2nd International Workshop on Benchmarking of 
         Database Management Systems and Data-Oriented Web Technologies 
              (BenchmarX'10) - April 4, 2010 - Tsukuba, Japan
                http://ulita.ms.mff.cuni.cz/ws/benchmarx10/

                to be held in conjunction with DASFAA 2010
                    http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/



The successful first year of the workshop (BenchmarX'09) was devoted to benchmarking 
of XML and Semantic Web applications. However, since the amount of related approaches 
is wide and, at the same time, new technologies occur while the obsolete ones vanish, 
the general strategy of BenchmarX is to extend and modify the target areas and topics 
to follow the modern trends. XML still is one of the most common data formats, however, 
there are applications that are not based on it or use it only marginally. On the other 
hand, Semantic Web is only part of a bigger research area of web technologies oriented 
on data. Hence, this year we want to go beyond the borders of pure XML and Semantic Web.
 
BenchmarX'10 is aimed at benchmarking (and related issues) of all stages of data 
processing in the context of up-to-date database management systems and data-oriented 
web technologies in general. Typical (but not the only) representatives of such 
applications and technologies can be web services and semantic web services, Web 2.0 
applications, social networks etc. Similarly, new data types, such as data streams, 
sensor data or imprecise/uncertain data, triggered proposal and implementation of new 
strategies for their storage, processing and management that need to benchmarked, tested 
and compared specifically. 

Even though data management and data-oriented applications are involved in topics of 
many conferences around the world, the community dealing with benchmarking of such 
applications and related issues is still scattered. The aim of BenchmarX is to bring 
it together and provide a platform for common discussion of all the related topics. 

We invite submission from both research and industrial communities dealing with different 
theoretical and applied aspects of benchmarking of database management systems and 
data-oriented web applications. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to: 

 - Benchmarking: 
    * Benchmark projects and suites
    * Benchmarking metrics, criteria and methodologies
    * Analysis and/or comparison of performance of selected applications
    * Experiences and lessons learned
    * Exploitation of benchmarking results
 - Gathering of testing data: 
    * Data synthesis
    * Inference of schemas, integrity constraints etc.
    * Data/operation repositories
 - Real-world requirements: 
    * Analysis of real-world data, operations etc.
    * Evolution of real-world data
    * Synthetic vs. real data
    * Specific requirements of real-world applications


Important Dates

    * Abstract and paper submission: January 8, 2010 (final deadline!!!)
    * Author notification: February 2, 2010
    * On-site paper deadline: February 16, 2010
    * Camera-ready paper submission: April 26, 2010
    * Author registration: To be specified...
    * Workshop: April 4, 2010
    * Main conference: April 1 - 4, 2010


Organizers

    * Jiri Dokulil, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
    * Irena Mlynkova, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
    * Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic


Program Committee Chairs

    * Martin Necasky, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
    * Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia


Program Committee

    * Radim Baca, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
    * Geert Jan Bex, Hasselt University, Belgium
    * Martine Collard, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
    * Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
    * Agnes Koschmider, Institute AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
    * Kazuhiro Inaba, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    * Michal Kratky, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
    * Sebastian Link, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
    * Sebastian Maneth, University of New South Wales, Australia
    * Alexander Paar, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
    * Incheon Paik, The University of Aizu, Japan
    * Sherif Sakr, University of New South Wales, Australia
    * Dmitry Shaporenkov, University of Saint-Petersburg, Russia


Proceedings

Authors should submit papers reporting original works that are currently not 
under review or published elsewhere. The paper should be submitted in PDF 
format, with maximum length twelve (12) pages, following Springer-Verlag's 
LNCS manuscript submission guidelines, available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 

The review process will be two-round. During the first round each paper 
will be reviewed by 2-3 PC members for its technical merit, novelty and 
relevance to the workshop. On the basis of the reviews the PC chairs will 
prepare the list of accepted, borderline and rejected papers. During the 
second round the PC members will be asked to comment the list as well as 
all reviews. On the basis of this discussion the PC chairs will make the 
final decision.

All papers accepted by BenchmarX'10 will be published in a combined volume 
of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer in the 
form of conference post-proceedings. At the workshop site, informal on-site 
proceedings will be handed out as well.

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