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WebDB 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS
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12th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2009)

Sunday, June 28, 2009 / Providence, Rhode Island, USA
(co-located with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009)
http://webdb09.cse.buffalo.edu


AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The WebDB workshop focuses on providing a forum where researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners can share their knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions at the intersection of data management and the Web.

This year WebDB will focus on DATABASE AS A WEB SERVICE and on MOBILE WEB, but papers on all aspects of the Web and Databases are solicited.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Business processes for applications on the Web
* Data integration over the Web
* Data Mashup frameworks
* Data-oriented aspects of Web application development environments
* Data Services
* Data-intensive applications on the Web
* Database Support for social Web 2.0 applications
* Information retrieval in semistructured data and the Web
* Location-aware Web applications
* Methodologies and tools for Web data publishing
* Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration
* Publish/subscribe systems
* Query languages and systems for XML and Web data
* Semistructured data management
* The Semantic Web
* Web Community Data Management Systems
* Web Information Extraction
* Web privacy and security
* Web services and distributed computing over the Web
* Web-based alerting systems
* Web-based distributed data management


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper & Demo Submission: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 (11:59pm EST)
Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Workshop Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the ACM guidelines and SIGMOD proceedings template available at:

http://www.sigmod09.org/sigmod_formatting.shtml

Papers submitted cannot exceed six pages in length, including reference and appendix. Submissions should be uploaded through the submission site at:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WEBDB2009/

Besides regular paper submissions, WebDB 2009 also welcomes the submission of software demonstration proposals, to foster interaction on hot topics and ongoing work. Demo proposals should be 2 pages long when formatted using the above template. Demonstration proposals should outline the context and highlights of the software to be presented, and briefly describe the demo scenario. We encourage the joint submission of research papers describing new concepts and fundamental results and of demo proposals of software developed based on those new concepts. Electronic versions of the papers and demos will be included in the ACM Digital Library. All submissions will be handled electronically. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.


WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

* Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Michalis Petropoulos, SUNY Buffalo, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

# Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
# Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, US
# Andrey Balmin, IBM Almaden, US
# Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford, UK
# Jos? A. Blakeley, Microsoft, US
# Michael Carey, UC Irvine, US
# Vassilis Christophides, ICS-FORTH, Greece
# Alin Deutsch, UC San Diego, US
# AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US
# Luna Dong, AT&T Labs, US
# Piero Fraternalli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
# Juliana Freire, University of Utah, US
# Luis Gravano, Columbia, US
# Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, US
# Rick Hull, IBM T.J. Watson, US
# Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis, US
# Qiong Luo, HKUST, Hong Kong
# Jayant Madhavan, Google, US
# Amelie Marian, Rutgers University, US
# Paolo Merialdo, Universita di Roma Tre, Italy
# Gerome Miklau, UMass-Amherst, US
# Chris Olston, Yahoo!, US
# Yannis Papakonstantinou, app2you.com, US
# Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Yahoo!, US
# Wang-Chiew Tan, UC Santa Cruz, US
# Vasilis Vassalos, AUEB, Greece
# Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy
# Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


WEB CHAIR:

* Demian Lessa, SUNY Buffalo, USA