29th BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON DATABASES (SBBD 2014)
October 6 to 9, 2014 - Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/sbbd-sbsc2014/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBBD is the official database event of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). SBBD is the largest venue in Latin America for presentation and discussion of research results and applications in the database domain. It usually gathers 500 attendees. Past editions of SBBD have been organized in cooperation with ACM/SIGMOD and partially sponsored by the VLDB Endownment.

Along with technical sessions, the symposium includes invited talks and tutorials given by distinguished speakers from the national and international database research community. SBBD also promotes a Thesis Workshop, a Demos (Tools) Session and a Poster Session as co-located events.

In its 29th edition, the symposium will be held in the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, Brazil, from October 6 to 9, 2014. It will be organized by the Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná and Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

For the 2014 edition, SBBD will accept two kinds of submissions:

* JIDM articles. Submissions in this category should present interesting results or novel thought-provoking ideas in any of the topics of interest. They must be written in English and not exceed 12 pages, according to the format of the Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM). The templates for submission are available at http://bit.ly/1eil5co. Articles must be submitted by the deadline through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jidmvol5

* SBBD proceedings. Submissions in this category should present initial results or on-going work in any of the topics of interest. They must be written in Portuguese or English and not exceed 10 pages, according to the format of the SBC. The templates for submission are available at http://bit.ly/1coeoWk. Papers must be submitted by the deadline through EasyChair website at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbbd2014

SBBD submissions must not have been simultaneously submitted to any other forum (conference or journal), nor should they have already been published elsewhere. The acceptance of a paper implies that at least one of its authors will register for the symposium to present it. Submissions will be reviewed based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of presentation.

The review process of JIDM submissions is performed in two rounds. The first one includes the initial evaluation of the articles. These selected submissions should be revised based on the reviewers’ comments and submitted again for a second round, in which the papers will face a fast-track revision. Final selected articles will be published in the Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM) and presented at SBBD.

The review process of SBBD proceedings submissions is performed in one round with a rebuttal phase. All authors will be notified with the reviews and then will have one week for answering the reviewers' comments during the rebuttal phase. After evaluating the rebuttal comments, a final decision will be sent to the authors. Final selected papers will be published in the Proceedings of the SBBD and presented during the symposium.

Each submission will be evaluated by three members of the Program Committee. For further information, contact the Program Committee Chair: Mirella M. Moro at mirella@dcc.ufmg.br (please use [SBBD2014] as the email subject).


IMPORTANT DATES

JIDM articles
- Abstracts due: April 21, 2014
- Submissions due: April 28, 2014
- First notification due: June 05, 2014
- Revised submissions due: July 07, 2014
- Final notification due: August 1, 2014
- Camera-ready due: August 15, 2014

SBBD proceedings
- Abstracts due: June 07, 2014
- Submissions due: June 10, 2014
- Notification due: July 01, 2014
- Rebuttal due: July 7, 2014
- Final decision due: July 21, 2014
- Camera-ready due: August 15, 2014



TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

1) Database Foundations and Technology
* Access Methods, Indexing and New Hardware Devices
* Active Databases
* Authorization, Privacy and Security
* Complex Event and Stream-based Processing
* Concurrency Control and Recovery
* Data Annotation and Provenance
* Database Design
* Data Semantics
* Heterogeneous Databases
* Mobile and Sensor Databases
* Multidimensional and Temporal Databases
* Multimedia Databases
* NoSQLDatabases
* Peer to peer, Parallel and Distributed Databases
* Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
* Query Languages and Processing
* Scientific and Statistical Databases
* Self-managed and Autonomic Databases
* Spatial Databases and Geographical Information Systems
* Workflow Applications and Databases

2) Information Retrieval, Web Data Management and Knowledge Representation
* Collecting, Extracting and Indexing Web Data
* Data Management in Clouds
* Data Services for the Web
* Digital Libraries and Applications
* Document Management and Classification
* Information Integration and Interoperability
* Information Retrieval Models and Techniques
* Knowledge Bases and Modeling
* Linked Data
* Ontologies
* Recommender Systems
* Semantic Web
* Semi-structured Data and XML
* String Processing
* Web data

3) Knowledge Discovery in Databases
* Algorithms and Techniques for Data Mining
* Applications of Data Mining
* Big Data Analytics
* Data Classification
* Data Visualization
* Data Warehousing and OLAP
* Foundations of Data Mining
* Machine Learning Applications
* Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Data Mining
* Pre- and Post- Processing of Data and Mined Patterns
* Privacy and Security in Data Mining Algorithms


BEST PAPER AWARDS

Since 1998, SBBD sponsors the “Jose Mauro de Castilho” (JMC) Award for the symposium’s best paper, which will be selected among JIDM articles.

Other awards will be given to the SBBD proceedings best paper and SBBD best demo.


STEERING COMMITTEE

Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE
Cristina Dutra de Aguiar Ciferri, USP São Carlos (Chair)
José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira, UFRGS
Marco Antônio Casanova, PUC-Rio
Mirella M. Moro, UFMG
Vanessa Braganholo, UFF


SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

Steering Committee Chair: Cristina Dutra de Aguiar Ciferri, USP São Carlos
Program Chair: Mirella M. Moro, UFMG
Program Co-Chair: Renata M. Galante, UFRGS
Local Chairs: Carmem Satie Hara, UFPR and Vidal Martins, PUC-PR
Demos and Applications Chair: José Antônio Fernandes Macedo, UFC
Thesis and Dissertation Workshop Chair: João Eduardo Ferreira, USP
Short Courses Chair: Bernadete F. Loscio, UFPE
Tutorials Chair: Vanessa Braganholo, UFF