The symposium provides an international forum for discussion of the problems of engineering database systems involving not only database technology but the related areas of information retrieval, multimedia, human machine interface and communication. The goal of IDEAS is to foster closer interaction among the industrial, research and user communities and provides an excellent opportunity for them to meet, discuss ideas, examine the current ones and develop new solutions and research directions. Along with the technical sessions, the symposium also features prominent invited speakers.

IDEAS series of symposiums are scheduled annually and have been held since 1997 in North America, Europe and Asia. It has attracted participants from governmental and non-governmental agencies, industries, and academia to exchange ideas and share experiences.

IDEAS invites quality papers describing original ideas and new findings on applied technological and theoretical aspects of database engineering and applications. In particular we welcome submissions describing work on integrating new technologies into products and applications, on experiences with existing and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved challenges. We consider this symposium to be a unique and important forum to discuss experiences in applying databases to actual situations.

Full length papers and short papers are invited on, but not restricted to topics in database engineering, new and demanding database applications, user interfaces to database and data management.

The symposium plans to have focused sessions in the following areas: * Core Databases Technology * Query processing and optimization * Database and XML * Data quality, integration, warehousing and mining * Emerging database technologies * Databases for e-commerce, e-goverance and other e-applications * Bio-medical, life science and medical databases * Privacy and security issues * Semantic Web and Web 2.0 vs databases Important Dates Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2009 Acceptance notice: May 29, 2009 Camera-ready copies due: June 6, 2009 Conference dates: September 16-18, 2009