PODS 2012 - 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems

The PODS symposium series, held in conjunction with the SIGMOD conference series, provides a premier annual forum for the communication of new advances in the theoretical foundations of database systems (see http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages).

Topics of Interest

Topics that fit the interests of the symposium include the following (as they pertain to databases):

languages for semi-structured data (including XML and RDF)
dynamic aspects of databases (updates, views, real-time and sensor data, approximate query answering, data streams)
incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases
schema and query extraction
data integration
data exchange
provenance
workflows
metadata management
meta-querying
constraints (specification, reasoning, mining, constraint databases)
privacy and security
model theory, logics, algebras and computational complexity
data modeling
data structures and algorithms for data management
design, semantics, and optimization of query and database languages
domain-specific databases (multi-media, scientific, spatial, temporal, text)
In addition, we especially welcome papers addressing emerging database environments and applications. An External Review Committee will assist in reviewing papers in several multi-disciplinary areas of particular interest to this edition of PODS -- the areas of interest and names of External Review Committee members are listed futher below.

Organization

Program Chair
Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, UK)
Program Committee
Mikhail Atallah (Purdue University, USA)
Toon Calders (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Graham Cormode (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
Alin Deutsch (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Gianluigi Greco (Universita della Calabria, Italy)
Todd J. Green (University of California, Davis, USA)
Martin Grohe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Marc Gyssens (Hasselt University, Belgium)
T.S. Jayram (IBM Research - Almaden and IBM Research - India)
Daniel Kifer (Penn State University, USA)
Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz & IBM Research - Almaden, USA)
Rasmus Pagh (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Luc Segoufin (INRIA Cachan, France)
Pierre Senellart (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Sophie Tison (Lille University, France)
Victor Vianu (University of California, San Diego, USA)
David Woodruff (IBM Research - Almaden, USA)

PODS General Chair
Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
Proceedings & Publicity Chair
Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford, UK)
External Review Committee and additional Areas of Interest

Querying and Mining of Unstructured Data
Anhai Doan (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Labs, USA)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Stefano Leonardi (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
Evimaria Terzi (Boston University, USA)
Web Services, Web Programming and Data-Centric Workflow
Wil van der Aalst (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Anders Moller (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Farouk Toumani (ISIMA, France)
David Walker (Princeton University, USA)
Karsten Wolf (University of Rostock, Germany)
Learning of Data Models and Queries
Deepak Agarwal (Yahoo! Labs, USA)
James Cussens (University of York, UK)
Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, USA)
Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer Institute IAIS, U. Bonn, Germany)
Cloud Computing and Next-generation Distributed Query Processing
Shivnath Babu (Duke University, USA)
Phillip Gibbons (Intel Labs, USA)
Monica Lam (Stanford University, USA)
Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Volker Markl (TU Berlin, Germany)
Semantic, Linked, Networked, and Crowdsourced Data
Panagiotis Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)
David Karger (MIT, USA)
Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany)
Boris Motik (University of Oxford, UK)

Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers should be at most twelve pages, including bibliography, using reasonable page layout and font size of at least 9pt (note that the SIGMOD style file does not have to be followed). Additional details may be included in an appendix, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the PC. Papers longer than twelve pages (excluding the appendix) or in font size smaller than 9pt risk rejection without consideration of their merits. A link to the submission website will appear on the conference website in due time.

The results must be unpublished and not submitted elsewhere, including the formal proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Authors of an accepted paper will be expected to sign copyright release forms, and one author is expected to present it at the conference.

Important Dates

November 20, 2011: Abstract submission
November 27, 2011: Paper submissions
February 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance
Awards

Best Paper Award: An award will be given to the best submission, as judged by the PC.

Best Student Paper Award: There will also be an award for the best submission, as judged by the PC, written exclusively by a student or students. An author is considered as a student if at the time of submission, the author is enrolled in a program at a university or institution leading to a doctoral/master's/bachelor's degree. More details concerning eligibility criteria are posted at the PODS pages (http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/pods/index.html).