Call for Papers: XSym '04 _at_ VLDB 2004, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:09:40 +0000
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Call for Papers
Second International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2004)
In Conjunction with VLDB 2004 Toronto, Canada
The XML database symposium builds upon the success of the first symposium in conjunction with VLDB 2003, Berlin, and several previous workshops related to XML, Web and Database Systems that were held at VLDB 2002, EDBT 2002 and CAiSE 2002.
Theme
The theme of the XML Database Symposium (XSym) is everything in the intersection of Database and XML Technologies. Today, we see growing interest in using these technologies together for many web-based and database-centric applications. XML is being used to publish data from database systems to the Web by providing input to content generators for Web pages, and database systems are increasingly used to store and query XML data, often by handling queries issued over the Internet. As database systems increasingly start talking to each other over the Web, there is a fast growing interest in using XML as the standard exchange format for distributed query processing. As a result, many relational database systems export data as XML documents and import data from XML documents and provide query and update capabilities for XML data. In addition, so-called native XML database and integration systems are appearing on the database market, whose claim is to be especially tailored to store, maintain and easily access XML-documents.
Objectives
The goal of this symposium is to bring together academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use and synergy between the above-mentioned technologies. Many commercial systems built today are increasingly using these technologies together and it is important to understand the various research and practical issues. The wide range of participants will help the various communities understand both specific and common problems. This symposium will provide the opportunity for all involved to debate new issues and directions for research and development work in the future.
Symposium Format
The symposium format will be a 20-minute presentation, followed by 10-minutes discussion and debate. We encourage demos or other novel presentation techniques if they are a better format to describe the work being undertaken.
Topics of Interest
In order to foster a lively exchange of perspectives on the conference topics, the program committee encourages contributions from both researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Design and Integration:
Methodology and tools for designing DTDs and XML schemas
Large scale XML data integration
Information integration techniques and aggregators
Interchange and integration of XML data
Generation of XML data from legacy applications
Database support for Web-applications
Data modeling concepts for data in the Web
Management of meta-data in the internet
Web mining
Web interfaces for database systems
P2P database systems
Applications of XML:
XML-based data models for product description (XML, XML schema, XML
clones)
Business ontologies
XML and e-commerce
XML and business (XML/EDI)
Web-based models for business knowledge representation (RDF, semantic
markup)
Security and privacy with XML
Models and Languages:
XML query languages
XML-related languages like XSL, XQL, XPointer
Convergence of XML and Database technology (queries, views, updates,
data warehouses, etc.)
Convergence of XML and Decision support (visualization, expert systems
and business rules, etc.)
XML Technology:
Storage of XML data
Compression of XML data
Indexing and retrieval of XML data
Query processing over XML data
Benchmarks and performance using XML/Web-databases
XML server technology
XML-based middleware
XML grammars and streams
XML as an integral part of larger software systems
Paper Submission
Symposium submissions must generally be in electronic form using Portable Document Format (.pdf), PostScript (.ps) or WinWord (.doc). Papers should not be more than 15 pages in length. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) guidelines. LNCS formatting guidelines and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality and relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present their work.
Paper submission site is at http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/XSYM2004 (TBC). The symposium proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Important Dates
19 May 2004 - Paper Submission Deadline 30 June 2004 - Notification of Acceptance 13 July 2004 - Camera Ready Copy TBC - Symposium
Organizing Committee
General Chair:
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
General Co-chairs:
Michael Rys, Microsoft (USA)
Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM (France)
Program Committee Chairs:
Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University (Israel) & INRIA (France)
Dan Suciu, University of Washington (USA)
Publications Chair:
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Publicity and Communications Chair:
Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM (France)
Program Committee
Bernd Amann, CNAM Paris (France)
Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Research (USA)
Michael Benedikt, Bell Labs (USA)
Phil Bernstein, Microsoft Research (USA)
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan (Italy)
Angela Bonifati, CNR (Italy)
Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH & University of Crete (Greece)
Gregory Cobena, Xyleme (France)
Mariano Consens, University of Toronto (Canada)
Alin Deutsch, University of California at San Diego (USA)
Mary Fernandez, AT&T Research (USA)
Dana Florescu, BEA (USA)
Juliana Freire, OGI School of Science and Engineering (USA)
H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan (USA)
Christoph Koch, Technische Universitaet Wien (Austria)
Alberto Laender, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Laks Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia (Canada)
Yossi Matias, Tel Aviv university (Israel)
Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata (Italy)
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM (USA)
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina (Greece)
Neoklis (Alkis) Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz (USA)
Philippe Pucheral, INRIA (France)
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA)
Arnaud Sahuguet Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies (USA)
Oded Shmueli, Technion (Israel)
Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Vasilis Vassalos, New York University (USA)
Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University (Japan)
Contact XSym
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