IQIS 2005 Second International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2005 June 17th,2005 Baltimore, MD, USA http://iqis.irisa.fr ************* *** Scope *** ************* The problem of poor data quality stored in database-backed information systems is widespread in the governmental, commercial and industrial environments. Alarming situations with various information quality problems can not be ignored anymore and theoretical as well as pragmatic approaches are urgently needed to be proposed and validated. As a consequence, information quality is now becoming one of the hot topics of emerging interest in the academic and industrial communities. Many processes and applications (such as information system integration, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery from databases) require various forms of data preparation or repair with several data processing techniques, because the data input to the application-dedicated algorithms is assumed to conform to nice data distributions, containing no missing, inconsistent or incorrect values. This leaves a large gap between the available dirty data and the available machinery to process the data for application purposes. The second edition of the International Workshop IQIS 2005 (Information Quality in Information Systems) in conjunction with SIGMOD'2005 in Baltimore deals specifically with data and information quality issues. It intends to address methods, techniques of massive data processing and analysis, methodologies, new algorithmic approaches or frameworks for designing data quality metrics in order to understand and to explore data quality, to find data glitches (as data quality problems such as duplicates, errors, outliers, contradictions, inconsistencies, etc.) and to ensure both data and information quality of database-backed information systems. We invite the submission of original research contributions, industrial papers and case studies relating to all aspects of data quality and information quality defined broadly, all along the data life cycle from creation to usage and also through the data preparation, cleaning and analysis processes. The duration of the workshop is one day dedicated to scientific and technical presentations matching the following topics of interests. ************** *** Topics *** ************** Particular topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: - Quality-aware query languages and query processing techniques - Quality-aware integration and information source fusion - Metrics for information quality, human-centred information quality metrics, Quality Metrics for data mining results, measure of interestingness - Detection of contradictory data, outliers, duplicates, inconsistencies, noise - Mining for Patterns of non- or poor quality data - Automatic Record Matching, Object Identification, Record Linkage - Data Cleaning Techniques : data transformations, data reconciliation, data consolidation, Error Correction - Cleaning of web pages, web links, duplicates on the web - Intelligent Data Preparation - Models and frameworks for Information Quality and Trust - Information Quality Assessment, Methodologies for information quality measurement and improvement - Application-driven Information Quality: Bioinformatics, Marketing, CRM, e-Business, Geomedia, Geographical or Scientific Applications. - Data type-dependent Information Quality: Web, documents, multimedia, XML data - Economic aspects of information quality ************************** *** Workshop Co-Chairs *** ************************** Laure Berti-Equille, IRISA-CNRS Rennes, France Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research ************************** *** Program Committee *** ************************** Boualem Benattallah, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Universite de Versailles, France Tiziana Catarci, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany Helena Galhardas, INESC Lisboa, Portugal Michael Gertz, University of California Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Purdue University, Indiana Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany Theodore Johnson, AT&T Labs-Research Vipul Kashyap, National Center for Biotechnology Information Yang Lee, Northeastern University Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo Ronald Pearson, ProSanos Corporation Leo Pipino, University of Massachusetts Lowell Mario Piattini, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain Louiqa Rashid, University of Maryland Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Labs-Research Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Richard Wang, M.I.T., Boston ************************************* *** 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. Please submit the PDF or PS version of your manuscript with IQIS submission procedure at http://iqis.irisa.fr *********************** *** Important Dates *** *********************** Abstract Submission : March 25th, 2005 Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2005 New submission deadline: April 8th, 2005 Acceptance Notification: May, 1st 2005 Camera-ready Copies: May 16th, 2005 Workshop Date: June 17th, 2005 Some additional information is available at the Web site: http://iqis.irisa.fr Contact : iqis2005 (at) irisa (.) fr