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The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2008)
April 7-12, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
http://www.icde2008.org

EARLY REGISTRATION OPEN - Deadline: January 25, 2008

Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and
methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information
systems for different computing platforms and application environments.
The 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008)
will provide a forum for:

• sharing research solutions to problems of today's information society
• exposing practitioners to the latest research, tools, and practices
• raising awareness in the research community of the problems and challenges of practical applications of data engineering
• promoting the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience among researchers and practitioners
• identifying new issues and directions for future research and development work.
• providing a forum for the exchange and discussion of new ideas and for interacting/networking with peers

HIGHLIGHTS
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• 3 keynotes
• 10 workshops in conjunction with the main conference
• 6 Advanced Technology Seminars
• 3 Panels
• 119 Research papers out of over 600 submissions
• 10 Workshops in conjunction with the main conference
• 75 posters out of 650 submissions
• 13 Industrial papers out of over 50 submissions
• 23 Demos out of over 60 submissions

Keynotes
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• Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University, USA) on "PhotoSpread: A Spreadsheet for Managing Photos"
• Martin Kersten (CWI, The Netherlands) on "The Database Architecture Jigsaw Puzzle"
• Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) on "Human Computation"

Workshops
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• Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB)
• Mining Multimedia Streams in Large-Scale Distributed Environments (MMSDE)
• RFID Data Management (RFDM)
• Ranking in Databases (DBRank)
• Methodologies, Architectures and Systems for Information Integration (IIMAS)
• Secure Semantic Web (SSW)
• Data and Services Management in Mobile Environments (DS2ME)
• Networking Meets Databases (NetDB)
• Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0
• Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP)

Advanced Technology Seminars
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• Mobile and Embedded Database Systems and Technology Anil Nori (Microsoft Corp.)
• Data and Metadata Alignment: Concepts and Techniques Lise Getoor (University of Maryland) and Renee Miller (University of Toronto)
• Exploring the Power of Links in Scalable Data Analysis Jawei Han (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Xiaoxin Yin (Google) and Philip Yu (IBM T.J. Watson)
• Stream Processing: Going Beyond Database Management Systems Sharma Chakravarthy (University of Texas, Arlington)
• The Java Persistence API (JPA): Technology, Standards, and Implementations Patrick Linskey (BEA Systems, Inc.)
• Performance evaluation in database research: principles and experience Ioana Manolescu (INRIA Futurs) and Stefan Manegold (CWI)

For more information, please visit: http://www.icde2008.org