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Call for Papers
Networking Meets Databases Workshop (NetDB'2011)
Sponsored by ACM SIGMOD/PODS
Co-located with SIGMOD'2011
Athens, Greece
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/srikanth/netdb11/
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The Sixth International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB
2011) will bring together researchers from the systems and networking
and data management communities. Many research areas, such as cloud
computing, privacy-aware systems, sensor networks, network management,
P2P systems, rule mining, inference over system logs and network
traffic data, and declarative system-building, are blurring the
boundaries between these two communities. The goal of the workshop is
to foster an environment in which researchers from both communities
can discuss ideas that will shape and influence these emerging
research areas. We encourage submissions of early work, with novel and
interesting ideas. We expect that work introduced at NetDB 2011, once
fully thought through, completed, and described in a finished form,
may be relevant to conferences such as SOSP, OSDI, SIGCOMM, SIGMOD,
VLDB, NSDI, or ICDE.


NetDB takes a broad view of what constitutes research relevant to both
communities. As a venue for exploring new directions, NetDB solicits
submissions on work that borrows ideas and experiences from either
community. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Large-scale elastic data management infrastructure.
* High-level programming paradigms for distributed systems.
* Data-centric inference and debugging support for distributed systems.
* Monitoring, archival and mining of system logs and network traffic data.
* Cross-layer optimization of databases and networks.
* Data management in wide-area distributed systems.
* Distributed publish/subscribe systems.
* Sensor data management.
* Query evaluation using network hardware.
* Privacy preserving systems and data analysis.
* Analysis over incomplete or imprecise data


Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning
insightful discussion and technical merit. Each submission will
receive a minimum of three reviews. The program will leave ample time
for lively discussion among the participants.

Organizers
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Co-chairs: Christopher Olston and Srikanth Kandula

Program committee:
Shivnath Babu, Duke University
Nikita Borisov, UIUC
Tyson Condie, Yahoo! Research
David DeWitt, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University
Michael Franklin, Univ. of California Berkeley
Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research
Jun Rao, IBM Research
Ion Stoica, Univ. of California Berkeley
Kenneth Yocum, UCSD
Jingren Zhou, Microsoft


Important Dates
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Paper submission: April 1, 2011
Decisions announced: May 10, 2011
Camera-ready papers due: June 1, 2011
Workshop: June 12-16 (co-located with the SIGMOD conference; exact date T.B.D.)


Submission Guidelines
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Papers submitted to NetDB'11 should follow these guidelines:

* Six or fewer pages, including appendices but excluding references
* One or two columns
* Font size must be no smaller than 11pt
* Pages should be numbered
* Only PDF format will be accepted

Please do not submit abbreviated versions of journal or conference
papers. In particular, submissions to NetDB must not be concurrent
with a substantially similar submission to a conference, including
condensed versions of work that has been submitted to a conference and
is currently under review.

Proceedings will be made available on the web.


Sponsors:
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ACM SIGMOD,
Microsoft Corporation