SBBD 2004: Preliminary Call for Papers

                          CALL FOR PAPERS 

        SBBD 2004 - XIX Brazilian Symposium on Databases

           Organized by SBC, Brazilian Computer Society,
                in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD and
          sponsored (pending approval) by the VLBD Endowment

                       Brasília, DF, Brasil
                       October 18-20, 2004

                    http://www.unb.br/sbbd2004

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SBBD is the official event of SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computação/
Brazilian Computer Society - in the database area and it gathers researchers, 
students and practitioners, from Brasil and abroad, for discussing problems 
related to the main topics in this domain.

In its nineteenth edition, SBBD 2004 will be held in Brasilia (DF), Brasil's 
capital, a modern and planned city, easily accessible from all parts of 
Brasil, where about 500 attendees are expected.

Besides technical sessions, where selected papers are presented, the Symposium 
also includes invited talks given by distinguished speakers from the 
international research community, tutorials and short courses. SBBD is 
organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD and has been partially sponsored by 
the VLDB Endownment. 

Topics of Interest
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SBBD 2004 invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including 
research issues in new database applications. Typical topics of 
interest include, but are not limited to:

  -  Active Databases
  -  Authorization and Security
  -  Concurrency Control and Recovery 
  -  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  -  Data Semantics
  -  Data Visualization and Databases
  -  Data Warehousing
  -  Database Design
  -  Database Support for Digital Libraries
  -  Electronic Commerce and Databases
  -  Geographical Information Systems
  -  Information Integration and Interoperability
  -  Information Retrieval and Databases
  -  Knowledge Bases
  -  Mobile Data
  -  Multimedia Databases
  -  Object-Orientation and Databases
  -  Parallel and Distributed Databases
  -  Query Languages and User Interfaces
  -  Query Processing and Optimization
  -  Scientific and Statistical Databases
  -  Semi-structured Databases and XML
  -  Spatial Databases
  -  Temporal Databases
  -  Web Database Services


Best Paper Award
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The Jose Mauro de Castilho (JMC) award is given, since 1998, to the best
paper as selected by the Program Committee. Past winner papers have been 
published in ACM SIGMOD Record and in the Journal of the Brazilian Computer 
Society. Jose Mauro de Castilho, who passed away in March 1998, was a 
professor at UFRGS, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he, 
as one of the database pioneers in Brasil, helped to form a complete 
generation of professionals and researchers in the database area.

Preliminary Submission Guidelines
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Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese or English. However, papers 
selected for presentation must be written in English in order to be included 
in the Symposium proceedings. SBBD papers are included in the ACM SIGMOD DiSC 
and, since last year, are also listed and referenced in DBLP. The proceedings
are expected to be published by a major international publisher.
 
Papers submitted to SBBD must not have been simultaneously submitted to any 
other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published
elsewhere. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors 
will register for the symposium to present it. Submitted papers will be reviewed
based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation.

Further details will soon be available at the Symposium web site.

SBBD 2003 Organization
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Steering Committee:

+ Carlos Alberto Heuser, UFRGS
+ Alberto Laender, UFMG
+ Sérgio Lifschitz, PUC-Rio
+ Marta Mattoso, UFRJ
+ Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE

Program Committee Chair:

+ Sérgio Lifschitz, Dep. Informática PUC-Rio 
(sergio-li7KwKlimkl+qlEG3opDlA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) 

Program Committee Members:

+ Fernanda Baião - COPPE Sistemas UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro
+ Alvaro Barbosa - Informática UFES, Espírito Santo
+ Karin Becker - Informática PUCRS, Rio Grande do Sul
+ Mauro Biajiz - Computação UFSCar, São Paulo
+ Nicole Bidoit-Tollu - LRI Univ. Paris Sud, France
+ Angelo Brayner - Computação UNIFOR, Ceará
+ Maria Helena L.B. Braz - ICIST Univ. Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
+ Luc Bouganim - INRIA Rocquencourt, France
+ Stefano Ceri - Politecnico de Milano, Italia
+ Nina Edelweiss - INF UFRGS - Rio Grande do Sul
+ João Eduardo Ferreira - IME USP - São Paulo
+ Renato Ferreira - DCC UFMG - Minas Gerais
+ Fernando Fonseca - CIN UFPE - Pernambuco 
+ Juliana Freire - CSE Oregon Graduate Institute, USA
+ Pedro Furtado - Univ. Coimbra, Portugal
+ Silvia Gordillo - LIFIA-UNLP, Argentina
+ Theo Haerder - Univ. Kaiserlautern, Germany
+ Carmem S. Hara - INF UFPR, Paraná
+ Carlos Hurtado - Computación Univ. Chile, Chile
+ Cirano Iochpe - INF UFRGS, Rio Grande do Sul
+ Ramamohanarao Kotagiri - Univ. Melbourne, Australia
+ Bernadette F. Lóscio - Fac. Sete de Setembro, Ceará
+ Javam Machado - Computação UFC, Ceará
+ Geovante C. Magalhães - IC UNICAMP e CPqD, São Paulo
+ Ioana Manolescu - INRIA Futurs, France
+ Rubens N. Melo - DI PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro
+ Regina Motz - Univ. de la República, Uruguay
+ Edleno S. de Moura - DCC UFAM, Amazonas
+ Vincent Oria - New Jersey Institute Technology, USA
+ Tamer Ozsu - Univ. Waterloo, Canada
+ Oscar Pastor - Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
+ Mario Piattini - UCLM, Spain
+ Philippe Picouet - LUSSI ENST Bretagne, France
+ Paulo Pires - NCE UFRJ - Rio de Janeiro
+ Alain Pirotte - Univ. de Louvain, Belgium
+ Alexandre Plastino - IC UFF - Rio de Janeiro
+ Fabio Andre M. Porto - IME/LNCC - Rio de Janeiro
+ Rodolfo Resende - DCC UFMG - Minas Gerais
+ Marcus C. Sampaio - DSC UFCG - Paraíba
+ Luiz Fernando B. Seibel - DI PUC-Rio - Rio de Janeiro
+ Paulo P. da Silva - KSL Stanford, USA
+ Altigran S. da Silva - DCC UFAM, Amazonas
+ Kian-Lee Tan - School of Computing National Univ., Singapore
+ Alejandro Vaisman - Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina
+ Victor Vianu - Univ. California San Diego, USA
+ Geraldo Xexeo - COPPE Sistemas UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro
+ Osmar Zaiane - Univ. Alberta, Canada

Organization Committee Chair:

+ Murilo Camargo, UNB Brasilia D.F. (murilo-c7fyDpTLSnQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Important Dates
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Paper submission:      May 3rd, 2004  
Authors notification:  June 26th, 2004
Camera ready due:      July 19th, 2004
SBBD 2004 starts:      October 18th, 2004
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