COMAD 2008

The 14th COMAD will be held in December 2008, in Mumbai, India. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2008's scope will include not only traditional database areas but also adds emphasis on Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining. We invite the submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels.

Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):


 * Benchmarking and performance evaluation
 * Data exchange and integration
 * Data quality, cleaning and lineage
 * Database monitoring and tuning
 * Data privacy and security
 * Data warehousing
 * Data mining: foundations and algorithms
 * Mining text, Web, and semi-structured data
 * Security and privacy in data mining
 * Innovative applications of data mining
 * Embedded, sensor, mobile databases and applications
 * Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
 * Metadata management
 * Multilingual data management
 * Multimedia data management and mining
 * Novel Data Types
 * Parallel and distributed databases
 * Peer-to-peer data management
 * Personalized information systems
 * Query processing and optimization
 * Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
 * Information retrieval: Formal models and algorithms
 * IR in text, structured and semi-structured data
 * Privacy issues in IR
 * IR applications: Web search, enterprise search, collaborative filtering, Genomics
 * Text search and database querying
 * Semi-structured data
 * Social Networks
 * Storage and transaction management
 * Web services

To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, we plan to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives. Two awards, for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference.

Important Dates

 * Research Papers                                		August 1, 2008
 * Industrial Papers Panel, Tutorial and          	September 1, 2008
 * Demo Proposals
 * Notification to authors                        		September 20, 2008
 * Camera-ready copy due                          		October 20, 2008
 * Conference                                     		December 17-19, 2008

General Chair

 * has general chair::Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems)

Organizing Chair

 * has OC member::S. Sudarshan (IIT Bombay)

Program Committee Co-Chairs

 * has PC chair::N. L. Sarda (IIT Bombay) [Database Track]
 * has PC member::Gautam Das (Univ. Texas, Arlington) [Web, IR and Mining Track]

Tutorial Co-Chairs

 * has OC member::Sreenivasa Kumar (IIT Madras)
 * has OC member::Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs)

Application/Industrial Program Co-Chairs

 * has PC member::Govindarajan V.R.
 * has PC member::S.C. Gupta (National Informatics Centre)

Panels and Student Papers

 * has OC member::Srinath Srinivasa (IIIT Bangalore)
 * has OC member::Arvind Hulgeri (Persistent Systems)

Publications Chair

 * has OC member::P. Krishna Reddy (IIIT Hyderabad)

Program Committee

 * has PC member::A. K. Majumdar (IIT Kharagpur)
 * has PC member::Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
 * has PC member::Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, USA)
 * has PC member::Anthony Tung (NUS, Singapore)
 * has PC member::Aristidis Gionis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
 * has PC member::Arnab Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur)
 * has PC member::Christian Konig (Microsoft Research, USA)
 * has PC member::Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside)
 * has PC member::Dimitris Papadias (HKUST, Hong Kong)
 * has PC member::George Kollios (Boston University, USA)
 * has PC member::Gopal Mulagund (Oracle, Bangalore)
 * has PC member::Harrick M. Vin (Tata Research, Development and Design Center (TRDDC))
 * has PC member::Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
 * has PC member::Jayant Haritsa (IISc Bangalore)
 * has PC member::Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Yahoo Research)
 * has PC member::Kamalakar Karlapalem (IIIT Hyderabad)
 * has PC member::Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay)
 * has PC member::Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Laboratory)
 * has PC member::Nick Koudas (University of Toronto)
 * has PC member::Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Texas at Arlington)
 * has PC member::S. K. Gupta (IIT Delhi)
 * has PC member::Srikanta Bedathur (Max-Planck Institut fur Informtik)
 * has PC member::Srini Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, USA)
 * has PC member::Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University, USA)
 * has PC member::Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)
 * has PC member::Vagelis Hristidis (Florida International University)
 * has PC member::Vikram Pudi (IIIT Hyderabad)
 * has PC member::Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)

Submission instructions will be provided on our website by May 12, 2008.