[AISWorld] Call for papers: TQMCA2014 at ADBIS2014

Tue Apr 15 07:10:19 EDT 2014

Technologies for Quality Management in Challenging Applications
Sep 7, 2014, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

TQMCA website: https://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/events/tqmca_2014/ <https://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/events/tqmca_2014/> 

Workshop in collaboration with 

the 18th international conference of Advanced Data Bases and Information Systems 2014 (http://adbis2014.finki.ukim.mk/ <http://adbis2014.finki.ukim.mk/> )

The technologies for quality management in Challenging Applications (TQMCA) is a growing research domain specifically within large scale complex applications and their companion database management system development as well as in the information system development and in general in system development disciplines. These large scale complex applications process data from diverse origins for satisfying information needs of their stakeholders or users. The information about the origin, context, derivation, lineage, ownership or history of some artifact plays a vital role in those applications and is termed as provenance. The data when collected and processed becomes more structured. The provenance of data is more specifically a form of structured metadata that records the activities involved in data production. The notion applies to a broad variety of data types, from database records, to scientific datasets, business transaction logs, web pages, social media messages, and more. At the same time, different definitions and measures of quality apply to each of these data types, in different domains.

The mission of the TQMCA workshop is to publish high impact articles contributing to the field of data and information quality. This workshop seeks to explore the relationship between quality of data and information, and technologies for quality management in complex and challenging applications.

In contrast to the research in general and conceptual nature or focus on specific application domains, such as web application quality, data warehouse quality, requirements model quality, model transformations quality, etc. the TQMCA workshop at ADBIS 2014 intends to cover all areas related to technologies for quality management in challenging applications.

The aim of the workshop is twofold: Firstly, to bring together researchers and industry developers working on various aspects of information and systems quality, in order to exchange research ideas and results and discuss about them. Secondly, to promote research on information and systems quality to the broader research community attending ADBIS 2014.

The workshop continues a tradition of quality-focused workshops at the ER conferences, that started with the International Workshops on Conceptual Modeling Quality (IWCMQ02 at ER 2002 Tampere, IWCMQ03 at ER 2003 Chicago) and was picked up again by the International Workshops on Quality of Information Systems (QoIS05 at ER 2005 Klagenfurt, QoIS06 at ER 2006 Tucson, QoIS07 at ER2007 Auckland, QoIS09 at ER2009 Gramado, Brazil). A material result of these workshops was the Data Knowledge Engineering special issue on conceptual model quality in late 2005 (Vol 55, No 3).

The TQMCA workshop is not restricted to particular research methods and we will consider both theoretical and empirical research, as well as novel applications.

Particular topics of interest related to TQM include, but are not limited to:

·         Quality constructs and models

·         Quality measures and instruments

·         Quality ontologies

·         Quality with respect to provenance of data in different domains

·         Validation of quality models, measures and instruments

·         Methodological issues of research on technology quality

·         Method and tool support for improving and monitoring quality

·         Integration of quality assurance in model-driven development

·         Quality of requirements engineering artifacts and processes

·         Quality of models and meta-models

·         Quality of ontologies and reference models

·         Data and meta-data quality

·         Information and system quality

·         Quality of queries

·         Quality of conceptual modelling for technologies

·         Ontological analysis of quality modelling grammars

·         Pattern-based analysis of quality modelling

·         Cost/benefit analysis of quality assurance processes

·         Quality assurance practices: case studies and experiences

·         Quality with respect to specific types of modelling such as data warehouse modelling, workflow modelling, business process modelling, enterprise modelling, requirements modelling, ontology modelling, domain modelling, navigation modelling, user interface modelling, etc.

·         Quality with respect to specific types of applications such as data warehouses, web based information systems, ontology-driven systems, Semantic Web applications, business applications, intra-enterprise systems, inter-enterprise systems, etc.

·         Quality with respect to specific application domains such as health sector, logistics, public sector, financial sector, national security, call-centers, manufacturing, services, e-commerce, software, etc.

·         Quality with respect to emerging needs of applications integration for: GIS, cloud, crowdsourcing, Big Data, Mobile data bases, etc.

Duration

The workshop covers three sessions of 90 minutes on a single day.

Paper submission procedures

Papers will be subject to peer review by at least three members of an international program committee. 

The workshop website (https://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/events/tqmca_2014/ <https://www.is.informatik.uni-kiel.de/events/tqmca_2014/> )is maintained by Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany and uses the EasyChair paper submission and review system.

TQMAC will include main and short papers into the LNCS proceedings published by Springer in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series (http://www.springer.com/series/11156 <http://www.springer.com/series/11156> ). The expected length of TQMAC papers are 14 pages according to the general policy. Furthermore, up to four best workshop papers are going to be selected for extension, peer reviewing and publishing in a journal. 

For each accepted paper at least one author will have to be register for the workshop and the conference in order to publish the paper in the LNCS proceedings.

Important Dates:

Deadline for paper submission: April 24th 2014

Notifications to authors: May 29th 2014

Camera-ready paper: June 15th 2014

Workshops: September 7th, 2014 

Main Conference: September 8-9th, 2014

Organizers:

Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and ESSEC, France)

Ajantha Dahanayake (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia)

Bernhard Thalheim (Christian Albrechts University, Germany)

Program Committee:

Jacky Akoka (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers and TMSP, France),
Tiziana Catarci (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy),
Corine Cauvet (Université Aix-Marseille 3, France),
Virginie Goasdoue-Thion (Université Dauphine, Paris, France),
Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden),
Zoubida Kedad (Université de Versailles, France),
Oscar Pastor (Valencia University of Technology, Spain),
Geert Poels (University of Ghent, Belgium),
Farida Semmak (Université Paris XII, IUT Sénart Fontainebleau),
Samira Si-Saïd (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France),
Carlo Batini (University of Milan, Italy)

Ajantha Dahanayake, PhD.

Full professor, Computer Information Science Department

Prince Sultan University 

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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