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Call for Participation: COMAD 2008, Mumbai, Dec 17-19, 2008
14th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2008)
December 17-19, 2008
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/comad/2008
The 14th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD) will be held
from December 17-19, 2008 at the IIT Bombay campus in Mumbai. For over a decade
and a half, COMAD has been the premier international conference on data
management in India, covering the areas of database systems, data mining and
information retrieval. COMAD 2008 features an exciting set of keynote talks
from world leaders in these fields. It also includes exciting tutorials and
presentations on the latest research and application/industrial results.
Keynote Speakers
Surajit Chaudhuri
Head, Data Management Research, Microsoft
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Chief Scientist, Yahoo! Research
S. Seshadri
CTO, Kosmix Inc.
Tutorials
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- Graph Mining Techniques and their Applications Sharma Chakravarty University of Texas at Arlington
- Uncertain Clustering: Models, Methods and Applications Zhenjie and Anthony Tung National University of Singapore
Research, Industry and Applications Track
The program includes 23 research and industry/applications papers from 6
countries, selected from over 55 submissions. Additionally, there is a demo
track and presentations of student papers.
Registration:
Register before December 1, 2008 for early-bird discount. Please visit the
conference website http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/comad/2008
for more details and online registration.
Conference Organizers
General Chair
- Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems)
Organizing Chair
- S. Sudarshan (IIT Bombay)
Program Committee Co-Chairs
- N. L. Sarda (IIT Bombay) [Database Track]
- Gautam Das (Univ. Texas, Arlington) [Web, IR and Mining Track]
Tutorial Co-Chairs
- Sreenivasa Kumar (IIT Madras)
- Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs)
Application/Industrial Program Co-Chairs
- Govindarajan V.R.
- S.C. Gupta (National Informatics Centre)
Panels and Student Papers
- Srinath Srinivasa (IIIT Bangalore)
- Arvind Hulgeri (Persistent Systems)
Publications Chair
- P. Krishna Reddy (IIIT Hyderabad)
Demonstrations Chair
- Ravindra Guravannavar (IIT Bombay)
Conference Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Microsoft, Sybase, Yahoo!
Silver Sponsors
IBM
Organization and Facilities
IIT Bombay