.                    FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

                Track on Internet Data Management

            19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
             March 14 - 17, 2004,  Nicosia, Cyprus

                  http://db.cs.pitt.edu/sac04

                    Sponsored by ACM SIGAPP

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IMPORTANT DATES
   Paper submissions:    September 8, 2003 (5pm EST)  
   Author notification:   October 18, 2003
   Camera-ready due:      November 8, 2003


AIMS AND SCOPE 
   The  Internet is  gradually turning  into a  public  ``utility'' in
   people's daily life,  and the Web has served as  a catalyst in this
   process.    With   more   and   more  emerging   applications   and
   architectures  on the  Internet, such  as sensor  data acquisition,
   peer-to-peer data  sharing and grid  computing, it is  essential to
   revitalize and enrich the Internet data management arena.

   This track  aims to examine the  state of the art  in Internet data
   management,  focusing  on  emerging  applications  in  addition  to
   traditional web data management.  The underlying theme of the track
   is  in building  systems that  are easy  to use  and  are scalable.
   These  usability/scalability  issues  will  be considered  in  many
   dimensions: manageability, heterogeneity, performance, reliability,
   device capabilities, user behaviors, and data characteristics.

   We solicit both regular  research papers and application experience
   papers  in an  effort to  bring together  academics  and industrial
   practitioners.   Papers will  be  peer-reviewed by  at least  three
   members of the program committee.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
   The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 
   * web data integration
   * semi-structured data management
   * data routing / information filtering
   * data management for web services
   * querying the hidden web
   * continuous/streaming web queries
   * data-intensive internet applications
   * query processing over sensor networks
   * web caching and replication for dynamic data
   * data management using peer-to-peer architectures
   * data management for the grid
   * data management for the wireless/mobile web
   * web data quality


PAPER SUBMISSIONS
   Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished
   papers which fall into one of the following categories: 
     1) Research, 2) Applications/Experience, 3) Industrial.
   We also solicit short demo descriptions of prototype systems.

   All submissions will be handled electronically, at the web site 
   for the track: http://db.cs.pitt.edu/sac04

   Papers must be at most 15 double-spaced pages (8 for demo
   proposals) with at least 11pt font and 1 inch margins (about 
   5,000 words).


POSTERS
   A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full
   papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published 
   as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings.


TRACK CO-CHAIRS:
   Marios Dikaiakos      Alexandros Labrinidis      Qiong Luo
   Univ. of Cyprus       Univ. of Pittsburgh        HKUST
   mdd@ucy.ac.cy         labrinid@cs.pitt.edu       luo@cs.ust.hk


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
   Serge Abiteboul, INRIA 
   Roger Barga, Microsoft Research			
   Junghoo Cho, UCLA					
   Alex Delis, Polytechnic University			
   Beniamino DiMartino, Second University of Naples		
   Avigdor Gal, Technion University			
   Minos Garofalakis, Lucent					
   Yannis Ioannidis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
   Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania
   Sridhar Iyer, IIT Bombay				
   Donald Kossmann, T.U. Munich				
   Yannis Kotidis, AT&T Research				
   Francis Lau, Hong Kong University			
   Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore 	
   Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University	
   Fred Lochovsky, HKUST					
   Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	
   Evangelos Markatos, ICS-FORTH and Univ. of Crete
   Alberto Mendelzon, University of Toronto			
   Jeff Naughton, University of Wisconsin-Madison		
   Sriram Padmanabhan, IBM TJ Watson				
   Jordan Parker, Oracle					
   Ron Perrot, Queens University Belfast		
   Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete			
   Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland			
   Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester			
   Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell University				
   Dan Suciu, University of Washington		
   Renu Tewari, IBM Almaden				
   Helen Thomas, Carnegie Mellon University			
   Tolga Urhan, BEA					
   Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia			
   Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University		
   Dongqing Yang, Peking University			
   Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong		
   Chun Zhang, IBM Almaden				


ABOUT ACM SAC 2004
   For the past eighteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
   has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,
   computer engineers, software  engineers, and application developers
   from around  the world.  SAC 2004 is  sponsored by the  ACM Special
   Interest  Group  on  Applied   Computing,  and  is  hosted  by  the
   University of Cyprus in Nicosia, Cyprus.

   More information at  http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2004/ 


ABOUT CYPRUS
   With  a storied  past 10,000  years long,  Cyprus is  an  island of
   legends   that  basks  year-round   in  the   light  of   the  warm
   Mediterranean  sun.   Today,  Cyprus  is  a   modern  country  that
   effortlessly     marries    European    culture     with    ancient
   enchantment. Nicosia,  the capital of Cyprus, has  been the largest
   and  most significant  city of  the  country during  the last  1000
   years.