Welcome to DBRank 2010
The Fourth International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2010) focuses on the semantics, the modeling and the implementation of ranking and ordering in database systems and applications. In recent years, there has been a great deal of interest in developing effective techniques for ad-hoc search and retrieval in relational XML databases, text and multimedia databases, scientific information systems, biological databases, and so on. In particular, a large number of emerging applications require exploratory querying on such general-purpose or domain-specific databases; examples include users wishing to search bibliographic databases or catalogs of products such as homes, cars, cameras, restaurants, photographs, etc. To address the limitations of the traditional Boolean retrieval model in these emerging ad-hoc search and retrieval applications, Top-k queries and ranking query results are gaining increasing importance. In fact, in many of these applications, ranking is an integral part of the semantics, e.g., keyword search, similarity search in multimedia as well as document databases. The increasing importance of ranking is directly derived from the explosion in the volume of data handled by current applications. The user would be overwhelmed by too many unranked results. Furthermore, the sheer amount of data makes it almost impossible to process queries in the traditional compute-then-sort approach. Hence, ranking comes as a great tool for soliciting user preferences and data exploration. Ranking imposes several challenges for almost all data-centric systems.
DBRank aims at providing more insight into supporting ranking in database systems and will be an interesting addition to ICDE 2010; the workshop will be a great venue for the many research groups working on ranking worldwide, with a unique opportunity to share their experience in supporting ranking in various database systems, from relational to semi-structures and unstructured data; and on different levels from query formulation and preference modeling to query processing and optimization frameworks. The workshop covers (and is not limited to) the following topics:
- Ranking relational data
- Rank-aware query processing and optimization
- New fundamental developments in top-k algorithms
- Cost-models for top-k algorithms and operators
- User preference specification and query languages
- Ranking in Web and XML databases
- Ranking in distributed and peer-to-peer databases
- Ranking as a data exploration tool
- Ranking queries in data streams and continuous monitoring systems
- Applications of ranking and top-k retrieval from databases
- Ranking multimedia data
- Domain-specific ranking
- Multidimensional data analysis using ranking tools
- Personalized ranking functions
- Learning user preferences and ranking functions
- Ranking and information extraction
Submission
We welcome original, unpublished manuscripts for 6-pages papers inclusive of all references and figures. Papers should report completed results. Vision papers and descriptions of work-in-progress are also welcomed as short paper submissions (3 pages). Papers must be written in English, and formatted according to ICDE proceeding format. Electronic version of the workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE.
Paper Submission Site
Formatting Instructions
Organization
Program Co-Chairs
- Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
Stern School of Business
New York University
Program Committee
- Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA
- Nicolas Bruno, Microsoft Research, USA
- Kaushik Chakrabarti, Microsoft Research, USA
- Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Jan Chomicki, University of Buffalo, USA
- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Italian National Research Council & University of Calabria, Italy
- Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Leonidas Fegaras, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Marios Hadjieleftheriou, AT&T, USA
- Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University, USA
- Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Alpa Jain, Yahoo! Labs, USA
- Werner Kiessling, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Arnd Christian König, Microsoft Research, USA
- Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
- Chengkai Li, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Heikki Mannila, HIIT, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China
- Themis Palpanas, University of Trento, Italy
- Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Martin Theobald, Stanford University, USA
- Xiaokui Xiao, Cornell University, USA
- Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
- Ke Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Man-Lung Yiu, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University, USA
- Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia
Steering Committee
- Gautam Das
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Texas at Arlington
- Vagelis Hristidis
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
- Ihab F. Ilyas
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Keynote
Alon Halevy (Google Research)
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Important Dates
All deadlines are at 5:00pm
Pacific Standard Time
Paper Submission
November 20, 2009
Author Notification
December 15, 2009
Camera-Ready Version
January 5, 2010 |