2nd Call for Papers: The 26th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2015)

ADC 2015: 4-6 June 2015 in Melbourne, Australia

http://conference.eng.unimelb.edu.au/adc/

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* ADC'15 will be co-located and held immediately after SIGMOD'15 (ACM SIGMOD, May 31-June 4, 2015, Melbourne, Australia)
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The Australasian Database Conference series is an annual forum for sharing the latest research progresses and novel applications of database systems, data driven applications and data analytics for researchers and practitioners in these areas from Australia, New Zealand and in the world.

In addition to regular research papers, industry papers, demo sessions, plenary poster sessions and a panel session, ADC 2015 will also feature multiple keynote speeches and tutorials given by world-leading researchers and industry leaders. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will form a volume in the Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (subject to approval).


ADC 2015 welcomes contributions related to all aspects of database theory and foundation, techniques, and applications.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

Cloud, distributed, and parallel databases
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Data warehousing
Database integration
Database performance and tuning
Graph databases
High-dimensional and temporal data
Mobile databases
Multimedia databases
Privacy and security in databases
Query processing and optimization
Semi-structured data and XML
Social data management
Spatial data processing and management
Stream and sensor data management
Uncertain and probabilistic databases
Web databases


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Contribution Types
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Research and Industry Full Papers (12 pages)
Demonstration Papers (4 pages)

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Instructions
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Submitted papers must be original contributions and cannot be under review for any other forum. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will form a volume in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (subject to approval).

All submitted papers must be in English and conform to the formatting instructions for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) including references and figures.

Submitted files must be in PDF, where the following page limits apply: research paper (12 pages), industry paper (12 pages), demonstration proposal (4 pages).

The format style files are available at Paper Submission page or LNCS Authors Instructions Page.

Each paper will be judged on its originality, significance, technical quality, relevance to ADC, and presentation.

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Submissions
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The submissions of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

Online submission is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adc2015


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Important Dates
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Submission of abstracts for full papers (Research and Industry)
07 February 2015

Submission of full papers and demo proposals
07 February 2015

Notification of acceptance
20 February 2015

Submission of camera ready copy
5 March 2015

Conference Date
4-6 June 2015

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Conference Organization
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General Chair
Rui Zhang (University of Melbourne)

PC Co-Chairs
Mohamed A. Sharaf (University of Queensland)
Muhammad A. Cheema (Monash University)

Local Co-Chairs
Jianxin Li (RMIT University)
Jeffrey Chan (University of Melbourne)

Proceedings Chair
Jianzhong Qi (University of Melbourne)


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Steering Committee
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Rao Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Timos Sellis (RMIT University)
Gill Dobbie (University of Auckland)
Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
Xuemin Lin (University of New South Wales)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University)


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Program Committee
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Zhifeng Bao (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Ljiljana Brankovic (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Lijun Chang (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist Universyt, Hong Kong)

Mohamed Eltabakh (WPI, USA)

Junbin Gao (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (RMIT, Australia)

Janusz Getta (University Of Wollongong, Australia)

Yu Gu (Northeastern University, China)

Michael Houle (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Guangyan Huang (Deakin University, Australia)

Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan)

Jiuyong Li (University of South Australia, , Australia)

Ruixuan Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Xue Li The (University of Queensland, Australia)

Zhixu Li (Soochow University, China)

Muhammad Asif Naeem (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Lu Qin (University of Technology, Australia)

Goce Ristanoski (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Uwe Roehm (University of Sydney, Australia)

Shazia Sadiq (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Sherif Sakr (NICTA, Australia)

Mohamed Sarwat (Arizona State University, USA)

Saket Sathe (EPFL, Switzerland)

Shuo Shang (China University of Petroleum, China)

Quan Z. Sheng (The University of Adelaide, Australia)

Laurianne Sitbon (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Bela Stantic (Griffith University, Australia)

Millist Vincent (University of South Australia, Australia)

Junhu Wang (Griffith University, Australia)

Lei Wang (University of Wollongong, Australia)

Yan Wang (Macquarie University, Australia)

Chuan Xiao (Nagoya University, Japan)

Guandong Xu (University of Technology, Australia)

Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)

Mi-Yen Yeh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Daisaku Yokoyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Weiren Yu (Imperial College, UK)

Nayyar Zaidi (Monash University, Australia)

Wenjie Zhang (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Xianchao Zhang (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Xiuzhen Zhang (RMIT, Australia)

Ying Zhang (University of Technology, Australia)

Xiang Zhao (National University of Defense Technology, China)

Kai Zheng (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Xiangmin Zhou (Victoria University, Australia)

Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Andreas Zufle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany)