Call for Papers - COMAD-2009 - Decemeber 9-11, 2009 - Mysore, India
http://www.isim.ac.in/comad2009/index.htm

The 15th COMAD will be held in December 2009, in Mysore, India - around 100 miles south of Bangalore. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2009's scope will include all areas in the data management space including database management systems, Web and Information Retrieval and Data Mining. Original research submissions are invited not only in traditional database areas but also in Data Quality, Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining. We invite submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for
demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Data Management Systems:
* Benchmarking and performance evaluation
* Data exchange and integration
* Database monitoring and tuning
* Data privacy and security
* Data quality, cleaning and lineage
* Data warehousing
* Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
* Multilingual data management
* Novel Data Types
* Parallel and distributed databases
* Peer-to-peer data management
* Personalized information systems
* Storage and transaction management

Web and Information Retrieval:
* Categorization, Clustering, and Filtering
* Document Representation and Content Analysis
* Information Extraction and Summarization
* IR Theory, Platform, Evaluation
* Question Answering and Cross-Language IR
* Web and IR
* Social Network Analysis

Data Mining
* Novel data mining algorithms and foundations
* Innovative applications of data mining
* Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks
* Mining data streams and sensor data
* Mining multi-media, graph, spatio-temporal and semi-structured data
* Security, privacy, and adversarial data mining
* High performance and parallel/distributed data mining
* Mining tera-/peta-scale data
* Visual data mining and data visualization


To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, we plan to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives. Two awards, for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference.

Important Dates
Research and Student Papers -- New Deadline: August 15, 2009
Industrial Papers, Demo, Panel and Tutorial Proposals - August 28, 2009
Notification to authors - September 25th, 2009
Camera-ready copy due - October 30, 2009
Early-Bird Registration Deadline - December 1, 2009
Conference - December 9-11, 2009

Submission Site (now open)
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comad2009

Organization
General Chair - Shalini Urs, India
Organizational Chair - Srinath Srinivasa, India
Program Chairs - Sanjay Chawla, Australia & Kamal Karlapalem, India
Industry Chair - Prasad Deshpande, India
Tutorials Chair - Vishy Poosala, India
Workshops Chair - Rohini Srihari, USA
Publicity Chair - P Radhakrishna, India
Publications Chair - Vikram Pudi, India

Program Committee

. Sitaram Asur, USA
. Shivnath Babu, USA
. James Bailey, Australia
. Srikanta Bedathur, Germany
. Ladjel Bellatreche, France
. Arnab Bhattacharya, India
. Sharma Chakravarthy, USA
. Gautam Das, USA
. Gill Dobbie, New Zealand
. Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan, Singapore
. Joachim Gudmundsson, Australia
. Arvind Hulgeri, India
. Krishna Kummamuru, India
. Qing Li, Hong Kong
. Xuemin Lin, Australia
. Fred Lochovsky, Hong Kong
. Nikos Mamoulis, Hong KOng
. Mukesh Mohania, India
. Anirban Mondal, India
. Vivek Narasayya, USA
. Naren Ramakrishnan, USA
. Krithi Ramamritham, India
. Shashi Shekhar USA
. Ranga Raju Vatsavai, USA
. K Vidyasankar, Canada
. Hui Xiong, USA
. Xiaofang Zhou, Australia
. Mohammed Zaki, USA