Australasian Database Conference (ADC2008)

Held at University of Wollongong, Australia, during January 22-25, 2008.

Call For Papers

The Australasian Database Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and novel applications of database systems. The Nineteenth Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2008, will be held at The University of Wollongong as part of the Australasian Computer Science Week.

As with previous years, registration to the Australasian Database Conference will enable delegates to attend sessions in any conference participating in the Australasian Computer Science Week.

Key Areas

ADC 2008 solicits contributions in all areas of database research. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are:

Advanced database applications
Advanced foundations of databases
Databases for bioinformatics
Data mining/knowledge discovery
Data warehousing
Database system integration issues
Database schema integration
Embedded and Mobile Databases
Federated, distributed, parallel and grid databases
Extended data type management
High dimensional and temporal data
Image/video retrieval and databases
Information retrieval, filtering and dissemination
Logic in databases
Performance issues of databases
Privacy and Secure Databases
Query languages
Query processing and optimisation
Semi-structured data
Spatial data processing/management
Stream Data Management
Transaction processing
Web access to databases
Web information systems
XML and databases

Paper Submission

ADC 2008 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of database research and applications. Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length conforming to the formatting instructions for the series Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology.

Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to ADC, and presentation. Submissions of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

Submission to ADC 2008 will be electronically by following this link. Authors will first be asked to submit an abstract, then to upload the full paper using the paper-id assigned by the system.

By submitting to the conference authors accept that they are aware of the Code of Practice (Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science) by the The proceedings of this event will be published by the ACS as Volume 75, Database Technologies 2008 in the CRPIT Series. The formatting requirements and resources for authors can be found on the CRPIT Authors Page together with a list of all upcoming volumes. After the conference, authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT).

Important Dates

Submission of abstracts Wednesday September 5 2007 (deadline extended)
Submission of full papers Friday September 7 2007 (deadline extended)
Notification of authors Friday September 28 2007
Final version due Friday October 19 2007
Author registration Friday October 19 2007
Conference Tuesday January 22 to Friday January 25, 2008