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CALL For PAPERS
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1st IEEE International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB)
in cooperation with
21st IEEE Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005)
April 8th and 9th, 2005
National Center of Science
Tokyo, Japan

The First Workshop on Networking Meets Databases, NetDB, will bring
together researchers in the networking and database communities to
debate emerging research directions. We are witnessing the blurring of
the traditional boundaries between these two disciplines, especially
in the emerging areas of sensor and peer-to-peer networks. We believe
time is ripe for these two communities to get together and discuss the
common interests, share and exchange expertise and results, and
appreciate each other's terminologies and contributions.  The goal of
this year's workshop is to promote discussion of ideas that will
influence and foster continued research in the areas of sensor and
peer-to-peer networks. The workshop will provide a venue for
researchers to present new ideas that can significantly impact both
communities and perhaps give birth to a new community in the long
term.

We encourage submissions in the areas of sensor and peer-to-peer
networks across the broad range of networking and database
research. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to:

- Architectures for sensor and peer-to-peer databases
- Applications of sensor and peer-to-peer databases
- Data analysis for network traffic estimation and security
- Data models, query models, and query languages for sensor and
   peer-to-peer networks
- Data placement and storage in sensor and peer-to-peer networks
- Query planning, execution, and optimization in sensor and
   peer-to-peer networks
- Indexing, caching, and replication techniques for sensor and
   peer-to-peer networks
- Scalable distributed data structures for data management in sensor
   and peer-to-peer networks
- Workload characterization and performance evaluation for sensor and
   peer-to-peer networks
- Dynamic schema integration in sensor and peer-to-peer networks
- Self-* properties and emergent behavior in sensor and peer-to-peer 
networks
- Transaction management for peer-to-peer networks
- Data mining, data retrieval, and streaming in peer-to-peer systems


The selection of NetDB papers will be based primarily on their
potential to influence future research. This influence can be
exercised in many ways, exemplified by but not limited to the
following:

- Describing a novel approach to an old problem that promises
   to influence future research
- Describing a new problem that requires our attention
- Articulating a new perspective about networking and databases
- Debunking an old perspective about networking or databases


Copies of the accepted papers will be made publicly available via the
Web prior to the workshop. Proceedings will be made available as an
IEEE formal electronic post-workshop proceeding, where the papers will
be included in the digital library of IEEE CS. We are investigating a
special issue of a journal to publish a selected set of accepted
papers.


**Important Dates

- Submissions due: November 15, 2004 (10:00 pm Pacific, HARD)
- Notification of acceptance: January 10, 2005
- Camera-ready copy due: February 4, 2005
- Workshop: April 8-9, 2005


**Invited Speaker:

- Michael Franklin (UCB)


**Program Committee Co-Chairs:

- Ramesh Govindan (USC)
- Cyrus Shahabi (USC)


**Program Committee Members:

Karl Aberer (EPFL)
Divyakant Agrawal (UCSB)
Gustavo Alonso (ETH)
Philippe Bonnet (Diku, Copenhagen)
John Byers (Boston Uiversity)
Ugur Cetintemel (Brown University)
Amr El Abbadi (UCSB)
Steve Gribble (University of Washington)
Wei Hong (Intel, Berkeley)
Vana Kalogeraki (UC Riverside)
Brad Karp (CMU)
Sam Madden (MIT)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Mema Roussopoulos (Harvard University)
Scott Shenker (UCB, ICSI)
Ouri E. Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Jim Xu (Georgia Tech)