submission page of DASFAA is available

[Kenji HATANO <hatano [at] acm.org>]

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来年 3 月末に京都で開催される DASFAA 2003 国際会議の 
submission ページがオープンいたしました．

  http://db-www.aist-nara.ac.jp/dasfaa2003/ConfMan/REG-paper/

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Kenji HATANO <hatano [at] is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
  Graduate School of Information Science,
  Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
  8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, JAPAN
  PHONE: +81-743-72-5333 FAX: +81-743-72-5339

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

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

                    March 26-28, 2003, Kyoto, Japan
                http://db-www.aist-nara.ac.jp/dasfaa2003/

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SPONSORS
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 DASFAA Steering Committee
 SIGDBS, Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
 Database Society of Japan (DBSJ) (tentative)
 Kyoto University
 Hitachi, Ltd.

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AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE
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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.

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INVITED SPEAKER
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Professor Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University)

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

Data Modeling and Database Design	Workflow Management
Query Language and Query Optimization	E-commerce
Multidatabases and Federated Databases	Multimedia Databases
Security and Integrity Maintenance	Internet and the WWW
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	Digital Libraries 
Text and Document Databases		Mobile Databases
Semi-Structured Data			User Interfaces
Statistical and Scientific Databases	Temporal and Spatial Databases
Engineering Databases			Active Databases
Parallel and Distributed Databases	Application Servers
Data Warehousing			New Applications
Information Retrieval with Database Systems

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TOPICS OF INTEREST FOR SPECIAL TRACKS
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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 [at] 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. 

     "Data Stream Processing"
      Track Chair: Venkatesh Ganti
                   Microsoft Research, U.S.A.
                   vganti [at] 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): 
      (i)   Stream processing models and system architectures 
      (ii)  Techniques for accurately summarizing streaming data 
      (iii) Mining data streams 
      (iv)  Content-based processing of streaming data objects
            (e.g., text and XML documents) 
      (v)   Visionary papers outlining future research directions 

     "XML Database"
      Track Chair: Bongki Moon
                   University of Arizona, U.S.A.
                   bkmoon [at] 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.

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IMPORTANT DATES 
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Electronic submission of abstract: September 20, 2002
Paper submission:                  September 27, 2002
Panel & Tutorial proposals:        September 27, 2002
Notification of acceptance:        December 2, 2002
Camera-ready copies:               January 2, 2003

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

http://db-www.aist-nara.ac.jp/dasfaa2003/ConfMan/REG-paper/

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.

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PANEL SESSIONS AND TUTORIALS
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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 [at] eei.metro-u.ac.jp).

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
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Sang Kyun Cha
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Seoul National University 
Kwanak P.O. Box 34, Seoul 151-742, Korea
Email: chask [at] kdb.snu.ac.kr

Masatoshi Yoshikawa
Information Technology Center
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku
Nagoya 464-8601, JAPAN
Email: yosikawa [at] itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative)
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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
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

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Honorary Chair
Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan

General Chair
Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
 
Program Co-Chairs
Sang Kyun Cha, Seoul National University, Korea 
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan

Finance Committee
Chair:
Yoshihiko Imai, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan
Memebers:
Shusuke Haruna, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan
Hitomi Takada, Kyoto University, Japan

Tutorials/Panel Chair
Hiroshi Ishikawa, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs
Toshiyuki Amagasa, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Kenji Hatano, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Publications Chair
Jun Miyazaki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Kazutoshi Sumiya, Kyoto University, Japan
Akiyo Nadamoto, Communications Research Laboratory, Japan