SIGMOD Call for Workshops

The 2007 SIGMOD/PODS Conference will be held in Beijing, China, from June 11 to 14. As usual, we expect to have several workshops collocated with SIGMOD/PODS, either sponsored or co-sponsored by SIGMOD, or held in cooperation with SIGMOD. The deadline for receipt of proposals for workshops is December 15.

A few hints for workshop organizers are attached below. In addition, note that, if a sufficiently large number of papers are accepted for SIGMOD 2007, then the SIGMOD conference will last for three full days. In this case, all workshops will take place on June 10 and June 15. In other words, workshops that take place after SIGMOD will be at most one day in length, rather than 1.5 days as in some earlier years. Proposals for half-day or 3/4-day workshops are also welcome.

Yannis Ioannidis yannis@di.uoa.gr
SIGMOD Vice-chair

Proposals must be submitted by email to yannis@di.uoa.gr and must contain the information described at http://www.acm.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/sponsorship.html (for sponsored or co-sponsored workshops) or at http://www.acm.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/incoop.html (for workshops held in cooperation with SIGMOD). Having a website for the workshop already prepared at submission time would be very desirable.

Note that one required item is the written agreement of the workshop proceedings copyright holder (e.g., ACM Press, Kluwer,Springer-Verlag) to allow the workshop proceedings to appear on the SIGMOD DISC. Depending on the publisher involved, it may require considerable lead time to obtain this permission.

Another item required by ACM for in-cooperation conferences is proof of liability insurance, which can also require considerable lead time to obtain.

Our current expectation is that there will be room for two parallel workshop sessions all day on June 10 (the day before PODS begins) and for four parallel workshop sessions after SIGMOD ends. Workshop proposals should indicate whether the organizers would prefer a slot before or after the main conference; clearly, it may not be possible to accommodate all date preferences.