VLDB 2008 - Call for Papers and Proposals
Omar U. Florez
From: Gerald Weber <ger...@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Dec 7, 2007 3:19 PM
Subject: [Dbworld] VLDB 2008 - Call for Papers and Proposals
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
VLDB 2008
34th International Conference on
Very Large Data Bases
24th - 30th August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
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Important Dates
- January 18, 2008 (5:00pm GMT) Workshop proposal deadline
- March 7, 2008 (5:00pm GMT) Abstract submission deadline
- March 14, 2008 (5:00pm GMT)
Paper and Demonstration submission deadline
- March 28, 2008 (5:00pm GMT)
Tutorial and Experiments submission deadline
- May 24, 2008 Author notification
- June 13, 2008 Camera-ready papers due
- August 24-30, 2008 Conference
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VLDB 2008 - Call for Papers and Proposals
VLDB is a premier annual international forum for database
researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers,
and users. VLDB 2008, the 34th conference in the series, will
be held in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference will feature
research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, workshops, and - as a
new type of submission - experiments and analyses. The conference
will cover current issues in database and information systems
research.
Databases remain one of the technological cornerstones
of emerging applications of the twenty-first century.
New Zealand is, like its neighbour Australia, highly active in
this area in both research and industry and is supported by
strong international links. The VLDB delegates who will convene
in downtown Auckland will experience a vibrant metropolitan area
with one of the highest living standards in the world,
fast-growing business activity in high-tech areas and a very
rich international research culture. The affordable price level
and the excellent flight connections will make New Zealand an
unforgettable VLDB experience - not to mention that all this
comes with the great outdoors and the easygoing lifestyle in
New Zealand. The University of Auckland is looking forward to
your visit.
VLDB 2008 calls for outstanding research papers as well as
proposals for demonstrations. Tutorial proposals on all topics
that will be of particular interest for the community are
welcome. VLDB 2008 also strongly encourages the submission of
workshop proposals on challenging topics in areas related to
the VLDB focus.
Papers must be submitted electronically. Please check the
website regularly for updated information on the paper
submission procedure.
To continue the policy of broadening the range of topics
covered at the conference, VLDB 2008 will be organized into
three tracks, each with its own Program Committee:
- Core Database Technology
- Infrastructure for Information Systems
- Industrial, Applications, and Experience
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Conference Officers
General Co-chairs:
- Gill Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
VLDB Liaison:
- Renee J. Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
General Program Chair:
- Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh
Core Database Technology Program Chair:
- Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Chair:
- Kenneth Ross, Columbia University, USA
Industrial Applications and Experience Program Chair:
- Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs Research, India
Demonstrations Program Chair:
- Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tutorial Program Co-chairs:
- Rick Hull, Bell Labs Research, USA
- Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
- Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
Experiments and Analyses Program Chair:
- Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Workshop Co-chairs:
- Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Fred Lochovsky, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, China
- Eric Simon, Business Objects, France
PhD Workshop Co-chairs:
- Anastasia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
and EPFL, Switzerland
- Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Organizing Committee and Proceedings Chair:
- Gerald Weber, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Topics of Interest
The Core Database Technology Track will evaluate papers on
technologies intended to be incorporated within the database
system itself. The topics of interest to this track include (but
are not limited to):
- Active Databases
- Benchmarking and Performance
- Concurrency Control and Recovery
- Data Models and Languages
- Database Administration and Manageability
- Database Indexing and Search
- Database Performance and Evaluation
- Embedded and Mobile Databases
- Engine-based Views, Replication, and Caching
- Fuzzy, Probabilistic, and Approximate Data
- Image, Text, and Multimedia Databases
- Native Semi-Structured Data and XML
- Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Databases
- Private and Secure Databases
- Query Processing and Optimization
- Real-Time Databases
- Reliable and Robust Databases
- Spatial and Temporal Databases
- Stream Databases
The Information Infrastructure Track covers all aspects of data
management not implemented within a conventional database
engine. The topics covered by this track include (but are not
limited to):
- Content Delivery Networks
- Database Services and Applications
- Data Design, Evolution and Migration
- Data Management in Computational Science
- Data Mining
- Data Quality and Semantics
- Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS (Interoperability)
- Information Filtering and Dissemination
- Information Integration and Retrieval
- Meta-data Management
- Middleware Platforms for Data Management
- Mobile Data Management
- Novel/Advanced Applications
- On-Line Analytic Processing
- P2P and Networked Data Management
- Profile-based Data Management
- Scientific Databases
- Sensor Networks
- User Interfaces and Visualization
- Web Replication and Caching
- Web Services and Web Service Composition
- XML Middleware Platforms
The Industrial, Applications, and Experience Track covers
innovative commercial database implementations, novel
applications of database technology, and experience in applying
recent research advances to practical situations, in any of the
following example areas (or, in other areas where data
management is important):
- Adapting DB Technology to Industrial Settings and
Requirements
- Application Areas (Government, Finance, Humanities,
Telecommunications, Home and Personal Computing, ...)
- Bio-Informatics/Life Sciences
- Business Process Engineering and Execution Support
- Data Management for Developing Countries
- Digital Libraries/Document Management
- Electronic Commerce
- Engineering Information Systems
- Enterprise Data Management
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Environmental Management
- Experiences in Using DB Technology
- Geographic Information Systems
- Industrial-Strength Systems based on DB Technology
- Mobile Computing
- Medical Systems
- Reporting of Pitfalls and Difficulties
- Retail Systems
- Self-Managing Systems
- System Design and Implementation using DB Technology
In some cases, material might cut across more than one of the
tracks, and indeed we strongly encourage papers that pursue some
of the ties between them. As submissions will be judged by their
appropriateness for the track in which they are being evaluated,
appropriate placement of papers is important. If in doubt,
please contact one of the PC chairs. The program committee
reserves the right to move papers between the PCs to ensure the
fairest possible evaluation.
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Submission Guidelines
--Research Papers--
Papers must adhere to the conference's duplicate submission
policy, must be formatted according to the conference's
camera-ready format, and are limited to 12 pages. Paper
submission must be done electronically using the conference
management tools for the Core Database Technology or the
Infrastructure for Information Systems track. For each paper, its
authors must submit an abstract by March 7, 2008 (5:00pm GMT).
The full paper must subsequently be submitted electronically,
in pdf format, by March 14, 2008 (5:00pm GMT).
--Industrial, Applications, and Experience Papers--
Full papers or extended abstracts must be submitted
electronically, in pdf format, by March 14, 2008 (5:00pm GMT)
using the conference management tool. The conference's duplicate
submission policy and the formatting requirements also apply. In
particular, each paper must be formatted according to the
conference's camera-ready format and the page length is
restricted to at most 12 pages.
--Demonstration Proposals--
Demonstration proposals must be submitted electronically, in
pdf format, by March 14, 2008 (5:00pm GMT) using the conference
management tool. Proposals should be focused on new database
technology, advances in applying databases,or innovative use of
database techniques. Proposals must be submitted in camera-ready
format and are limited to 4 pages. They should describe the
demonstrated system, indicate what is going to be demonstrated,
and state the significance of the contribution to database
technology or applications. Proposals must not be published or
under consideration for publication elsewhere. Demonstration
papers will appear in the proceedings.
--Tutorial Proposals--
Tutorial proposals must clearly identify the intended audience
and its assumed background. Tutorials whose audience is broader
than the database research community are encouraged. Proposals
must be no more than 5 pages and must provide a sense of both
the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope. The
intended length of the tutorial (1.5 or 3 hours) should also be
indicated, together with justification that a high-quality
presentation will be achieved within the chosen time period and
the indication of the main learning outcomes. Proposals should
also include contact information (name, email, address, telephone
number, and FAX number) and a brief bio of the presenters. If
the proposed tutorial has been given previously, the proposal
should include where the tutorial has been given and how it will
be modified for VLDB 2008. Proposals must be submitted
electronically by March 28, 2008 (5:00pm GMT). Detailed
information on the submission procedure will be available on the
conference website. Tutorial presentations will be published and
made available to VLDB participants.
--Experiments and Analyses Papers--
Database management has been an active area of research for several
decades. This special topic aims to meet needs for consolidation of a
maturing research area by providing a prestigious forum for in-depth
analytical or empirical studies and comparisons of existing
techniques.
The expected contribution of an Experiments and Analyses (E&A) paper
is new, independent, comprehensive and reproducible evaluations and
comparisons of existing data management techniques. Thus, the intended
contribution of an E&A paper is not a new algorithm or technique but
rather further insight into the state-of-the-art by means of careful,
systematic, and scientific evaluation. Comparisons of algorithmic
techniques must either use best-effort re-implementations based on the
original papers, or use existing implementations from the original
authors, if publicly available.
The program committee will create a shortlist of E&A submissions that
will be accepted tentatively for publication. These papers will then
enter into a rebuttal phase with the authors and inventors or
acknowledged experts of the techniques being evaluated, moderated by
one of the reviewers. The program committee may require the authors to
include feedback from the rebuttal phase as a condition of final
acceptance.
Submissions should be 3-12 pages long; authors are encouraged to keep
their submissions short and concise. Formatting requirements are the
same as for other research papers.
This special topic is a trial for VLDB 2008 and may significantly
change for future VLDB conferences.
Proposals must be submitted electronically by March 28, 2008 (5:00pm GMT).
Detailed information on the submission procedure will be available on
the conference website in January 2008.
The notification of tentative acceptance will be on April 23, 2008.
The notification of final acceptance will be on May 24, 2008
--Workshop Proposals--
VLDB 2008 will again feature a number of co-located workshops,
but there are new options in 2008 on how they can be run.
A workshop proposal should be no more than 5 pages and should
include the workshop title, technical description of the the
topic and issues, justification, potential officials, duration
and history (if any) of the workshop. Proposals should be
submitted by January 18, 2008 (5:00pm GMT) via email to Fred
Lochovsky (fr...@cse.ust.hk).
VLDB 2008 offers the usual serviced workshops, where registration,
catering, room allocation and audio/visual will be organized by
the conference organizers. The serviced workshops will take place
on Sunday and Monday before the conference, and on Friday,
Saturday, Sunday after the conference.
The workshops will be hosted partly at the conference venue and
partly at the University of Auckland, about 15 minutes by foot
from the conference venue; a free bus is running from 8am to 6pm
between the conference hotel and the university. Workshop
proposals can have any duration from half-a-day to 2 days.
Please indicate your preference for a date, but proposals must
be unconditional concerning scheduling: With great probability,
some workshops will not get their preferred date.
As a new option VLDB 2008 offers the possibility for inter-
national working groups to hold meetings alongside VLDB. They
can be serviced in the same style as the workshops and can have
a closed audience. Requests for such a meeting should be sent
informally by January 18 to Gerald Weber (ger...@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
rather than to the workshop chair.
Furthermore there is the possibility to run fully self-organized
co-located workshops or other meetings within New Zealand around
the conference dates. This is an opportunity to combine a unique
New Zealand experience with an international convention. Every
workshop during the weekend before or after the conference will
be considered co-located. The VLDB 2008 organizers will try to
assist in finding suitable venues in very attractive places in
the vicinity of Auckland or in other parts of New Zealand.
Please also refer to the conference website for updates on the
workshop process.
--PhD Workshop Papers--
Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, by
April 15,2008 (5PM GMT), using the conference management tool.
Each paper must be formatted according to the conference's
camera-ready format and must be at most 6 pages in length.
Submissions must be single-author, and the name of the supervisor
must be clearly marked ("supervised by ...") on the paper, under
the author's name.
We welcome submissions from students that are enrolled in a PhD
program and who are working on topics relevance to those covered
by the VLDB conference. We particularly encourage submissions from
students who are at the last stages of their doctoral work, and
who can therefore present a more "complete" story about their
thesis, as well as students who are in the beginning stages of
their work and thus have a significant "future work" component.
The former category will have the opportunity
to showcase theses to a wider audience in preparation for a job
search, whereas the latter can obtain valuable feedback about
their upcoming research plans.
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Program Committees
-- Core Databases Program Committee --
Chair: Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Daniel Abadi (Yale University, USA)
- Gustavo Alonso (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
- Shivnath Babu (Duke University, USA)
- Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
- Peter Boncz (CWI, Netherlands)
- Nico Bruno (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Barbara Catania (Universita di Genova, Italy)
- Chee Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Yi Chen (Arizona State University, USA)
- Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
- Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Reynold Cheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
- Junghoo Cho (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
- Nilesh Dalvi (Yahoo! Research, USA)
- Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
- Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
- Jens Dittrich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
- Wei Fang (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Johann-Christoph Freytag (Humboldt University, Germany)
- Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK)
- Minos Garofalakis (Yahoo! Research, USA)
- Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA)
- Phil Gibbons (Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA)
- Dina Goldin (Brown University, USA)
- Naga Govindaraju (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Ihab Francis Ilyas (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Zachary G. Ives (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Carl-Christian Kanne (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz, Germany)
- Alfons Kemper (Technische Universit ̈at Munchen, Germany)
- Martin Kersten (CWI, Netherlands)
- George Kollios (Boston University, USA)
- Nick Koudas (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Paul Larson (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Chen Li (University of California, Irvine, USA)
- Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
- Dan Lin (Purdue University, USA)
- Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
- Dave Lomet (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Jayant Madhavan (Google, USA)
- Ioana Manolescu (INRIA, France)
- Yannis Papakonstantinou (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- Roy Prasan (Aster Data Systems, USA)
- Volker Markl (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
- Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
- Ralf Schenkel (Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Germany)
- Bernhard Seeger (University of Marburg, Germany)
- Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
- Heng Tao Shen (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA)
- Uri Shaft (Oracle, USA)
- Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University, Korea)
- Yannis Sismanis (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
- Divesh Srivastava (AT&T, USA)
- Jianwen Su (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
- S. Sudarshan (IIT Bombay, India)
- Jianyong Wang (Tsinghua, China)
- Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Germany)
- Till Westmann (University of Mannheim, Germany)
- Bei Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Jingren Zhou (Microsoft Research, USA)
-- Infrastructure for Information Systems Program Committee --
Chair: Kenneth Ross (University of Columbia, USA)
- Karl Aberer (EPFL,Zurich, Switzerland)
- Roger Barga (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Phil Bohannon (Yahoo! Research, USA)
- Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, USA)
- Fabio Casati (University of Trento, Italy)
- Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milan, Italy)
- Ed Chang (Google, China)
- Damianos Chatziantoniou (Athens University of Economics
and Business, Greece)
- Arbee Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
- Rada Chirkova (North Carolina State University, USA)
- Chris Clifton (Purdue University, USA)
- Mariano Consens (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Bin Cui (Peking University, China)
- Susan Davidson (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Alan Demers (Cornell University, USA)
- Alin Deutsch (University of California, San Diego, USA)
- AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
- Asuman Dogac (Middle-East Technical University, Turkey)
- Mary Fernandez (AT&T, USA)
- Juliana Freire (University of Utah, USA)
- Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University, USA)
- Bugra Gedik (IBM Research, USA)
- Lise Getoor (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
- Luis Gravano (Columbia University, USA)
- Jiawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)
- Panos Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)
- H. Jagadish (University of Michigan, USA)
- Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Chris Jermaine (University of Florida, USA)
- Donald Kossman (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
- Lipyeow Lim (IBM Research, USA)
- Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Ioana Manolescu (INRIA Futurs, France)
- Sergey Melnik (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
- Bongki Moon (University of Arizona, USA)
- Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- S. Muthukrishnan (Google, USA)
- Patrick O'Neil (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
- Christopher Olston (Yahoo! Research, USA)
- Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Jignesh Patel (University of Michigan, USA)
- Rachel Pottinger (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- Yehoshua Sagiv (Hebrew University, Israel)
- Ken Salem (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI - CNR, Italy)
- Ambuj Singh (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
- Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
- Frank Tompa (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Anthony Tung (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany)
- Haixun Wang (IBM Research, USA)
- Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Wei Wang (University of North Carolina, USA)
- Marianne Winslett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Limsoon Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
- Jun Yang (Duke University, USA)
- Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Mohammed Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Donghui Zhang (Northeastern University, USA)
- Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
- Justin Zobel (NICTA, Australia)
-- Industrial, Applications and Experience Program Committee --
Chair: Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Labs Research, India)
- Jose A. Blakely (Microsoft, USA)
- Michael Carey (BEA Systems, USA)
- Sang Cha (Seoul National University, Korea)
- Latha Colby (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
- Graham Cormode (AT&T Labs, USA)
- Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems, India)
- Goetz Graefe (HP Labs, USA)
- Meichin Hsu (HP Labs, China)
- Masaru Kitsuregawa (Univ of Tokyo, Japan)
- Yannis Kotidis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
- Wolfgang Lehner (TU Dresden, Germany)
- Samuel Madden (MIT CSAIL, USA)
- Heikki Manilla (Univ of Helsinki, Finland)
- Florian Matthes (TU Munchen, Germany)
- Joann Ordille (Avaya Labs Research, USA)
- Erhard Rahm (Univ of Leipzig, Germany)
- Srinivasan Seshadri (Kosmix, USA)
- Nisheeth Shrivastava (Bell Labs Research, India)
- Nandit Soparkar (Ubiquiti, USA)
- Sihem Amer Yahia (Yahoo Research, USA)
-- Demonstrations Program Committee --
Chair: Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
- Serge Abiteboul (INRIA, France)
- Denilson Barbosa (University of Calgary, Canada)
- Edith Cohen (AT&T, USA)
- Sara Cohen (Hebrew University, Israel)
- Gao Cong (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
- Xin Dong (AT&T, USA)
- Ariel Fuxman (Microsoft, USA)
- Bertram Lud"ascher (University of California, Davis, USA)
- Amelie Marian (Rutgers University, USA)
- Norman May (SAP, Germany)
- Neoklis Polyzotis (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
- Dan Suciu (University of Washington and Microsoft, USA)
- Val Tannen (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Vasilis Vassalos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
- Cong Yu (Yahoo! Research, USA)
-- Experiments and Analyses Program Committee
Chair: Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
- Gustavo Alonso (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)
- Paul Larson (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Jun Rao (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
- Nick Koudas (University of Toronto, Canada)
(further PC members to be announced on the website)
-- PhD Workshop Program Committee --
Co-chair: Anastasia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University, USA
and EPFL, Switzerland)
Co-chair: Neoklis Polyzotis (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
- Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Periklis Andritsos (University of Trento, Italy)
- Pedro Bizarro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
- Yanlei Diao (University of Massachussets Amherst, USA)
- Alin Dobra (University of Florida, USA)
- Vuk Ercegovac (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
- Raghav Kaushik (Microsoft Research, USA)
- Kristen Lefevre (University of Michigan, USA)
- Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Qiong Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
- Stefan Manegold (CWI, Netherlands)
- Stratos Papadomanolakis (Oracle, USA)
- Altigran Silva (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
- Stratis Viglas (University of Edinburgh, UK)
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