CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                SMDB 2012

                              Seventh International Workshop on

                                Self-Managing Database Systems

               http://smdb2012.dvs.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/

                                             April 1, 2012

                              In conjunction with ICDE 2012

                     April 1-5, 2012 Washington DC, USA

 

                                                           

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

* Papers due: November 15, 2011             

* Notification: December 7, 2011             

* Camera-ready copies: December 18, 2011

 

DESCRIPTION

 

Autonomic, or self-managing, systems are a promising approach to achieve the goal of systems that are easier to use and maintain in the face of growing system complexity. A system is considered to be autonomic if it is self-configuring, self-optimizing, self-healing and/or self-protecting. The aim of the SMDB workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from both industry and academia to present and discuss ideas and experiences related to self-management and self-organization in all areas of Information Management (IM) in general. SMDB targets not only classical databases but also the new generation of storage engines such as column stores, key-value stores, and in-memory databases. Beyond databases, SMDB aims to cover autonomic aspects of data-intensive systems represented by large-scale map-reduce (e.g., Hadoop) and cloud environments, where much work on self-management is needed. Last but not least, SMDB seeks to expand its horizons to include self-management of non-traditional, new areas of IM such as social networks, distributed gaming, and peer-to-peer systems.

Research and development in database management systems has been instrumental in accomplishing some of the goals of autonomic systems by developing and incorporating strategies for physical database design, problem diagnosis, load balancing, self-tuning, and self-optimization. New challenges arising from multi-tenant databases, virtualization, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and large data-intensive systems, such as social networks, distributed gaming, and peer-to-peer systems require new research.

Early workshops of the SMDB series focused on core topics in self-managing databases such as automated tuning and provisioning, automated problem diagnosis and recovery, and automated data protection and integration. Since 2010 the scope of the workshop has been broadened to include new topics in the core database area, such as multi-tenant databases and data management in cloud computing, but also drawing in other communities, such as, peer-to-peer computing and distributed systems. For the 2012 SMDB workshop, we want to continue to attract researchers from both the core database and other communities, such as the adaptive and event-based systems communities as enabling technologies for self-managing systems, and data-intensive internet-scale distributed systems, which should benefit from research results in SMDBs.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Principles and architecture of autonomic data management systems

• Retro-fitting existing systems vs. designing for self management

• Self-* capabilities in databases and storage systems

• Data management in cloud and multi-tenant databases

• Autonomic capabilities in database-as-a-service platforms

• Automated testing of data management systems

• Automated physical database design and adaptive query tuning

• Automated provisioning and integration

• Automatic enforcement of information quality

• Self-managing distributed / decentralized / peer-to-peer information systems

• Self-management of internet-scale distributed systems

• Self-managing and adaptive aspects in social network systems

• Monitoring and diagnostics in data management systems

• Policy automation and visualization for data center administration

• User acceptance and trust of autonomic capabilities

• Evaluation criteria and benchmarks for self-managing systems

• Self-evaluation of data management services in the cloud

• Use cases and war stories on deploying autonomic capabilities

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English of up to 6 pages in IEEE camera-ready format (templates are available at the ICDE 2012 submission guidelines page) to the submission site https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SMDB2012/. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages for final publication. All papers accepted by the workshop will appear in the formal Proceedings of the Conference Workshops published by IEEE CS Press, and will therefore be included in the IEEE digital library. More information can be found on the workshop web site: http://smdb2012.dvs.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/

 

 

ORGANIZERS

 

PC Chairs

               Alex Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

               Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

 

PC Members

               Ashraf Aboulnaga (Waterloo University, Canada)

               Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL, Switzerland)

               Shivnath Babu (Duke University, USA)

               Michael Gesmann (Software AG, Germany)

               Sam Lightstone (IBM, Canada)

               Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden, USA)

               Pat Martin (Queen’s University, Canada)

               Gero Mühl (U. Rostock, Germany)

               Stefan Manegold (CWI, Netherlands)

               Anisoara Nica (SAP-Sybase, USA)

               Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College, England)

               Neoklis Polizotis (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)

               Christopher Re (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

               Ken Salem (Waterloo University, Canada)

               Kai-Uwe Sattler (T.U. Ilmenau, Germany)

               Florian Waas (EMC, USA)

               Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen, Germany)