From: Joerg Micheel (joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 02:09:18 PST
Workshop on Network-Related Data Management
In conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2001
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Friday, May 25, 2001
http://www.research.att.com/conf/nrdm2001/
OBJECTIVES
A significant amount of data is being steadily captured at various
levels on the Internet. This includes both trace data (at packet
level, flow level, and application level) and configuration data
(such as forwarding tables and BGP policies). These collections of
data are being used increasingly to discern the topology of the
Internet, to understand routing, and to characterize Internet
traffic patterns.
Much of this data is currently stored in file systems, with no
formal structure to the collection. Queries across the collection
are ad hoc (for example, Perl scripts), and there is little reuse.
The lack of uniformity in the nature of data analysis makes it
difficult to share results.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers and
practitioners in the database and the networking communities. The
database community can play a significant role in helping the
networking community to manage and process network-related data in a
principled way, using database technology like data warehousing, OLAP
tools and data mining. The networking community can focus attention
of the database community to the problems of managing and analyzing
highly distributed data (due to the inherently distributed nature of
data capture), and high volume streaming data. This exchange of
ideas is crucial to advancing the state of the art in managing
network-related data.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Internet traffic data and logs
+ Router configuration and flow data
+ Cleaning and canonicalizing data
+ Handling inconsistencies when correlating data sets
+ Distributed data warehouses
+ Storage techniques for large scale traffic data
+ OLAP tools for traffic analysis
+ Data mining over trace data
+ Data sharing and privacy
FORMAT
The workshop will be held on Friday, May 25, the day after the
SIGMOD/PODS 2001 conference, and will have a roughly 50-50 mix of
practitioners who gather, store, and manipulate large amounts of
network-related data, as well as researchers who have examined storage
and analysis issues for similar large-scale problems.
The plan is to have a full-day workshop. There will be a panel
session to present the various sub-topics of the workshop, which will
set the stage for the actual presentations. Presentations will be of
two kinds: technical papers, and position presentations. A system
demo session is also planned. Plenty of time will be allowed for
interaction between the participants.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Extended abstracts of technical papers should be no longer than six
pages. Position papers and system demo proposals should be at most two
pages long. Papers should be submitted in ASCII, HTML, PDF or
PostScript ONLY electronically to either of the workshop
chairs. Accepted papers will be included in the informal proceedings
made available to the workshop attendees.
ATTENDANCE
Authors of accepted papers and demos are expected to present
their work at the workshop. Others who want to participate
in the workshop should send email indicating interest to
either of the workshop organizers, by April 16, 2001.
Registration information will be made available later.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: Mar 15, 2001
Notification: Apr 15, 2001
Camera-ready due: Apr 30, 2001
Workshop: May 25, 2001
CHAIRS:
Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs-Research, bala@research.att.com)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, divesh@research.att.com)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Marc Crovella (Boston University)
Anja Feldmann (University of Saarland)
Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs-Research)
Ted Johnson (AT&T Labs-Research)
Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Labs, Lucent)
Jennifer Rexford (AT&T Labs-Research)
S. Seshadri (Bell Labs, Lucent)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research)
Jennifer Widom (Stanford University)
Janet Wiener (Compaq Systems Research Center)
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