SEBD 2013 - CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline!

21th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems
(21mo Convegno Nazionale su Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati)
June 30th - July 03th 2013, Roccella Jonica

The 2013 edition of the SEBD Symposium will be organized by Università Reggio Calabria
(dipartimento DIIES) and by Centro di Competenza ICT-SUD and will take place
in Roccella Jonica (Reggio Calabria), Italy, at Club Hotel Kennedy ****
http://www.clubhotelkennedy.com/,
SS.106 km 113 from the 30th June to the 3th of July 2013. This is the
twenty-first edition of the symposium, which is the major annual event
of the Italian database research community. The symposium is thought
as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among
all those, both in the academy and industry, who are interested in
database systems and in all their broad range of applications.

Conference Web Site:
http://www.sebd2013.unirc.it/


Topics
The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional
database management, as well as new challenges for
data management in any possible domain. Suggested topics include
(but not limited to) the following:

* Access Methods and Physical Design;
* Concurrency Control and Recovery;
* Data structures and algorithms for data management;
* Transaction and workflow management, interoperability and Web services;
* Distributed and parallel databases;
* Grid, peer-to-peer databases and cloud computing;
* Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases;
* Scientific and Statistical Databases;
* Multimedia Databases, Digital libraries and Information Retrieval;
* Spatial, temporal and geographic databases;
* Data in social networks and Graph databases;
* Active databases;
* Object-oriented databases;
* Deductive Databases;
* Data models and database design;
* Incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases;
* Query languages;
* Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering;
* Semi-structured data;
* Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning;
* Data warehousing;
* Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS;
* Meta-data management;
* Data visualization;
* Semantic-Web data;
* Ontology-based data management;
* Privacy, security, and trust management;
* Database Performance and Evaluation;


Papers

SEBD 2013 invites submissions of research, industry and application contributions
as well as software demonstrations. Research papers presenting original work
are solicited. Moreover, discussion papers containing descriptions of results
already published are also welcomed. Research papers must be at most 12 pages
long whereas discussion papers must be at most 8 pages long. Papers must be
written in English. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and
technical quality. Research papers and discussion papers will compete on
two different lists of acceptance.

SEBD 2013 submissions must be in electronic form in PDF format. Papers
must be formatted in LaTex using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style available http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Papers must contain on the first page, below the
authors, the label "Research Paper" or "Discussion Paper".
For discussion papers, the original published paper must be referred.
Papers must be submitted electronically https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sebd2013.

Accepted papers will be included in the informal proceedings of the symposium.
Research papers could be conditionally accepted as short papers (8 pages).
After acceptance, authors are required to submit all source LaTex files.
No different format is allowed.
Best Student Paper Award

Students and post-docs researchers are strongly encouraged to submit papers
presenting the results of research activities in the fields covered by the
conference topics. Papers must be authored only by PhD student(s) or by post-doc(s)
who defended their theses after 1/1/2011. The SEBD Steering Committee will select
the best research paper to be awarded. Discussion papers are not considered for
the best student paper award.


Important Dates

* Abstract submission March 20, 2013 --) New deadline: April 8, 2013
* Paper submission March 27, 2013 --) New deadline: April 8, 2013
* Notification of acceptance May 3, 2013
* Camera-ready copy due May 13, 2013
* Early registration May 13, 2013
* Conference date June 30 - July 3, 2013


General Chair

* Domenico Saccà - Università della Calabria e Centro di Competenza ICT-SUD



Program Committee Chair

* Francesco Buccafurri - Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

Program Committee

* Maurizio Atzori - Università di Cagliari
* Ilaria Bartolini - Università di Bologna
* Sonia Bergamaschi - Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia
* Andrea Cali' - University of Oxford
* Barbara Catania - Università di Genova
* Michelangelo Ceci- Università di Bari
* Silvia Chiusano - Politecnico di Torino
* Nicola Ferro - Università di Padova
* Fosca Giannotti- ISTI-CNR
* Elio Masciari - ICAR-CNR
* Giansalvatore Mecca - Università della Basilicata
* Michele Melchiori - Università di Brescia
* Stefano Montanelli - Università di Milano
* Salvatore Orlando - Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
* Domenico Potena - Università Politecnica delle Marche
* Andrea Pugliese - Università della Calabria
* Elisa Quintarelli- Politecnico di Milano
* Riccardo Rosati- Università La Sapienza di Roma
* Salvatore Ruggieri - Università di Pisa
* Maria Luisa Sapino - Università di Torino
* Fabio Schreiber - Politecnico di Milano
* Laura Tarantino - Università dell'Aquila
* Sergio Tessaris - Libera Università di Bozen - Bolzano
* Riccardo Torlone - Università Roma Tre
* Pierangelo Veltri - Università di Catanzaro
* Gianluigi Viscusi - Università Bicocca di Milano

Publicity Chair

* Luciano Mallamaci - Centro di Competenza ICT-SUD

Organizing Committee Chair

* Domenico Ursino - Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria

Organizing Committee

* Simona Citrigno - Centro di Competenza ICT-SUD
* Antonello Comi - Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
* Concetta De Paola - Centro di Competenza ICT-SUD
* Lidia Fotia - Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
* Gabriele Gigliotti - Centro di Competenza ICT-SUD
* Gianluca Lax - Università Mediterranea diReggio Calabria
* Antonino Nocera - Università Mediterranea diReggio Calabria
* Domenico Rosaci - Università Mediterranea diReggio Calabria