IDEAS 2017 21st International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium

IDEAS 2017


Data Mining & Analysis Databases & Information Systems



The annual IDEAS conference is a top international forum for data engineering researchers, practitioners, developers, and application users to explore revolutionary ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences.
We invite participation of all interested in this meeting which provides an insight into original research contributions relating to all aspects of database engineering defined broadly, and particularly topics of emerging interest describing work on integrating new technologies into products and applications, on experiences with existing and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved challenges.
Track (Targeted Session)
This year, we have organizers heading the following special tracks themes along with the main event(General pool):
Big Data Applications (e.g. Health, Environment, Transport): Gregory Butler (Concordia University, Canada), Kamran Munir (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Data Sharing, Security and Privacy: Jianhua Shao (Cardiff University, UK)
Smart Cities and Data Analytics: Zaheer Khan (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
Web and Cyber Security: Elio Masciari (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
Invited Speakers
Foto Arfati, National Technical Universtity of Athens
Jiawei Han, Abel Bliss Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Omer Rana, Cardiff University
Conference Publication
The conference proceedings will be published by ACM in their digital library; the ISBN assigned by ACM to IDEAS17 is: 978-1-4503-5220-8
A version of the proceedings to be distributed to the conference attendees would be prepared by BytePress.
Organized by
University of the West of England, Bristol, England;
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;
with the cooperation of ACM, ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGKDD, BytePress.org and ConfSys.org.
General Chair: Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Montreal
Program Chair: Jun Hong, Queen's University Belfast,
Local Chair: Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England, Bristol ,
Publicity Chair: Kamran Munir, University of the West of England, Bristol,
IDEAS Steering Committee
Desai, Bipin C. (Chair) Concordia University
Ng, Wilfred Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pokorny, Jaroslav Charles University
Toyoma , Motomichi Keio University
Ullman, Jeffrey Stanford University