Conference on Data Management

GOA: The 11th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2005) will be held in Goa from January 6 — January 8, 2005. COMAD 2005 will focus on new developments in the principles and practices related to data management. The conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, developers and users to present and discuss emerging trends, concepts, techniques, technologies and experiences in data management.

For over a decade, the COMAD International Conference on Management of Data, modeled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been the premier database conference hosted in India. It was held on a close-to-annual basis until December 2000, after which various national and international database events, including ICDE in March 2003, have been hosted in India. The organization of COMAD 2005 is an attempt to revive the COMAD series.

Number of original research papers on the theory, specification, design, and implementation of data and information management systems will be presented in the three-day conference. Various case studies and experiences in the design and implementation of such systems and industrial papers, as well as proposals for tutorials and panels will be the part of the agenda.

To ensure wide visibility of material published at the conference, organizers are planning to make arrangements with ACM SIGMOD for including the proceedings of the conference in the SIGMOD on-line and CD-ROM archives. Two awards, for Best Paper and Best Student Paper, will be presented at the conference.