CfP: ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2004

                            Call for Papers

                     ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2004

                Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004

               Boston, Massachusetts, USA, March 29, 2004

                 <http://www.cse.uconn.edu/icde04/phd/>



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News: * post-workshop proceedings will be published by Springer (LNCS)
      * deadline for submissions is December 12, 2003



                          ---Introduction---

The joined ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop is intended to bring together Ph.D. 
students 
working on topics related to the ICDE as well as the EDBT conference series. 
The 
workshop will have two sessions the first in Heraklion, Greece, on March 18 and 
the second in Boston, USA, on March 29, 2004.

The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and 
receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international 
atmosphere. 
Students can choose where to present their papers (Heraklion/Boston) when 
accepted. 

The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the 
field of database technology. These accompanying professors will participate 
actively and contribute to the discussions. 

The first session is co-located with and will take place on the last day of the 
EDBT 2004 conference. The second session is co-located with and will take place 
immediately before the ICDE 2004 conference. The workshop language is English. 



                       ---Topics of Interest---

As for the ICDE and EDBT conferences series, all topics from the field 
of database technology are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop. 
These topics include (but are not limited to):

o Active Databases                     o Imprecise and Uncertain Information
o Advanced Query Processing            o Indexing, Access Methods, Data 
Structures
  and Optimization                     o Legacy Databases
o Ambient-aware Database Applications  o Logic and Databases
o Approximate Queries                  o Mobile Computing and Databases
o Authorization and Security           o Multimedia Databases
o Autonomic Databases                  o Object-Relational Database Systems
o Biological Databases and             o Parallel and Distributed Databases
  Bioinformatics                       o Privacy Techniques for Databases
o Component-based Information Systems  o Query Languages and User Interfaces
o Constraint and Rule Management       o Real-Time Database Systems
o Data Models and Database Design      o Replication, Caching, Materialized
o Data Warehousing and OLAP              Views
o Data Mining and Knowledge            o Scientific and Statistical Databases
  Discovery                            o Self-healing Databases
o Database Applications and            o Semi-structured Data, Metadata, and XML
  Experiences                          o Spatial and Temporal Databases
o Database Performance and Benchmarks  o Stream Processing, Continuous Queries,
o E-Commerce, Workflow, and Databases    and Sensor Databases
o Federated Databases, Middleware,     o Text Storage and Retrieval
  and Interoperability                 o Transactions and Recovery
o Knowledge Base Management Systems    o Trustworthy Databases
o Geographic Information Systems       o World-Wide Web and Databases



                           ---Submission---

Papers describing doctoral work should be uploaded in pdf or postscript format 
at:
                <http://www.cse.uconn.edu/icde04/phd/> 
The paper length should not exceed 6 pages. When submitting your paper please 
indicate
at which session you would like to present it by choosing Heraklion or Boston 
as first 
keyword. 

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address 
specifically 
doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended: 

 - A clear formulation of the research question.
 - An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
 - An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the 
   state of existing solutions.
 - A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the 
   results achieved so far.
 - A sketch of the applied research methodology.
 - A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
 - A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as 
   compared to existing approaches to the problem.

The papers accepted at the last Ph.D. workshop were published by LNCS (2490). 
We hope
to do so again this year. Furthermore, the abstracts will be made available on 
the 
world wide web. Participants should register for the ICDE respectively EDBT 
conference 
itself at student rate. 



                     ---Organizational Details---

The workshop is organized by:  
    
 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 - Boston University
 - Northeastern University
 - University of Crete
 - University of Milano


                        ---Contact Address---

Workshop Chair: Wolfgang Lindner 
(wolfgang-7nwHvcHdrJGVc3sceRu5cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)



                       ---Program Committee---

Karl Aberer (Switzerland)               Bertram Ludaescher (Germany)
Anastassia Ailamaki (USA)               Samuel Madden (USA)
Walid G. Aref (USA)                     David Maier (USA)
Phil Bernstein (USA)                    Holger Meyer (Germany)
Elisa Bertino (Italy)                   Klaus Meyer-Wegener (Germany)
Michael Böhlen (Italy)                  Ioana Manolescu (France)
Stefano Ceri (Italy)                    Felix Naumann (Germany)
Klaus Dittrich (Switzerland)            Erich Neuhold (Germany)
Georgios Evangelidis (Greece)           Dimitris Papadias (China)
Michael Franklin (USA)                  Jan Paredaens (Belgium)
Dina Goldin (USA)                       Neoklis Polyzotis (USA)
Christian S. Jensen (Denmark)           Ken Salem (Canada)
Björn Þór Jónsson (Iceland)             Timos Sellis (Greece)
Martin Kersten (Netherlands)            Heiko Schuldt (Austria)
Tan Kian Lee (Singapore)                Peter Triantafillou (Greece)
Peter Lockemann (Germany)               David Toman (Canada)



                        ---Important Dates---

   Deadline for submission:    December 12, 2003
   Notification to authors:    January  18, 2004
   Camera ready version:       February 06, 2004
   Ph.D. Workshop 
   First Session (Heraklion):  March    18, 2004
   Second Session (Boston):    March    29, 2004



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