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      8th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB'10)
                       In conjunction with VLDB 2010
                      September 13th, 2010, Singapore
            http://www.dbis.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/QDB2010/
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The problem of poor data quality in databases, data warehousing and
information systems largely and indistinctly affects every application
domain. Many data processing tasks (such as information integration,
data sharing, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery from
databases) require various forms of data preparation and consolidation
with complex data processing techniques, because the data input to the
algorithms is assumed to conform to nice data distributions,
containing no missing, inconsistent or incorrect values. This leaves a
large gap between the available "dirty" data and the available
machinery to process the data for the application purposes.

The purpose of Quality in Databases (QDB) workshop is a qualified
forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss and get to know the
most innovative and advanced experiences for detecting data anomalies
and assessing, monitoring, improving, and maintaining the quality of
information. More information on the workshop can be found at the
workshop Website: http://www.dbis.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/QDB2010/.

The topics of the workshop will include, but will not be limited to:
- Duplicate detection, entity resolution, and entity reconciliation
- Conflict resolution and data fusion
- Data quality models and algebra
- Quality-aware query languages and query processing techniques
- Quality-aware analytics solutions
- Data scrubbing, data standardization, data cleaning techniques
- Data quality in multi-database settings
- Relevance of data quality in the database area
- Role of metadata in quality measurement
- Data quality in Web applications
- Quality of information on the Web
- Data quality mining
- Quality of scientific, geographical, and multimedia databases
- Privacy-preserving data quality management
- Data quality benchmarks
- Data quality assessment, measures and improvement methodologies

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FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION
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For the QDB 2010 edition of the workshop, in addition to regular research
papers, we would like to promote the presentations of research-in-progress
papers and posters. For this reason, we accept three categories for 
submission:
- research papers (should not exceed 10 pages)
- short papers (up to 6 pages)
- posters (up to 3 pages).

In line with our main intent for fruitful discussions and exchanges, in 
addition to previously unpublished material that can be submitted in any 
of the above formats, the program committee welcomes short paper 
submissions and posters that include ideas and material that may have 
appeared elsewhere, insofar as they are judged to be a sound and 
valuable contribution to the discussion. Papers to be included in the 
QDB workshop's research sessions will be reviewed by at least three 
people from the program committee.

Depending on the number and quality of submissions, the best papers of 
the workshop may be recommended for fast-tracking to the ACM Journal of 
Data and Information Quality (JDIQ).

Paper submissions should be made on-line through QDB 2010's CMT paper 
submission site: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/QDB2010/

The papers have to be formatted according the VDLB formatting guidelines 
(see http://www.vldb2010.org/ppp.htm). All papers must be submitted in 
PDF. Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the 
submitted documents. It is essential that the submitted papers print 
without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

In case of paper acceptance, the authors agree that at least one of them 
will register for the workshop and present the paper.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Deadline for submissions:     June 19, 2010
- Notification of acceptance:     August 9, 2010
- Camera-ready versions:     August 16, 2010
- Workshop:                     September 13, 2010

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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Andrea Maurino, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Kai-Uwe Sattler, Ilmenau Univ. of Technology, Germany

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Carlo Batini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Daniele Barone, University of Toronto, Canada
Ismael Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Tiziana Catarci, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy
Peter Christen, Australian National University, Australia
Helena Galhardas, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Michael Gertz, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, UC Irvine, USA
Raghav Kaushik, Microsoft Research, USA
Andy Koronios, University of South Australia, Australia
Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA
Chen Li, UC Irvine, USA
Pei Li, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK
Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
Paolo Papotti, Universita "Roma Tre", Italy
Mario Gerardo Piattini, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Monica Scannapieco, ISTAT, Italy
Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs, USA
Meina Song, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Junde Song, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T-Research, USA
Vassilios Verykios, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
William Winkler, U.S. Bureau of the Census, USA

CONTACT

Do you have any further enquiries? Please, do not hesitate to contact 
the workshop organizers at QDB10@elet.polimi.it



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