CFP: 22th Intl. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS 22nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2010) June 30 - July 2, 2010 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.ssdbm2010.org The SSDBM conference series focuses on concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. The 2010 meeting marks the 22nd time that scientific domain experts, database researchers, practitioners and developers will come together to share new insights and to discuss future research directions in a stimulating environment. The conference will consist of a single track of presentations, including invited talks, peer-reviewed papers, system and tool demonstrations, and panel discussions. The conference proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. We solicit full papers (up to 18 pages LNCS style) describing original work not published or under review elsewhere. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the conference. Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to): * Modeling and representation of data, metadata, ontologies, and processes for scientific application domains * Integration and exchange of scientific data * Design, implementation, and optimization of scientific workflows * Cyberinfrastructure architectures and components for scientific computing and eScience, including Web portals, repositories, and digital libraries * System architectures in support of scientific data management and analysis, including distributed, parallel, and Grid architectures * Management and querying of scientific data, including spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and streaming data * Annotation and provenance of scientific and statistical data * Mining and analysis of large-scale scientific datasets * Security, privacy, and trust for scientific and statistical data * Visualization and exploration of large-scale scientific datasets * Case studies and applications related to scientific data management in all domains We also invite short papers (up to 9 pages LNCS style) describing systems and software demonstrations or discussing new ideas or work in an early stage. Accepted short papers will be featured in poster-and-demonstration sessions and will be included in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES January 8, 2010: Deadline for abstract submission January 15, 2010: Deadline for paper submission March 12, 2010: Notification of paper acceptance April 9, 2010: Camera-ready version of accepted papers Conference dates: June 30 - July 2, 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Andreas Reuter, European Media Laboratories Research gGmbH Program Chair Michael Gertz, University of Heidelberg Program Co-Chairs Tony Hey, Microsoft Research Bertram Ludäscher, University of California at Davis Local Organization Chair Wolfgang Müller, European Media Laboratories Research gGmbH