[Asis-l] Workshop on Data Quality - IAwDQ'2012 - deadline is quickly approaching!

[Alberto Freitas]

The deadline for submissions is quickly approaching; submit your
contribution within next Saturday February 25, through the EasyChair site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iawdq2012 .
Apologies for cross-posting.

*** IAwDQ'2012 :: Call for Papers ***

Third Ibero-American Workshop on Data Quality (IAwDQ'2012)
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Workshop in conjunction with the 7th Iberian Conference on Information
Systems and Technologies (CISTI'2012 - http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/), June
20 – 23, 2012, Madrid, Spain

--> Submission deadline: 25th February, 2012


CONTEXT
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Electronic data plays a crucial role in the information and communication
technology society, given that it links all relationships between
governments, businesses, and citizens. As electronic data is widely
diffused, the quality of data, and its related effects on every kind of
activity in the information and communication society, is more and more
critical. The consequences of poor quality of data are often experienced in
everyday life, but often without making the necessary connections to their
causes. As an example, the duplicate delivery of automatically generated
mail is frequently indicative of a database record duplication error.
Actually, the problem of poor data quality is widespread in the
governmental, commercial and industrial databases. This reality cannot be
ignored anymore. It is urgently needed the proposal and validation of
theoretical as well as pragmatic approaches for solving all data quality
issues.  As a consequence, data quality is now one of the hot topics in the
academic and industrial communities.
Data quality is more than simply data accuracy or correctness. Data quality
also includes other significant dimensions, such as completeness,
consistency, currency, interpretability, and many others, depending on the
context where data is used and also on the data consumers. All these
dimensions are necessary in order to fully characterize the quality of data.
Obtaining and maintaining data of high quality is not an easy task. Despite
this complexity, data quality has a central role on the competitiveness of
organizations, which means that we have to face and solve the data quality
problems.
The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners, who are dealing with data quality issues, providing the
opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area. This
workshop can also provide a forum to present latest research results, new
technology developments and new applications in the area of data quality.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics include but are not limited to: 
- Data Quality Assessment
- Prevention of Data Quality Problems
- Data Cleaning
- Data Transformation
- Metadata Quality Problems
- Detection of Outliers
- Cost of Data Quality 
- Data Quality in Specific Domains
- Data Quality in Software Development
- Data Quality Monitoring Tools
- Standards for Data Quality
- Data Profiling
- Implications of Data Quality Problems
- Data Quality Metrics/Measures
- Data Quality and Accountability
- Master Data Management
- Data Enrichment
- Relationship between Data Quality and Security
- Models and Methodologies for Data Quality
- Metadata Management
- Data Governance


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Prospective authors interested in participating and presenting work in this
workshop are invited to submit a contribution (either a full or short
paper). Both theoretical and practical contributions are encouraged.
- Full papers - original, relevant and previously unpublished research
results, related to any of the topics of the conference, with a maximum of 6
pages.
- Short papers - project reports, research in progress, with no more than 4
pages. 
Papers will be presented and discussed in time slots of 20 (full papers) or
10 minutes (short papers).
Papers can be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Submissions should
follow the guidelines of the main conference, namely the types of papers
(full or short) and formatting rules
(http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2012/papersformat.dot).
All papers should be submitted using the EasyChair system, available in the
following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iawdq2012.


PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (book and CD
with ISBN for full papers and CD with ISBN for short papers; detailed
information may be found at CISTI 2012 website). A paper is only published
in the proceedings if, at least, one of the authors is registered in the
workshop. 
Published full papers will be sent to ISI, IEEE XPlore and EBSCO. Published
short papers will be sent to IEEE XPlore and EBSCO.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: February 25, 2012
Paper acceptance/rejection notification: March 24, 2012
Camera-ready version due: April 2, 2012
Conference: June 20-23, 2012


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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- Alberto Freitas, Universidade do Porto, alberto at med.up.pt 
- Paulo Oliveira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto,
pjorge at dei.isep.ipp.pt 
- Ismael Caballero, University of Castilla-La Mancha,
Ismael.Caballero at uclm.es 
- Marian Moraga, University of Castilla-La Mancha,
MariaAngeles.Moraga at uclm.es 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Agustina Buccella, GIISCO Research Group, Universidad Nacional del
Comahue, Argentina
- Alberto Freitas, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Alexandre Ferreira, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Alfonso Rodriguez, Universidad del Bio Bio, Chile
- Ana Lucas, ISEG, Portugal
- Andre Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
- António Abelha, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Carlos Blanco Bueno, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
- César Guerra, Universidad Politécnica San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Claudia P. Ayala, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
- Coral Calero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Daniel Yankelevich, Practia Consulting - Grupo Pragma, Argentina
- Fátima Rodrigues, Institute of Engineering of Porto, Portugal
- Helena Galhardas, Technical University of Lisbon and INESC-ID, Portugal
- Irene Garrigós Fernández, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
- Ismael Caballero, University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
- José Antonio Parejo Maestre, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
- José Del Campo-Ávila, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
- José Farinha, ISCTE-IUL / ADETTI, Portugal
- José Machado, Universidade Minho, Portugal
- Jose-Norberto Mazón, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
- Juan Manuel Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Laura González, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Lorena Etcheverry, Instituto de Computación, Universidad de la República,
Uruguay
- Luis Lima, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Portugal 
- Manuel F. Bertoa, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
- Maria Angeles Moraga, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
- Maria Espona, ArgIQ, Argentina
- Maria Valeria De Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Maribel Yasmina Santos Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Maritza Correa, Instituto de Automatica Industrial, Spain
- Marta Fernandez Diego, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Paulo Jorge Oliveira, ISEP, Portugal
- Paulo Novais, Universidade Minho, Portugal
- Pedro Pereira Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Raul Ruggia-Frick, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
- Ricardo Correia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- Verónica Andrea Bollati, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Zoran Bosnic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia


This workshop is partially supported by IQMNet: Red para la Gestión de la
Calidad de la Información (TIN2010-09809-E)