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Research paper SIGMOD 2006 abstracts Nov. 15, 2005 Research papers, 25th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on demonstrations, Management of Data industrial talks, tutorials, panels Nov. 29, 2005 June 26- June 29, 2006 Author Notification Chicago, USA Feb. 24, 2006

The annual ACM SIGMOD conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the submission of original research contributions as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials, industrial presentations, and panels. We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of data management defined broadly and particularly ORGANIZERS: encourage work that represent deep technical insights or present new abstractions and novel approaches to problems of significance. We especially welcome submissions that help identify and solve data management systems issues by General Chair leveraging knowledge of applications and related areas, such as information retrieval and search, operating systems & Clement Yu, U. of Illinois storage technologies, and web services. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: at Chicago • Benchmarking and performance evaluation Vice Gen. Chair • Data cleaning and integration Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern Univ. • Database monitoring and tuning PC Chair • Data privacy and security Surajit Chaudhuri, • Data warehousing and decision-support systems Microsoft Research • Embedded, sensor, mobile databases and applications Demo. Chair Anastassia Ailamaki, CMU • Managing uncertain and imprecise information Industrial PC Chair • Peer-to-peer data management Alon Halevy, U. of • Personalized information systems Washington, Seattle • Query processing and optimization Panels Chair Christian S. Jensen, • Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems Aalborg University • Text search and database querying Tutorials Chair • Semi-structured data David DeWitt, U. of Storage and transaction management Wisconsin, Madison • Proceedings Chair • Web services Neoklis Polyzotis, UC, Santa Cruz Submission Guidelines: E-Proc. Chair All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Research papers will be judged Vagelis Hristidis, Florida through double-blind reviewing. The industrial program will consist of invited presentations as well as talks selected Int. University from submitted proposals for presentation. Detailed submission instructions for research papers, industrial talk Publicity Chairs proposals, demonstrations, panels and tutorials will be published on the conference web site, accessible through K. Selçuk Candan, Arizona http://www.umich.edu/sigmod06 State Univ. Agnes Voisard, Fraunhofer Program Committee: ISST & FU Berlin Serge Abiteboul INRIA Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ludwig-Maximilians-U. München Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Heikki Mannila, Helsinki U. of Technology University, China Walid Aref, Purdue University , Tel Aviv University Ricardo Baeza-Yates, U. of Brian Babcock, Tova Milo, Tel Aviv University Chile Hari Balakrishnan, MIT C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Nico Bruno, Microsoft Research , Stanford University Workshops Local Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh Jeff Naughton, Uof Wisconsin, Madison Arrangements Chair Mike Carey, BEA Raymond Ng, U. of British Columbia Kevin Chang, UIUC Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano Patrick ONeil, Boston University Web Chairs Rada Chirkova, North Carolina State U Beng Chin Ooi, National Univ.of Singapore Junghoo Cho, UC Los Angeles Meral Özsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve Univ. Dragomir Radev and Ali Chris Clifton, Purdue University Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong U.of Scince and Tech. Hakim, U. of Michigan, Brian Cooper, Georgia Institute of Tech. Yannis Papakonstantinou, UCSD Ann Arbor Bruce Croft, U, of Massachusetts, Amherst Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Tech. Local Org. Chairs Amol Deshpande, U. of Maryland, College Park Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Research Alin Deutsch, UCSD Erhard Rahm, Universität Leipzig Aris Ouksel and Oliver Yu, Alin Dobra, U. of Florida, Gainesville Raghu Ramakrishnan, U. of Wisconsin, Madison U. of Illinois at Chicago Christos Faloutsos, CMU Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Laboratories Sponsors Chair Daniela Florescu, Oracle Nick Roussopoulos, U. of Maryland, College Park Ouri Wolfson, U. of Illinois Minos Garofalakis, Intel Research Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University Hans Schek, ETH at Chicago Lisa Getoor, U. of Maryland, Collage Park Uri Shaft, Oracle Treasurer Phil Gibbons, Intel Research Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University Prasad Sistla, U. of Illinois Goetz Graefe, Microsoft Rick Snodgrass, University of Arizona at Chicago Luis Gravano, Columbia University Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Research Jiawei Han, UIUC Dan Suciu, U. of Washington, Seattle Registration Chair Joe Hellerstein, UC, Berkeley S. Sudarshan, IIT Bombay Le Gruenwald, NSF Wei Hong, Intel Research Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo Research Exhibits Chair Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo Jeff Ullman, Stanford University Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Inst. , MIT , Rice University H.V. Jagadish, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor Gerhard Weikum, Max Planck Institute of Technology Chris Jermaine, U. of Florida, Gainesville Marianne Winslett, UIUC Local Demo Chair Raghav Kaushik, Microsoft Research Andrew Witkowski, Oracle Bing Liu, University of Alfons Kemper, Technische Univ. München Philip Yu, IBM Watson Illinois at Chicago Martin Kersten, CWI Justin Zobel, RMIT University Masaru Kitsuregawa University of Tokyo