DOLAP'03 - Call for Papers

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM Sixth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
                         - DOLAP 2003 -

             November 7, 2003, New Orleans, LA, USA
               (in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2003)

                 Sponsored by ACM, SIGIR, SIGMIS

         http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/song/dolap.html


AIM OF THE WORKSHOP

Data Warehouses are databases specialized for business 
intelligence applications, and have been rapidly spreading 
within the industrial world over the last decade, due to 
their undeniable contribution to increasing the effectiveness 
and efficiency of the decision process within business and
scientific domains. This wide diffusion was supported by 
remarkable research results on the one hand, by the quick 
advancement of commercial tools on the other. However, 
several issues still need to be deeply investigated and well 
understood in order to achieve full maturity for the 
technologies employed in data warehousing systems.

Like the previous successful DOLAP workshops held in 
conjunction with CIKM, the sixth edition of the Workshop on 
Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2003) aims to reduce the gap 
between 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, practical experiences, 
and new research directions in the areas of data warehousing 
and OLAP. 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The workshop solicits two types of papers: regular and 
industry papers. Regular papers shall address research topics 
in the following areas, but not limited to:
- Data warehousing foundations
- Data warehouse architectures
- Data warehouse design
- Source integration
- Data extraction, cleaning and loading
- Multidimensional modeling
- Metadata management
- View materialization
- Physical organization of data warehouses
- Performance optimization and tuning
- On-line analytical processing
- Multidimensional queries: languages, optimization, processing
- Data warehouse consistency and quality
- Security in data warehouses
- Maintenance of data warehouses
- Data warehouse evolution
- Data warehousing and the Web
- Data warehousing and XML
- Data warehousing applications
- Tools for data warehousing and OLAP

Industry papers shall address:
- Data warehousing projects and applications
- Administration tools
- Data Quality
- Maintenance of data warehouses
- Benchmarks
- Experience and lessons
- Tools for data warehousing and OLAP
- Surveys

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Submitted papers should be approximately 15 double-spaced 
pages. Electronic submission is highly encouraged 
(Postscript, PDF, MS Word, RTF). Full papers should be sent 
to dolap03-m0ZTei7jlPrZTbOSll2EkQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by July 7, 2003. 
Alternatively, 
four (4) hard copies can be sent to Stefano Rizzi at the 
mailing address below. 
Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their 
technical merit, originality, significance, readability, and 
relevance to the workshop. Authors will receive notification 
of acceptance/rejection by August 25. Camera-ready copies of 
accepted papers are due on September 15, and will be 
published in the workshop proceedings by ACM Press. The 
maximum length of final papers will be 8 pages in double 
column.
It is planned that selected accepted papers will be 
considered for journal publication in a joint special issue 
with the best papers of DMDW 2003.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for full papers: July 7, 2003
Notification of acceptance: August 25, 2003
Camera-ready copy due date: September 15, 2003
Workshop date: November 7, 2003

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Stefano Rizzi
DEIS - University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2
40136 Bologna, Italy

Il-Yeol Song
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

Joachim Hammer (University of Florida)
Rokia Missaoui (Universite' du Quebec en Outaouais)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University)
Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey Inst. of Technology)
Toby J. Teorey (University of Michigan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mokrane Bouzeghoub (Universite' de Versailles)
Jae-young Chang (Hansung University)
Chung-Min Chen  (Telcordia Technologies)
Wan-Sup Cho (Chungbuk National University)
Rick Cole (IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory)
Karen Davis  (University of Cincinnati)
Barbara Dinter (Mummert Consulting)
Matteo Golfarelli (University of Bologna)
Sergio Greco (University of Calabria)
Joachim Hammer (University of Florida)
Manfred A. Jeusfeld (Tilburg University)
Myung Kim (Ewha Womans University)
Jens Lechtenborger (University of Muenster)
Wolfgang Lehner (Dresden University of Technology)
Tok Wang Ling  (National University of Singapore)
Federica Mandreoli (University of Modena)
Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto)
Rokia Missaoui (Universite' du Quebec en Outaouais)
Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab)
Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong Univ. Science and Tech.)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University)
Toby J. Teorey (University of Michigan)
Dimitri Theodoratos  (New Jersey Inst. of Technology)
Shiby Thomas (Oracle Corporation)
Riccardo Torlone (Universita' Roma Tre)
Juan C. Trujillo (Universidad de Alicante)
Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina)

For further questions please send an email to 
dolap03-m0ZTei7jlPrZTbOSll2EkQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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