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CALL FOR PAPERS
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VLDB 2004 marks the
30th anniversary of the premier international forum for database researchers,
vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users. We invite submissions
reporting original results on all aspects of data management as well as
proposals for panels, tutorials, demonstrations, and exhibits that will
present the most critical issues and views on practical leading-edge database
technology, applications, and techniques. We also invite proposals for
events and workshops that may take place at the Conference site before
or after VLDB 2004.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
VLDB 2004 invites
submissions on new contributions in the
field of data management, including novel usage of data management technology.
VLDB 2004 strongly encourages the submission of creative work that goes
beyond improvements of already known results. Submissions
may cover novel approaches in data management, visions that present new
viewpoints and challenges, or a description of the implementation or deployment
of advanced database technology in an industrial or application setting.
Furthermore, since new challenging applications appear on the horizon,
papers that describe those with respect to their technical substance,
their impact, and their importance and relate them to today's database
technology are also solicited.
VLDB 2004 will continue
the recently adopted policy of broadening the range of topics
covered at the conference beyond core database system technology and to
address novel approaches rather than dwelling on incremental improvements
of existing results. Consequently, VLDB 2004 will be organized into three
tracks, each with its own Program Committee (PC):
· Core Database System Technology
· Infrastructure for Information Systems
· Industrial Applications & Experience
The Core Database
Technology PC will evaluate papers that report on technology that is meant
to be incorporated in the database system itself. This includes database
engine functions, such as query languages, data models, query processing,
views, integrity constraints, triggers, access methods, and transactions
in centralized, distributed, replicated, parallel, mobile, and wireless
environments. It also includes extended data types, such as multimedia,
spatial and temporal data, and system engineering issues, such as performance,
high availability, security, manageability, and ease-of-use. Papers on
all aspects of active and object databases, storage technology, and data
management system architecture should be submitted to the Core Database
Technology PC.
The PC covering Infrastructure for Information Systems will evaluate papers
that report on methods, issues, and problems faced during the design,
development and deployment of innovative solutions for information management.
It also covers middleware and tools that exploit database technology,
but are typically not part of a database system itself. Examples include
workflow, advanced transaction processing features, application servers,
object monitors, services in support of E-commerce, mediators and other
web-oriented data facilities, metadata repositories, data and process
modeling, web services, user interfaces and data visualization, data translation
and migration, data cleaning, multi-agent systems, and system management.
Papers on topics others than those mentioned
which cover the area of Infrastructure for Information Systems are also
welcome.
The PC on Industrial Applications & Experience solicits submissions
covering innovative commercial database implementations, novel applications
of database technology, and experience in applying recent research advances
to practical situations. Such papers should describe innovative implementations,
new approaches to fundamental challenges (such as very large scale or
semantic complexity), or major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice.
Our objective is to challenge people from industry to articulate the unsolved
problems they face or encounter when they apply DB technology in their
environments. The papers should communicate the challenges which members
of the DB community should address more aggressively. The track is VLDB's
way to foster the exchange of ideas and solutions between research and
industry. Application areas include those of Bioinformatics/Life Science,
Engineering, Mobile Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other
areas all of which pose technical challenges to the field of data management.
Industrial application & experience submissions may be either full
papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions or
extended abstracts.
In some cases, material might cut across more than one of the tracks,
and indeed we strongly encourage papers that pursue some of the ties between
them. Examples include data mining, web-related work, and XML. We leave
it up to the discretion of the authors to which PCs they submit their
paper depending on the prevailing contribution. If in doubt, we suggest
to contact one of the PC chairpersons. The program committee reserves
the right to move papers between the PC's to ensure the fairest possible
evaluation.
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