[Storage-research-list] CFP - Performance of Business Database Applications (PBDA’14), Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

[Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)]

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Performance of Business Database Applications (PBDA’14)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/pbda
E-mail: pbda2014 at fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper 
to PBDA 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer 
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

Modern business applications process large amounts of persistent data. 
Thus, a key aspect infuencing the speed of such applications is the 
query processing time. This time can be optimized in a variety of ways, 
ranging from classic - such as automatic query rewriting or the usage of 
a variety of indexing techniques, through the variety of cashing 
techniques, automated database tuning, etc. On the other hand, 
application maintenance costs are closely related to the quality of the 
application architecture. Together, both those aspects lead to the 
search for optimization techniques that integrate with different 
intermediate layers and the use of alternative data persistence 
solutions. The development of graphics processing units and their unique 
computing power-price ratio also suggests searching for the acceleration 
of data processing based on GPUs. In addition to universal optimization 
techniques it is also worth looking into the use of domain knowledge in 
optimization mechanisms. The proposed workshop is planned to review the 
research on this broader query optimization process.

TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Extending the capabilities of object relational mappings
- Usage of the GPUs in query processing
- Indexing techniques
- Usage of metadata and domain knowledge in optimization processes
- Usage of fuzzy sets and rough sets in databases
- Cashing techniques
- Data snapshots
- Non-relational DBMS
- Column-oriented DBMS
- Hybrid DBMS
- Storage and analysis of time series
- Automated database tuning
- ETL optimization
- Business Intelligence optimization

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be 
published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Papers 
presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore 
Digital Library proceedings, and posted at the conference WWW site. The 
IEEE proceedings will be published under an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and 
an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Since 2012, 
Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters 
Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented 
during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 11, 2014
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Wisniewski, Piotr, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Bala, Piotr, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
- Bhalla, Subhash, University of Aizu, Japan
- Burzanska, Marta, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
- Cortesi, Agostino, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy
- Fischer, Simon, Rapid-I GmbH, Germany
- Kaczmarski, Krzysztof, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Slezak, Dominik, University of Warsaw