$B%G!<%?%Y!<%9$J3'MM(B $B#2#0#0#7G/$O!!L%OG$N%$%9%?%s%V!<%k$G!!#I#C#D#E$,3+:E$5$l$^$9!#(B $B@'Hs!!$4Ej9F$r!!$48!F$$/$@$5$$!#(B $B4nO"@n!wElBg@88&>pJsM;9g(B ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering April 16-20, 2007 The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/icde/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for sharing and exchanging research and engineering results to problems encountered in today's information society. We especially encourage submissions that make efforts (1) to expose practitioners to how the research results and tools can contribute to their everyday problems in practice and to provide them with an early opportunity to evaluate these tools; (2) to raise awareness in the research community of the problems of practical applications of data engineering and to promote the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience among researchers and practitioners; (3) to identify new issues and directions for future research and development in the data engineering field. AWARDS An award will be given to the best paper. A separate award will be given to the best student paper. Papers eligible for this award must have a (graduate or undergraduate) student listed as the first and contact author, and the majority of the authors must be students. Such submissions must be marked as student papers at the time of submission. INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM The conference will include an industrial track for high quality papers and presentations on innovative commercial software for all facets of information technology, which include novel applications of database and information retrieval technologies, experiences in applying recent research advances to practical scenarios and innovations in commercial information management software. Industrial track submissions should also be prepared in the 8/5"x11" IEEE camera-ready format, with a 12-page limit, and submitted electronically via the industrial track submissions website. PANELS Panel proposals must include an abstract, an outline of the panel format, and relevant information about the proposed panelists. Send your proposals electronically by the submission deadline to the Panel Chair, Meral $B%h(B zsoyoglu at <meral[AT]case[.]edu>. DEMONSTRATIONS Demonstration proposals should focus on new technology advances in applying databases or new techniques. Proposals must be no more than four double-columned pages, and should give a short description of the demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to database technology, applications or techniques. Send your proposals electronically to the Demonstration Chairs, Jose Blakeley and Mario Nascimento at <joseb[AT]microsoft[.]com> and <mn[AT]cs[.]ualberta[.]ca>. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS Seminar proposals must include an abstract, an outline, a description of the target audience, duration (1.5 or 3 hours), and a short bio of the presenter(s). Send your proposals electronically to the Seminar Chairs, Karl Aberer and G$B�l(Btekin $B%h(Bzsoyoglu at <karl[.]aberer[AT]epfl[.]ch> and <tekin[AT]eecs[.]cwru[.]edu>. WORKSHOPS We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ICDE 2007. We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. Proposals for workshops should stress how they intend to provide more insight into the proposed topics with respect to the main conference. The scope definition of the proposal should encompass only some of the topics of the main conference. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop chairs, Ahmed Elmagarmid and Fred Lochovsky (at <ake[AT]cs[.]purdue[.]edu> and <fred[AT]cs[.]ust[.]hk>) with the title, a description of the topic, and the names of key organizers such as program chair(s). Prior contact with the workshop chairs is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshops, and for the reviewing process for their workshop's papers, and for the collection of camera-ready copies of accepted papers. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Research papers must be prepared in the 8/5"x11" IEEE camera-ready format, with a 12-page limit, and submitted electronically at http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/icde/. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Deadline: July 5, 2006 Paper submission Deadline: July 12, 2006 Panel submission deadline: July 26, 2006 Demo submission deadline: July 26, 2006 Seminar submission deadline: July 26, 2006 Workshop proposal submission deadline: July 26, 2006 Industrial paper submission deadline: July 12, 2006 Notification: October 7, 2006 GENERAL CHAIRS Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Adnan Yazici, Middle East Technical University, Turkey PROGRAM CHAIRS Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Tamer $B%h(Bzsu, University of Waterloo, Canada Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR Ibrahim K$B�r(Bpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey TREASURER I. Hakki Toroslu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Fatma $B%h(Bzcan, IBM Almaden, USA Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France PANEL CHAIR Meral $B%h(Bzsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA SEMINAR CHAIRS Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland G$B�l(Btekin $B%h(Bzsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA WORKSHOP CHAIRS Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, China DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS Jose Blakeley, Microsoft Corporation, USA Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Mehmet Altinel, IBM Almaden, USA Zehra $B%L(Bataltepe, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ahmet Cosar, METU, Turkey Yildiray Kabak, METU, Turkey G$B�kmF(B Banu Laleci, METU, Turkey Sule G. $B%h(Bg$B�d�c�,(B Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ahmet Sa$BmB(Bn, METU, Turkey Y$B�c(Bel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey Pinar K. Senkul, METU, Turkey Nesime Tatbul, Brown University, USA Pinar Yolum, Bogazi$BmJ(B University, Turkey DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, USA Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems, India Ralf Hartmut G$B�t(Bing, University of Hagen, Germany Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada Bill McKenna, NCR/Teradata, USA Sergey Melnik, Microsoft, USA Glenn Paulley, Sybase, Canada Kian-Lee Tan, NUS, Singapore Caetano Traina Jr, USP, Brazil Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS Kevin Beyer, IBM Almaden, USA Mike Carey, BEA, USA Daniela Florescu, Oracle, USA Marcus Fontoura, Yahoo Research, USA Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy St$BqQ(Bhane Gan$BmB(Brski, University Paris 6, France James Hamilton, Microsoft, USA Mary Holstege, Mark Logic, USA Francois Llirbat, Business Objects, France Qiong Luo, HKUST, China Jussi Myllmaki, Google, USA Marta Patino-Martinez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Mikael Ronstrom, MySQL AB, Sweden Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel Vishal Sikka, SAP, USA ICDE 2007 invites research submissions on all topics related to data engineering, including but not limited to those listed below: 1. Distributed, parallel, P2P and mobile DB's 2. Web Data Management, Web Information Systems 3. Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Statistical Databases 4. Mining Data, Text, and the Web 5. Query processing (standard and adaptive) and query optimization 6. Middleware, workflow, and Web services 7. Security and Privacy 8. Database applications and experiences 9. Stream processing, continuous queries, and sensor DB's 10. Indexing, access methods, data structures 11. Semi-structured data and XML 12. Scientific and Biological DB's and Bioinformatics 13. Temporal, Spatial and Multimedia DB's 14. Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata 15. Imprecision, Uncertainty and fuzziness in databases AREA PC VICE-CHAIRS $B%h(Bzg$B�r(B Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA Joachim Hammer, University of Florida, USA Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Mitch Cherniack, Brandeis University, USA Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece Frank W. Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada Carol Goble, The University of Manchester, UK Nihan $B%L(Bicekli, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Ren$BqF(B J. Miller, University of Toronto, Canada Gabriella Pasi, Universit$B_(Bdegli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ashraf Aboulnaga , University of Waterloo, Canada Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Charu Aggarwal, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis, USA Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Gustavo Alonso, ETH Z$B�r(Bich, Switzerland Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs-Research, USA Arvind Arasu, Microsoft, USA Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA Lars Arge, University of Aarhus, Denmark Paolo Atzeni, Universit$B_(BRoma Tre, Italy Shivnath Babu, Duke University, USA Magda Balazinska, University of Washington, USA Denilson Barbosa, University of Calgary, Canada Roberto Bayardo, Google, USA Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Gloria Bordogna, IDPA-CNR, Italy Patrick Bosc, Irisa/Enssat, France Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA Phillip Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA Klemens B$B�h(Bm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Andrea Cal$Bw (B Free University of Bolzano, Italy Rita de Caluwe, Ghent University, Belgium Kasim Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA Fabio Casati, HP Laboratories, USA Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome, Italy Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA Edward Chang, Google, USA Kevin Chang, University of Illinos, Urbana-Champaign, USA Sudarshan Chawathe, University of Maine, USA Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Panagiotis Chountas, University of Westminster, U.K. Chin-Wan Chung, KAIST, Korea Gao Cong, University of Edinburgh, U.K. Sara Cohen, Technion, Israel Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA Hasan Davulcu , Arizona State University, USA Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland, USA Yanlei Diao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Jens Dittrich, ETH Z$B�r(Bich, Switzerland AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champpaign, USA Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Wenfei Fan, University of Edinburgh, U.K., and Bell Laboratories, USA Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy Daniela Florescu, Oracle, USA Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Johann Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, USA Minos Garofalakis, Intel Research, USA Roy George, Clark Atlanta University, USA Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research, USA Aristides Gionis, University of Helsinki, Finland Goetz Graefe, Microsoft, USA Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ashish Gupta, Google Inc., USA Ralf Hartmut G$B�t(Bing, University of Hagen, Germany Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida, USA Joe Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley, USA Sven Helmer, Birkbeck College, U.K. Windsor Hsu, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Wynne Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada Matthias Jarke, TH Aachen, Germany Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Ted Johnson, AT&T Labs-Research, USA Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo Research Lab., USA Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, USA Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Carl-Christian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, USA Norio Katayama, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Baris Kazar, Oracle USA Anastasios Kementsietsidis, The University of Edinburgh, U.K. Graham J.L. Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Eamonn Keogh, University of California at Riverside, USA Martin Kersten, CWI, Netherlands Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany Birgitta K$B�n(Big-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Ibrahim K$B�r(Bpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA Byung Suk Lee, University of Vermont, USA Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Ulf Leser, Humboldt University, Germany Leonid Libkin, University of Toronto, Canada Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Phillip Lord, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Bertram Lud$BgT(Bcher, University of California, Davis, USA Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA David Maier, Portland State University, USA Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Lab., USA Maarten Marx, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine, USA Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, USA Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University, USA Felix Naumann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Jeff Naughton, University of Wisconsin, USA Frank Neven, Hasselt University, Belgium Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA Esther Pacitti, University of Nantes, France Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Sanghyun Park, Yonsei University, Korea Jignesh M. Patel, University of Michigan, USA Norman Paton, University of Manchester, U.K. Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark Antonio Picariello, University of Napoli, Italy Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden Research Lab., USA Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Olivier Pivert, Irisa/Enssat, France Olga Pons, University of Granada, Spain Lucian Popa, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia, Canada Alexandra Poulovassilis, University of London, U.K. Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs, USA Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA Daniel Rocacher, Irisa/Enssat, France John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia Arnie Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation, USA Prasan Roy, IBM India Research Lab, India Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Kenneth Salem,University of Waterloo,Canada Simonas Saltenis,Aalborg University, Denmark Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy Maria Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy Y$B�c(Bel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA Michel Scholl, CNAM, France Michael Schroeder, Dresden University, Germany Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany Mehul Shah, HP Labs, USA Dennis Shasha, New York University, USA Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA Altigran Silva, Universidade Federal Do Amazonas, Brazil Tomas Skopal, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research, USA V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland College Park, USA Domenico Talia,Universit$B_(Bdella Calabria, Italy Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Abdullah Uz Tansel, Baruch College, The City Univ. of New York, USA Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, China Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Hannu T. T. Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland David Toman, University of Waterloo, Canada Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo Research Lab., USA Caetano Traina Jr, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil Guy De Tr$Bq (B Ghent University, Belgium Vassilis Tsotras, Univeristy of California at Riverside, USA Peter A. Tucker, Whitworth College, USA Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore Can T$B�r(Bker, FGCZ Zurich, Switzerland Deb VanderMeer, Florida International University, USA Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyv$BgT(Bkyl$Bg (B Finland Yannis Velegrakis, AT&T Labs - Research, USA Maria Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain Gottfried Vossen, University of M$B�n(Bster, Germany Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China Jef Wijsen, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium Ouri Wolfson,University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University, USA Catharine Wyss, Indiana University School of Informatics, USA Jeffrey Yu Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Jun Yang, Duke University, USA Adnan Yazici, METU, Turkey Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan Ting Yu, North Carolina State University, USA Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Stan Zdonik, Brown University, USA Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA Hui Zhang, University of Manitoba, Canada Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia