The third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008) will be held in Oporto, Portugal. As the name implies, it is a generic data/software conference.

Keep in mind that — in Portugual — people smoke everywhere and all the time, especially in airports. But they make damn good wines.

Update. It appears that there is now a ban on smoking.

The CASCON 2008 call for papers is out. CASCON is a generic Computer Science conference hosted by IBM in Toronto. The list of topics covered is pretty broad: software engineering, databases, HCI, Web, Grid Computing, and so on.

The French conference Base de données avancées 2008 (BDA) published its web site. BDA stands for advanced databases. The conference will be held in Ardèche.

The 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering will be held in Los Angeles (USA). It appears to be a pretty generic hybrid conference, one half software engineering, one half data engineering.

ICDM’08 — the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining — will be held in Pisa, Italy. ICDM is a big and prestigious conference on Data Mining. It has some pretty good workshops, but the list of workshops is not yet available. See the workshops they had last year.

(If you do not mind useless advice, do check the workshops first if you are going to prepare a paper. I see very little evidence in recent years that the papers accepted at the main conference have more impact.)

VLDB 2008 will be held in New Zealand next year. VLDB is one of the most prestigious database conference.

AAAI-08 will be held in Chicago. It is one of the largest annual conference in AI. They also have a special AI and the Web track.