ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference: Vancouver, 2008
Welcome
For decades, the joint ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference has established itself as the top data management conference in the world for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to report and share cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We are delighted to invite you to attend ACM SIGMOD/PODS, to be held in Vancouver, in Canada's beautiful British Columbia, from June 9 to 12, 2008.
The highlights of the SIGMOD/PODS program are as follows:
SIGMOD (June 10-12):
- 3 Keynote Presentations:
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Ben Shneiderman [University of Maryland]
Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels -
Sridhar Ramaswamy [Google]
Extreme Data Mining -
William O'Connell [IBM]
Extreme Streaming: Business Optimization Driving Algorithmic Challenges
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Ben Shneiderman [University of Maryland]
- 5 Tutorials:
- Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities (3 hours)
Speaker(s): Susan Davidson and Juliana Freire - Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM) (1.5 hours)
Speaker(s): Betty O'Neil - Query Answering Technique on Uncertain and Probabilistic Data (1.5 hours)
Speaker(s): Jian Pei, Ming Hua, Yufei Tao, Xuemin Lin - Information Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks (1.5 hours)
Speaker(s): Ediardo Nakamura and Antonio Loureiro - Introduction to Recommender Systems (3 hours)
Speaker(s): Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
- Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities (3 hours)
- 78 Technical Paper Presentations
- 15 Industrial Paper Presentations
- 30 Demonstrations
- 6 Post-conference workshops
PODS (June 9-11):
- Keynote Speaker: Peter Buneman [University of Edinburgh]
Topic: Curated Databases - Invited Tutorial 1: Effective Characterizations of Tree Logics
Speaker: Mikolaj Bojanczyk [Warsaw University] - Invited Tutorial 2: Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality
Speaker: Wenfei Fan [University of Edinburgh] - 28 Technical Paper Presentations
The conferences will take place at the Westin Bayshore Hotel, where a block of rooms has been reserved for attendees. Rooms can be booked at a special conference rate either online from the conference web site or over phone by quoting ``SIGMOD/PODS".
Registration is now open through the SIGMOD/PODS 2008 registration site.
The deadline for early registration is May 9, 2008. The hotel's room block will be released after May 7, 2008, so you should make your reservations well before then to avail of the special conference rate.
We look forward to seeing you at SIGMOD/PODS 2008 in Vancouver.
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Laks V.S. Lakshmanan & Raymond Ng SIGMOD 2008 General co-chairs |
Phokion G. Kolaitis PODS 2008 General Chair |
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Dennis Shasha SIGMOD 2008 PC Chair |
Maurizio Lenzerini PODS 2008 PC Chair |
