<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>X I M E - P 2 0 0 8<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> 5th International Workshop on<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives<div><br></div><div><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>June 13, 2008<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="http://www.ximep2008.org/">http://www.ximep2008.org/</a></div><div> co-located with ACM SIGMOD<br><br>* Workshop Focus and Theme<br><br>XIME-P 2006 invites original research contributions as well as reports<br>on industrial efforts on the implementation, utilization, and overall<br>prospects of XQuery. Like the earlier editions of the XIME-P workshop series, <br>XIME-P 2008 will be held just after ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference <br>(<a href="http://www.sigmod08.org/">http://www.sigmod08.org/</a>), in Vancouver, Canada.<br><br>One year ago, the family of XQuery specifications achieved W3C Recommendation <br>status, and several industrial-strength XQuery implementations have become <br>available since then. In particular, all major DBMS vendors have extended their <br>RDBMS products with XML features and with varying degrees of XQuery support. <br>In addition, there are companies who are using XQuery for content management, <br>web services, etc. A comprehensive list of XQuery implementations can be found at<br><a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/">http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/</a>. With this strong interest in XQuery, the <br>standardization effort for the next version of XQuery is under way, with a <br>focus on more powerful features, such as updates, full-text and scripting <br>extensions.<br><br>One of the fascinating aspects of XQuery is that work on the language <br>specification and its implementation is happening on the verge of database <br>systems, information retrieval, document processing, and programming languages. <br>For example, XQuery full-text extensions aim at striking a balance between the <br>worlds of structured and unstructured data. XQuery has attracted users from a <br>wide variety of application domains, and its use is not limited to traditional <br>DB server architectures. Computer science research and industry have found quite <br>a number of promising -- and sometimes completely disjoint -- avenues to approach<br>the challenges resulting from these different XQuery usage scenarios. This <br>''heterogeneity'' in contributions and attendees has been a source of lively <br>discussions, panels, and an interesting technical program for previous XIME-P<br>editions.<br><br>The XIME-P 2008 program will feature talks and panels on research as well as <br>demonstrations and industrial efforts on the implementation and utilization of <br>XQuery. <br><br>* XIME-P 2008 Topics of Interest <br><br>Topics of interest include the following (though interesting and/or innovative <br>papers on all aspects of XQuery are welcome): <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>* XQuery variants and extensions <br> - Coherent XQuery subsets<br> - Embedded XQuery<br> - Distributed XQuery<br> - Scripting /programming with XQuery<br> - XQuery full-text extensions <br>* XQuery applications and architectures<br> - The role of XQuery in Web 2.0<br> - XQuery and computing in the sciences<br> - XQuery for information retrieval<br>* Optimization of XQuery for demanding applications<br> - Compilation vs. interpretation<br> - Cost-based optimization strategies<br> - Schema-awareness in storage and processing<br>* XQuery lessons learned<br> - Performance evaluation<br> - XQuery debugging<br> - Teaching XQuery<br><br><br>-- Keynote Speech<br><br>Jim Melton (Oracle, XQuery W3C Working Group Chair) will deliver the XIME-P <br>2008 workshops keynote address. <br><br><br>-- Paper Submission<br><br>XIME-P 2008 calls for original contributions relevant to the open list of <br>topics sketched above. We explicitly welcome ''war stories'', and reports on <br>innovative, off-beat, and ''early stage'' approaches to the implementation and <br>application of XQuery as long as the submission meets the high quality standards <br>of the XIME-P workshop series. <br><br>+ Papers should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines and <br>SIG proceedings templates available at<br><br> <a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html">http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html</a><br><br>+ Papers should not exceed 6 pages in length (including references and appendices). <br><br>+ Papers should be submitted in PDF.<br><br>+ More details on the submission process will be given on the XIME-P 2008 web <br>site (<a href="http://www.ximep2008.org/">http://www.ximep2008.org</a>).<br><br>-- Workshop Proceedings Publication<br><br>The primary publication medium for XIME-P has been and will be SIGMOD DiSC. <br>This mode of publication ensures wide dissemination and high visibility (e.g., <br>in the ACM Digital Library and Michael Ley's DBLP index). Online proceedings will <br>be additionally hosted at the workshop web site, <a href="http://www.ximep2008.org/">http://www.ximep2008.org</a>.<br><br>For inclusion in SIGMOD DiSC, we will ask the authors to transfer their copyrights <br>accordingly.<br><br>-- Important Dates (Tentative)<br><br> - Paper submission: Fri, March 28, 2008<br> - Notification of acceptance: Fri, May 2, 2008<br> - Camera-ready papers due: Fri, May 16, 2008<br> - Workshop: Fri, June 13, 2008<br><br><br>-- XIME-P 2008 Workshop Co-Chairs<br><br> - Carl-Christian Kanne - Fatma Özcan <br><br> University of Mannheim <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> IBM Almaden Research Center<br> Mannheim, Germany San Jose, CA, USA<br> <a href="mailto:kanne@informatik.uni-mannheim.de">kanne@informatik.uni-mannheim.de</a> <a href="mailto:fozcan@almaden.ibm.com">fozcan@almaden.ibm.com</a><br><br><br>-- Program Committee<br><br>Andrey Balmin, IBM Almaden Research Center<br>Denilson Barbosa, University of Calgary<br>Giorgio Ghelli, University of Pisa, <br>Torsten Grust, Technical University Munich <br>Mary Holstege, MarkLogic<br>Yannis Papakonstantinou, UCSD<br>Michael Rys, Microsoft<br>Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Yahoo Research<br>John Snelson, Oracle<br>Jens Teubner , IBM Watson Research Center<br>Till Westmann, BEA<br><br>Please address questions or comments to the workshop chairs directly.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. 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