CFP

Website: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/conferences/sigmod2001/

The SIGMOD conference has been the major forum for database researchers,
practitioners, developers, and users to present their work and discuss
critical issues and views on practical leading-edge database technology,
applications, and techniques.  We invite the submission of original research
contributions, as well as proposals for panels, tutorials, demonstrations,
and industrial presentations. directions. We encourage the community to
submit papers that confront the database research and practice community
with problems for data management and applications of the new era, such as
e-commerce, digital libraries, and organization knowledge management.

Topics:

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following (in
alphabetical order):

   * Access Methods and Data Structures
   * Active Databases
   * Application Issues (interfaces, models, architectures)
   * Constraint Databases
   * Database Security
   * Data Models
   * Data Warehousing and On-Line Analytical Processing
   * Data Mining
   * Database Performance and Benchmarking
   * Database Programming Languages
   * Distributed / Heterogeneous / Mobile Database Systems
   * Image / Text / Multimedia Database Systems
   * Imprecise and Uncertain Information
   * Information Retrieval and Databases
   * Industrial Challenges and Applications
   * Legacy Databases
   * Object-Orientation and Database Systems
   * Parallel Database Systems
   * Query Languages
   * Query Processing and Optimization
   * Scientific and Statistical Databases
   * Semi-structured Databases, World Wide Web and Databases
   * Spatial and Temporal Databases
   * User and Application Interfaces

Submission format:

Electronic and hard copy submissions of both abstracts and full papers will
both be accepted, but electronic submission is strongly preferred.  Detailed
instructions for submissions will be available soon through the web page, for
all kinds of submissions (research papers, panels, tutorials, demos, and
industrial papers).

All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance
through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are
withheld from the reviewers. Anonymity tips for information on preparing a
manuscript for double-blind review will be provided. Authors of accepted
papers will need to sign an ACM copyright release form and present their
paper at the conference.

Chairs:

   * Program Committee Chair: Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of
     Athens
   * Associate Program Committee Chair: Divyakant Agrawal, UC Santa Barbara
   * Demo Chair: Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley
   * Industrial Chair: Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center
   * Tutorial Chair: Gerhard Weikum,  University of the Saarland
   * Panels Chair: Philip Bernstein, Microsoft
   * Proceedings Chair: Sharad Mehrotra, UC Irvine
   * Electronic Proceedings Chair: Walid Aref, Purdue University

Important Dates:

   * November 17, 2000 - Paper abstracts due.
   * November 24, 2000 - Full and industrial papers as well as panels,
     tutorials, demos due.
   * January 29, 2001 - Notification about acceptance/rejection.
   * March 2, 2001 - Camera-ready due.