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CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Workshop on "Personalized Access,
Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases"

(PersDB 2009)

in conj. with VLDB?09, 24-28 August 2009, Lyon, France
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Submission deadline: June 26, 2009
Workshop date: August 28, 2009
URL: http://persdb09.stanford.edu/
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AIM AND SCOPE
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Proliferation of database-driven web sites has brought upon a plethora of information access and
dissemination applications. Monitoring and trading stock portfolios, news notification, weather
tracking, and even simple search are just a few examples. In addition, recently, new applications
have emerged that go beyond information access and dissemination and enhance creativity,
information sharing and exploration, and collaboration among users, providing richer interaction
possibilities. Now, users cannot only access content but they can also generate, share and modify
content, compose their applications, enhance their interface, etc. Web-based communities, wikis,
social networks, mashups, folksonomies are some of the emerging new applications. In all these
applications, different notions of user information, such as preferences, community memberships and
social interactions, and context information, such as a user's social network, location, time,
and other features of a user's environment, are of paramount importance in order to improve and
personalize user experience. In this context, new challenges emerge for user-centric, context-aware
database systems for storing and managing different aspects of user and context information,
for data management and computing taking into account personal, social and contextual information
about users and for customizability of their behavior.


TOPICS
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Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Modeling and profiling of personal, social and contextual information
* User and community modeling
* User profiling and preference elicitation
* Social network analysis of online environments, community and user discovery
* Personal ontology modeling
* Context modeling and context identification
* Reputation and trust models
* Social knowledge modeling

- Personal, social and context-aware computing and applications
* Personalization and recommendations
* Personal data management and computing
* Information access and sharing techniques
* Personalized mashups
* Data management and organization in collaborative applications
* Social reputation and recommendation systems
* Online communities and social networking
* Social computing
* Reputation and trust management
* Context-aware data management and processing
* Privacy-aware computing
* Intelligent browsing and navigation
* Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content and social interaction
* Evaluation methodologies and metrics
* Query routing and resource allocation in a distributed database
* Graph databases

- New database models and architectures
* Personal and social databases
* User-aware and context-aware data and query models
* Data sharing and integration of access control policies
* Adaptive database systems
* Architectures for personalized privacy in databases
* Multimodal ubiquitous environments
* Context-aware system architectures


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered
for publication in any other forum. Papers submitted should be at most six(6) pages long.
Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the VLDB format,
based on the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. Detailed formatting instructions and samples are available here:
http://www.vldb2009.org/?q=node/5

Submissions should be uploaded through the submission site at:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/PersDB2009/Default.aspx


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submission: June 26, 2009
* Notification: July 28, 2009
* Camera ready: August 10, 2009 (tentative)
* PersDB 2009 workshop: August 28, 2009


INVITED SPEAKER
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Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada)


STEERING COMMITTEE
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* Tiziana Catarci (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
* Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Hellas)
* Timos Sellis (Institute for the Management of Information Systems and NTUA, Greece)


PC CHAIRS
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* Sihem Amer-Yahia (Yahoo! Research, USA)
* Georgia Koutrika (Stanford University, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Michael Benedikt (Oxford University, UK)
* Paolo Ciaccia (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Irini Fundulaki (ICS-FORTH, Greece)
* Zoltan Gyongyi (Google Research, USA)
* Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, France)
* Werner Kiessling (Univ. Augsburg, Germany)
* Alexandros Labrinidis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
* Dongwon Lee (Penn State University, USA)
* Massimo Melucci (University of Padua, Italy)
* Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, USA)
* Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
* Moira Norrie (ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland)
* Christos Papatheodorou (Ionian University, Greece)
* Evi Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
* Guillaume Raschia (Polytech Nantes, France)
* Yannis Stavrakas (Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Greece)
* Letizia Tanca (Polytecnico di Milano, Italy)
* Martin Theobald (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany)
* Wolf Tilo Balke (University of Hannover, Germany)
* Alex Tuzhilin (Stern NYU, USA)
* Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany)
* Cong Yu (Yahoo! Research, USA)


WEB CHAIR
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* Julia Stoyanovich (Columbia University, USA)