Call for Participation-COMAD 2009-Mysore Karnataka

15th International Conference on Management of Data COMAD 2009, Dec 9-12 2009 http://www.isim.ac.in/comad2009/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION For close to two decades the COMAD - International Conference on Management of Data has been the premier international database conference hosted in India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on a nearly annual basis since then (except for a few breaks such as in the years when VLDB and ICDE were held in India). COMAD has always had a significant international participation, with about 30% of the papers being from outside India, including Europe, USA and East/South-East Asia. The 15th COMAD is Organised by International School of Information Management (ISiM) from December 9-12, 2009, at Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2009 not only includes paper from traditional database areas but also on Web technologies, Information Retrieval and Data Mining. For the first time, COMAD also features a co-located PhD Students' Symposium to be held at the premises of ISiM on Dec 9, 2009. A summary of COMAD 2009 program follows: Keynote addresses: Querying for relations from the semi-structured Web -- Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India Fraud, Anonymization, and Privacy in the Internet: A Database Perspective -- Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Challenges in Data Mining -- Rakesh Agrawal, Microsoft Research, USA Tutorials: Information Integration: Challenges and Approaches -- Sharma Chakravarthy, UT-Austin, USA The Strange and Wondrous Ways of Industrial-strength Database Query Optimizers -- Jayant Haritsa, Indian Institute of Science, India Exploring Interaction Networks for Services Industry -- Sameep Mehta, Vinayaka Pandit and S. Kameshwaran In addition, COMAD 2009 features the following research sessions with 3-4 papers in each: Data Management, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Industrial Applications, Graph Data Management and Mining and Data Streams Management. COMAD 2009 also features a demo session, industrial sponsor session and a gong show. Registration for COMAD may be done online at http://www.isim.ac.in/comad2009 Important Dates: Early-Bird Registration Ends: 25 November 2009 PhD Workshop: 9 December 2009 Conference: 10-12 December 2009 We look forward to seeing you in Mysore!