Call for Papers

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17th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS’13)

confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas13/ideas13.php
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech
Barcelona, October 9-11, 2013

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The annual IDEAS conference is a top international forum for
data engineering researchers, practitioners, developers,
and application users to explore revolutionary ideas and results,
and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.

This year IDEAS has renewed its structure and will include a panel session
and special keynote speakers.

We invite the submission of original research contributions relating to all
aspects of database engineering defined broadly, and particularly encourage
submissions on topics of emerging interest describing work on integrating
new technologies into products and applications, on experiences with existing
and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved challenges.


*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Emerging database technologies
- Big Data and Advanced Analytics
- Query Processing and Query Optimization
- Cloud Computing, Map Reduce, Parallel, Distributed, P2P Systems
- Scientific Data and Data Visualization
- Security, Privacy, Authenticated Query Processing
- Data Warehouses, OLAP, Business Intelligence
- Streams, Sensor Networks, Complex Event Processing
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Algorithms and Applications
- Systems, Performance, Transaction Processing
- Data Models and Languages
- Data Integration, Metadata management, Interoperability
- User Interfaces and Social Data
- Characterization and Analysis of Social and other large datasets
- NoSQL approaches to data management
- Benchmarking efforts for all types of data management technologies


*** Keynote Speakers ***

Jeff Ullman, Stanford, USA
Peter Boncz, CWI and VUA, The Netherlands


*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

May 20, 2013: (Extended) Papers submission deadline
Aug 5, 2013: Notification of acceptance
Sept 1, 2013: Camera-ready deadline


*** General Chair ***

Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Canada


*** PC co-Chairs ***

Josep L. Larriba-Pey, DAMA-UPC, Barcelona
Jorge Bernardino, IPC-ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal


*** Program Committee ***

Josep Aguilar, Microsoft, USA
Nieves Brisaboa, U. da Coruña, Spain
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, CNR, Italy
Mario Gaspar da Silva, INESC-ID, Portugal
Sergio Flesca, U. della Calabria, Italy
Filippo Furfaro, U. della Calabria, Italy
Pedro Furtado, U. de Coimbra, Portugal
Sven Groppe, U. Luebeck, Germany
Marc Gyssens, Hasselt University, Belgium
Theo Haerder, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Meichun Hsu, HP, China
Irena Holubova, Charles University, Czech Rep
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, UPM, Spain
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Tsukuba University, Japan
Norvag Kjetil, Norwegian U. of Sci. & Tech, Norway
Vidyasankar Krishnamurthy, Memorial U., Canada
Carson Leung, U. of Manitoba, Canada
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Murali Mani, Worcester Politecnic Institute, USA
Yannis Manolopoulos, AU Thessaloniki, Greece
Marta Mattoso, UF Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Patrick Martin, Queens University, Canada
Bernhard Mitschang, U. of Stuttgart, Germany
Danilo Montesi, U. di Bologna, Italy
Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon University, Korea
Victor Muntes, CA Labs, Spain
Yiu-Kai Ng, Brigham Young University, USA
Chen Qiming, HP, China
Venkatesh Raghavan, EMC Corp., USA
Peter Revesz, U. of Nebraska, USA
Fereidoon Sadri,U. of NC at Greensboro, USA
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Eljas Soisalon-Soininen, Aalto University, Finland
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford, USA
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France
Ester Zumpano, U. della Calabria, Italy
Calisto Zuzarte, IBM, Canada


*** Panel Chair ***

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, CNR, Italy


*** Publicity Chair ***

Sven Groppe, U. Luebeck, Germany


*** Sponsors Chair ***

Norbert Martinez-Bazan, DAMA-UPC, Barcelona


*** Local Coordination Chairs ***

David Dominguez-Sal, Sparsity Tech., Barcelona
Miquel Ferrer Sumsi, DAMA-UPC, Barcelona


*** Local Organization Team ***

Joan Guisado, DAMA-UPC, Barcelona
Xavier Martinez Palau, DAMA-UPC, Barcelona
Arnau Prat, DAMA-UPC, Barcelona