INTRODUCTION

DASFAA is an annual premium international database conference, located in the Asia-Pacific region, which showcases state-of-the-art R&D activities in database systems and their advanced applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry.

Demonstration proposals should be focused on new technology, advances in applying databases, or new techniques. The proposal should give a short description of the demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, indicate how the demonstration illustrates new ideas, and state the significance of the contribution to database technology, applications, or techniques. The proposal should also include a brief technical overview of the system and should include references to relevant prior literature.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

The selection criteria for the demonstration proposals evaluation include: the novelty, the technical advances and challenges, and the overall practical attractiveness of the demonstrated system.

IMPORTANT DATE

Demo Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2008

Notification date: November 24, 2008

Camera-ready paper due: December 19, 2008

DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIRS

Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia weiw AT cse.unsw.edu.au

Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia marek.kowalkiewicz AT sap.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)

Alfredo Cuzzocrea (University of Calabria, Italy)

Pavel Dmitriev (Yahoo! Inc., USA)

Bingsheng He (MSRA, China)

Adam Jatowt (Kyoto University, Japan)

Tomasz Kaczmarek (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)

Panos Kalnis (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia)

Quanzhong Li (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

York Sure (SAP Research, Germany)

Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Qing Zhang (CSIRO, Australia)