(Apologies for multiple copies due to cross postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students) ************************************************************************* Call for Papers DaWak2005 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery 22 - 26 August 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark http://www.dexa.org/ http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dawak2005/ *************** Important dates *************** * Submission of abstracts: April 15, 2005 * Submission of full papers: April 22, 2005 * Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2005 * Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2005 ************************************************************************* Outline ------- The objective of the 7th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2005) is to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This year the conference will also focus on autonomic aspect of data warehousing and knowledge discovery. Moreover, the conference will be supplemented with invited talks, panel discussion and industrial papers. Major Tracks: ------------- The topics of interest include in these tracks but are not limited to: * Autonomic Database Systems: ---------------------------- Architecture of autonomic system, Self-management of data management system, Self-optimization of indexing structure, Automatic data replication, ETL process, data clustering, query optimization and automatic analysis of data based on events. * Data Warehousing: ------------------ Active data warehousing, Analytical front-end tools, Data cleansing, Data warehouse architecture, Data warehouse design (conceptual, logical and physical), Data warehouse quality, Data warehouse design methodology, Data warehouse security and reliability, Design and maintenance of metadata repository, Distributed data warehousing, Multidimensional databases, View maintenance/adaptation, Multidimensional query languages, Query optimization, Parallel processing. * Knowledge Discovery: --------------------- Association rules and temporal association rules, Clustering, Data and knowledge representation, Data mining agents, Data mining support for the design of a data warehouse, Distributed and parallel data mining/knowledge discovery, Evaluating, consolidating, and explaining discovered knowledge, Incremental knowledge discovery, Integration of data warehousing and OLAP and data mining, Interactive data exploration and discovery, Languages and interfaces for data mining, Mining unstructured and structured texts. ********************************************************************* *************** Paper Submission Details *************** ********************************************************************* Authors are invited to submit research and application papers, not exceeding 5000 words, representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers that substantially exceed this limit will be rejected without review. However, it is possible to include additional, clarifying material in an appendix to the paper. 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. Paper submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) would be highly appreciated. The maximum number of pages for the final version will be 10 pages. We are negotiating an SCI journal for best four or even five papers of DaWak2005 conference. Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by April 15, 2005. You should submit the file of your paper to be received by April 22, 2005. ********************************************************************* *************** Program Chairs: *************** ********************************************************************* A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Juan C. Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain) ********************************************************************* *************** Program Committee *************** ********************************************************************* Alberto Abello (Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Spain) Mike Bain (University of New South Wales, Australia) Elena Baralis (Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy) Jorge Bernardino (Polytechnic of Coimbra, Portugal) Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy) Sourav S. Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Ella Bingham (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France) Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Stephen Brobst (NCR, Teradata Corp., USA) Robert M. Bruckner (Microsoft, USA) Luca Cabibbo (Universita di Roma Tre, Italy) Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Arbee L.P.Chen (National Chengchi University,Taipei, Taiwan) Sunil Choenni (University of Twente, Netherlands) Karen Davis (University of Cincinnati,Cincinnati, USA) Vladimir Estivill-Castro (Griffith University, USA) Christie Ezeife (University of Windsor, Canada) Ling Feng (University of Twente, Netherlands) Eduardo Ferrandez-Medina (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France) Matteo Golfarelli (University of Bologna, Italy) Jerzy Grzymala-Busse (University of Kansas, USA) S.K. Gupta (Indian Institue of Technology, India) Mirsad Hadzikadic (College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, USA) Joachim Hammer (University of Bremen, Germany) Alexander Hinneburg (Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg, Germany) Tu Bao Ho (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Jaakko Hollmen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) Se June Hong (IBM - The Data Analytics Research Project, USA) Andreas Hotho (University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany) Matthias Jarke (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany) Manfred Jeusfeld (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Hiroyuki Kawano (Nanzan University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Jens Lechtenboerger (University of Muenster, Germany) Guanling Lee (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Yue-Shi Lee (Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan) Wolfgang Lehner (Dressen University of Technology, Germany) Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Beate List (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Yannis Manolopoulos (Aristotle University, Greece) Mukesh Mohania (I.B.M. India Research Lab, India) Wee Keong Ng (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tho Manh Nguyen (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jian Pei (The State University of New York, USA) Jaakko Peltonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Clara Pizzuti (Universita' della Calabria, Italy) David Powers (The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia) Zbigniew W. Ras (University of North Carolina,Charlotte, USA) Mirek Riedewald (Cornell University, USA) Stefano Rizzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Domenico Saccà (Universita Della Calabria, Italy) Monica Scannapieco (University of Rome, Italy) Josef Schiefer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Michael Schrefl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Timos Sellis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Manuel Serrano (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain) Alkis Simitsis (National Technical University Of Athens, Greece) Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) Gerd Stumme (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey Institute of Technology,USA) Riccardo Torlone (Universitænbsp; Roma Tre, Italy) Panos Vassiliadis, (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Millist Vincent (University of South Australia, Australia) Werner Winiwarter (University of Vienna, Austria) Marek Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology ul. Piotrowo, Poland) Wolfram Wöß (University of Linz, Austria) Xindong Wu (University of Vermont, USA) Yiyu Yao (University of Regina, Canada) Show-Jane Yen (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York, USA) Long Zhang (IBM China Research Laboratory, China) Shichao Zhang (Sydney University of Technology, Australia)