Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2008) Turin, Italy Sept. 1 to Sept. 5, 2008 http://www.dexa.org/ Submission site: https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexadriver/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers =================== Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organisations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area. During the past years, the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) has become one of the most important international scientific events to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss latest research issues and experiences in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This years conference (DaWaK 2008), builds on this tradition of facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and potential research directions. DaWaK 2008 seeks to introduce innovative principles, methods, algorithms and solutions to challenging problems faced in the development of data warehousing, knowledge discovery and data mining applications. Submissions presenting current research work on both theoretical and practical aspects of data warehousing and knowledge discovery are encouraged. Particularly, we strongly welcome submissions dealing with emerging real world applications such as real-time data warehousing, analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data, OLAP mining, mobile OLAP, mining natural science data (e.g. bioinformatics, geophysics) Major Tracks =============== Topics of interest include in these tracks but are not limited to: Data Warehousing =================== Analytical front-end tools for data warehousing/OLAP Active/real-time data warehousing Data warehouse architecture Web/multimedia data warehouses Data extraction, cleansing, transforming and loading Spatial and spatiotemporal data warehouses Data warehouse maintenance and evolution Data warehousing in mobile/wireless environments Data warehouse design (conceptual, logical and physical) Data warehousing and the semantic web Data warehousing consistency and quality Data warehouse schema evolution and transformations Data warehousing with unstructured data (e.g., text) and semi- structured data (e.g., XML) Design and maintenance of metadata repository Data warehouse security and reliability Data warehousing applications: corporate, scientific, government, healthcare, bioinformatics, etc. Parallel /distributed data warehousing View maintenance/adaptation Frameworks for Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI) Performance optimization and tuning Multidimensional modelling and queries Data warehousing and industry applications (e.g. ERP, CRM) Integration of data warehouses and data mining Knowledge Discovery ====================== Knowledge discovery framework and process Security, privacy and social impact of data mining Integration constraints and knowledge in KDD process Mining unstructured and structured data Data and knowledge representation Exploring data analysis, inference of causes, prediction Evaluating, consolidating, and explaining discovered knowledge Statistical techniques for generation a robust, consistent data model Interactive data exploration/visualization and discovery Mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data Data mining techniques: clustering, classification, association rules, decision trees, neural-network, etc Mining large/complex datasets, continuous data streams, sensor networks Data mining support for the design of information systems Mining ubiquitous, moving, time-series data Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining Mining Trends, Opportunities and Risks Languages and interfaces for data mining Distributed and parallel data mining/knowledge discovery Mining from low-quality information sources High performance and parallel/distributed data mining Complexity, efficiency, and scalability in data mining Pre-processing and post-processing of data mining Data mining applications: bioinformatics, E-commerce, Web, intrusion/fraud detection, finance, healthcare, marketing, telecommunications, etc Paper Submission Details ========================== Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF or Word format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 12 pages with the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages once the paper is accepted. Submissions which are not conform to the LNCS format and/or which do exceed 10 pages (or up to 12 pages with the extra purchase commitment) will be rejected without reviews. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. As the last year, authors of best papers selected from DaWaK2008 conference will be invited to submit an extension for a special issue of International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM) and Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE). Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by March 28 2008, due date of the full paper electronic submission is April 4, 2008 via the following submission website: https://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dexadriver/ and select DaWaK2008 conference For further inquiries, please contact DaWaK 2008 PC Co-Chairperson Dr. Il-Yeol Song (song@drexel.edu), Dr. Johann Eder (johann.eder@univie.ac.at), or Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho (tho@ifs.tuwien.ac.at) IMPORTANT DATES ================= Submission of abstracts: March 28, 2008 Submission of full papers: April 4, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2008 Camera-ready copies due: June 6, 2008 Program Chairs ================ Il Yeol Song, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee ================== Abdelkader Zighed, Djamel,University Lyon, France Abello, Alberto,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Bach Pedersen, Torben,Aalborg University, Denmark Balcazar, Jose,Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Baralis, Elena,Politecnico di Torino, Italy Berendt, Bettina,Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Berka, Petr,University of Economics Prage, Cezch Bernardino, Jorge,ISEC, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal Bonchi, Francesco,ISTI - C.N.R., Italy Bostrom, Henrik,University of Skovde, Sweden Boulicaut, Jean-Francois,INSA Lyon, France Bressan, Stephane,National University of Singapore, Singapore Brezany, Peter,University of Vienna, Austria C. Desouza, Kevin,University of Washington, USA Cabibbo, Luca,Universita' Roma Tre, Italy Cardoso, Amilcar,University of Coimbra, Portugal Cerquides, Jesus,University of Barcelona, Spain Chirkova, Rada,NC State University, USA Choenni, Sunil,University of Twente and Dutch Ministry of Justice, Netherlands Christie, Ezeife,University of Windsor, Canada Coenen, Frans,The university of Liverpool, UK Cremilleux, Bruno,Universite Caen, France Cuzzocrea, Alfredo,University of Calabria, Italy Dardzinska, Agnieszka,Bialystok Technical University, Poland Davis, Karen,University of Cincinnati, USA Dirk, Draheim,Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Germany Eder, Johann,University of Vienna, Austria Elomaa, Tapio,Tampere University of Technology, Finland Esposito, Roberto,Universit?i Torino, Italy Estivill-Castro, Vladimir,Griffith University, Australia F. Morales, Eduardo,ITESM - Campus Cuernavaca, Mexico Fernkranz, Johannes,TU Darmstadt, Germany Feng, Ling,Tsinghua University, China Fernandez-Medina, Eduardo,University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Gamberger, Dragan,Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia Giannella, Chris,Dept. of Math&CS, Goucher College, USA Golfarelli, Matteo,DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy Grieser, Gunter,Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Hermeier, Eyke,Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?Magdeburg, Germany Hadzikadic, Mirsad,College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, USA Han, Eui-Hong,iXmatch Inc., USA Han, Wook-Shin,Kyungpook University, Korea Hoang Cao, Tru,Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam Hollmen, Jaakko,Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Hong, Se June,RSM emeritus, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Hoppner, Frank,University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany Hotho, Andreas,University of Kassel, Germany Huang, Jimmy,York University, Canada Hwan-Seung, Yong,Ewah Womans University, Korea Ichise, Ryutaro,National Institute of Informatics, Japan Illhoi, Yoo,University of Missouri, Columbia, USA J. Zaki, Mohammed,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Jenny Zhang, Xiuzhen,RMIT University, Australia Jianping, Fan,University of North Carolina, USA Jorge, Alipio M.,FEP/LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal Kalnis, Panos,National University of Singapore, Singapore Kantarcioglu, Murat,University of Texas at Dallas, USA Kaya, Mehmet,Firat University, Turkey Keogh, Eamonn,University of California - Riverside, USA Kim, Jinho,Kangwon National University, Korea Kindermann, J?,Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems AIS, Germany Knobbe, Arno,Universiteit Utrecht, Neitherlands Kononenko, Igor,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Kramer, Stefan,Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Kuramochi, Michihiro,Google Inc., USA L. Oliveira, Arlindo,IST/INESC-ID, Portugal Ladjel, Bellatreche,LISI/ENSMA, France Largeron, Christine,Laboratoire Hubert Curien University Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France Lechtenb?r, Jens,University of M?er, Germany Lee, Guanling,National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Lee, Jae-Gil,UIUC, USA Lee, Young-Koo,Kyung Hee University, Korea Lee, Yue-Shi,Ming Chuan University, Taiwan Li, Jinyan,Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Lin, Xuemin,UNSW, Australia Loh, Woong-Kee,University of Minnesota, USA Lujan-Mora, Sergio,University of Alacante, Spain Malerba, Donato,Universit?degli Studi di Bari, Italy Mamoulis, Nikos,University of Hong Kong, Hongkong Manco, Giuseppe,ICAR-CNR, National Research Council, Italy May, Michael,Fraunhofer Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme, Germany Meo, Rosa,University of Turin, Italy Mika, Sulkava,Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Moon, Yang-Sae,Dept. of Computer Science, Kangwon National University, Korea Mukesh, Mohania,I.B.M. India Research Lab, India Nanopoulos, Alexandros,Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ng, Wee-Keong,Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore Nguyen, Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nock, Richard,Universit?ntilles-Guyane, France Palpanas, Themis,University of Trento, Italy Park, Byung-Kwon,Dong-A University, Korea Pedreschi, Dino,University of Pisa, Italy Peltonen, Jaakko,Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Pizzuti, Clara,ICAR-CNR, Italy Popelinsky, Lubomir,Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Powers, David,The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Ramon, Jan,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Ras, Zbigniew,University of North Carolina, Charlotte Rau-Chaplin, Andrew,Dalhousie University, Canada Riedewald, Mirek,Cornell University, USA Ritschard, Gilbert,University of Geneva, Switzerland Rizzi, Stefano,University of Bologna, Italy S Bhowmick, Sourav,Nanyang Technological University Sacca, Domenico,University of Calabria & ICAR-CNR, Italy Scannapieco, Monica,University of Rome, Italy Schiefer, Josef,Vienna University of Technology, Austria Schneider, Markus,University of Florida, USA Schrefl, Michael,University Linz, Austria Semeraro, Giovanni,University of Bari, Italy Simitsis, Alkis,Stanford University, USA Simovici, Dan,University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA Skowron, Andrzej,Warsaw University Banacha 2, Poland Soares, Carlos,University of Porto, Portugal Song, Il-Yeol,Drexel University, USA Song, Min,New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Stefanowski, Jerzy,Poznan University of Technology, Poland Stepankova, Olga,Czech Technical University, Czech Stolle, Reinhard,BMW Car IT, Germany Struyf, Jan,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Tan, Ah-Hwee,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Taniar, David,Monash University, Australia Terzi, Evimaria,University of Helsinki, Finland Theodoratos, Dimitri,New Jersey`s Science & Technology University, USA Tjoa, A Min,IFS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Trujilo, Juan,University of Alacante, Spain Vaidya, Jaideep,Rutgers University, USA Vassiliadis, Panos,University of Ioannina, USA Wagner, Roland,Johannes Kepler University Linz, USA Wojciechowski, Marek,Poznan University of Technology, Poland Wöß, Wolfram,University of Linz, Austria Xiaohua, Hu,Drexel University, USA Yuan, An,Drexel University, USA Zaniolo, Carlo,University of California, Los Angeles, USA Zhang, Shichao,Guangxi Normal University, Australia