Call for Papers & Participation
5th International Workshop on
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DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF DATA WAREHOUSES
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Business Intelligence for Data Warehouses:
Functionality, Usability and Quality of Service
Monday, September 8, 2003Berlin, Germany
in conjunction with the
29th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2003
Data Warehousing embraces technology and industrial practice to systematically integrate data from multiple distributed data sources and to use that data in annotated and aggregated form to support business decision-making and enterprise management. Although many database techniques have been revisited or newly developed in the context of data warehouses, such as view maintenance and OLAP, little attention has been paid to the design, management and high quality service of the management of a given enterprise. Little attention is also paid to aspects which are intrinsic to the functionality and usage of data warehouses, either in the back-stage (like data cleansing or data extraction and loading) or in the front-end (like similar and uncertain queries, or what-if analysis). This workshop is intended as a forum to fill this gap. DMDW started as a workshop (in conjunction with the CAiSE conference) in Heidelberg, 1999. Since then, the workshop has taken place on an annual basis with a big success, with special journal issues publishing best papers from past editions of DMDW. As in earlier DMDW workshops, we invite research papers covering all aspects of high quality data warehousing. Equally welcome are papers from the industry reporting on data warehouse toolkits and experiences from data warehouse implementation projects. The workshop will continue to promote a culture of vivid discussions.
We cordially invite researchers to submit original research papers to this 5th workshop. We especially encourage experts of the data warehouse application industry to submit experience papers. Some possible focus areas are given below. Naturally, submissions covering other data warehousing-related topics that are not on this list, are welcomed as well.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Research TrackDW architecture and functionality
- Management of data quality and uncertainty, vagueness, imprecision
- Organization of meta-data management
- Query processing and optimization
- Storage and indexing methods for data warehouses and data marts
- Data Warehouse Operational Processes
- Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and Data Cleaning tools and techniques
- Query Optimizing and Planning
DW Design
- Conceptual modeling for data warehouses
- Verification of design goals and information needs
- Design methods (logical design, physical organization, tuning) for data warehouses
- Data warehouse architectures
- Materialized view selection for data warehousing
DW Usage & OLAP
- Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
- Conceptual and logical modeling of multidimensional data
- Multidimensional query languages
- Non-standard querying (similar, vague queries, etc.)
Miscellaneous
- Data warehouse evolution
- Data warehouse security
- Data warehouses and the web
- Spatiotemporal aspects of data warehousing
- Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management (connecting data mining, knowledge discovery and data warehousing)
Experience Track
- Motivation for installing a data warehouse
- Integration of a data warehouse into an organization's business processes
- Supporting federations of data warehouses
- Experience with data warehouse software and tools
- Detection of useful/necessary functionalities lacking from commercial products
- Problems and challenges in data warehouse usage (e.g. data loading, data cleaning, data inconsistency, data maintenance, data quality, performance issues)
- User acceptance of data warehouses
- Impact of OLAP and data mining on business decisions
- Success stories / Failures of data warehouse installations
- Surveys of industrial applications, particularities and problems
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Research papers of up to a 5000 words and experience papers of up to 2500 words should be submitted in electronic form (Standard Postscript or PDF) via Email toby the submission deadline (see below). NO OTHER FORMS OR FORMATS OF SUBMISSION ARE ACCEPTABLE. Authors are solely responsible for making sure their submissions print/view properly. More information about the workshop is available at:
For further questions, please contact either the program chair or one of the organizing committee members (coordinates below). Proceedings of previous DMDW editions can be found at:
also at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/dmdw/index.html
As in the past, we expect that selected papers from the workshop
will be published, possibly in conjunction with selected papers
from the DOLAP Workshop, in a special issue of a leading
international journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
Friday, July 4, 2003 : Submission of papers Monday, August 4, 2003 : Notification of acceptance Monday, August 18, 2003 : Camera Ready versions due Monday, September 8, 2003 : Workshop date
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Manfred Jeusfeld (Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands) Manfred.Jeusfeld@kub.nl Martin Staudt (Univ. of Applied Sciences Solothurn, Switzerland) martin.staudt@fhso.ch
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Committee Chairs
Hans-J. Lenz
(Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany) hjlenz@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de
Panos Vassiliadis (Univ. of Ioannina, Greece)
pvassil@cs.uoi.gr
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Mokrane Bouzeghoub |
(Université de Versaille) |
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Enrico Franconi |
(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) |
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Himanshu Gupta |
(State University of New York, Stony Brook) |
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Matthias Jarke |
(RWTH Aachen , Informatik V) |
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Manfred Jeusfeld |
(Tilburg University) |
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Panos Kalnis |
(National University of Singapore) |
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Kamal Karlapalem |
(Intl. Inst. of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India) |
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Wolfgang Lehner |
(Dresden University of Technology) |
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Hans-J. Lenz |
(Freie Universität Berlin) [Program Co-Chair] |
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Maurizio Lenzerini |
(Univ. degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza") |
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Volker Markl |
(IBM Almaden Research Center) |
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Alberto Mendelzon |
(University of Toronto) |
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Ramzi Musas |
(Oracle GmbH) |
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Matthias Nicola |
(IBM Silicon Valley Lab) |
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Jian Pei |
(State University of New York at Buffalo) |
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Stefano Rizzi |
(Univ. of Bologna) |
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Carsten Sapia |
(BMW Group) |
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Timos Sellis |
(National Technical Univ. of Athens) |
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Il-Yeol Song |
(Drexel University) |
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Martin Staudt |
(University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland) |
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Bernhard Thalheim |
(Technische Universität Cottbus) |
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Dimitri Theodoratos |
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) |
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Riccardo Torlone |
(Università di Roma Tre) |
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Panos Vassiliadis |
(University of Ioannina)[Program Co-Chair] |
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Yannis Vassiliou |
(National Technical University of Athens) |
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Gottfried Vossen |
(Univ. of Munster) |
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Janet Wiener |
(Hewlett-Packard) |
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Carlo Zaniolo |
(University of California) |
CONTACTS
| Prof. Dr. Hans-J. Lenz Institut fur Produktion, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Research Garystrasse 21 14195 Berlin Raum 209 Telefon: (030) 838 523 80 Telefax: (030) 838 540 51 E-mail: ls-lenz@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de Web page: http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lenz/winfo/index.htm | Dr. Panos Vassiliadis |
09-Feb-2003