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Call for Papers
DEXA 2008 Third International Workshop on
Flexible Database and Information Systems Technology
(FlexDBIST-08)
Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008
Workshop Web Site: http://flexdbist.unibg.it/
Aim and Scope
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Information systems are able to deal with an incredible amount of data,
concerning every aspect of real life. Data are dealt with by heterogeneous
systems, concern heterogeneous application domains, are structured in
heterogeneous data formats; furthermore, semi-structured (XML) or
unstructured (textual) documents are becoming important data sources for
enterprises and organizations.
Enterprises and organizations need to deal with such heterogeneous and
often very large volumes of data, which may also be uncertain, imprecise
and incomplete; for instance a typical question is “how to take advantage
from such large volumes of data, in order to extract useful information for
decision making, for discovering and sharing useful knowledge, etc. ?”.
In other words, they need technology for Flexible Data Management in
Databases and Information Systems.
Several researchers are dealing with Flexible Data Management in Databases
and Information Systems.
Researchers working on data models and techniques able to manage imprecise
and uncertain data in databases are proposing database models able to deal
with imprecision and uncertainty in the data modelling phase, as well as
during querying. They generally come either from the database community or
from the soft computing community, and are separately dealing with the topic.
Researchers working on data warehousing techniques have to face problems
concerning flexible management of heterogeneous and historical data in
multidimensional views of data; since data come from heterogeneous sources,
and their structure changes in time, flexible techniques for managing data
collected in data warehouses are needed. Researchers working on data mining
and knowledge discovery techniques, are providing technology and tools for
discovering useful and/or unexpected information from large volumes of data;
flexibility must be intended not only as the need to deal with heterogeneous
and imprecise source data, but also as the need to deal with several formats
for extracted patterns and knowledge (which is the focus of Inductive
Databases).
The Information Retrieval community, that is providing solutions for Web
search engines, is now moving towards new emerging research themes, such
as the definition of more effective techniques to index, categorize, filter
and retrieve collections of multimedia documents heterogeneously structured
and rapidly changing in time, problems that are faced by the database and
data mining communities as well.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working
on methods and techniques for Flexible Data Management in Databases and
Information Systems in the broadest sense. Papers proposing models,
methodologies and techniques concerning management of imprecise and
uncertain data, data warehousing, data mining and knowledge discovery,
spatial and spatio-temporal databases, as well as information retrieval
are encouraged.
Any kind of flexible data management issue is of interest: data models,
query languages, textual and semi-structured data management, integrated
application of different techniques (e.g. database, data mining and
information retrieval methodologies and techniques). Position papers are
also welcome and encouraged.
This initiative follows the two successful previous editions
FlexDBIST-06, held in Krakow in September 2006, and FlexDBIST-07,
held in Regensburg in September 2007. As for the former editions,
the workshop is aimed at yielding a cross-fertilisation in
the specific field.
Topics
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The topics of the Workshop include but are not limited to the followings:
* Database models for uncertain, imprecise, incomplete and vague data.
* Database models for flexible data warehouses.
* Database models for data mining and knowledge discovery.
* Database models for information retrieval applications.
* Query languages dealing with imprecision and vagueness
* Query languages for flexible data warehouses.
* Query languages for data miming and knowledge discovery.
* Query languages for information retrieval.
* Flexible management of (vague or uncertain) Spatial and
Spatio-temporal data.
* Data Mining and Information Retrieval over uncertain data
* Text Mining.
* Flexible languages for data or text mining
* Inductive databases.
* Flexible management of (collections of) semi-structured data
and documents (XML)
* Uncertain, imprecise, incomplete and vague semi-structured data.
* Data mining and knowledge discovery applied to semi-structured data.
* Information retrieval applied to semi-structured data.
* Integrated approaches
* Flexible management of large volumes of data
* Flexible techniques for security and intrusion detection
in Information Systems and Databases
* Geographic Information Retrieval
* Location-based Retrieval
Submission of papers
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* Papers should be original and not previously published elsewhere.
Basic, applied research and position papers are solicited.
* Papers should not be more than 5 pages long using IEEE two column style.
Papers that fail to comply with length limitations risk rejection.
* Electronic submissions in PDF format only are accepted Please note that
hard copy and fax submissions will not be accepted.
* Precise submission instructions can be found on the workshop web site.
* Workshop Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
Important Dates
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* Paper Submission: March 28, 2008 <---------- NEW !!!
* Notification of Acceptance: April 24, 2008
* Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 15, 2008
* Symposium: September 1-5, 2008
Organizer
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Giuseppe Psaila
University of Bergamo
Faculty of Engineering
Viale Marconi 5
24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy
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Program Committee
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Chairs:
Gloria Bordogna
CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto per La Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali,
Sez. Milano, Lab. Georisorse
Via Pasubio 5
24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Giuseppe Psaila
University of Bergamo
Faculty of Engineering
Viale Marconi 5
24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Alvaro Barreiro, University of Corunna (Spain)
Patrick Bosc, IRISA/ENSSAT (France)
Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, France
Pablo G. Bringas, University of Deusto (Spain)
Barbara Catania, University of Genova (Italy)
Eliseo Clementini, University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, CNR-ICAR and University of Calabria, Italy
Rita De Caluwe, Ghent University (Belgium)
Ander de Keijzer, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Guy de Tré, Ghent University (Belgium)
Arta Dilo, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands
Sara Foresti, University of Milan, Italy
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Enrique Herrera Viedma, University of Granada (Spain)
Medo Kantardzic, University of Louisville (USA)
Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University (USA)
Maria Jose Martin Bautista, University of Granada (Spain)
Rosa Meo, University of Turin (Italy)
Juan Manuel Moreno Rodríguez, University of Murcia, Spain
Barbara Oliboni, University of Verona (Italy)
Olivier Pivert, IRISA/ENSSAT (France)
Olga Pons, University of Granada, Spain
Chiara Renso, CNR ISTI (Italy)
Crawford Revie, University of Strathclyde (UK)
Maria Rifqi, LIP6 - UPMC, France
Celine Robardet, INSA Lyon (France)
Harri M. T. Saarikoski, Helsinki University, AAC Global (Finland)
Ulrich Schiel, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brazil)
Scott D. Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA
Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Christelle Vangenot, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Robert Villa, Glasgow University (UK)
Slawomir Zadrozny, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Jozef Zurada, University of Louisville (USA)
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