日本データベース学会の皆様、 東工大の横田です。 日本発の国際会議であり、今や高い評価を受けている DASFAA ですが、次回の DASFAA 2009は2009年4月21日〜23日にブリスベンで開催されます。ブリスベン は、オーストラリアのクイーンズランド州の州都で、シドニー、メルボルンに 次ぐ都市で、気候も良く、景色も美しいと人気の高い都市です。是非、多数投 稿をご検討下さい。 以下に第1段の論文投稿案内（CFP）を添附します。論文の概要は10月3日、論 文本体は10月10日が締切り予定です。それ以外の締切り等は CFP をご覧下さ い。 皆様のご投稿をお待ちしております。 −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− 横田 治夫 〒152-8552 東京都目黒区大岡山 2-12-1 東京工業大学 学術国際情報センター 情報基盤部門 (兼) 大学院 情報理工学研究科 計算工学専攻 TEL: (03) 5734-3505 (直通)、 FAX: (03) 5734-3504 email: yokota@cs.titech.ac.jp −−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−− DASFAA 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications Brisbane, Australia, April 21-23, 2009 http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dasfaa 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. 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 & 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 Authors should submit papers reporting original work that is currently not under review or published elsewhere. Instructions for submitting research papers, demo, workshop, tutorial and panel proposals can be found at the conference website. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings as a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (approval pending). 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 Further information about DASFAA 2009 can be found at the conference website (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~dasfaa). ORGANISATION General Co-Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia Program Committee Co-Chairs Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia Tutorial Co-Chairs Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University, China Alan Fekete, University of Sydney, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Workshops Co-Chairs Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Sci. &Tech., China Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Tech., Australia Demo Co-Chairs Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia Panel Co-Chairs Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO, Australia Jeffrey X. Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Organization Committee Chair Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia Publicity Chair James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Ke Deng, University of Queensland, Australia Qing Liu, CSIRO, Australia Web Chair Gabriel Fung, University of Queensland, Australia Regional Chairs Asia: Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China America: Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Europe: Torben Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark Oceania: John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia