ICDE 2008 (June 22, 2007 / April 7-12, 2008)

The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008) will be held in Cancún, México. This is a generic conference on information systems from an engineering point of view.

I find it interesting that they list area PC vice-chairs:

• Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata - Erhard Rahm, U. of Leipzig, Germany
• Ubiquitous Data Management and Mobile Databases - Evi Pitoura, U. of Ioannina
• Query processing, query optimization - Guido Moerkotte, U. of Mannheim, Germany
• Data Structures and data management algorithms - Edward Chang, Google, Beijing
• Data Privacy and Security - Bhavani Thuraisingham, U. of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Data Mining Algorithms - Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan U.
• Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP and Architectures - Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India
• XML data Processing, Filtering, Routing, and Algorithms - Hans-Arno Jacobsen, U. of Toronto, Canada
• XML and Relational Query Languages, Mappings and Engines - Christoph Koch, U. of Saarbruecken, Germany
• Distributed, Parallel, Peer to Peer Databases - Peter Triantafillou, U. of Patras, Greece
• Web Search and Deep Web - Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA
• Databases for Science - Claudia Medeiros, U. of Campinas, Brazil
• Internet Grids, Web Services, Web 2.0, and Mashups - Alon Halevy, Google, USA and Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, USA
• Data Streams - Ugur Cetintemel, Brown U., USA
• Sensor Networks - Philippe Bonnet, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Temporal and Multimedia Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures - Christian Jensen, U. of Aalborg, Denmark
• Spatial and High Dimensional Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures - Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Systems, Platforms, Middleware, Applications and Experiences - Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands
• Database System Internals, Performance and Self-tuning - Natassa Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon U., USA