Call for Papers and Proposals
The 11th International Conference on Database Systems for
Advanced Applications (DASFAA’2006)
12 - 15 April, 2006. Hilton Hotel, Singapore
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~dasfaa06
DASFAA is a premier database conference in the Asia/Pacific region that provides an international forum for
technical discussion among researchers, developers and users of database systems from academia, business and
industry. It focuses on research in database theory, development of advanced DBMS technologies, and their
advanced applications.
AREAS OF INTERESTS
Original papers on both database theory and practice are solicited. The areas of interests include, but are not limited to the
following:
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Query Language and Query Optimization
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Internet and the WWW Data Management
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Multidatabases and Federated Databases
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Digital Libraries
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Security and Integrity Maintenance
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Mobile Databases
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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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User Interfaces
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Statistical and Scientific Databases
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Temporal and Spatial Databases
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Parallel and Distributed Databases
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Active Databases
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Data Warehouses
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Data Streams
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Information Retrieval with Database Systems
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P2P and Grid-Based Data Management
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Workflow Management
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Sensor Data Managing
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E-commerce Data Processing
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XML Databases
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Multimedia Databases

New Applications
SUBMISSIONS
Papers: Authors are strongly encouraged to submit full regular or industrial track papers in PDF format to
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/DASFAA2006 by September 24, 2005. The paper
should be no longer than 15 pages, following Springer's manuscript submission guidelines, available at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Proposals for Tutorial/Panel: Proposals should include, in English, a half-page description and outline; names, affiliations,
and biographical sketches of the speakers. Submissions should be sent to the respective chairs at
ASEPLIM@ntu.edu.sg (tutorial by September 24, 2005) and krithi@cse.iitb.ac.in (panel by November 19, 2005).
Proceedings: The conference proceedings of accepted papers is planned to be published as part of Springer Verlag's
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (pending approval).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Honorary Chair: Tok Wang Ling, NUS, Singapore
Conference Chair: Beng Chin Ooi, NUS, Singapore
Program Co-chairs: Kian Lee Tan, NUS, Singapore
Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Tutorial Chair: Ee Peng Lim, NTU, Singapore
Panel Chair: Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
Industrial Program Co-Chairs: David Wai-Lok Cheung, The University of Hong Kong, China
Hwee Hwa Pang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Publicity Chair: Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Publication chair: Mong Li Lee, NUS, Singapore
Local arrangement Co-chairs: Sourav Saha Bhowmick, NTU, Singapore
Anthony Kum Hoe Tung, NUS, Singapore
Treasurer: Chee Yong Chan, NUS, Singapore
Secretary: Mrs Ho Siew Foong, NUS, Singapore
KEY DATES
September 17 2005
September 24 2005
Abstract Due
Papers (Regular/Industrial)/Tutorial Proposals Due
November 19 2005
November 19 2005
December 15 2005
April 12-15 2006
Panel Proposals Due
Notice of Acceptance/Rejection (Papers)
Camera-Ready Copies Due
Conference in Singapore
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (REGULAR TRACK)
Charu Aggarwal (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Chutiporn Anutariya (Shinawatra University, Thailand)
Vijay Atluri (Rutgers University, USA)
Sonia Berman (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singap
ore)
Luc Bouganim (INRIA, France)
Athman Bouguettaya (Virginia Tech, USA)
Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University, USA)
Barbara Catania (University of Genova, Italy)
Arbee L.P.Chen (National Tshing Hua University, Taiwan)
Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Ying Chen (IBM China Research Lab, China)
Brian F Cooper (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Isabel F. Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Manoranjan Dash (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland, USA)
Klaus Dittrich (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Gill Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Curtis Dyreson (Washington State University, USA)
David W. Embley (Brigham Young University, USA)
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Ohio State University, USA)
Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria at Como, Italy)
Ada Waichee Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Ko
ng)
Cong Gao (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Minos Garofalakis (Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies, USA)
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh (University of Southern California, U
SA)
Jonathan Goldstein (Microsoft Research, USA)
Ehud Gudes (University of the Negev, Israel)
Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Theo Haerder (TU Kaiserlautern, Germany)
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Arantza Illarramendi (Basque Country University, Spain)
Bala Iyer (IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA)
H. V. Jagadish (University of Michigan, USA)
Arnd Christian Konig (Microsoft Research, USA)
Panagiotis Kalnis (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Ibrahim Kamel (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates)
Hyunchul Kang (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
George Karypis (University of Minnesota, USA)
Masaru Kitsuregawa (Institute of Industrial Science, Japan)
Donald Kossmann (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg)
Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Chiang Lee (National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan)
Dik Lun Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technolog
y, Hong Kong)
Wang-Chien Lee (Penn State University, USA)
Yoon-Joon Lee (KAIST, Korea)
Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Jinyan Li (Institute for InfoComm Research, Singapore)
Wen-Syan Li (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Sergio Lifschitz (PUC-Rio, Brasil)
Sanjay Madria (University of Missouri-Rolla, USA)
Stefan Manegold (CWI, The Netherlands)
Ioana Manolescu (INRIA Futurs, France)
Volker Markl (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Weiyi Meng (Binghamton University, USA)
Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University of China, PRC)
Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Atsuyuki Morishima (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
S. Muthukrishnan (Rutgers University, USA)
Mario A Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada)
Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, Germany)
Raymond T. Ng (University of Britist Columbia, Canada)
Aris Ouksel (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Sanghyun Park (Yonsei University, Korea)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Sunil Prabhakar (Purdue University, USA)
Weining Qian (Fudan University, China)
Tore Risch (Uppsala University of Sweden)
Prasan Roy (IBM India Research Lab (New Delhi), India)
Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA)
Thomas Seidl (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Oded Shmueli (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Isra
el)
Ambuj K. Singh (University of Californa at Santa Barbara,
USA)
Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA)
Keishi Tajima (JAIST, Japan)
Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz, US
A)
Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
David Taniar (Monash University, Australia)
Yufei Tao (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Vasilis A. Vassalos (Athens University of Economics and
Business, Greece)
Haixun Wang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Wei Wang (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U
SA)
Yan Wang (Macquarie University, Australia)
Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, Korea)
Jonker Willem (Philips Research, Netherlands)
Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Xu Yu, Jeffrey (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong)
Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)
Jingren Zhou (Microsoft Research, USA)
Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia)