Call for Papers

                 Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2012

                   Berlin, Germany, March 30, 2012
				
 http://www.ai4.uni-bayreuth.de/en/events/edbt_icdt_phd_2012/index.html
	

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                          ---Introduction---

The joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop is intended to bring together Ph.D.
students working on topics related to the EDBT and the ICDT conference
series. The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present,
discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and
international atmosphere.

The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in
the field of database technology and theory. These accompanying professors
will participate actively and contribute to the discussions.

The workshop is co-located with and will take place immediately after the
EDBT/ICDT 2012 joint conference in Berlin, Germany. The workshop language
is English.



                       ---Topics of Interest---

As for the EDBT/ICDT conferences series, all topics from the field of database
technology and theory are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop.
These topics include (but are not limited to):


o Active Databases                      o Information Integration Methods
o Advanced Query Processing             o IT-Infrastructure Management and
  and Optimization                        Enterprise Modeling
o Ambient-aware Database Applications   o Legacy Databases
o Approximate Queries                   o Logic and Databases
o Authorization and Security            o Medical Databases and Data Management
o Autonomic Databases                   o Mobile Computing and Databases
o Biological Databases and              o Multimedia Databases
  Bioinformatics                        o Object-Relational Database Systems
o Component-based Information Systems   o Parallel and Distributed Databases
o Constraint and Rule Management        o Peer-to-Peer and Networked Databases
o Data Management in Computer Games     o Privacy Techniques for Databases
o Data Models and Database Design       o Query Languages and User Interfaces
o Data Warehousing and OLAP             o Real-Time Database Systems
o Data Mining and Knowledge             o Replication, Caching, Materialized
  Discovery                               Views
o Database Applications and             o Scientific and Statistical Databases
  Experiences                           o Self-healing Databases
o Database Performance and Benchmarks   o Semantic Web Databases and Ontologies
o E-Commerce, Workflow, and Databases   o Semi-structured Data, Metadata and XML
o Federated Databases, Middleware,      o Spatial and Temporal Databases
  and Interoperability                  o Stream Processing, Continuous Queries,
o Knowledge Management Systems            and Sensor Databases
o Geographic Information Systems        o Text Storage and Retrieval
o Imprecise and Uncertain Information   o Transactions and Recovery
o Indexing, Access Methods and          o Trustworthy Databases
  Data Structures                       o World-Wide Web and Databases



                           ---Submission---

Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format
before 24.00 CET (Central European Time) on November 20, 2011. The paper length
must not exceed 6 pages (including all parts!). The submission has to be
formatted according to the EDBT Conference manuscript preparation guidelines
(http://edbticdt2012.dima.tu-berlin.de/calls/edbt/).
Workshop and paper language is English.

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address
specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended:

 - A clear formulation of the research question.
 - An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
 - An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
   state of existing solutions.
 - A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
   results achieved so far.
 - A sketch of the applied research methodology.
 - A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
 - A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as
   compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Please note, that similar to a Ph.D. thesis, only a single author is allowed
per submission to the EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. workshop. If several Ph.D. students,
usually working together as a team, want to submit, every team member has to
submit individually. The Ph.D. advisor is not stated as co-author.

The intention of this workshop is to support and inspire Ph.D. students during
their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will
have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor officially submitted their thesis
before the Ph.D workshop (March 30, 2012). To enforce this rule we require
authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their advisor's name when
submitting.

Accepted submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. Furthermore,
we plan to publish post-workshop proceedings of selected and revised submissions
in the ACM Digital Library, as we did in the last years.

Once again, we plan to award a prize for the best submission.

Participants should register for the EDBT/ICDT conference itself at student rate.


                       ---Travel Grants---

Some travel awards funded by the National Science Foundation will be available
for students, in particular student authors, to participate in EDBT/ICDT'2012.
Details on the application process for students to apply for these funds will
be made available on the EDBT/ICDT'2012 website.


                       ---Program Committee---

To be announced soon.


                       ---Contact Addresses---

Workshop Chair: Bernhard Volz             (bernhard.volz.at.uni-bayreuth.de)
Co-Chair:       Sascha Mueller-Feuerstein (sascha.mueller.at.hs-ansbach.de)
Local Organization: N.N.


                        ---Important Dates---

   Deadline for submission:    November 20, 2011
   Notification to authors:    December 21, 2011
   Camera ready version:       February 02, 2012
   Ph.D. Workshop:             March    30, 2012

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Hochschule Ansbach
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