Due to clashes with major database conference deadlines, the submission
deadline for the Cloud Data Management Special Issue is extended to
March 15, 2010.  Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

regards
beng chin

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           **Call for Papers: Cloud Data Management**

Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering



Cloud computing is a big step towards realizing McCarthy’s 
dream that all aspects of computation be organized as a 
public utility service.  It embraces concepts such as software 
as a service and platform as a service, including services for 
workflow facilities, application design and development, 
deployment and hosting services, data integration, and 
management of software. The cloud platform only increases 
in importance as our industry makes the phase change from 
in-house data management to cloud-hosted data management to 
improve efficiency and focus on core businesses. However, 
like any new technology, there are formidable problems, 
from performance issues to security and privacy, from metadata 
management to high availability. These issues make great 
research areas– importance and challenge. Providing solutions 
will help extend the dream of “information at your fingertips” 
to “available wherever you happen to be”.  This special issue of 
TKDE on “cloud data management” calls for original articles that 
propose solutions for this exciting new computing paradigm.

TOPICS
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Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted 
by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including 
(but not limited to) the following:

* Cloud infrastructure for data management; 
* Cloud infrastructure for multi-tenancy databases;
* Performance issues and benchmarking;
* Query processing and optimization;
* Indexing;
* Massively parallel execution;
* Security and privacy;
* Transaction management and recovery;
* Services and discovery 
* Cross-platform interoperability; 
* Data-intensive computing and  application

Submission Guidelines
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Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the 
Information for Authors as published in recent issues of the 
journal or at http://www.computer.org/tkde/.  Mandatory over-length 
page charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted through 
the online IEEE manuscript submission system at 
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. 

Tentative Schedule
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Deadline for paper submission: 
 
March 15, 2010

Completion of first review:
 
June 15, 2010

Minor/Major revision due:

 
August 30, 2010

Final decision notification: 
 
October 15, 2010

Publication materials due: 
 
November 5, 2010

Publication date (tentative): 
 
April, 2011


Guest Editor
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David Lomet
Microsoft Research
Redmond, Washington
lomet AT microsoft.com