21st International Conference on
Scientific and Statistical Database Management

June 2-4, 2009

Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana USA
http://dais.cs.uiuc.edu/ssdbm09

The SSDBM conference series focuses on concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. The 2009 meeting marks the 21st time that scientific domain experts and database researchers, practitioners, and developers will come together to share their insights and discuss future research directions in a stimulating environment. The conference will have a single track of presentations, including invited talks, peer-reviewed papers, and panel discussions. The conference proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.



We solicit research papers (up to 18 pages LNCS style) describing original work not published or under review elsewhere. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference.



SSDBM will address all aspects of scientific and statistical database management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Modeling & representation of data & knowledge for scientific domains

· Metadata management for scientific & statistical data

· Architectures for managing scientific data, including P2P- & wiki-based

· Statistical analysis, mining, modeling, & summarization of large-scale data

· Storage, querying, & analysis of scientific data, including sensor streams

· Modeling, management, & optimization of scientific workflows & experiments

· Cyberinfrastructure & system architectures for scientific computing & e-science

· Data integration for scientific data

· Annotation & provenance management in scientific databases & workflows

· Visualization of complex scientific data

· Trust issues (privacy, security, reliability, quality) in scientific & statistical data

· Case studies of data management in all domains of science

We also invite short papers (up to 6 pages LNCS style) describing systems and software demonstrations or discussing new ideas or work in an early stage. Accepted short papers will be featured in a poster-and-demonstration session.

Important Dates

Abstracts due January 9 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time

Full & short papers due January 16, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time

Notification of acceptance March 13, 2009

Camera-read copy due April 13, 2009



Submission Instructions



SSDBM 2009 invites original, unpublished submissions not exceeding 18 pages in the camera-ready LNCS style.

Short papers (up to 6 pages LNCS style) describing systems and software demonstrations or discussing new ideas or work in an early stage are also invited, and will be featured in a poster-and-demonstration session. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair SSDBM2009 submission site.

Camera ready papers should have the same LNCS formatting as the original submissions. Later we will post a checklist of items to be submitted by the authors of accepted papers. Please submit the requested material via EasyChair.