Call for Papers

Scope

Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The ICDE 2005 International Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for:

• sharing research solutions to problems of today's information society
• exposing practicing engineers to evolving research, tools, and practices and providing them with an early opportunity to evaluate these
• raising awareness in the research community of the problems of practical applications of data engineering
• promoting the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience among researchers and practicing engineers
• identifying new issues and directions for future research and development work.

Topics of Interests

ICDE 2005 invites research submissions on all topics related to data engineering, including but not limited to those listed below:

• Database System Internals and Performance
• Query Processing and Optimization
• Data Warehouse, OLAP, and Statistical Databases
• Mining Data, Text and Web
• Semi-structured Data and XML
• Middleware, Web Services, and Workflow
• Heterogeneity, Semantic Web, and Metadata
• Privacy and Security
• Stream Processing, Continuous Queries, and Sensor Databases
• Database Applications and Experiences
• Temporal, Spatial, Scientific, and Biological Databases
• Distributed, Parallel, Deep Web, and P2P Databases
• Data Management for Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

Research papers must be submitted via the ICDE 2005 paper submission site (http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ICDE2005/) by July 1, 2004, in 8.5" X 11" IEEE camera-ready format, with a 12-page limit. Formatting instructions and LaTeX macros are available on the IEEE computer society site:

• http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm
• ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/: (filename:8.5x11 - Formatting files)

Further instructions will be posted on this site. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society.

Awards will be given to the best paper.

Important Dates

Abstract deadline:	June 24(THU), 2004 2pm PST
Submission deadline:	July 1(THU), 2004 2pm PST
Notification date:	September 13(MON), 2004