[DL] CfP: 15th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems(SEBD2007)

[Valentina Tamma]

On behalf of Donato Malerba

C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

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SEBD 2007
Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati

Fifteenth Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
Torre Canne di Fasano (Brindisi), Italy, 17-20 June, 2007
http://www.sebd.org/2007/index.html

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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:

PHYSICAL-ARCHITECTURE-PERFORMANCE
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
Complexity and Performance Evaluation

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 Languages

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 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 Web site of the symposium at
http://www.sebd.org/2007/index.html

- STUDENT AWARD -
The best paper authored only by PhD student(s) presenting the results  
of PhD
research activities in the fields covered by the conference topics will
receive an award. The SEBD Steering Committee will be responsible for  
the
selection.

- IMPORTANT DATES -
Abstract submission deadline (250 words): 2 March 2007
Paper submission deadline:                9 March 2007
Notification of acceptance:              20 April 2007
Camera-ready copy due:                    9 May   2007
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
         Letizia Tanca - Politecnico di Milano
Program Committee Chair
         Donato Malerba - Università di Bari

Program Committee
         Valeria de Antonellis - Università di Brescia
         Maristella Agosti - Università di Padova
         Giuseppe Amato - ISTI-CNR
         Elena Baralis - Politecnico Torino
         Luca Cabibbo - Università di Roma Tre
         Andrea Calì - Università di Bolzano
         Silvana Castano - Università di Milano
         Tiziana Catarci - Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
         Sara Comai - Politecnico di Milano
         Claudia Diamantini - Università Politecnica delle Marche
         Paolino di Felice - Univelsità dell'Aquila
         Floriana Esposito - Università di Bari
         Sergio Flesca - Università della Calabria
         Giorgio Ghelli - Università di Pisa
         Giuseppe Manco - ICAR-CNR
         Giansalvatore Mecca - Università della Basilicata
         Stefano Rizzi - Università di Bologna
         Paolo Tiberio - Università di Modena
         Domenico Ursino - Università di Reggio Calabria

SEBD Steering Committee
	Maristella Agosti - Università di Padova
         Antonio Albano - Università di Pisa
         Paolo Atzeni - Università di Roma Tre
         Valeria De Antonellis - Università di Brescia
         Maurizio Lenzerini - Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
         Domenico Saccà - Università della Calabria
         Fabio Schreiber - Politecnico di Milano
         Letizia Tanca - Politecnico di Milano
         Paolo Tiberio - Università di Modena

Local Organizing Committee
         Annalisa Appice - Università di Bari
         Margherita Berardi - Università di Bari
         Costantina Caruso - Università di Bari
         Michelangelo Ceci (chair) - Università di Bari
         Antonietta Lanza - Università di Bari
         Ravi Pratap Singh - Università di Bari
         Antonio Turi - Università di Bari

- FURTHER INFORMATION -

Address any further inquiry to:

    Donato Malerba
    Dipartimento di Informatica
    Università degli Studi di Bari
    Via Orabona, 4
    70125 Bari (ITALY)

    Phone/Fax:  +39 080 5443269
    E-mail: sebd2007 at di.uniba.it