The COMAD 2009 Organization invites workshop proposals in the broad area of data management. The Workshops will be held on December 9, 2009 at the International School of Information Management (ISiM),
University of Mysore, Mysore, India. The objective of organizing the
workshops is to provide a platform for exchange of ideas and vibrant
discussions on various aspects of data management. We invite workshop
proposals seeking to explore high-impact research areas in data
management.
Organization
The organizers of a workshop will be in charge of publicizing the
workshop, soliciting papers, constituting the program committee, and putting together the workshop program. Workshops may span an entire day or half a day.
The workshop organizers should ensure that at least one author of each
accepted paper attends the workshop. Any ideas that would aid in
infusing academic vibrancy into the workshop proceedings are welcome in
the proposal.
Areas of Interest
Workshop
proposals on any of the topics addressed by the COMAD series of
conferences are welcome. The areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following.
Benchmarking and performance evaluation
Data exchange and integration
Information Integration
Data quality, cleaning and lineage
Database monitoring and tuning
Data privacy and security
Data warehousing
Data mining: foundations and algorithms
Text Mining
Web Mining
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 on text, structured and semi-structured data
Information Extraction
Privacy issues in IR
IR applications: Web search, enterprise search, collaborative filtering, Genomics
Social Networks, Social Media
Storage and transaction management
Format of the Proposals
The proposal should include the following.
Workshop title
Names, affiliations and complete contact details of the organizers
Span of the workshop (half-day or full-day)
An abstract of the topic of the workshop (200 words)
A brief overview of the relevance of the workshop to the theme of
COMAD 2009 and how it will contribute to the field of data management
(500 words)
A brief overview as to the intended audience for the workshop (200 words)
A tentative (or intended) list of program committee members
The proposals may be submitted by email to the Workshop Chair of COMAD 2009 (see below).
Proceedings
The proceedings of all workshops co-located with COMAD 2009 will be
published online. If the individual workshop organizers wish to publish
their proceedings as a printed volume, they are welcome to make separate
arrangements for the same.
Important Dates
Submission of workshop proposal: 11:59 PM PST, August 10, 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 21, 2009
Workshop Chair
Rohini K. Srihari Department of Computer Science and Engineering
State University of New York, Buffalo, USA
Email: rohini [AT] cedar [DOT] buffalo [DOT] edu
