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                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
             Topic 5:  Parallel and Distributed Databases, 
                       Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

                            EURO-PAR 2006 
                     August 29 - September 1, 2006 
           Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

                 Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
                   Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de
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                      TOPIC 5 - DESCRIPTION

Managing and efficiently analysing the vast amounts of data produced by a
huge variety of data sources is one of the big challenges in computer science.
The development and implementation of algorithms and applications that can
extract information diamonds from these ultra-large, and often distributed,
databases is a key challenge for the design of future data management infrastructures.
Today's data-intensive applications often suffer from performance problems and an
inability to scale to high numbers of distributed data sources. Therefore, 
distributed and parallel databases have a key part to play in overcoming 
resource bottlenecks, achieving guaranteed quality of service and providing 
system scalability.  The increased availability of distributed architectures, 
clusters, Grids and P2P systems, supported by high performance networks and 
intelligent middleware provides parallel and distributed databases and digital 
repositories with a great opportunity to cost-effectively support key everyday 
applications. Further, there is the prospect of data mining and knowledge 
discovery tools adding value to these vast new data resources by automatically
extracting useful information from them.
We especially solicit submissions for either the Experience and Application
Section, or the traditional System and Research Section. 

Focus
- Experience and Application Section
   1. data mining, knowledge discovery
   2. multimedia applications
   3. data warehousing and decision support
   4. discovering structures in web data, web data mining
   5. mobile computing and databases
   6. web applications
   7. information retrieval and web search engines
   8. data-intensive grid
   9. case studies

- System and Research Section
   1.   query optimization and query processing
   2.   parallel algorithms for data mining
   3.   communication requirements for parallel data mining
   4.   data representation and storage for fast access
   5.   middleware and architectural issues
   6.   transaction processing
   7.   distributed knowledge discovery


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                             KEY DATES

                  December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
                  January  31, 2006: Full papers due
                  May       3, 2006: Notification of acceptance
                  May      30, 2006: Camera-ready papers 
                                     and author registration due

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                         SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS
style) to this topic, by using the online submission site:

         http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1

Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
(When submitting, please indicate this topic.)

All accepted full papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series.

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                     TOPIC 5 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Dr. Patrick Valduriez
INRIA and LINA
Nantes, France
Patrick.Valduriez@inria.fr

Local Chair
Prof. Dr-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner
TU Dresden
Dept. Of Computer Science
Dresden, Germany
lehner@inf.tu-dresden.de

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Domenico Talia
DEIS, University of Calabria
Rende CS, Italy
talia@deis.unical.it

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Paul Watson
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
School of Computing Science
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
paul.watson@newcastle.ac.uk

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                    MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts
more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres
and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics
(http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories
of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also
include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops.
Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands
on experiences.

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