The 2007 edition of the SEBD Symposium will take place at Torre Canne, Fasano (Brindisi), Apulia, Italy, from the 17th to the 20th of June 2007. Currently at its fifteenth 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 academia and 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 as 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 (but not limited to) the following:

Submission Instructions
SEBD 2007 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. Research papers presenting original works should be at most 12 pages long whereas extended abstract should be at most 8 pages long. Papers can be written in English or Italian. In order to allow a meaningful assignment of your paper to the most suitable reviewers, it is important that you indicate the content of the paper with a suitable set of keywords from the provided list. Student submissions should be clearly indicated on the submission form. Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the proceedings of the symposium. SEBD 2007 submissions must be in electronic form in Portable Document Format (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 submission Web site.

Student Award
An award will be attributed to the best paper presenting the results of research activities in the fields covered by the conference topics and authored only by PhD student(s) or by Doctor(s) who defended their theses after 30/6/2006. The SEBD Steering Committee will be responsible for the selection.

Important Dates

Logistics
The conference will take place at the "Hotel Levante" at Torre Canne, a seaside resort located on the lovely Adriatic Coast in the region of Apulia, south-east Italy. Some of the most interesting Apulian places are easily reachable, such as Alberobello and its "Trulli", Ostuni "the white City", Martina Franca and its "Barocco", The "Valle d'Itria" with Locorotondo and Cisternino, the Fasano's Zoo-Safari, the ancient ruins of Egnatia, and the Castellana Caves. Detailed information about the SEBD-07 logistics will be published at http://www.sebd.org/2007/index.html as soon as they become available.

Organization

Further Information
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