28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering - ICDE 2012

ICDE 2012 <strong>Conference</strong>
cussions, author responses to these reviews, and then further discussion by the PC and
fine-tuning of the reviews.
The research program features 100 papers, the industrial program 9 papers, and the
demonstration program 28 demos. The conference program also includes 6 seminar
tutorials and one panel. As a feature of ICDE conferences in recent years, all papers are
presented at a poster session. Accompanying the main conference are seven workshops.
The success of ICDE 2012 is a result of collegial teamwork from many individuals who
worked tirelessly to make the conference a success. We thank Nico Bruno and Ken Ross
who served as Industrial Chairs; Christof Bornhoevd, Richard Goodwin, and Mirek Riedewald
who served as Demo Chairs; Aryya Gangopadhyay who served as Seminar Chair;
Michael Gertz and Alex Tuzhilin who served as Panel Chairs; Anupam Joshi and Sharad
Mehrotra who served as Workshop Chairs; and also the organizers of the accompanying
workshops. We also express our deep appreciation of the outstanding work put in over
many months by the organization team: Nabil Adam, Alex Brodsky and Vijay Atluri
served as general (vice-)chairs, Carlotta Domeniconi and Huzefa Rangwala were the
Local Organization and Sponsorship Chairs, Hui Xiong served as Finance Chair, Soon
Ae Chun served as Publicity Chair, Anastasios Kementsietsidis and Marcos Vaz Salles
as Proceedings Chairs, and Micah Sherr as Web Chair. We thank Carmen Saliba and
Alkenia Winston from the <strong>IEEE</strong> Computer Society’s <strong>Conference</strong> Support Services for
helping secure the various necessary contracts in a timely manner, and Beth Grohnke of
GMU’s Office of Event Management for helping with many local arrangement issues.
The Best Paper Award Committee included Minos Garofalakis (chair), Anthony Tung,
and Ugur Centintemel. Without the contributions of all of these excellent conference officers,
this conference would not have been a success. We are also thankful to the many
student volunteers from George Mason University.
We also thank the Microsoft CMT Team and the <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> Publications Team
for their assistance and quick replies to our multitude of requests.
We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support of our sponsors: Microsoft and
the National Science Foundation as Platinum Sponsors, EMC and Greenplum as Gold
Sponsors, HP and IBM Research as Silver Sponsors, and Google as a Bronze Sponsor.
Finally, we thank all the authors, presenters, and participants of the conference. We
hope that all of you enjoy the conference!
ICDE 2012 PC Chairs
Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA)
Beng Chin Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
ICDE 2012 General Chair
X. Sean Wang (Fudan University, China)
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