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Subject: ISI Journal Special Issue on Design and Implementation of Data Warehouses Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:18:02 +0100 From: Jacky AKOKA akoka@CNAM.FR To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Dear ISWorld Reader, Please find below a call for papers for a special issue of the French Academic Journal on Information Systems (Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information - Networking and Information Systems) : Revue Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information (ISI-NIS)

Special Issue on Design and Implementation of Data Warehouses

Scope of the Issue

Data warehousing is emerging as a key technology for managing the huge amount of data available for decision making. Little attention has been paid to the design and implementation of data warehouses based on multidimensional databases. This special ISI issue is devoted to present papers related both to theoretical and practical aspects of data warehouse design and implementation. We invite authors to submit papers that address the sub-themes described below from a wide range of perspectives.

Topics of Interest

Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to :

a.. Data warehouse conceptual modeling, b.. Data warehouse logical modeling, c.. Data warehouse physical modeling, d.. OLAP query optimization, e.. Data warehouse security, f.. Multidimensional modeling techniques, g.. Data and web warehousing, h.. Data warehousing quality evaluation, i.. Temporal aspects of data warehouses, j.. Implementation issues of data warehouses, k.. Experiences with data warehouses. Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers, written either in French or in English, should be no more than 5,000 words in length. Referees will consider originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Please submit electronically in PostScript (PDF is also acceptable) to akoka@cnam.fr.

Special issue guest editors

Jacky AKOKA

Email : akoka@cnam.fr

Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU

Email : wattiau@paris.u-cergy.fr

Editorial Committee

Michel ADIBA, France

Mokrane BOUZEGHOUB, France

Christine COLLET, France

Matthias JARKE, Germany

Manfred JEUSFELD, The Nederlands

Elisabeth METAIS, France

Nicolas PRAT, France

Il-Yeol SONG, USA

Gilles ZURFLUH, France

Important deadlines

Paper Submission Deadline : April 15th, 2002

Notification of acceptance : June 25th, 2002

Publication : October, 2002.

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