<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 23px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 23.4px;"><B>3rd International Conference on Objects and Databases (ICOODB).</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>September 28-30, 2010</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B>Goethe University Frankfurt<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B> Frankfurt am Main, Germany</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://www.icoodb2010.org">http://www.icoodb2010.org</A>/</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="7"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 26px;">Call for Research Papers</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We invite submissions of papers detailing original research contributions on any topic related to persistent object life cycle management, persistent object data management, objects and databases, and object oriented persistence technologies. These topics may address issues related to data models and database design, software engineering and application frameworks, database architectures and systems, database languages and theoretical foundations, novel applications. Selected papers will be presented at the conference and the papers published in the conference proceedings (publication details to be provided later).</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19.5px;"><B>Topics of Interest</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We recognize that the world of data management is changing. The linkage to service platforms, operation within scalable (cloud) platforms, object-relational bindings, NoSQL databases, and new approaches to concurrency control are all becoming hot topics both in academia and industry. We therefore also encourage papers in any of these areas.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.2px;"><B>General topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>OBJECT DATABASE MODELING AND DESIGN</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">object data models</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">design of object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">semantics of object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>OBJECT DATABASE FRAMEWORKS AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">application development and application frameworks</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">software engineering issues</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">constraint models and mechanisms</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">event models and mechanisms</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">object-oriented frameworks for data management</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">ontologies and object stores</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>OBJECT DATABASES</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">object storage systems</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">object query languages</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">transaction management for object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">access structures and indexing in object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">distributed object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">architecture and engineering of object database engines</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">evaluation of object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">benchmarks</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">novel applications of object databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">object databases in education</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>INTEGRATION OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES WITH DATABASES</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Integrating objects and databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel design of Programming Languages for objects and database</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>OBJECT/RELATIONAL MAPPINGS</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel design and/or Implementation of O/R Systems.</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Benchmarks</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>CLOUD DATA STORES</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel design and/or Implementation of Cloud Data Stores</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel Application of Cloud Data Stores</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Benchmarks</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>DOCUMENT STORES</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel design and/or Implementation of Document Stores</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel Application of Document Stores</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>NOSQL DATABASES</B></SPAN></FONT></P><UL><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel design and/or Implementation of NoSQL Databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Novel Application of NoSQL Databases</SPAN></FONT></LI><LI style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Benchmarks</SPAN></FONT></LI></UL><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19.5px;"><B>Submission of Papers</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">The </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B>deadline</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> for </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B>submissions</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> is </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B>30 May 2010</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">.<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> Research papers should be submitted through the </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=icoodb2010"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00669A">online submission system</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">. Papers should be formatted according to the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.springer.com/lncs"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00669A">LNCS guidelines</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"> and must not be longer than </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B>15 pages</B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">. Research papers should be original and the authors should clearly indicate the contributions of the work relative to the state of the art.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><A href="http://www.icoodb2010.org">http://www.icoodb2010.org</A>/</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><BR></SPAN></BODY></HTML>