Call for Papers SSDBM 2003 - New Deadlines

Note the new deadlines for Abstract and Paper Submission.

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SSDBM 2003
15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
July, 9th-11th 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Scope: This international conference will bring together scientific domain 
experts, 
databases researchers, practitioners and developers for the presentation and 
exchange 
of current research on concepts, tools and techniques for scientific and 
statistical 
database applications. The 15th SSDBM will provide a forum for original 
research 
contributions and practical system design, implementation and evaluation. This 
year 
the conference will focus on the following priority themes, Bioinformatics 
(genomics, 
biodiversity informatics including biological databases), Geospatial and Sensor 
Databases. 
The priority areas will be supplemented with invited talks and panel sessions, 
and 
illustrated with demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial systems. 
SSDBM 2003 will continue the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in providing a 
stimulating environment to encourage discussion, fellowship and exchange of 
ideas in all aspects of research related to scientific and statistical database 
management in the heart of the MIT campus.

Topics: Research papers discussing database issues of Bioinformatics, 
Biological, 
Geospatial, and Sensor Databases are particularly welcome, however, original 
research 
papers on any area related to scientific and statistical database management 
are 
invited. Topics include: Conceptual Models, Data Integration, System 
Architectures, 
Metadata Management, Query Optimization, Continuous Queries over Data Streams, 
Data 
Reduction and Approximation, Data and Knowledge Management, Visualization, 
Knowledge 
Discovery and Data Mining, Multimedia Data Management, Data Warehouses, and 
Database 
Support for Spatio-temporal Data. Case studies of SSDBM applications, 
Demonstrations 
and short papers for poster sessions are also invited.


Further details and information can be obtained from:
http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~ssdbm03/ or by emailing 
ssdbm03-FkJKxAlp8y17tfSOMOqMUYdd74u8MsAO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Important Dates:
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Submission of Abstracts:        February 4 2003
Submission of Papers:           February 6 2003
Notification of Acceptance:     April 4 2003
Camera ready copies:            April 25 2003
Conference:                     July 9-11 2003


OrganiZing Committee:
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General and Program Co-Chairs:  Silvia Nittel, NCGIA, University of Maine, USA
                                Gunopulos, UC Riverside, USA
Local Organizing Chair:         George Kollios, Boston University, USA


Program Committee:
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Kate Beard, NCGIA, USA
Peter Buneman, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Carol Bult, Jackson Laboratory, USA
Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA
Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
Jiawei Han, UI, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley, USA
Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Nick Koudas, AT&T, USA
Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA
Dave Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
Heikki Mannila, HIIT, Finland
Richard Muntz, UCLA, USA
Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, Hong Kong
Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM, USA
Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM, USA
Hannu Toivonen, HIIT, Finland
Vassilis Tsotras, UC Riverside, USA
X. Sean Wang, George Mason University, USA
Wei Wang, UNC, Chapel Hill, USA
Marianne Winslett, UI, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA


Steering Committee:
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Arie Shoshani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (chair)
Jessie Kennedy, Napier University, UK
Menas Kafatos, George Mason University, USA
Hans-J. Lenz, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Tekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Venue:
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The Hotel@MIT
20 Sidney Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

http://www.hotelatmit.com/home/home.html

Travel:
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The conference venue is situated in the center of the MIT campus in Cambridge, 
and close 
to the beautiful and metropolitan city of Boston. Boston can be easily reached 
by air 
directly via major European, Asian and U.S. cities.

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