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Nguyen Manh Tho | 1 Apr 08:23
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[Dbworld] DaWaK 2008: Paper Submission Deadline Extension 1 week to April 11, 2008

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline
of DaWaK 2008 is extended 1 week to April 11. This is the 
hard deadline and no more extension is allowed.

Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. 
Please send to interested colleagues and students.

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10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery            
                              (DaWaK 2008)
                          Turin, Italy
                       Sept. 1 to Sept. 5, 2008 
                         http://www.dexa.org/dawak
	Submission site: https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexadriver/
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Call for Papers
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Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key 
technology for enterprises and organisations to improve their abilities in
data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge
from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included
in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and
more complex in both structure and semantics. Consequently, the process
of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous
complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area.

During the past years, the International Conference on Data Warehousing and
Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) has become one of the most important
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Martin Wolpers | 1 Apr 13:03
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[Dbworld] CfP -KNOW '08 Special Track on User and Attention Models 08 (UAM'08)

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3 September 2008
Graz, Austria
http://www.i-know.at/
Special Track Information
http://triple-i.tugraz.at/i_know/special_tracks/ucum

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The I-KNOW '08 Special Track on "User Context and User Models" (UCUM
2008) addresses the emerging field of automatic user context detection
and the creation of user models based on mined context information. The
goals are to reliably identify a user's context automatically e.g. in
order to recommend information relevant to the task at hand and to mine
this collected context information e.g. in order to maintain the user's
profile. To reach these goals relevant user context sensors need to be
identified, user context information needs to be collected, represented,
analyzed in many ways, etc.

Original papers are solicited and will be reviewed by a board of
international experts.

Topics include but are not limited to:
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Epaminondas Kapetanios | 1 Apr 13:12
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[Dbworld] Accepted Papers at NLDB 2008

NLDB 2008: http://www.nldb.org

------FULL PAPERS (up to 12 pages)-------------------------

Ontological Profiles as Semantic Domain Representations
--Geir Solskinnsbakk, Jon Atle Gulla
----Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Using Linguistic Knowledge to Classify Non-functional Requirements in SRS documents
--Ishrar Hussain, Leila Kosseim, and Olga Ormandjieva
----Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

A Language Modelling Approach to Link Criminal Styles with Offender Characteristics
--Richard Bache, Fabio Crestani, David Canter, and Donna Youngs
----University of Strathclyde, Scotland / Centre for Investigative Psychology, England

Real-time News Event Extraction for Global Crisis Monitoring 
--Hristo Tanev, Jakub Piskorski and Martin Atkinson
----Joint Research Center of the European Commission

Natural Language Interface Configuration for the Typical Database System Administrator
--Michael Minock, Peter Olofsson and Alexander Naaslund
----Umea University, Sweden

Intensional Question Answering using ILP
--Philipp Cimiano, Helena Hartfiel and Sebastian Rudolph
----University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Exploiting morphological query structure using Genetic Optimization
--Lourdes Araujo, Hugo Zaragoza, José R. Pérez-Agüera
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Gregoris Mentzas | 1 Apr 13:48
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[Dbworld] CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Semantic EAI


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Semantic Enterprise Application Integration for Business Processes:
Service-Oriented Frameworks

http://www.imu.iccs.gr/semantic-eai-book

A book to be published by IGI Global (USA)

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The goal of Enterprise Applications Integration (EAI) is to integrate and streamline heterogeneous
business processes across different applications and business units, and to facilitate employees,
decision makers and business partners to readily access corporate and customer data no matter where it
resides. This business process fusion requires the transformation of business activities that could be
achieved by the integration of the interfaces of previously autonomous business processes by
pipelining different middleware technologies and enabling the effective (semi-automated) exchange
of information between various systems within a company or across enterprises. 

Although current EAI trends and technologies, like Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise
Service Bus (ESB), and Web Services technologies, are quite mature, if we try to increase the level of
automation in integration scenarios, we confront several problems and challenges, such as a) data and
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Alfio Ferrara | 1 Apr 15:02
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[Dbworld] Deadline Approaching: ESTEEM Workshop - Call for Papers

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ESTEEM'08 - First International Workshop on
Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in opEn systEMs
In cooperation with DEBS 2008
http://debs08.dis.uniroma1.it/workshops.php
July 1st, 2008 - Rome, Italy

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WORKSHOP THEME:
The growing need of sharing data and digital resources in open networked systems requires to go beyond
conventional information integration techniques and semantic interoperability architectures, in
order to
face the new challenging requirements that arise in the current evolving web of millions of autonomous
peers which need to cooperate by dynamically discovering and sharing their resources, such as data or
services. Data and services have thus to be exchangeable in open and dynamic environments, where
interacting peers do not necessarily share a common understanding of the world at hand and do not
have a complete picture of the context where the interaction occurs. Conversely, peers dynamically
produce new information or knowledge, create new semantic communities, and establish new forms of
semantic interoperability, based on dynamic, trustful agreements on common interpretations within
the context of a given task, referred to as emergent semantics.
To face the new requirements of emergent semantics cooperation contributions are required from
different communities such as distributed systems/services, data and information semantics, ontologies
and semantic web.
The ESTEEM workshop - to be held in conjunction with DEBS 2008 International Conference on
Distributed Event-Based Systems - originates from the ESTEEM research project and aims to bring
together researchers and practitioners from different communities on the theme of emergent semantics
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Mirko Viroli | 1 Apr 17:16
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[Dbworld] Call for Track Proposals: ACM SAC 2009 (Symposium on Applied Computing)

Call for Track Proposals: ACM SAC 2009 (Symposium on Applied Computing)

CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS – SAC 2009
The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 8 – 12, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009

For the past twenty-three years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and
international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers
to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)
is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online
through ACM's Digital Library.

SAC is based on a flexible structure of mostly self-contained and self-managed tracks. Over the past years
SAC hosted tracks on a variety of timely topics such as Software Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computer
Security, Database Technology, Data Mining, Embedded Systems, Evolutionary Computing, Distributed
Systems and Grid Computing, Mobile Computing, Programming Languages, and Web Technologies. SAC 2008,
which was held in Fortaleza, Brazil, consisted of 45 tracks that hosted 384 accepted papers out of about
1307 submissions. More information on past SAC events can be found at http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac.

The 24th Annual SAC meeting will be held March 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, and is hosted by the University
of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu. The conference Organizing Committee solicits
proposals for organizing and hosting tracks. Prospective track chairs should submit an up to two-page
description for organizing a track, which should include at least the following items:

1) The proposed title for the track with a description of its aims, topics it will cover, and rationale for
having such a track in SAC. This rationale should refer to any related conference events that are held
regularly and why the proposed track differs from them or complements them. The proposed track should not
be overly general but also not overly specialized, thus being able to attract a wide audience of people
sharing similar interests. Proposals from industry are also welcomed. Despite its name, SAC also
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Paolo Missier | 1 Apr 17:32
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[Dbworld] CFP: Quality in Databases QDB (VLDB workshop)


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                  CALL FOR PAPERS
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       Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB'08)
       August 25th, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand
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  In conjunction with VLDB 2008
      24th-30th August 2008

Web site: http://www.qdb08.org/
Contact: pmissier@...

FOCUS

    The term "data and information quality" denotes, in a broad sense, a set
of properties of the data that indicate various types of error conditions. 
 The ability to detect and correct these errors is critical to the functionality 
of a large number of applications, in areas ranging from business management to 
data-intensive science. In addition to the technical issues associated with
error management, data consumers are also faced with decisions regarding the 
quality levels appropriate for their application, and therefore with a 
trade-off between accepting the presence of errors, and the cost of detecting 
and correcting them. While these issues have been known for quite some time, 
novel applications still pose original challenges, while advances in data 
management technology offer ideas for novel approaches.

Building on the established tradition of 5 previous international workshops 
on the topic of Data and Information Quality, namely IQIS 2004-2006, 
CleanDB 2006 and QDB’07, the Quality in Databases (QDB) workshop is a
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Carl-Christian Kanne | 1 Apr 20:22
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[Dbworld] Klaus R. Dittrich Memorial Symposium

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             Klaus.R. Dittrich Memorial Symposium


                       3-4 July, 2008

              University of Zurich, Switzerland


                http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/krdsym


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We will hold a Database Symposium als a memorial and tribute to Klaus R. Dittrich, who passed away last November. With this symposium, we honor a truly outstanding researcher and wonderful colleague. Klaus R. Dittrich is known for many contributions to the database field, in particular his groundbreaking work on object-oriented databases.


Confirmed Speakers:


*  Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland

*  Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA

*  Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

*  Andreas Geppert, Credit Suisse, Switzerland

*  Alfons Kemper, Technical University Munich, Germany

*  Peter Lockemann, Prof. emeritus, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

*  Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA

*  David Maier, Portland State University, USA

*  Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany


Other speakers to be annnounced.


Please register at http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/krdsymp



Organizing Committee

Donald Kossmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland


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Christoph Koch | 1 Apr 20:39
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[Dbworld] WebDB 2008 -- Final CFP

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11th International Workshop on the Web and Databases  (WebDB 2008)

Friday, June 13, 2008 / Vancouver, Canada (co-located with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2008) http://webdb2008.como.polimi.it

Call for Papers 

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

The WebDB workshop focuses on providing a forum where researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners can
share their knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions at the intersection of data management
and the Web.
This year WebDB will focus on Web2.0 and Multimedia support for the Web, but papers on all aspects of the Web
and Databases are solicited.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
    * Business processes for applications on the Web
    * Data-oriented aspects of Web application development environments
    * Data Models for Web Information Systems
    * Query languages and systems for XML and Web data
    * Semi-structured data management
    * Web Information Extraction
    * Information retrieval in semi-structured data and the Web
    * Data integration over the Web
    * Warehousing of Web data
    * Data synchronization from hand-held devices to the Web
    * Data-intensive applications on the Web
    * Methodologies and tools for Web data publishing
    * Transactions on the Web
    * Web services and distributed computing over the Web
    * Security and integrity issues
    * Web-based distributed data management
    * Semantic Web and reasoning on Web data
    * Web Community Data Management Systems
    * Database Support for Social Web 2.0 applications
    * Multimedia Content Production, Storage and Search

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract and paper submission deadline: Sun, April 6, 2008 (midnight EST) Notification of acceptance:
Mon, May 12, 2008 Workshop date: Fri, June 13, 2008

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for
publication in any  other forum. Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files to the paper
submission site

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WEBDB2008/

and be formatted using the camera-ready templates available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html

Papers submitted cannot exceed six pages in length, including reference and appendix.

Besides regular paper submissions, WebDB 2008 also welcomes the submission of posters and software
demonstration proposals, to foster interaction on hot topics and ongoing work. Posters and demo
proposals should be 2 pages long when formatted using the ACM style. Demonstration proposals should
outline the context and highlights of the software to be presented, and briefly describe the demo
scenario. Posters submissions should focus on innovative work related to WebDB's topics of interest; we
encourage the joint submission of posters describing new concepts and fundamental results and of demo
proposals of software developed based on those new concepts.  Electronic versions of the papers will be
included in the ACM Digital Library.  All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper
will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. 

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

    * Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    * Christoph Koch, Cornell University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

# Amer-Yahia Sihem, Yahoo Research, USA
# Benedikt Michael, Oxford University, UK
# Casati Fabio, Università di Trento, Italy
# Cabibbo Luca, Università di Roma 3, Italy
# Chee Yong Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
# Deutsch Alin, UC San Diego, USA
# Doan AnHai, University of Wisconsin, USA
# Dolog Peter, Aalborg University, Denmark
# Dong Luna, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
# Dustdar Schahram, Vienna University of Technology,  Austria
# Gertz Michael, UC Davis,  USA
# Goh Angela, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
# Houben Geert Jan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
# Michel Sebastian, EPFL, Switzerland
# Miklau Gerome, University of Massachusetts, USA
# Nejdl Wolfgang, University of Hannover, Germany
# Petropoulos Michalis,    University of Buffalo, USA
# Scherzinger Stefanie, IBM, Germany
# Schewe Klaus-Dieter, Massey University, New Zealand
# Shan Ming-Chien, SAP, USA
# Shanmugasundaram Jayavel, Yahoo Research, USA
# Teniente Ernest, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

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Carl-Christian Kanne | 1 Apr 21:16
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[Dbworld] Klaus R. Dittrich Memorial Symposium (corrected)

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             Klaus.R. Dittrich Memorial Symposium

                       July 3-4, 2008
              University of Zurich, Switzerland

                http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/krdsym

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We will hold a Database Symposium als a memorial and tribute to Klaus R. Dittrich, who passed away last
November. With this symposium, we honor a truly outstanding researcher and wonderful colleague. Klaus
R. Dittrich is known for many contributions to the database field, in particular his groundbreaking work
on object-oriented databases.

Confirmed Speakers:

*  Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
*  Umesh Dayal, HP Labs, USA
*  Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
*  Andreas Geppert, Credit Suisse, Switzerland
*  Alfons Kemper, Technical University Munich, Germany
*  Peter Lockemann, Prof. emeritus, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
*  Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
*  David Maier, Portland State University, USA
*  Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

Other speakers to be annnounced.

Please register at http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/krdsymp

Organizing Committee
Donald Kossmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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