SEBD 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS

                                         SEBD 2003
                    Eleventh Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
                            Cetraro (CS), Italy, June 24-27, 2003
                             http://sebd2003.cs.icar.cnr.it/sebd03/

The 2003 edition of the SEBD Symposium will take place at the hotel San Michele 
of Cetraro, Italy, 
from the 24th to the 27th of June 2003. Currently at its eleventh edition, 
SEBD is the major annual event of the Italian research community in the 
database field. 
The symposium is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange 
experiences 
among all those, both in the academy and in industry, who are interested in 
database systems 
and in all their broad range of applications.

Topics
The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional database 
management, 
as well as new challenges for data management in any possible domain. 
Prospective authors are encouraged to consider novel topics and approaches 
rather than proposing incremental improvements of existing results. 

Suggested topics include the following: 
        Access Methods and Physical Design
        Active Databases
        Complexity and Performance Evaluation
        Concurrency and Recovery
        Constraint Databases
        Data Integration and Interoperability
        Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
        Data Models and Database Design
        Database Programming Languages
        Database Updates
        Databases and Information Retrieval
        Databases and Workflow
        Databases and the Semantic Web
        Databases in e-commerce and e-services
        Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases
        Distributed and Parallel Databases
        Geographic Information Systems
        Imprecise Information and Approximate Queries
        Integrity and Security
        Logic and Databases
        Multimedia Databases
        Object-Oriented Databases
        Query Languages
        Query processing and Optimization
        Real-time Databases
        Semi-structured, XML, and Web data
        Scientific and Statistical Databases
        Spatial and Temporal Databases
        Transaction Management
        Views, Data Warehousing  and OLAP 
Invited Speakers
        Christos H. Papadimitriou, University of California at Berkley, USA,
        Carlo Zaniolo, University of California at Los Angeles, USA,
        Sophie Cluet, Director of the INRIA Rocquencourt research unit, France 
(pending).
Tutorial
Maurizio Lenzerini - University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy "DATABASE 
INTEGRATION" 
Piero Fraternali - Politechnic of Milano, Italy "WEB APPLICATIONS, WEB 
SERVICES, AND 
                                                 WORKFLOW CONCEPTUAL MODELLING" 

Papers
SEBD 2003 invites submissions of research, industry and application 
contributions 
as well as software demonstrations. Research papers, describing original ideas 
on the fundamental aspects of all forms of database systems and technology, are 
solicited. 
Moreover, extended abstract containing descriptions of on-going projects or 
presenting results already published are also welcome. 
Research papers presenting original works should be at most 12 pages long 
whereas extended abstract should be at most 8 pages long. 

Proceedings 
Accepted papers, invited papers and extended abstracts will be published by 
Rubbettino Editore in the proceedings of the conference.
  
Submission Instructions
SEBD 2003 submissions generally must be in electronic form using the 
Portable Document Format (pdf) or the Postscipt format (ps). 
Papers must be submitted electronically using the conference management tool. 
Papers must be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. 
Detailed instructions can be found on http://sebd2003.cs.icar.cnr.it/sebd03/.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline:      17 March 2003 
Notification of acceptance:     21 April 2003 
Camera-ready copy due:          12 May 2003 
Conference:                     24-27 June  2003

Organization

General Chair   
        Domenico Saccà - University of Calabria
Program Committee Chair 
        Sergio Greco - University of Calabria
Proceedings Chair       
        Sergio Flesca - University of Calabria 
Program Committee
        Maristella Agosti - University of Padova
        Antonio Albano - University of Pisa
        Giorgio Ausiello, University of Roma "La Sapienza"
        Elisa Bertino - University of Milano
        Diego Calvanese - University of Roma "La Sapienza"
        Alessando D'Atri - Luiss University 
        Valeria De Antonellis, University of Brescia
        Enrico Franconi - University of Bolzano 
        Piero Fraternali - Politechnic of Milano
        Fosca Giannotti - Cnuce-CNR
        Giovanbattista Ianni - University of Calabria
        Donato Malerba - University of Bari
        Giuseppe Manco - Icar-CNR
        Giansalvatore Mecca, University of Basilicata
        Barbara Pernici - University of Milano
        Maurizio Rafanelli - Iasi-CNR
        Claudio Sartori - University of Bologna
        Paolo Tiberio - University of Modena e Reggio Emilia
        Riccardo Torlone - University of Roma 3
        Domenico Ursino - University of Reggio Calabria
Organizing Chair
        Ester Zumpano - University of Calabria
Organizing Committee    
        Alfredo Cuzzocrea - University of Calabria  
        Filippo Furfaro - University of Calabria 
        Elio Masciari - ICAR-CNR 
        Luigi Pontieri - ICAR-CNR 
        Domenico Rosaci - University of Reggio Calabria 
        Cristina Sirangelo - University of Calabria 
        Andrea Tagarelli - University of Calabria  
        Pierangelo Veltri - University of Catanzaro 


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