CFP

15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
July, 9th-11th 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Scope: This international conference will bring together scientific domain experts, databases researchers, practitioners and developers for the presentation and exchange of current research on concepts, tools and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. The 15th SSDBM will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation and evaluation. This year the conference will focus on the following priority themes, Bioinformatics (genomics, biodiversity informatics including biological databases), Geospatial and Sensor Databases. The priority areas will be supplemented with invited talks and panel sessions, and illustrated with demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial systems. SSDBM 2003 will continue the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion, fellowship and exchange of ideas in all aspects of research related to scientific and statistical database management in the heart of the MIT campus.

Topics: Research papers discussing database issues of Bioinformatics, Biological, Geospatial, and Sensor Databases are particularly welcome, however, original research papers on any area related to scientific and statistical database management are invited. Topics include: Conceptual Models, Data Integration, System Architectures, Metadata Management, Query Optimization, Continuous Queries over Data Streams, Data Reduction and Approximation, Data and Knowledge Management, Visualization, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Multimedia Data Management, Data Warehouses, and Database Support for Spatio-temporal Data. Case studies of SSDBM applications, Demonstrations and short papers for poster sessions are also invited.

Further details and information can be obtained from: http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~ssdbm03/ or by emailing ssdbm03@spatial.maine.edu

Important Dates:
Submission of Abstracts: January 24 2003
Submission of Papers: January 31 2003
Notification of Acceptance: April 4 2003
Camera ready copies: April 25 2003
Conference: July 9-11 2003


Organizing Committee:
General and Program Co-Chairs:
      Silvia Nittel, NCGIA, University of Maine, USA
      Gunopulos, UC Riverside, USA
Local Organizing Chair: George Kollios, Boston University, USA