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COMAD 2009 PhD Workshop

International School of Information Management (ISiM)

University of Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka, India

(Co-located with COMAD 2009)

December 9, 2009

Call for Papers

COMAD 2009 calls for submission of PhD Workshop papers on topics related to the broad area of Data Management. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a platform wherein students already registered/planning to register for PhD can present their ideas before experts and peers in the field and get feedback from them for their work.

We particularly encourage submissions from students who are in the final stages of their doctoral work, and who can therefore present a more "complete" story about their thesis, as well as students who are in the beginning stages of their work and thus have a significant "future work" component. The former category will have the opportunity to showcase theses to a wider audience in preparation for a job search, whereas the latter can obtain valuable feedback about their upcoming research plans.

Topics of Interest

Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to:

  • Benchmarking and performance evaluation
  • Data exchange and integration
  • Data quality, cleaning and lineage
  • Database monitoring and tuning
  • Data privacy and security
  • Data warehousing
  • Data mining: foundations and algorithms
  • Mining text, Web, and semi-structured data
  • Security and privacy in data mining
  • Innovative applications of data mining
  • Embedded, sensor, mobile databases and applications
  • Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
  • Metadata management
  • Multilingual data management
  • Multimedia data management and mining
  • Novel Data Types
  • Parallel and distributed databases
  • Peer-to-peer data management
  • Personalized information systems
  • Query processing and optimization
  • Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
  • Information retrieval: Formal models and algorithms
  • IR in text, structured and semi-structured data
  • Privacy issues in IR
  • IR applications: Web search, enterprise search, collaborative filtering, Genomics
  • Text search and database querying
  • Semi-structured data
  • Social Networks
  • Storage and transaction management
  • Web services

    Paper Submission Instructions

    Both, submissions for refereeing and final copy for the proceedings, must be laid out according to the Camera Ready Copy format described below. It is the author's responsibility to make the paper readable, relevant and interesting before submission for consideration by referees. This includes legibility of diagrams and quality of English.

    Each submitted paper should include:

  • Title of the paper
  • Name and Affiliation of the authors
  • Abstract (max 100 words)
  • Research question and a justification of its importance
  • Related work in this area
  • Research approach
  • Current status of research
  • Results achieved to-date (if any)
  • Expected contribution

    A paper cannot be longer than 5 pages.

    All submissions must be in PDF format.

    Camera Ready Copy Format

    To help you easily format your submissions, this ZIP archive provides the following files:

  • phd-comad09.cls -- Document class file for Latex users
  • sample.bib -- Sample bibtex file for Latex users
  • phdFormat.tex -- Sample Latex file
  • phdFormat.doc -- For Microsoft Word users
  • phdFormat.pdf -- Sample PDF file

    Submission

    All submissions should be emailed to comad09 [DOT] phdw [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

    Important dates

  • Last date for Paper Submission: 26 October 2009
  • Notification of Acceptance: 8 November 2009
  • Camera Ready Paper submission: 13 November 2009

    (Acknowledgment: This CFP has been prepared with inputs from previous VLDB PhD Workshops.)