Reminder, CfP: 21st British National Conference on Databases

******** With apologies for multiple postings ****************

      21st BRITISH NATIONAL CONFERENCE on DATABASES
                  7th - 9th July 2004
            (http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21)

               CALL FOR RESEARCH TRACK PAPERS

* Conference Background and Goals
  ===============================

For the past twenty years BNCOD has attracted an International 
audience to discuss the leading research topics of the day in the 
field of Data, Knowledge and Information systems. Leading research
from the UK and from throughout the world has been presented at the
conference, and many fruitful and lasting collaborations have been
created. BNCOD has also offered an opportunity for academic research
to interact with industrial application, to mutual benefit on both
sides. As with any conference that has been in existence for this
period of time, BNCOD has moved from an original focus on Databases
to a much broader range of interests, reflected in the Subject
Indications list for papers below.

To celebrate its twenty-first birthday BNCOD is coming to Edinburgh,
where it will be hosted on the Heriot-Watt University campus on the 
outskirts of the city (close to the International Airport). The 
conference will be the focus of a week of co-located activities with
workshops, tutorials, a Grand Challenge programming competition, and
BNCOD21 itself all running at the same venue, offering delegates a feast
of opportunities. As well as the traditional research track of papers, 
posters and panels, BNCOD21 will also offer a one day industry track,
where a parallel stream of application-focused papers and presentations
will focus on the utilisation of the technologies discussed in the
research track, and industrial and academic delegates can meet and find
common ground. A commercial and research exhibition will run alongside
the conference, and we will encourage the presentation of interactive
exhibits demonstrating both commercial products and research 
initiatives. Since they will be in the capital of Scotland, there are
lots of attractions and historical sights to interest and excite our
delegates during their free time, and we do encourage delegates to
take advantage of these opportunities during their visit to Edinburgh. 
We will also offer a Social programme with which we will try to live 
up to the traditions of Scottish hospitality. 

Details of all of these activities and submission, registration, travel
and accommodation information will appear, as it becomes available on
our website - http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21

* Types of Submissions
  ====================

This is the first of a series of calls for this conference, and it
focuses on research track papers, both full and short, there will be
further calls for tutorials, interactive exhibits, posters, industry
track papers and the Grand Challenge programming competition later,
and details will appear on the website - http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21
as they become available.

For the purposes of this call, we would wish to receive submissions, by
the submission deadline of 22nd January 2004, of:

 * Full Research Track Papers - c. 6,000 words, 12 pages in 10 point,
   in PDF format. Papers should describe completed research activities,
   related to the list of Subject Indications provided below, and will be 
   reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, 
   relevance to the conference, originality, significance, and clarity.

 * Short Research Track Papers - c. 3,000 words, 6 pages in 10 point,
   in PDF format. Papers can describe research in progress, points of
   technical merit, novel research applications, or interim findings,
   related to the list of Subject Indications provided below, and will be 
   reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, 
   relevance to the conference, originality, significance, and clarity.

 * Research Track Papers will be published in Volume 1 of the Conference
   Proceedings which, as in previous years, will be published by 
   Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (subject
   to final agreement with the publisher).

* Research Track Subject Indications
  ==================================

For the research track, papers are sought covering either fundamental 
database technologies or applicative technologies to support data, 
knowledge and information systems. Topics of interest include but are 
not limited to: 

 * Data Models and Architectures 
 * Data Mining 
 * Data Streaming 
 * Database Integration and Interoperability 
 * Distributed Information Systems 
 * E-business and E-commerce
 * Enterprise Systems 
 * Geographic Information Systems
 * Grid: Middleware, Applications and Data Management 
 * Heterogeneous Systems 
 * Hidden Web 
 * Information Retrieval 
 * Integrity, Constraints and Active Rules 
 * Information and Knowledge Management 
 * Mobile computing 
 * Multi-Agent systems 
 * Multimedia, Spatial and Temporal Data 
 * New Application Areas and Processes 
 * Performance Modelling and Metrics
 * Query and Manipulation Languages 
 * Query Processing and Optimisation 
 * Security, Privacy and Provenance
 * Semantic Web and Ontologies 
 * Semi-structured data, Metadata and XML
 * Transaction Management 
 * Ubiquity 
 * Uncertainty and Reasoning
 * User Interfaces and Data Visualisation
 * Usability and QoS
 * Workflow Support Systems 


* Important Dates
  ===============

 * Paper submission date - 22nd January 2004
 * Notification to Authors - 27th February 2004
 * Camera ready copy and author registration deadline - 31st March 2004
 * Conference - 7th - 9th July 2004

* Conference Location
  ===================

  Department of Computer Science,
  School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
  Heriot-Watt University,
  Riccarton Campus,
  Edinburgh EH14 4AS,
  Scotland, U.K.

* Secretariat
  ===========

  You can contact us with any queries,

  By post, at BNCOD Secretariat,
              Department of Computer Science,
              Heriot-Watt University,
              Edinburgh EH14 4AS.

  By fax addressed to "BNCOD21 Secretariat"
              at +44(0)131 451 3327

  By email to BNCOD-lzCHPtziBt02EctHIo1CcQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

* Conference Chair:  Lachlan MacKinnon, Heriot-Watt University
  ================   (lachlan-lzCHPtziBt02EctHIo1CcQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

* Program Chair: Howard Williams, Heriot-Watt University
  =============  (mhw-lzCHPtziBt02EctHIo1CcQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

  for the full list of Committee Members see
  http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21/contacts.htm

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