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Call for Papers

DEXA 2005 Workshop on

Integrating Data Mining, Databases and Information Retrieval (IDDI-05) Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22, 2005 Workshop web site: http://iddi05.unibg.it

Aim and Scope

Mass storage devices allow organizations to store very large volumes of data; in the form of relational data, textual documents, semi-structured (XML) documents. An important issue organizations would like to address is "how to take advantage from such large volumes of data", in order to extract useful information for decision making, to improve the quality of their activities, for sharing useful knowledge, etc.. Researchers working on data mining and knowledge discovery techniques are providing solutions for discovering useful and/or unexpected information from large volumes of data; in particular, they argued that a strong integration between data mining tools and databases is necessary to foster the day by day exploitation of such techniques. In more than thirty years, researchers belonging to the Information Retrieval community produced a number of proposals of categorization techniques, indexing criteria, retrieval models and user interfaces for dealing with textual and multimedia documents. Nowadays the emerging research themes of IR research deal with collections of multimedia documents heterogeneously structured and rapidly changing in time, and semi-structured (XML) documents. These problems are also faced by the database and data mining communities, even if from a complementary perspective.

The workshop is addressed to researchers in data mining, databases, and IR, working on the extension of existing data models, languages and techniques, or on the definition of new data models, languages and techniques, with the aim of improving the capabilities of current systems. In particular, we encourage papers concerning the extraction of information from collections of data, possibly stored in some form of database. Hence we are interested in contributions presenting ideas and solutions based on the integration of data mining and/or database and/or information retrieval. We think that this initiative can yield a cross-fertilisation in the specific field. Position papers are also welcome and encouraged.

Topics

The topics of the Workshop include but are not limited to the following:

* Database models for data mining, knowledge discovery and/or information retrieval applications. * Query languages for data miming or information retrieval. * Text Mining. * Inductive databases. * Data Mining and/or Information Retrieval over collections of semi-structured data or documents. * Integration of data mining and /or database and/or Information Retrieval. * Categorization of data items or semi-structured documents. * Cross-language Information Retrieval. * Document indexing.

Submission of papers

* Papers should be original and not previously published elsewhere. Basic, applied research and position papers are solicited. * Papers should not be more than 5 pages long using IEEE two column style. Papers that fail to comply with length limitations risk rejection. * Electronic submission in PDF format is preferred, but Postscript will also be accepted. Please note that hard copy and fax submissions will not be accepted. * Precise submission instructions can be found on the workshop web site.

Final Version

Papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Successively, we plan to edit a book on "Integrating Data Mining, Databases and Information Retrieval", that will contain an extended version of best workshop papers.

Important Dates

* Paper Submission: March 8, 2005 * Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 * Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 15, 2005 * Symposium: August 22, 2005

Organizer: Giuseppe Psaila University of Bergamo Faculty of Engineering Viale Marconi 5 24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy e-mail: psaila@unibg.it

Program Committee Chair: Gloria Bordogna CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto per La Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, Sez. Milano, Lab. Georisorse Via Pasubio 5 24044 Dalmine (BG) - Italy e-mail: gloria.bordogna@idpa.cnr.it

More details at http://iddi05.unibg.it