CALL FOR PAPERS

	1st International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC 2006)
    			http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourav/XANTEC/main.html
 
  				      in conjunction with

	  The 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006)
                                Sept 4 - 8, 2006
				 Krakow, Poland 



BACKGROUND:


XML has gain lot of attention from database researchers who are actively working in one or 
more of the emerging XML areas. XML data are self-describing, and provide a platform 
independent means to describe data and therefore, can transport data from one platform  to 
another. XML documents can be mapped to one more of the existing data models such as  
relational and object-relational, and XML views can be produced dynamically from the 
pre-existing data models. XML queries can be mapped to the queries of the underlying  
models and can use their optimization features. In this context, schema management and 
discovery, query optimization, data integration and indexing plays important roles. XML  
data integration is useful for E-commerce applications such as comparison-shopping,  
which requires further study in the domain of data, schema and query based integration.  
XML change management is another important area that has attracted attention in the context
of web warehouse. XML has been  in use in upcoming areas such web services, sensor and 
biological data management.

We are pleased to invite original contributions in this area for the 1st International 
Workshop on XML Data Management Tools & Techniques to be held in Krakow, Poland. One of 
the key objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in this area who can 
share their views under this workshop. We solicits papers with important new insights and 
experiences of developing tools and techniques for managing XML data. Topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to 


*Tools/Techniques for XML schema discovery
*Tools/Techniques for XML schema validation and constraints
*Tools/Techniques for XML data integration
*Tools/Techniques for XML data storage and indexing
*Tools/Techniques for realizing XML query languages and optimization
*Tools/Techniques for XML views and data publishing
*Tools/Techniques for XML applications in semantic web
*Tools/Techniques for XML data mining
*Tools/Techniques for XML change management
*Tools/Techniques for XML views and data mappings
*Tools/Techniques for XML data security
*Tools/Techniques for XML data privacy
*Tools/Techniques for XML data compression
*Tools/Techniques for XML in Web services
*Tools/Techniques for XML benchmark and performance studies
*Tools/Techniques for XML applications  in new domains- sensor and biological data management



IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 20th March, 2006
Paper Submission Deadline: 4th April, 2006 
Notification: 30th April, 2006 
Camera-ready Copy Due: 12th May, 2006 
Workshop Date: 4th-8th Sept, 2006 


PAPER SUBMISSION:

The full paper submission is limited to 5 pages in length (IEEE ICDE Format). Simultaneous 
submission to another conference/workshop/journal is not allowed. Papers must be original 
and have not been published or under consideration for publications elsewhere. Papers will 
be reviewed by at least 3 program committee members for their technical merit, originality, 
significance, and relevance to the workshop. Please send abstract (no more than 250 words 
in ASCII text) of the paper via email. Authors should send papers/abstracts to 
assourav@ntu.edu.sg including title of the paper, authors’ names and 3-4 relevant keywords. 


 
WORKSHOP ORGANIZER:

Sourav S Bhowmick; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; assourav@ntu.edu.sg  
  

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

*Amagasa Toshiyuki	University of Tsukuba,Japan 
*Barbosa Denilson 	University of Calgary,Canada 
*Bressan Stephane 	National University of Singapore, Singapore 
*Choi Byron 		Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
*Chung Chin-Wan 	KAIST, South Korea 
*Claypool Kajal 	University of Massachusetts-Lowell USA 
*Groppe Sven		University of Innsbruck, Austria
*Gruenwald Le 		University of Oklahoma, USA 
*Iwaihara Mizuho 	Kyoto University, Japan 
*Lee Mong Li 		National University of Singapore, Singapore 
*Madria Sanjay 		University of Missouri-Rolla, USA 
*Mani Murali 		WPI, USA 
*Ng Wee Keong 		Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
*Ng Wilfred 		Hongkong University of Science and Technology, China 
*Patel Jignesh 		University of Michigan, USA 
*Psaila Giuseppe 	Universita' di Bergamo, Italy 
*Tan Kian-Lee 		National University of Singapore, Singapore 
*Taniar David 		Monash University, Australia 
*Wang Wei 		University of New South Wales, Australia 
*Wong Raymond 		University of New South Wales, Australia 
*Yu Jeffrey 		Chinese University of Kong Kong, China 
*Zhou Xiaofang 		University of Queensland, Australia