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PODS 2006 Call For Papers

25th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART SYMPOSIUM ON PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS http://www.umich.edu/sigmod-pods06 Chicago, 26--28 June 2006

The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundation of database systems. For the 25th edition, original research papers providing new insights in the specification, design, or implementation of data management tools are called for. Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following (as they pertain to databases):

algorithms; complexity; computational model theory; concurrency; constraints; data integration; data mining; data modeling; data on the Web; data streams; data warehouses; distributed databases; information retrieval; knowledge bases; logic; multimedia; physical design; privacy; quantitative approaches; query languages; query optimization; real-time data; recovery; scientific data; security; semantic Web; semi-structured data; spatial data; temporal data; transactions; updates; views; Web services; workflows; XML.

Papers should be at most ten pages, using reasonable page layout and font size. Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the program committee. The submission process will be through the Web.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Short abstracts by 1 December 2005 Paper submissions by 8 December 2005 Notification by 23 February 2006 Camera-ready copy by 31 March 2006

BEST PAPER AWARD:

An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the program committee.

BEST NEWCOMER AWARD:

There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the program committee, written solely by authors who have never published in earlier PODS proceedings.

The program committee reserves the right to give both awards to the same paper, not to give an award, or to split an award among several papers. Papers authored or co-authored by PC members are not eligible for an award.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Pankaj K. Agarwal, Duke U Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile Mike Atallah, Purdue U Leo Bertossi, Carleton U Gautam Das, U Texas Arlington Alin Deutsch, UC San Diego Alan Fekete, U Sydney Samir Khuller, U Maryland Michael Kifer, SUNY Stony Brook Nicola Leone, U Calabria Mark Levene, Birkbeck U London Maarten Marx, U Amsterdam Gerome Miklau, UMass Amherst Chung Keung Poon, City U Hong Kong Yehoshua Sagiv, Hebrew U Jerusalem Michael Schwartzbach, U Aarhus Nicole Schweikardt, Humboldt U Berlin Wang-Chiew Tan, UC Santa Cruz David Toman, U Waterloo Jan Van den Bussche (chair), Hasselt U Dirk Van Gucht, Indiana U Limsoon Wong, Institute for Infocomm Research Carlo Zaniolo, UC Los Angeles