Call for Papers

ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop 2004

Heraklion, Crete, Greece, March 18, 2004
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, March 29, 2004

… in cooperation with

20th International Conference on Data Engineering Boston, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2004 Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Supported by Microsoft Research, MITRE, IBM, BEA Systems		9th International Conference on Extending Database Technology Heraklion, Greece, March 14-18, 2004 Promoted by the EDBT Endowment In cooperation with the VLDB Endowment

Workshop Program

Introduction

The joint ICDE/EDBT Ph.D. Workshop is intended to bring together Ph.D. students working on topics related to the ICDE as well as the EDBT conference series. The workshop will have two sessions the first in Heraklion, Greece, on March 18 and the second in Boston, USA, on March 29, 2004.

The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. Students can choose where to present their papers (Heraklion/Boston) when accepted.

The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of database technology. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions.

The first session is co-located with and will take place on the last day of the EDBT 2004 conference. The second session is co-located with and will take place immediately before the ICDE 2004 conference. The workshop language is English.

Topics of Interest

As for the ICDE and EDBT conferences series, all topics from the field of database technology are of interest for the Ph.D. Workshop. These topics include (but are not limited to):

Submission

Papers describing doctoral work should be uploaded in PDF or PostScript format (here) before 6 a.m. EST (local time New York City) on Dec. 12, 2003. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages (single linespace, Times New Roman (or similar) font type, 12 pt font size, reasonable margins). When submitting your paper please indicate at which session you would like to present it by choosing Heraklion or Boston as first keyword.

In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended:

• A clear formulation of the research question.
• An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
• An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions.
• A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far.
• A sketch of the applied research methodology.
• A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
• A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Furthermore, post-workshop proceedings (with a revised versions of the papers) will be published in the LNCS series by Springer. Participants should register for the ICDE respectively EDBT conference itself at student rate.

Organizational Details

The Ph.D. workshop is organized by:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Boston University
• Northeastern University
• University of Crete
• University of Milano

Contact Address

Wolfgang Lindner, Workshop Chair
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) <wolfgang@csail.mit.edu>

Program Committee

Important dates