Scientific and Statistical Database Management: 21st International Conference, SSDBM 2009, New Orleans, LA, USA, June 2-4, 2009 Proceedings (Lecture ... Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI)

This volume contains the proceedings of SSDBM 2009, the 21st International Conference on Scienti?c and Statistical Database Management. SSDBM 2009 took place during June 2–4, 2009, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, USA. The SSDBM conference series brings together scienti?c domain experts, database researchers, practitioners, and developers for the presentation and - change of current research concepts, tools, and techniques for scienti?c and s- tistical database applications. SSDBM organizersstrive to provide a stimulating environment to encourage discussion, fellowship, and exchange of ideas in all aspects of research related to scienti?c and statistical databases, including both original research contributions and insights from practical system design, imp- mentation, and evaluation. SSDBM 2009 received 76 submissions from 18 countries. Each submission was reviewed by three Program Committee members, leading to the acceptance of 29long papers and 12 shortpapers.The shortpapers include a mix ofdem- strations, poster papers, and traditional conference presentations. This year we had the goal of increasing our acceptance rate while maintaining or increasing thequalityofourpapers;tothisend,17ofouracceptedpaperswereshepherded. This year we also bene?tted from three invited talks. Our keynote presen- tion was from Kate Keahey of Argonne National Laboratory, who talked about scienti?ccomputingoncloudplatforms.BertramLudaescherfromtheUniversity ofCaliforniaDavisexplainedwhatmakesscienti?c work?owsscienti?c,andArie Shoshani gave an overview of new technology developed at the Scienti?c Data Management Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for exploring scienti?c datasets.