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23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2011)

July 20-22, 2011 – Portland, OR USA

*** Early Registration Deadline: June 20, 2011 ***

Conference Registration Site – http://www.ssdbm2011.ssdbm.org/registration.php

We invite you to join us for the 23rd SSDBM Conference in beautiful Portland, Oregon - mecca for outdoor enthusiasts and aficionados of fine farm-to-table eating. The conference focuses on concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications, bringing together domain experts, database researchers, practitioners and developers to share new insights and discuss future research directions. The conference will likely consist of a single track of presentations, including invited talks, peer-reviewed papers, system and tool demonstrations, panel discussions, good food, and an intriguing local excursion.

This international conference brings together scientific domain experts, databases researchers, practitioners and developers for the presentation and exchange of current research on concepts, tools and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. SSDBM provides a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation and evaluation. Individual themes differ year to year with the main focus remaining on databases theory and application in the scientific and statistical fields. Path themes have included bioinformatics (genomics, biodiversity informatics including biological databases), geospatial and sensor databases, geological databases, data mining, metadata management, conceptual models, data integration and visualization and system architectures. The priority areas are supplemented with invited talks and panel sessions and illustrated with demonstrations of research prototypes and industrial systems. The conference takes place in a single plenary session to facilitate the viewing of all presentations by all attendees.

The preliminary SSDBM 2011 program, including the list of accepted papers is now available at http://www.ssdbm2011.ssdbm.org/SSDBM2011prelimProgram.pdf

This year’s SSDBM Conference includes:

• 24 Full Papers and 12 Short Papers will be presented in 7 Technical Sessions:

  • Ranked Search
  • Temporal Data and Queries
  • Workflows and Provenance
  • Querying Graphs
  • Clustering and Data Mining
  • Architectures and Privacy
  • Applications and Models

• Keynote Speaker: Michael Stonebraker (MIT): The Architecture of SciDB

• 2 Panel Discussions

  • Data Intensive Science: Moving Towards Solutions (Terence Critchlow, Moderator)
  • Data Scientists, Data Management and Data Policy (Sylvia Spengler, Moderator)

• 15 Posters

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