COMAD 2010 - 16th International Conference on Management of Data

The 16th COMAD will be held during December 8-10, 2010 in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. COMAD 2010's scope includes all areas in the data management space including Database management systems, Web and Information Retrieval and Data Mining. We invite submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Data Management Systems:
* Benchmarking and performance evaluation
* Data exchange and integration
* Database monitoring and tuning
* Data privacy and security
* Data quality, cleaning and lineage
* Data warehousing
* Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
* Multilingual data management
* Novel Data Types
* Parallel and distributed databases
* Peer-to-peer data management
* Personalized information systems
* Storage and transaction management

Web and Information Retrieval:
* Categorization, Clustering, and Filtering
* Document Representation and Content Analysis
* Information Extraction and Summarization
* IR Theory, Platform, Evaluation
* Question Answering and Cross-Language IR
* Web and IR
* Social Network Analysis

Data Mining
* Novel data mining algorithms and foundations
* Innovative applications of data mining
* Data mining and KDD systems and frameworks
* Mining data streams and sensor data
* Mining multi-media, graph, spatio-temporal and semi-structured data
* Security, privacy, and adversarial data mining
* High performance and parallel/distributed data mining
* Mining tera-/peta-scale data
* Visual data mining and data visualization

To ensure wide visibility for the material published at the conference, we plan to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line archives. Two awards, for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference.