Call for Papers
       Second International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2004)
           29-30 August 2004, Toronto, Canada (before VLDB)
                        http://www.xsym.org


Important Dates
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  19 May 2004       - Paper Submission Deadline
  30 June 2004      - Notification of Acceptance
  13 July 2004      - Camera Ready Copy
  29-30 August 2004 - Symposium

The XML database symposium builds upon the success of the first symposium
in conjunction with VLDB 2003, Berlin, and several previous XML, Web and
Database-related workshops held at CAiSE 2002, EDBT 2002 and VLDB 2002.


Topics of Interest
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In order to foster a lively exchange of perspectives on the conference
topics, the program committee encourages contributions from both
researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

Design and Integration:
  Methodology and tools for designing DTDs and XML schemas 
  Large scale XML data integration 
  Information integration techniques and aggregators 
  Interchange and integration of XML data 
  Generation of XML data from legacy applications 
  Database support for Web-applications 
  Data modeling concepts for data in the Web 
  Management of meta-data in the internet 
  Web mining 
  Web interfaces for database systems 
  P2P database systems 

Applications of XML:
  XML-based data models for product description (XML, XML schema, XML
    clones)
  Business ontologies 
  XML and e-commerce 
  XML and business (XML/EDI) 
  Web-based models for business knowledge representation (RDF, semantic
    markup)
  Security and privacy with XML 

Models and Languages:
  XML query languages 
  XML-related languages like XSL, XQL, XPointer 
  Convergence of XML and Database technology (queries, views, updates,
    data warehouses, etc.) 
  Convergence of XML and Decision support (visualization, expert systems
    and business rules, etc.) 

XML Technology:
  Storage of XML data 
  Compression of XML data 
  Indexing and retrieval of XML data 
  Query processing over XML data 
  Benchmarks and performance using XML/Web-databases 
  XML server technology 
  XML-based middleware 
  XML grammars and streams 
  XML as an integral part of larger software systems 


Paper Submission
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Symposium submissions must generally be in electronic form using Portable
Document Format (.pdf), PostScript (.ps) or WinWord (.doc). Papers should
not be more than 15 pages in length. Papers should be formatted according
to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
guidelines. LNCS formatting guidelines and templates can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All submitted papers will
be judged on their quality and relevance. At least one author of each
accepted paper must attend the symposium to present their work.

Paper submission site is at http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/XSYM2004

The symposium proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.