The 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology and the 12th International Conference on Database Theory will be held in Saint-Petersburg in March 2009. Papers are due at the end of the Summer. Get busy!

The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering will be held in Shanghai, China in March 2009. ICDE is a generic database conference.

The second Workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems will be held at KDD 2008 in Las Vegas. The topics of interest include:

• Novel recommendation models, emphasizing accuracy, performance and asymptotic behavior
• Scalability problems in recommender systems
• Novel evaluation methodologies for recommendation quality
• Efficient integration of multiple complementary predictors
• Studies of content-filtering vs. collaborative filtering and their integration in large-scale environments
• Explaining and presenting recommendations to end-users
• Idiosyncrasies of the Netflix Prize dataset and lessons learned from its analysis
• The Netflix Prize competition at large

I have written about the Netflix Prize competition before on this blog.

The Second International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise (BIRTE 08) will be held in conjunction with VLDB’08 in New Zeland. You can see the list of papers accepted at BIRTE 2006 on DBLP.

In today’s competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data to understand how the business is performing, to predict outcomes and trends, and to improve the effectiveness of business processes underlying business operations has become critical. The traditional approach to reporting is not longer adequate, users now demand easy-to-use intelligent platforms and applications capable of analyzing real-time business data to provide insight and actionable information at the right time. The end goal is to improve the enterprise performance by better and timelier decision making, enabled by the availability of up-to-date, high quality information.

The Twelfth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2008) will be held in Münster, Germany.

The Third International Workshop on Flexible Database and Information Systems Technology (FlexDBIST-08) will be held in Turin this year. The scope is defined by this sentence: “Enterprises and organizations need to deal with such heterogeneous and often very large volumes of data, which may also be uncertain, imprecise and incomplete.”

Ladjel Bellatreche is organizing a special issue in New Trends in Physical Data Warehouse Design for the journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases. Submissions are through the journal’s online system. You can read the call for papers on EventSeer.