CALL FOR PAPERS
2007 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data  Engineering (ICDE 2007)
				 April 16-20, 2007
			 The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
			     http://www.icde2007.org
				
		     Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
			
						
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PLEASE NOTE: 

 - Abstract submission deadline is July 5, 2006.
 - Page limit is 10. 

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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.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION 
Research papers must be prepared in the 8.5"x11" IEEE camera-ready
format, with a ***10-page*** limit, and submitted electronically at
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2007/ (which is also
reachable from the conference web site http://www.icde2007.org).  All
accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the IEEE
Computer Society.

Please note that in the past ICDE has sometimes accepted 12 page
submissions, but required the final camera ready to be 10 pages. This
year we have decided to require a 10 page limit at submission as well
to ensure that the submitted paper is what will finally appear in the
proceedings.

A paper submitted to ICDE 2007 cannot be under review for any other
conference or journal during the time it is being considered for ICDE
2007, and it must be substantially different from any previously
published work.  Authors submitting papers to ICDE 2007 implicitly
agree to the following terms:

"I understand that the paper being submitted must not contain
substantial overlap with any other paper submitted elsewhere now or
during the review process. Furthermore, previously published papers
with any overlap are cited prominently in this submission."

Questions about this policy or how it applies to your work should be
directed to the program chairs.

Authors of accepted papers must sign an IEEE copyright release
form. The online conference proceedings may be published as early as
March 1, 2007, so any patent applications must be resolved before that
time. By submitting a paper to ICDE 2007, authors implicitly agree to
public release of the paper as of the above date -- no papers will be
withheld from the online proceedings.

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

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 
Industrial track submissions should also be prepared in the 8.5"x11"
IEEE camera-ready format, with a 10 page limit, and submitted
electronically via https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2007/.

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 Ozsoyoglu at .

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  and .

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 Gultekin Ozsoyoglu at  and 
.

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, Fred 
Lochovsky and Yucel Saygin (at  
and  and ) 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. 


GENERAL CHAIRS 	
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Adnan Yazici, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS 	
Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University , Turkey
Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece 

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS 	
Mehmet Altinel, IBM Almaden, U.S.A.
Zehra Cataltepe, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Ahmet Cosar, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Yildiray Kabak, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Yucel Karabulut, SAP, U.S.A.
Gokce Banu Laleci, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Sule Gunduz Oguducu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Aydin Polat, Turkish Informatics Foundation, Turkey
Ahmet Sacan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Pinar K. Senkul, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Nesime Tatbul, Brown University, U.S.A.
Pinar Yolum, Bogazici University, Turkey 

PUBLICITY CHAIR 	
Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey 

TREASURER 	
I. Hakki Toroslu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey 

INDUSTRIAL SPONSOR CHAIRS
Orhan Goksal, Turkish Information Technology Services Association, Turkey

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS 	
Fatma Ozcan, IBM Almaden, U.S.A.
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France 

PANEL CHAIR 	
Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A. 

SEMINAR CHAIRS 	
Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A. 

WORKSHOP CHAIRS 	
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, China
Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey 

DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS 	
Jose Blakeley, Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A.
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada 

PROCEEDINGS CHAIRS 	
Rada Chirkova, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.
Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A. 

WEBMASTERS
Yildiray Kabak, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Ahmet Sacan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Alper Rifat Ulucinar, Bilkent University, Turkey
Gokce Gorbil, Bilkent University, Turkey


AREA PC VICE-CHAIRS

- Distributed, parallel, P2P and mobile DB's: …zgŸr Ulusoy Bilkent University, Turkey 
- Web Data Management, Web Information Systems: Juliana Freire University of Utah, U.S.A. 
- Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Statistical Databases: Joachim Hammer University of Florida, U.S.A. 
- Mining Data, Text, and the Web: Kyuseok Shim Seoul National University, Korea 
- Query Processing (standard and adaptive) and Query Optimization: Tore Risch Uppsala University, Sweden 
- Middleware, Workflow, and Web Services:  Krithi Ramamritham IIT Bombay, India 
- Security and Privacy: Marianne Winslett University of Illinois, U.S.A.  
- Database Applications and Experiences: Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo, Japan 
- Stream Processing, Continuous Queries, and Sensor DB's: Mitch Cherniack Brandeis University, U.S.A. 
- Indexing, Access Methods, Data Structures: Yannis Manolopoulos Aristotle University, Greece 
- Semi-structured Data and XML: Frank W. Tompa University of Waterloo, Canada 
- Scientific and Biological DB's and Bioinformatics: Carole Goble The University of Manchester, U.K. 
- Temporal, Spatial and Multimedia DB's: Nihan Cicekli Middle East Technical University, Turkey 
- Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata: RenŽe J. Miller University of Toronto, Canada 
- Imprecision, Uncertainty and Fuzziness in Databases: Gabriella Pasi Universitˆ degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.
Charu Aggarwal, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, U.S.A.
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis, U.S.A.
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Gustavo Alonso, ETH ZŸrich, Switzerland
Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs-Research, U.S.A.
Arvind Arasu, Microsoft, U.S.A.
Walid Aref, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Lars Arge, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Paolo Atzeni, Universitˆ Roma Tre, Italy
Shivnath Babu, Duke University, U.S.A.
Magda Balazinska, University of Washington, U.S.A.
Denilson Barbosa, University of Calgary, Canada
Roberto Bayardo, Google, U.S.A.
Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Gloria Bordogna, IDPA-CNR, Italy
Patrick Bosc, Irisa/Enssat, France
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, U.S.A.
Phillip Bourne, University of California San Diego, U.S.A.
Klemens Bšhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Andrea Cal“, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Rita de Caluwe, Ghent University, Belgium
Kasim Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Fabio Casati, HP Laboratories, U.S.A.
Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome, Italy
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, U.S.A
Edward Chang, Google, U.S.A.
Kevin Chang, University of Illinos, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Sudarshan Chawathe, University of Maine, U.S.A
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, SUNY, U.S.A
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, U.S.A.
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece
Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
Yanlei Diao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A.
Jens Dittrich, ETH ZŸrich, Switzerland
AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champpaign, U.S.A.
Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria
Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A.
Wenfei Fan, University of Edinburgh, U.K., and Bell Laboratories, U.S.A.
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Daniela Florescu, Oracle, U.S.A.
Ian Foster, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Johann Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, U.S.A.
Minos Garofalakis, Intel Research, U.S.A.
Roy George, Clark Atlanta University, U.S.A.
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research, U.S.A.
Aristides Gionis, University of Helsinki, Finland
Goetz Graefe, Microsoft, U.S.A.
Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Ashish Gupta, Google Inc., U.S.A
Ralf Hartmut GŸting, University of Hagen, Germany
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Joe Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Sven Helmer, Birkbeck College, U.K.
Windsor Hsu, IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S.A.
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, U.S.A.
Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo Research Lab., U.S.A.
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, U.S.A.
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 U.S.A.
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, The University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Graham J.L. Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Eamonn Keogh, University of California at Riverside, U.S.A.
Martin Kersten, CWI, Netherlands
Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany
Birgitta Kšnig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany
Ibrahim Kšrpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, U.S.A.
Byung Suk Lee, University of Vermont, U.S.A.
Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University, Germany
Leonid Libkin, University of Toronto, Canada
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S.A.
Phillip Lord, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Bertram LudŠscher, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, U.S.A.
David Maier, Portland State University, U.S.A.
Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China
Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Lab., U.S.A.
Maarten Marx, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan
Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine, U.S.A.
Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A.
Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, U.S.A.
Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, U.S.A.
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University, U.S.A.
Felix Naumann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Jeff Naughton, University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Frank Neven, Hasselt University, Belgium
Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, U.S.A.
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A.
Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
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, U.S.A.
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., U.S.A
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Olivier Pivert, Irisa/Enssat, France
Olga Pons, University of Granada, Spain
Lucian Popa, IBM Almaden Research Center, U.S.A.
Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alexandra Poulovassilis, University of London, U.K.
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, U.S.A
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.A.
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, U.S.A.
Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs, U.S.A.
Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, U.S.A.
Daniel Rocacher, Irisa/Enssat, France
John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
Arnie Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation, U.S.A.
Prasan Roy, IBM India Research Lab, India
Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.
Kenneth Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy
Maria Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy
YŸcel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, U.S.A.
Michel Scholl, CNAM, France
Michael Schroeder, Dresden University, Germany
Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany
Mehul Shah, HP Labs, U.S.A.
Dennis Shasha, New York University, U.S.A.
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Altigran Silva, Universidade Federal Do Amazonas, Brazil
Tomas Skopal, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona, U.S.A.
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research, U.S.A.
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland College Park, U.S.A.
Domenico Talia, Universitˆ della 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, U.S.A.
Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Dimitri Theodoratos, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
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., U.S.A.
Caetano Traina Jr, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Guy De TrŽ, Ghent University, Belgium
Vassilis Tsotras, Univeristy of California at Riverside, U.S.A.
Peter A. Tucker, Whitworth College, U.S.A.
Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Can TŸrker, FGCZ Zurich, Switzerland
Deb VanderMeer, Florida International University, U.S.A.
Jari Veijalainen, University of JyvŠskylŠ, Finland
Yannis Velegrakis, AT&T Labs - Research, U.S.A.
Maria Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain
Gottfried Vossen, University of MŸnster, 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, U.S.A.
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University, U.S.A
Catharine Wyss, Indiana University School of Informatics, U.S.A.
Jeffrey Yu Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Jun Yang, Duke University, U.S.A.
Adnan Yazici, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Kyoto University, Japan
Ting Yu, North Carolina State University, U.S.A
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, U.S.A.
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Stan Zdonik, Brown University, U.S.A.
Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, U.S.A.
Hui Zhang, University of Manitoba, Canada
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia

INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Kevin Beyer, IBM Almaden, U.S.A.
Mike Carey, BEA, U.S.A.
Daniela Florescu, Oracle, U.S.A.
Marcus Fontoura, Yahoo Research, U.S.A.
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
StŽphane Ganarski, University Paris 6, France
James Hamilton, Microsoft, U.S.A.
Mary Holstege, Mark Logic, U.S.A.
Francois Llirbat, Business Objects, France
Qiong Luo, HKUST, China
Jussi Myllmaki, Google, U.S.A.
Marta Patino-Martinez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Mikael Ronstrom, MySQL AB, Sweden
Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
Vishal Sikka, SAP, U.S.A.

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Walid Aref, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, U.S.A.
Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems, India
Ralf Hartmut GŸting, University of Hagen, Germany
Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
Bill McKenna, NCR/Teradata, U.S.A
Sergey Melnik, Microsoft, U.S.A.
Glenn Paulley, Sybase, Canada
Kian-Lee Tan, NUS, Singapore
Caetano Traina Jr, USP, Brazil
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea