CIDR 2005 Call for Papers

CIDR Call for Papers
Second Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
Asilomar, CA.  January 4-7, 2005
http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/cidr/

Purpose:  CIDR offers a venue for innovative data systems architectures, as 
well as a prestigious publication opportunity.  CIDR does not compete with the 
established conferences presenting rigorous treatises in established areas; 
rather its goal is to air radically new ideas.  Such papers are typically 
speculative or are system evaluations.  The visionary papers usually lack 
rigorous frameworks, simulations of performance, or prototype implementations 
but present a radical departure from conventional approaches that enables new 
applications.  The prototype descriptions generally are a detailed report on 
successes and mistakes.  The other major DBMS conferences  usually reject such 
submissions because they are not scientific.  However, these are often the very 
papers that offer long term value to the field, and should be widely 
disseminated.  

The conference is single-tracked.  Proceedings will be published both as a 
website and in book form.  The conference runs every-other year, typically in 
the fall or winter during non-HTPS years.

Scope:  Papers are invited on innovative and visionary approaches to data 
systems architecture and applications.   Topics of interest include database 
systems, application servers, messaging systems, workflow, warehousing, data 
mining, data visualization, small-scale and large-scale systems, portal 
systems, and architectures that are particularly manageable, available, or 
scaleable.  Especially encouraged are architectures for new application areas, 
and innovative data and system integration solutions.  Also encouraged are 
papers on organizing and querying information on the web, large scale 
information fusion, knowledge discovery systems, data privacy and trust,  
peer-to-peer data management, and the integration of text, data, code and 
streams.  Lastly, "war stories" on overcoming common problems are welcome.

Organization:   The conference is organized by the 27 people listed below who 
peer-review the submissions. The organizing committee is a continuing 
organization with rotating committee members.  The conference is held every 
second year.  

Sponsorship: The CIDR conference is sponsored by the VLDB Foundation in 
co-operation with ACM SIGMOD.

Papers:  Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words; extended background and 
demos may be augmented by a website that will become part of the submission.  
Electronic submissions should be sent in camera-ready form to the chairman of 
the program committee, Mike Stonebraker 
(stonebraker-EfZU8u+QLuPQ0zkYpJWm5w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)  A submission that is not 
aligned with CIDR goals will be returned, with a suggestion to submit it to one 
of the established conferences.   Submissions will be reviewed by at least 
three members of the organizing committee. To encourage only the best work, 
each person can be an author or co-author on only one submission. With a 
similar purpose in mind, each organizing committee member has agreed to submit 
her best work for consideration.  

Dates:  Submissions are due by August 1, 2004. Authors will be notified of 
acceptance by October 15, 2004.  Final versions are due December 1, 2004.  
Further information can be obtained from the program chairman.

Organizing Committee:  Anastassia Alimaki, Phil Bernstein, Mike Carey, Surajit 
Chaudhuri,  Mitch Cherniack, Sophie Cluet, David Dewitt (general chair), Dana 
Florescu, Mike Franklin, Dieter Gawlick, Goetz Graefe, Jim Gray (ex-officio), 
Hector Garcia-Molina,  Laura Haas, Alon Halevy, Joey Hellerstein, Martin 
Kersten, Donald Kossmann,  Sam Madden,  Renee Miller, Jeff Naughton, Hans 
Schek, Avi Silberschatz, Mike Stonebraker (PC-chair),  Jennifer Widom, Gerhard 
Weikum (co-chair), and Stan Zdonik


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