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Subject: BNCOD: CALL FOR APPLICATION TRACK PAPERS
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:23:40 -0000
From: Euan Dempster <[log in to unmask]>
To: [... various list owners ...]
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am promoting the BNCOD21 conference and was hoping that you could
circulate the following call via your mail list.
Thanking you in advance
Regards
Euan Dempster
******** With apologies for multiple postings ****************
21st BRITISH NATIONAL CONFERENCE on DATABASES
7th - 9th July 2004
(http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21)
CALL FOR APPLICATION TRACK PAPERS
* Conference Background and Goals
===============================
For the past 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 on both
sides. 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 Subject
Indications list for papers below.
To celebrate its twenty-first birthday BNCOD is coming to Edinburgh,
where it will be hosted on the Heriot-Watt University campus on the
outskirts of the city (close to the International Airport). The
conference will be the focus of a week of co-located activities with
workshops, tutorials, a Grand Challenge programming competition, and
BNCOD21 itself all running at the same venue, offering delegates a feast
of opportunities. As well as the traditional research track of papers,
posters and panels, BNCOD21 will also offer a one day applications
track, where a parallel stream of application-focused papers and
presentations will focus on the utilisation of the technologies
discussed in the research track, and industrial and academic delegates
can meet and find common ground. A commercial and research exhibition
will run alongside the conference, and we will encourage the
presentation of interactive exhibits demonstrating both commercial
products and research initiatives. Since they will be in the capital of
Scotland, there are lots of attractions and historical sights to
interest and excite our delegates during their free time, and we do
encourage delegates to take advantage of these opportunities during
their visit to Edinburgh. We will also offer a Social programme with
which we will try to live up to the traditions of Scottish hospitality.
Details of all of these activities and submission, registration, travel
and accommodation information will appear, as it becomes available, on
our website - http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21
* Types of Submissions
====================
There has been a series of calls for this conference, and this one
focuses on application track papers, both full and short, there have
already been calls for tutorials, interactive exhibits, posters, and
research track papers, and details can be found on the website -
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21.
For the purposes of this call, we would wish to receive submissions, by
the submission deadline of 9th April 2004, of:
* Full Application Track Papers - c. 6,000 words, 12 pages in 10 point,
in PDF format. Papers should describe completed application work,
grounded in the list of Subject Indications provided below, and will
be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical
quality, relevance to the conference, application significance, and
clarity.
* Short Application Track Papers - c. 3,000 words, 6 pages in 10 point,
in PDF format. Papers can describe work in progress, points of
technical merit, novel applications of existing work, or evaluative
results, grounded in the list of Subject Indications provided below,
and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to the conference, application
significance, and clarity.
* Application Track Papers will be published in Volume 2 of the
Conference Proceedings which will be published by Heriot-Watt in
concert with a local Edinburgh publisher, with associated ISBN/ISSN
listing.
* Application Track Subject Indications
=====================================
As for the research track, papers are sought covering either fundamental
database technologies or applicative technologies to support data,
knowledge and information systems. The topics of interest are the same
as for the research track, and are shown below. However, the main focus
of application track papers should be on the application of these
technologies and topics in practice, and we are particularly interested
to receive submissions covering applications in:
* Grid technologies
* eCommerce systems
* eLearning
* Data Analytics and Financials
* Health Informatics
* BioInformatics
* Secure Systems
Topics
======
* Data Models and Architectures
* Data Mining
* Data Streaming
* 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
* Hidden Web
* 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, Privacy and Provenance
* 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 date - 22nd January 2004
* Notification to Authors - 27th February 2004
* Camera ready copy and author registration deadline - 31st March 2004
* Conference - 7th - 9th July 2004
* Conference Location
===================
Department of Computer Science,
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
Heriot-Watt University,
Riccarton Campus,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS,
Scotland, U.K.
* Secretariat
===========
You can contact us with any queries,
By post, at BNCOD Secretariat,
Department of Computer Science,
Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh EH14 4AS.
By fax addressed to "BNCOD21 Secretariat"
at +44(0)131 451 3327
By email to [log in to unmask]
* Conference Chair: Lachlan MacKinnon, Heriot-Watt University
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* Program Chair: Howard Williams, Heriot-Watt University
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for the full list of Committee Members see
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/BNCOD21/contact.htm
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