CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM Ninth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
DOLAP 2006
(in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2006)
Sponsored by ACM, SIGIR, SIGMIS
OFFICIAL WEB PAGE: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/song/dolap.htm
Aim of the workshop
Data Warehouse (DW) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technologies are the core of current Decision Support Systems. Traditionally, a data warehouse has been a historical (and relatively static) repository of data collected from a wide variety of heterogeneous data sources by means of Extraction-Transformation-Loading (ETL) processes. The widespread deployment of both DWs and OLAP technologies is due to the intuitive representation of data provided to data analysts or managers in support of management decisions.
Research in data warehousing and OLAP has produced important technologies for the design, management and use of information systems for decision support. Much of the interest and success in this area can be attributed to the need for software and tools to improve data management and analysis given the large amounts of information that are being accumulated in corporate as well as scientific databases. Nevertheless, the high maturity of these technologies as well as new data needs or applications not only demand more capacity or storing necessities, but also new methods, models, techniques or architectures to satisfy these new needs. Some of the hot topics in data warehouse research include distributed data warehouses, web warehouses, data streaming, GIS or biomedical data. Moreover, there are other aspects developed in other software areas such as security or quality, which still remain unexplored by current design methods or technologies for data warehouses.
Like the previous successful DOLAP workshops, the DOLAP 2006 workshop aims to synergistically connect the research community and industry practitioners. It provides an international forum where both researchers and practitioners can share their findings in theoretical foundations, current methodologies, and practical experiences. DOLAP will focus on new research directions and emerging application domains in the areas of data warehousing and OLAP.
Topics of Interest
The workshop solicits two types of papers: regular and industry papers. Regular research papers and industry papers are separately reviewed and there will be separate sessions in a distinct industry track. A panel will also be organized to discuss new and future research on data warehouses and OLAP technologies. Suggested regular research topics include the following, but are not limited to:
Industry papers shall address:
Submission of Papers
Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates (both for MS word and Latex) available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. There are two styles on the website. Both the Strict Adherence to SIGS and the Tighter Alternate style are allowed. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length. A website with camera-ready instructions is available at http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/cikm.htm. Full papers should be submitted in PS or PDF format via email at dolap06 [at] cs [dot] uoi [dot] gr by July 14, 2006.
Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their technical merit, originality, significance, readability, and relevance to the workshop. Emphasis will be given to papers extending data warehousing to novel areas and applications. Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by August 14. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on August 31, and will be published in the workshop proceedings by ACM Press. The best papers of DOLAP 2006 will be considered for a special issue of DKE.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline for full papers : |
Friday, July 14, 2006 |
Notification of acceptance : |
Monday, August 14, 2006 |
Camera-ready copy hard deadline: |
Thursday, August 31, 2006 |
Workshop date: |
Friday, November 10, 2006 |
Steering Committee
Joachim Hammer University of Florida Il-Yeol Song Drexel University Dimitri Theodoratos New Jersey Inst. of Technology Rokia Missaoui Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Stefano Rizzi University of Bologna Karen Davis University of Cincinnati Juan Trujillo University of Alicante
General Chair
Il-Yeol Song Drexel University
Program Chair
Panos Vassiliadis University of Ioannina
Program Committee
Alberto Abello Universitat Politécnica de Catalunia Antonio Badia University of Louisville, USA Chung-Min Chen Telcordia Technologies, USA Rick Cole IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, USA Karen Davis University of Cincinnati, USA Antonis Deligiannakis University of Athens, Greece Todd Eavis Concordia University, Canada Helena Galhardas INESC-ID, Portugal Matteo Golfarelli University of Bologna, Italy Sergio Greco University of Calabria, Italy Joachim Hammer University of Florida , USA Panos Kalnis National University of Singapore, Singapore Myung Kim Ewha Womans University, Korea Jens Lechtenbörger University of Münster, Germany Tok Wang Ling National University of Singapore, Singapore Sergio Luján-Mora University of Alicante, Spain Patrick Martin Queen's University, Canada Rokia Missaoui Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada Dimitris Papadias Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Torben Pedersen Aalborg University, Denmark Jian Pei SUNY at Buffalo, USA Mario Piattini University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Mirek Riedewald Cornell University, USA Stefano Rizzi University of Bologna, Italy Markus Schneider University of Florida, USA Timos Sellis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Spiros Skiadopoulos University of Peloponnese, Greece Alkis Simitsis National Technical University of Athens, Greece Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA Dimitri Theodoratos New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Juan Trujillo Universidad de Alicante, Spain Panos Vassiliadis University of Ioannina, Greece Robert Wrembel Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Contact Information
General Chair
Il Yeol Song
Professor
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University,Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: (215) 895-2489FAX: (215) 895-2494
Email: song [AT] drexel [dot] eduWeb page:
PC Chair
Panos Vassiliadis
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina
Ioannina, 45110, Hellas
Tel: +30-26510-98814
Fax: +30-26510-98890
Email: pvassil [AT] cs [dot] uoi [dot] gr
Web page: www.cs.uoi.gr/~pvassil