[Dbworld] Preliminary Call for Papers

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                        Preliminary Call for Papers
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      The 9th International Database Engineering and Application Symposium
                            Montreal, Canada
                            July 25-27, 2005

                          Conference Web site:
            http://www.cs.concordia.ca/ideas/ideas2005

The aim of the IDEAS series of symposiums is to address the engineering and
application aspects of databases.

The symposium provides an international forum for discussion of the problems
of engineering database systems involving not only database technology, but
also the related areas of information retrieval, multimedia, human machine
interface and communication. The goal of IDEAS is to foster closer
interaction among the industrial, research and user communities and
provides an excellent opportunity for them to meet, discuss ideas, examine
the current ones and develop new solutions and research directions. Along
with the technical sessions, the symposium also features prominent invited
speakers.

IDEAS series of symposiums are scheduled annually and have been held since
1997 in North America, Europe and Asia. It has attracted participants from
governmental and non-governmental agencies, industries, and academia to
exchange ideas and share experiences.

IDEAS 2005 will return to Montreal, Canada, and will be held in the new building
of the CS Department of Concordia University. Montreal is a wonderful place to 
live and to study. A gateway to North America, its typical New World vitality 
blends perfectly with its unique approach to life. It is a bilingual city 
where you will hear French and English spoken everywhere, along with some 35 
other languages and many well-established cultural communities, from Italian 
to Chinese, Greek and Spanish-speaking. The city's international flavour is 
a definite asset for multinationals and organizations, many of which have 
chosen to locate their head offices here. In fact, 70 organizations and 80 
international financial centres, including the World Trade Centre Montreal, 
the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Societe Internationale 
de Telecommunications Aeronautiques (SITA), all call Montreal home. Montreal 
is the second-largest aerospace city in the world, and eighth in North America 
in the biopharmaceuticals sector. With its four universities, Montreal has 
more university students per capita than any other North American city. 
Montreal is a city of festivals and summer is the peak season for it  with
numerous international events including international jazz, La Mondial SAQ,
Juste pour rire/Just for laugh, Les FrancoFolies, Dragon Boat Race, Nuits
d'Afrique.


IDEAS 2005 invites quality papers describing original ideas and new findings
on applied technological and theoretical aspects of database engineering
and applications. In particular we welcome submissions describing work on
integrating new technologies into products and applications, on experiences
with existing and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved
challenges. We consider this symposium to be a unique and important forum
to discuss experiences in applying databases to actual situations. You are
invited to submit original technical papers in English reporting recent
results in database and related fields.  Both research papers and experience
and application papers are welcome. While research papers should report
original research work, experience and application papers should describe
the development and operations of challenging database related systems and
applications.

Full length papers and short papers are invited: the topics of interest
within the scope of the conference include, but are not restricted to:

Access Methods and Data Structures
Active Databases
Authorisation and Database Security
Benchmarking
Bioinformatics and Databases
Concurrency Control and Recovery
Constraint Databases
Data Grids
Data Integration
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Data Models
Data Stream Processing
Data Visualisation
Data Warehousing
Database Applications
Database Design and UML
Database Evolution and Migration
Database Performance
Database Query Languages
Database Programming Languages
Databases and Electronic Commerce
Databases and Information Retrieval
Database System Functionality as Service
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Genomic Databases
Interoperability and Cooperative Systems
Internet/Intranet Services and Databases
Knowledge Base Management Systems
Logic and Databases
Medical Information Systems
Mobile Computing and Database Systems
Moving Object Databases
Multimedia Database Systems
Ontology Development for Database Applications
Peer-to-Peer Data Management
Performance Evaluation
Query Processing and Optimization
Real-Time Database Systems
Replication and Caching
Scientific and Statistical Databases
Semantic Web and Databases
Semi-structured Databases and XML
Spatial and Temporal Databases
Transactional Guarantees in Databases
Tertiary Storage for Databases
Text Databases and Digital Libraries
User and Application Interfaces
View Management
Workflow Management and Databases
Web Search and Navigation


IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline:   February 18, 2005
Acceptance notice:           April 16, 2005
Camera-ready copies due:     May 14, 2005
Conference dates:            July 25-27, 2005

(Please visit the conference Web site for further instructions)

PUBLICATION:

The conference proceedings is to be published by IEEE Computer Society.

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Bipin C. Desai (Concordia University, Canada)
Program Co-chairs: Bipin C. Desai (Concordia University, Canada)
                   and Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany)

Organized by: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada


Program Committee:

Michel Adiba (University of Grenoble, France)
Gilbert Babin (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Montreal, Canada)
Roger Barga (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Karin Becker (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Jorge Bernardino (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Portugal)
Peter Bodorik (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)
Andre Clouatre (University of Montreal, Canada)
Frank Dehne (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)
Bipin Desai (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Klaus Dittrich (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Anne Doucet (Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris-6, France)
Todd Eavis (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Ling Feng (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Matteo Golfarelli (University of Bologna, Italy)
Shaym Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
Volker Haarslev (Concordia University, Canada)
Theo Haerder (University of Kaiserlautern, Germany)
Bettina Kemme (McGill University, Canada)
Brigitte Kerherve (Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada)
Naveen Kumar (University of Dehli, India)
Dominique Laurent (Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Mark Levene (University of London, England)
Arturas Mazeika (Free University of Bozen, Italy)
Tim Merrett (McGill University, Canada)
Tore Risch (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Domenico Sacca (University of Calabria, Italy)
Kai-Uwe Sattler (University of Ilmenau, Germany)
Nematollaah Shiri (Concordia University, Canada)
Jano Souza (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Nicolas Spyratos (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI) Orsay, France)
Yannis Theodoridis (Computer Tech. Inst., Patras, Greece)
Manuel Torres (University of Almeria, Spain)
Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
K. Vidyasankar  (Memorial University,  Newfoundland, Canda)
Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany)
Mathias Weske (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Germany)
Jeffery Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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