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WELCOME

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ORGANIZATION

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 * SIGMOD PC
 * PODS PC
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RESOURCES

 * [+] SIGMOD/PODS Electronic Proceedings
   


LINKS

 * ACM SIGMOD
 * SIGMOD/PODS Conferences
 * SIGMOD on DBLP
 * PODS on DBLP
 * Tourism Vancouver
 * Westin Bayshore


FINAL PROGRAM

 * Full Program
 * [-] PODS Sessions
 * [-] SIGMOD Sessions
 * [-] SIGMOD Industrial Sessions
 * [-] SIGMOD Demos
 * [-] SIGMOD Undergrad Posters
 * [-] Keynote Program
 * [-] Tutorial Program
   
 * Workshops


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 * Conference Venue
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CALLS FOR PAPERS

 * Important Dates and Submission Instructions
 * SIGMOD Research
 * PODS Research
 * Industrial Papers
 * Workshop Proposals
 * Tutorial Proposals
 * Demo proposals
   


 


GUIDELINES FOR SIGMOD PAPERS

 * Guidelines for research papers
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 * SIGMOD: Paper formatting instructions
 * PODS: Paper formatting instructions


 


ACM SIGMOD/PODS CONFERENCE: VANCOUVER, 2008
WELCOME


For decades, the joint ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference has established itself as the
top data management conference in the world for researchers, practitioners,
developers, and users to report and share cutting-edge ideas and results, and to
exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. In 2008, SIGMOD/PODS was held in
Vancouver, in Canada's beautiful British Columbia, from June 9 to 12, 2008.

The highlights of the SIGMOD/PODS program are as follows:

SIGMOD (June 10-12):

 * 3 Keynote Presentations:
   * Ben Shneiderman [University of Maryland]
     Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels
   * Sridhar Ramaswamy [Google]
     Extreme Data Mining
   * William O'Connell [IBM]
     Extreme Streaming: Business Optimization Driving Algorithmic Challenges
 * 5 Tutorials:
   * Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities (3 hours)
     Speaker(s): Susan Davidson and Juliana Freire
   * Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM)
     (1.5 hours)
     Speaker(s): Betty O'Neil
   * Query Answering Technique on Uncertain and Probabilistic Data (1.5 hours)
     Speaker(s): Jian Pei, Ming Hua, Yufei Tao, Xuemin Lin
   * Information Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks (1.5 hours)
     Speaker(s): Eduardo Nakamura and Antonio Loureiro
   * Introduction to Recommender Systems (3 hours)
     Speaker(s): Joseph A. Konstan, University of Minnesota
 * 78 Technical Paper Presentations
 * 15 Industrial Paper Presentations
 * 30 Demonstrations
 * 6 Post-conference workshops

PODS (June 9-11):

 * Keynote Speaker: Peter Buneman [University of Edinburgh]
   Topic: Curated Databases
 * Invited Tutorial 1: Effective Characterizations of Tree Logics
   Speaker: Mikolaj Bojanczyk [Warsaw University]
 * Invited Tutorial 2: Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality
   Speaker: Wenfei Fan [University of Edinburgh]
 * 28 Technical Paper Presentations

We hope you have enjoyed SIGMOD/PODS 2008 in Vancouver!


Laks V.S. Lakshmanan & Raymond Ng
SIGMOD 2008 General co-chairs Phokion G. Kolaitis
PODS 2008 General Chair Dennis Shasha
SIGMOD 2008 PC Chair Maurizio Lenzerini
PODS 2008 PC Chair