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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
PAPER SUBMISSION
Symposium submissions must be in electronic form
using Portable Document Format (.pdf).
Please use a pdf writing package, like CutePDF to produce pdf.
We welcome two types of papers.
- Long
papers presenting results or surveys should be 15 pages max
- Short
papers presenting new ideas or demos should be 8 pages max
PLEASE
NOTE: Papers can be shorter than the specified maximum length. Please
specify, as first line of the abstract, if this is a short or long
paper, by writing in bold LONG
PAPER or SHORT PAPER.
Papers should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
guidelines, to be found at the LNCS Authors web site. Please ensure that
you use the correct template -- Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes -- available in various
formats. 
All submitted papers will be judged on their quality and
relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the
symposium to present their work. The paper submission site is https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=xsym2009.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers due:
April 26, 2009 , extended
to May 3rd 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
Italy
Angela Bonifati Italy
Ashraf Aboulnaga
Canada
Bernd Amann France
Carl-Christian Kanne
Germany
Denilson Barbosa
Canada
Elisabeth Murisasco France
Emmanuel Waller France
Giovanna Guerrini Italy
Hakim Hacid France
Ingo Frommholz UK
Ioana Manolescu
France
Irini Fundulaki
Greece
Jeffrey Xu Yu China
John Wilson UK
Luc Moreau UK
Marc Scholl Germany
Marco Mesiti Italy
Matthias Nicola US
Mirian Halfeld
Ferrari Alves France
Nilesh Dalvi
US
Nikolaus Augsten
Italy
Norman May Germany
P. Sreenivasa Kumar India
Peter Fischer Switzerland
Peter McBrien UK
Peter Wood UK
Sourav S Bhowmick
Singapore
Stephane Bressan
Singapore
Stratis Viglas
UK
Tadeusz Pankowski
Poland
Werner Nutt Italy
Zografoula Vagena
UK
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