Hello, The registration for the XLDB-Asia conference is now open. Also, please note the new deadline for submitting lightning talk abstracts. Details below. Best regards, Jacek --------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation: the First Extremely Large Databases Conference at Asia (XLDB Asia 2012) http://www.xldb-asia.org http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/xldb/ [log in to unmask] The Extremely Large Databases (XLDB) series of conferences/workshops (xldb.org) have been held successfully in recent years. The first XLDB satellite conference in Asia (XLDB Asia) will be held at Beijing, China on June 22-23, 2012. This conference will bring together people with highly demanding data challenges, and researchers and solution providers who are developing systems to address such challenges. The conference will facilitate discussions on: * The state of the art data handling technologies on extremely large datasets; * Practical use cases of current and anticipated data challenges; * Lessons and innovations on building extremely large databases; * Trends and strategies for surmounting current hurdles. The conference will provide a meeting place for database researchers, for businesses with advanced solutions, and for people from many research disciplines, industries and organizations who need to urgently address real data challenges. The conference program will include invited talks representing database-intensive scientific and industrial applications, database research and DBMS vendors. The conference will also invite proposals for lightning talks (allocated five minutes per talk), followed by poster discussions. If you are interested in giving a lightning talk, please send an abstract with less than 500 words to [log in to unmask] before April 30, 2012. Dates Registration Opens: April 5, 2012 Lightning talk proposal deadline: April 30, 2012 Registration Deadline: June 5, 2012 Meeting starts: Friday, June 22, 2012 Meeting ends: Saturday, June 23, 2012 Venue Beijing Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XLDB-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XLDB-L&A=1