Important Dates

Conference Overview

The British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) was established in 1980 as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases and, since then, BNCOD has attracted an international audience to discuss the leading research topics of the day in the field.

The theme of BNCOD 2009, the 26th in the series, is "Dataspace: The Final Frontier". Dataspace is a term recently coined to denote the expansion of the database topic into the broader area of managing large numbers of diverse but interrelated data sources of many varying forms. Dataspace support or management systems provide co-ordinated access to these disparate data sources, so that they can co-exist comfortably and can be queried, updated and managed in a convenient manner, even when tight integration may be very difficult or impossible due to issues of autonomy or heterogeneity. Examples of such data sources include relational databases, XML documents and repositories, text files, web services, spreadsheets and email collections.

Papers and Submission

BNCOD 2009 Programme Committee invites submissions of substantial, original and previously unpublished research in all fields of databases and related areas for the Technical Programme of the conference. Full papers (12 pages), short papers (8 pages) and poster papers (4 pages) can be submitted.

We further invite submission of proposals for Workshops, for Demonstrations of research and commercial systems and for a pre-conference PhD Forum for PhD students.

As reviewing for BNCOD 2009 will be blind, all papers for submissions to the main conference should be anonymised.

All papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as in previous years, by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Outstanding papers will, at the discretion of the programme committee, be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in a special BNCOD section of The Computer Journal.

Papers should be submitted electronically by following the instructions at http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/bncod09

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Dataspaces
• Data integration and interoperability
• Data management for ubiquitous and mobile computing
• Data mining and information extraction
• Data modelling and architectures
• Data provenance
• Data security, privacy and trust
• Data streaming
• Databases and the grid
• Distributed information systems
• Electronic commerce
• Enterprise systems
• Heterogeneous databases
• Industrial applications
• Infrastructures and systems
• Intermittently connected data
• File Access Methods and Index Structures
• Managing legacy data
• New applications and processes
• Parallel and distributed databases
• Peer-to-peer data management
• Performance modelling of ubiquitous data use
• Personal Data Management
• Query and manipulation languages
• Query processing and optimisation
• Scientific applications
• Semantic web and ontologies
• Semi-structured data, metadata and XML
• User interfaces and data visualisation
• Web data management and deep web
• Web services
• Workflow support systems