PersDB 2009 Call For Papers

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS
           Third International Workshop on "Personalized Access,=20
          Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases"

                              (PersDB 2009)

     in conj. with VLDB=9209, 24-28 August 2009, Lyon, France
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          Submission deadline:  June 26, 2009=20
          Workshop date:        August 28, 2009
          URL:                  http://persdb09.stanford.edu/
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AIM AND SCOPE
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Proliferation of database-driven web sites has brought upon a plethora of=
 information access and=20
dissemination applications. Monitoring and trading stock portfolios, news=
 notification, weather=20
tracking, and even simple search are just a few examples. In addition, re=
cently, new applications=20
have emerged that go beyond information access and dissemination and enha=
nce creativity,=20
information sharing and exploration, and collaboration among users, provi=
ding richer interaction=20
possibilities. Now, users cannot only access content but they can also ge=
nerate, share and modify=20
content, compose their applications, enhance their interface, etc. Web-ba=
sed communities, wikis,=20
social networks, mashups, folksonomies are some of the emerging new appli=
cations. In all these=20
applications, different notions of user information, such as preferences,=
 community memberships and=20
social interactions, and context information, such as a user's social net=
work, location, time,=20
and other features of a user's environment, are of paramount importance i=
n order to improve and=20
personalize user experience. In this context, new challenges emerge for u=
ser-centric, context-aware=20
database systems for storing and managing different aspects of user and c=
ontext information,=20
for data management and computing taking into account personal, social an=
d contextual information=20
about users and for customizability of their behavior.=20


TOPICS
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Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following:
 - Modeling and profiling of personal, social and contextual information
    * User and community modeling
    * User profiling and preference elicitation
    * Social network analysis of online environments, community and user =
discovery
    * Personal ontology modeling
    * Context modeling and context identification
    * Reputation and trust models
    * Social knowledge modeling=20

 - Personal, social and context-aware computing and applications
    * Personalization and recommendations
    * Personal data management and computing
    * Information access and sharing techniques
    * Personalized mashups
    * Data management and organization in collaborative applications
    * Social reputation and recommendation systems
    * Online communities and social networking
    * Social computing
    * Reputation and trust management
    * Context-aware data management and processing
    * Privacy-aware computing
    * Intelligent browsing and navigation
    * Novel interfaces supporting user-generated content and social inter=
action
    * Evaluation methodologies and metrics
    * Query routing and resource allocation in a distributed database
    * Graph databases=20

 - New database models and architectures
    * Personal and social databases
    * User-aware and context-aware data and query models
    * Data sharing and integration of access control policies
    * Adaptive database systems
    * Architectures for personalized privacy in databases
    * Multimodal ubiquitous environments
    * Context-aware system architectures=20


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that =
are not being considered=20
for publication in any other forum. Papers submitted should be at most si=
x(6) pages long.
Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted u=
sing the VLDB format,=20
based on the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. Detailed formatting instructions =
and samples are available here:
http://www.vldb2009.org/?q=3Dnode/5

Submissions should be uploaded through the submission site at:
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/PersDB2009/Default.aspx=20


IMPORTANT DATES
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    * Submission:            June 26, 2009
    * Notification:          July 28, 2009
    * Camera ready:          August 10, 2009 (tentative)
    * PersDB 2009 workshop:  August 28, 2009=20


INVITED SPEAKER
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Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (University of British Columbia, Canada)


STEERING COMMITTEE
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    * Tiziana Catarci         (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
    * Yannis Ioannidis        (University of Athens, Hellas)
    * Timos Sellis            (Institute for the Management of Informatio=
n Systems and NTUA, Greece)=20


PC CHAIRS
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    * Sihem Amer-Yahia        (Yahoo! Research, USA)
    * Georgia Koutrika        (Stanford University, USA)=20


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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    * Michael Benedikt        (Oxford University, UK)
    * Paolo Ciaccia           (University of Bologna, Italy)
    * Irini Fundulaki         (ICS-FORTH, Greece)
    * Zoltan Gyongyi          (Google Research, USA)
    * Anne-Marie Kermarrec    (INRIA, France)
    * Werner Kiessling        (Univ. Augsburg, Germany)
    * Alexandros Labrinidis   (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
    * Dongwon Lee             (Penn State University, USA)
    * Massimo Melucci         (University of Padua, Italy)
    * Bamshad Mobasher        (DePaul University, USA)
    * Atsuyuki Morishima      (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
    * Moira Norrie            (ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland)
    * Christos Papatheodorou  (Ionian University, Greece)
    * Evi Pitoura             (University of Ioannina, Greece)
    * Guillaume Raschia       (Polytech Nantes, France)
    * Yannis Stavrakas        (Institute for the Management of Informatio=
n Systems, Greece)
    * Letizia Tanca           (Polytecnico di Milano, Italy)
    * Martin Theobald         (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germa=
ny)
    * Wolf Tilo Balke         (University of Hannover, Germany)
    * Alex Tuzhilin           (Stern NYU, USA)
    * Gerhard Weikum          (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germa=
ny)
    * Cong Yu                 (Yahoo! Research, USA)=20


WEB CHAIR
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    * Julia Stoyanovich       (Columbia University, USA) =20