The Dutch Belgian Database Day (DBDBD) is a yearly one-day workshop organized in a Belgian or Dutch university, whose general topic is database research. DBDBD invites submissions (1 page abstract) on a broad range of database and database-related topics, including but not limited to data storage and management, theoretical database issues, database performance, data mining, information retrieval, data semantics, querying, ontologies etc. Based on the submissions, the workshop will be organized in different sessions each covering a particular topic.

At the DBDBD, junior researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium can present their recent results. It is an excellent opportunity to meet up with your Belgian/Dutch colleagues, and to get informed about the (recent) database-related research performed in Belgian/Dutch universities. The workshop is also open to non-Belgian/Dutch participants (presentations are in English).

The DBDBD 2008 is organized under auspices of SIKS, the Dutch research school for information and knowledge systems and the Belgian Graduate School in Computing Science (GRASCOMP). The event is sponsored by the FNRS. This year, DBDBD will be held at the Arsenal, located at the heart of the charming city of Namur (Belgium), on Friday October 10th, 2008.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline (1 page abstract): September 19th, 2008
Notification: September 26th, 2008
Program online: September 28th, 2008
Registration deadline: October 3nd, 2008
Dutch-Belgian Database Day: October 10th, 2008

Submissions
Submissions should contain:

* the name of the author,
* his/her university and research group with his/her position,
* the title,
* a one-page abstract, and,
* if applicable: reference(s) to papers covered by the proposed presentation.

The submission should be sent as a pdf-file to dbdbd08@gmail.com.
Abstracts and presentations will be published on the workshop's website.

Registration
Registration is necessary and is possible by sending an email on or before the 3nd of October with subject "registration" to dbdbd08@gmail.com with your name and affiliation (and whether or not you are a SIKS PhD-student). Registration costs will be 40 euro to be paid on site (CASH only!). This includes lunch, drinks & coffee, and a reception. Registration is free for SIKS members, i.e. will be covered by SIKS..