CALL FOR PAPERS

 

INFOS 2008

The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems

www.fci-cu.edu.eg/INFOS2008/

 

27 – 29 March, 2008

Cairo, EGYPT

 

Special Track

On

 

Advances in Data Engineering and Management

 

 

Research in data engineering and management is currently facing new challenges. New research directions are needed in different areas including web services, decision support, bioinformatics, mobile databases, and sensor networks. Those new fields along with others require manipulating and querying different types of data like stream, biological, unstructured, and data with uncertainty.

Inspired by those evolving research areas, new innovative solutions are needed. Traditional techniques are becoming inadequate, inefficient, or unable to handle those applications. The advances in data engineering and management track aims to be a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and solutions.

 

Topics

 

The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track:

  • Approximation and Uncertainty
  • Multimedia Databases
  • Autonomic Databases
  • Biological and Medical Databases
  • Constraint and Rule Management
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Data Models and Query Languages
  • Data Cleansing
  • Data Streams
  • Data Warehousing, OLAP, and ETL Tools
  • Data, Information, and Knowledge Management
  • Database Design and Tuning
  • Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic Interoperability
  • Indexing and Physical Organisation
  • Metadata Management
  • Middleware and Workflow Management
  • P2P and Grid Data Management
  • Parallel, Distributed, and Mobile Databases
  • Personalization and Personal Information Systems
  • Privacy and Security
  • Query Processing and Optimization
  • Spatial, Temporal, and Geographic Databases
  • Storage and Transaction Management
  • XML and Semi-structured Databases
  • Web Databases and Web Services

 

Track Chair

Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi,

Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University

 

Program Committee

Ali Bastaweesy                               Cairo University, Egypt

Amr El Abbadi                               University of California, Santa Barbara, US

Mohamed Zaki Abd El Mageed      Al-Azhar University, Egypt

Mohamed El-Sharkawi                   Cairo University, Egypt

Karam Gouda                                Banha University, Egypt

Osman Hegazy                               Cairo University, Egypt

Ihab Ilyas                                       University of Waterloo, Canada

H.V. Jagadish                                 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US

Sanjay Madria                                University of Missouri-Rolla, US

Mohamed Mokbel                          University of Minnesota, US

Hoda Mokhtar                               Cairo University, Egypt

Beng Chin Ooi                                National University of Singapore, Singapore

Mike Papazoglou                            Tilburg University, Netherlands

Katsumi Tanaka                             Kyoto University, Japan

Masatoshi Yoshikawa                     Kyoto University, Japan

 

 

For further information

Dr. Mohamed El-Sharkawi, m.elsharkawi@fci-cu.edu.eg