Important Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission: Monday 14th January 2008
Deadline for Paper and Poster Submission: Monday 21st January 2008
Notification of Acceptance: Monday 3rd March 2008
Camera-ready copies of Papers and Posters: Monday 31st March
PhD Forum Submission: TBC
Deadline for Author Registration: TBC
Conference: 7th-10th July 2008

Conference Overview

The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established in 1980 as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases and, since then, BNCOD has attracted an international audience to discuss the leading research topics of the day in the field.

The theme of BNCOD 2008, the 25th in the series, is "Sharing Data, Information and Knowledge".

Conference Format

In addition to the main conference programme, to commemorate 25 years of the conference a specially commissioned one-day workshop will be included. Over the course of the workshop, world leading database researchers will review the state of the art and project future directions in database research. There will be a PhD forum associated with the conference and co-located workshops.

Papers and Submission

BNCOD 2008 Programme Committee invites submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of databases and related areas for the Technical Programme of the conference. Both full (12 pages) and short (8 pages) papers and posters (4 pages describing work in progress) can be submitted.

All papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as in previous years, by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Papers should be submitted at http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/bncod08

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Data integration and interoperability
* Data management for ubiquitous and mobile computing
* Data mining and information extraction
* Data modelling and architectures
* Data provenance
* Data security, privacy and trust
* Data streaming
* Databases and the grid
* Distributed information systems
* Electronic commerce
* Enterprise systems
* Heterogeneous databases
* Industrial applications
* Infrastructures and systems
* Intermittently connected data
* Managing legacy data
* New applications and processes
* Parallel and distributed databases
* Peer-to-peer data management
* Performance modelling of ubiquitous data use
* Query and manipulation languages
* Query processing and optimisation
* Scientific applications
* Semantic web and ontologies
* Semi-structured data, metadata and XML
* User interfaces and data visualisation
* Web data management and deep web
* Web services
* Workflow support systems

Programme Committee

* W. A. Gray, Cardiff University, UK (Chair)
* D. Bell, Queen's University Belfast, UK
* P. Buneman, University of Edinburgh, UK
* R. Cooper, University of Glasgow, UK
* B. Eaglestone, University of Sheffield, UK
* S. Embury, University of Manchester, UK
* A. Fernandes, University of Manchester, UK
* M. Garvey, University of Wolverhampton, UK
* G. Gottlob, University of Oxford, UK
* J. Hong, Queen's University, Belfast, UK
* E. Hunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
* M. Jackson, Birmingham City University, UK
* K. Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
* G. Kemp, Chalmers, Sweden
* K. Lu, Brunel University, UK
* N. Martin, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
* K. Moody, University of Cambridge, UK
* D. Nelson, University of Sunderland, UK
* W. Nutt, The Free University of Bozen â?? Bolzano, Italy
* N. Paton, University of Manchester, UK
* A. Poulovassilis, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
* M. Roantree, Dublin City University, Ireland
* A. Sexton, University of Birmingham, UK
* J. Shao, Cardiff University, UK
* P. Watson, Newcastle University, UK
* J. Wilson, University of Strathclyde, UK
* J. Yang, Macquarie University, Australia