14th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2008)

Call for Papers and Proposals

December 17-19, 2008, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/comad/2008

About the conference:

The 14th COMAD will be held in December 2008, in Mumbai, India. Similar to
previous years, COMAD 2008's scope will include not only traditional database
areas but also adds emphasis on Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining.
We invite the submission of original research contributions as well as
proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Benchmarking and performance evaluation
- Data exchange and integration
- Data quality, cleaning and lineage
- Database monitoring and tuning
- Data privacy and security
- Data warehousing
- Data mining: foundations and algorithms
- Mining text, Web, and semi-structured data
- Security and privacy in data mining
- Innovative applications of data mining
- Embedded, sensor, mobile databases and applications
- Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
- Metadata management
- Multilingual data management
- Multimedia data management and mining
- Novel Data Types
- Parallel and distributed databases
- Peer-to-peer data management
- Personalized information systems
- Query processing and optimization
- Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
- Information retrieval: Formal models and algorithms
- IR in text, structured and semi-structured data
- Privacy issues in IR
- IR applications: Web search, enterprise search,
collaborative filtering, Genomics
- Text search and database querying
- Semi-structured data
- Social Networks
- Storage and transaction management
- Web services

To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, we plan
to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the
conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives.
Two awards, for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the
conference.

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Important Dates
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Research Papers August 1, 2008
Industrial Papers Panel, Tutorial and September 1, 2008
Demo Proposals
Notification to authors September 20, 2008
Camera-ready copy due October 20, 2008
Conference December 17-19, 2008
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Conference Organizers
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General Chair
* Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems)

Organizing Chair
* S. Sudarshan (IIT Bombay)

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* N. L. Sarda (IIT Bombay) [Database Track]
* Gautam Das (Univ. Texas, Arlington) [Web, IR and Mining Track]

Tutorial Co-Chairs
* Sreenivasa Kumar (IIT Madras)
* Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs)

Application/Industrial Program Co-Chairs
* Govindarajan V.R.
* S.C. Gupta (National Informatics Centre)

Panels and Student Papers
* Srinath Srinivasa (IIIT Bangalore)
* Arvind Hulgeri (Persistent Systems)

Publications Chair
* P. Krishna Reddy (IIIT Hyderabad)

Program Committee
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* A. K. Majumdar (IIT Kharagpur)
* Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
* Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, USA)
* Anthony Tung (NUS, Singapore)
* Aristidis Gionis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
* Arnab Bhattacharya (IIT Kanpur)
* Christian Konig (Microsoft Research, USA)
* Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside)
* Dimitris Papadias (HKUST, Hong Kong)
* George Kollios (Boston University, USA)
* Gopal Mulagund (Oracle, Bangalore)
* Harrick M. Vin (Tata Research, Development and Design Center (TRDDC))
* Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland)
* Jayant Haritsa (IISc Bangalore)
* Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Yahoo Research)
* Kamalakar Karlapalem (IIIT Hyderabad)
* Krithi Ramamritham(IIT Bombay)
* Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Laboratory)
* Nick Koudas (University of Toronto)
* Sharma Chakravarthy(University of Texas at Arlington)
* S. K. Gupta (IIT Delhi)
* Srikanta Bedathur (Max-Planck Institut fur Informtik)
* Srini Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, USA)
* Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University, USA)
* Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)
* Vagelis Hristidis (Florida International University)
* Vikram Pudi (IIIT Hyderabad)
* Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)

Submission instructions will be provided on our website by May 12, 2008.