Aims of Workshop
The Ph.D. Workshop on Innovative Database Research (to be held in conjunction with SIGMOD) intended to bring together Ph.D. students working on topics related to the SIGMOD conference series. The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the fields of database technology. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions. The workshop is co-located with and will take place after the
SIGMOD 2008 conference on June 13, 2008.
Workshop Programme
The full-day workshop features seven paper presentations and discussions and one invited keynote
speech by Prof. Michael Benedikt.
The workshop will be held in Salon C of the Conference Hotel.
08:30-08:45 Registration
08:45-10:00 Session 1: Data Analysis & Management
Opening Remarks
The Design and Implementation of an OLAP System for Sequence Data Analysis, Chun Kit Chui (University of Hong Kong, China)
Research on Personal Dataspace Management, Yukun Li (Renmin University, China)
10:00-10:30 Tea Break
10:30-11:50 Session 2: Web Services & Applications
A Framework for Web Service Discovery: service's reuse, quality, evolution and user's data handling, Uddam Chukmol (LIRIS Lab, CNRS-INSA de Lyon, France)
A Study of Communities and Influence in Blogosphere, Nitin Agarwal (Arizona State University, USA)
11:50-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:10 Keynote Speech
Office Space vs. Back to School: research life on both sides of the .com/.edu divide, Prof. Michael Benedikt (Oxford University)
14:10-14:50 Session 3: Incomplete Information
Explicit and Default Negation in Databases and Logic Programs, Navin Viswanath (Georgia State University, USA)
14:50-15:20 Tea Break
15:20-16:40 Session 4: Data Security & Privacy
Mechanisms for Database Intrusion Detection and Response, Ashish Kamra (Purdue University, USA)
Approximate Private Information Retrieval, Andre Madeira (Rutgers University, USA)
Accepted Papers
The following papers have been accepted for presentation at the workshop:
- Mechanisms for Database Intrusion Detection and Response, Ashish Kamra (Purdue University, USA)
- The Design and Implementation of an OLAP System for Sequence Data Analysis, Chun Kit Chui (University of Hong Kong, China)
- Explicit and Default Negation in Databases and Logic Programs, Navin Viswanath (Georgia State University, USA)
- Research on Personal Dataspace Management, Yukun Li (Renmin University, China)
- A Framework for Web Service Discovery: service's reuse, quality, evolution and user's data handling, Uddam Chukmol (LIRIS Lab, CNRS-INSA de Lyon, France)
- A Study of Communities and Influence in Blogosphere, Nitin Agarwal (Arizona State University, USA)
- Approximate Private Information Retrieval, Andre Madeira (Rutgers University, USA)
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: March 24, 2008
Notification to authors: May 5, 2008
Camera ready due: May 21, 2008
- Ph.D.Workshop: June 13, 2008
Topics of Interest
As for the SIGMOD conferences series, all topics from the field of database technology are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop. These topics include (but are not limited to):
- Benchmarking and performance evaluation
- Data quality, semantics and integration
- Database monitoring and tuning
- Data privacy and security
- Data mining and OLAP
- Embedded, sensor and mobile databases
- Indexing, searching and database querying
- Managing uncertain and imprecise information
- Novel/ Advanced applications and systems
- Peer-to-peer and networked data management
- Personalized information systems
- Query processing and optimization
- Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
- Semi-structured data
- Storage and transaction management
- Web services
Camera-Ready Instructions
Camera-ready papers should be submitted via
the EasyChair website
by May 21. The papers should not exceed 6 pages in length, and should be formatted according to
ACM SIG proceedings template. The primary author should be the student.
In the copyright block on the bottom left of the first page, please keep the default ACM copyright statement unchanged:
"Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee."
However, please update the conference name to the following:
Proceedings of the Second SIGMOD PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR 2008), June 13, 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
Copyright 2008 ACM 978-1-60558-211-5 ...$5.00.
Authors of accepted papers should also submit a signed ACM Permission and Release Form,
so that their papers can be included in the ACM SIGMOD DiSC and in the ACM Digital Library.
In addition, accepted papers will be made available on the workshop's Web site.
The copyright form is available at
ACM website
and should be submitted to the workshop organizers as soon as possible.
Emailing a PDF file of the scanned form to chancy@comp.nus.edu.sg is preferred. Alternatively, you can mail it or fax it to the following address:
Chee-Yong Chan
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Computing 1
Singapore 117590
Republic of Singapore
Fax: +65 6779 7465 (ATTN: Chee-Yong Chan)
Submission
Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF
via the EasyChair website.
The paper should be single-authored and should not exceed 6 pages; the format is according to ACM SIG proceedings template. In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended:
- A clear formulation of the research question.
- An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
- An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions.
- A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far
- A sketch of the applied research methodology.
- A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
- A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.
The intention of this workshop is to support and inspire Ph.D. students during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor submitted their thesis before the Ph.D workshop (June 13, 2008). To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their expected graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will appear on the SIGMOD DISC.
Workshop Organizers
Co-Chairs:
Steering Committee Members:
- Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
- Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China
Program Committee Members:
- Shivnath Babu, Duke University, USA
- Michael Benedikt, Oxford University, UK
- Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
- Zhiyuan Chen, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
- Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Byron Choi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Gillian Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Guozhu Dong, Wright State University, USA
- Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
- Hong Gao, Harbin University of Technology, China
- Floris Geerts, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Richard Hull, Lucent Technologies, USA
- Ihab F. Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Panagiotis Kalnis, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
- Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China
- Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA
- Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA
- Themis Palpanas, University of Trento, Italy
- Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA
- Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
- Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA
- Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea
- Yong Tang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
- Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
- Min Wang, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
- Sean X. Wang, University of Vermont, USA
- Jirong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Melanie Y. Wu, Indiana University, USA
- Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
- Jeffrey X. Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA
- Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
- Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
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