Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2010: confirmed PC members and CfP

Call for Papers Joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop 2010 Lausanne, Switzerland, March 22, 2010 Please forward this call to your Ph.D. Students News * Announcement of PC members * Submission site for the workshop is now open; URL: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edbt_2010 Important Notes about the Submission Process - Only submissions including abstract, advisor and paper will be accepted for the review process! - Please put the name of your advisor directly below the abstract of you paper (i.e. as last line of your abstract), when submitting your abstract to the submission system - Please also put the name of your advisor on the first page of your submission, right below your name following this scheme: "Advisor: *name of your advisor*" - Please select the Joint EDB/ICDT PhD Workshop as track when being asked for during the submission process - Submissions may be updated until the final deadline using the conference management system In case you are encountering any problems during the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs. Introduction The joint EDBT/ICDT Ph.D. Workshop is intended to bring together Ph.D. students working on topics related to the EDBT and the ICDT conference series. The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of database technology and theory. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The workshop is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EDBT/ICDT 2010 joint conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. The workshop language is English. Topics of Interest As for the EDBT/ICDT conferences series, all topics from the field of database technology and theory are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop including the transfer of database technologies, algorithms and theories to new problem domains (e.g. life sciences). These topics include (but are not limited to): * Active Databases * Advanced Query Processing and Optimization * Ambient-aware Database Applications * Approximate Queries * Authorization and Security * Autonomic Databases * Biological Databases and Bioinformatics * Component-based Information Systems * Constraint and Rule Management * Data Integration Methods * Data Management in Computer Games * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery * Data Models and Database Design * Data Warehousing and OLAP * Database Applications and Experiences * Database Performance and Benchmarks * E-Commerce, Workflow and Databases * Federated Databases, Middleware and Interoperability * Knowledge Management Systems * Geographic Information Systems * Imprecise and Uncertain Information * Indexing, Access Methods, Data Structures * Information Integration Methods * IT-Infrastructure Management and Enterprise Modeling * Legacy Databases * Logic and Databases * Medical Databases and Data Management * Mobile Computing and Databases * Multimedia Databases * Object-Relational Database Systems * Parallel and Distributed Databases * Peer-to-Peer and Networked Databases * Privacy Techniques for Databases * Query Languages and User Interfaces * Real-Time Database Systems * Replication, Caching, Materialized Views * Repository Systems and Model Management * Scientific and Statistical Databases * Self-healing Databases * Semantic Web Databases and Ontologies * Semi-structured Data, Metadata and XML * Spatial and Temporal Databases * Stream Processing, Continuous Queries and Sensor Databases * Text Storage and Retrieval * Transactions and Recovery * Trustworthy Databases * World-Wide Web and Databases Submission Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format before 24.00 CET (Central European Time) on October 29th, 2009. The paper length must not exceed 6 pages (including all parts!). The paper has to be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (please use A4 as paper size NOT letter). Workshop and paper language is English. You can post your submission using the following URL (please select the "EDBT_2010 PhD Workshop" as track for your submission): http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=edbt_2010 In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended: - A clear formulation of the research question. - An identification of the significant problems in the field of research. - An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions. - A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far. - A sketch of the applied research methodology. - A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution. - A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem. Please note, that similar to a Ph.D. thesis, only a single author is allowed per submission to the Ph.D. workshop. If several Ph.D. students, usually working together as a team, want to submit, every team member has to submit individually. The Ph.D. advisor is not stated as co-author. The intention of this workshop is to support and inspire Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor officially submitted their thesis before the Ph.D. workshop (March 22, 2010). To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting. Ph.D. students that have already published significant parts of their work at some other major conference (e.g. SIGMOD, VLDB, ER, ICDE, etc.) are asked to step back and offer other Ph.D. students the opportunity to discuss their research topics. Accepted submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. Furthermore, we plan to publish post-workshop proceedings of selected and revised submissions in the ACM Digital Library, as we did in the last years. Once again, we plan to award a prize for the best submission. Participants should register for the EDBT/ICDT conference itself at student rate. Program Committee * Michael Benedikt (UK) * Michela Bertolotto (Ireland) * Angela Bonifati (Italy) * Stefano Ceri (Italy) * Olivier Curé (France) * Georgios Evangelidis (Greece) * Minos Garofalakis (Greece) * Holger Günzel (Germany) * Wook-Shin Han (Korea) * Jan Hidders (Belgium) * Annika Hinze (New Zealand) * Milena Ivanova (Netherlands) * Stefan Jablonski (Germany) * Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia) * Carl-Christian Kanne (Germany) * Wolfgang Lehner (Germany) * Wolfgang Lindner (Germany) * Marco Mesiti (Italy) * Mohamed Mokbel (USA) * Erich Neuhold (Germany) * Boris Novikov (Russia) * Dimitris Plexousakis (Greece) * Andreas Reuter (Germany) * Marc H. Scholl (Germany) * Andrey Simanovsky (Russia) * Patrick Valduriez (France) * Jan van den Bussche (Belgium) Contact Addresses Workshop Chair: Sascha Mueller (sascha.mueller.at.hs-ansbach.de) Co-Chair: Bernhard Volz (bernhard.volz.at.uni-bayreuth.de) Local Organization: N.N. Important Dates Deadline for submission: October 29, 2009 Notification to authors: December 08, 2009 Camera ready version: January 10, 2010 Ph.D. Workshop: March 22, 2010 oo-oo