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                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                         PersDB 2008
          Second Int'l Workshop on "Personalized Access,
      Profile Management, and Context Awareness: Databases"

     in conj. with VLDB’08, 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand

       Workshop date: August 23, 2008
       URL: http://persdb08.stanford.edu/

The PersDB 2008 workshop aims at providing a forum for presentation of the latest research results,
new technology developments, and new applications in the areas of personalized access,
profile management, and context awareness in database systems.

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HIGHLIGHTS:
          *** Invited talk: "Context-aware databases: problems and solutions"
               Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano)

          *** Panel: "Personalization and Contextualization: A Minor Detail or a Major Challenge for Data Management?"
               moderator: Yannis Ioannidis (U. of Athens)
               participants: Mike Benedikt (Oxford U.), Alex Lambrinidis (U. of Pittsburgh), and Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Inst.)
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SCHEDULE:

9.15 - 9.30: Workshop opening and welcome
9.30 - 10.30: Invited talk: "Context-aware databases: problems and solutions" by Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano)

10.30 - 11.00: Morning Tea Break

11.00 - 12.30: Paper Session

• Personalizing the Search for Knowledge (Minko Dudev, Shady Elbassuoni, Julia Luxenburger, Maya Ramanath, Gerhard Weikum)
• Preferential Publish/Subscribe (Marina Drosou, Evaggelia Pitoura, Kostas Stefanidis)
• A Context-Oriented Synchronization Approach (Christine Natschlaeger, Dirk Draheim)

12.30 - 13.30: Lunch Break:

13.30 - 15.00: Paper Session

• Optimization of Preference Queries with Multiple Constraints (Markus Endres, Werner Kiessling)
• Context-Based Personalization for Mobile Web Search (Mario Arias, José Manuel Cantera, Jesus Vegas, Pablo de la Fuente, Jorge Cabrero, Guido García, Cesar Llamas, Alvaro Zubizarreta)
• PHAROS - Personalizing Users’ Experience in Audio-Visual Online Spaces (Raluca Paiu, Ling Chen, Claudiu Firan, Wolfgang Nejdl)
• Capturing Multiple Interests in News Video Retrieval by Incorporating the Ostensive Model (Frank Hopfgartner, David Hannah, Nicholas Gildea, Joemon Jose)

15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Tea Break

15.30 - 17.00 Panel: "Personalization and Contextualization: A Minor Detail or a Major Challenge for Data Management"
                 moderator: Yannis Ioannidis (U. of Athens)
                 participants: Mike Benedikt (Oxford U.), Alex Lambrinidis (U. of Pittsburgh), and Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Inst.)

                 Workshop Closing