The 14th International Conference on
Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Brisbane, Australia, April 2123,2009
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dasfaa

INTRODUCTION

DASFAA is an annual international database conference, located in the Asia-Pacific region, which showcases state-of-the-art R & D activities in database systems and their applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry. DASFAA 2009, the 14th in the series, will be held from 21-23 April 2009 in Brisbane, Australia.

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AREAS OF INTEREST

Original papers on database theory, technology and practice are solicited. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Query Languages and Query Optimization

• Multidatabases and Federated Databases

• Security and Integrity maintenance

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

• Statistical and Scientific Databases

• Parallel and Distributed Databases

• Data Warehouses

• Concurrent Control and Data Recovery

• Information Retrieval and Database Systems

• Metadata and Semantic Web

• Business Process Management

• E-Commerce

• Web Services

• Data Quality and Incomplete Data

• Multimedia Databases

• Internet and WWW Data Management

• Digital Libraries

• User Interfaces

• Temporal, Spatial and Mobile Databases

• Active Databases and Applications

• Data Streams

• P2P and Grid-Based Data Management

• Sensor Data Management

• XML Databases

• New Database Applications

CONFERENCE OFFICERS

General Co-Chairs:
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)
Haruo Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)
Alan Fekete (University of Sydney, Australia)
Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University, China)

Workshops Co-Chairs:
Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Demo Co-Chairs:
Wei Wang (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Marek Kowalkiewicz (SAP Research, Australia)

Panel Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Athman Bouguttaya (CSIRO, Australia)

Organization Committee Chair:
Shazia Sadiq (University of Queensland, Australia)

Publicity Chair:
James Bailey (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Publication Co-Chairs:
Qing Liu (CSIRO, Australia)
Ke Deng (University of Queensland, Australia)

Web Chair:
Gabriel Fung (University of Queensland, Australia)

Regional Chairs:
Asia: Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China)
Oceania: John Roddick (Flinders University, Australia)
Europe: Torben Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
America: Jun Yang (Duke University, USA)

IMPORTANT DATES

• August 4, 2008 Submission of Workshop Proposals
   
• August 25, 2008 Notice of Workshop Proposals Acceptance
   
• October 3, 2008 Submission of Research/Industrial Paper Abstract
   
• October 10, 2008 Submission of Research/Industrial Full Papers
   
• October 24, 2008 Submission of Tutorial/Panel/Demo Proposals
   
• November 24, 2008 Notice of Tutorial/Panel/Demo Proposals
   
• December 12, 2008 Notice of Research/Industrial Papers Acceptance
   
• December 19, 2008 All Camera-Ready Copies Due
   
• April 21-23, 2009 Conference in Brisbane, Australia

SUBMISSION

Authors should submit papers reporting original work that are currently not under review or published elsewhere. Instructions for submitting research papers, workshop and tutorial proposals can be found at this website later.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published as a volume of Springer''''s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (approval pending).