DASFAA 2004: Call for Papers and Tutorials

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                 Call for Papers and Tutorials

              The 9th International Conference on
         Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2004)

                       March 17 - 19, 2004                        
                       Jeju Island, Korea
               http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~dasfaa04

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Important Dates
  Jul. 22, 2003 Tutorial Proposals Due
  Aug. 12, 2003 Abstract Submissions Due
  Aug. 19, 2003 Paper Submissions Due
  Nov.  9, 2003 Notification of Accept/Reject
  Dec.  9, 2003 Camera-Ready Copies Due

Aims of the Conference
  This conference provides an international forum for technical discussion
  among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, 
  business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, 
  development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications.
    A premier database conference in the Asia/Pacific region, DASFAA has been 
  held every two years in many countries in the region. To promote further and 
  to answer the need of many participants, the Steering Committee decided to 
  hold the conference annually. DASFAA2004 is the first such conference 
  after it is made annual.

Areas of Interest (including, but not limited to)
  Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited. 
  The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:¡¤ 
 - Query Language and Query Optimization
 - Multidatabases and Federated Databases
 - Security and Integrity Maintenance
 - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
 - Text and Document Databases
 - Semi-Structured Data
 - Statistical and Scientific Databases
 - Parallel and Distributed Databases
 - Data Warehousing
 - Information Retrieval with Database Systems
 - Workflow Management
 - E-commerce
 - Multimedia Databases
 - Internet and the WWW
 - Digital Libraries
 - Mobile Databases
 - User Interfaces
 - Temporal and Spatial Databases
 - Active Databases
 - Application Servers
 - Data Streams
 - Sensor Data
 - New Applications
 
Submission Guidelines

 - Papers (Due: Aug 19, 2003): 
     Authors are invited to submit the title, author(s), email address 
     of the contact author, and abstract of the paper to the following URL
          http://aitrc.kaist.ac.kr/~dasfaa04
     by August 12, 2003. The full paper in PDF format must be submitted 
     by August 19, 2003 to the same URL. Each paper must not be longer than 
     12 single-spaced pages with font size at least 11 pts. The title page 
     must include the name and email address of the contact author. Detailed 
     submission instructions will be made available at the same URL. 

 - Proposals for Tutorials (Due: July 22, 2003): 
     Each tutorial proposal should include a one-page description of 
     the subject matter, the name, affiliation, and the biography of 
     the speaker. Submissions should be sent to the Tutorial Chairs. 
     (shim-2qiS7stYTIJOKQ8SreQ7dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, jwang@xxxxxxxxxxx) Detailed 
instruction for 
     tutorial proposal will be made available at the conference web site.

Organizing Committee
 - Honorary Chair:
     Sukho Lee, Seoul National Univ., Korea
 - International Advisory Committee: 
     Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto Univ., Japan
     Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Tech., USA
     Erich Neuhold, Fraunhofer, Germany
     Insup Paik, Ajou University, Korea
     Stanley Su, Univ. of Florida, Gainsville, USA
 - General Chair:
     Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST/AITrc, Korea
 - Program Committee Chairs:
     YoonJoon Lee, KAIST, Korea
     Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 - Tutorial Chairs: 
     Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National Univ., Korea
     James Wang, Penn. State Univ., USA
 - Panel Chairs:
     Hyoung-Joo Kim, Seoul National Univ., Korea
     Qing Li, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
 - Industrial Program Chairs: 
     Soon J. Hyun, ICU, Korea
     Il-Yeol Song, Drexel Univ., USA
 - Organization Committee Chair:
     Seog Park, Sogang Univ., Korea
 - Local Arrangement Chair:
     Chanjung Park, Cheju National Univ., Korea
 - Publicity Chairs:
     Myung Kim, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea (Domestic)
     Byung S. Lee, Univ. of Vermont, USA (Americas)     
     Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National Univ. Korea (Europe)
     Yunmook Nah, Dankook Univ., Korea (Asia/Pacific and Domestic DB Community)
 - Treasurer:
     Eui Kyeong Hong, Seoul City Univ./AITrc, Korea
 - Registration Chair:
     Jinho Kim, Kangwon National Univ./AITrc, Korea
 - Publication Chair:  
     Doheon Lee, KAIST/AITrc, Korea
     Wan-Sup Cho, Chungbuk National Univ., Korea
 - Geographic Area Chairs:
    Americas
     Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
    Europe/Middle East
     Wolfgang Klas, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
    Australia
     Maria Orlowska, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
    China
     Shan Wang, Renmin Univ., China
    Hong Kong
     Hongjun Lu, HKUST, Hong Kong, China
    India
     Krithi Ramaritham, IIT Bombay, India
    Japan
     Yoshi Masunaga, Ochanomizu Univ., Japan
    Singapore
     Tok Wang Ling, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
    Taiwan
     Arbee Chen, Tsinghua National Univ., Taiwan
 - KISS SIGDB Representative
     Chin-Wan Chung, KAIST, Korea
 - Steering Committee Members
     Tok Wang Ling (Chair), National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
     Yoshifumi Masunaga (Vice Chair),Ochanomizu Univ., Japan
     Arbee Chen, National Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan
     Yoshihiko Imai, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, Japan     
     Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, China
     Seog Park, Sogang Univ., Korea
     Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
     Wang Shan, Renmin Univ. of China, China
     Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto Univ., Japan
     Kyhyun Um, Dongkuk Univ., Korea
     Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea

Program Committee
  Dave J. Abel, CSIRO, Australia
  Masatoshi Arikawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  Stephane Bressan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  Vladimir Brusic, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
  Guang-Ho Cha, sookmyung Univ., Korea
  Jin Seok Chae, Incheon Univ., Korea
  Edward Chang, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  Arbee Chen, National Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan
  David Cheung, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  Eugene Chong, Oracle, USA
  Klaus R. Dittrich, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
  Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt Univ. zu Berlin, Germany
  Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad Univ., Sweden
  Jiawei Han, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
  Gao Hong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan
  Soon Joo Hyun, ICU, Korea
  Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
  Hannu Kangassalo, Univ. of Tampere, Finland
  Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang Univ., Korea
  Yoo-Sung Kim, Inha Univ., Korea
  Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
  Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
  Bong Kyou Lee, Hansung Univ., Korea
  Byung-Suk Lee, Univ. of Vermont, USA
  Dik Lun Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong
  Kangwoo Lee, ETRI, Korea
  Kyu-Chul Lee, Chungnam Nat'l Univ., Korea 
  Minsoo Lee, Ewha Univ., Korea
  Yugyung Lee, Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
  Chen Li, UC Irvine, USA
  Mong Li Lee, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  Seok-Lyong Lee, Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies, Korea
  Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea
  Jiangzhong Li, SERI of Harbin Institute of Technology, China
  Xue Li, The Univ. of Queensland, Australia
  Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
  Tok Wang Ling, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  Bing Liu, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, Hong Kong
  Pericles Loucopoulos, UMIST, UK
  Hongjun Lu, HKUST, Hong Kong
  Leszek Maciaszek, Macquarie Univ., Australia
  Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu Univ., Japan
  Xiaofeng Meng, Renimin Univ. of China, China
  Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India
  Shinichi Morishita, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
  Atsushi Ohori, JAIST, Japan
  Beng Chin Ooi, National Univesity of Singapore, Singapore
  Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, Hong Kong
  Jian Pei, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA
  Jun Rao, IBM Almaden, USA
  Kunihiko Sadakane, Tohoku Univ., Japan
  Shazia Sadiq, The Univ. of Queensland, Australia
  N.L. Sarda, India Institute of Technology Mumbai, India
  Ming-Chien Shan, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
  Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
  Kian-Lee Tan, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
  Yuzuru Tanaka, Hokkaido Univ., Japan
  Changjie Tang, Sichuan Univ., China
  Soochan Whang, Hankuk Aviation Univ., Korea
  Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois Chiago, USA
  Jongho Won, ETRI, Korea
  Kam-Fai Wong, CUHK, Hong Kong
  Byung-Kee Yi, Postech, Korea
  Hwan-Seung Yong, Ewha Womans Univ., Korea
  Yong-Ik, Yoon, Sookmyung Univ., Korea
  Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya Univ., Japan
  Ciu Yu, Monmouth Univ., USA
  Lizhu Zhou, Tshinghua Univ., China

Proceedings Publisher
  TBA

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Organized by SIGDB of Korea Information Science Society and Advanced
Information Technology Research Center(AITrc), a KOSEF ERC.

Sponsored by 
  Korea Information Science Society (KISS)
  Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
  Database Society of China Computer Federation (CCF DBS)
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