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          *** Early registration deadline is June 15th ***

           20th International Conference on
    Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM)
          July 9-11, 2008, Hong Kong, China
            http://i.cs.hku.hk/~ssdbm/

The International Conference on Scientific and Statistical
Database Management (SSDBM) is an established forum for the
exchange of the latest research results on concepts, tools,
and techniques for scientific and statistical database
applications. The 2008 meeting marks the twentieth time that
scientific domain experts, databases researchers, practitioners
and developers will come together to share their new insights
and to discuss in a stimulating environment future research
directions.

SSDBM 2008 includes an exciting program, which has now been
posted at the conference website. It consists of 3 keynote
talks, 28 long and 7 short papers to be presented in 9 sessions,
and 8 posters and demonstrations to be presented in a single
session.

The conference will be held in Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching
Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.

In addition to the technical program, the conference features
a reception and a banquet at the Jumbo Floating Restaurant, which
indeed floats in the waters of Aberdeen Harbour.

Registration is now open:
Visit http://i.cs.hku.hk/~ssdbm/ and click on 'Registration'.
The deadline for early bird registration is June 15, 2008.

SSDBM 2008 has reserved special prices for three hotels near the
conference venue. Participants are requested to communicate
directly with the hotels by faxing the corresponding reservation
forms to them. Reservation deadline for the special rates is
June 6, 2008.

We look forward to seeing you at SSDBM 2008 in Hong Kong!

--
Nikos Mamoulis (SSDBM General Chair)
Bertram Ludaescher (SSDBM PC co-Chair)
Max Egenhofer (SSDBM PC co-Chair)

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SSDBM 2008 PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
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• KEYNOTES

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Alex Szalay, New Challenges in Petascale Scientific Databases

Nick Koudas, Adventures in the Blogosphere

Per Svensson, The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures - a
Historical Review

• QUERY OPTIMIZATION IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES

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Rainer Gemulla, Philipp Rosch and Wolfgang Lehner. Linked Bernoulli
Synopses: Sampling Along Foreign Keys

Fan Wang, Gagan Agrawal and Ruoming Jin. Query Planning for Searching
Inter-Dependent Deep-web Databases

Graham Cormode, Philip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan and Divesh Srivastava.
Summarizing Two-Dimensional Data with Skyline-based Statistical
Descriptors

Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil Prabhakar and
Susanne Hambrusch. Query Selectivity Estimation for Uncertain Data

• PRIVACY

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Onur Turgay, Thomas Brochmann Pedersen, Yucel Saygin, Erkay Savas and
Albert Levi. Disclosure Risks of Distance Preserving Data
Transformations

Bharath Krishnamachari, Gabriel Ghinita and Panos
Kalnis. Privacy-Preserving Publication of User Locations in the
Proximity of Sensitive Sites

Filippo Furfaro, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo and Domenico Sacca.
A Probabilistic Framework for Building Privacy-preserving Synopses of
Multi-dimensional Data

• SEARCHING AND MINING GRAPHS

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Guoliang Li, Xuhui Liu, Jianhua Feng and Lizhu Zhou. Efficient
Similarity Search for Tree-Structured Data

Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kroger, Matthias Renz and Tim Schmidt.
Hierarchical Graph Embedding for Efficient Query Processing in Very
Large Traffic Networks

Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Bolin Ding and Yoshiharu Ishikawa. Monitoring
Aggregate k-NN Objects in Road Networks

Shijie Zhang and Jiong Yang. RAM: Randomized Approximate Graph Mining

• DATA STREAMS

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Sumit Ganguly, Abhayendra Singh and Satyam Shankar. Finding frequent
items over general update streams

Ferry Tantono, Nishad Manerikar and Themis Palpanas. Efficiently
Discovering Recent Frequent Items In Data Streams

Kostas Patroumpas and Timos Sellis. Prioritized Evaluation of
Continuous Moving Queries over Streaming Locations

• SCIENTIFIC DATABASE APPLICATIONS

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Cornelia Hedeler and Norman W. Paton. A Comparative Evaluation of XML
Difference Algorithms with Genomic Data

Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jiangtian Li, Ting Yu and Nagiza F Samatova.
Adaptive Request Scheduling for Parallel ScientificWeb Services

Qinglan Li, Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos Chrysanthis. ViP: A
User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data

Paea LePendu, Dejing Dou, Gwen Frishkoff and Jiawei Rong. Ontology
Database: a New Method for Semantic Modeling and an Application to
Brainwave Data

• ADVANCED INDEXING METHODS

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Panfeng Zhou and Betty Salzberg. The hB-pi* Tree: An Optimized
Comprehensive Access Method for Frequent-update Multi-dimensional
Point Data

Kesheng Wu, Kurt Stockinger and Arie Shoshani. Breaking Curse of
Cardinality on Bitmap Indexes

Renato Bueno, Daniel dos Santos Kaster, Agma Traina and Caetano
Traina. A new approach for optimization of dynamic Metric Access
Methods using an algorithm of effective deletion

Miguel R. Luaces, Jose R. Parama¡, Oscar Pedreira and Diego Seco. An
Ontology-based Index to Retrieve Documents with Geographic Information

• DATA MINING

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Jin Soung Yoo and Shashi Shekhar. Mining Temporal Association
Patterns under a Similarity Constraint

Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kroger, Erich Schubert and Arthur Zimek. A
General Framework for Increasing the Robustness PCA-based Correlation
Clustering Algorithms

Ken Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Donna Peuquet and Baihua Zheng. Searching
Correlated Objects in a Long Sequence

• ADVANCED QUERIES AND UNCERTAIN DATA

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Dimitris Sacharidis, Panagiotis Bouros and Timos Sellis. Caching
Dynamic Skyline Queries

Mehrdad Jahangiri and Cyrus Shahabi. Plot Query Processing with
Wavelets

Jinchuan Chen and Reynold Cheng. Quality-Aware Probing of Uncertain
Data with Resource Constraints

• SHORT PRESENTATIONS

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Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya and Ambuj K. Singh. Efficient
Computation of Statistical Significance of Query Results in Databases

Muhammad Umer, Lars Kulik and Egemen Tanin. Kriging for Localized
Spatial Interpolation in Sensor Networks

Dhananjay Kulkarni and Chinya V. Ravishankar. iJoin: Importance-aware
Join Approximation over Data Streams

Tan Apaydin, Ali Saman Tosun and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu. Analysis of
Basic Data Reordering Technique

Yuan-Ko Huang, Shi-Jei Liao and Chiang Lee. Efficient Continuous
K-Nearest Neighbor Query Processing over Moving Objects with Uncertain
Speed and Direction

Matthias Renz, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Thomas Bernecker.
ProUD: Probabilistic Ranking in Uncertain Databases

Yuehhua Lee, Alex Thomo, Kui Wu and Valerie King. Scalable Ubiquitous
Data Access in Clustered Sensor Networks

• POSTERS AND DEMOS

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Anne Ngu, Shawn Bowers, Nicholas Haasch, Timothy McPhilips and Terence
Critchlow. Flexible Scientific Workflow Modeling Using Frames,
Templates and Dynamic Embedding

Lauro Lins, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, Steve Callahan, Carlos
Scheidegger, Erik Anderson, Claudio Silva and Juliana
Freire. Examining Statistics of Workflow Evolution Provenance: A First
Study

Elke Achtert, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Arthur Zimek. ELKI: A Software
System for Evaluation of Subspace Clustering Algorithms

Christopher J. Tuot, Michael Sintek and Andreas Dengel. IVIP - A
Scientific Workflow System to Support Experts in Spatial Planning of
Crop Production

Keiichirou Ui, Toshiyuki Amagasa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa. A lightweight
tool for integrating online meteorological data based on FUSE

Christoph Brochhaus and Thomas Seidl. IndeGS^RI : Efficient
View-dependent Ranking in CFD Post-processing Queries with RDBMS

Carlos Rueda and Michael Gertz. Real-time Integration of Geospatial
Raster and Point Data Streams

Kelvin T. Leung, D. Stott Parker, Alex Cunha, Cornelius Hojatkashani,
Ivo Dinov and Arthur W. Toga. IRMA: an Image Registration
Meta-Algorithm (Evaluating Alternative Algorithms with Multiple
Metrics)