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********** 1st Symposium on Logic in Databases (LID 2008) ************
********** Rome, Italy, 15-16 May 2008 ************
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Ever since Codd's Relational Model, logic has played a major role in the
field of databases. The significance and impact of this role have grown
stronger over the years as data management research marched through many a
data model, with logic keeping up and providing the foundations every step
of the way. Some of the latest additions to this long list of models
are XML, Semantic Web, Probabilistic Relational models, integrated model
of DB+IR, data integration models, and models of unclean data to name a few.
For some of these, corresponding logics already exist or are being explored.
The significance of logic's role for data management will continue regardless
of the data model. Logic is a fundamental tool for understanding and analyzing
several aspects of data management. The Logic in Databases (LID'08) symposium
is a forum for bringing together researchers from around the world who are
focusing on any logical aspect of data management.

This symposium is a confluence of three successful past events:
(i) LID'96, an international workshop on Logic in Databases, which
this symposium derives its name from; (ii) IIDB'06, an international
workshop on Inconsistency and Incompleteness in Databases; and
(iii) LAAIC'06, a workshop on Logical Aspects and Applications of Integrity
Constraints.

The symposium will be focused on applications of logic to every
aspect of database management and related topics. Topics of interest include but are
not limited to the following, as they pertain to logic in databases:

* consistent query answering
* data exchange
* data mining
* data warehousing and OLAP for novel forms of data
* database repairing
* DB + IR
* incomplete information
* inconsistency tolerance
* inductive databases
* knowledge discovery
* logical approaches to inconsistency
* logic programming
* nonmonotonic reasoning
* ordered data/query models (top-K)
* privacy/security
* semantic web
* social networks
* uncertain data (fuzzy, probabilistic, etc.) and imprecision

LID 2008 is aimed at gathering researchers and practitioners from the
academia and the industry. The Symposium will take place in the beautiful historical city of
Rome, Italy, on 15-16 May 2008. SELECTED TOP PAPERS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM WILL BE
PUBLISHED IN A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED LOGIC.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission February 9, 2008
Notification to authors March 24, 2008
Camera-ready copy due April 8, 2008
Symposium May 15-16, 2008

GENERAL CHAIR
Georg Gottlob Oxford University, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE
Jan Chomicki University at Buffalo, USA
Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark
Dino Pedreschi Universita' di Pisa, Italy
Jef Wijsen Universite de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Carlo Zaniolo UCLA, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Andrea Cali' Oxford University, UK
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan University of British Columbia, Canada
Davide Martinenghi Politecnico di Milano, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ofer Arieli Academic College of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Leopoldo Bertossi Carleton University, Canada
Toon Calders Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands
Stefano Ceri Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nilesh Dalvi Yahoo! Research
Hendrik Decker Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain
Thomas Eiter T.U. Vienna, Austria
Wenfei Fan University of Edinburgh, UK
Enrico Franconi Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Ariel Fuxman Microsoft Research
Gosta Grahne Concordia University, Canada
Sergio Greco Universita' della Calabria, Italy
Claudio Gutierrez Universidad de Chile, Chile
Mohand-Said Hacid University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Maurizio Lenzerini Universita' degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Nicola Leone Universita' della Calabria, Italy
Jerzy Marcinkowski University of Wroclaw, Poland
Jian Pei Simon Fraser University, Canada
R. Ramanujam The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Thomas Schwentick Universitaet Dortmund, Germany
Divesh Srivastava AT&T Labs, Inc. - Research
V.S. Subrahmanian University of Maryland, USA
Alex Thomo University of Victoria, Canada

SPONSORS:
IBM Italia

SYMPOSIUM WEB PAGE:
http://conferenze.dei.polimi.it/lid2008/