[Dbworld] VLDB 2004 CFPart: Two Days Left for Early Registration

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                 VLDB 2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

      30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

                         Royal York Hotel
                         Toronto, Canada
                   August 29 - September 3, 2004

           

VLDB 2004 continues the 30-year tradition of VLDB conferences as the premier 
international forum for database researchers, vendors, practitioners, 
application developers, and users to present, discuss and exchange ideas on the 
latest developments in database technologies and applications. The conference 
will take place Tuesday August 31 to Friday September 3. Eight workshops will 
be held on site Sunday August 29 to Monday August 30. 

The conference is being held at the very centre of Downtown Toronto, in one of 
the finest hotels in North America. For attractions in Toronto please check 
http://www.torontotourism.com and http://www.toronto.com. Niagara Falls is a 
nearby major tourism destination http://www.tourismniagara.com).  

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
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Details can be found at http://www.vldb04.org/program.html


KEYNOTES
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* Tuesday: Databases in a Wireless World --
         David Yach, VP Software, Research in Motion
* Wednesday: Structures, Semantics and Statistics --
         Alon Halevy, University of Washington
* Thursday: Wither Data Mining? --
         Rakesh Agrawal and Ramakrishnan Srikant, IBM Almaden
         (10-year best paper talk)
         
TUTORIALS
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* Database Architectures for New Hardware -- Anastassia Ailamaki
* Security of shared data in large systems -- Arnon Rosenthal and
         Marianne Winslett
* Self-Managing Technology in Database Management Systems --
         Surajit Chaudhuri, Benoit Dageville, Guy Lohman
* Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (P2P) Data Management --
         Joseph Hellerstein
* The continued saga of DB-IR integration -- Ricardo Baeza-Yates and
         Mariano Consens
         
PANELS
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* Biological Data Management: Research, Practice and Opportunities --
         Thodoros Topaloglou (moderator), Susan B. Davidson,
         H. V. Jagadish, Victor M. Markowitz, and Evan W. Steeg
* Where is Business Intelligence Taking Today's Database Systems --
         Bill O'Connell (moderator), Andy Witkowski,
         Ramesh Bhashyam, Surajit Chauduri, Nigel Campbell

WORKSHOPS (August 29-30)
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* XSym 2004: Second International XML Database Symposium
* IIWeb-04: Workshop on Information Integration on the Web
* STDBM'04: Second Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management
* SDM'04: Secure Data Management in a Connected World
* DMSN'04: International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks
* DBISP2P 2004: Second International Workshop On Databases, Information
                Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing
* SWBD 2004: Second International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases
* TES-04: Fifth VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services

PLUS ...
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81 research papers
26 industrial and application papers


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