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Call for Papers
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Information Systems (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/is/), Elsevier
(http://www.elsevier.com), Special Issue on "Advances in Managing, Updating
and Querying Exact and Uncertain Sensor and Stream Databases"
(http://si.deis.unical.it/cuzzocrea/IS2010/).
Chair
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Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/cuzzocrea/), ICAR-CNR and
University of Calabria, Italy
Aim and Scope
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The issue of effectively and efficiently managing, updating and querying
sensor and stream databases is gaining increasing attention from the
database research community. Sensor and stream databases arise in a plethora
of emerging application scenarios, ranging from environmental sensor
networks to supply chains, from low-level communication networks to RFID
deployments, from stock quote tools to network monitoring components, from
scientific database applications to statistical analysis environments, and
so forth.
In all the application scenarios above, sensor and stream data is both
uncertain and imprecise. Uncertainty and imprecision in sensor and stream
data derive from the intrinsic processes generating such data, which may
suffer from missing data or faults of sensors/stream-sources, errors
occurring in the transmission layer of sensor/stream networks, probabilistic
nature of signals traversing sensor/stream networks, and so forth.
While traditional challenges of sensor and stream processing
(bounded-memory, single-pass processing, blocking query operators,
multi-rate arrivals, and so forth) affect managing, updating and querying
exact sensor and stream databases, additional challenges arise when dealing
with novel uncertain sensor and stream databases. Hence, innovative models,
algorithms and techniques for managing, updating and querying uncertain
sensor and stream databases must be devised, perhaps embedding probabilistic
or statistical approaches.
With these goals in mind, the proposed IS special issue will cover
theoretical as well as practical aspects of managing, updating and querying
exact and uncertain sensor and stream databases, thus constituting a
milestone in sensor and stream database research, with a rare multi-aspect
research vision spanning from elegant models and formalisms to effective and
comprehensive methodologies and efficient algorithms.
Relevant research areas for the proposed IS special issue include, but are
not limited to, the following ones:
- advanced query algorithms for exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- complex query predicates on exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases (e.g., aggregation predicates);
- temporal and multi-version queries on exact and uncertain sensor and
stream databases;
- preference queries on exact and uncertain sensor and stream databases;
- probabilistic queries on exact and uncertain sensor and stream databases;
- pub-sub primitives in networked exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- cleaning methodologies over exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- pruning/deletion methodologies over exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- querying multiple exact and uncertain sensor and stream databases;
- fusion primitives in networked exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- model-driven acquisition methods for exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- handling massive-in-size sensor and stream databases;
- compressed representations of exact and uncertain sensor and stream
databases;
- mediator-based architectures for networked exact and uncertain sensor and
stream databases.
Schedule
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Submission of full papers: 30 September 2010
First decision notification: 15 November 2010
Submission revised papers: 15 December 2010
Final decision notification: 15 January 2011
Final materials to Elsevier: 30 January 2011
Estimated publication date: 2011
Submission Guidelines and Instructions
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All manuscripts will be rigorously refereed by at least three reviewers
among people of widely-recognized expertise. Submission of a manuscript to
this special issue implies that no similar paper is already accepted or will
be submitted to any other conference or journal.
Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at:
www.elsevier.com/locate/is/
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through
Elsevier Editorial System (EES). Authors must select "Special Issue: Exc. &
Unc. Sensor & Stream DBs" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the
submission process. The EES Web site for "Information Systems" is available
at: http://ees.elsevier.com/is/
For more information and any inquire, please contact Alfredo Cuzzocrea
(http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it