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Subject:(SEWORLD) CFP: DBTest 2009 (co-located with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009)
From:"Binnig Carsten" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:45:57 -0700 (MST)
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

Second ACM International Workshop on
Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2009)

Jun 29th, 2009
Providence, Rhode Island USA

(collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009)

http://dbtest2009.ethz.ch/


Motivation and Scope

The functionality provided by modern database management systems
(DBMS), data storage services, and database applications is
continuously expanding. New trends in hardware architectures, new data
storage requirements, and new usage patterns drive the need for
continuous innovation and expansion. As a result, these system/
applications are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to
validate. As a consequence, testing and tuning these
system/applications is becoming increasingly expensive and are often
dominating the release cycle. It is not unusual that fifty percent of
the development cost is spent on testing and tuning and that several
months are reserved for testing before a new release can be shipped.
Without revolutionary new ideas, the situation is getting even worse
in the future.  The first workshop on testing database systems
(collocated with SIGMOD 2008) has shown that there is a huge interest
of the industry to discuss problems in the area of testing database
systems together with the academic community. Moreover, testing has
recently gained more attention in the database community with an
increasing number of conference submissions as well as a special issue
of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin in this area. The main purpose
of this workshop is to continue the discussion between industry and
academia in order to come up with a research agenda that describes
important open problems in the area of testing database
systems/applications. The long term goal is to devise new techniques
which solve these problems in order to reduce the cost and time to
test and tune database products so that users and vendors can spend
more time and energy on actual innovations. Obviously, the software
engineering community has already worked intensively on testing
related problems. However, testing DBMS/database applications imposes
particular challenges and opportunities which have not been addressed
in either the database or software engineering community.  The
participants of this workshop will be from both industry and
academia. All papers will be selected from submissions by the program
committee after peer reviewing. In addition to novel techniques, the
workshop will present war stories as well as vision papers in order to
define and better understand the problem space.


Topics of Interest

* Testing techniques for DBMS, data storage services, database  
applications
* Generation of synthetic data for test databases
* Generation of stochastic test models for large test matrices
* Techniques and algorithms for automatic program verification
* Maximizing code coverage of database systems/applications
* Testing correctness of database systems/applications
* Test-modelling of database systems/applications
* Testing and designing systems that are robust to estimation  
inaccuracies
* Testing the efficiency of adaptive policies and components
* Minimizing, automating and ranking of engine tuning parameters
* Identifying performance bottlenecks
* Workload characterization with respect to performance metrics
* Workload characterization with respect to engine components
* Metrics for predictability of query and workload performance
* Metrics for query plan robustness
* Security and vulnerability testing
* War Stories and vision papers


Paper Submission

DBTest 2009 invites the submission of original contributions in the
area of testing and tuning database management systems (DBMS), data
storage services, and database applications. As mentioned above,
DBTest is also interested in war stories, practitioner's reports, and
vision papers on techniques and issues in testing and tuning those
systems. Papers should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines
and SIGMOD proceedings template available at:
http://www.sigmod09.org/sigmod_formatting.shtml

Papers should not be longer than six pages and should be submitted in  
PDF by E-Mail to:
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Important Dates

Paper Submission: April 3, 2009 (Friday, 5PM PST)
Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2009 (Friday)
Camera-ready: May 22, 2009 (Friday)
Workshop: June 29, 2009 (Monday)


Workshop Chairs

Carsten Binnig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ([log in to unmask])
Benoit Dageville, Oracle Corporation, USA ([log in to unmask])


Steering Comittee

Leo Giakoumakis, Microsoft Corporation, USA ([log in to unmask])
Donald Kossmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ([log in to unmask])


Program Committee

Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft Research, USA
Mitch Cherniack Brandeis University, USA
Enzo Cialini IBM DB2, Canada
Leo Giakoumakis Microsoft SQL Server, USA
Jayant Haritsa Indian Institute of Science, India
Donald Kossmann ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Eric Lo HK Polytec University, Hong Kong
Andreas Leitner ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Chaitanya Mishra University of Toronto, Canada
Patrick O'Neil University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Glen Paulley Sybase iAnywhere, Canada
Ravi Sahani Oracle, USA
Eric Simon SAP BO, France
Avik Sinha IBM Research, USA
Ed Triou Microsoft SQL Server, USA
Florian Waas Greenplum, USA
Khaled Yagoub Oracle, USA

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