CALL FOR PAPERS

                                               BIRTE 2012

                              Sixth International Workshop on

                              Real-Time Business Intelligence

                              http://BIRTE2012.cs.wpi.edu/

                                             August 27, 2012

                              In conjunction with VLDB 2012

                          August 27-31, 2012 Istanbul, Turkey

                                            

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

* Abstracts due: May 30, 2012 

* Papers due: June 3, 2012         

* Notification: June 20, 2012        

* Camera-ready copies: August 1, 2012

 

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 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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 

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

- Metadata management

- 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

- Data mining and data analysis in real-time

- Complex event analytics for business intelligence

- Real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)

- Real-time OLAP

- Visualization

- Streaming text analytics

- Business decision making in the cloud

 

Applications of Real-time Business Intelligence

- Novel applications

- 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/BIRTE2012.

 

PROCEEDINGS

 

As in previous years, post-proceedings will be published as a LNBIP volume by Springer-Verlag.

 

ORGANIZERS

 

* General Chair

               Umesh Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

 

* PC Chairs

               Malu Castellanos, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA

               Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

 

* PC Members

               Christof Bornhoevd, SAP Labs, USA

               Ben Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore

               Howard Ho, IBM, USA

               Meichun Hsu, HP Labs, USA

               Alfons Kemper, TUM, Germany

               Christian Konig, Microsoft, USA

               Wolfgang Lehner, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

               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

               Donovan Schneider, SalesForce, USA

               Eric Simon, SAP-BO, France

               Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland  

 

Proceedings Chair           

               Chuan  Lei, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

 

Website Chair    

               Medhabi Wei, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA