Call for Papers
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:
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PHYSICAL-ARCHITECTURE-PERFORMANCE |
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Access Methods and Physical Design |
| | Transaction and Workflow Management |
| | Distributed and Parallel Databases |
| | Grid Database Management |
| | Peer-to-Peer Databases |
| | Real-Time and Micro Databases |
| | Embedded, Sensor, and Mobile Databases |
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ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGY |
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Active Databases
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| | Object-Oriented Databases |
| | Deductive Databases and Knowledge Bases |
| | Constraint Databases |
| | Spatial and Temporal Databases |
| | Geographic Information Systems |
| | Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval |
| | Scientific and Statistical Databases |
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DATA WAREHOUSING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY |
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Data Warehouses, Data Marts and OLAP |
| | Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery |
| | Inductive Databases |
| | Query Languages for Data Mining |
| | Database Support, Coupling and Primitives for Data Mining |
| | Resource Discovery |
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QUERYING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES |
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| | Query Languages |
| | Query Processing and Optimization |
| | Imprecise Information and Approximate Queries |
| | Data Stream Processing and Continuous Queries over Data Streams |
| | Database Programming Languages |
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DATA MODELS, DATA INTEGRATION AND SERVICES |
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| | Data Models and Database Design |
| | Logic and Databases |
| | Semi-structured, XML, and Web data |
| | Ontologies for Databases |
| | Interoperability and Ontologies |
| | Data Design, Evolution and Migration |
| | Data Integration, Mapping and Transformation |
| | Web Services |
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DATABASE APPLICATIONS |
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Databases in e-Commerce and e-Services |
| | Databases and Digital Libraries |
| | Databases and the Semantic Web |
| | Biological Databases |
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SOCIAL ISSUES, DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY |
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Security Policies |
| | Trust Management |
| | Data and Interaction Confidentiality |
| | Integrity, Authenticity and non Repudiation of Data |
| | Identity Management and Mapping |
| | Privacy in Advanced Database Applications |
| | Privacy Preserving Querying and Mining |
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
| | Abstract submission deadline (250 words): | 4 March 2007 (extended) |
| | Full paper submission deadline: | 15 March 2007 (extended) |
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| Notification of acceptance: |
20 April 2007 |
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| Camera-ready copy due: | 9 May 2007 |
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| Conference: | 17-20 June 2007 |
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
General Chair
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Programme Chair
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| | Donato Malerba - Università di Bari |
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Programme Committee
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Maristella Agosti - Università di Padova |
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Giuseppe Amato - ISTI-CNR, Pisa |
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Elena Baralis - Politecnico di Torino |
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Luca Cabibbo - Università di Roma Tre |
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Andrea Calì - Università di Bolzano |
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Silvana Castano - Università di Milano |
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Tiziana Catarci - Università di Roma "La Sapienza" |
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Sara Comai - Politecnico di Milano |
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Valeria de Antonellis - Università di Brescia |
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Claudia Diamantini - Università Politecnica delle Marche |
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Paolino di Felice - Università dell'Aquila |
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Floriana Esposito - Università di Bari |
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Sergio Flesca - Università della Calabria |
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Giorgio Ghelli - Università di Pisa |
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Giuseppe Manco - ICAR-CNR, Rende (CS) |
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Giansalvatore Mecca - Università della Basilicata |
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Stefano Rizzi - Università di Bologna |
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Paolo Tiberio - Università di Modena |
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Domenico Ursino - Università di Reggio Calabria |
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SEBD Steering Committee
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Maristella Agosti - Università di Padova |
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Antonio Albano - Università di Pisa |
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Paolo Atzeni - Università di Roma Tre |
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Valeria De Antonellis - Università di Brescia |
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Maurizio Lenzerini - Università di Roma "La Sapienza" |
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Domenico Saccà - Università della Calabria |
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Fabio Schreiber - Politecnico di Milano |
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Letizia Tanca - Politecnico di Milano |
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Paolo Tiberio - Università di Modena |
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Local Organizing Committee
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Annalisa Appice - Università di Bari |
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Margherita Berardi - Università di Bari |
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Costantina Caruso - Università di Bari |
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Michelangelo Ceci (chair) - Università di Bari |
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Antonietta Lanza - Università di Bari |
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Ravi Pratap Singh - Università di Bari |
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Antonio Turi - Università di Bari |
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Further Information
Address any further inquiry to:
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| Donato Malerba |
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| Dipartimento di Informatica |
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| Università degli Studi di Bari |
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| Via Orabona, 4 |
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| 70125 Bari (ITALY) |
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| Phone/Fax: +39 080 5443269 |
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| E-mail: sebd2007@di.uniba.it |
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