Final CFP, 20th Intl. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM)

The paper submission site for SSDBM 2008 is now open!

Visit http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssdbm08 or follow the link
from the conference website.

Abstracts are due January 11th, paper submissions are due January 18th.

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                               Call For Papers
                       20th International Conference on
                Scientific and Statistical Database Management
                               July 9-11, 2008
                               Hong Kong, China

http://www.cs.hku.hk/~ssdbm/<http://www.cs.hku.hk/%7Essdbm/>
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The SSDBM conference series focuses on concepts, tools, and techniques for
scientific and statistical database applications. The 2008 meeting marks the
20th time that scientific domain experts, databases researchers,
practitioners
and developers will come together to share their new insights and to discuss
in
a stimulating environment future research directions. The conference will
consist of a single track of presentations, including invited talks and
peer-reviewed papers selected from among the submissions to this call for
papers, and panel discussions. The conference proceedings will be published
as
a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

SSDBM will address all areas of scientific and statistical database
management.
We solicit research papers (up to 18 pages LNCS style) describing original
work
not published or under review elsewhere. Papers selected after peer review
will
be included in the conference proceedings and presented orally at the
conference.

Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
* Scientific data management in all domains, e.g. environmental health,
biology,
 genomics, Earth science, physics, and astronomy
* Spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, semantic models for scientific domains
* Ontologies for space and time
* Scientific computing with domain ontologies
* Conceptual models, data models, knowledge representation of scientific
data
* Statistical data analysis of scientific and large-scale data sets
* Similarity comparisons of datasets
* Summarization of large-scale datasets
* Mining of large-scale scientific and statistical datasets
* Exploratory analysis and modeling of scientific and statistical datasets
* Experiment data and process management
* Scientific data integration
* Cyberinfrastructure for scientific computing and eScience
* Scientific workflow models, design, management, and optimization
* Provenance in scientific databases and workflows
* Visualization of complex scientific data
* Metadata management for scientific data
* Storage, querying, and analysis of sensor streams
* Privacy protection in scientific and statistical datasets
* System architectures in support of scientific applications

We also invite short papers (up to 6 pages LNCS style) describing systems
and
software demonstrations or discussing new ideas or work in an early stage.
Accepted short papers will be featured in a poster-and-demonstration
session.
See the conference web site for submission details.

Important Dates:
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* January 11, 2008: Abstracts due
* January 18, 2008: Full and short papers due
* March 3, 2008 : Notification of acceptance
* April 4, 2008 : Camera-ready papers due

General Chair
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Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong

Program Co-Chairs
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Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine
Bertram Ludäscher, University of California, Davis

Program Committee
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Claudio Bettini, Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano
Ken Barker, University of Calgary
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University
Gilberto Câmara, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias, Brazil
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jim Frew, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Gertz, University of California, Davis
Carole Goble, University of Manchester
Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore
Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University
Martin Kersten, CWI, Netherlands
Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University
Francesco Malvestuto, Universitŕ "La Sapienza" di Roma
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Singapore Management University
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta
Frank Neven, Universiteit Hasselt
Silvia Nittel, University of Maine
Moira Norrie, ETH Zuerich
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Philippe Rigaux, Université Paris-Dauphine
Doron Rotem, Lawrance Berkeley National Laboratory
Bernhard Seeger, Phillipps-University Marburg
Kurt Stockinger, Lawrance Berkeley National Laboratory
Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

SSDBM Steering Committee
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A. Shoshani (chair), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
M. A. Hammad, University of Calgary, Canada
W. Grossmann, University of Vienna
J. Frew, University California, Santa Barbara
Y. Manolopoulos, Department of Informatics, University of Thessaloniki
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Received on Thu Jan 10 11:19:00 2008