Reminder: The submission deadline is extended to March 26, 2007!!!
              

                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

  SIGMOD2007 PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR2007)

                      In conjunction with SIGMOD2007

                      June 10, 2007, Beijing, China

                   http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/phd-idar2007/

Aims:

The Ph.D. Workshop on innovative database technogy is intended to bring together
Ph.D. students working on topics related to the SIGMOD conference series.
The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss,
and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international atmosphere.
The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the
fields of database technology. These accompanying professors will participate
actively and contribute to the discussions.

The workshop is co-located with the SIGMOD2007. The workshop language is English.

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Topics of Interest:

As for the SIGMOD conferences series, all topics from the field of database technology
are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop. These topics include (but are not limited to):
  - Benchmarking and performance evaluation
  - Data quality, semantics and integration
  - Database monitoring and tuning
  - Data privacy and security
  - Data mining and OLAP
  - Embedded, sensor and mobile databases
  - Indexing, searching and database querying
  - Managing uncertain and imprecise information
  - Novel/ Advanced applications and systems
  - Peer-to-peer and networked data management
  - Personalized information systems
  - Query processing and optimization
  - Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
  - Semi-structured data
  - Storage and transaction management
  - Web services

Submission

Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format
to xfmeng@ruc.edu.cn, yuge@ise.neu.edu.cn. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages,
the format is according to ACM SIG proceedings template.

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral
work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended:

  - A clear formulation of the research question.
  - An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
  - An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of
    existing solutions.
  - A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved
    so far.
  - A sketch of the applied research methodology.
  - A description of the Ph.D. project''s contribution to the problem solution.
  - A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to
    existing approaches to the problem.

The intention of this workshop is to support and inspire Ph.D. candidates during their ongoing
research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will have neither achieved their
Ph.D. degree nor submitted their thesis before the Ph.D workshop (June 12, 2006). To enforce
this rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their advisor''s
name when submitting.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will appear on the
SIGMOD DISC.

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Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 (Extended!!!!)
Notification to authors: April 19, 2007
Camera ready version: May 9, 2007
Ph.D. Workshop: June 10, 2007

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Workshop Organization Committee

PC Co-Chairs:

Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China

Advisory Committee:

Yannis Ioannidis, National University of Athens, Greece 
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mike Stonebraker, MIT, USA
Jeffrey Ullman, Standford, USA
Kyu-Young Whang , KAIST, Korea
Longxiang Zhou, Institute of Mathematics, CAS, China

Program Committee:

Paolo Atzeni, Universita di Roma Tre, Italy
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Xiaoyong Du, Remin University, China
Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
Stephane Grumbach, The Sino-French IT Lab Institute of Automation, China
Ning Gu, Fudan University, China
Hiroyuki Kitagawa,University of Tsukuba, Japan
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri,University of Melbourne, Australia
Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Chen Li, University of California at Irvine, USA
Jianzhong Li, Harbin University of Technology, China
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Zhanhuai Li, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Weiyi Meng, Binghamton University, USA
Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
Philippe Pucheral, INRIA, France 
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT, Bombay, India
Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Junyi Shen, Xi''an Jiaotong University, China
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore
Daling Wang, Northeastern University, China
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Haixun Wang, IBM Research, USA
Sean X. Wang, University of Vermont, USA
Jirong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Yuqing Wu, Indiana University, USA
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Jeffrey X. Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Karine Zeitouni, PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, France
Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan, USA
Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China