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).

Topics of Interest

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.

General topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Object Database Modeling and Design

• object data models
• design of object databases
• semantics of object databases

Object Database Frameworks and Software Engineering

• application development and application frameworks
• software engineering issues
• constraint models and mechanisms
• event models and mechanisms
• object-oriented frameworks for data management
• ontologies and object stores

Object Databases

• object storage systems
• object query languages
• transaction management for object databases
• access structures and indexing in object databases
• distributed object databases
• architecture and engineering of object database engines
• evaluation of object databases
• benchmarks
• novel applications of object databases
• object databases in education

Integration of Object-Oriented Programming Languages with databases

• Integrating objects and databases
• Novel design of Programming Languages for objects and database

Object/Relational mappings

• Novel design and/or Implementation of O/R Systems.
• Benchmarks

Cloud Data Stores

• Novel design and/or Implementation of Cloud Data Stores
• Novel Application of Cloud Data Stores
• Benchmarks

Document Stores

• Novel design and/or Implementation of Document Stores
• Novel Application of Document Stores

NoSQL Databases

• Novel design and/or Implementation of NoSQL Databases
• Novel Application of NoSQL Databases
• Benchmarks

Submission of Papers

The deadline for submissions is 30 May 2010.
Research papers should be submitted through the online submission system. Papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines and must not be longer than 15 pages. Research papers should be original and the authors should clearly indicate the contributions of the work relative to the state of the art.
ICOODB 2010 conference proceedings will be published by Springer as an LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) volume.