General Information
BNCOD was established in 1980, as the British National Conference on Databases, as a forum for research into the theory and practice of databases. Since then, BNCOD has become an international information systems conference and has attracted an international audience to discuss the leading research topics of the day in the field. The conference always invites papers on all topics related to data and information systems, information and knowledge representation, manipulation and management, while also each year promoting a special theme, seen to be of particular interest to the community at that time.
BNCOD 2010 will be held in Dudhope Castle at the University of Abertay Dundee from the 29th of June to the 1st of July 2010. The special theme of BNCOD 2010, the 27th in the series, is Data Security & Security Data. The topic of data security has become ever more important in recent years, with the growth of pervasive and ubiquitous systems resulting in ever more individual, personal and business critical data being accessible through web-based systems. In what seem to be ever-increasing numbers, we hear of hacking events, data loss through software and hardware failures, and human error in corrupting systems or misplacing devices containing critical data. These reported issues have considerable impact, particularly in relation to considerations of data privacy and trust, which are already very sensitive and difficult areas in terms of public perceptions. Solutions in this area often have as much to do with social engineering and psychology as they do with technology, but the creation and protection of secure trusted systems in which critical information can be shown to be safe and privacy protected is of significant interest and importance to the BNCOD community. Alongside this issue, but not to be confused with it, runs the issue of Security Data, predominantly associated with the means by which we ensure access to systems and individual datasets is controlled, manageable and traceable. Password systems, data encryption systems, secure communications, and fail-safe protocols are all well-known topics in this area, but issues of identity verification, secure digital sign-off, user traceability, and the issues of Security Data v. Data Protection legislation are all current hot topics that will be of considerable interest to the conference audience.
Conference Format
Particular features of BNCOD 2010 include:
- Two keynote talks, given by world leading researchers
- An exhibition programme showing research database prototypes as well as new developments from commercial systems
- A half-day PhD forum aimed at fostering the development of our future researchers
- Co-located workshops to take place on 28th June 2010
BNCOD 2010 seeks research papers for presentation at the conference and subsequent publication. Full papers (12 pages), short papers (8 pages) and poster papers (4 pages) may be submitted. We further invite submission of proposals for Workshops and for exhibition of research and commercial systems. Please consult the call for papers for details of research areas in which contributions are solicited and for important dates regarding conference deadlines.
All papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as in previous years, by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
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