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Since 2000, the Steering Committee for the series of International Symposiums on Spatial Databases (SSD) has chosen to extend the scope of the symposium to cover temporal and spatio-temporal data management, in addition to spatial data management. Given the growing interest in spatio-temporal databases and the continuing advances in wireless communications and ubiquitous computing technologies, this broadening is natural and exciting. Research on data management in location-based services and mobile information systems has been placed prominently within the area of the symposium. Thus, the 8th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD'2003) will continue the series of successful events held in Santa Barbara (1989), Zurich (1991), Singapore (1993), Portland (1995), Berlin (1997), Hong Kong (1999) and Redondo Beach (2001).

TOPICS

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following as they relate to spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal databases:

Active Database Technology
Critical Evaluation of Standards Proposals
Data Semantics and Models
Data Types and Query Languages
Database Design and Conceptual Modeling
Design of Experiments and Benchmarks
Experiences with Real Applications and Systems
Integration with Existing Commercial Products
Management of Moving Objects
Management of Raster and Vector Data
Novel and Challenging Applications
Ontologies and Taxonomies
Parallel and Distributed Database Systems
Performance Evaluations
Practical Approaches from Computational Geometry and Constraint Databases
Query Optimization Techniques
Query Processing and Indexing
Real-Time Databases
Reasoning
Requirements Analysis for Applications
Similarity
Spatial & Temporal Aspects of Mobile Computing
Spatial & Temporal Data and the Web
Spatial & Temporal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Spatial & Temporal Data Warehousing and Decision Support
Spatial & Temporal Extensibility of O-R DBMSs
Systems Architectures, including Interoperability
Uncertainty and Imprecision
Use of Spatio-Temporal Data for Simulation
User Interfaces and Visualization

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors are invited to submit electronically original, English-language research contributions or experience reports not concurrently submitted elsewhere. Papers should be no longer than twenty pages, 1.5 spaced, in no smaller than 10 point font with 1 inch margins (left, right, top, bottom.) The program committee may reject papers that exceed this length on the grounds of length alone. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Proposals for panels that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative issues within the conference area are encouraged as well. Panel proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of 3-4 panelists who have made a commitment to participate. A mix of industry and academic panel members is recommended.

Proposals for 90-minute tutorials are also invited on topics within the conference area. Tutorial proposals must be at most 5 pages, they must identify the intended audience, and they must give enough material to provide a sense of what will be covered.

A fully electronic review process is being planned. Technical papers and panel and tutorial proposals should be submitted electronically in postscript or pdf format by Monday, March 3, 2003, following the procedure described on the conference web page. Abstracts of technical papers are due on Monday, February 24, 2003.

TIMETABLE

Abstract submission for papers: February 24, 2003
Paper and proposal submission: March 3, 2003
Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2003
Camera-ready copy due: April 28, 2003
Symposium dates: July 24-27, 2003

For further information related to the technical program, please contact one of the PC co-chairs, at manolopo@csd.auth.gr or roddick@infoeng.flinders.edu.au.

For other questions, please contact the general chair at ytheod@unipi.gr.

All deadlines are FIRM.