Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 15th International Conference on
Database Systems for Advanced Applications
(DASFAA 2010)
Tsukuba, Japan, April 1-4, 2010

http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/

Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) is an
international forum for academic exchanges and technical discussions
among researchers, developers, and users of databases from academia,
business, and industry, and has been a leading conference in the areas
of databases, large-scale data management, data mining, and the
Web. The 15th DASFAA will come to Tsukuba, Japan in April, 2010.

Topics of Interest
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Original papers on both theoretical and practical database research
are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to
the following:
* Data model and query language
* Query processing and optimization
* Data structure and index
* Storage and transaction management
* Performance evaluation and tuning
* Data warehouse and OLAP
* Database system applications
* Temporal and spatial databases
* Parallel and distributed databases
* Mobile databases
* Data management in P2P and grid
* Sensor data management
* Multimedia databases
* XML and semi-structured data
* Data streams and time-series data
* Data mining and knowledge discovery
* Data quality and credibility
* Security and privacy
* User interfaces
* Data archive and digital library
* Information recommendation
* Search technology
* Web mining
* Information extraction and summarization
* Statistical and scientific databases
* Data management in the Internet and the Web
* Information integration and meta-data management
* Text databases and information retrieval

Important Dates
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August 18, 2009 Submission of workshop proposals
September 11, 2009 Submission of research/industrial paper abstracts
September 18, 2009 Submission of research/industrial papers and
tutorial/panel/demo proposals
Notification of workshop proposals
November 3, 2009 Notification of tutorial/panel proposals
November 27, 2009 Notification of research/industrial papers and
demo proposals
December 18, 2009 All camera-ready copies due
April 1-4, 2010 Conference in Tsukuba, Japan

Organizers
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* University of Tsukuba
* The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ)

In-Cooperation
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* KIISE Database Society of Korea
* The China Computer Federation Database Technical Committee
* ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure
* Asian Institute of Technology
* Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) (approval pending)
* The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication
Engineers (IEICE) (approval pending)
* Japan PostgreSQL Users Group
* MySQL Nippon Association
* The Japanese Firebird Users Group

Industrial Sponsors
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* Ricoh Co., Ltd.
* Ricoh Software Inc.

Conference Officers
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Honorary Conference Chair:
Yoshifumi Masunaga (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)

General Conference Chair:
Hiroyuki Kitagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Organizing Committee Chairs:
Chair: Masaru Kitsuregawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Vice Chair: Miyuki Nakano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

DBSJ Liaison:
Haruo Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Program Committee Co-chairs:
Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Industrial Co-Chairs:
Hideko S. Kunii (Ricoh Software Inc., Japan)
Umesh Dayal (HP Labs, USA)

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China)

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Kazutoshi Sumiya (University of Hyogo, Japan)
Wookey Lee (Inha University, Korea)

Panel Co-Chairs:
Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University, Japan)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)

Demo Co-Chairs:
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Kian-Lee Tan (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Jun Miyazaki (NAIST, Japan)
Hyoil Han (Drexel University, USA)

Local Arrangement Chair:
Toshiyuki Amagasa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Finance Chair:
Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Publication Chair:
Chiemi Watanabe (Ochanomizu University, Japan)

Web Chair:
Hideyuki Kawashima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

Geographic Area Chairs:
Korea: Bonghee Hong (Pusan National University)
China: Li-Zhu Zhou (Tsinghua University)
Hong Kong: Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Taiwan: Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Singapore: Stephane Bressan (National Univ. of Singapore)
Thailand: Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology)
India: Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay)
Australia: James Bailey (The University of Melbourne)
America: Chen Li (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Europe: Peer Kroger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany)


Contact Address: dasfaa2010@kde.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp