IADC 2007 Special Track

Advances in Querying Non-Conventional Data Sources

Special Track of the

3rd International Advanced Database Conference (IADC 2007)

April 4-6, 2007, San Diego, California, USA

Selected papers from the track will be invited for submission to a special issue of

Accepted Papers (Alphabetical Order)

O. Baltzer, and A. Rau-Chaplin, Adding a Continuous Dimension to ROLAP

D. Battré, F. Heine, A. Höing, and O. Kao, Storing and Retrieving RDF Triples in Structured P2P Networks without Hashing

F. Boulçane, A Hybrid as View Data Integration Approach for Heterogeneous Data Sources

G. Bruno, P. Garza, E. Quintarelli, and R. Rossato, Anomaly Detection through Quasi-Functional Dependency Analysis

I. Rahal, B. Wang, and R. Rahhal, An Automated Gene-Retrieval System for Biological Information Needs

Y. Wang, and R. Sunderraman, An Algebra for Protein Structure Data

Aim and Scope

Nowadays, heterogeneity of data-intensive information systems poses new challenges on the issue of querying non-conventional data sources beyond relational databases. Non-conventional data sources arise in many fields: Web/XML data in massive Web repositories (e.g., B2B and B2C e-commerce systems), RDF data in ontological databases, text data in digital libraries, peer-to-peer data in innovative scenarios drawn from Web and Grid service-based architectures, data streams and RFID data in emerging sensor network applications, DW/OLAP data in very-large data warehouses, spatial data in advanced GIS applications, temporal data in sequence and genomic databases, spatio-temporal data in mobile computing applications, log-data in data and process mining tools, scientific data in e-science applications, biological data in bio-banks etc.

In these contexts, traditional DBMS query technologies are inadequate, so that novel models, algorithms and paradigms are necessary in order to efficiently support query answering against non-conventional data sources. Despite some recent advancements, various aspects need to be further investigated, among which: formal foundations, advanced query models and techniques, design of innovative query algorithms, query optimization models and techniques, query translation solutions, query re-writing schemes, view-based query answering, design and implementation of advanced query operators/predicates, indexing strategies for efficient query answering, imprecise/incomplete query answering, complex query result visualization techniques, multiple query result fusion techniques, security/privacy-preserving issues in query answering etc.

The special track Advances in Querying Non-Conventional Data Sources of the 3rd International Advanced Database Conference (IADC 2007), to be held in San Diego, CA, USA, in April 4-6, 2007, focuses on these aspects, by posing the emphasis on a theoretical as well as a practical point of view, and provides a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in advanced query models and techniques for non-conventional data sources to meet and exchange preliminary ideas and mature results.

The topics of interest concern with advanced query models and techniques for a wide spectrum of non-conventional data sources storing the following kinds of data (but not limited to):

- XML Data
- Web Data
- RDF Data
- Ontological Data
- Text Data
- Peer-to-Peer Data
- Raw Data
- Data Stream
- Sensor Network Data
- RDIF Data
- Multidimensional Data
- Data-Warehouse Data
- OLAP Data
- Spatial Data
- Temporal Data
- Spatio-Temporal Data
- Heterogeneous Data
- Environmental Data
- Log Data
- Data and Process Mining Tools Data
- Knowledge Discovery Process Data
- Scientific Data
- Biological Data

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Conference Location

National University, Spectrum Center, 9388 Lightwave Avenue, San Diego, California, 92123, USA.

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Submission Guidelines and Instructions

Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English in the IADC camera-ready double-column format, which is available in PDF and MS Word.

Submissions should be limited to five double-column pages (+ five pages with additional charges), and must be uploaded electronically on the Web submission system of the special track, available at:

IADC 2007 Special Track Web Submission System

Submitted papers should include title, author's name(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), and list of keywords, and should be in PDF or PS format. Submitted papers should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the IADC 2007 proceedings.

Each submitted paper will be fully refereed by at least three referees for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via e-mail.

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Paper Publication

Accepted papers will appear in the IADC 2007 proceedings, published by US Education Service with an ISBN number.

Authors of selected papers from the track will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), published by Digital Information Research Foundation. JDIM is indexed in several referred databases including Elsevier Engineering Index COMPENDEX, Computer Abstracts, Computer Science Index, DBLP, EBSCO, INSPEC, SCOPUS etc.

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Important Dates

Abstract submission: December 15, 2006 >> EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 22, 2006
Paper submission: December 20, 2006 >> EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 22, 2006
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2007 >> EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 5, 2007
Camera-ready paper due: February 14, 2007
Conference: April 4-6, 2007

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Program Committee Chair

Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy

Program Committee Members

Hisham Al-Mubaid, University of Houston-Clear Lake, TX, USA
Zohra Bellahsène, LIRMM – University Montpellier 2, France
Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Angela Bonifati, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Andrea Calì, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Dario Colazzo, LRI – University Paris-Sud, France
Sergio Flesca, University of Calabria, Italy
Filippo Furfaro, University of Calabria, Italy
Zhiguo Gong, University of Macao, China
Gianluigi Greco, University of Calabria, Italy
Shyam Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, India
Hyoil Han, Drexel University, PA, USA
Mark Last, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Daniel Lemire, University of Quebec at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jing Li, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA
Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy
Giuseppe Manco, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Apostolos Papadopoulos, Aristotele University, Greece
Kalpdrum Passi, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada
Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carlo Sartiani, University of Pisa, Italy
Kai-Uwe Sattler, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA
Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain
Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT University, Australia
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China
Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ran Wolff, University of Haifa, Israel
Byunggu Yu, National University, CA, USA

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For more information and any inquire, please contact Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy, at cuzzocrea@si.deis.unical.it