The Ninth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management will be held in Zhangjiajie, China. It appears to be a pretty generic database conference.

The call for papers of the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2008) is out. The conference will be held, next June, in Barcelona.

The ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference will be held in Vancouver. This is one of the top conferences in database research.

Kamel pointed out to me this AAAI Symposium on Social Information Processing. The name of the event is cool. It will be held at Stanford.

Social media facilitate new ways of interacting with information - what we call social information processing. Social information processing allows users to collaborate implicitly by leveraging the opinions and knowledge generated by others. In addition to collaborative problem solving, social information processing may lead to wholly new kinds of knowledge, that emerge from the distributed activities of many users.

WEBIST 2008 is going to be in Funchal, Madeira. It is a conference on web-based information systems. I was in the program committee last year, so it is a good conference!

The Australasian Database Conference (ADC2008) will be held at the University of Wollongong. It looks like a pretty good generic database conference.

EGC’2008 will be held near Nice this year. EGC is the primer French Data Mining conference. The topics covered are quite varied, but papers must be in French.