockemann , Wollfried Stucky, Albrecht Blaser | 20.-22. March 1985 |
| 1987 | Darmstadt | Hans-Jörg Schek, Gunter Schlageter | 1st - 3rd April 1987 |
| 1989 | Zurich | Carl August Zehnder , Theo Härder | 1st - 3rd March 1989 |
| 1991 | Kaiserslautern | Theo Härder , Hans-Jürgen Appelrath | 6-8 March 1991 |
| 1993 | Braunschweig | Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Wollfried Stucky | 3rd to 5th March 1993 |
| 1995 | Dresden | Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Georg Lausen | 22.-24. March 1995 |
| 1997 | Ulm | Peter Dadam, Klaus R. Dittrich | 5th-7th March 1997 |
| 1999 | Freiburg in Breisgau | Georg Lausen, Alexandro Buchmann | 1st - 3rd March 1999 |
| 2001 | Oldenburg (Oldb) | Hans-Jürgen Appelrath , Andreas Heuer | 7th-9th March 2001 |
| 2003 | Leipzig | Erhard Rahm , Gerhard Weikum | 26.-28. February 2003 |
| 2005 | Karlsruhe | Peter C. Lockemann , Wolffried Stucky, Gottfried Vossen | 2-4 March 2005 |
| 2007 | Aachen | Matthias Jarke , Thomas Seidl, Alfons Kemper | 5th-9th March 2007 |
| 2009 | Muenster | Gottfried Vossen , Johann-Christoph Freytag | 2-6 March 2009 |
| 2011 | Kaiserslautern | Theo Härder , Bernhard Mitschang | February 28 - March 4, 2011 |
| 2013 | Magdeburg | Gunter Saake , Volker Markl | 11-15 March 2013 |
| 2015 | Hamburg | Norbert Ritter, Thomas Seidl | 2-6 March 2015 |
| 2017 | Stuttgart | Bernhard Mitschang, Daniela Nicklas | 6-10 March 2017 |
| 2019 | Rostock | Andreas Heuer, Torsten Grust, Felix Naumann | 4-8 March 2019 |
| 2021 | Dresden | Wolfgang Lehner, Kai-Uwe Sattler | 8-12 March 2021 |
literature
- Theo Härder, Erhard Rahm: 30 years of "database systems for business, technology and the web" . Database Spectrum 15: 81-90, (2015).
Web links
- GI department of databases and information systems
- 10th GI conference database systems for business, technology and the web
- 14th GI conference database systems for business, technology and the web
- 16th GI conference database systems for business, technology and the web