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• Dutch Belgian Database Day 2008 (DBDBD 2008)
• October 10, 2008
• Namur, Belgium

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• CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS (DEADLINE IS APPROACHING !!!)

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The Dutch Belgian Database Day (DBDBD) is a yearly one-day workshop organized in a Belgian or Dutch university, whose general topic is database research. DBDBD invites submissions (1 page abstract) on a broad range of database and database-related topics, including but not limited to data storage and management, theoretical database issues, database performance, data mining, information retrieval, data semantics, querying, ontologies etc. Based on the submissions, the workshop will be organized in different sessions each covering a particular topic.

At the DBDBD, junior researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium can present their recent results. It is an excellent opportunity to meet up with your Belgian/Dutch colleagues, and to get informed about the (recent) database-related research performed in Belgian/Dutch universities. The workshop is also open to non-Belgian/Dutch participants (presentations are in English).

The DBDBD 2008 is organized under auspices of SIKS, the Dutch research school for information and knowledge systems, and the Belgian Graduate School in Computing Science (GRASCOMP). The event is sponsored by the FNRS. This year, DBDBD will be held at the Arsenal, located at the heart of the charming city of Namur (Belgium), on Friday October 10th, 2008.

The workshop consists of a number of oral presentations. There are no printed proceedings. Abstracts of talks will be published on the workshop's website.

URL
http://perso.fundp.ac.be/~pthiran/dbdbd2008/dbdbd08.htm

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Any topic related to databases, including but not limited to: data storage and management, theoretical database issues, database performance, data mining, information retrieval, data semantics, querying, ontologies,...

SUBMISSION

The DBDBD has a tradition of favouring presentations by junior researchers.

Proposals for presentations should be made before or on September 19, 2008. The format is a one-page pdf-document, to be sent to:

dbdbd08@gmail.com

Each submission should contain:
(*) the title of the talk;
(*) the name of the prospective speaker;
(*) his/her affiliation;
(*) a one-page abstract;
(*) if applicable: reference(s) to papers covered by the proposed presentation.

REGISTRATION AND WORKSHOP VENUE

See the workshop's website.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline (1 page abstract): September 19, 2008
Notification: September 26, 2008
Program online: September 28, 2008
Registration deadline: October 3, 2008
Dutch-Belgian Database Day: October 10, 2008

LOCAL ORGANIZERS

Philippe Thiran, FUNDP
Jef Wijsen, UMH