Promoted by SBC, Brazilian Computer Society, in cooperation with ACM SIGMOD and sponsored (pending approval) by the VLDB Endowment, SBBD is the official event of SBC -Sociedade Brasileira de Computação/Brazilian Computer Society - in the database area. It gathers researchers, students and practitioners, from Brazil and abroad, for discussing problems related to the main topics in this domain. Besides technical sessions and tutorials, the symposium also includes invited talks given by distinguished speakers from the international research community.

In its twentieth first edition, SBBD 2006 will be held in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, - one of the most charming cities in the country located in an island with 42 sunny beaches. Following the trend of recent past editions, SBBD is expected to gather about 1000 attendees in the 2006 edition.

SBBD 2006 invites submissions of tutorial proposals. Each tutorial will be presented in a 3 hours session. Only an abstract (1-2 pages) of the accepted tutorials will be published in the symposium proceedings. However, copies of the presentation slides will be also required for distribution at the symposium to the tutorial attendees.

We will consider proposals for introductory and advanced tutorials on any topic within the area of databases. Introductory tutorials should target an audience consisting of advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as attendees from industry. Hence, they can be thought of as "recycling" courses though they should not be about traditional " textbook" topics. Advanced tutorials, on the other hand, must cover a topic's state-of-the-art, motivating and exposing potential research issues.

All proposals are to be emailed as plain text file or PDF attachments to:

• Tutorial title, authors' name, affiliations, e-mails and URL of the respective home pages (if available).

• Type (introductory or advanced), language to be presented (English or Portuguese) and a short (10-15 lines) abstract stating its main goal.

• Outline of the tutorial, including its main components, each one being described using 10-15 lines.

• A timeline of the tutorial presentation should also be included.

• List of (up to 10) related references.

• Where this tutorial has been presented before (or is under consideration for presentation), if applicable.

• A short biographical skecth of each author (10-20 lines/author).

• Audio-visual equipment required (e.g. overhead or multimedia projector)

Altigran Soares da Silva (chair), UFAM, Brazil
Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
Julina Freire, U. of Utah, USA
Marcos A. Gonçalves, UFMG, Brazil
Marta Mattoso, UFRJ, Brazil
Vanesa Braganholo, UFRJ, Brazil

Depending on funding availability, SBBD 2006 may be able to cover travel and lodging expenses for one presenter per accepted tutorial. In case of a tutorial proposed by more than one researcher the decision of who would actually present the tutorial must be discussed with the tutorial chair. The presenting author will be required to register him/herself for the symposium. SBBD reserves the right to refuse all of the submitted tutorial proposals, as well as to include invited tutorial presentations.

Please, use only this email address, messages sent to the chair's personal email address may be not read and/or considered.