FlexDBIST-07 Call for Papers

Call for Papers

DEXA 2007 Second International Workshop on

Flexible Database and Information Systems Technology
(FlexDBIST-07)

Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007
Workshop web site: http://flexdbist07.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 successful first edition (FlexDBIST-06)
held in 
Krakow in September 2006. and is aimed at yielding a
cross-fertilisation in 
the specific field as it was for the former edition. 


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


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 submission in PDF format is preferred, but Postscript will 
  also be 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 19, 2007
* Notification of Acceptance: April 27, 2007
* Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 15, 2007
* Symposium: September 3-7, 2007


Organizer
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Giuseppe Psaila
University of Bergamo
Faculty of Engineering
Viale Marconi 5
24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy
e-mail: [email protected]


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: [email protected]

Giuseppe Psaila
University of Bergamo
Faculty of Engineering
Viale Marconi 5
24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy
e-mail: [email protected]


Elena  Baralis,  Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Alvaro  Barreiro,  University of Corunna (Spain)
Patrick  Bosc,  IRISA/ENSSAT (France)
Pablo G. Bringas,  University of Deusto (Spain)
Barbara  Catania,  University of Genova (Italy)
Eliseo  Clementini,  University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Rita  De Caluwe,  Ghent University (Belgium)
Ander  de Keijzer,  University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Guy  de Tré,  Ghent University (Belgium)
Dion Hoe-Lian Goh,  Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Enrique  Herrera Viedma,  University of Granada (Spain)
Medo  Kantardzic,  University of Louisville (USA)
Andreas  Karwath,  University of Freiburg (Germany)
Donald H. Kraft,  Louisiana State University (USA)
Anna  Maddalena,  University of Genova (Italy) 
Sanjay  Madria,  University of Missouri-Rolla (USA)
Maria Jose  Martin Bautista,  University of Granada (Spain)
Rosa  Meo,  University of Turin (Italy)
Barbara  Oliboni,  University of Verona (Italy)
Olivier  Pivert,  IRISA/ENSSAT (France)
Chiara  Renso,  CNR ISTI (Italy)
Crawford  Revie,  University of Strathclyde (UK)
Celine  Robardet,  INSA Lyon (France)
Harri M. T. Saarikoski,  Helsinki University, AAC Global (Finland)
Ulrich  Schiel,  Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brazil)
Timos  Sellis,  National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
Myra  Spiliopoulou,  University of Magdeburg, Germany
Maurice  van Keulen,  University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Christelle  Vangenot,  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(Switzerland)
Robert  Villa,  Glasgow University (UK)
Agnes  Voisard,  Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin (Germany)
Slawomir  Zadrozny,  Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
Jozef  Zurada,  University of Louisville (USA)