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22nd BRITISH NATIONAL CONFERENCE on DATABASES (BNCOD22)

5th - 7th July 2005

Sunderland, UK

http://www.bncod.sunderland.ac.uk

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

For over twenty years BNCOD has attracted an International audience to
discuss the leading research topics of the day in the field of Data,
Knowledge and Information systems.  Leading research from the UK and
from throughout the world has been presented at the conference, and many
fruitful and lasting collaborations have been created.  BNCOD has also
offered an opportunity for academic research to interact with industrial
application, to mutual benefit.  As with any conference that has been in
existence for this period of time, BNCOD has moved from an original
focus on Databases to a much broader range of interests, reflected in
the Topics of Interest listed below.

This conference will be the focus of a week of activities including
workshops and tutorials focusing on 'Enterprise, Skills and Innovation',
all held at the same venue.  As well as the traditional research papers,
posters and panels, BNCOD22 will also offer an industry track.  We
especially encourage papers and presentations from researchers whether
established or at the start of their academic careers who are dealing
with practical problems presented by industry, whose solution requires a
high level of academic input.  We will also offer a social programme
which will broaden your experience of North East hospitality and culture.

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference will be held at the School of Computing and Technology at
the University of Sunderland, UK. Located on the North East Coast of
England, Sunderland is one of the UK's newest cities.  Standing on one
of the oldest educational sites in the country, the university campus
successfully blends the old with the new.  To the North of the campus
lies St Peter's church where the Venerable Bede was trained, marking a
tradition of learning that stretches back over a thousand years.

TRAVEL
Sunderland is located on the North East coast of England, close to the
A19 and A1.  The nearest airport is Newcastle International Airport
providing connections to most major UK and European cities, including
London Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Amsterdam Schiphol, Paris and
Brussels.   There is a Metro link to Newcastle Airport, as well as
direct Metro and rail links to Newcastle Central Station, with trains to
all major UK cities.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES
This is the first of a series of calls for this conference, and it
focuses on research track papers, both full and short.  There will be
further calls for tutorials, interactive exhibits, posters, and industry
track papers, and details will appear on the website -
http://www.bncod.sunderland.ac.uk as they become available.
Paper submission must be by the conference web site at
http://www.bncod.sunderland.ac.uk

For the purposes of this call, we would wish to receive submissions, by
the submission deadline of 20th January 2005, of:
 * Full Research Track Papers - c. 6,000 words, 12 pages in 10 point, in
PDF format.  Papers should describe completed research activities,
related to the list of Topics of Interest provided below, and will be
reviewed by the Programme Committee on the basis of technical quality,
relevance to the conference, originality, significance, and clarity.
 * Short Research Track Papers - c. 3,000 words, 6 pages in 10 point, in
PDF format. Papers can describe research in progress, points of
technical merit, novel research applications, or interim findings,
related to the list of Topics of Interest provided below, and will be
reviewed by the Programme Committee on the basis of technical quality,
relevance to the conference, originality, significance, and clarity.

It is expected that, as in previous years, the proceedings will be
published in Springer Verlag LNCS series.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
For all tracks, submissions are sought covering either fundamental
database technologies or applicative technologies to support data,
knowledge and information systems. Topics of interest include but are
not limited to:

- Data Models and Architectures
- Data Mining
- Data Provenance
- Data Streaming
- Data Warehousing
- Database Integration and Interoperability
- Distributed Information Systems
- E-business and E-commerce
- Enterprise Systems
- Geographic Information Systems
- Grid: Middleware, Applications and Data Management
- Heterogeneous Systems
- Industrial applications of database systems
- Information Retrieval
- Integrity, Constraints and Active Rules
- Information and Knowledge Management
- Mobile computing
- Multi-Agent systems
- Multimedia, Spatial and Temporal Data
- New Application Areas and Processes
- Performance Modelling and Metrics
- Query and Manipulation Languages
- Query Processing and Optimisation
- Security and Privacy
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Semi-structured data, Metadata and XML
- Transaction Management
- Ubiquity
- Uncertainty and Reasoning
- User Interfaces and Data Visualisation
- Usability and QoS
- Workflow Support Systems

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: 20th January 2005
Notification of acceptance: 25th February 2005
Camera ready due date: 30th March 2005

CONTACT DETAILS
For further details please contact the conference general chairs:

Dr David Nelson and Mrs Sue Stirk
School of Computing and Technology
University of Sunderland
Sunderland
SR6 0DD
United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.bncod.sunderland.ac.uk