Call for Papers
The 2006 edition of the SEBD Symposium will take place in Portonovo (Ancona) from the 18th to the 21st of June 2006 and will be dedicated to the memory of
Prof. Maurizio Panti.
Currently at its 14th edition, SEBD is the major annual event of the Italian research community in the database field. The symposium is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academy and in industry, who are interested in database systems and in all their broad range of applications.
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:
Data Design, Evolution and Migration
Data Integration, Mapping and Transformation
Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Resource Discovery
Interoperability and Ontologies
Knowledge Bases and Active Databases
Multimedia, Temporal and Spatial Databases
Novel Applications and Experience
Parallel, Distribuited, Mobile and Grid Databases
P2P and Networked Data Management
Physical Design, Access Methods and Transaction Management
Quality, Privacy and Security
Query Processing and Optimization
Stream Processing, Continuous Query and Sensor Databases
Uncertain, Imprecise Information and Approximate Queries
User Interfaces and Visualization
Views, Data Warehousing
XML and Semi-structured Data
Web Data, Web Services, Web Information System
Papers
SEBD 2006 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 abstracts containing descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results already published are also welcomed. Research papers presenting original works should be at most 12 pages long whereas extended abstracts should be at most 8 pages long. Papers can be written in English or Italian.
Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the proceedings of the symposium.
SEBD 2006 submissions must be in electronic form in PDF format. Papers must be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted electronically, please follow the instructions that can be found on the Web site of the symposium at http://www.sebd.org/2006/index.html.
"MAURIZIO PANTI" Award
In memory of Maurizio Panti, the best paper authored only by PhD student(s) presenting the results of PhD research activities in the fields covered topics will receive an award.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: | 16 March 2006 |
Notification of acceptance: | 27 April 2006 |
Camera-ready copy due: New! | 14 May 2006 |
SEBD-2005 Symposium: | 18-21 June 2006 |
Organization
General Chair
Valeria De Antonellis - Università di Brescia
Program Committee Chair
Paolo Tiberio - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Program Committee
Maristella Agosti - Università di Padova
Antonio Albano - Università di Pisa
Paolo Atzeni - Università Roma 3
Elena Baralis - Politecnico Torino
Carlo Batini - Università Milano Bicocca
Sonia Bergamaschi - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Francesco Buccafurri - Università di Reggio Calabria
Silvana Castano - Università di Milano
Augusto Celentano - Università di Venezia
Paolo Ciaccia - Università di Bologna
Enrico Franconi - Università di Bolzano
Fosca Giannotti - ISTI CNR
Maurizio Lenzerini - Università La Sapienza Roma 1
Donato Malerba - Università di Bari
Michele Melchiori - Università di Brescia
Michele Missikoff - IASI CNR
Fausto Rabitti - ISTI CNR
Domenico Saccà - Università della Calabria
Fabio Schreiber - Politecnico Milano
Luca Spalazzi - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Letizia Tanca - Politecnico Milano
Local Organizing Committee
Claudia Diamantini (Chair) - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Jessica Cellini - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Alessandro Cucchiarelli - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Fabrizio Francescangeli - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Francesco Pagliarecci - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Domenico Potena - Università Politecnica delle Marche
Luca Spalazzi - Università Politecnica delle Marche
