XSym 2009

XSym 2009 - Sixth International XML Database Symposium

at VLDB'09 in Lyon, 24 August 2009

http://www.lirmm.fr/~bella/XSym/

CALL FOR PAPERS, submission deadline April 26, 2009

The XML Database Symposium (XSym) series focuses on the convergence of database technology with XML technology, and brings together academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use and synergy between these technologies.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We solicit original contributions in the following areas:

Core Database Technology for XML Data Management

- Full text search and ranking, including IR techniques

- Approximate XML querying

- Query processing and optimization

- Indexing and access methods

- Access control and security

- Storage and compression

- Updates and integrity maintenance

- Concurrency control and recovery

- Performance evaluation

- Management of Incomplete information

- Data Cleaning

XML and Data Integration

- XML query translation

- XML and P2P

- XML and Web applications

- XML schema matching

- Mapping and Query Discovery and Evolution

- XML and Web services

- Distributed XML databases and access

Development and deployment of XML Applications

- Conceptual design: models and methodologies, expressiveness and usability

- Logical design: models and methodologies, expressiveness and usability

- Query languages, expressiveness and usability

- Streaming XML data

Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs). Previous volumes: XSym07, XSym06, XSym05, XSym04, XSym03

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due:        April 26, 2009

Author notification:     May 26, 2009

Camera Ready Copy:  June 5, 2009

Symposium:                 Aug 24, 2009

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Zohra Bellahsene -- LIRMM-CNRS/University Montpellier 2 (France)

Ela Hunt -- University of Strathclyde (Scotland)

Michael Rys -- Microsoft (USA)

Rainer Unland -- University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (incomplete list)

Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Ashraf Aboulnaga

Carl-Christian Kanne

Emmanuel Waller

Elisabeth Murisasco

Giovanna Guerrini

Irini Fundulaki

Jeffrey Xu Yu

Marco Mesiti

Mirian Halfeld Ferrari Alves

Peter McBrien

Peter Wood

Sourav S Bhowmick

Stephane Bressan

Stratis Viglas

Tadeusz Pankowski

Angela Bonifati

Norman May

Zografoula Vagena

Nilesh Dalvi

Ingo Frommholz

Matthias Nicola

John Wilson

Marc Scholl