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From: “Alfredo Cuzzocrea” <cuzzocrea at si.deis.unical.it>

Call for Papers
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First International Workshop on Distributed XML Processing: Theory and Practice (DXP 2009) (http://si.deis.unical.it/cuzzocrea/DXP2009/)

in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2009) (http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~icpp2009/), September 22-25 2009, Vienna, Austria.

Selected papers from the workshop will be invited for submission to a special issue of Journal of Computer and System Sciences (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcss), Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com)

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/cuzzocrea/), ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
David Taniar (http://users.monash.edu.au/~dtaniar/), Monash University, Australia

Aim and Scope
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XML is widely recognized as the standard de facto for coupling with the heterogeneity of data repositories and software platforms of distributed environments. In light of this, distributed XML processing play a key role in the context of a plethora of modern distributed data, information and knowledge management applications and systems. Distributed XML processing deals with both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from sophisticated theoretical contributions and tools to efficient algorithms and frameworks. A wide number of open research issues and challenges derive from meaningfully using XML in distributed environments, such as (non exhaustive list):

- Distributed XML Data Management
- Distributed XML Query Processing
- Distributed XML Indexing Techniques
- Distributed XML Information Retrieval
- Distributed Data Mining over XML Repositories
- Distributed Data Warehousing over XML Repositories
- OLAP over Distributed XML Repositories
- Distributed Knowledge Discovery from XML Repositories
- Distributed Machine Learning over XML Repositories
- Decision Support Systems over Distributed XML Repositories
- Distributed XML Processing over the Web
- Distributed XML Metadata Management
- Ontology Engineering over Distributed XML Repositories
- XML-based Distributed Web Service Orchestration and Management
- XML-based Distributed Process Representation and Mining
- XML-based Distributed Workflow Representation and Mining
- Methodologies and Tools for Designing Complex Information Systems over Distributed XML Repositories
- XML Data and Knowledge Management over Grids
- XML Data and Knowledge Management in Mobile Settings
- XML Data and Knowledge Management in P2P Settings
- XML Data and Schema Integration in Distributed Environments
- DTD-based XML Schema Validation in Distributed Environments
- XMLSchema-based XML Schema Validation in Distributed Environments
- Privacy Preserving XML Data and Knowledge Management in Distributed Environments
- Security and Access Control Issues over Distributed XML Repositories
- Interoperability Issues over Distributed XML Repositories
- XML-based Data and Knowledge Management for Distributed Bio-Banks
- Distributed High-Performance XML Processing
- Data Dissemination Techniques for XML Data
- Data Fragmentation Techniques for XML Data
- Storage and Compression Issues for Distributed XML Repositories
- XML Processing Techniques for Distributed Databases
- XML Query Optimization for Distributed Environments
- XML Processing Techniques for Distributed Data Warehouses
- XML-based ETL for Distributed Data Warehouses

The First International Workshop on Distributed XML Processing: Theory and Practice will be held in Vienna, Austria, during September 22-25, in conjunction with the 38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2009), focuses but it is not limited to the listed research topics, by posing the emphasis on a theoretical as well as a practical point of view, and provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in distributed XML Processing to meet and exchange preliminary ideas and mature results.

Workshop Location
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The Vienna University of Technology (http://www.tuwien.ac.at/tu_vienna/), Austria

Submission Guidelines and Instructions
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Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated workshop topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period.

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and numbering each page. Maximum submitted paper length allowed is 8 pages.

IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines are available at the following web page:

http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Abstracts (deadline: April 13, 2009) should be submitted by e-mail (preferably in an enclosed MS Word file) to the Program Committee Co-Chairs Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it and David Taniar (http://users.monash.edu.au/~dtaniar/) at David.Taniar@infotech.monash.edu.au. Abstracts must include paper title, abstract, list of keywords, and list of authors with full names and affiliations. One of the authors must be designated as the primary contact point to receive notification and reviews.

Papers (deadline: April 20, 2009) should be submitted by email (preferably in an enclosed PDF file) to the Program Committee Co-Chairs Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it and David Taniar (http://users.monash.edu.au/~dtaniar/) at David.Taniar@infotech.monash.edu.au.

Submitted papers will be thoroughly reviewed by members of the Workshop Program Committee for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via e-mail. All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors, who must register.

Paper Publication
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Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/index.jsp).

Authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of Journal on Computer and System Sciences (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcss), Elsevier (http://www.elsevier.com).

Important Dates
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Abstract submission: April 13, 2009
Paper submission: April 20, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2009
Camera-ready paper due: June 28, 2009
Workshop: September 22-25, 2009

Program Committee Co-Chairs
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Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/cuzzocrea/), ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
David Taniar (http://users.monash.edu.au/~dtaniar/), Monash University, Australia

Program Committee (to be extended)
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Denilson Barbosa, University of Alberta, Canada (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~dmb/)
Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore (http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourav/)
Stéphane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore (http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~steph/)
Andrea Calì, Oxford University, United Kingdom (http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Andrea.Cali/)
Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy (http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~catarci/)
Jerome Darmont, University of Lyon 2, France (http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~jdarmont/)
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy (http://olaf.crema.unimi.it/)
Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria, Italy (http://si.deis.unical.it/~flesca/)
Irini Fundulaki, ICS-FORTH, Greece (http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/people/people_individual.jsp?Person_ID=393)
Giorgio Ghelli, University of Pisa, Italy (http://www.di.unipi.it/~ghelli/ghelli.html)
Mohand-Said Hacid, University of Lyon 1, France (http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~mshacid/)
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/akement.index.html)
Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, The University of British Columbia, Canada (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~laks/)
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lxue/)
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/cliu/)
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA (http://web.mst.edu/~madrias/)
Giansalvatore Mecca, University of Basilicata, Italy (http://www.db.unibas.it/users/mecca/)
Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece (http://delab.csd.auth.gr/~apostol/)
Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA (http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~ras/)
Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (http://www.icie.com.pl/rhr.htm)
Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, South Korea (http://dblab.chungbuk.ac.kr/~khryu/)
Bernhard Thalheim, Kiel University, Germany (http://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~thalheim/indexeng.htm)
Jeffrey Yu Xu, University of Tsukuba, Japan (http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/people/yu.html)
Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~dzeina/)

For more information and any inquire, please contact Alfredo Cuzzocrea (http://si.deis.unical.it/~cuzzocrea/) at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it
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From: “Franck Morvan” <morvan at irit.fr>

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Call for papers for a special issue in

International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering IJCSSE
http://www.crlpublishing.co.uk/journal.asp?j=csse&s=Aims%20and%20Scope

Special issue on
Mobile Data Management: Models, Methodologies and Services

Guest Editors:
Franck Morvan, IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France
Abdelkader Hameurlain, IRIT, Paul Sabatier University, France

The advent of mobile laptops, sensor and smart card combined to the
evolution of wireless networks providing higher bandwidth and better
connectivity generates new requirements for users. For example,
a user wishes to begin a transaction without connection to the
network, to locate the hotel the closest to him from the computer
embedded on his car, or to use a service on the web independently
of factors: time and place. The consideration of the constraints
bound to ultra portable laptops (e.g. screen size), to smart cards
(e.g. limited storage capacity), to the distribution and to the
heterogeneity of information sources spread on large-scale networks
raise numerous problems during the design of systems. These systems
have to adapt themselves to the changes of the mobile environment.
The objective of this special issue is to present recent research
works concerning mobility in data management. Original papers
preferably but not limited to the following topics are welcome:

- Metadata management
- Data management in wireless sensor networks
- Query languages
- Location dependent query processing
- Continuous query
- Embedded data management
- Data placement
- Load balancing
- Caching and replication
- Mobile transactions
- Disconnected operations
- Data and process migration
- Mobile query optimization
- Indexation of mobile objects
- Security
- Performance evaluation and benchmarking
- Mobile applications and experiences

Key dates:

Submission deadline: April 4th, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance: June 8th, 2009
Revised version deadline: July 6th, 2009
Final decision: July 27th, 2009
Final paper: September 7th, 2009
Publication: End of 2009

Submission of manuscripts:
Authors should submit their manuscripts via email to: morvan@irit.fr.
Do not use online submission system of the CSSE journal.

Formats and guidelines can be found at:
http://www.crlpublishing.co.uk/journal.asp?j=csse&s=Notes%20for%20Authors
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From: “Feifei Li” <lifeifei at cs.fsu.edu>

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Due to numerous requests and due to ICDE’09 event that is taken
place this week we have extended the submission deadline for
MobiDE’09 as follows:

*** New Paper/Demo Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 15h, 2009 ***

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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

8th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering
for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE’09)

10 Year Anniversary

Jun 29th, 2009
Providence, Rhode Island USA

(collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009)

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/mobide09/

AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:

This is the eighth of a successful series of workshops that aims to act as a bridge between the data management, wireless networking, and mobile computing communities.

The 1st MobiDE workshop took place in Seattle (August 1999), in conjunction with MobiCom 1999; the 2nd MobiDE workshop took place in Santa Barbara (May 2001), together with SIGMOD 2001; the 3rd MobiDE workshop took place in San Diego (September 2003), together with MobiCom 2003; the 4th MobiDE workshop was held in Baltimore (June 2005. In 2006, MobiDE was organized in Chicago,(June 2006). The 6th MobiDE was held in Beijing, China (June 2007). Last year’s event took place in Vanco
uver, Canada (June 2008). This year’s event marks the 10-year anniversary of the workshop.

This year MobiDE 2009 is sponsored by ACM SIGMOD and held in cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE (pending approval). Additionally, it is sponsored by EU’s Network of Excellence on Cooperating Objects.

As in the past 10 years, the workshop will continue to serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in data management for mobile and wireless access.

The topics of interest related to mobile and wireless data engineering include, but are not limited to:

* ad-hoc networked databases
* consistency maintenance and management
* context-aware data access and query processing
* data caching, replication and view materialization
* data publication modes: push, broadcast, and multicast
* data server models and architectures
* database issues for moving objects: storing, indexing, etc.
* m-commerce
* mobile agent models and languages
* mobility-aware data mining and warehousing
* mobile database privacy and security
* mobile databases in scientific, medical, and engineering applications
* mobile peer-to-peer applications and services
* mobile sensor network databases
* mobile transaction models and management
* mobile web services
* mobility awareness and adaptability
* pervasive computing
* prototype design of mobile databases
* quality of Service for mobile databases
* static sensor network databases
* transaction migration, recovery and commit processing
* wireless multimedia systems
* wireless web

The workshop will be organized in a manner that fosters interaction and exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides regular papers, we will also consider vision, retrospective and work-in-progress papers that have the potential to stimulate debate on existing solutions or open challenges. We additionally plan to accept a limited number of demonstration papers where researchers and technologists will have the opportunity to describe an innovative system or tool in the area of data management for mobi
le and wireless access. We discourage the submission of incremental papers. This year’s program is also expected to feature a keynote speech and a panel discussion on newly-emerging or controversial topics.

IMPORTANT DATES (HARD DEADLINES)

Abstract Registration: Wed, March 25th, 2009 (midnight EST)
Paper/Demo Submission: Wed, April 15th, 2009 (midnight EST)
Notification of acceptance: Mon, May 18th, 2009
Camera-ready version due: Mon, Jun 1st, 2009
Workshop date: Mon, Jun 29th, 2009

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS

Manuscripts in the following categories will be considered for publication in the ACM Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access:

* Regular papers (max. 8 pages): The submission should describe significant theoretical and/or experimental contributions to the area of data management for mobile and wireless access.

* Demo papers (max. 4 pages): The submission should describe the architecture, implementation and usage of innovative tools or systems that fit the context of the workshop. The presentation of demo papers will be conducted in a designated session during the workshop (in the form of short presentations).

* Panel proposals (max. 2 pages): The submission should include the panel objectives and the panel organization (names, addresses and background of potential panelists).

All of the submissions should be in PDF format and conform to the ACM proceedings format (double-columned pages in 9pt font). Submitted papers must not have been published or currently be under consideration for publication at another venue.

All of the submissions will be handled electronically. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
Detailed submission information will be posted on the website of the workshop.

The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. Electronic versions of the papers will be included in the ACM DL, DiSC’09 and DBLP.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs:

Yannis Kotidis
Department of Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
E-mail: kotidis@aueb.gr

Pedro Jose Marron
Institut for Informatik,
Bonn University, Germany
E-mail: pjmarron@cs.uni-bonn.de

Program Chairs:

Le Gruenwald
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma, USA
E-mail: ggruenwald@ou.edu

Demetris Zeinalipour
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
E-mail: dzeina@cs.ucy.ac.cy

Demonstration Chair:

Zografoula Vagena
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
E-mail: zografv@microsoft.com

Publicity Chair:

Feifei Li
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University, USA
E-mail: lifeifei@cs.fsu.edu

STEERING COMMITTEE

Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dik Lun Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong
George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Walid G. Aref, Purdue University, USA
Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany
Claudio Bettini, University of Milan, Italy
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA
Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Michael J. Franklin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California Riverside, USA
Yannis Kotidis, AUEB, Greece
Mong Lee, NUS, Singapore
Hui Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wang Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Feifei Li, Florida State University, USA
Hua Lu, Aalborg University, Denmark
Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri Uni. of Science and Technology, USA
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Claudia Roncancio, Grenoble INP / LIG, France
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Timos Sellis, IMIS-R.C. Athena and NTUA, Greece
Mohamed A. Sharaf, University of Toronto, Canada
Jianwen Su, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA
Vassilis Tsotras, University of California Riverside, USA
Zografoula Vagena, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Vasilis Vassalos, AUEB, Greece
Stratis D. Viglas, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Vladimir Oleshchuk, University of Agder, Norway
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
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From: “Heiko Stoermer” <stoermer at dit.unitn.it>

Postdoc position on Self-Administering Lifecycle Management

The Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the
University of Trento, Italy, seeks applications for a post-doctoral
position on *Self-Administering Lifecycle Management*, starting in May 2009.

The position is in the context of the OKKAM European Research Project,
and will involve the design, implementation and evaluation of novel
models and methods for managing the creation and evolution of entities
in an Entity Name System (ENS). These methods will be heavily based on
usage-log analysis, and should also aim at improving the performance of
the matching module within ENS.

More information about OKKAM and the ENS can be found here:

The candidate should have a PhD in Computer Science, a strong
publication record, and solid background in one or more of the following
fields: databases, data analysis, log analysis, data summarization,
streaming algorithms, self-management systems.

Proficiency in English and programming experience in Java are expected.
Strong system skills as well as experience with real-life deployments
are a plus.

The *salary is 30,000Euro/year net* (after all applicable taxes).

The position is open form May 1st, 2009, and the contract is available
until June 30th, 2010.

Please send your application (see link at the bottom for details),
including curriculum vitae with list of publications and the names and
email addresses of three professional references.

*Application deadline: April 16th, 2009, 12:00 CET*

The University of Trento offers a challenging, highly-international
research environment. Trento is a vibrant city with a beautifully
preserved historic center, consistently ranked at the top for quality of
life in Italy. It offers a variety of cultural and sports opportunities
all year around. It is surrounded by a multitude of lakes and mountains
scattered with hiking trails, and during winter time, it provides easy
access to a variety of world-class ski resorts. It is close to the
beautiful cities of Verona, Venice and Innsbruck, as well as to the
cosmopolitan Milan.

Contact:
Themis Palpanas
http://disi.unitn.eu/~themis/

Please refer to this official document on how to apply:
http://disi.unitn.it/organi/documents/storageDocuments/calls/DD113.pdf

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