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<p class="MsoNormal"> CALL FOR PAPERS<span style="color:#1F497D"> –
</span>EXTENDED DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> BIRTE 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Sixth International Workshop on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Real-Time Business Intelligence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="http://BIRTE2012.cs.wpi.edu/">
http://BIRTE2012.cs.wpi.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> August 27, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> In conjunction with VLDB 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> August 27-31, 2012 Istanbul, Turkey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Due to an inconsistency in the dates on the web page and in the CFP, we are extending the deadlines as follows:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">IMPORTANT (EXTENDED) DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Abstracts due: June 6, 2012<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span> (NEW)
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Papers due: June 10, 2012 <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>
(NEW) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Notification: June 2<span style="color:#1F497D">7</span>, 2012 (NEW)
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Camera-ready copies: August 1, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">DESCRIPTION<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In today's competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data to understand how the business is performing and to predict outcomes and trends has become critical. The traditional approach to reporting is no longer adequate. Instead
users now demand easy-to-use intelligent platforms and applications capable of analyzing real-time data to provide insight and actionable information at the right time. The end goal is to support better and timelier decision making, enabled by the availability
of up-to-date, high quality information.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Although there has been progress in this direction and many companies are introducing products towards meeting this goal, there is still a long way to go. In particular, the whole lifecycle of business intelligence requires innovative techniques
and methodologies capable of dealing with the requirements imposed by these new generation of BI applications. From the capture of real-time business data to the transformation and delivery of actionable information, all the stages of the Business Intelligence
(BI) cycle call for new algorithms and paradigms to support value-added functionalities. These functionalities include dynamic integration of real-time data feeds from operational sources, optimization and evolution of ETL transformations and analytical models,
and dynamic generation of adaptive real-time dashboards, just to name a few.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The series of BIRTE workshops, starting in 2006, have always been held in conjunction with VLDB. The series aims to provide a forum to discuss topics related to this emerging field and set research directions towards making business intelligence
more real-time. Following the success of previous BIRTE editions (2006, 2008-2011) submissions for research, industrial and position papers on relevant topics are encouraged.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Models, Architectures and Technologies for Real-time Enterprise Business Intelligence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Metadata management<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Data quality and cleansing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- BI over streaming data<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Data capture in real-time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Performance and scalability<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Real-time decision support<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Tuning and management of the real-time data warehouse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Data warehouse evolution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- ETL optimization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- ETL for the real-time data warehouse<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Data mining and data analysis in real-time<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Complex event analytics for business intelligence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Real-time OLAP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Visualization<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Streaming text analytics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Business decision making in the cloud<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Applications of Real-time Business Intelligence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Novel applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Case studies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Pitfalls in applying BI tools to real-life problems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Lessons learned from large practical applications of real-time BI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Industrial experiences and challenges<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Papers should follow the LNCS format (see <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0l">
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0l</a> for details).The first page must contain an abstract, a classification of the topic covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position
paper/industry paper). The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers in PDF should be submitted electronically to the review web site
<a href="https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BIRTE2012">https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BIRTE2012</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PROCEEDINGS<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As in previous years, post-proceedings will be published as a LNBIP volume by Springer-Verlag.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ORGANIZERS <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* General Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Umesh Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* PC Chairs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* PC Members<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Christof Bornhoevd, SAP Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Ben Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Howard Ho, IBM, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Meichun Hsu, HP Labs, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Alfons Kemper, TUM, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Wolfgang Lehner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Alexander Loeser, University of Technology Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Jose Norberto Mazon, University of Alicante, Spain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Renee Miller, University of Toronto, Canada <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Torben B. Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Donovan Schneider, SalesForce, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Eric Simon, SAP-BO, France<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland <o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Proceedings Chair <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Chuan Lei, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Website Chair <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Medhabi Wei, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
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