ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009 Conference
Providence, Rhode Island
June 29 - July 2, 2009
http://www.sigmod09.org

2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Call For Papers


The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for
database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore
cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and
experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions
and industrial papers, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials,
and panels. We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of data
management defined broadly, and particularly encourage work on topics of
emerging interest in the research and development communities.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

General areas of interests include but are not limited to the following:

- New database architectures, distributed data management (e.g., data
stream management, P2P, replication, and caching)
- Data management applications (e.g., Web mashups, social networks,
scientific databases, sensor networks)
- Models and languages (e.g., XML, probabilistic data models, meta-data
management, multi-media)
- Performance and scalability (e.g., indexing, hardware accelerators)
- Other aspects of modern information systems such as security, privacy,
personalization, user interfaces, etc.



IMPORTANT DATES

November 27, 2008: Abstract submission (research papers)
December 4, 2008: Manuscript submission (research papers,
industrial papers (no abstract submission),
demonstration, tutorial and panel proposals.)
February 27, 2009: Notification of acceptance.



SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Detailed submission instructions will be published on the conference web site.
All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled
electronically. The following items apply to research papers only, not
industrial papers or demonstration, tutorial, or panel proposals.

Double-blind reviewing: As has become the tradition for SIGMOD, research
papers will be judged for quality and relevance through double-blind
reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the
reviewers. Thus, author names and affiliations must not appear in the paper,
and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity.
Further details on anonymity requirements are available on the Web page.



ORGANIZATION

General Chairs Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
Stan Zdonik (Brown University)
Program Committee Chair Donald Kossmann (28msec and ETH Zurich)
Industrial Papers Chairs Michael Franklin (UC Berkeley and Truviso)
Donovan Schneider (Yahoo!)
Tutorials Chair Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo!)
Panels Chair Jennifer Widom (Stanford University)
Demonstrations Chair Bjorn Jonsson (Reykjavik University)
Proceedings Chair Nesime Tatbul (ETH Zurich)
Registration Chair Kajal Claypool (MIT Lincoln Labs)
Finance Chair Elke Rundensteiner (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Industrial sponsorship Renee Miller (University of Toronto)
Publicity Chair Yanlei Diao (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Web Chair Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Local Arrangements Chair Daniel Abadi (Yale University)
Local Workshops Chair Cindy Chen (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Exhibits Chair Samuel Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Karl Aberer EPF Lausanne
Ashraf Aboulnaga University of Waterloo
Natassa Ailamaki EPF Lausanne
Laurent Amsaleg IRISA, Rennes
Peter Apers Delft University
Paolo Atzeni Univertiy of Roma III
Shivnath Babu Duke University
Magda Balazinska University of Washington
Omar Benjelloun Google
Jose Blakeley Microsoft
Michael Boehlen Bozen University
Philippe Bonnet University of Copenhagen
Luc Bouganim INRIA
Nicolas Bruno Microsoft
Fabio Casati University of Trento
Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft
Brian Cooper Yahoo
Umesh Dayal HP
Laurent Daynes Sun
Amol Deshpande University of Maryland
AnHai Doan University of Wisconsin
Asuman Dogac METU
Wenfei Fan Edinburgh University
Franz FSrber SAP
Dietmar Fauser Amadeus
Shel Finkelstein SAP
Peter Fischer ETH Zurich
Minos Garofalakis Yahoo
Johannes Gehrke Cornell
Leo Giakoumakis Microsoft
Giorgio Ghelli University of Pisa
Goetz Graefe HP
Luis Gravano Columbia University
Torsten Grust TU Munich
Jarek Gryz York University
Dimitrios Gunopulos UC Riverside
Ralf Guting University of Hagen
Laura Haas IBM
Alon Halevy Google
Sven Helmer Birbeck College
Namik Hrle IBM
Mei Hsu HP
Zack Ives University of Pennsylvania
Dean Jacobs SAP
H.V. Jagadish University of Michigan
Christian Jensen Aalborg University
Chris Jermaine University of Florida
Bettina Kemme McGill University
Alfons Kemper TU Munich
Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo
George Kollios Boston University
Hank Korth Lehigh University
Kian Lee Tan NUS
Wolfgang Lehner TU Dresden
Ulf Leser Humboldt University
Xuemin Lin University of South Wales
Ioana Manolescu INRIA
Volker Markl TU Berlin
Sergey Melnik Microsoft
Gerome Miklau University of Massachusetts
Renee Miller University of Toronto
Jeff Naughton University of Wisconsin
Kjetil Norvag NTNU
Beng Chin Ooi NUS
Chris Olsten Yahoo
Fatma Ozcan IBM
Tamer Ozsu University of Waterloo
Dimitris Papadias HKUST
Yannis Papakonstantinou UCSD
Jignesh Patel University of Michigan
Alkis Polyzotis UC Santa Cruz
Sunil Prabhakar Purdue
Erhard Rahm University of Leipzig
Ramakrishnan Srikant Google
Shankar Raman IBM
Mirek Riedewald Cornell
Tore Risch Uppsla University
Uwe Rohm University of Sydney
Kenneth Ross Columbia University
Michael Rys Microsoft
Arnaud Sahuguet Google
Sunita Sarawagi IIT Bombay
Bernie Schiefer IBM
Mehul Shah HP
Jai Shanmugasarundaram Yahoo
Kyuseok Shim Seoul National University
Radu Sion Stony Brook University
Rick Snodgrass University of Arizona
Divesh Srivastava AT&T
Dan Suciu University of Washington
Garret Swart Oracle
Nesime Tatbul ETH Zurich
Florian Waas Amazon
Kyu-Young Whang KAIST
Jun Yang Duke University
Masatoshi Yoshikawa Nagoya University
Xiaofang Zhou Queensland University