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Call for Workshop Proposals
18th East-European Conference on
ADVANCES IN DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ADBIS)
September 7, 2014 (workshops), September 8-10, 2014 (main conference),
Ohrid, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*

http://adbis2014.finki.ukim.mk/ 

* the constitutional name is Republic of Macedonia, while the country was 
admitted in the UN under the provisional reference of the former Yugoslav 
Republic of Macedonia

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Introduction
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The ADBIS 2014 conference will be held in Ohrid, September 7-10, 2014 
and will continue the tradition by fostering the growth and providing a 
platform for researchers and practitioners to present their result.
The ADBIS 2014 conference will provide a forum for the dissemination of 
research accomplishments and to promote interaction and collaboration 
between the database and information systems research communities from 
Central and East European countries and the rest of the world.

Several workshops are planned to be co-located with the main conference.
You are invited to submit proposals for workshops focused on specific topics
within the research areas of database and information systems. The workshops 
will run on September 7th, 2014, and can last for half a day, or full day.
The official language of the workshops will be English.

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Submission Details and Requirements
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Please submit your workshop proposals via e-mail to ADBIS 2014 Workshop 
Co-chair Themis Palpanas 

The proposal should cover the following points:
* workshop title
* preferred length (1 day, 1/2 day)
* names, affiliations, and e-mails of workshop PC chairs (with one of them 
indicated as primary contact)
* short bio of the organizers including previous experience  in organizing 
workshops or conferences if any
* tentative PC (if possible at this stage)
* main goals of the workshop
* list of the workshop topics
* preliminary CFP
* how information about the workshop will be distributed

The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's 
program committee, announce and publicize the workshop and its call for papers,
solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final 
workshop program.

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Organizational Support
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Workshops will benefit from the ADBIS 2014 organizational infrastructure and
receive support regarding registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and
publication of the workshop proceedings.

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Publication
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A volume with all workshop papers will be published by Springer in the
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series
(http://www.springer.com/series/11156), for distribution among workshop 
participants during the workshop. Camera-ready papers are to be prepared in 
LaTeX (detailed instructions will be provided).

The authors of the best workshop papers will be invited to prepare extended 
versions of their papers after the workshop. Following an additional round 
of reviews, the extended papers will appear in a special issue of an 
international journal.

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Important Dates
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Submission of proposals for workshops: January 26, 2014

Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: January 31, 2014

Camera-ready: June 15, 2014

Workshops: September 7th, 2014 (main conference: September 8-9th, 2014)

Workshop timeline (deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready papers, 
and extended versions for the journal): to be proposed by the workshop 
organizers in agreement with the ADBIS 2014 Workshop Chairs.

Themis Palpanas, University of Paris V - Paris Descartes
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University
ADBIS 2014 Workshop Chairs