CALL FOR PAPERS

                                                            BIRTE 2011

                                             Fifth International Workshop on

                                             Real-Time Business Intelligence

                              http://wwwdb.inf.tu-dresden.de/birte2011/

                                                   September 2, 2011

                                             In conjunction with VLDB 2011

                                             August 29-Sept 2, 2011 Seattle

 

         

NEW!!! Keynote speakers: Andreas Reuter and Guy Lohman

                                             

IMPORTANT DATES

 

* Abstracts due: June  13, 2011 

* Papers due: June  17, 2011        

* Notification: July 26, 2011        

* Camera-ready copies: August 1, 2011

 

DESCRIPTION

 

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 critial. The traditional approach to reporting is no longer adequate, 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.

 

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 new techniques and methodologies capable of dealing with the new requirements imposed by the new generation of BI applications. From the capturing 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 as the basis of new functionalities including 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.

 

The series of BIRTE workshops 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 BIRTE 2006 held in Seoul, Korea in conjunction with VLDB 2006, BIRTE 2008 held in Auckland, New Zealand in conjunction with VLDB 2008, BIRTE 2009 held in Lyon, France in conjunction with VLDB 2009 and BIRTE 2010 held in Singapore in conjunction with VLDB 2010, submissions for research, industrial and position papers on relevant topics are encouraged.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 

Models, Architectures and Technologies for Real-time Enterprise Business Intelligence

- Data quality and cleansing

- BI over streaming data

- Data capture in real-time

- Performance and scalability

- Real-time decision support

- Tuning and management of the real-time data warehouse

- Data warehouse evolution

- ETL optimization

- ETL for the real-time data warehouse

- New architectures for real-time data ingestion and processing

- Data mining and data analysis in real-time

- Real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

- Real-time OLAP

- Visualization

- Streaming text analytics

 

Applications of Real-time Enterprise Business Intelligence

- Case studies

- Pitfalls in applying BI tools to real-life problems

- Lessons learned from large practical applications of real-time BI

- Industrial experiences and challenges

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Papers should follow the LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0l 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 https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BIRTE2011/.

 

PROCEEDINGS

 

Post-proceedings will be published as a LNBIP volume by Springer-Verlag .

*** The best papers will be invited to a special issue of the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT).

 

ORGANIZERS

 

* General Chair

               Umesh Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

 

* PC Chairs

               Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

               Wolfgang Lehner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

 

* PC Members

               Ben Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore

               Dimitrios Georgakopoulos,  CSIRO, Australia

               Chetan Gupta, HP Labs, USA

               Howard Ho, IBM, USA

               Alfons Kemper, TUM, Germany

               Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA

               Alexander Loeser, University of Technology Berlin, Germany

               Jose Norberto Mazon, University of Alicante, Spain

               Renee Miller, University of Toronto, Canada

               Torben B. Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark

               Elke Rundensteiner, WPI, USA

               Donovan Schneider, SalesForce, USA

               Eric Simon, SAO-BO, France

               Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 

               Florian Waas, Greenplum, USA

 

*  Proceedings Chair & Web Master

               Maik Thiele, Dresden University of Technology, Germany