[DMANET] Final CFP: PODS 2014, June 23-25, Snowbird, Utah, USA

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

33rd ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on
PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
(PODS 2014)

June 23 - June 25, 2014, Snowbird, Utah, USA

The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD
conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the
communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of
data management, traditional or non-traditional
(see http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages).

=== Topics of Interest

Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following:

- design, semantics, and optimization of query and database languages;
- data modeling; data structures and algorithms for data management;
- dynamic aspects of databases (updates, views);
- query languages for semi-structured data (including XML and RDF);
- search query languages (including techniques from information
retrieval);
- web services; automatic verification of database-driven systems;
- incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases;
- constraints (specification, reasoning, mining, constraint databases);
- domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial,
temporal, text);
- schema and query extraction;
- mining and learning of data models and queries;
- data integration; data exchange;
- provenance; workflows;
- metadata management; meta-querying;
- semantic, linked, networked, and crowdsourced data;
- foundation of "big data";
- recommendation systems and social networks;
- distributed and parallel aspects of data management; cloud computing
and distributed query processing;
- data streams; real-time and sensor data; approximate query answering;
- privacy; security;
- model theory, logics, algebras and computational complexity.

=== Important Dates

Short abstracts due: November 25, 2013 (4:59 PST)
Paper submission: December 2, 2013 (4:59 PST)
Notification: February 24, 2014 (4:59 PST)

=== Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, including
bibliography, using reasonable page layout and font size of at least
10pt (note that the SIGMOD style file does not have to be followed).
Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will
be read at the discretion of the PC. Papers longer than twelve pages
(excluding the appendix) or in font size smaller than 10pt risk
rejection without consideration of their merits.

The submission process will be through the easychair website:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pods2014.

Note that, unlike the SIGMOD conference, PODS does not use double-blind
reviewing, and therefore PODS submissions should have the names and
affiliations of authors listed on the paper.

The results must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including
the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an
accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and
one author is expected to present it at the conference.

=== Awards

Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as
judged by the PC.

Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best
submission, as judged by the PC, written by a student or exclusively by
students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of
submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or
institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree.

The PC reserves the right to give both awards to the same paper, not to
give an award, or to split an award among several papers. Papers
authored or co-authored by PC members are not eligible for an award.

=== Organization

PODS General Chair: Richard (Rick) Hull (IBM T.J. Watson Research)
PODS Program Chair: Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen University)
Publicity & Proceedings Chair: Andre Hernich (University of Liverpool)

Program Committee:

Serge Abiteboul (INRIA Saclay)
Pablo Barcelo (Universidad de Chile)
Jan van den Bussche (Hasselt University)
Andrea Cali (Birkbeck College)
Sara Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Dario Colazzo (Universite Paris Sud)
Claire David (Universite Paris Est MLV)
Daniel Deutch (Ben Gurion University)
Thomas Eiter (TU Wien)
Alexandre Evfimievski (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Roberto Grossi (Universita di Pisa)
Sudipto Guha (University of Pennsylvania)
Andre Hernich (University of Liverpool)
David Karger (MIT)
Kristian Kersting (University of Bonn)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Edinburgh)
Gabriele Puppis (LaBRI)
Dan Suciu (University of Washington)
Tony Tan (Hasselt University)
Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Yufei Tao (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ke Yi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

=== SIGMOD/PODS Webpage:

http://www.sigmod2014.org/
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