CFP: DBrank 2008 - ICDE Workshop - Deadline Dec 3

The Second International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank'08)
In conjunction with ICDE 2008.
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Cancun, Mexico
11-12 April 2008
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/dbrank2008/

The Second International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank'08)
focuses on the semantics, the modeling and the implementation of ranking
and ordering in database systems and applications. In recent years, there
has been a great deal of interest in developing effective techniques for
ad-hoc search and retrieval in relational databases, document and
multimedia databases, scientific information systems, and so on. In
particular, a large number of emerging applications require exploratory
querying on such databases; examples include users wishing to search
databases and catalogs of products such as homes, cars, cameras,
restaurants, and photographs. To address the limitations of the traditional
Boolean retrieval model in these emerging ad-hoc search and retrieval
applications, Top-k queries and ranking query results are gaining
increasing importance. In fact, in many of these applications, ranking is
an integral part of the semantics, e.g., keyword search, similarity searc!
 h in multimedia as well as document databases. The increasing importance
of ranking is directly derived from the explosion in the volume of data
handled by current applications. The sheer amount of data makes it almost
impossible to process queries in the traditional compute-then-sort
approach. Hence, ranking comes as a great tool for soliciting user
preferences and data exploration.

DBRank aims at providing more insight into supporting ranking in database
systems and will be an interesting addition to ICDE 2008; the workshop will
be a great venue for the many research groups working on ranking worldwide,
with a unique opportunity to share their experience in supporting ranking
in various database systems, from relational to semi-structures and
unstructured data; and on different levels from query formulation and
preference modeling to query processing and optimization frameworks. The
workshop covers (and is not limited to) the following topics:

    * Ranking relational data
    * Rank-aware query processing and optimization
    * New fundamental developments in top-k algorithms
    * Cost-models for top-k algorithms and operators
    * User preference specification and query languages
    * Ranking in Web and XML databases
    * Learning user preferences and ranking functions
    * Ranking in distributed and peer-to-peer databases
    * Ranking as a data exploration tool
    * Ranking queries in data streams and continuous monitoring systems
    * Applications of ranking and top-k retrieval from databases
    * Ranking multimedia data
    * Domain-specific ranking, e.g., in bibliographic, biological,
clinical, and scientific data


Submission Instructions
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We welcome original, unpublished manuscripts for 8-pages papers inclusive
of all references and figures. Papers should report completed results.
Vision papers and descriptions of work-in-progress are also welcomed as
short paper submissions (4 pages). Papers must be written in English, and
formatted according to ICDE proceeding format (PDF format). Electronic
version of the workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE.

Submission website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DBRANK2008/
Workshop  Website : http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/dbrank2008/


Important Dates (All deadlines are at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time)
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    * Paper Submission:  December 3, 2007 (PDF format)
    * Author Notification: January 4, 2008
    * Camera-Ready Version: January 9, 2008


Program Co-Chairs
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    * Vagelis Hristidis - Florida International University, USA
    * Ihab F. Ilyas - University of Waterloo, Canada


Program Committee
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    * Eugene Agichtein - Emory University, USA
    * Walid Aref - Purdue University, USA
    * Nicolas Bruno - Microsoft Research, USA
    * Kevin Chang - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
    * Jan Chomicki - University of Buffalo, USA
    * Gautam Das - University of Texas at Arlington, USA
    * Jiawei Han - University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
    * Venkatesh Ganti - Microsoft Research, USA
    * Dimitrios Gunopulos - University of California, Riverside, USA
    * Panos Ipeirotis - New York University, USA
    * Werner Kiessling - University of Augsburg, Germany
    * Nick Koudas - University of Toronto, Canada
    * Chengkai Li - University of Texas at Arlington, USA
    * Nikos Mamoulis - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    * Heikki Mannila - HIIT, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
    * Amelie Marian - Rutgers University, USA
    * Dimitris Papadias - HKUST, Hong Kong
    * Neoklis Polyzotis - University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
    * Martin Theobald - Stanford University, USA
    * Min Wang - IBM Research, USA


Keynote Speakers (Titles and abstracts to be announced)
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    * Prof. Christos Faloutsos - Carnegie Mellon University
    * Prof. Luis Gravano - Columbia University