DEXA 2008

Information systems and database systems have always been a central topic of computer science. Additionally the integration of intelligence and data justifies its today's attractiveness. Since 1990 DEXA is an annual international conference, located in Europe, which showcases state-of-the-art research activities in these areas. DEXA 2008, the 19th conference in the series, will be held in Turin, Italy, during September 2008. It will continue to provide a forum for presenting research results in the area of database and intelligent systems and discussions on advanced applications and issues related to these areas. It will offer the opportunity to extensively discuss requirements, problems, and solutions in the field. The workshop and conference should inspire a fruitful dialogue between developers in practice, users of database and expert systems, and scientists working in the field.

Suggested Topics
DEXA 2008 invites research submissions on all topics related to database systems and intelligent systems including, but are not limited to those listed below.
 * Applications of DB Systems and Information Systems
 * Applications of Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems
 * Constraint Modelling and Processing
 * Data and Information Modelling
 * Data and Information Integration
 * Data and Information Networks
 * Data and Information Privacy and Security
 * Data and Information Quality
 * Data and Information Semantics
 * Data and Information Streams
 * Data Structures and Data Management Algorithms
 * Database and Information System Architecture and Performance
 * Data Mining Algorithms
 * Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP
 * Digital Libraries
 * Distributed, Parallel, P2P, and Grid-based Databases
 * Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems
 * Information Retrieval and Database Systems
 * Interoperability
 * Knowledge Acquisition & Management
 * Knowledge Modelling
 * Knowledge Processing
 * Metadata Management
 * Mobile Data and Information
 * Multimedia Databases
 * Multi-databases and Database Federation
 * Object, Object Relational, and Deductive Databases
 * Pervasive Data and Information
 * Process Modelling
 * Process Support and Automation
 * Query Processing and Optimisation
 * Semantic Web and Ontologies
 * Sensor Data Management
 * Statistical and Scientific Databases
 * Temporal, Spatial, and High Dimensional Databases
 * User Interfaces to Databases and Information Systems
 * WWW and Databases
 * Workflow Management and Databases
 * XML and Databases

General Chairpersons

 * has general chair::Enrico Ferro, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella / Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
 * has general chair::Emilio Paolucci, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
 * has general chair::Marco Cantamessa, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

Conference Program Chairpersons

 * has PC chair::Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria
 * has PC chair::Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Workshop Chairpersons

 * has workshop chair::A Min Tjoa, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
 * has workshop chair::Roland R. Wagner, FAW, University of Linz, Austria

Publication Chairperson

 * Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic

IMPORTANT DATES

 * Submission of full papers:   February 29, 2008
 * Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2008
 * Camera-ready copies due:  June 10, 2008