All submissions will be handled electronically, at: http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/DMSN04

The workshop proceedings will be published by VLDB.

For every paper submission, authors must first submit an abstract by May 10th, 2004 (5:00pm Eastern Standard Time). Abstracts should be in plain text (200 words max).

Full papers in PDF format must be submitted by May 17th, 2004 (5:00pm Eastern Standard Time). Papers should be in the VLDB camera ready format (double-column, at most 6 pages in 9pt font). The format of your submission must be for US "Letter" size paper (8.5 by 11 inches). Please note that A4 is not equivalent to US "Letter" size.

For the camera-ready format template, please visit http://www.vldb04.org/instructions.html. Please note that the page limit is 6 pages for the workshop.

Questions about the submission process should be directed to the program co-chairs at