DASFAA 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS

The 14th International Conference on
Database Systems for Advanced Applications

Brisbane, Australia, April 21-23, 2009

http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dasfaa

DASFAA is an annual international database conference, located in the
Asia-Pacific region, which showcases state-of-the-art R & D activities
in database systems and their applications. It provides a forum for
technical presentations and discussions among database researchers,
developers and users from academia, business and industry. DASFAA 2009,
the 14th in the series, will be held from 21-23 April 2009 in
Brisbane, Australia.

Original papers on database theory, technology and practice are solicited.
Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

-Query Languages and Query Optimization
-Multidatabases and Federated Databases
-Security and Integrity maintenance
-Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
-Statistical and Scientific Databases
-Parallel and Distributed Databases
-Data Warehouses
-Concurrent Control and Data Recovery
-Information Retrieval and Database Systems
-Metadata and Semantic Web
-Business Process Management
-E-Commerce
-Web Services
-Data Quality and Incomplete Data
-Multimedia Databases
-Internet and WWW Data Management
-Digital Libraries
-User Interfaces
-Temporal, Spatial and Mobile Databases
-Active Databases and Applications
-Data Streams
-P2P and Grid-Based Data Management
-Sensor Data Management
-XML Databases
-New Database Applications

Authors should submit papers reporting original work that is currently not
under review or published elsewhere. Instructions for submitting research
papers, demo, workshop, tutorial and panel proposals can be found at the
conference website. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science
series (approval pending).

IMPORTANT DATES

August 4, 2008 Submission of Workshop Proposals
August 25, 2008 Notice of Workshop Proposals Acceptance
October 3, 2008 Submission of Research/Industrial Paper Abstract
October 10, 2008 Submission of Research/Industrial Full Papers
October 24, 2008 Submission of Tutorial/Panel/Demo Proposals
November 24, 2008 Notice of Tutorial/Panel/Demo Proposals
December 12, 2008 Notice of Research/Industrial Papers Acceptance
December 19, 2008 All Camera-Ready Copies Due
April 21-23, 2009 Conference in Brisbane, Australia

Further information about DASFAA 2009 can be found at the conference website
(http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dasfaa).

ORGANISATION

General Co-Chairs
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia

Program Committee Co-Chairs
Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia

Tutorial Co-Chairs
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University, China
Alan Fekete, University of Sydney, Australia
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia

Workshops Co-Chairs
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Sci. &Tech., China
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Tech., Australia

Demo Co-Chairs
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia
Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Panel Co-Chairs
Athman Bouguttaya, CSIRO, Australia
Jeffrey X. Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Organization Committee Chair
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia

Publicity Chair
James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia

Publication Co-Chairs
Ke Deng, University of Queensland, Australia
Qing Liu, CSIRO, Australia

Web Chair
Gabriel Fung, University of Queensland, Australia

Regional Chairs
Asia: Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
America: Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
Europe: Torben Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Oceania: John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia