ISiM to organize COMAD 2009 – the 15th International Conference - Call for papers

The 15th COMAD is organized by the International School of Information Management (ISiM), University of Mysore during December 9-11, 2009 at Infosys Technologies campus, Mysore. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2009’s scope will include all areas in the data management space including database management systems, Web and Information Retrieval and Data Mining.

For close to two decades COMAD – the International Conference on Management of Data, modeled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been a premier international database conference hosted in India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on a nearly annual basis since then. COMAD always had significant international participation with about 30% of the papers from outside India including Europe, USA, and East/South East Asia.

Call for Papers

Original research submissions are invited not only in traditional database areas but also in Data Quality, Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining.

We invite submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
Data Management Systems:
* Benchmarking and performance evaluation
* Data exchange and integration
* Database monitoring and tuning
* Data privacy and security
* Data quality, cleaning and lineage
* Data warehousing
* Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
* Multilingual data management
* Novel Data Types
* Parallel and distributed databases
* Peer-to-peer data management
* Personalized information systems
* Storage and transaction management

Web and Information Retrieval:
* Categorization, Clustering, and Filtering
* Document Representation and Content Analysis
* Information Extraction and Summarization
* IR Theory, Platform, Evaluation
* Question Answering and Cross-Language IR
* Web and IR
* Social Network Analysis


Data Mining
* Novel data mining algorithms and foundations
* Innovative applications of data mining
* Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks
* Mining data streams and sensor data
* Mining multi-media, graph, spatio-temporal and semi-structured data
* Security, privacy, and adversarial data mining
* High performance and parallel/distributed data mining
* Mining tera-/peta-scale data
* Visual data mining and data visualization

To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, we plan
to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives. Two awards- for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference.

Important Dates:

• Research and Student Papers-July 31, 2009
• Industrial Papers, Demo, Panel and Tutorial Proposals-August 28, 2009
• Notification to authors-September 25th, 2009
• Camera-ready copy due-October 30, 2009
• Early-Bird Registration Deadline-December 1, 2009
• Conference-December 9-11, 2009


Conference Organization:

General Chair

• Shalini Urs, ISiM, University of Mysore, India


Organizational Chair

• Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT-Bangalore, India


Program Chairs

• Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney , Australia
• Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad, India.

Contact Details:
Dr. Shalini Urs
COMAD 2009 – General Chair
&
Executive Director and Professor
International School of Information Management
University of Mysore, Manasagangotri
Mysore – 570 006
Tel: +91-821-2514699; +91-821-2411417
Fax: +91-821-2519209,