EDBT 2009

Conference Theme
Data management constitutes the essential enabling technology for scientific, engineering, business, and social communities. Technological trends, novel applications, and sophisticated user interactions, they all require robust and flexible database technology to be deployed in a variety of environments and for several diverse purposes. Established data management solutions are challenged by applications aimed at personal information systems, biomedical informatics, virtual digital libraries, and virtual communities. Technical leverage of peer-to-peer architectures, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, and trust management are just a small sample of the great challenges ahead of us that drive research and development of the next generation of database technology. The new information paradigms and requirements will move our research community away from any narrow interpretation of databases and expand its focus to the hard problems faced by broad visions of data information, and knowledge management. Amongst these the challenges posed by the Semantic Web and information retrieval are just barely supported in the database technology today. Researchers are encouraged to send contributions that pick up on brand new challenges and explore new and exciting technical directions wherever data management issues may be found.

Topics of Interest
EDBT 2009 invites submissions of original research contributions, as well as proposals for panels, tutorials and software demonstrations. The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional database management as well new issues arising in any possible domain. Prospective authors are encouraged to consider novel topics and approaches rather than incremental improvements of existing results.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the conference:
 * Multimedia Databases
 * Availability, Reliability, and Scalability
 * Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation
 * Biological and Medical Databases
 * Complex Event Processing
 * Data Curation, Annotation and Provenance
 * Data Models and Query Languages
 * Data Streams and Publish-Subscribe Systems
 * Data Structures and Indexing
 * Data Warehousing, OLAP, and ETL Tools
 * Data, Information, and Knowledge Management
 * Database Design and Tuning
 * Digital Libraries Museums, and Archives
 * Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic Interoperability
 * Middleware and Workflow Management
 * Parallel, Distributed, P2P and Grid Data Management
 * Personalization and Personal Information Systems
 * Privacy and Security in trustworthy databases
 * Query Processing and Optimization
 * Replication, Caching, and Materialized Views
 * Scientific and Statistical Databases
 * Spatial, Temporal, and Geographic Databases
 * Text Databases and Information Retrieval
 * User Interfaces and Data Visualization
 * Web Information and Services
 * XML and Semistructured Databases

Demo Papers
Demo proposals should state the technical problem addressed by the system to be demonstrated, explain its novelty and its contribution. The proposals should also describe the demonstration scenario, with sufficient detail so that the demonstration PC can assess the facility with which conference participants can understand and appreciate the software demonstration.

Industrial and Applications Papers
The Industry and Applications Track of the EDBT 2009 Conference will be a forum for high quality presentations on innovative commercial software and applications for all facets of information technology with emphasis on database systems, information retrieval systems, metadata management, information integration and XML. Submissions must relate to commercial software or applications of research technologies in practice. Acceptance criteria will be innovativeness of software and the potential impact of the solution. Position papers from industry outlining trends and novel research requirements are also welcome.

For more information see the Conference website http://www.math.spbu.ru/edbticdt/

Committees

 * General Chair: has general chair::Boris Novikov
 * Honorary Chair: has OC member::Leonid Kalinichenko (IPI RAS, Russia)
 * PC Chair: has program chair::Martin Kersten, CWI
 * Proceedings Chair: has OC member::Jens Teubner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
 * Demonstration Co-Chair: has demo chair::Stefan Manegold
 * Industrial and Applications Chair: has demo chair::Vladimir Polutin (HP Labs, Russia)
 * Local Organizing Chair: has local chair::Kira Vyatkina (University of St.-Petersburg, Russia)
 * Publicity Chair: has OC member::Sergei Kuznetsov (ISP RAS, Russia)


 * Program Committee Members
 * has PC member::Loredana Afanasiev (Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Walid Aref (USA)
 * has PC member::Wolf-Tilo Balke (Germany)
 * has PC member::David Bell (UK)
 * has PC member::Michael Boehlen (Italy)
 * has PC member::Christian Bohm (Germany)
 * has PC member::Angela Bonifati (Italy)
 * has PC member::Mokrane Bouezeghoub (France)
 * has PC member::Angelo Brayner (Brasil)
 * has PC member::Francois Bry (Germany)
 * has PC member::Alex Buchmann (Germany)
 * has PC member::Fabio Casati (Italy)
 * has PC member::Tiziana Catarci (Italy)
 * has PC member::Ugur Cetintemel (USA)
 * has PC member::Zhiyuan Chen (USA)
 * has PC member::Carl Christian Kanne (Germany)
 * has PC member::Vassilis Christophidis (Greece)
 * has PC member::Christine Collet (France)
 * has PC member::Sara Comai (Italy)
 * has PC member::Umeshwar Dayal (USA)
 * has PC member::Stefan Dessloch (Germany)
 * has PC member::Arjen de Vries (Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Jens Dittrich (Switserland)
 * has PC member::Amr El Abbadi (USA)
 * has PC member::Norbert Fuhr (Germany)
 * has PC member::Michael Gertz (USA)
 * has PC member::Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (USA)
 * has PC member::Bart Goethals (Belgium)
 * has PC member::Torsten Grabs (USA)
 * has PC member::Ehud Gudes (Israel)
 * has PC member::Alonso Gustavo (Switserland)
 * has PC member::Ralf Guting (Germany)
 * has PC member::Sven Helmer (Denmark)
 * has PC member::Jan Hidders (Belgium)
 * has PC member::Stratos Idreos (Netherlands)
 * has PC member::H. V. Jagadish (USA)
 * has PC member::Keith Jeffery (UK)
 * has PC member::Ruoming Jin (UK)
 * has PC member::Bettina Kemme (Canada)
 * has PC member::George Kollios (USA)
 * has PC member::Nick Koudas (Canada)
 * has PC member::Georgia Koutrika (USA)
 * has PC member::Chen Li (USA)
 * has PC member::Qing Li (China)
 * has PC member::David Lomet (USA)
 * has PC member::Nikos Mamoulis (China)
 * has PC member::Florian Matthes (Germany)
 * has PC member::Marta Mattoso (Brasil)
 * has PC member::Prasenjit Mitra (USA)
 * has PC member::Noureddine Mouaddib (France)
 * has PC member::Jose Orlando Pereira (Portual)
 * has PC member::Gultekin Ozsoyoglu (USA)
 * has PC member::Tamer Ozsu (Canada)
 * has PC member::Esther Pacitti (France)
 * has PC member::Yannis Papakonstantinou (USA)
 * has PC member::Norman Paton (UK)
 * has PC member::Jian Pei (US)
 * has PC member::Reinhard Pichler (Austria)
 * has PC member::Evaggelia Pitoura (Greece)
 * has PC member::Sunil Prabhakar (USA)
 * has PC member::Philippe Pucheral (France)
 * has PC member::Uwe Rahm (Australia)
 * has PC member::Krithi Ramamritham (India)
 * has PC member::Tore Risch (Sweden)
 * has PC member::Kenneth Ross (USA)
 * has PC member::Peter Scheuermann (USA)
 * has PC member::Marc Scholl (Germany)
 * has PC member::Thomas Seidl (Germany)
 * has PC member::Timos Sellis (Greece)
 * has PC member::Arno Siebes (Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Christian S. Jensen (Denmark)
 * has PC member::Nicolas Spiratos (France)
 * has PC member::Dan Suciu (USA)
 * has PC member::Val Tannen (USA)
 * has PC member::Yufei Tao (China)
 * has PC member::Martin Theobald (USA)
 * has PC member::David Toman (Canada)
 * has PC member::Hakki Toroslu (Turkey)
 * has PC member::Peter Triantafillou (Greece)
 * has PC member::Can Turker (Switserland)
 * has PC member::Aparna Varde (USA)
 * has PC member::Vasilis Vassalos (Greece)
 * has PC member::Haixun Wang (USA)
 * has PC member::Kyu-Young Whang (Korea)
 * has PC member::Ouri Wolfson (USA)
 * has PC member::Jeffrey Xu Yu (China)
 * has PC member::Haruo Yokota (Japan)
 * has PC member::Philip Yu (USA)