DB 2009

Advances in different technologies and domains related to databases triggered substantial improvements for content processing, information indexing, and data, process and knowledge mining. The push came from Web services, artificial intelligence, and agent technologies, as well as from the generalization of the XML adoption.

High-speed communications and computations, large storage capacities, and load-balancing for distributed databases access allow new approaches for content processing with incomplete patterns, advanced ranking algorithms and advanced indexing methods.

Evolution on e-business, ehealth and telemedicine, bioinformatics, finance and marketing, geographical positioning systems put pressure on database communities to push the ‘de facto’ methods to support new requirements in terms of scalability, privacy, performance, indexing, and heterogeneity of both content and technology.

The First International Conference on Advances in Databases, DB 2009, inaugurates a series of international events covering a large spectrum of topics related to advances in fundamentals on databases, evolution of relation between databases and other domains, data base technologies and content processing, as well as specifics in applications domains databases.

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, standards, implementations, running experiments and applications. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited topic areas.

Topics
The topics suggested (but not limited to):


 * Advances in fundamentals on databases
 * Foundations and architectures
 * Design features (data quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed approaches, mobility, etc.)
 * Data quality, data structures, and data modeling
 * Advanced indexing methods
 * Advanced ranking algorithms and uncertainty
 * Physical organization and performance
 * Federated choreographies
 * Temporal conformance
 * Evolutionary clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering


 * Databases and other domains
 * Leading-edge database technology and applications
 * Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation
 * Databases and Web services
 * Databases and artificial intelligence
 * Databases and agents
 * Advances in database management systems
 * Advanced transaction and workflow management
 * Advances on XML and databases
 * Databases technologies
 * Embedded databases
 * Very large scale databases
 * Spatial and spatio-temporal databases
 * Data warehousing
 * Multimedia databases
 * Semantic databases
 * Data integration resources on the Internet
 * Object-oriented databases
 * Web-based databases
 * Deductive and active databases


 * Databases content processing
 * Mining for complex data
 * Mining for text, video, and pictures
 * Knowledge discovery and classification
 * Process mining
 * Scalable data extraction
 * Query processing and optimization
 * Query rewrite rules
 * Navigational path expressions
 * Load-balancing in accessing distributed databases
 * Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty
 * Storage and replication
 * Patterns and similarities in data streams
 * Fast matching
 * Multiple views
 * Knowledge and decision bases
 * Semantic information
 * Ontology and advanced knowledge search
 * Heuristics and meta-heuristics
 * Intelligent knowledge querying
 * Feature sampling and feature selection
 * Context-aware knowledge base
 * Blogs and social relationship search
 * Deductive reasoning
 * Reasoning databases
 * Ontology-based reasoning
 * Specifics on application domains databases
 * Advanced database applications
 * Bioinformatics databases
 * Healthcare databases
 * Finance and marketing databases
 * Telecom databases
 * Geospatial databases
 * Census databases
 * Meteorological databases
 * Business intelligence databases
 * e-Business databases

Important Dates

 * Submission (full paper) October 1, 2008
 * Authors notification November 5, 2008
 * Registration November 26, 2008
 * Camera ready December 1, 2008

Submissions
The DB 2009 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and on-line via IEEE XPlore Digital Library. IEEE will index the papers with major indexes. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Posters on work-in-progress are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the track/workshop preference as "POSTER : Poster Forum". Contributors are invited to submit up to four-page papers, following the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics.
 * Poster Forum

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference’s CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.
 * Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. They should be about three hours long. One page with the title, tutorial summary, and a short bio are expected. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org
 * Tutorials

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre@iaria.org
 * Panel proposals:

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petre@iaria.org.
 * Workshop proposals

Committees

 * Advisory Chairs
 * has OC member::Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada


 * PC Co-Chairs:
 * has program chair::Qiming Chen, HP Labs – Palo Alto, USA
 * has program chair::Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Italian National Research Council / University of Calabria, Italy
 * has program chair::Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
 * has program chair::Ela Hunt, University of Strathclyde - Glasgow, UK


 * Program Committe Members
 * has PC member::Annalisa Appice, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen / Rasdaman GmbH Bremen, Germany
 * has PC member::Vania Bogorny, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 * has PC member::Patrick Bosc, Enssat – Lannion, France
 * has PC member::Michelangelo Ceci, University of Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Chin-Chen Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
 * has PC member::Qiming Chen, HP Labs – Palo Alto, USA
 * has PC member::Hong Cheng, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, USA
 * has PC member::Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Italian National Research Council / University of Calabria, Italy
 * has PC member::Guy De Tré, Ghent University, Belgium
 * has PC member::Cédric du Mouza, CEDRIC-CNAM, France
 * has PC member::Stefano Ferilli, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Georges Gardarin, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
 * has PC member::Giovanna Guerrini, DISI - Universita di Genova, Italy
 * has PC member::Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
 * has PC member::Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe (TH)/Institute AIFB, Germany
 * has PC member::Edward Hung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, PRC
 * has PC member::Ela Hunt, University of Strathclyde - Glasgow, UK
 * has PC member::Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA
 * has PC member::Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Dortmund, Germany
 * has PC member::Takeo Kunishima, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
 * has PC member::Mohammad F. Mahmood, Howard University - Washington, DC, USA
 * has PC member::Donato Malerba, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy
 * has PC member::Gerasimos Marketos, University of Piraeus, Greece
 * has PC member::Elisabeth Métais, CNAM, France
 * has PC member::Aris M. Ouksel, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
 * has PC member::Said Radhouani, University of Geneva, Switzerland / Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble, France
 * has PC member::Mathieu Roche, LIRMM, University Montpellier 2, France
 * has PC member::Claudia Roncancio, INPG / ENSIMAG - Grenoble, France
 * has PC member::Ismael Sanz Blasco, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
 * has PC member::Sumit Sarkar, University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, USA
 * has PC member::Umberto Straccia, ISTI - Italian National Research Council - Pisa, Italy
 * has PC member::Martin J. Strauss, University of Michigan, USA
 * has PC member::Lena Strömbäck, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Mars Valev, Keldysh Institute for Applying Mathematics - Moscow, Russia
 * has PC member::Jin Soung Yoo, Indiana University - Purdue University/Fort Wayne, USA