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Krakow, Poland, 4 - 8 September 2006

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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 year’s conference (DaWaK 2006), builds on this tradition of facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and potential research directions. DaWak 2006 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, 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.

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 DaWaK2006 conference will be invited to submit an extension for a special issue of an International Journal. Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received by April 1st 2006 (extended to April 10th),due date of the full paper electronic submission is April 10th 2006 (extended to April 30th).

For further inquiries, please contact:
Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho, Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (tho@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission of abstracts: April 1, 2006 ---> Extended to April 15, 2006
• Submission of full papers: April 10, 2006 ---> Extended to April 30, 2006
• Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2006 ---> New deadline May 30, 2006
• Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2006

Program Chairs

• A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Juan C. Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain

Program Committee

• Alberto Abello, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
• Charu Aggarwal, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
•  Eugene Agichtein , Microsoft Research , USA
• Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA
• Paulo Azevedo, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
• Jose Luis Balcazar, University Politechnique of Catalunya, Spain
• Elena Baralis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Bettina Berendt, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
• Petr Berka, University of Economics Prage, Czech Republic
• Jorge Bernardino, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
• Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
• Sourav S Bhowmick , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Francesco Bonchi, ISTI - C.N.R., Italy
• Henrik Boström, Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweeden
• Jean-Francois Boulicaut, INSA Lyon, France
• Mokrane Bouzeghoub, University of Versailles, France
• Stephane Bressan (SoC), National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Peter Brezeny, University of Vienna, Austria
• Stephen A. Brobst, Teradata, a division of NCR, USA
• Robert Bruckner, Microsoft, USA
• Luca Cabibbo, Università Roma Tre, Italy
• Rui Camacho, University of Porto Computer Centre, Portugal
• Tru Hoang Cao, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam
• F. Amilcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
• Barbara Catania, DISI - University of Genoa, Italy
• Jesús Cerquides, University of Barcelona, Spain
• Chan Chee-Yong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Arbee L.P. Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
• Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C
• Rada Chirkova, NC State University, USA
• Sunil Choenni , University of Twente and Dutch Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
• Ezeife Christie, University of Windsor, Canada
• Frans Coenen, The university of Liverpool, UK
• Graham Cormode, Bell Labs, USA
• Bruno Crémilleux, Université de Caen, France
• Honghua Dai, Deakin University, Australia
• Agnieszka Dardzinska, Bialystok Technical University, Poland
• Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington
• Karen C. Davis , University of Cincinnati, USA
• Chris Ding, Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab, USA
• Chabane Djeraba , University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France
• Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA
• Guozhu Dong, Wright State University, USA
• Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria
• Kemal Efe, University of Louisiana, Lafayette , USA
• Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Roberto Esposito, Università di Torino, Italy
• Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Griffith University, Australia
• Wei Fan, IBM T.J.Watson, USA
• Jianping Fan , University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
• Ronen Feldman , Bar-Ilan University, Isarel
• Ling Feng, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Eduardo Fernández-Medina, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Ada Fu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Johannes Fürnkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Dragan Gamberger, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia
• Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, LIP6 - University Paris VI, France
• Rayid Ghani, Accenture Technology Labs, USA
• Chris Giannella, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
• Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Matteo Golfarelli , DEIS - University of Bologna
• Gunter Grieser, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
• SK Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, India
• Mirsad Hadzikadic, College of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Howard J. Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada
• Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, iXmatch Inc., USA
• Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Alexander Hinneburg, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• Jaakko Hollmen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University, USA
• Se June Hong, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
• Frank Höppner, University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany
• Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany
• Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Drexel University, USA
• Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
• Eyke Hüllermeier, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
• Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University, USA
• Alípio Jorge, University of Porto, Portugal
• Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, USA
• Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
• Mehmet Kaya, Firat University, Turkey
• Eamonn Keogh, University of California - Riverside, USA
• Jörg Kindermann, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems AIS, Germany
• Arno Knobbe, Universiteit Utrecht, Neitherland
• Igor Kononenko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Stefan Kramer , Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
• Marzena Kryszkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Michihiro Kuramochi, Google Inc., USA
• Christine Largeron, EURISE Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France
• Pedro Larrañaga, University of the Basque Country, Spain
• Jens Lechtenbörger, University of Münster, Germany
• Yue-Shi Lee, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan, R.O.C
• Guanling Lee, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C
• Jinyan Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Xuemin Lin, UNSW, Australia
• Beate List, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Xiaohui Liu, Brunel University, UK
• Donato Malerba, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
• Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Giuseppe Manco, ICAR-CNR, National Research Council, Italy
• Sebban Marc, EURISE, University of Saint-Etienne
• Michael May, Fraunhofer Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme, Germany
• Rosa Meo, University of Torino, Italy
• Mukesh Mohania, I.B.M. India Research Lab, India
• Eduardo F. Morales, ITESM - Campus Cuernavaca, Mexico
• Shinichi Morishita, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Tadeusz Morzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Alexandros Nanopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Claire Nedellec, MIG-INRA, France
• Wee Keong Ng , Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Richard Nock, Université Antilles-Guyane, France
• Andreas Nürnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• Arlindo L. Oliveira, IST/INESC-ID, Portugal
• Georgios Paliouras, NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece
• Themis Palpanas, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
• Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
• Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Jaakko Tapani Peltonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Clara Pizzuti, ICAR-CNR , Italy
• Lubomir Popelinsky, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
• David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
• Jan Ramon, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina,USA
• Jan Rauch, University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic
• Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University, USA
• Christophe Rigotti, LIRIS Lyon France and ISTI Pisa, Italy
• Gilbert Ritschard , University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
• John Roddick, Flinders University, Australia
• Henryk Rybinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Domenico Sacc à, Universita Della Calabria, Italy
• Yucel Saygin, Sabanci University, Turkey
• Monica Scannapieco, University of Rome, Italy
• Josef Schiefer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA
• Michael Schrefl, University Linz, Austria
• Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens
• Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
• Manuel Serrano, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
• Alkis Simitsis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Dan Simovici, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA
• Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University Banacha 2, Poland
• Carlos Soares, University of Porto, Portugal
• Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
• Nicolas Spyratos, Universite Paris Sud, France
• Jerzy Stefanowski, Poznan University of Technology
• Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
• Reinhard Stolle, BMW Car IT, Germany
• Jan Struyf, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel, Germany
• Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
• Ah-Hwee Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
• Evimaria Terzi, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Dimitri Theodoratos, New Jersey's Science & Technology University, USA
• Riccardo Torlone, Roma Tre University, Italy
• Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
• Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
• Millist Vincent, University of South Australia, Australia
• Wei Wang, University of North Carolina, USA
• Marek Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Wolfram Wöß, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Autria
• Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
• Mohammed J. Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, USA
• Shichao Zhang, Sydney University of Technology, Australia
• Djamel A. Zighed, University Lumière Lyon 2, France