20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) July 9-11, 2008, Hong Kong, China http://i.cs.hku.hk/~ssdbm/ The International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM) is an established forum for the exchange of the latest research results on concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications. The 2008 meeting marks the twentieth time that scientific domain experts, databases researchers, practitioners and developers will come together to share their new insights and to discuss in a stimulating environment future research directions. SSDBM 2008 includes an exciting program, which has now been posted at the conference website. It consists of 3 keynote talks, 28 long and 7 short papers to be presented in 9 sessions, and 8 posters and demonstrations to be presented in a single session. The conference will be held in Lecture Theatre A, Chow Yei Ching Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. In addition to the technical program, the conference features a reception and a banquet at the Jumbo Floating Restaurant, which indeed floats in the waters of Aberdeen Harbour. Registration is now open: Visit http://i.cs.hku.hk/~ssdbm/ and click on 'Registration'. The deadline for early bird registration is June 15, 2008. SSDBM 2008 has reserved special prices for three hotels near the conference venue. Participants are requested to communicate directly with the hotels by faxing the corresponding reservation forms to them. Reservation deadline for the special rates is June 6, 2008. We look forward to seeing you at SSDBM 2008 in Hong Kong! -- Nikos Mamoulis (SSDBM General Chair) Bertram Ludaescher (SSDBM PC co-Chair) Max Egenhofer (SSDBM PC co-Chair) ---------------------------- SSDBM 2008 PROGRAM OVERVIEW: ---------------------------- * KEYNOTES ---------- Alex Szalay, New Challenges in Petascale Scientific Databases Nick Koudas, Adventures in the Blogosphere Per Svensson, The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures - a Historical Review * QUERY OPTIMIZATION IN SCIENTIFIC DATABASES -------------------------------------------- Rainer Gemulla, Philipp Rösch and Wolfgang Lehner. Linked Bernoulli Synopses: Sampling Along Foreign Keys Fan Wang, Gagan Agrawal and Ruoming Jin. Query Planning for Searching Inter-Dependent Deep-web Databases Graham Cormode, Philip Korn, S. Muthukrishnan and Divesh Srivastava. Summarizing Two-Dimensional Data with Skyline-based Statistical Descriptors Sarvjeet Singh, Chris Mayfield, Rahul Shah, Sunil Prabhakar and Susanne Hambrusch. Query Selectivity Estimation for Uncertain Data * PRIVACY --------- Onur Turgay, Thomas Brochmann Pedersen, Yucel Saygin, Erkay Savas and Albert Levi. Disclosure Risks of Distance Preserving Data Transformations Bharath Krishnamachari, Gabriel Ghinita and Panos Kalnis. Privacy-Preserving Publication of User Locations in the Proximity of Sensitive Sites Filippo Furfaro, Giuseppe M. Mazzeo and Domenico Sacca. A Probabilistic Framework for Building Privacy-preserving Synopses of Multi-dimensional Data * SEARCHING AND MINING GRAPHS ----------------------------- Guoliang Li, Xuhui Liu, Jianhua Feng and Lizhu Zhou. Efficient Similarity Search for Tree-Structured Data Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Matthias Renz and Tim Schmidt. Hierarchical Graph Embedding for Efficient Query Processing in Very Large Traffic Networks Lu Qin, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Bolin Ding and Yoshiharu Ishikawa. Monitoring Aggregate k-NN Objects in Road Networks Shijie Zhang and Jiong Yang. RAM: Randomized Approximate Graph Mining * DATA STREAMS -------------- Sumit Ganguly, Abhayendra Singh and Satyam Shankar. Finding frequent items over general update streams Ferry Tantono, Nishad Manerikar and Themis Palpanas. Efficiently Discovering Recent Frequent Items In Data Streams Kostas Patroumpas and Timos Sellis. Prioritized Evaluation of Continuous Moving Queries over Streaming Locations * SCIENTIFIC DATABASE APPLICATIONS ---------------------------------- Cornelia Hedeler and Norman W. Paton. A Comparative Evaluation of XML Difference Algorithms with Genomic Data Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jiangtian Li, Ting Yu and Nagiza F Samatova. Adaptive Request Scheduling for Parallel ScientificWeb Services Qinglan Li, Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos Chrysanthis. ViP: A User-Centric View-Based Annotation Framework for Scientific Data Paea LePendu, Dejing Dou, Gwen Frishkoff and Jiawei Rong. Ontology Database: a New Method for Semantic Modeling and an Application to Brainwave Data * ADVANCED INDEXING METHODS --------------------------- Panfeng Zhou and Betty Salzberg. The hB-pi* Tree: An Optimized Comprehensive Access Method for Frequent-update Multi-dimensional Point Data Kesheng Wu, Kurt Stockinger and Arie Shoshani. Breaking Curse of Cardinality on Bitmap Indexes Renato Bueno, Daniel dos Santos Kaster, Agma Traina and Caetano Traina. A new approach for optimization of dynamic Metric Access Methods using an algorithm of effective deletion Miguel R. Luaces, José R. Paramá, Oscar Pedreira and Diego Seco. An Ontology-based Index to Retrieve Documents with Geographic Information * DATA MINING ------------- Jin Soung Yoo and Shashi Shekhar. Mining Temporal Association Patterns under a Similarity Constraint Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kröger, Erich Schubert and Arthur Zimek. A General Framework for Increasing the Robustness PCA-based Correlation Clustering Algorithms Ken Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Donna Peuquet and Baihua Zheng. Searching Correlated Objects in a Long Sequence * ADVANCED QUERIES AND UNCERTAIN DATA ------------------------------------- Dimitris Sacharidis, Panagiotis Bouros and Timos Sellis. Caching Dynamic Skyline Queries Mehrdad Jahangiri and Cyrus Shahabi. Plot Query Processing with Wavelets Jinchuan Chen and Reynold Cheng. Quality-Aware Probing of Uncertain Data with Resource Constraints * SHORT PRESENTATIONS --------------------- Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya and Ambuj K. Singh. Efficient Computation of Statistical Significance of Query Results in Databases Muhammad Umer, Lars Kulik and Egemen Tanin. Kriging for Localized Spatial Interpolation in Sensor Networks Dhananjay Kulkarni and Chinya V. Ravishankar. iJoin: Importance-aware Join Approximation over Data Streams Tan Apaydin, Ali Saman Tosun and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu. Analysis of Basic Data Reordering Technique Yuan-Ko Huang, Shi-Jei Liao and Chiang Lee. Efficient Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Query Processing over Moving Objects with Uncertain Speed and Direction Matthias Renz, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Thomas Bernecker. ProUD: Probabilistic Ranking in Uncertain Databases Yuehhua Lee, Alex Thomo, Kui Wu and Valerie King. Scalable Ubiquitous Data Access in Clustered Sensor Networks * POSTERS AND DEMOS ------------------- Anne Ngu, Shawn Bowers, Nicholas Haasch, Timothy McPhilips and Terence Critchlow. Flexible Scientific Workflow Modeling Using Frames, Templates and Dynamic Embedding Lauro Lins, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, Steve Callahan, Carlos Scheidegger, Erik Anderson, Claudio Silva and Juliana Freire. Examining Statistics of Workflow Evolution Provenance: A First Study Elke Achtert, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Arthur Zimek. ELKI: A Software System for Evaluation of Subspace Clustering Algorithms Christopher J. Tuot, Michael Sintek and Andreas Dengel. IVIP - A Scientific Workflow System to Support Experts in Spatial Planning of Crop Production Keiichirou Ui, Toshiyuki Amagasa and Hiroyuki Kitagawa. A lightweight tool for integrating online meteorological data based on FUSE Christoph Brochhaus and Thomas Seidl. IndeGS^RI : Efficient View-dependent Ranking in CFD Post-processing Queries with RDBMS Carlos Rueda and Michael Gertz. Real-time Integration of Geospatial Raster and Point Data Streams Kelvin T. Leung, D. Stott Parker, Alex Cunha, Cornelius Hojatkashani, Ivo Dinov and Arthur W. Toga. IRMA: an Image Registration Meta-Algorithm (Evaluating Alternative Algorithms with Multiple Metrics)