5th International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems
(SMDB 2010)
March 1, 2010, Long Beach, California, USA
In conjunction with the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering (ICDE 2010) March 1-6, 2010

http://db.uwaterloo.ca/tcde-smdb/smdb10/


*** Workshop Overview ***

Data management systems are growing rapidly in scale and complexity,
while skilled administrators are becoming rarer and more expensive.
Adding autonomic, or self-managing, capabilities to these systems
promises easier use and maintenance. While considerable progress has
been made in this direction, trends like cloud computing,
virtualization, and software-as-a-service pose new challenges.
Autonomic capabilities need to scale to hundreds of database nodes
while taking economic factors into account.

The SMDB workshop brings together innovative researchers and
practitioners to exchange ideas related to autonomic data management
systems. SMDB 2010 will be a one-day workshop where accepted papers
are presented in an informal and interactive setting. Participation in
the workshop is not limited to authors of accepted papers.

Previous workshops of the SMDB series focused on core topics in
self-managing databases like physical design tuning, problem diagnosis
and recovery, and database integration and protection. In addition to
these core topics, the 2010 workshop seeks to broaden SMDB by
soliciting submissions in emerging research areas like cloud
computing, database testing, multitenant databases, large-scale
storage systems, and datacenter administration.

*** Topics of Interest ***

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Principles and architecture of autonomic data management systems
- Self-* capabilities in databases and storage systems
- Data management in cloud and multitenant databases
- Automated testing of data management systems
- Automated physical database design and adaptive query tuning
- Automated provisioning and integration
- Automatic enforcement of information quality
- Self-managing distributed / decentralized / peer-to-peer information systems
- Monitoring, visualization, and policy automation to aid datacenter
administration
- User acceptance and trust of autonomic capabilities
- Evaluation criteria and benchmarks for self-managing systems
- Use cases and war stories on deploying autonomic capabilities

*** Important Dates ***

- Paper submissions due: October 22, 2009, 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
- Notification of acceptance: November 26, 2009
- Camera-ready papers due: December 21, 2009

*** Paper Submission ***

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in
English of up to 6 pages in IEEE camera-ready format (templates are
available from the ICDE 2010 submission guidelines page). Only
electronic submission in PDF format will be accepted. Paper
submissions should be made on-line through SMDB 2010's CMT paper
submission site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SMDB2010/

Authors of accepted papers will submit a camera-ready version for
final publication. All papers accepted by the workshop will appear in
the formal Proceedings of the Conference Workshops published by IEEE
CS Press, and will therefore be included in the IEEE digital library.

*** Workshop Organizers ***

- Shivnath Babu (Duke University)
- Kai-Uwe Sattler (Ilmenau University of Technology)

*** Program Committee ***

- Peter Boncz (CWI, Amsterdam)
- Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft Research)
- Benoit Dageville (Oracle)
- Armando Fox (University of California, Berkeley)
- Joe Hellerstein (University of California, Berkeley)
- Alfons Kemper (Technical University of Munich)
- Donald Kossman (ETH Zurich)
- Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden Research Center)
- Glenn Paulley (Sybase iAnywhere)
- Ken Salem (University of Waterloo)