2nd International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC 2007)
                            http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/assourav/XANTEC/2007/main.html

                                        in conjunction with

          The 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007)
                                Sept 3 - 7, 2007
                                 Regensburg, Germany



BACKGROUND:


XML has gain lot of attention from database researchers who are actively working in one or
more of the emerging XML areas. XML data are self-describing, and provide a platform
independent means to describe data and therefore, can transport data from one platform  to
another. XML documents can be mapped to one more of the existing data models such as  
relational and object-relational, and XML views can be produced dynamically from the
pre-existing data models. XML queries can be mapped to the queries of the underlying  
models and can use their optimization features. In this context, schema management and
discovery, query optimization, data integration and indexing plays important roles. XML  
data integration is useful for E-commerce applications such as comparison-shopping,  
which requires further study in the domain of data, schema and query based integration.  
XML change management is another important area that has attracted attention in the context
of web warehouse. XML has been  in use in upcoming areas such web services, sensor and
biological data management.

We are pleased to invite original contributions in this area for the 2nd International
Workshop on XML Data Management Tools & Techniques to be held in Regensburg, Germany. One of
the key objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in this area who can
share their views under this workshop. We solicits papers with important new insights and
experiences of developing tools and techniques for managing XML data. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to


*Tools/Techniques for XML schema discovery
*Tools/Techniques for XML schema validation and constraints
*Tools/Techniques for XML data integration
*Tools/Techniques for XML data storage and indexing
*Tools/Techniques for realizing XML query languages and optimization
*Tools/Techniques for XML views and data publishing
*Tools/Techniques for XML applications in semantic web
*Tools/Techniques for XML data mining
*Tools/Techniques for XML change management
*Tools/Techniques for XML views and data mappings
*Tools/Techniques for XML data security
*Tools/Techniques for XML data privacy
*Tools/Techniques for XML data compression
*Tools/Techniques for XML in Web services
*Tools/Techniques for XML benchmark and performance studies
*Tools/Techniques for XML applications  in new domains- sensor and biological data management



IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper Submission Deadline: 4th April, 2007
Notification: 30th April, 2007
Camera-ready Copy Due: 12th May, 2007
Workshop Date: 3rd-7th Sept, 2007


PAPER SUBMISSION:

The full paper submission is limited to 5 pages in length (IEEE ICDE Format). Simultaneous
submission to another conference/workshop/journal is not allowed. Papers must be original
and have not been published or under consideration for publications elsewhere. Papers will
be reviewed by at least 3 program committee members for their technical merit, originality,
significance, and relevance to the workshop. Please send abstract (no more than 250 words
in ASCII text) of the paper via email. Authors should send papers/abstracts to
assourav@ntu.edu.sg including title of the paper, authors?names and 3-4 relevant keywords.



WORKSHOP ORGANIZER:

Sourav S Bhowmick; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; assourav@ntu.edu.sg  
  

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

*Amagasa Toshiyuki        University of Tsukuba,Japan
*Bressan Stephane         National University of Singapore, Singapore
*Chen Ling                L3S, University of Hanover, Germany
*Choi Byron                 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
*Chung Chin-Wan         KAIST, South Korea
*Claypool Kajal         University of Massachusetts-Lowell USA
*Dyreson Curtis                Washington State University, USA
*Grandi Fabio                University of Bologna, Italy
*Groppe Sven                University of Innsbruck, Austria
*Gruenwald Le                 University of Oklahoma, USA
*Iwaihara Mizuho         Kyoto University, Japan
*Lee Mong Li                 National University of Singapore, Singapore
*Madria Sanjay                 University of Missouri-Rolla, USA
*Mani Murali                 WPI, USA
*Ng Wee Keong                 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
*Ng Wilfred                 Hongkong University of Science and Technology, China
*Psaila Giuseppe         Universita' di Bergamo, Italy
*Tan Kian-Lee                 National University of Singapore, Singapore
*Taniar David                 Monash University, Australia
*Wang Wei                 University of New South Wales, Australia
*Wong Raymond                 University of New South Wales, Australia
*Yu Jeffrey                 Chinese University of Kong Kong, China
*Zhao Qiankun                 Pennsylvania State University, USA
*Zhou Xiaofang                University of Queensland, Australia