日本データベース学会の皆様 北海道大学の小山です。6月22日〜23日に北京で開催される国際会議 XLDB Asia 2012の参加案内をお送りさせて頂きます。 Lightning talk proposalの締切が4月30日となっております。 参加をご検討頂けましたら幸いです。 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation: the First Extremely Large Databases Conference at Asia (XLDB Asia 2012) http://www.xldb-asia.org The Extremely Large Databases (XLDB) series of Conferences/workshops (xldb.org) have been held successfully in USA and Europe in recent years. The first XLDB satellite conference at Asia (XLDB Asia) will be held at Beijing, China on June 22-23, 2012. This conference will bring together people with highly demanding data challenges, and researchers and solution providers who are developing systems to address such challenges. The conference will facilitate discussions on: * The state of the art data handling technologies on extremely large datasets; * Practical use cases of current and anticipated data challenges; * Lessons and innovations on building extremely large databases; * Trends and strategies for surmounting current hurdles. The conference will provide a meeting place for database researchers, for businesses with advanced solutions, and for people from many research disciplines, industries and organizations who need to urgently address real data challenges. The program will include invited talks representing database-intensive scientific and industrial applications, database research and DBMS vendors. The conference will also invite proposals for lightning talks (allocated five minutes per talk), followed by poster discussions. If you are interested in giving a lightning talk, please send an abstract with less than 500 words to lightningtalks@xldb-asia.org before April 30, 2012. Dates Lightning talk proposal deadline: April 30, 2012. Registration Deadline: June 5, 2012 Meeting starts: Friday, June 22, 2012 Meeting ends: Saturday, June 23, 2012 Venue Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China Program Committee * Jacek Becla (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, USA) * Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) * Wei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) * Martin Kersten (CWI, the Netherlands) * Rubao Lee (Ohio State University, USA) * Beng Chin OOI (National University of Singapore) * Satoshi Oyama (Hokkaido University, Japan) * Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China) * Sanghyun Park (Yonsei University, Korea) * Fusheng Wang (Emory University, USA) * Haixun Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) * Xiaoyang Sean Wang (Fudan University, China) * Jan-Jan Wu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) * Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) * Xiaofang Zhou (The University of Queensland, Australia) Organizing Committee XLDB Asia General Chair * Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China) XLDB Asia Program Committee Chair * Fusheng Wang (Emory University, USA) XLDB Asia Organizing Chair * Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) XLDB Series Chair * Jacek Becla (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, USA) Local Organizing Committee * Wei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) * Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China) * Fusheng Wang (Emory University, USA) * Haixun Wang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)