2002 DOLAP Call for Papers

ACM Fifth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP
In conjunction with ACM CIKM 2002:
Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Submission of Papers

The workshop solicits two types of papers: regular and industry papers. Regular papers shall address research topics in the following areas, but not limited to:

· Data warehousing foundations

· Data modeling for data warehousing

· Data warehousing source integration

· Data warehouse design

· Metadata management

· Physical organization of data warehouses

· View materialization

· Data extraction, cleaning and loading

· Data warehouse consistency and quality

· Online analytical processing

· Conceptual and logical modeling of multi-dimensional data

· Multidimensional queries: evaluation and optimization

· Performance optimization and tuning

· Security in data warehouses

· Data warehouse evolution

· Data warehousing and the Web

· Data warehousing and XML

· Data warehousing applications

Industry papers shall address:

· Data warehousing projects and applications

· Administration tools: loading, cleaning and transformation

· Data Quality

· Maintenance of data warehouses

· Benchmarks

· Experience and lessons

· Software for data warehousing and OLAP

· Surveys

Submission of Papers

Submitted papers should be approximately 15 double-spaced pages. Electronic submission is highly encouraged (Postscript, PDF, MS Word, RTF). Full papers should be sent to

dolap2002@cs.njit.edu

by July 12, 2002. Alternatively, four (4) hard copies can be sent to the program chair at the mailing address below.

Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their technical merit, originality, significance, readability, and relevance to the workshop. Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by August 17. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due on September 15, 2002, and will be published in the workshop proceedings by ACM Press.

It is planned that selected accepted papers will be considered for journal publication in a joint special issue with the best papers of DMDW 2002.

More information about the workshop is available at

http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/song/dolap.html

Important Dates:

Submission deadline for full papers (electronic): July 12, 2002

Notification of acceptance (electronic): August 17, 2002

Camera-ready copy due date: September 15, 2002

Workshop date: November 8, 2002