8^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2003)

26 - 28 March, 2003, Kyoto, Japan

SPONSORS

AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE

This conference provides an international forum for technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, business and industry. DASFAA focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their advanced applications.

INVITED SPEAKER

Professor Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University)

TOPICS OF GENERAL INTEREST

Original papers concerned with both theory and practice are solicited. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

To honor the original spirit of the DASFAA conference which puts emphasis on advanced applications, we created special tracks focusing on recent important research topics. DASFAA2003 has the following three SPECIAL TRACKS:

"Bioinformatics and Database"

Track Chair:	Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan
	matsuda@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp
In the post-genome era, after the completion of the draft sequence of the human genome, we are faced with an explosion of new information. A tremendous amount of biological data is now available in databases, including information on genetic sequences, protein structure and function, genetic mutations, and diseases. These databases have grown spectacularly in number, in variety, and in size. A recent database directory listed 500 databases just in molecular biology. But the large amount of information is useful only if it can be applied to create knowledge. For this reason, the track focuses on bioinformatics and database, including, but not limited to, databases for genome, transcriptome, proteome, pathway and other biological information, and bioinformatic analysis from the databases, such as knowledge extraction, knowledge discovery and data mining.

"Stream Database"

Track Chair:	Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, U.S.A.
	vganti@microsoft.com
Continuous data streams arise in several scenarios: network installations of large telecom and internet service providers, sensor networks, and large data warehouses. Detailed information from different parts of the network is continuously collected, stored and analyzed. Processing and analyzing such data streams poses several research challenges. The special track on stream data invites submissions of original research and industrial experience on topics related to data stream processing including (but not certainly limited to): Stream processing models and system architectures Techniques for accurately summarizing streaming data Mining data streams Content-based processing of streaming data objects (e.g., text and XML documents) Visionary papers outlining future research directions

"XML Database"

Track Chair:	Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, U.S.A.
	bkmoon@cs.arizona.edu
With the growing popularity of XML as a new standard for information representation and exchange for many enterprise applications, the problem of managing and querying XML data is posing an important challenge to the database research community. The XML Database special track solicits submissions of original research and industrial papers in the following areas of interest. XML data management and publication Updating and versioning XML data Indexing XML data XML selectivity estimation Path and twig query processing XML query language and algebra XML namespace and schema Native XML database server XML benchmark New applications in XML RDF and semantic web

The review process for the papers submitted to SPECIAL TRACKS will be managed by each track chair.

IMPORTANT DATES

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit the title, author(s), email address of the contact author, and abstract of the paper to the following URL

by September 20, 2002. Papers submitted to SPECIAL TRACKS should indicate the track name. The full paper in PDF format must be submitted by September 27, 2002 to the same URL. Each paper must not exceed 25 double-spaced pages. The title page must include the name and email address of the contact author. Detailed submission instructions will be made available at the same URL.

The proceedings of the conference is planned to be published from IEEE Computer Society Press.

PANEL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS

Each panel or tutorial proposal should include a one-page description of the subject matter, the name of the organizer, and for panels, a list of proposed panelists. Submissions should be sent to the Tutorial/Panel Chair, Hiroshi Ishikawa (ishikawa@eei.metro-u.ac.jp).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Sang Kyun Cha

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seoul National University
Kwanak P.O. Box 34, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Email: chask@kdb.snu.ac.kr

Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Information Technology Center
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku
Nagoya 464-8601, JAPAN
Email: yosikawa@itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Masatoshi Arikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Stephane Bressan, NUS, Singapore
Vladimir Brusic, Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore
Barbara Catania, University of Genova, Italy
Edward Chan, University of Waterloo, Canada
Chin-Chen Chang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Kevin C. Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Arbee L.P. Chen, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
David Cheung, University of Hong Kong, China
Eugene I. Chong, Oracle, USA
Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Minos Garofalakis, Lucent Technologies, USA
Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
Susumu Goto, Kyoto University, Japan
Ralf H. Guting, University of Hagen, Germany
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Daniel A. Keim, University of Halle, Germany
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan
Yannis Kotidis, ATT Research Labs, USA
Nick Koudas, AT&T, USA
Byung Suk Lee, University of Vermont, USA
Mong Li Lee, NUS, Singapore
Ee-Peng Lim, NTU, Singapore
Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Hongjun Lu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan
Yoshifumi Masunaga, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wee Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan
Atsushi Ohori, JAIST, Japan
Beng Chin Ooi, NUS, Singapore
Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Maria Orlowska, The University of Queensland, Australia
Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, China
Seog Park, Soagang University, Korea
Jian Pei, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
Jun Rao, IBM Almaden, USA
Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden
Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT, Australia
Kunihiko Sadakane, Tohoku University, Japan
Yasushi Sakurai, NTT, Japan
Joerg Sander, University of Alberta, Canada
Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan
S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay, India
Hideaki Sugawara, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Sam Y. Sung, NUS, Singapore
Kian-Lee Tan, NUS, Singapore
Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Min Wang, IBM Watson, USA
Shan Wang, Renmin University of China, China
Xiaoyang Sean Wang, George Mason University, USA
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea
Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Byoung-Kee Yi, Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea
Hwan-Seung Yong, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China
Osmar R. Zaiane, University of Alberta, Canada
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia

Maintained by

amagasa@is.aist-nara.ac.jp, yosikawa@itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Last update:

Tuesday, 08-Apr-2003 13:01:38 JST