Call for Demo Proposals: DASFAA 2010

Call for Demo Proposals The 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010): April 1-4 2010, Tsukuba, Japan http://dasfaa2010.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/ The DASFAA 2010 Demo program aims to bring together researchers, developers, and database users from the data management and Web communities. It offers an exciting and highly interactive way of demonstrating your databases, systems, services, middleware, and Web research and is an excellent way of advertising the applicability of your results. Proposals for demonstrations of products or prototypes based on innovative research results are solicited. It is mandatory that all demo proposals describe clearly what will be demonstrated and how the contributions will be illustrated interactively. Optionally, proposals can include a URL that shows a preliminary version of the demo (e.g., screenshots or, even better, an interactive program). A BEST DEMO AWARD will also be given out to the best demo(s) presented in the demo session during the conference. Areas: DASFAA 2010 demo track will showcase leading edge work and work in progress in every area of databases, Web, and their applications. We are especially interested in products or prototypes in the following areas: * Data model and query language * Query processing and optimization * Data structure and index * Storage and transaction management * Performance evaluation and tuning * Data warehouse and OLAP * Database system applications * Temporal and spatial databases * Parallel and distributed databases * Mobile databases * Data management in P2P and grid * Sensor data management * Multimedia databases * XML and semi-structured data * Data streams and time-series data * Data mining and knowledge discovery * Data quality and credibility * Security and privacy * User interfaces * Data archive and digital library * Information recommendation * Search technology * Web mining * Information extraction and summarization * Statistical and scientific databases * Data management in the Internet and the Web * Information integration and meta-data management * Text databases and information retrieval Submission: All submitted demo proposals must be formatted according to the instructions for submission format for research submissions and must be no longer than four (4) pages in the Springer LNCS format. This page limit includes all parts of the paper: title, authors and affiliation, abstract, body, and bibliography. Accepted demo proposals will appear in the final proceedings (subject to approval by the proceedings publisher). Demos will be selected based on (i) the novelty of the demo, (ii) the novelty and the technical quality of the underlying research, and (iii) the attractiveness of the demonstrated system. Demo proposals should be submitted via the conference submission site. https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DASFAA2010/Default.aspx Please note that for every accepted demo, it is required that at least one person registers for the conference and presents the demo. Important Dates: Proposal must be submitted by: September 22, 2009 Notification (acceptance or rejection) by: November 27, 2009 Camera-ready must be submitted by: December 18, 2009 DASFAA 2010 Demonstration Co-Chairs Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan) Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)