I D E A S ' 0 9
(http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/ideas09/)

International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium

Cetraro (Calabria), Italy, 16-18 September 2009


CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of the IDEAS series of symposiums is to address the engineering
and application aspects of databases.
IDEAS series of symposiums are scheduled annually and have been held
since 1997 in North America, Europe and Asia and has attracted
participants from governmental and non-governmental agencies, industries,
and academia.

IDEAS'09 invites quality papers describing original research and new
findings on technological and theoretical aspects of database
engineering and applications. In particular, we welcome submissions
describing work on integrating new technologies into products and
applications, on experiences with existing and novel techniques, and on
the identification of unsolved challenges. We consider this symposium to
be an important forum to discuss experiences in applying databases to actual
situations. Authors are invited to submit papers in English, reporting
recent research in the area of databases, applications, experience in
related fields. While research papers should report original research work,
experience and application papers should describe the development and
operations of challenging database related systems and applications.

The symposium plans to have focused sessions in the following areas:

* Core databases technology
* Query processing and optimization
* Databases and XML
* Data models and languages
* Data quality, integration, exchange and warehousing
* Knowledge Discovery, Data and Process mining
* Databases for e-commerce, e-governance, and other e-applications
* Bio-medical, life science and medical databases
* Privacy and security issues
* Semantic Web and Web 2.0 vs. databases
* P2P and Networked Data Management
* Stream Databases
* Emerging database technologies

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: April 26, 2009
Acceptance notice: June 8, 2009
Camera-ready copies due: June 29, 2009
Conference: September 16-18, 2009

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please visit the ConfSys
(http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/ideas09/) web sites for further instructions
and submission guidelines. ConfSys will be used to manage all administrative
functions of the conference. The conference proceedings will be published by
BytePress. The extended version of the best papers would also be invited for
publication in reputed journals.

CALL FOR WORSHOP PROPOSALS

Proposals are invited for workshops to be held in conjunction with the
symposium, in the areas of interest within the scope of conference. The
detailed proposals should reach the program chairs by 14 May, 2008.
It is also planned to hold a special workshop for doctoral candidates from
the field.

ORGANIZATION

Organized by: Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), University of
Calabria (Rende, Italy) and ICAR-CNR (Rende, Itay) with the cooperation of
ACM and BytePress

General Chair: Bipin C. Desai (Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada)
Program Chairs: Sergio Greco and Domenico Sacc?
(University of Calabria, Rende, Italy)

Local Chairs: Alfredo Cuzzocrea (ICAR-CNR, Rende, Italy), Sergio Flesca (Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy)

VENUE

The Symposium venue will be Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro, a nice
seaside resort in Southern Italy. The hotel is located high on a cliff above
the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria - a lift within the rocks takes hotel
guests to the beach. In 1981 the Summer School on Theoretical Issues in Data
Bases took place in the same hotel, which later originated the International
Conference on Database Theory (ICDT).
The hotel will apply special full board prices, per day and per person to participants and to accompaning persons.