*Call for Papers*

Topics The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional database management, as well new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Prospective authors are encouraged to consider novel topics and approaches rather than proposing incremental improvements of existing results. Suggested topics include the following:
§ Access Methods and Physical Design § Active Databases § Complexity and Performance Evaluation § Concurrency and Recovery § Constraint Databases § Data Integration and Interoperability § Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery § Data Models and Database Design § Database Programming Languages § Database Updates § Databases and Information Retrieval § Databases and Workflow § Databases and the Semantic Web § Databases in e-commerce and e-services § Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases	§ Distributed and Parallel Databases § Geographic Information Systems § Imprecise Information and Approximate Queries § Integrity and Security § Logic and Databases § Multimedia Databases § Object-Oriented Databases § Query Languages § Query processing and Optimization § Real-time Databases § Semi-structured, XML, and Web data § Scientific and Statistical Databases § Spatial and Temporal Databases § Transaction Management § Views, Data Warehousing and OLAP
Invited Speakers
Carlo Zaniolo - University of California at Los Angeles, USA, "DATA STREAMS" Sophie Cluet - Director of the INRIA Rocquencourt Research Unit, France, "FROM XML DATABASES TO CONTENT WAREHOUSES"
Tutorials
Maurizio Lenzerini - University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy "INFORMATION INTEGRATION" Piero Fraternali - Politechnic of Milano, Italy "WEB APPLICATIONS, WEB SERVICES, AND WORKFLOW CONCEPTUAL MODELLING"
Papers SEBD 2003 invites submissions of research, industry and application contributions as well as software demonstrations. Research papers, describing original ideas on the fundamental aspects of all forms of database systems and technology, are solicited. Moreover, extended abstract containing descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results already published are also welcome.
Proceedings Accepted papers, invited papers and extended abstracts will be published by Rubbettino Editore in the proceedings of the conference.
Submission SEBD 2003 submissions generally must be in electronic form using the Portable Document Format (pdf) or the Postscipt format (ps). Papers must be submitted electronically using the conference management tool. Papers must be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Research paper presenting original works should be at most 12 pages whereas extended abstract should be at most 8 pages.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2003 Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2003 Camera-ready copy due: May 25, 2003 Conference: June 24-27, 2003
Organization
General Chair Domenico Saccà - University of Calabria Program Commettee Chair Sergio Greco - University of Calabria Proceedings Chair Sergio Flesca - University of Calabria Program Committee Maristella Agosti - University of Padova Antonio Albano - University of Pisa Giorgio Ausiello - University of Roma “La Sapienza” Elisa Bertino - University of Milano Diego Calvanese - University of Roma “La Sapienza” Alessando D’Atri - Luiss University Valeria De Antonellis - University of Brescia Enrico Franconi - University of Bolzano Piero Fraternali - Politechnic of Milano Fosca Giannotti - ISTI-CNR Giovanbattista Ianni - University of Calabria Donato Malerba - University of Bari Giuseppe Manco - ICAR-CNR Giansalvatore Mecca - University of Basilicata Barbara Pernici - University of Milano Maurizio Rafanelli - IASI-CNR Claudio Sartori - University of Bologna Paolo Tiberio - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Riccardo Torlone - University of Roma 3 Domenico Ursino - University of Reggio Calabria Organizing Chair Ester Zumpano - University of Calabria Organizing Committee Alfredo Cuzzocrea - University of Calabria Filippo Furfaro - University of Calabria Gianluigi Greco - University of Calabria Antonella Guzzo - University of Calabria Elio Masciari - ICAR-CNR Luigi Pontieri - ICAR-CNR Andrea Pugliese - University of Calabria Domenico Rosaci - University of Reggio Calabria Cristina Sirangelo - University of Calabria Andrea Tagarelli - University of Calabria Irina Trubitsyna - University of Calabria Pierangelo Veltri - University of Catanzaro