LID 2008


 * 1st Symposium on Logic in Databases (LID 2008) ************
 * Rome, Italy, 15-16 May 2008        ************
 * Rome, Italy, 15-16 May 2008        ************

Ever since Codd's Relational Model, logic has played a major role in the field of databases. The significance and impact of this role have grown stronger over the years as data management research marched through many a data model, with logic keeping up and providing the foundations every step of the way. Some of the latest additions to this long list of models are XML, Semantic Web, Probabilistic Relational models, integrated model of DB+IR, data integration models, and models of unclean data to name a few. For some of these, corresponding logics already exist or are being explored. The significance of logic's role for data management will continue regardless of the data model. Logic is a fundamental tool for understanding and analyzing several aspects of data management. The Logic in Databases (LID'08) symposium is a forum for bringing together researchers from around the world who are focusing on any logical aspect of data management.

This symposium is a confluence of three successful past events: (i) LID'96, an international workshop on Logic in Databases, which this symposium derives its name from; (ii) IIDB'06, an international workshop on Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Databases; and (iii) LAAIC'06, a workshop on Logical Aspects and Applications of Integrity Constraints.

The symposium will be focused on applications of logic to every aspect of database management and related topics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following, as they pertain to logic in databases:


 * consistent query answering
 * data exchange
 * data mining
 * data warehousing and OLAP for novel forms of data
 * database repairing
 * DB + IR
 * incomplete information
 * inconsistency tolerance
 * inductive databases
 * knowledge discovery
 * logical approaches to inconsistency
 * logic programming
 * nonmonotonic reasoning
 * ordered data/query models (top-K)
 * privacy/security
 * semantic web
 * social networks
 * uncertain data (fuzzy, probabilistic, etc.) and imprecision

LID 2008 is aimed at gathering researchers and practitioners from the academia and the industry. The Symposium will take place in the beautiful historical city of Rome, Italy, on 15-16 May 2008. SELECTED TOP PAPERS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED LOGIC.

IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission       February 9, 2008 Notification to authors March 24, 2008 Camera-ready copy due  April 8, 2008 Symposium              May 15-16, 2008

GENERAL CHAIR Georg Gottlob          Oxford University, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE Jan Chomicki           University at Buffalo, USA Henning Christiansen   Roskilde University, Denmark Dino Pedreschi         Universita' di Pisa, Italy Jef Wijsen             Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium Carlo Zaniolo          UCLA, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Andrea Cali'           Oxford University, UK Laks V.S. Lakshmanan    University of British Columbia, Canada Davide Martinenghi     Politecnico di Milano, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ofer Arieli            Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel Leopoldo Bertossi      Carleton University, Canada Toon Calders           Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands Stefano Ceri           Politecnico di Milano, Italy Nilesh Dalvi           Yahoo! Research Hendrik Decker         Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain Thomas Eiter           T.U. Vienna, Austria Wenfei Fan             University of Edinburgh, UK Enrico Franconi         Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Ariel Fuxman           Microsoft Research Gosta Grahne           Concordia University, Canada Sergio Greco           Universita' della Calabria, Italy Claudio Gutierrez      Universidad de Chile, Chile Mohand-Said Hacid      University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Maurizio Lenzerini     Universita' degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Nicola Leone           Universita' della Calabria, Italy Jerzy Marcinkowski     University of Wroclaw, Poland Jian Pei               Simon Fraser University, Canada R. Ramanujam           The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Thomas Schwentick      Universitaet Dortmund, Germany Divesh Srivastava      AT&T Labs, Inc. - Research V.S. Subrahmanian      University of Maryland, USA Alex Thomo             University of Victoria, Canada

SPONSORS: IBM Italia

SYMPOSIUM WEB PAGE: http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/lid2008/ This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP