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               Abstract eSubmission deadline June 21, 2001
                             CALL FOR PAPERS
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             18th International Conference on Data Engineering
                       February 26 - March 1, 2002
                            San Jose, California

                  Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

http://www.research.telcordia.com/society/icde2002/
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AIMS AND TOPICS:

The ICDE 2002 International Conference on Data Engineering will be
held in San Jose, California, the heart of Silicon Valley.  ICDE 2002
aims at presenting novel topics and approaches of data engineering in
the emerging new data applications and invites authors to focus on
innovation rather than on small improvements of existing results.  It
invites submissions on all topics related to data engineering,
including but not limited to, those listed below.

  * WWW & Databases
  * Query Processing & Optimization
  * Data warehousing & OLAP
  * Data, Text, & Web Mining
  * Semi-structured Data, Metadata & XML
  * Query Languages & Data Models
  * Database Access Structures & Techniques
  * Heterogeneous, Distributed & Parallel Databases
  * Database Engine Architectures & Implementations
  * Scientific, Engineering, Temporal, Spatial, & Geographical Databases
  * Middleware for Information Systems, Workflow & Process Oriented Systems,
    E-business, E-services, E-government
  * Database Applications & Experiences

IMPORTANT DATES:

  Abstracts due ..........June 21, 2001
  Papers due .............June 28, 2001 (11:59 PM US EST.)
  Panels/Demonstrations...June 28, 2001
  Decision notification...Sept. 10, 2001
  Camera-ready copies.....Oct. 10, 2001

SUBMISSIONS:

 All submissions will be handled electronically.
For more information see the conference website.

CONFERENCE OFFICERS:

General Chair................Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
Program Co-chairs............Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden, USA
                     ........Klaus Dittrich, U. of Zurich,  Switzerland
Industrial Program Chair.....Umesh Dayal, HP Laboratories, USA
Invited Talks Chair..........Tamer Ozsu, U. of Waterloo, Canada
Panel Program Chair..........Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA
Demos & Exhibits.............Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zentrum, Switzerland
Publicity Chair..............Panos K. Chrysanthis, U of Pittsburgh, USA
Local Arrangements Chair.....Amit Somani, IBM Almaden, USA
Proceedings Chair............Anne Ngu, Telcordia, USA
Steering Committee Liaisons..Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany
                           ..Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia, USA

Program Committee Vice-Chairs

Query Processing and Optimization:
   Elisa Bertino, U. of Milano, Italy
Data Warehousing & OLAP
   Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research, USA
Database Access Structures & Techniques
   David Lomet, Microsoft Research, USA
Database Engine Architectures & Implementations
   Raghu Ramakrishnan, U. of Wisconsin, USA
Heterogeneous, Distributed & Parallel Databases
   Hongjun Lu, Hong Kong University, HK
Middleware for Information Systems, Workflow & Process Oriented Systems,
E-business, E-services, E-government
   Amr El Abbadi, U of California Santa Barbara, USA
WWW & Databases
   Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA
Data, Text, & Web Mining
   Jiawei Han, Simon Fraser U., Canada
Query Languages & Data Models
   Bernhard Mitschang, U. of Stuttgart, Germany
Database Applications & Experiences
   Keith Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK
Scientific, Engineering, Temporal, Spatial & Geographical Databases
   Yannis Ioannidis, U. of Athens, Greece
Semistructured Data, Metadata & XML
   Alberto Mendelzon, U. of Toronto, Canada