COMAD 2016 - Call for Papers

[Balaraman Ravindran]

COMAD 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

21st International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD)
March 11-13, 2016, Pune, India.
http://comad.in/comad2016

For over two decades, the International Conference on Management of Data
(COMAD), modeled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been the premier
international database conference hosted in India by Division II of Computer
Society of India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on
a nearly annual basis since then (except for a few breaks such as in the
years when VLDB and ICDE were held in India). COMAD has always had a
significant international participation, with about 30% of the papers being
from outside India, including Europe, USA and East/South-East Asia.

COMAD 2016 will be co-located with IKDD CoDS 2016 in Pune India and will
share a common day of events. COMAD 2016 will run from March 11th to 13th,
and IKDD CoDS from March 13th to 16th. To facilitate this shift, there will
be no COMAD 2015.

We invite the submission of original research contributions as full papers
and posters, as well as proposals for demonstrations, industrial presentations,
tutorials, and panels. COMAD will also feature a Programming Challenge.
Please see http://comad.in/comad2016 for more details.

Areas of Interest include but not limited to:

Data Management Systems:
Big-Data management; Benchmarking and performance evaluation;
Data exchange and integration; Database monitoring and tuning;
Data privacy and security; Data quality, cleaning and lineage;
Data warehousing; Managing uncertain, inconsistent information;
Multilingual data management; Novel data types; Graph data management;
Parallel and distributed databases; Peer-to-peer data management;
Personalized information systems; Storage and transaction management;
New data management architectures (e.g., data stream management and cloud).

Web and Information Retrieval:‸
Categorization, clustering, and filtering; Information extraction and summarization;
Document representation and content analysis; IR theory, platform, evaluation;
Question answering and cross-language IR; Web and IR; Social network analysis.

Data Mining:
Novel data mining algorithms and foundations; Innovative applications of data mining;
Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks; Mining data streams and sensor data;
Mining multimedia, graph, spatio-temporal, semi-structured data;
Security and privacy in data mining; Big Data analytics.
High performance and parallel/distributed data mining;
Mining tera-/peta-scale data; Visual data mining and data visualization.

To ensure wide visibility for the material published at the conference,
arrangements will be made with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of
the conference in the SIGMOD online archives. Two awards, for Best Paper and
Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference

IMPORTANT DATES
    Paper Submission: October 6, 2015
    Posters/Demos/Tutorials/Panels: October 20, 2015
    Acceptance Notification: December 15, 2015

General Chair: P. Sreenivasa Kumar, IIT Madras
Program Chairs: B. Ravindran, IIT Madras and
                Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland
Industry Chair: Sudipto Das, Microsoft Research
Tutorial Chair: Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, IBM
Programming Challenge Chair: Biplav Shrivastava, IBM Research India,
                             Debtanu Dutta, and
                             Rohit Kulkarni, Latentview Analytics.
Proceedings Chair: Sayan Ranu, IIT Madras