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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** Call for Participation ***<br><br></b>21st European Conference on Advances in Databases<br>and Information Systems<br><br>ADBIS 2017<br><br>Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus<br><br>24 - 27 September, 2017<br><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkxMjAJTGlzdHMJMTc2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2F">http://cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/</a><br><br>*** Early Registration Deadline: 13 August 2017 ***<br><br>(collocated with the 9th International Conference on Computational<br>Collective Inteligence, <a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkxMjAJTGlzdHMJMTc2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F%29">http://cyprusconferences.org/iccci2017/)</a><br><b><br></b></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'>The main objective of the ADBIS series of conferences is to provide a forum<br>for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote<br>interaction and collaboration between the database and information system<br>research communities from European countries and the rest of the world.<br>The ADBIS conferences provide an international platform for the presentation<br>of research on database theory, development of advanced DBMS<br>technologies, and their advanced applications.<b><br></b><br>The 21st edition of the conference will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus. Nicosia (or<br>Leukosia) is the largest city on the island of Cyprus. It is the capital and seat<br>of the government of the Republic of Cyprus, and as such is the farthest<br>south-east of all EU member states' capitals. Apart from its legislative and<br>administrative functions, Nicosia has established itself as the island's<br>financial capital and its main international business centre. It is also a centre<br>of culture in Cyprus. The Cyprus Museum in Nicosia is the largest and oldest<br>archaeological museum in Cyprus. In the beautiful old city of Nicosia, the<br>Ethnological Museum is the most important example of urban architecture of<br>the last century of Ottoman domination which survives in old Nicosia.<br><br>The conference venue is the well known 5* hotel, Hilton Cyprus Hotel. Hilton<br>Cyprus is the only five-star hotel in Nicosia and counts 40 years of operation.<br>Just 35 minutes from Larnaca International Airport, 1 hour and 36 minutes<br>from Paphos International Airport and only 10 minutes walking distance from<br>the city centre, shopping and entertainment areas; conveniently located next<br>to the business district. The hotel's guest facilities and services include a<br>Business Centre, hairdresser & barber, bookshop, bank, taxi and car-hire<br>services and free car-parking facilities.<br><br>The program of ADBIS 2017 includes keynotes, research papers, thematic<br>workshops, and a Doctoral Consortium. The conference attracted 107 paper<br>submissions from 38 countries from many continents. After rigorous<br>reviewing by the Program Committee, the 26 papers included in the LNCS<br>proceedings volume were accepted as full contributions, making an<br>acceptance rate of 24%. Springer sponsored the ADBIS 2017 best paper<br>award. Furthermore, the Program Committee selected 12 more papers as<br>short contributions. <br><br>Besides the main conference event, ADBIS 2017 features four workshops<br>(BigNovelTI, AMSD, SW4CH and DaS) and a Doctoral Consortium as Satellite<br>Events. The four workshops have accepted 25 papers and the DC has<br>accepted 3 papers.<br><br>Short papers, workshop papers, and a paper on Contributions from the ADBIS <br>2017 workshops are published in a companion volume entitled "New Trends<br>in Databases and Information Systems" in the Springer series <br>"Communications in Computer and Information Science". The selected papers<br>span a wide spectrum of topics in databases and related technologies,<br>tackling challenging problems and presenting inventive and efficient<br>solutions.<br><br>In ADBIS 2017, the papers are organized according to nine sessions: <br>· Conceptual modeling and human factors<br>· Subsequence matching and streaming data<br>· OLAP<br>· Graph databases<br>· Spatial data management<br>· Parallel and distributed data processing<br>· Query optimiza-tion, recovery, and databases on modern hardware<br>· Semantic data processing<br>· Additional database and information systems topics<br><br>ADBIS 2017 has two keynote talks: <br><br>· Model-based Big Data As a Service<br> Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research,<br> United Arab Emirates<br><br>· Indoor Navigation Services from Mobile Data<br> Demetris Zeinalipour, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br> <br><b>COMMITTEES<br><br></b><u>Steering Committee Chair<br></u>· Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Science, Russia<br><br><u>General Chair<br></u>· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>Program Chairs<br></u>· Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia<br>· Kjetil Norvag, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway<br><br><u>Workshops Chairs<br></u>· Johann Gamper, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy<br>· Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<br><br><u>Proceedings Chair<br></u>· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br><br><u>Doctoral Consortium Chairs<br></u>· Jerome Darmont, Universite Lyon 2, France<br>· Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy<br><br><u>Steering and Program Committees</u><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEV1cm9wZWFuIENvbmZlcmVuY2Ugb24gQWR2YW5jZXMgaW4gRGF0YWJhc2VzIGFuZCBJbmZvcm1hdGlvbiBTeXN0ZW1zIChBREJJUyAyMDE3KTogQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFydGljaXBhdGlvbgkxMjAJTGlzdHMJMTc2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Fadbis2017%2Fcommittees.html">http://cyprusconferences.org/adbis2017/committees.html</a><br></font>
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