The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2008)
April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
http://www.icde2008.org

Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering will continue in its tradition of being a premier forum for presentation of research results and advanced data-intensive applications and discussion of issues on data and knowledge engineering. The mission of the conference is to share research solutions to problems of today's information society and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work.

ICDE 2008 invites research submissions on all topics related to data engineering, including but not limited to those listed below (includes area PC vice-chairs):

- Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata - Erhard Rahm, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Ubiquitous Data Management and Mobile Databases - Evi Pitoura, University of Ioannina
- Query processing, query optimization - Guido Moerkotte, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Data Structures and data management algorithms - Edward Chang, Google, Beijing
- Data Privacy and Security - Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Data Mining Algorithms - Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University
- Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP and Architectures - Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India
- XML data Processing, Filtering, Routing, and Algorithms - Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
- XML and Relational Query Languages, Mappings and Engines - Christoph Koch, University of Saarbruecken, Germany
- Distributed, Parallel, Peer to Peer Databases - Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
- Web Search and Deep Web - Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA
- Databases for Science - Claudia Medeiros, University of Campinas, Brazil
- Internet Grids, Web Services, Web 2.0, and Mashups - Alon Halevy, Google, USA and Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, USA
- Data Streams - Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
- Sensor Networks - Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Temporal and Multimedia Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures - Christian Jensen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
- Spatial and High Dimensional Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures - Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Systems, Platforms, Middleware, Applications and Experiences - Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands
- Database System Internals, Performance and Self-tuning - Natassa Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract deadline: June 22, 2007
Paper submission deadline: June 27, 2007
Panel submission deadline: June 27, 2007
Demo submission deadline: June 27, 2007
Seminar submission deadline: June 27, 2007
Notification: October 12, 2007

Workshop submission deadline: June 27, 2007
Workshop Notification: August 1, 2007

AWARDS
An award will be given to the best paper. A separate award will be given to the best student paper. Papers eligible for this award must have a (graduate or undergraduate) student listed as the first and contact author, and the majority of the authors must be students. Such submissions must be marked as student papers at the time of submission.

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM
The conference will include an industrial track covering innovative commercial implementations or applications of database or information management technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations. Papers should describe innovative implementations, new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as very large scale or semantic complexity), novel features in information management products, or major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice.

PANELS
Panel proposals are expected to address new, exciting, and controversial issues. They should be provocative, informative, and entertaining. Panel proposals must include an abstract, an outline of the panel format, and relevant information about the proposed panelists.

DEMONSTRATIONS
Proposals for research prototype demonstration should focus on developments in the area of data and knowledge engineering, showing new technological advances in applying database systems or innovative data management/processing techniques. Papers should give a short description of the demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to database technology, applications or techniques.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS
Seminar proposals must include an abstract, an outline, a description of the target audience, duration (1.5 or 3 hours), and a short bio of the presenter(s).

WORKSHOPS
We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. Proposals for workshops should stress how they intend to provide more insight into the proposed topics with respect to the main conference. Workshop duration can be 1 day (April 7 or April 12) or 1.5 days (the afternoon of April 11 and all day April 12). All workshops will benefit from the registration process of ICDE 2008.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Papers must be prepared in the 8/5"x11" IEEE camera-ready format and submitted electronically at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2008, specifying the right track. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. For more information please visit: http://www.icde2008.org

GENERAL CHAIRS
Alex Buchmann - TU Darmstadt, Germany
Malu Castellanos - Hewlett-Packard, USA
Krithi Ramamritham - IIT Bombay, India

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Gustavo Alonso - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jose Blakeley - Microsoft, USA
Arbee Chen - National Chengchi U., Taiwan

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
Ricardo Baeza-Yates - Yahoo! Research Latin America, Chile
Frank Leymann - U. of Stuttgart, Germany
Guy Lohman - IBM, USA

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Umesh Dayal - Hewlett Packard, USA
Klaus Dittrich - U. of Zurich, Switzerland

SEMINAR CHAIRS
Mike Carey - BEA, USA
Qiong Luo - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

PANEL CHAIR
Joe Hellerstein - UC Berkeley, USA

DEMO CHAIRS
Christof Bornhoevd - SAP Labs, USA
Schahram Dustdar - TU Viena, Austria
Maria Orlowska - The University of Queensland, Australia

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Juan Carlos Lavariega - ITESM, Mexico

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Spyros Voulgaris - ETH Zurich, Switzerland

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Mariano Cilia - Intel, Argentina

TREASURERS
Sharma Chakravarthy - University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Guillermo Jimenez - ITESM, Mexico

HONORARY ADVISORY CHAIRS
Pedro Celis - Microsoft, USA
Adolfo Guzman Arenas - Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Karl Aberer - EPFL, Switzerland
Ashraf Aboulnaga - University of Waterloo, Canada
Charu Aggarwal - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Eugene Agichtein - Emory University, USA
Sanjay Agrawal - Microsoft Research, USA
Sihem Amer-Yahia - Yahoo! Research, USA
Cristiana Amza - University of Toronto, Canada
Nicolas Anciaux - INRIA, France
Walid Aref - Purdue University, USA
Paolo Atzeni - Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
Magda Balazinska - University of Washington, USA
Denilson Barbosa - University of Calgary, Canada
Steve Barker - University of London, UK
Peter Baumann - International University Bremen, Germany
Roberto Bayardo - Google, USA
Michael Benedikt - Oxford University, UK
Omar Benjelloun - Google, USA
Phil Bernstein - Microsoft Research, USA
Elisa Bertino - Purdue University, USA
Claudio Bettini - Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Michael H. Boehlen - Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Philip Bohannon - Yahoo! Research, USA
Peter Boncz - CWI, The Netherlands
Angela Bonifati - Italian National Research Council, Italy
Diego Calvanese - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Deepayan Chakrabarti - Yahoo! Research, USA
Chia-Hui Chang - National Central University, Taiwan
Edgar Chavez - Universidad de Michoacan, Mexico
Lei Chen - HKUST, Hong Kong
Phoebe Chen - Deakin University, Australia
Shimin Chen - Intel Research, USA
Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Lee-Feng Chien - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Byron Choi - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chris Clifton - Purdue University, USA
Stefan Conrad - University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Bryan Cooper - Yahoo! Research, USA
Nick Craswell - Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Nicandro Cruz - University Veracruzana, Mexico
Hang Cui - Google, China
Prasad M. Deshpande - IBM India, Bangalore, India
Alin Deutsch - University of California, San Diego, USA
Yanlei Diao - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Klaus R. Dittrich - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Hong-Hai Do - SAP Research, Germany
Anhai Doan - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Wenfei Fan - University of Edinburgh, UK
Alvaro Fernandes - University of Manchester, UK
Mary F. Fernandez - AT&T Labs, USA
Elena Ferrari - University Como, Italy
Juliana Freire - University of Utah, USA, and Linkoeping University, Sweden
Ada Fu - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cesar Galindo Legaria - Microsoft, USA
Stephane Gan�ｧarski - University P&M Curie, France
Deepak Ganesan - University of Massachusetts, USA
Minos Garofalakis - Yahoo! Research and UC Berkeley, USA
Bugra Gedik - IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Joydeep Ghosh - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Goetz Graefe - HP Labs, USA
Benjamin Greenstein - Intel Research , USA
Torsten Grust - Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Lin Gu - Google, USA
Jiawei Han - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Howard Ho - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Hui-I Hsiao - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis - New York University, USA
Zachary Ives - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ted Johnson - AT&T Labs, USA
Jaewoo Kang - North Carolina State University, USA
Murat Kantarcioglu - University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Holger Karl - University of Paderborn, Germany
Jonas S Karlsson - Google, USA
Anastatios Kementsietsidis - University of Edinburgh, UK
Anne-Marie Kermarrec - INRIA, France
Maurice van Keulen - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Masaru Kitsuregawa - University of Tokyo, Japan
George Kollios - Boston University, USA
Flip Korn - AT&T Labs, USA
Manolis Koubarakis - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Nick Koudas - University of Toronto, Canada
Alexandros Labrinidis - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Paul Larson - Microsoft Research, USA
Juan C. Lavariega-Jarquin - ITESM-Monterrey, Mexico
Wang-Chien Lee - Pennsylvania State University, USA
Wolfgang Lehner - Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Ronny Lempel - IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Chen Li - University of California at Irvine, USA
Chung-Sheng Li - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wolfgang Lindner - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Bing Liu - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Peng Liu - Penn State University, USA
Bertram Ludaescher - University of California at Davis, USA
Qiong Luo - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Nikos Mamoulis - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ioana Manolescu - INRIA Futurs, France
Wim Martens - Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
Sergey Melnik - Microsoft Research, USA
Nine Mishra - University of Virginia, USA
Kyriakos Mouratidis - Singapore Management University, Singapore
Muthu Muthukrisan - Rutgers University, USA
Suman Nath - Microsoft Research, USA
Gonzalo Navarro - University of Chile, Chile
Thomas Neumann - Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Raymond T. Ng - The University of British Columbia, Canada
Shojiro NISHIO - Osaka University, Japan
Silvia Nittel - University of Maine, USA
Dan Olteanu - Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany
Peter Pal Boda - Nokia Research Center, USA
Jignesh M. Patel - University of Michigan, USA
Marta Patino-Martinez - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Jian Pei - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Wen-Chih Peng - National Chia-Tung University, Taiwan
Neoklis Polyzotis - University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Lucian Popa - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Sunil Prabhakar - Purdue University, USA
Jun Rao - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Mirek Riedewald - Cornell University, USA
Tore Risch - Uppsala University, Sweden
John Roddick - Flinders University, South Australia
Elke Rundensteiner - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Joerg Sander - University of Alberta, Canada
Bernhard Seeger - University of Marburg, Germany
Thomas Seidl - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Cyrus Shahabi - University of Southern California, USA
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram - Yahoo! Research, USA
Kyuseok Shim - Seoul National University, Korea
Jerome Simeon - IBM Research, USA
Ambuj Singh - University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Torsten Suel - Polytechnic University, USA
Richard T. Snodgrass - University of Arizona, USA
Kian-Lee Tan - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yufei Tao - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Nesime Tatbul - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Andreas Terzis - Johns Hopkins University, USA
Yannis Theodoridis - University of Piraeus, Greece
Vassilis Tsotras - University of California at Riverside, USA
Anthony Tung - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Can Turker - UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland
James Wang - The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Kyu-Young Whang - KAIST, Korea
Sean Wang - University of Vermont, USA
Wei Wang - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Gerhard Weikum - Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Jun Yang - Duke University, USA
Ke Yi - AT&T Labs, USA
Philip Yu - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Mohammad Zaki - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Carlo Zaniolo - University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Donghui Zhang - Northeastern University, USA
Jingren Zhou - Microsoft Research, USA

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Renato Barrera - UNAM, Mexico
Alfonso Cardenas - UCLA, USA
Pedro Celis - Microsoft, USA
Surajit Chaudhuri - Microsoft Research, USA
Christoph Freytag - Humboldt University, Germany
David Garza - ITESM, Mexico
Claudio Gutierrez - Univ. of Chile, Chile
Jayant Haritsa - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Meichun Hsu - HP Labs, China
Ihab Ilyas - University of Waterloo, Canada
Vanja Josifovski - Yahoo! Research, USA
Alberto Laender - UFMG, Brazil
Wolfgang Lehner - TU Dresden, Germany
Harald Schoening - Software AG, Germany
Bernard Mitschang - Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Jussi Myllymaki - Google, USA
Raghu Ramakrishnan - Yahoo! Research, USA
Honesty Young - IBM China Research Lab, China
Calisto Zuzarte - IBM Toronto Lab, Canada

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mehmet Altinel - IBM Almaden, USA
Andrey Balmin - IBM Almaden, USA
Djamal Benslimane - Univ. of Lyon, France
Elisa Bertino - Purdue University, USA
Chris Bussler - BEA Systems Inc., USA
Fabio Casati - University of Trento, Italy
Sang K. Cha - Seoul National University, Korea
Bing Cui - Peiking University, China
Andreas Geppert - Credit Suisse
Manfred Hauswirth - DERI Galway, Ireland
Yoshiharu Ishikawa - Nagoya University, Japan
Qing Li - City University of H-K, China
Stefan Manegold - CWI Netherland
Felix Naumann - Hasso-Plattner-Institue, Germany
Beng Chin Ooi - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fatma Ozcan - IBM Almaden, USA
Wasim Sadiq - SAP Research Labs, Australia
Ming-Chien Shan - SAP Research Labs, Palo Alto, USA
Keishi Tajima - Kyoto University, Japan


For more information, please visit: http://www.icde2008.org