Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS '10

Abstract

The International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS) was established in 1997. IDEAS'10 is the fourteenth annual meeting in the IDEAS series and is being held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, during August 16-18, 2010. The conference aims to address the needs of the academic community in database and engineering, its application found in an ever increasing number of domains. It brings together academics, government and industry professionals to discuss recent progress and challenges in a broad range of areas in this domain such as data mining, databases, information retrieval, machine learning, as well as software engineering. IDEAS'10 also serves as a platform for theoreticians and practitioners to exchange their original research ideas on academic or application aspects of computing and engineering of database systems. They can present their new findings and share their experiences on integrating new technologies into products and applications. The symposium facilitates the discussion of their work as applied to real-life situations, and their development and operations of challenging database related systems, while identifying unsolved challenges. In terms of submissions, we have attracted many high-quality papers submitted by authors globally including: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Macedonia, Norway, Portugal and United States. For IDEAS'10, we continue to keep our tradition of inviting international experts in various aspects of database engineering to join our program committee. As a result, our Program Committee consists of professionals who have done an excellent job in finishing the single-blind review and on-line double-blind debate processes built into ConfSys. On average, about 97% of reviews were submitted by the due date and about 3.85 reviews were received for each paper. Thus the paper selection process was thorough and competitive. On average, each paper was refereed by at least 3.85 reviewers, and about 17% of submissions were accepted as full research papers. This year, we have an intensive program that spans over three days. In addition to full research papers we also include selected short papers and posters, which allow authors to present new applications and explore untried research directions.