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The article presents calls and calendar of events related to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the U.S. for 2006. The IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine is soliciting unpublished research papers for March/April 2007 issue on computational photography. On the other hand, the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems will be held on July 4-7 and the 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies will be held on July 5-7.

The papers appearing in this special issue of the "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering" periodical are based on papers that originally appeared in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Engineering which was held in Los Angeles, California, on April 25-27, 1984. The paper by Braegger, Dudler, Rebsamen and Zehnder was selected as the best paper at the conference by the awards committee, and concerns a database tool called Gambit. This design tool is based on an extended relational/entity relationship model and assists the designer with a wide variety of subtools. The paper by Farmer, King, and Myers is also about a design tool which is called the Semantic Database Constructor (Sedaco). It is based on a semantic data model which buffers the designer from most low level data structuring issues.