日本データベース学会の皆様 ACM SIGMOD日本支部の皆様 VLDB併設ワークショップの一つ，XSym 2006のCFPをお送りさせていただきます． よろしくお願い申し上げます． 筑波大 森嶋厚行 Fourth International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2006) In Conjunction with VLDB 2006 Seoul, Korea 10-11 September 2006 The theme of the XML Database Symposium (XSym) is the convergence of database technology with XML technology. The goal of this symposium is to bring together academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use and synergy between the above-mentioned technologies. Many commercial systems built today are increasingly using these technologies together and it is important to understand the various research and practical issues. This symposium will provide the opportunity to debate new issues and directions for research and development work in the future. Topics of Interest * XML full-text search and ranking * Approximate XML querying * Query processing and optimization * Indexing and access methods * Access control and security * Storage and compression * Updates and integrity maintenance * Concurrency control and recovery * Performance evaluation * Conceptual design: models and methodologies, expressiveness and usability * Logical design: models and methodologies, expressiveness and usability * Query languages, expressiveness and usability Paper Submission: Symposium submissions must generally be in electronic form using Portable Document Format (.pdf), PostScript (.ps) or WinWord (.doc). Papers should not be more than 15 pages in length. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) guidelines. Paper submission site will be accessible soon from http://www.xsym.org/06/ Important Dates: 15 May 2006 Paper Submission Deadline 19 June 2006 Notification of Acceptance 9 July 2006 Camera Ready Copy 10-11 September 2006 Symposium Organizing Committee: General Chair Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM (France) Local Chair Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University (Korea) Program Committee Chairs Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Research (USA) Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (China) Communications and Sponsorship Ela Hunt, University of Zurich (Switzerland) Proceedings Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) Program Committee: Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo (Canada) Bernd Amann, Universiti Paris 6, (France) Denilson Barbosa, University of Calgary (Canada) Omar Benjelloun, Stanford University (USA) Veronique Benzaken, University Paris-Sud (France) Philip Bernstein, Microsoft Research (USA) Philip Bohannon, Bell Laboratories - Lucent Technologies (USA) Jihad Boulos, American University of Beirut (Lebanon) Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Yi Chen, Arizona State University (USA) Alex Dekhtayar, University of Kentucky (USA) Alin Deutsch, University of California at San Diego (USA) Yanlei Diao, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA) Irini Fundulaki, University of Edinburgh (UK) Minos Garofalakis, Intel Research (USA) Giorgio Ghelli, Universita di Pisa (Italy) Torsten Grust, Technical University of Munich (Germany) Giovanna Guerrini, Universita di Genova (Italy) Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo (Canada) Zack Ives, University of Pennsylvania (USA) Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo Research (USA) Carl Christian Kanne, University of Mannheim (Germany) Yaron Kanza, University of Toronto (Canada) Raghav Kaushik, Microsoft Research (USA) Laks Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia (Canada) Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State University (USA) Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China) Murali Mani, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) Amelie Marian, Rutgers University (USA) Peter McBrien, Imperial College - London (UK) Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University (Israel) Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba (Japan) Fatma Ozcan, IBM Almaden Research Center (USA) Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo (Canada) Tadeusz Pankowski, Poznan University of Technology (Poland) Alkis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz (USA) Philippe Pucheral, INRIA (France) Prakash Ramanan, Wichita State University (USA) Michael Rys, Microsoft (USA) Monica Scannapieco, University of Roma "La Sapienza" (Italy) Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell University (USA) Jerome Simeon, IBM Research (USA) Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Research (USA) Martin Theobald, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik (Germany) Vasilis Vassalos, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh (UK) Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University (USA) Jun Yang, Duke University (USA)