CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING
                    http://www.cse.uconn.edu/icde04
                        March 30 - April 2, 2004
                 Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston, USA

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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 ICDE 2004 International
Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for: 

  * sharing research solutions to problems of today's information society;
  * exposing practicing engineers to evolving research, tools, and practices 
    and providing them with an early opportunity to evaluate these; 
  * raising awareness in the research community of the problems of practical 
    applications of data engineering; 
  * promoting the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience 
    among researchers and practicing engineers;
  * identifying new issues and directions for future research and development 
    work. 

ICDE 2004 invites research submissions on all topics related to data 
engineering, including but not limited to those listed below: 

  1. Indexing, access methods, data structures 
  2. Query processing (standard and adaptive) and query optimization 
  3. Data Warehouse, OLAP, and Statistical DBs
  4. Mining Data, Text, and the Web 
  5. Semi-structured data, metadata, and XML 
  6. Web Data Management 
  7. Middleware, workflow, and security 
  8. Stream processing, continuous queries, and sensor DB's 
  9. Database applications and experiences 
 10. Distributed, parallel and mobile DB's 
 11. Temporal, Spatial and Multimedia databases 
 12. Scientific and Biological DBs; Bioinformatics 

In addition to the research track, ICDE 2004 invites submissions for INDUSTRIAL 
PROGRAM, ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS, and DEMONSTRATIONS.  All submission
instructions can be found on the conference web site:

    http://www.cse.uconn.edu/icde04

An award will be given to the best paper. A separate award will be given to
the best student paper. Papers eligible for this award must have a (graduate 
or undergraduate) student listed as the first and contact author, and the 
majority of the authors must be students. Such submissions must be marked as 
student papers at the time of submission.

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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Deadline:   June 25, 2003 2pm PST
Submission Deadline: July 2, 2003 (seminar proposals July 23) 
Notification Date:   September 15, 2003 
Final Version Due:   December 19, 2003 (no extensions)

GENERAL CHAIRS                       PROGRAM CHAIRS
Betty Salzberg, Northeastern U.      Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve
Mike Stonebraker, MIT                Stan Zdonik, Brown University

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS                   PUBLICITY CHAIR
George Kollios, Boston U. (chair)    Dina Goldin, U. Conn.
Betty O'Neil, U.Mass/Boston
Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE Corp.         PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Donghui Zhang, Northeastern U.       Elke Rundensteiner, WPI

DEMONSTRATION CHAIR                  AREA CHAIRS	
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown U.            1. Beng Chin Ooi, Nat'l U. of Singapore
                                     2. Joe Hellerstein, UC Berkeley
PANEL CHAIR                          3. Dimitrios Gunopulos, UC Riverside
Pat O'Neil, U.Mass/Boston            4. Jiawei Han, UIUC
                                     5. Yannis Papakonstantinou, UC San Diego
INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIR             6. Mary Fernandez, AT&T
Gail Mitchell, BBN Technologies      7. Ling Liu, Georgia Tech
                                     8. Jeff Naughton, U. Wisc.
SEMINAR CHAIR                        9. Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden
Mitch Cherniack, Brandeis U.         10. Panos Chrysanthis, U. Pittsburgh 
                                     11. Aidong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo 
TREASURER                            12. Louiqa Raschid, U. Md.
Eric Hughes, MITRE Corp.