DMDW'03: First Call for Papers

Call for Papers & Participation

5th International Workshop on
DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF DATA WAREHOUSES
(DMDW'2003)
Business Intelligence for Data Warehouses: 
Functionality, Usability and Quality of Service

Monday, September 8, 2003
Berlin, Germany
in conjunction with the
29th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2003

http://www.cs.uoi.gr/~dmdw03/

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 basi!
 
 s 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 Track
--------------------------
DW 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 (which works out to around 10 double 
spaced 12 point font single column pages) and experience papers of up to 2500 
words (around 5 pages of double spaced 12 point font single column pages) 
should be submitted in electronic form (Standard Postscript or PDF) via Email 
to 
dmdw03-e5iTNDsqyVlQFI55V6+gNQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

by 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: 
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Societies/DMDW/2003/ 

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: 
http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ 
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-Vs8FDvcYnSw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Martin Staudt (Univ. of Applied Sciences Solothurn, Switzerland) 
martin.staudt-v1nzTxsEMHM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Committee Chairs
Hans-Joachim Lenz (Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany)    
hjlenz-I4gioVLb4H+AKZTfuerNgRvVK+yQ3ZXh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Panos Vassiliadis (Univ. of Ioannina, Greece)      
pvassil-e5iTNDsqyVlQFI55V6+gNQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Program Committee 
Mokrane Bouzeghoub      (Universite de Versaille)
Enrico Franconi         (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Himanshu Gupta          (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
Matthias Jarke          (RWTH Aachen , Informatik V)
Manfred Jeusfeld        (Tilburg University)
Panos Kalnis            (National University of Singapore)
Kamal Karlapalem        (Intl. Inst. of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 
India)
Wolfgang Lehner         (Dresden University of Technology)
Hans-Joachim Lenz       (Freie Universitat Berlin) [Program Co-Chair]
Maurizio Lenzerini      (Univ. degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza")
Volker Markl            (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Alberto Mendelzon       (University of Toronto)
Ramzi Musas             (Oracle GmbH)
Matthias Nicola         (IBM Silicon Valley Lab)
Jian Pei                (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Stefano Rizzi           (Univ. of Bologna)
Carsten Sapia           (BMW Group)
Timos Sellis            (National Technical Univ. of Athens)
Il-Yeol Song            (Drexel University)
Martin Staudt           (University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern 
Switzerland)
Bernhard Thalheim       (Technische Universitat Cottbus)
Dimitri Theodoratos     (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Riccardo Torlone        (Universita di Roma Tre)
Panos Vassiliadis       (University of Ioannina)[Program Co-Chair]
Yannis Vassiliou        (National Technical University of Athens)
Gottfried Vossen        (Univ. of Munster)
Janet Wiener            (Hewlett-Packard)
Carlo Zaniolo           (University of California)
 

CONTACTS
Hans-Joachim 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-I4gioVLb4H+AKZTfuerNgRvVK+yQ3ZXh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web page: http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lenz/winfo/index.htm 

Panos Vassiliadis 
Department of Computer Science
University of Ioannina
Ioannina, 45110, Hellas 
Tel: +30-26510-98814
Fax: +30-26510-98890
E-Mail: pvassil-e5iTNDsqyVlQFI55V6+gNQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Web page: www.cs.uoi.gr/~pvassil
 
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