For close to two decades the COMAD - International Conference on Management of Data, modeled along the lines of ACM SIGMOD, has been the premier international database conference hosted in India. The first COMAD was held in 1989, and it has been held on a nearly annual basis since then (except for a few breaks such as in the years when VLDB and ICDE were held in India). COMAD as always had a significant international participation, with about 30% of the papers being from outside India, including Europe, USA and East/South-East Asia.

The 15th COMAD is Organised by International School of Information Management (ISiM) from December 9-12, 2009, at Infosys Technologies Limited, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Similar to previous years, COMAD 2009 's scope will include not only traditional database areas but also add emphasis on Web, Information Retrieval and Data Mining.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Benchmarking and performance evaluation
• Data exchange and integration
• Data quality, cleaning and lineage
• Database monitoring and tuning
• Data privacy and security
• Data warehousing
• Data mining: foundations and algorithms
• Mining text, Web, and semi-structured data
• Security and privacy in data mining
• Innovative applications of data mining
• Embedded, sensor, mobile databases and applications
• Managing uncertain, imprecise and inconsistent information
• Metadata management
• Multilingual data management
• Multimedia data management and mining
• Novel Data Types
• Parallel and distributed databases
• Peer-to-peer data management
• Personalized information systems
• Query processing and optimization
• Replication, caching, and publish-subscribe systems
• Information retrieval: Formal models and algorithms
• IR in text, structured and semi-structured data
• Privacy issues in IR
• IR applications: Web search, enterprise search, collaborative filtering, Genomics
• Text search and database querying
• Semi-structured data
• Social Networks
• Storage and transaction management
• Web services

For more details please refer to the official site.