*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:
PHYSICAL-ARCHITECTURE-PERFORMANCE § Access Methods and Physical Design § Transactions and Workflow Management § Distributed and Parallel Databases § Grid Database Management § Peer-to-Peer Databases § Real-time and Micro Databases § Embedded, Sensor and Mobile Databases ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGY § Active Databases § 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 DATA WAREHOUSING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY § 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	QUERYING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES § Query Languages § Query Processing and Optimization § Imprecise Information and Approximate Queries § Data Stream Processing and Continuous Queries over Data Streams § Database Programming Language DATA MODELS, DATA INTEGRATION AND SERVICES § 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 DATABASE APPLICATIONS § Databases in E-Commerce and E-Services § Databases and Digital Libraries § Databases and the Semantic Web § Biological Databases SOCIAL ISSUES, DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY § 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
Invited Speakers
Elisa Bertino - Purdue University & CERIAS, IN, USA Jan Paredaens - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Tutorials
Nicola Guarino - LOA-CNR, Italy Wei Wang - University of New South Wales, Australia
Papers SEBD 2008 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, extended abstracts and demonstration papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference.
Submission SEBD 2008 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 papers presenting original works should be at most 12 pages whereas extended abstracts and demonstration papers should be at most 8 pages. Authors must declare the kind of submission by incorporating in the first page of the paper one among the following attributes: {FULL PAPER, EXTENDED ABSTRACT, DEMO PAPER}. 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.
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 06/30/2007. The SEBD Steering Committee will be responsible for the selection.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2008 Paper submission deadline: March 26, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: May 23, 2008 Conference: June 22-25, 2008
Organization
General Chair Domenico Saccà - ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria Program Committee Chair Salvatore Gaglio - ICAR-CNR & University of Palermo Organizing Committee Chair Ignazio Infantino - ICAR-CNR Program Committee Alessandro Artale - University of Bolzano Devis Bianchini - University of Brescia Francesco Buccafurri - University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria Alessandro Campi - Polytechnic of Milano Michelangelo Ceci - University of Bari Antonio Chella - University of Palermo Eliseo Clementini - University of L'Aquila Claudia Diamantini - University of Ancona Nicola Ferro - University of Padova Salvatore Gaglio - ICAR-CNR & University of Palermo Sergio Greco - University of Calabria Domenico Lembo - University of Rome “La Sapienza” Federica Mandreoli - University of Modena Giansalvatore Mecca - University of Basilicata Rosa Meo - University of Torino Stefano Montanelli - University of Milano Salvatore Orlando - University of Venice Fausto Rabitti - ISTI-CNR Claudio Sartori - University of Bologna Letizia Tanca - Polytechnic of Milano Leonardo Tinnini - IASI-CNR Riccardo Torlone - University of Rome 3 Franco Turini - University of Pisa Steering Committee Maristella Agosti - University of Padova Antonio Albano - University of Pisa Paolo Atzeni - University Rome 3 Valeria De Antonellis - University of Brescia Maurizio Lenzerini - University of Rome “La Sapienza” Domenico Saccà - ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria Fabio Schreiber - Polytechnic of Milano Letizia Tanca - Polytechnic of Milano Paolo Tiberio - University of Modena Organizing Committee Massimo Cossentino - ICAR-CNR Ignazio Infantino - ICAR-CNR Giovanni Pilato - ICAR-CNR Riccardo Rizzo - ICAR-CNR Pietro Storniolo - ICAR-CNR Maurizio Urso - ICAR-CNR Fabio Ferrara - ICAR-CNR (Secretariat) Scientific Entertainment Committee Andrea Calì - Oxford University (UK) Riccardo Torlone - University of Roma Tre Alfredo Cuzzocrea - ICAR-CNR