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
• Data Quality Benchmarks

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.

Paper 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

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

IQIS 2006 Call For Papers in PDF format

IQIS 2006 Call For Papers in TXT format

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