Third International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management
(ECDM 2004)

Change is a fundamental but sometimes neglected aspect of information and database systems. The management of evolution and change and the ability for database, information and knowledge-based systems to deal with change is an essential component in developing and maintaining truly useful systems. Many approaches to handling evolution and change have been proposed in various areas of data management and this forum seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from both more established areas and those from emerging areas to look at this issue. The third ECDM workshop (the first two ECDM workshops were held with ER'99 in Paris, France, and with ER'02 in Tampere, Finland) will deal with the manner in which change can be handled, and the semantics of evolving data and data structure in computer based systems.

• Semantics of Change in Time and Space
• Modelling and Management of Time-Varying Data, Temporal Databases
• Handling Changes and Versioning of Semi-structured Data
• Handling Changes of Metadata, Schema Evolution and Versioning
• Change Detection, Monitoring and Mining
• Evolution and Change in Internet-based Information Systems
• Evolution and Change in e-services and e-world Systems
• Induction of Cause and Effect, Logics for Evolution
• Maintenance of Views, Summaries, Dictionaries and Warehouses
• Managing Evolution of Sources in Information Integration
• Evolution and Versioning of Ontologies
• Time and Change in Semantic Web

Publication of Proceedings

Proceedings of all ER 2004 workshops will be published as part of the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS), as a single volume separate from the ER Conference proceedings. ECDM 2004 Proceedings will be available for all workshop participants. Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in parallel with the printed version, so the electronic source of accepted papers will be required (LaTeX 2e format is preferred).

Format and Submission of Papers

Format of submissions will as for the other ER 2004 workshops (12 pages in LNCS standard format). Submissions should be by electronic mail to the address ecdm2004@deis.unibo.it in PostScript or PDF format by the due date. All correspondence with authors will be via e-mail so please ensure that your submission includes an e-mail address for the corresponding author. Paper format should follow Springer guidelines.

Key Dates for all ER 2004 Workshops

• Monday 7 June 2004 - Submission of papers [The ECDM 2004 deadline has been extended due to many requests]
• Monday 19 July 2004 - Notification of acceptance for presentation
• Sunday 15 August 2004 - Submission of camera-ready copy.

Accepted Papers

The list of accepted papers can be be found here. Successful authors should refer to the instructions listed on the Springer Web site or to the Authors Instructions given for the main ER2004 Conference.

Final Progam

The ECDM 2004 Programme can be found here.

Important Links

• Springer Author Guidelines and Copyright Form
• More information on ER 2004 including accomodation and registration information
• ECDM 2002 Home Page

Workshop Chair

Fabio Grandi, University of Bologna, Italy, Email: fgrandi@deis.unibo.it

Program Committee

• Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
• Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
• Mike Boehlen, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
• Carlo Combi, University of Verona, Italy
• Curtis Dyreson, Washington State University, USA
• Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, USA
• Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England, UK
• Federica Mandreoli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Erik Proper, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Chris Rainsford, DSTO, Australia
• Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA
• John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
• Nandlal Sarda, IIT Bombay, India
• Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
• Tetsuo Tamai, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK
• Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA

General enquiries should be addressed to: ecdm2004@deis.unibo.it.
This address can also be used to request a hard copy of the Call for Papers.
Alternatively fax your name and address to Fabio Grandi, ECDM 2004 Chair, on +39 051 209 3540.