Workshop on Management and Processing of Data Streams
             In conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS and FCRC 2003
                     San Diego, California, USA
                          Sunday, June 8, 2003
 
                 http://www.research.att.com/conf/mpds2003/

OBJECTIVES

Measuring and monitoring complex, dynamic phenomena -- atmospheric
conditions, stellar patterns, movement of financial markets, traffic 
evolution in telephone and internet communication infrastructures,
usage of world wide web, email and newsgroups -- produces stream data,
i.e., data that arrives as a series of "observations", often very 
rapidly.  These observations generally have intricate relationships 
between them, are often grouped in multiple ways into logical events,
and are naturally collected via distributed platforms.

Databases and applications are increasingly required to manipulate
stream data. This presents many challenges which are just beginning 
to be addressed.

- Fundamental algorithmic models and results for data streams are 
  being studied in the theoretical computer science community.

- Data stream management systems are being designed and prototyped 
  in the database community. 

- IP traffic analysis is a powerful application domain for data streams, 
  and is being addressed in the networking community.

- Programming language and software support needed for managing data 
  streams is being determined in the systems community.

- Custom and off-the-shelf hardware support is being developed for 
  data streams in the networking and graphics communities.

FCRC'03 provides a valuable opportunity to engage this large and
diverse community of interest in drawing up the specification of data 
stream management systems, understanding their power and limitations,
as well as motivating the applications that will drive the development 
of data stream systems. This workshop will provide a forum to discuss 
the progress on all aspects of managing stream data.  The intended 
audience includes researchers, practitioners and graduate students 
interested in data stream management from the database (SIGMOD/PODS)
community, as well as from other member FCRC conferences.


FORMAT 

The workshop will comprise a day of talks, including both invited 
and contributed talks.   The invited speakers will be primarily 
associated with the various conferences that are part of FCRC'03. 
There will be a total of 4 invited talks and 12-16 short 
contributed talks.  An informal proceedings will be distributed 
at the workshop.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit submissions for contributed talks from different disciplines 
of Computer Science working on the problems of managing and processing 
data streams. The submissions should be at most 2 pages long, and could 
present either novel results, open problems and challenges, or a survey 
of data stream work in a particular domain or application.

Papers should be submitted in ASCII, PDF or PostScript electronically
to both the workshop chairs.


ATTENDANCE

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the
workshop.  Others who want to participate in the workshop should send
email indicating interest to the workshop chairs, by April 30, 2003.
Registration information will be made available later.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:  March 31, 2003
Notification:         April 30, 2003 
Camera-ready due:     May 15, 2003


CHAIRS

S. Muthukrishnan (Rutgers U and AT&T Labs-Research, muthu@cs.rutgers.edu)
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research, divesh@research.att.com)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Phil Gibbons (Intel Research)
Sudipto Guha (University of Pennsylvania)
Rajeev Rastogi (Bell Labs, Lucent)
Anne Rogers (University of Chicago)
George Varghese (University of California, San Diego)
Jennifer Widom (Stanford University)


PLANNED INVITED SPEAKERS

To be announced


SPONSOR

The workshop is being sponsored by DIMACS, the Center for Discrete
Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science.