The First International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB 2009)

BEXCO Convention Center, Busan, Korea, August 27-28, 2009.

Important Dates

May 15, 2009: Paper submission due date
June 26, 2009: Decision Notification (electronic)
July 24, 2009: Camera-ready copy due date & pre-registration due
Aug. 27-28, 2009: EDB 2009

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* Goals

The Emerging Database Conference series is an annual forum for exploring research, development, and
novel applications of emerging database technologies. Using this forum, researchers and practitioners
can exchange current issues and challenges and new technologies, and solutions.

The First International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB 2009) will be held at the BEXCO
Convention Center in Busan, Korea. The EDB 2009 is organized by the Korea Database Society of
KIISE(the Korean Institutes of Information Scientists and Engineers). The theme of EDB 2009,
"Data Collecting, Intelligent & Real-time Responding, and Seamless Synchronized Services",
marks the continued progress in database theory and practice, leading to greatly improved applications
in ubiquitous computing area.

Authors are invited to submit original and research papers addressing technical issues, solutions,
and technologies in emerging database systems. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the
international program committee. Accepted paper will be included in the EDB 2009 conference proceedings.

The topics of interest for EDB 2009 include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Advanced database applications
- Databases for bioinformatics
- Data mining/knowledge discovery
- Data warehousing
- Database system integration issues
- Embedded and Mobile Databases
- Federated, distributed, parallel and grid databases
- High dimensional and temporal data
- Image/video retrieval and databases
- Information retrieval, filtering and dissemination
- Performance issues of databases
- Privacy and Secure Databases
- Query processing and optimisation
- Semi-structured data
- Spatial data processing/management
- Stream Data Management
- Transaction processing
- Web access to databases
- XML and databases

* Submission

Original papers that are not published previously or under review by other journals or conferences will
be considered. All submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, significance,
correctness, presentation and relevance. Papers should be submitted at http://www.sigdb.or.kr/ as an
electronic file. Please follow the instructions given at the web page. Manuscripts will be limited to
6 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings of the First International Conference
on Emerging Databases (EDB 2009). At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register
as a full participant of the conference to have the paper published in the proceedings. Selected papers
will be published in the special issue of the Database Research journal.

* Best Paper Award

EDB 2009 Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the authors of the best research
/application paper. Strong, foundational results will be considered for the best paper award.

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* Conference Chair

Bonghee Hong, Pusan National University, Korea

* Organizing Committee Chair

Byeong-Soo Jeong, Kyung Hee University, Korea

* Program Committee Chair

Yunmook Nah, Dankook University, Korea

* Proceeding Co-Chairs

Sungwon Jung, Sogang University, Korea
Youngkoo Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea

* Registration Chair

Sanghyun Park, Yonsei University, Korea

* Local Arrangement Chair

Jino Choi, Pusan Foreign University, Korea

* Program Committee

Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University, China
Yu Ge, North Eastern Univeristy, China
Ki-Joon Han, Konkuk University, Korea
Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Eenjun Hwang, Korea University, Korea
Seung-won Hwang, POSTECH, Korea
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yasushi Kiyoki, Keio University, Japan
Arthur H. Lee, Claremont McKenna College, USA
Jeongkyu Lee, University of Bridgeport, USA
Minsoo Lee, Ewha Womans University, Korea
Sang-goo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Sang-Won Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Jiaheng Lu, Remin University, Beijing, China
Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan
Shinsuke Nakajima, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Sanghyun Park, Yonsei University, Korea
Seog Park, Sogang University, Korea
Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea
Kazutoshi Sumiya, University of Hyogo, Japan
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Taehyung Wang, California State University, Northridge, USA
Jaesoo Yoo, Chungbuk National University, Korea
Hwanjo Yu, POSTECH, Korea

* Organizing Committee

Hyukman Kim, Kookmin University, Korea
Sanghyun Park, Yonsei University, Korea
Woongki Noh, Sungkyul University, Korea
Youngkoo Lee, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Hyusup Shin, Konkuk University, Korea
Jinsuk Chae, Incheon University, Korea
Sungwon Jung, Sogang University, Korea
Youngho Park, Sookmyung University, Korea
Sukhee Hong, Kyungsung University, Korea
Donghyun Kim, Dongseo University, Korea
Jaeho Ban, Gosin University, Korea
Jino Choi, Pusan Foreign University, Korea