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 ################################################ PLEASE NOTE: - Abstract submission deadline is July 5, 2006. - Page limit is 10. ############################################### 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: zgr 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: Rene J. Miller University of Toronto, Canada - Imprecision, Uncertainty and Fuzziness in Databases: Gabriella Pasi Universit 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 Zrich, 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, Universit 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 Bhm, 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 Zrich, 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 Gting, 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 Knig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany Ibrahim Krpeoglu, 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 Ludscher, 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 Ycel 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, Universit 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 Tr, 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 Trker, FGCZ Zurich, Switzerland Deb VanderMeer, Florida International University, U.S.A. Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvskyl, Finland Yannis Velegrakis, AT&T Labs - Research, U.S.A. Maria Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain Gottfried Vossen, University of Mnster, 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 Stphane Ganarski, 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 Gting, 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