XSYM 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS
in conjunction with VLDB2010 (13-17 September 2010)

The XML Database Symposium (XSym) series focuses on the convergence of database technology with XML technology, and brings together academics, practitioners, users and vendors to discuss the use and synergy between these technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not necessarily limited to:

1. Core Database Technology for XML Data Management
- Full text search and ranking
- Approximate XML querying
- Query processing and optimization
- Indexing and access methods
- Access control and security
- Storage and compression
- Updates and integrity maintenance
- Concurrency control and recovery
- Performance evaluation
The above topics can be considered in both the case of native and not native management systems

2. Development and deployment of XML Applications
- Conceptual design: models and methodologies, expressiveness and usability
- Logical design: models and methodologies, expressiveness and usability
- Query languages, expressiveness and usability

Papers should be prepared using the LNCS format (style files are available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and should not exceed 15 pages. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality and relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium to present their work. All papers must be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xsym10

Proceedings of the symposium will be published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs).

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper due: May 1, 2010
Author notification: June 18, 2010
Camera ready copy: 9 July 2010
Symposium: Sept 17, 2010
(VLDB: 13-17 Sept, 2010)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Program Co-Chairs:
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)

Communication & Web:
Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM (France)

Proceedings:
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bernd Amann, Université Paris 6, (France)
Veronique Benzaken, University Paris-Sud (France)
Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Stéphane Bressan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Chee Yong Chan, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Yi Chen, Arizona State University (USA)
Minos Garofalakis, Technical University of Crete (Greece)
Giorgio Ghelli, Universita di Pisa (Italy)
Torsten Grust, Universitat Tubingen (Germany)
Giovanna Guerrini, Universita di Genova (Italy)
H V Jagadish, University of Michigan (USA)
Yaron Kanza, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
Raghav Kaushik, Microsoft Research (USA)
Jiaheng Lu, Renmin University of China (China)
Murali Mani, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA)
Peter McBrien, Imperial College - London (UK)
Atsuyuki Morishima, University of Tsukuba (Japan)
Tadeusz Pankowski, Poznan University of Technology (Poland)
Prakash Ramanan, Wichita State University (USA)
Pierre Senellart, Télécom ParisTech (France)
Jerome Simeon, IBM Research (USA)
Martin Theobald, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)
Wee Hyong Tok, Microsoft (China)
Vasilis Vassalos, Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece)
Yuqing Wu, Indiana University (USA)
Ni Yuan, IBM (China)
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland (Australia)