| VLDB
2003 invites submissions on new contributions in the field
of data management, including novel usage of data management
technology. VLDB 2003 strongly encourages the submission of
creative work that goes beyond improvements of already known
results. Submissions may cover novel approaches in data management,
visions that present new viewpoints and challenges, or a description
of the implementation or deployment of advanced database technology
in an industrial or application setting. Furthermore, since
new hallenging applications appear on the horizon, papers
that describe those with respect to their technical substance,
their impact, and their importance and relate them to today's
database technology are also solicited. |
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To
accommodate the spectrum of papers, VLDB 2003 will be organized
into three tracks:
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Core Database System Technology |
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Infrastructure for Information Systems |
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Industrial Applications & Experience |
| Accordingly,
like in 2002 VLDB 2003 will divide the Program Committee by
subject area rather than by geographical region as in earlier
years. Nonetheless, we remain committed to maintain the geographical
balance in all aspects of the conference. |
| The
Core Database Technology PC will evaluate papers that report
on technology that is meant to be incorporated in the database
system itself. This includes database engine functions, such
as query languages, data models, query processing, views,
integrity constraints, triggers, access methods, and transactions
in centralized, distributed, replicated, parallel, mobile,
and wireless environments. It also includes extended data
types, such as multimedia, spatial and temporal data, and
system engineering issues, such as performance, high availability,
security, manageability, and ease-of-use. Papers on all aspects
of active and object databases, storage technology, and data
management system architecture should be submitted to the
Core Database Technology PC. |
| The
PC covering Infrastructure for Information Systems will evaluate
papers that report on methods, issues, and problems faced
during the design, development and deployment of innovative
solutions for information management. It also covers middleware
and tools that exploit database technology, but are typically
not part of a database system itself. Examples include workflow,
advanced transaction processing features, application servers,
object monitors, services in support of E-commerce, mediators
and other web-oriented data facilities, metadata repositories,
data and process modeling, web services, user interfaces and
data visualization, data translation and migration, data cleaning,
multi-agent systems, and system management. Papers on topics
others than those mentioned which cover the area of Infrastructure
for Information Systems are also welcome. |
| The
PC on Industrial Applications & Experience solicits submissions
covering innovative commercial database implementations, novel
applications of database technology, and experience in applying
recent research advances to practical situations. Such papers
should describe innovative implementations, new approaches
to fundamental challenges (such as very large scale or semantic
complexity), or major technical improvements to the state-of-the-practice.
Our objective is to challenge people from industry to articulate
the unsolved problems they face or encounter when they apply
DB technology in their environments. The papers should communicate
the challenges which members of the DB community should address
more aggressively. The track is VLDB's way to foster the exchange
of ideas and solutions between research and industry. Application
areas include those of Bioinformatics/Life Science, Engineering,
Mobile Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and other
areas all of which pose technical challenges to the field
of data management. |
| Industrial
application & experience submissions may be either full
papers whose technical density is comparable to research submissions
or extended abstracts. |
| In
some cases, material might cut across more than one of the
tracks, and indeed we strongly encourage papers that pursue
some of the ties between them. Examples include data mining,
web-related work, and XML. We leave it up to the discretion
of the authors to which PCs they submit their paper depending
on the prevailing contribution. If in doubt, we suggest to
contact one of the PC chairpersons. The program committee
reserves the right to move papers between the PC's to ensure
the fairest possible evaluation. |
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