The Program Committee for the Second International Workshop on Self-Managing Data Bases (SMDB 2007), to be held 16 April 2007 in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering in Istanbul Turkey and organized by the IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems, is pleased to announce acceptance of the following papers for SMDB 2007: Accepted full papers: "On-Line Index Selection for Shifting Workloads", Karl Schnaitter (UC Santa Cruz), Serge Abiteboul (INRIA and Univ. Paris 11), Tova Milo (University of Tel Aviv), Neoklis Polyzotis (UC Santa Cruz) "Towards Adaptive Costing of Database Access Methods", Ye Qin (University of Waterloo), Kenneth Salem (University of Waterloo), Anil Goel (iAnywhere Solutions) "Autonomous Tuning with Soft Indexes", Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau), Martin Luehring (TU Ilmenau), Karsten Schmidt (TU Kaiserslautern), Eike Schallehn (University of Magdeburg) "SQL Anywhere: A Holistic Approach to Database Self-management", Ivan T. Bowman (Sybase iAnywhere), Peter Bumbulis (Sybase iAnywhere), Dan Farrar (Sybase iAnywhere), Anil K. Goel (Sybase iAnywhere), Brendan Lucier (Sybase iAnywhere), Anisoara Nica (Sybase iAnywhere), Glenn Paulley (Sybase iAnywhere), John Smirnios (Sybase iAnywhere) "Control Theory: a Foundational Technique for Self Managing Databases", Christian Garcia-Arellano (IBM Canada), Sam Lightstone (IBM), Maheswaran Surendra (IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory), Yixin Diao (IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory), Sujay Parekh (IBM TJ Watson Research Laboratory), Joseph Hellerstein (Microsoft Research), Kevin Rose (IBM Canada), Adam Storm (IBM Canada), Matthew Young-Lai (Sybase iAnywhere) "Automatically Identifying Known Software Problems", Natwar Modani (IBM India Research Lab), Rajeev Gupta (IBM India Research Lab), Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden Research Center), Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (IBM Almaden Research Center), Laurent Mignet (IBM India Research Lab) "Outlier Detection for Fine-grained Load Balancing in Database Clusters", Jin Chen (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto), Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu (University of Toronto), Cristiana Amza (University of Toronto) "An Integer Linear Programming Approach to Database Design", Stratos Papadomanolakis (Carnegie Mellon University), Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University) "Database Virtualization: A New Frontier for Database Tuning and Physical Design", Ahmed Soror (University of Waterloo), Ashraf Aboulnaga(University of Waterloo), Kenneth Salem (University of Waterloo) "Toward Self-Healing Multitier Services", Brian Cook (Duke University and IBM), Shivnath Babu(Duke University), George Candea (EPFL), Songyun Duan (Duke University) Accepted "Poster Papers": "Adapting Mixed Workloads to Meet SLOs in Autonomic DBMSs", Baoning Niu, Pat Martin (Queen's University), Wendy Powley (Queen's University), Paul Bird (IBM Toronto Lab), Randy Horman (IBM Toronto Lab) "An Indexing Structure for Automatic Schema Matching", Duchateau Fabien, Bellahsene Zohra (LIRMM), Roche Mathieu (LIRMM) "Improved Buffer Size Adaptation through Cache/Controller Coupling", Christian Lang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Tim Malkemus (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Ioana Stanoi (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) "Problem definition for effective workload management", Adrian Teisanu (University of Toronto), Mariano Consens (University of Toronto), Mokhtar Kandil (IBM Toronto Lab), Sam Lightstone (IBM Toronto Lab), Daniel Zilio (IBM Toronto Lab), Calisto Zuzarte (IBM Toronto Lab) Thanks to all who submitted papers, and we encourage all to participate in the Workshop on 16 April 2007 in Istanbul! Guy M. Lohman Workshop Chair