SMDB 2012 - Seventh International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems

SMDB 2012

Seventh International Workshop on

Self-Managing Database Systems

http://smdb2012.dvs.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/

April 1, 2012

In conjunction with ICDE 2012

April 1-5, 2012 Washington DC, USA

IMPORTANT DATES
Papers due: December 7, 2011
Notification: December 27, 2011
Camera-ready copies: December 30, 2011
DESCRIPTION
Autonomic, or self-managing, systems are a promising approach to achieve the goal of systems that are easier to use and maintain in the face of growing system complexity. A system is considered to be autonomic if it is self-configuring, self-optimizing, self-healing and/or self-protecting. The aim of the SMDB workshop is to provide a forum for researchers from both industry and academia to present and discuss ideas and experiences related to self-management and self-organization in all areas of Information Management (IM) in general. SMDB targets not only classical databases but also the new generation of storage engines such as column stores, key-value stores, and in-memory databases. Beyond databases, SMDB aims to cover autonomic aspects of data-intensive systems represented by large-scale map-reduce (e.g., Hadoop) and cloud environments, where much work on self-management is needed. Last but not least, SMDB seeks to expand its horizons to include self-management of non-tr!

aditional, new areas of IM such as social networks, distributed gaming, and peer-to-peer systems.
Research and development in database management systems has been instrumental in accomplishing some of the goals of autonomic systems by developing and incorporating strategies for physical database design, problem diagnosis, load balancing, self-tuning, and self-optimization. New challenges arising from multi-tenant databases, virtualization, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and large data-intensive systems, such as social networks, distributed gaming, and peer-to-peer systems require new research.
Early workshops of the SMDB series focused on core topics in self-managing databases such as automated tuning and provisioning, automated problem diagnosis and recovery, and automated data protection and integration. Since 2010 the scope of the workshop has been broadened to include new topics in the core database area, such as multi-tenant databases and data management in cloud computing, but also drawing in other communities, such as, peer-to-peer computing and distributed systems. For the 2012 SMDB workshop, we want to continue to attract researchers from both the core database and other communities, such as the adaptive and event-based systems communities as enabling technologies for self-managing systems, and data-intensive internet-scale distributed systems, which should benefit from research results in SMDBs.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Principles and architecture of autonomic data management systems
Retro-fitting existing systems vs. designing for self management
Self-* capabilities in databases and storage systems
Data management in cloud and multi-tenant databases
Autonomic capabilities in database-as-a-service platforms
Automated testing of data management systems
Automated physical database design and adaptive query tuning
Auomated provisioning and integration
Automatic enforcement of information quality
Self-managing distributed / decentralized / peer-to-peer information systems
Self-management of internet-scale distributed systems
Self-managing and adaptive aspects in social network systems
Monitoring and diagnostics in data management systems
Policy automation and visualization for data center administration
User acceptance and trust of autonomic capabilities
Evaluation criteria and benchmarks for self-managing systems
Self-evaluation of data management services in the cloud
Use cases and war stories on deploying autonomic capabilities
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in English of up to 6 pages in IEEE camera-ready format (templates are available at the ICDE 2012 submission guidelines page) to the submission site https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SMDB2012/. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages for final publication. All papers accepted by the workshop will appear in the formal Proceedings of the Conference Workshops published by IEEE CS Press, and will therefore be included in the IEEE digital library. More information can be found on the workshop web site: http://smdb2012.dvs.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/

ORGANIZERS
PC Chairs

Alex Buchmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

PC Members

Ashraf Aboulnaga (Waterloo University, Canada)

Anastasia Ailamaki (EPFL, Switzerland)

Shivnath Babu (Duke University, USA)

Michael Gesmann (Software AG, Germany)

Sam Lightstone (IBM, Canada)

Guy Lohman (IBM Almaden, USA)

Pat Martin (Queen’s University, Canada)

Gero Mühl (U. Rostock, Germany)

Stefan Manegold (CWI, Netherlands)

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Peter Pietzuch (Imperial College, England)

Neoklis Polizotis (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)

Christopher Re (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Ken Salem (Waterloo University, Canada)

Kai-Uwe Sattler (T.U. Ilmenau, Germany)

Florian Waas (EMC, USA)

Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen, Germany)