SIGMOD Call for Demo Proposals

The SIGMOD Demonstrations program is an exciting and highly interactive way to demonstrate your database systems research. Because of its continued success, the demo program has become increasingly competitive and well respected. Proposals of innovative database system research are solicited. We encourage submissions that describe how the demonstration system illustrates research contributions.

The deadline for demo proposals submission is Saturday November 19 2006, 9 PM Pacific Time. Papers must be submitted electronically through the submission site.

Only demo proposals submitted through the official submission site prior to November 19 at 9 PM 2006 will be considered for SIGMOD 2007.

The submission site for demo proposals is: https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/Sigmod2007demo/.

Content, Length, and Formatting

Demonstration proposals should provide enough information about the technology and the system to be demonstrated (including a system description, functionality and figures when applicable). Submissions to the demonstrations track of SIGMOD 2007 are not subject to double blind reviewing. The author(s) name and affiliation(s) should be present in the submitted document.

Length:All submitted proposals must be formatted according to the instructions below, and must be no more than three (3) US letter pages.

This page limit includes all parts of the proposal: title, abstract, body, and bibliography.

File type: Papers are to be submitted as a single PDF file, formatted for 8.5" x 11" paper. It is essential that submitted papers print without difficulty on a variety of printers, using Adobe Acrobat Reader. It is the absolute responsibility of the authors to ensure that their submitted PDF file will print easily on simple default configurations.

Formatting: Papers must use the ACM proceedings format, using one of the templates listed at the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates web site. Templates are available in Word, WordPerfect, and LaTeX (versions 2.09 and 2e). For the LaTeX formats, you may use either the standard style or the SIG-alternate style. Note: Although the ACM templates include headings for "Categories and Subject Descriptors," "General Terms," and "Keywords," these are not used by SIGMOD and can be omitted from your submitted demo proposal. Any submitted demo proposal violating the length, file type, or formatting requirements will be rejected without review.

Accepted demo proposals (three-pages in length) will appear in the final proceedings and are due by March 20, 2007.

Notification of Acceptance

The notification for acceptance for demostration paper is February 19, 2007.

Demonstrations Program Committee

    Chair:

        Nick Koudas, University of Toronto, Canada

    Committee members:

• Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo
• Shivnath Babu, Duke University
• Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland
• Venky Ganti, Microsoft Research
• Panagiotis Ipeirotis, NYU
• Amelie Marian, Rutgers University
• Volker Markl, IBM Almaden
• Yanfeng Shu, University of Queensland
• Yannis Velegrakis, AT&T Research
• Ting Yu,North Carolina State University