IDEAS

IDEAS-08 is the twelfth meeting in a series of symposia and workshops to address issues on the engineering and application of databases. The series was inaugurated in 1997 and has been held annually ever since, in North America, Europe, and Asia. Following the IDEAS tradition, these proceedings include quality papers presenting original ideas and new findings on applied technological and theoretical aspects of information technology. The Program Committee and the referees have ensured this quality for the papers through careful refereeing of the submitted papers. Each paper was reviewed by at least three external referees who acquired consensus through extensive discussions whenever necessary. The program reflects a high quality as indicated by the less than 35 % acceptance rate and consists of full and short papers. All submissions have gone through a full review process and the average review per paper was over 3.7. The overall acceptance rate of IDEAS in its pre-teen years is reported at length in a companion report in these proceedings.