2nd Call for Papers: XSym '04 _at_ VLDB 2004

                           Call for Papers
       Second International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2004)
           29-30 August 2004, Toronto, Canada (before VLDB)
                        http://www.xsym.org

Important Dates

  19 May 2004       - Paper Submission Deadline
  30 June 2004      - Notification of Acceptance
  13 July 2004      - Camera Ready Copy
  29-30 August 2004 - Symposium

The XML database symposium builds upon the success of the first symposium in conjunction with VLDB 2003, Berlin, and several previous XML, Web and Database-related workshops held at CAiSE 2002, EDBT 2002 and VLDB 2002.

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

The symposium proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Received on Sun May 02 2004 - 18:51:03 CEST