Fourth International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management
(ECDM 2006)

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 fourth ECDM workshop (the first three ECDM workshops were held with ER'99 in Paris, France, with ER'02 in Tampere, Finland, and with ER'04 in Shanghai, China) 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 2006 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 2006 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 2006 workshops (12 pages in LNCS standard format). Submissions should be by electronic mail to the address ecdm2006@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 2006 Workshops

• Monday 10 April 2006 - Submission of papers
• Wednesday 14 June 2006 - Notification of acceptance for presentation
• Wednesday 12 July 2006 - Submission of camera-ready copy.

Accepted Papers

The list of accepted papers can be be found here. Successful authors must refer to the instructions listed on the Springer Web site or to the Authors Instructions given for the main ER 2006 Conference.

Final Progam

The ECDM 2006 Programme can be found here.

Important Links

• Springer LNCS Author Guidelines and Copyright Form
• More information on ER 2006 including accomodation and registration information
• ER 2006 Workshops
• ECDM 2002 Home Page
• ECDM 2004 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
• Shashi Gadia, Iowa 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
• Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Erik Proper, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
• Nandlal Sarda, IIT Bombay, India
• Myra Spiliopoulou, Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
• Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA, USA

General enquiries should be addressed to: ecdm2006@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 2006 Chair, on +39 051 209 3540.