Call for Papers

1. SAC 2005

In the last 19 years, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied comptuer scientists, computer engineering, and other computer-related professionals to gather, interact, present, and disseminate their research and development work. ACM SAC has been sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), whose mission is to further the interests of the computing professionals engaged in the development of new computing techniques and applications areas and the transfer of computing technology to new problem domains.

SAC 2005 will be hosted by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, on March 13-17, 2005. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM and will also be available online through ACM's Digital Library. For additional information, please visit the official ACM SAC 2005 website.

2. Special Track on Database Theory, Technology, and Applications (DTTA)

For many years, the Database Theory, Technology, and Applications track has been one of the important parts of the ACM SAC conference. To support ACM SAC, a special track on Database Theory, Technology and Applications will be held again in SAC 2005. The DTTA track will be a forum for database scholars, research scientist, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to share their theoretical results, technical ideas, and exploratory experiences relating to implementation and applications. You are cordially invited to submit technical papers to the DTTA track of SAC 2005, and major topics of interest for the track include, but are not limited to the following:

• Active, Deductive, and Logic Databases
• Audio/Video Database Systems
• Cache and Buffer Management
• Cooperative Database Systems and Workflow Management
• Database Indexing and Tuning
• Data Privacy and Security
• Data Warehousing, Data Cubes, and Aggregate Processing
• Digital Library
• Disk Arrays and Tertiary Storage Systems for Very Large Databases
• Distributed, Parallel and Heterogeneous Databases and Their Query Processing
• Histogram and Sampling Techniques for Database Query Processing
• Hypertext/Hypermedia/Multimaedia Database and Information Systems
• Image, Pictorial and Visual Databases
• Internet and Web-Based Database Systems
• Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Databases
• Mobile Data Management and Mobile Database Systems
• Multi-Database Systems/Federated Database Systems/Trusted Database Systems
• Multidimensional Data Models/Indices/Database Systems
• Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Database Systems
• Probabilistic/Fuzzy Databases and Similarity/Approximate Query Processing
• Real-Time and High Performance Database Systems
• Scientific, Biological and Bioinformatics Data Management and Data Mining
• Semantic Modeling and management of Web-Based Databases
• Semantic Web and Ontology
• Semi-Structural Data Management, Meta Data, and XML
• Spatial and Temporal Databases
• Statistical and Historical Databases
• Transaction Management and Secure Transaction Processing

3. Track Chairs and Contact Information

Dr. Ramzi Haraty
Division of Computer Science and Mathematics
Lebanese American University
P.O. Box 13-5053
Chouran Beirut: 1102 2801
Lebanon

Phone: +961 1 867620 Ext. 1285
Fax: +961 1 867098
E-mail: rharaty@lau.edu.lb
http://ramzi-haraty.lau.edu.lb

Dr. Apostolos N. Papadopoulos
Department of Informatics
Aristotle University
Thessaloniki, 54124
Greece

Phone: +30 (2310) 991918
Fax: +30 (2310) 991913
E-mail: apostol@delab.csd.auth.gr
http://delab.csd.auth.gr/~apostol

Dr. Junping Sun
Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, USA

Phone: +1 (954) 262-2028
Fax: +1 (954) 262-3915
E-mail: jps@nsu.nova.edu
http://scis.nova.edu/~jps/

4. Guidelines for Paper Submission

Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains.

Each submitted paper will be fully referenced and undergo a double-blind review process by at least three referees for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via e-mail. All papers must be submitted electronically in the format of Adobe PDF and Postscript (preferably) or Microsoft Word. Please, upload your papers electronically to the website: http://delab.csd.auth.gr/reviews/sac2005/.

Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the paper body. Any self-reference should be in the third person. Each paper must not exceed 4,000 words (approx. 15-20 pages, double-spaced). The program committee may reject papers that exceed this length on the grounds of length alone. In addition, for each submitted paper, a separated cover page (preferably in Microsoft Word or plain ASCII) should be sent to the e-mail address: sac2005@delab.csd.auth.gr including the paper title, abstract, list of keywords, and list of authors with full names and postal address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. One of the authors must designated as the primary contact point to receive the notification at the time of the paper submission. At least one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. The accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2005 proceedings. A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended two-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings.

5. Program Committee:

• Faisal Abukhzam, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
• Panayiotis Bozanis, University of Thessaly, Greece
• Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, France
• Thomas Connolly, University of Paisley, UK
• Narayan Debnath, Winona State University, USA
• Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University, USA
• William Grosky, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
• Hatem Halawi, City University of New York, USA
• Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA
• Ahmed, Kamel, North Dakota State University, USA
• Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• Enrico Nardelli, Universitá di Roma–Tor Vergata, Italy
• Brajendra Panda, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
• William Perrizo, North Dakota State University, USA
• Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic
• Sung Shin, South Dakota State University, USA
• Abbas Tarhini, Université de Reims, France
• Yannis Theodoridis, University of Pireaus, Greece
• Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Michael Vassilakopoulos, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Kokou Yetongnon, University of Bourgogne, France

6. Important Dates:

• Electronic submission of full papers: September 3, 2004
• Notification of paper acceptance: October 15, 2004
• Camera-ready copy of accepted paper due: November 15, 2004

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