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              International Workshop on RFID Data Management
                                 (RFDM'08)

                       April 7th 2008, Cancun, MEXICO
                         (co-located with ICDE 2008)

                   http://rfid.cs.washington.edu/RFDM08/


We invite you to participate in the International Workshop on RFID
Data Management (RFDM'08). This workshop aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners that work on problems related to managing data produced by
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or other traceability and automated
identification (Auto ID) technologies.

The workshop will serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners to
discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future
directions in the area of RFID and Auto ID data management.

RFDM'08 is co-located with ICDE 2008 and is sponsored by IBM.

You can register for the workshop and obtain hotel information through
the ICDE 2008 website: http://www.icde2008.org/


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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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8:00 - 9:00: Registration 

9:00: Opening remarks 

9:00 - 10:15: Keynote by Prof. Jiawei Han

10:15 - 10:30: COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 12:00: Full papers

COSTES: Continuous Spreadsheet-like Computations
Damianos Chatziantoniou, Katerina Pramatari, Yannis Sotiropoulos 
(Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

An Alert Notification Facility for RFID Event Repositories
Valer-Alin Crisan and Ralf Rantzau (IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, USA)

Interoperable Internet Scale Security Framework for RFID Networks
Tingting Mao, John Williams, and Abel Sanchez
(AUTO-ID Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

12:00 - 1:30: LUNCH BREAK

1:30 - 3:30: Short papers

RFIDPROBUS: A Universal RFID Reader Communication Protocol
Yuanxin Ouyang, Qiao Ren, Ting Zhang,  Jiuyue Hao,
and Zhang Xiong (Beihang University, China)

Improving Supply Chain Visibility through RFID Data
Adam Melski (University of Goettingen, Germany),
Jurgen Muller, Alexander Zeier (University of Potsdam, Germany), 
and Matthias Schumann (University of Goettingen, Germany)

Modelling Traceability in the Forestry Wood Supply Chain
Antti Sirkka (University of Tampere, Finland)

A Probabilistic Approach for Cleaning RFID Data
Holger Ziekow and Lenka Ivantysynova (Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany)

The Role of Auto-ID Technologies in Mobile Databases for E-commerce (Vision Paper)
Yan Luo, Ouri Wolfson, and Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

3:30 - 4:00 COFEE BREAK

4:00 - 5:30: Panel: Interesting research directions in RFID data management
Yanlei Diao        University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shailendra Mishra  ORACLE, Redwood Shores, CA
Abel Sanchez       Auto-ID Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 
Fusheng Wang       Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ

5:30: Closing remarks


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ORGANIZATION
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General Chairs:

      Magdalena Balazinska         and    Karin Murthy (Kailing)
      magda@cs.washington.edu             karin.murthy@gmail.com
      University of Washington            IBM Almaden Research Center


Steering Committee:

      Latha Colby               IBM Almaden Research Center
      Johannes Gehrke           Cornell University
      Jiawei Han                University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
      Alexandros Labrinidis     University of Pittsburgh
      Samuel R. Madden          Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Program Committee:

      Sudarshan S. Chawathe      University of Maine
      Amol Deshpande             University of Maryland, College Park
      Yanlei Diao                University of Massachusetts Amherst
      Maggie Dunham              Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
      Mike J. Franklin           UC Berkeley and Truviso, Inc.
      Minos Garofalakis          Yahoo! Research and UC Berkeley, CA
      Dimitrios Gunopulos        University of California, Riverside
      Christian S. Jensen        Aalborg University, Denmark
      Ari Juels                  RSA Laboratories, Bedford, MA
      Peiya Liu                  Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ
      Alexander Loeser           SAP Research, Dresden, Germany
      Florian Michahelles        Auto-ID Labs ETH Zurich / St. Gallen
      Shailendra Mishra          ORACLE, Redwood Shores, CA
      Matthai Philipose          Intel Research, Seattle, WA
      Ralf Rantzau               IBM Silicon Valley Labs, San Jose, CA
      Jun Rao                    IBM Almaden Research, San Jose, CA
      Stefan Schoenauer          University of Helsinki, Finland
      Mohamed A. Sharaf          University of Toronto
      Joshua Smith               Intel Research, Seattle
      Dan Suciu                  University of Washington and Microsoft
      Nesime Tatbul              ETH Zurich, Switzerland
      Fusheng Wang               Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ
      Jianliang Xu               Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
      Carlo Zaniolo              University of California, Los Angeles