BNCOD 2011 - BNCOD 2011 : BNCOD 2011: 28th British National Conference on Databases

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Deadline: February 07, 2011 | Date: July 12, 2011-July 14, 2011

Venue/Country: Manchester, U.K.

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Call For Papers - CFP

Manchester, United Kingdom

12-14 July 2011

http://bncod2011.cs.man.ac.uk

*Second* Call for Papers

General Information

The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established

in 1980 as a forum for discussing original research in the theory and

practice of database systems. Since then, BNCOD has always attracted

an international audience to discuss the leading research topics of

the day in the field of data, information and knowledge management.

The 28th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2011) will be

held at the University of Manchester from 12th to 14th of July 2011.

Scope and Main Theme

BNCOD is a broad conference and showcases the latest research results

in all areas of data, information and knowledge management. For some

years, every edition of BNCOD has centred around a main theme, acting

as a focal point for keynote addresses, tutorials, demos, etc.

The theme of BNCOD 2011 will be "Linked Data". The phrase

characterises, according to some, a sub-topic in the broader vision of

a Semantic Web and is generally understood as "a set of best practices

for publishing and connecting structured data on the Web. These best

practices have been adopted by an increasing number of data providers

over the last three years, leading to the creation of a global data

space containing billions of assertions - the Web of Data." [1]

This surge in the availability and variety of linked data (as shown,

e.g., by the growing Linked Open Data Cloud [2] has stimulated the

development of groundbreaking research, tools [3] (e.g., publishing

frameworks, browsers and search engines) and applications [4].

On the research front, and from a BNCOD perspective, a Web of Data

raises challenges at all levels, from the underlying data model to

novel query languages to global-scale semantic integration to

massively distributed query execution over heterogenous environments.

The UK has been contributing to this surge at the highest levels by

making government data (as well as tools) widely available [5]. Many

UK organisations are leaders in the linked data movement. BNCOD 2011

hopes to provide a window into these exciting initiatives.

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[1] Christian Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee: Linked Data - The

Story So Far. Int. J. Semantic Web Inf. Syst. 5(3): 1-22 (2009)

[2] http://linkeddata.org/

[3] http://linkeddata.org/tools

[4] http://esw.w3.org/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData/Applications

[5] http://data.gov.uk/

Conference Format

Particular features of BNCOD 2011 include:

- Two keynote talks by world-leading researchers

Prof. Karl Aberer

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer

Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany

- Tutorials on the latest research and development in data,

information and knowledge management

- Demonstrations of research prototypes

- A half-day PhD Forum aimed at fostering the development

of future researchers

Call for Papers

BNCOD 2011 seeks research papers, proposals for tutorials and for

demonstrations of research and commercial systems, for presentation at

the conference and subsequent publication.

Full papers (12 pages), short papers (8 pages), poster papers (4

pages), demo proposals (2 pages), tutorial proposals (2-page extended

abstract) may be submitted.

As in previous years, papers will be published by Springer as a volume

in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. BNCOD 2011

will adopt a post-conference proceedings approach allowing for

revision in the light of feedback from the referees. Accepted papers

will only be published if they are presented in person by a registered

author in the conference sessions.

All submissions should be in PDF, formatted according to the Springer

guidelines for the LNCS series. These can be found at

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

The submission site is open at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bncod2011

Proposals by PhD students for presenting at the PhD Forum should be

up to 4 pages long.

Topics of Interest

Any topic related to data, information and knowledge management is of

interest to BNCOD 2011, and in particular (but not exclusively) the

following:

* Applications of Databases in Science and Industry

* Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation

* Complex Event Processing

* Data Curation, Annotation and Provenance

* Data Management in Computing Clouds

* Data Management for Mobile, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

* Data Models and Query Languages

* Data Streams and Publish-Subscribe Systems

* Data Structures and Indexing

* Data Management in e-Sciences

* Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

* Dataspaces and Data Integration

* Data Warehousing, OLAP, and ETL Tools

* DBMS Design and Tuning

* DBMS on Emerging Hardware Architectures

* Digital Libraries, Museums, and Archives

* Middleware and Workflow Management

* Multimedia Databases

* Ontology-Based Data Access and Management

* Parallel, Distributed, P2P and Grid Data Management

* Personalization and Personal Information Systems

* Privacy and Security in Trustworthy Databases

* Query Processing and Optimization

* Replication, Caching, and Materialized Views

* Scientific and Statistical Databases

* Semantic Web and Knowledge Databases

* Sensor Data Management and In-Network Query Processing

* Spatial, Temporal, and Geographic Databases

* Text Databases and Information Retrieval

* User Interfaces and Data Visualization

* Web Information and Services

* Web of Data, Linked Data, Linked Open Data

* XML and Semistructured Databases

Conference Organizers

Programme Chair

Alvaro A A Fernandes (University of Manchester)

Local Organisers

Alasdair J G Gray (University of Manchester)

Khalid Belhajjame (University of Manchester)

Programme Committee

Alan Sexton University of Birmingham

Alex Gray Cardiff University

Alex Poulovassilis Birkbeck College, University of London

Anastasios Gounaris Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Anne James Coventry University

Barry Eaglestone University of Sheffield

David Bell Queen's University Belfast

David Nelson University of Sunderland

Georg Gottlob University of Oxford

Giovanna Guerrini University of Genova, Italy

Graham Kemp Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Ixent Galpin University of Manchester

Jessie Kennedy Edinburgh Napier University

Jianhua Shao Cardiff University

John Wilson University of Strathclyde

Jun Hong Queen's University Belfast

Keith Jeffery JISC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Ken Moody University of Cambridge

Lachlan MacKinnon University of Greenwich

Leonidas Fegaras University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Marco Mesiti University of Genova, Italy

Mark Roantree Dublin City University, Ireland

Marta Mattoso Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mary Garvey University of Wolverhampton

Nigel Martin Birkbeck College, University of London

Norman Paton University of Manchester

Peter McBrien Imperial College, London

Richard Cooper University of Glasgow

Sandra Sampaio University of Manchester

Sharma Chakravarthy University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Stratis Viglas University of Edinburgh

Suzanne Embury University of Manchester

Werner Nutt Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Important Dates

31 Jan 2011 Abstract Submission Deadline

7 Feb 2011 Papers Submission Deadline

7 Feb 2011 Demo Proposal Submission Deadline

7 Feb 2011 Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline

4 Apr 2011 Notification of Acceptance for Papers, Demos and Tutorials

4 Apr 2011 PhD Forum Submission Deadline

18 Apr 2011 PhD Forum Acceptance

2 May 2011 Camera-Ready Version of Accepted Contributions

2 May 2011 Author, Demo, Tutorial and PhD Registration

6 Jun 2011 Early Bird Registration

11 Jul 2011 (Workshop Day)

12 Jul 2011 Conference Starts