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CALL FOR PAPERS
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24th International Conference on SCIENTIFIC and STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT (SSDBM)
June 25-27, 2012 in Chania, Crete, Greece


===============) SUBMISSION SITE OPEN: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SSDBM2012

===============) CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~ssdbm12


*** Highlights: confirmed in SSDBM 2012 ***

* Keynote speech by Dave Maier (Professor at Portland State University, USA)
* Keynote speech by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, Yahoo! Research, Spain)
* Panel/Debate to be organized by Yannis Ioannidis (Professor at the University of Athens)


Scope
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The SSDBM international conference will bring together scientific domain experts, database researchers, practitioners and developers for the presentation and exchange of current research on concepts, tools and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. The 24th SSDBM will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation and evaluation. The rich program of the research track will be supplemented with invited talks and panel sessions, as well as illustrated demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial systems.

SSDBM 2012 will continue the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion, fellowship and exchange of ideas in all aspects of research related to scientific and statistical database management in beautiful Chania, Crete.

Submissions
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We solicit papers describing original work relevant to the management of scientific and statistical data and not published or under review elsewhere.
SSDBM submissions can be of two kinds:

Research papers: We solicit papers up to 18 pages LNCS style, which will be accepted either as full papers or as short papers. The former will tend to be descriptions of complete technical work, while the latter will tend to be descriptions of interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more work to mature or descriptions of interesting applications with high practical value. There is no distinction at submission time; the distinction will be made at reviewing time and authors will be informed about the decision. *Both* full and short papers will be given a presentation slot in the conference, while some or all of the short papers may be presented as posters. All papers, regardless of size, will be given an entry in the conference proceedings.

Demonstration papers: We solicit demonstration submissions up to six pages LNCS style which should provide the motivation for the demonstrated concepts, the information about the technology and the system to be demonstrated (including a system description, functionality and figures when applicable), and should state the significance of the contribution. Selection criteria for the demonstration proposals evaluation include: the novelty, the technical advances and challenges, and the overall practical attractiveness of the demonstrated system.


Topics
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Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

* Modeling and representation of data, metadata, ontologies, and processes, e.g., array-based data models
* Integration and exchange of data, including the federation and management of institutional data repositories
* Design, implementation, optimization of scientific workflows
* Cyberinfrastructure for scientific computing and eScience
* Data-intensive and cloud computing
* System architectures in support of scientific and statistical data management and analysis, e.g., multi-core, GPUs
* Querying of scientific data, including spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and streaming data
* Annotation and provenance of data
* Mining and analysis of large-scale datasets
* Security and privacy
* Visualization and exploration
* Data support, case studies, and applications ? particularly for grand challenge science questions, e.g., sustainability, global climate change

Important Dates
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January 13: Paper Abstracts due
January 20: Full and Industrial papers, panel, tutorial, and demo proposals due
March 29: Notifications to authors
April 16: Camera ready papers due

Conference Organization
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General Chair: Mike Chatzopoulos, University of Athens, Greece

Program Chair: Anastasia Ailamaki, EPFL, Switzerland

Program Committee

* Foto Afrati, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA
* Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA
* Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
* Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
* Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
* Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
* Paul Brown, SciDB, USA
* Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Randal Burns, John Hopkins University, USA
* Stefano Ceri, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
* Judith Cushing, The Evergreen State College, USA
* Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
* Lois Delcambre, Portland State University, USA
* Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece
* Jim Dowling, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
* Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Michael Gertz, Heidelberg University, Germany
* Theo Haerder, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Thomas Heinis, EPFL, Switzerland
* Panos Kalnis, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
* Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
* Verena Kantere, Cyprus University Of Technology, Cyprus
* Martin Kersten, CWI Amsterdam, Netherlands
* George Kollios, Boston University, USA
* Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
* Alex Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Wolfgang Lehner, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
* Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
* Julio Lopez, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Paolo Manghi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy
* Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, USA
* Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
* Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada
* Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA
* Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA
* Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Olga Papaemmanouil, Brandeis University, USA
* Thanasis Papaioannou, EPFL, Switzerland
* Tore Risch, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
* Domenico Sacca, University of Calabria, Italy
* Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
* Thomas Seidl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
* Timos Sellis, Research Center "Athena" and National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
* Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
* Nesime Tatbul, ETHZ, Switzerland
* Martin Theobald, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
* Agma Traina, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
* Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece
* Zografoula Vagena, Rice University, USA
* Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

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