. 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 *** *** *** PAPER SUBMISSION SITE IS NOW OPEN *** *** *** *** Please note the extended September 8th submission deadline *** *** *** 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for the wireless/mobile web * web data quality PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers which fall into one of the following categories: 1) Research, 2) Applications/Experience, 3) Industrial.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.