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18th Americas Conference on
Information Systems (AMCIS)
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Track: DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY (SIGDQIQ)
Minitrack: DATA AND INFORMATION QUALITY OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA
August 9-12, 2012, Seattle, Washington
http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/
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--- DESCRIPTION ---
Unstructured data include free-form text such as found in word
processing
documents, e-mail, Web pages, spreadsheets, and text files, as
well as
nontextual data—images, sound, video, and graphics. Estimates of
the proportion
of unstructured data in organizations are staggering—analysts
estimate that 80
percent of the data are unstructured. Analysts have also
observed that the major
drivers for unstructured data growth are Microsoft Office, email
attachments,
and backup and archival, as well as the generation of multiple
and distributed
copies of data. In particular, the Web is a primary unstructured
information
source for nearly every knowledge worker. Evidently,
organizations that rely
solely on structured, record-oriented data have incomplete
information.
In recent years, there is a growing interest in accessing
unstructured data and
utilizing them, often together with structured data.
Applications vary from
counter-terrorism and biomedical information extraction to
business
intelligence, customer relationship management, and more.
Although they have
enormous potential for improving the completeness of information
in particular
and its quality in general, unstructured data introduce numerous
new challenges
for data and information quality research.
We welcome papers that address technical, managerial, and/or
societal data
quality challenges or solutions for fulfilling the potential of
unstructured
data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following list:
-- Data quality on the Web
-- Business intelligence with structured and unstructured data
-- Social aspects of data quality
-- Integration of structured and unstructured data
-- Reconciliation of comparable sources
-- Scalability and scalable solutions
-- Reusing and repurposing unstructured data
-- Governance of unstructured data
-- Cost and benefit assessments
-- Quality assessment methods and cleansing of complex data
--- JOURNAL PUBLICATION ----
Extended versions of outstanding papers will be fast-tracked to
ACM JDIQ (
http://jdiq.acm.org/
).
---- SUBMISSION PROCESS ----
All conference submissions must be submitted electronically
through the AMCIS
Manuscript Central submission system, at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012
For complete instructions for authors and information about the
conference,
visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/
(a link
to the AMCIS2012 paper template is provided at
http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/index.php/program/call-for-papers
)
---- IMPORTANT DATES ----
- January 3, 2012: Manuscript Central begins accepting paper
submissions
- March 1, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Deadline for
paper submissions
- April 2, 2012: Notification of acceptance
- April 20, 2012: (11:59 PM Pacific time zone): Final copy due
- June 12, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Early Registration
- July 13, 2012: Deadline for making hotel room reservations
- July 24, 2012: Last day for AMCIS 2012 Regular Registration
- August 9-12, 2012: AMCIS Conference
----- MINITRACK CHAIRS----
Irit Askira Gelman , DQIQ Research and Solutions , askirai@dqiqsolutions.com
Adir Even , Ben-Gurion University , adireven@bgu.ac.il
---- FURTHER INFORMATION ----
AMCIS 2012 Conference Website: http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/
Or contact Minitrack Chairs