International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (IQIS 2006)
         In Cooperation and co-located with ACM SIGMOD 2006 

June 30 2006, Chicago USA

Organization
Helena Galhardas, INESC-ID and Technical University of Lisbon
Nick   Koudas,    University of Toronto
Sunita Sarawagi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay



The problem of poor data quality stored in database-backed information
systems is largely widespread in government, commercial and
industrial environments. Alarming situations with various information
quality problems cannot be ignored anymore and theoretical and
practical solutions are pressingly needed.
Information quality is one of the hot topics of interest in 
the academic and industrial communities.

The third edition of the International Workshop IQIS 2006 (Information
Quality in Information Systems) in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS
2006 in Chicago deals specifically with data and information quality
issues. It intends to address primarily methods, algorithms, massive data
processing and analysis methodologies and frameworks for the design of 
data quality metrics.

We invite the submission of original research contributions,
industrial papers and case studies relating to aspects of data
quality and information quality. The duration of the
workshop is one day dedicated to scientific and technical
presentations matching the following topics of interests.


Topics 

IQIS's topics include, but are not limited to:

- Information quality assessment
- Quality-aware query languages
- Quality-aware query processing techniques
- Metrics for information quality, human centered IQ metrics
- Detection of contradictory data, outliers, duplicates, inconsistencies, noise
- Mining for patterns of poor quality data
- Information quality  models
- Data cleaning techniques: transformations, reconciliation, enhancement
- Quality of multimedia information
- Application driven information quality (Bioinformatics, CRM, Web, Geographical, scientific applications)
- Economic aspects of information quality
- Information Quality Assessment, measurement and improvement
- Information quality and trust

Paper Formatting Instructions

All papers must be original, and have not been published elsewhere. 
Papers should be in English, no longer than 12 pages for full 
academic papers and 6 pages for short papers inclusive of all 
references and figures, formatted for A4 paper, following the ACM 
SIGMOD proceedings formats. Proceedings templates are available in Word,
WordPerfect, and LaTeX (v. 2.09 and 2e). These templates are located at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Submission Instructions

The submission process is divided into three steps: registration, abstract
submission and full paper submission (PDF or PS Format). 
Please use the following link to submit your paper to IQIS
2006:


Submission System

http://confious.ics.forth.gr/index.php?conf=108-NSKL-45955d02

Important Dates

The duration of the workshop will be one day. We plan to hold the workshop after the SIGMOD conference
ends on June 30th.

Submission deadline April 14 2006
Reviews Due May 12 2006
Acceptance Notification May 19 2006
Camera-ready Copies June 2 2006
Workshop Date June 30 2006