The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering
                       (ICDE 2007) 

April 16-20, 2007
The Marmara Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies
in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different 
computing platforms and application environments. The 23rd International 
Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for sharing and 
exchanging research and engineering results to problems encountered in today’s 
information society.

We especially encourage submissions that make efforts (1) to expose practitioners
to how the research results and tools can contribute to their everyday problems 
in practice and to provide them with an early opportunity to evaluate these tools; 
(2) to raise awareness in the research community of the problems of practical 
applications of data engineering and to promote the exchange of data engineering 
technologies and experience among researchers and practitioners; (3) to identify 
new issues and directions for future research and development in the data 
engineering field. 

IMPORTANT DATES	
Abstract Deadline: July 5, 2006 
Paper submission Deadline: July 12, 2006
Panel submission deadline: July 26, 2006
Demo submission deadline: July 26, 2006
Seminar submission deadline: July 26, 2006
Workshop proposal submission deadline: July 26, 2006
Industrial paper submission deadline: July 12, 2006
Notification: October 7, 2006

AWARDS 
An award will be given to the best paper. A separate award will be given to the 
best student paper. Papers eligible for this award must have a (graduate or 
undergraduate) student listed as the first and contact author, and the majority 
of the authors must be students. Such submissions must be marked as student papers 
at the time of submission.

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM 
The conference will include an industrial track for high quality papers and 
presentations on innovative commercial software for all facets of information 
technology, which include novel applications of database and information 
retrieval technologies, experiences in applying recent research advances to 
practical scenarios and innovations in commercial information management 
software. Industrial track submissions should also be prepared in the 8/5"x11" 
IEEE camera-ready format, with a 12-page limit, and submitted electronically 
via the industrial track submissions website.

PANELS
Panel proposals must include an abstract, an outline of the panel format, and 
relevant information about the proposed panelists. Send your pro­po­sals 
electronically by the submission deadline to the Panel Chair, Meral Ösoyoglu at 
.

DEMONSTRATIONS
Demonstration proposals should focus on new technology advances in applying 
databases or new techniques. Proposals must be no more than four double-columned 
pages, and should give a short description of the demonstrated system, explain what 
is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to 
database technology, applications or techniques. Send your proposals electronically 
to the Demonstration Chairs, Jose Blakeley and Mario Nascimento at 
 and .

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SEMINARS 
Seminar proposals must include an abstract, an outline, a description of the target 
audience, duration (1.5 or 3 hours), and a short bio of the presenter(s). Send your 
proposals electronically to the Seminar Chairs, Karl Aberer and Gün Ösoyoglu Ahmed Elmagarmid and Fred Lochovsky (at  
and ) with the title, a description of the topic, and the names 
of key organizers such as program chair(s). Prior contact with the workshop chairs is 
encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising 
their workshops, and for the reviewing process for their workshop's papers, and for the 
collection of camera-ready copies of accepted papers.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Research papers must be prepared in the 8/5"x11" IEEE camera-ready format, with a 
12-page limit, and submitted electronically at http://www.srdc.metu.edu.tr/webpage/icde/.  
All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer 
Society. 

GENERAL CHAIRS
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Adnan Yazici, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Tamer Ösu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Ibrahim Köoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey

TREASURER
I. Hakki Toroslu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS 
Fatma Öcan, IBM Almaden, USA
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France

PANEL CHAIR 
Meral Ösoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA  

SEMINAR CHAIRS
Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland 
Gün Ösoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA  

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, China

DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS 
Jose Blakeley, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Mario Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Mehmet Altinel, IBM Almaden, USA
Zehra Çtaltepe, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Ahmet Cosar, METU, Turkey
Yildiray Kabak, METU, Turkey
Gö Banu Laleci, METU, Turkey
Sule G. Öü Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Ahmet Saç, METU, Turkey

Yüaygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Pinar K. Senkul, METU, Turkey
Nesime Tatbul, Brown University, USA
Pinar Yolum, BogaziçUniversity, Turkey

DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Walid Aref,  Purdue University, USA
Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, USA
Anand Deshpande, Persistent Systems, India
Ralf Hartmut Gü/, University of Hagen, Germany
Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada
Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
Bill McKenna, NCR/Teradata, USA
Sergey Melnik, Microsoft, USA
Glenn Paulley, Sybase, Canada

Kian-Lee Tan, NUS, Singapore
Caetano Traina Jr, USP, Brazil
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea

INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Kevin Beyer, IBM Almaden, USA
Mike Carey, BEA, USA
Daniela Florescu, Oracle, USA
Marcus Fontoura, Yahoo Research, USA
Piero Fraternali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stéane Gançski, University Paris 6, France
James Hamilton, Microsoft, USA
Mary Holstege, Mark Logic, USA
Francois Llirbat, Business Objects, France
Qiong Luo, HKUST, China
Jussi Myllmaki, Google, USA
Marta Patino-Martinez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Mikael Ronstrom, MySQL AB, Sweden
Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel
Vishal Sikka, SAP, USA

ICDE 2007 invites research submissions on all topics related to data engineering, including 
but not limited to those listed below:
AREA PC VICE-CHAIRS
1.	Distributed, parallel, P2P and mobile DB's: Ögüsoy, Bilkent University, Turkey
2.	Web Data Management, Web Information Systems: Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA
3.	Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Statistical Databases: Joachim Hammer, University of Florida, USA
4.	Mining Data, Text, and the Web: Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea
5.	Query processing (standard and adaptive) and query optimization: Tore Risch, Uppsala University, Sweden
6.	Middleware, workflow, and Web services: Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
7.	Security and Privacy: Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois, USA
8.	Database applications and experiences: Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
9.	Stream processing, continuous queries, and sensor DB's: Mitch Cherniack, Brandeis University, USA
10.	Indexing, access methods, data structures: Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University, Greece
11.	Semi-structured data and XML: Frank W. Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada
12.	Scientific and Biological DB's and Bioinformatics: Carol Goble, The University of Manchester, UK
13.	Temporal, Spatial and Multimedia DB's: Nihan Çcekli, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
14.	Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata: Renee Miller, University of Toronto, Canada
15.	Imprecision, Uncertainty and fuzziness in databases: Gabriella Pasi, Universitàegli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS


Ashraf Aboulnaga , University of Waterloo, Canada
Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Charu Aggarwal, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, USA
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis, USA
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zü Switzerland
Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Arvind Arasu, Microsoft, USA
Walid Aref, Purdue University, USA

Lars Arge, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Paolo Atzeni, Universitàoma Tre, Italy
Shivnath Babu, Duke University, USA
Magda Balazinska, University of Washington, USA
Denilson Barbosa, University of Calgary, Canada
Roberto Bayardo, Google, USA
Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Gloria Bordogna, IDPA-CNR, Italy

Patrick Bosc, Irisa/Enssat, France
Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA
Phillip Bourne, University of California San Diego, USA
Klemens Bö/, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Andrea Cali, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
Rita de Caluwe, Ghent University, Belgium
Kasim Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA
Fabio Casati, HP Laboratories, USA
Tiziana Catarci, University of Rome, Italy
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Edward Chang, Google, USA
Kevin Chang, University of Illinos, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Sudarshan Chawathe, University of Maine, USA
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jan Chomicki, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Panagiotis Chountas, University of Westminster, U.K.
Chin-Wan Chung, KAIST, Korea
Gao Cong, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Sara Cohen, Technion, Israel
Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA
Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece
Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland, USA
Yanlei Diao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Jens Dittrich, ETH Zü Switzerland

AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champpaign, USA
Ramez Elmasri, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Wenfei Fan, University of Edinburgh, U.K., and Bell Laboratories, USA
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Daniela Florescu, Oracle, USA
Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA
Johann Christoph Freytag, Humboldt University, Germany
Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, USA
Minos Garofalakis, Intel Research, USA

Roy George, Clark Atlanta University, USA
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research, USA
Aristides Gionis, University of Helsinki, Finland
Goetz Graefe, Microsoft, USA
Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ashish Gupta, Google Inc., USA
Ralf Hartmut Gü University of Hagen, Germany
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida, USA
Joe Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sven Helmer, Birkbeck College, U.K.
Windsor Hsu, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Wynne Hsu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo, Canada

Matthias Jarke, TH Aachen, Germany
Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Ted Johnson, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
Vanja Josifovski, Yahoo Research Lab., USA
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, USA
Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Carl-Christian Kanne, University of Mannheim, Germany
Vipul Kashyap, Partners HealthCare System, USA

Norio Katayama, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Baris Kazar, Oracle USA
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, The University of Edinburgh, U.K.
Graham J.L. Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Eamonn Keogh, University of California at Riverside, USA
Martin Kersten, CWI, Netherlands
Sang-Wook Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada
Harald Kosch, University Passau, Germany
Birgitta Kö-Ries, University of Jena, Germany
Ibrahim Köoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Zoe Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA

Byung Suk Lee, University of Vermont, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ulf Leser, Humboldt University, Germany
Leonid Libkin, University of Toronto, Canada
Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Phillip Lord, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
Bertram Ludäher, University of California, Davis, USA
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
David Maier, Portland State University, USA

Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China
Volker Markl, IBM Almaden Research Lab., USA
Martin Marx, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hideo Matsuda, Osaka University, Japan
Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine, USA
Gerome Miklau, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mukesh Mohania, IBM India Research Lab, India
Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Bongki Moon, University of Arizona, USA
Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National University, Korea

Yasuhiko Morimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
Rajeev Motwani, Stanford University, USA
S. Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University, USA
Felix Naumann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Jeff Naughton, University of Wisconsin, USA
Frank Neven, Hasselt University, Belgium
Silvia Nittel, University of Maine, USA
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Esther Pacitti, University of Nantes, France

Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Sanghyun Park, Yonsei University, Korea
Jignesh M. Patel, University of Michigan, USA
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, U.K.
Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Antonio Picariello, University of Napoli, Italy
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden Research Lab., USA
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Olivier Pivert, Irisa/Enssat, France
Olga Pons, University of Granada, Spain

Lucian Popa, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alexandra Poulovassilis, University of London, U.K.
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University, USA
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA
Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Labs, USA
Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA
Daniel Rocacher, Irisa/Enssat, France
John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
Arnie Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation, USA

Prasan Roy, IBM India Research Lab, India
Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Kenneth Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada
Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark
Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy
Maria Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy
Yüaygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
Michel Scholl, CNAM, France
Michael Schroeder, Dresden University, Germany
Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany
Mehul Shah, HP Labs, USA

Dennis Shasha, New York University, USA
Shashi Shekhar, University of Minnesota, USA
Altigran Silva, Universidade Federal Do Amazonas, Brazil
Tomas Skopal, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Richard Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research, USA
V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland College Park, USA
Domenico Talia, Universitàella Calabria, Italy
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Abdullah Uz Tansel, Baruch College, The City Univ. of New York, USA

Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Hannu T. T. Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
David Toman, University of Waterloo, Canada
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo Research Lab., USA
Caetano Traina Jr, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Guy De Tréa, Ghent University, Belgium
Vassilis Tsotras, Univeristy of California at Riverside, USA
Peter A. Tucker, Whitworth College, USA
Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Can Turker, FGCZ Zurich, Switzerland
Deb VanderMeer, Florida International University, USA
Jari Veijalainen, University of JyväyläFinland
Yannis Velegrakis, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Maria Amparo Vila, University of Granada, Spain

Gottfried Vossen, University of Mü, Germany
Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Ji-Rong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Jef Wijsen, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Limsoon Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University, USA
Catharine Wyss, Indiana University School of Informatics, USA
Jeffrey Yu Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Jun Yang, Duke University, USA

Adnan Yazici, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Ting Yu, North Carolina State University, USA
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA
Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia
Stan Zdonik, Brown University, USA
Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA
Hui Zhang, University of Manitoba, Canada
Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia

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