Workgroup Meeting, March 4th, 2009 - Cancun, Mexico
17:30 - 19:00

Attendance: 14

Special:

  • Everyone was impressed by the quick move from Guadeloupe to Cancun
  • The story was analyzed as ‘lessons learned’

Abbreviation and topics change:

  • The original Call for Submissions was on “Advances in Data Bases”
  • However, very goods papers came from knowledge, data, and database applications
  • For continuity, the Board decided to tune the name and the abbreviation form the very first event.
  • This decision was fully endorsed and appreciated.

Agenda:

  • No particular presentations were scheduled.
  • However, three tutorials

1. Cyber-Security: Current Practice and Future Trends
2. Mobility and Multi-access in Emerging Internet Architectures
3. Protecting Critical Telecommunications and Networking Infrastructure

were presented at GlobeNet 2009, along with two keynote speakers:

1. Goals and Policies for Telephony
2. Data Management for the Web: XML Standardization and Database Technology

See:  http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/DB09.html

  • The tutorials are posted at http://www.iaria.org/tutorials.html
  • The keynote speeches are posted at http://www.iaria.org/speeches.html
  • Excellent discussions around these special talks.
  • There were discussions on enlarging the dissemination of DBKDA and adding new topics related to:-self-managing DBs, query optimization, XML&DB, Business Intelligence (knowledge discovery), data access technologies, Geo/special DB applications, DB Applications for Life Sciences, Mobile DBs, etc.
  • Help is expected from all the committee members for a careful dissemination of the Call for Papers, avoiding spamming
  • The promotion of young researchers was appreciated (Sunanda Patro, Farid Bourennani);.
  • More work for preparing DBKDA 2010 will be done offline, with volunteers (Fritz Laux, Lena Strömbäck, Fabio Gullo, Gilles Mathieu, Chris Ireland, Aristotelis Giannakos)

An open call to suggest regular refresh to the topics for BDKDA was launched

Suggestions:

  • Continue with ‘Poster’ and ‘Work in Progress’ tracks
  • Definitively, the technical program committee must be tuned to reflect new topics and assure a fair peer-to-peer review process.  

Publications:

  • The option to publish in an open digital library was discussed; this will allow having all the proceedings of the co-located events on the same CD Proceedings, and full free access to any publication.
  • This issue will be carried further on to the IARIA Board to careful attention.
  • It was suggested that some national research Centers encourage scientist to rather publish in openly searchable digital libraries.

Next steps:

  • Develop the new topics via off-line exchanges
  • Extend invitations for DBKDA committee membership
  • Attract scientists in the committee to cover the newly intended areas

New:

  • The first photo with most of the WG meeting attendees was posted on the conference site

DBKDA 2010:

  • Announce the new topics with the CfP for DBKDA 2010
  • No new topics were added to DBKDA 2009 vis-à-vis DBKDA 2008; the plan is to update it accordingly for DBKDA 2010
  • Location: yet to be defined, most probably in French Alps, Barcelona, or…Guadeloupe
  • DBKDA 2010 will be organized under GlobeNet 2010, most probably in March-April 2010
   

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