-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: Information Systems, Elsevier Special Issue on Sensor and Stream Databases Datum: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:41:36 +0200 Von: Alfredo Cuzzocrea cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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