Final CFP: SSTD 2003, Santorini Island, Greece

Call for Papers - SSTD'2003
8th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases
July 24-27, 2003, Santorini island, Greece
http://dke.cti.gr/SSTD03/home.htm

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TIMETABLE
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Abstract submission for papers: February 24, 2003
Paper and proposal submission:  March 3, 2003
Notification of acceptance:     April 7, 2003
Camera-ready copy due:  April 28, 2003
Symposium dates:        July 24-27, 2003


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AIMS AND SCOPE
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Since 2000, the Steering Committee for the series of International Symposiums 
on Spatial Databases (SSD) has chosen to extend the scope of the symposium to 
cover temporal and spatio-temporal data management, in addition to spatial data 
management. Given the growing interest in spatio-temporal databases and the 
continuing advances in wireless communications and ubiquitous computing 
technologies, this broadening is natural and exciting. Research on data 
management in location-based services and mobile information systems has been 
placed prominently within the area of the symposium. Thus, the 8th 
International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'2003) will 
continue the series of successful events held in Santa Barbara (1989), Zurich 
(1991), Singapore (1993), Portland (1995), Berlin (1997), Hong Kong (1999) and 
Redondo Beach (2001). 

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TOPICS
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Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following as they relate 
to spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal databases: 

- Active Database Technology
- Critical Evaluation of Standards Proposals
- Data Semantics and Models
- Data Types and Query Languages
- Database Design and Conceptual Modeling
- Design of Experiments and Benchmarks
- Experiences with Real Applications and Systems
- Integration with Existing Commercial Products
- Management of Moving Objects
- Management of Raster and Vector Data
- Novel and Challenging Applications
- Ontologies and Taxonomies
- Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
- Performance Evaluations
- Practical Approaches from Computational Geometry and Constraint Databases
- Query Optimization Techniques
- Query Processing and Indexing
- Real-Time Databases
- Reasoning
- Requirements Analysis for Applications
- Similarity
- Spatial & Temporal Aspects of Mobile Computing
- Spatial & Temporal Data and the Web
- Spatial & Temporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Spatial & Temporal Data Warehousing and Decision Support
- Spatial & Temporal Extensibility of O-R DBMSs
- Systems Architectures, including Interoperability
- Uncertainty and Imprecision
- Use of Spatio-Temporal Data for Simulation
- User Interfaces and Visualization

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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
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Authors are invited to submit electronically original, English-language 
research contributions or experience reports not concurrently submitted 
elsewhere. Papers should be no longer than twenty pages, 1.5 spaced, in no 
smaller than 10 point font with 1 inch margins (left, right, top, bottom.) The 
program committee may reject papers that exceed this length on the grounds of 
length alone. 

Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, 
correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be 
communicated via email. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and 
included in the proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag as part 
of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. 

Proposals for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise 
provocative issues within the conference area are encouraged as well. Panel 
proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and 
affiliations of 3-4 panelists who have made a commitment to participate. A mix 
of industry and academic panel members is recommended. 

Proposals for 90-minute tutorials are also invited on topics within the 
conference area. Tutorial proposals must be at most 5 pages, they must identify 
the intended audience, and they must give enough material to provide a sense of 
what will be covered. 

A fully electronic review process is being planned. Technical papers and panel 
and tutorial proposals should be submitted electronically in postscript or pdf 
format by Monday, March 3, 2003, following the procedure described on the 
conference web page. Abstracts of technical papers are due on Monday, February 
24, 2003. 

For further information related to the technical program, please contact one of 
the PC co-chairs, at <manolopo-nS1Tg549IMhMo1R+fwTmgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> or 
<roddick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. For other questions, please contact the 
general chair at <ytheod@xxxxxxxx>. All deadlines are FIRM.

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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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General Co-Chairs:
- Thanasis Hadzilacos (Greek Open University and Computer Technology Institute) 
  thh-4ggsrv1w2Zk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
- Yannis Theodoridis (University of Piraeus and Computer Technology Institute) 
  ytheod-nkQuQWkuRJ8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
- Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 
  manolopo-nS1Tg549IMhMo1R+fwTmgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  
- John Roddick (Flinders University) 
  roddick-7MakBXzTcbaLymH+zFWDPdf8k/1jCSAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Program Committee
- Dave Abel, CSIRO, Australia
- Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
- Lars Arge, Duke University, USA
- Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
- Michael Bohlen, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Thomas Brinkhoff, Fachhochschule Oldenburg, Germany
- Edward Chan, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, USA
- Curtis Dyreson, Washington State University, USA
- Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy
- Jim Gray, Microsoft, USA
- Ralf-Hartmut Guting, FernUniversitat Hagen, Germany
- Erik Hoel, ESRI, USA
- Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, USA
- Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Christopher Jones, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
- George Kollios, Boston University, USA
- Ravi-Kanth Kothuri, Oracle, USA
- Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong UST, China SAR
- Scott Leutenegger, Denver University, USA
- Nikos Lorentzos, Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Greece
- Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
- Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong UST, China SAR
- Michel Scholl, INRIA, France
- Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany
- Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA
- Ioana Stanoi, IBM, USA
- Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- Nectaria Tryfona, CTI, Greece
- Vassilis Tsotras, University of California, Riverside, USA
- Jeff Vitter, Duke University, USA
- Agnes Voisard, Free University, Berlin, Germany
- Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, South Korea
- Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Jef Wijsen, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
- Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Organising Committee:
- Vasilis Delis (CTI) delis-4ggsrv1w2Zk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx technical coordination 
- Lena Gourdoupi (CTI) gourdoup-4ggsrv1w2Zk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx registration and 
local arrangements 
- Dieter Pfoser (CTI) pfoser-4ggsrv1w2Zk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx publicity

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CONFERENCE VENUE
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SSTD'2003 will be hosted by the Thera Foundation and Petros M. Nomikos 
Conference Centre, a neoclassical mansion, which is located in the capital of 
Santorini, Fira, overlooking the caldera and the volcano. Santorini, together 
with the rest Greek islands, was selected by the National Geographic among the 
50 greatest places of a lifetime! Access to Santorini is easy, by means of the 
frequent flights (35 minutes from Athens airport) and ferry-boats. Direct 
flights from almost all European capitals are available as well as connection 
flights to Crete, Rhodes and Myconos.
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