Call for Tutorials SBBD 2003

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             SBBD 2003 -  Call for Tutorials

               ** DEADLINE: June 2, 2003 **

    XVIII Brazilian Symposium on Databases - SBBD 2003
       Promoted by SBC, Brazilian Computer Society
In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD and sponsored by the VLDB Endowment

                Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
                      October 6-8, 2003

                     http://sbbd.fua.br


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SBBD is the official database event of SBC - the Brazilian Computer Society - 
and aims
mostly at publicizing research results. In its eighteenth edition, SBBD 2003 is 
expected
to congregate up to 500 attendees in Manaus, a city located in the heart of the 
Amazon
tropical forest.

SBBD gathers researchers, students and practitioners, from Brazil and abroad, 
for discussing
problems related to the main topics in modern database technologies. Besides 
technical
sessions and tutorials, the symposium also includes invited talks given by 
distinguished
speakers from the international research community. SBBD has been organized in 
cooperation
with ACM SIGMOD for the past few years and since last year it has been 
sponsored by the
VLDB Endowment.

SBBD 2003 invites submissions of tutorial proposals. Each tutorial will be 
presented in a
3 hours session. Only an abstract (1-2 pages) of the accepted tutorials will be 
published
in the symposium proceedings. However, copies of the presentation slides will 
be also
required for distribution at the symposium.

We will consider proposals for introductory and advanced tutorials on any topic 
within the
area of databases. Introductory tutorials should target an audience consisting 
of advanced
undergraduate and graduate students, as well as people from industry. Hence, 
they can be
thought of as "recycling" courses. Advanced tutorials, on the other hand, must 
cover a broad
state of the art (addressing the work of the leading research groups) besides 
motivating and
exposing potential research issues.


IMPORTANT DATES

Tutorial submission:                June 2nd, 2003
Notification of acceptance:         June 27th, 2003
Abstracts (SBBD proceedings):       July 21st, 2003
Presentation material (web site):   August 18th, 2003
SBBD 2003 starts:                   October 6th, 2003


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

All proposals MUST include the following items:

1. Tutorial title, authors' name, affiliation, e-mail and URL.

2. Type (introductory or advanced), language to be presented (English or 
Portuguese) and a
short abstract stating its main goal [1 paragraph max.].

3. Special audio-visual needs (e.g. overhead or multimedia projector).

4. Outline of the tutorial, including section titles and their respective 
descriptions
[at most 1 paragraph for each section].

5. List of related references [1 page max.].

6. Where this tutorial has been presented before (or is under consideration for 
presentation), 
if applicable. [1 page max.]

7. A short bio of each author [1 paragraph max. for each author].


Please do not include any other information than those listed above. Tutorial 
proposals may be 
written in english or portuguese and should be submitted by e-mail (mail body 
or attachement) 
to the SBBD 2003 Tutorials chair: sergio-li7KwKlimkl+qlEG3opDlA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


SBBD 2003 ORGANIZATION

Steering Committee:

  + Karin Becker, PUCRS
  + Alberto Laender, UFMG
  + Sérgio Lifschitz, PUC-Rio
  + Marta Mattoso, COPPE/UFRJ
  + Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE

Tutorials Committee:

  + Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP
  + Mauro Biajiz, UFSCAR
  + Nina Edelweiss, UFRGS
  + Sérgio Lifschitz, PUC-Rio (Chair)
  + Fabio Andre Machado Porto, IME-RJ and PUC-Rio

SYMPOSIUM VENUE

The symposium will be held in the city of Manaus, capital of the State of 
Amazonas, in the
northern region of Brazil. Located in the heart of the Amazon tropical forest, 
at the
confluence of the Amazon and the Negro rivers, Manaus is a well-known 
destination for
ecotourism due to its unique and beautiful natural resources, folklore and a 
cuisine full
of delicious regional flavors. Manaus can be reached by direct flights from 
major Brazilian 
cities such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and the capital Brasilia. There are 
also direct 
flights from Miami that operate almost daily.

Imagining Manaus as an ordinary city is just unfair. Set in the middle of the 
planet's
largest tropical forest, Manaus is surrounded by an amazing inventory of 
natural resources, 
represented by 20% of all the world's fresh water, a genetic bank of 
inestimable value, and 
large ore, gas and petroleum deposits. The importance of the region is 
immeasurable.

In Manaus, ecotourism plays a crucial role, signaling new inroads towards the 
development of 
Brazil's largest green area. Manaus is located right in the middle an 
environmental treasure, 
hosting and fostering exemplary environmental preservation initiatives such as 
the Ducke Reserve, 
the largest botanical garden in the world, along other six environmental parks. 
Moreover, there 
nature and technology live there in harmony. Side by side with the exuberance 
offered by nature, 
grows a modern industrial park with more than 600 companies whose cutting edge 
technology is 
comparable to the most advanced production centers in the world.

The region time zone has one hour less than Brasilia and corresponds to GMT-4. 
The climate is
classified as being humid equatorial, with an average annual temperature of 
90oF and a
relative air humidity around 80%. Data from the last national census in 2000 
indicates a
population of 1,403,796 inhabitants. More information about Manaus and its 
surroundings can
be found at http://www.manaustur.com.br.

The symposium site is the Studio5 Convention Center, a modern and fully 
acclimatized
conference complex, located near to the industrial park of Manaus and not far 
from the
campus of the Federal University of Amazonas and the Amazon National Research 
Institute,
and just 10 minutes away from downtown Manaus. The Novotel Manaus and the Ibis 
Hotel Manaus
are also located close to the Studio5 Convention Center.


DISCLAIMER

Depending on funding availability, SBBD 2003 will cover travel and lodging 
expenses for one
author per accepted tutorial (the most senior researcher in case of tutorials 
with more than
one author). The presenting author will be required to register for the 
symposium.

We reserve the right to refuse all of the submitted tutorial proposals, as well 
as to include
invited tutorial presentations.

For further information please contact the Tutorial Chair at 
sergio-TvuxUUOkTPc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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