Thirteenth Italian Symposium on
ADVANCED DATABASE SYSTEMS
Sistemi Evoluti per Basi di Dati
(SEBD-2005)

Brixen-Bressanone (near Bozen-Bolzano), Italy
19-22 June, 2005

   

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2004 edition of the SEBD Symposium will take place in Brixen-Bressanone from the 19th to the 22nd of June 2005. Currently at its 13th edition, SEBD is the major annual event of the Italian research community in the database field. The symposium is thought as a gathering forum to meet, discuss and exchange experiences among all those, both in the academy and in industry, who are interested in database systems and in all their broad range of applications.

TOPICS

The symposium covers a broad range of topics, including traditional database management, as well as new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Prospective authors are encouraged to consider novel topics and approaches rather than proposing incremental improvements of existing results. Suggested topics include the following:
  • PHYSICAL-ARCHITECTURE-PERFORMANCE
    • Access Methods and Physical Design
    • Distributed and Parallel Databases
    • Grid Database Management
    • Peer-to-peer Databases
    • Real-time Databases
    • Micro databases
    • Transaction and workflow management
    • Embedded, sensor, and mobile databases
  • ADVANCED DATABASE TECHNOLOGY
    • Active, Deductive, Inductive Data and Knowledge Databases
    • Spatial and Temporal Databases
    • Geographic Information Systems
    • Multimedia Databases
    • Scientific, Statistical and Real-Time Databases
    • Biological Databases
    • Digital Libraries
    • Semi-structured and XML data
    • Data intensive Web applications
  • VIEWING, QUERYING, MINING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
    • Views, Data Warehouses and OLAP
    • XML query languages
    • Query optimisation
    • Imprecise Information and Approximate Queries
    • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
    • Information Retrieval
    • Multimedia information access and filtering
    • Data stream processing and Continuous Queries over data streams
  • SEMANTIC INTEGRATION OF DATA AND SERVICES
    • Knowledge modelling
    • Extraction and management
    • Ontology design and integration
    • Reasoning on hierarchical concept structures
    • Integration of semi-structured and structured data
    • Semantic description of Web Services
    • Integration of data and Web Services
    • Discovery, composition and workflows of Web Services
  • DB APPLICATIONS
    • Databases and Digital Libraries
    • Databases and the Semantic Web
    • Databases and Workflow
    • Databases for Mobile and Context Aware Systems
    • Databases in e-commerce and e-services
    • Scientific and Statistical Databases
  • DATA MODELS
    • Ontologies for data databases
    • Semi-structured, XML, and Web data
    • Views, Data Warehouses and OLAP
  • SOCIAL ISSUES, DATA SECURITY AND PRIVACY
    • Data security and privacy
    • Security policies
    • Trust management of interactions
    • Data confidentiality and interactions confidentiality
    • Integrity, authenticity, confidentiality and non repudiation of data
    • Identity management and mapping
    • Privacy in advanced database applications
    • Privacy preserving querying and mining

PAPERS

SEBD 2005 invites submissions of research, industry and application contributions as well as software demonstrations. Research papers, describing original ideas on the fundamental aspects of all forms of database systems and technology, are solicited. Moreover, extended abstract containing descriptions of on-going projects or presenting results already published are also welcomed. Research papers presenting original works should be at most 12 pages long whereas extended abstract should be at most 8 pages long. Papers can be written in English or Italian.

Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the proceedings of the symposium.

SEBD 2005 submissions must be in electronic form in PDF format. Papers must be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Papers must be submitted electronically, please follow the instructions that can be found on the Web site of the symposium at http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/sebd-2005/submission.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2005
Notification of acceptance: 22 April 2005
Camera-ready copy due: 10 May 2005
SEBD-2005 Symposium: 19-22 June 2005

 

ORGANISATION

General Chair:
Maurizio Lenzerini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Local Organisation Committee:
Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Andrea Calì, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Program Committee Chair:
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maristella Agosti, Università di Padova
Carlo Batini, Università di Milano Bicocca
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano
Francesco Buccafurri, Università di Reggio Calabria
Luca Cabibbo, Università di Roma 3
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Paolo Ciaccia, Università di Bologna
Valter Crescenzi, Università di Roma 3
Valeria De Antonellis, Università di Brescia
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano
Giorgio Ghelli, Università di Pisa
Donato Malerba, Università di Bari
Dino Pedreschi, Università di Pisa
Clara Pizzuti, ICAR CNR
Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano
Fausto Rabitti, ISTI-CNR
Francesco Scarcello, Università della Calabria
Maurizio Vincini, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

SYMPOSIUM LOCATION

 The symposium will take place in the charming town of Brixen-Bressanone, near Bozen-Bolzano in South Tirol at the heart of the Dolomites - the pink mountains of the Alps. Brixen-Bressanone, a bishop's residence, is distinguished by its mediaeval Gothic architecture. Here you can still breathe the atmosphere of an academic, theological tradition that has lasted for centuries and today the city also houses the Faculty of Education of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and a branch of the University of Padua. Like Bozen-Bolzano, Brixen-Bressanone has always been a crossroads of various cultures. Since the end of the Second World War Brixen-Bressanone has experienced a spurt in economic growth while consolidating its artistic and cultural vocation. Delegates who come to study here will find a comfortably-sized town of about 18,000 inhabitants, free of traffic problems. The mediaeval alleys and the wealth of historical references are an ideal starting point for excursions into the countryside and for practising a whole variety of sports and leisure activities.
 
   
Enrico Franconi