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CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS
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24th International Conference on SCIENTIFIC and STATISTICAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT (SSDBM)
June 25-27, 2012 in Chania, Crete, Greece

=====> POSTERS DUE on MARCH 4 (hard deadline)!

=====> SUBMISSION SITE: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/SSDBM2012 (Choose poster track)

=====> CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~ssdbm12 

Scope
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The SSDBM international conference will bring together scientific domain experts, database researchers, practitioners and developers for the presentation and exchange of current research on concepts, tools and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. The 24th SSDBM will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation and evaluation. The rich program of the research track will be supplemented with invited talks and panel sessions, as well as illustrated demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial systems.

SSDBM 2012 will continue the tradition of past SSDBM meetings in providing a stimulating environment to encourage discussion, fellowship and exchange of ideas in all aspects of research related to scientific and statistical database management in beautiful Chania, Crete.

Poster Submissions
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We solicit poster papers describing original work relevant to the management of scientific and statistical data and not published or under review elsewhere. These can also be vision papers, or papers describing interesting work-in-progress.

SSDBM poster paper submissions can be up to 4 pages LNCS style. Authors of accepted poster papers will be invited to bring a poster to the conference, and, depending on time availability, may also be invited to give a lightening talk about their work. Accepted poster papers will also be included in the proceedings of the conference.  
 

Topics
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Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):

 * Modeling and representation of data, metadata, ontologies, and processes, e.g., array-based data models
 * Integration and exchange of data, including the federation and management of institutional data repositories
 * Design, implementation, optimization of scientific workflows
 * Cyberinfrastructure for scientific computing and eScience
 * Data-intensive and cloud computing
 * System architectures in support of scientific and statistical data management and analysis, e.g., multi-core, GPUs
 * Querying of scientific data, including spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and streaming data
 * Annotation and provenance of data
 * Mining and analysis of large-scale datasets
 * Security and privacy
 * Visualization and exploration
 * Data support, case studies, and applications – particularly for grand challenge science questions, e.g., sustainability, global climate change

Important Dates
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March 4: Poster papers due at 5pm PST
March 25: Notifications to authors
April 9: Camera ready papers due at 5pm PST

Conference Organization
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General Chair: Mike Chatzopoulos, University of Athens, Greece

Program Chair: Anastasia Ailamaki, EPFL, Switzerland

Poster Program Committee

    * Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
    * Miguel Branco, EPFL, Switzerland
    * Bill Howe, University of Washington, USA 

For more info… 
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