INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to DBKDA 2012. The submission deadline has been extended to October 16, 2011. A video of the 2011 event is available on the conference front page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DBKDA12.html In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== DBKDA 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS DBKDA 2012: The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications February 29 - March 5, 2012 - Reunion Island General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/DBKDA12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPDBKDA12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitDBKDA12.html Submission deadline: October 16, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html DBKDA 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Advances in fundamentals on databases Foundations and architectures; Design features (data quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed approaches, mobility, etc.); Data quality, data structures, and data modeling; Advanced indexing methods; Advanced ranking algorithms and uncertainty; Physical organization and performance; Federated choreographies; Temporal conformance; Evolutionary clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering Databases and other domains Leading-edge database technology and applications; Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation; Databases and Web services; Databases and artificial intelligence; Databases and agents; Advances in database management systems; Advanced transaction and workflow management; Advances on XML and databases Database technologies Self-managing databases; Mobile databases; Database access; Embedded databases; Very large scale databases; Spatial and spatio-temporal databases; Data warehousing; Multimedia databases; Semantic databases; Data integration resources on the Internet; Object-oriented databases; Web-based databases; Deductive and active databases Databases content processing Mining for complex data; Mining for text, video, and pictures; Knowledge discovery and classification; Process mining; Scalable data extraction; Query processing and optimization; Query rewrite rules; Navigational path expressions; Load-balancing in accessing distributed databases; Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty; Storage and replication; Patterns and similarities in data streams; Fast matching; Multiple views Knowledge and decision bases Knowledge representation and management; Knowledge discovery (business intelligence); Semantic information; Ontology and advanced knowledge search; Heuristics and meta-heuristics; Intelligent knowledge querying; Feature sampling and feature selection; Context-aware knowledge base; Blogs and social relationship search; Deductive reasoning; Reasoning databases; Ontology-based reasoning Specifics on application domains databases Database applications in Life Sciences; Advanced database applications; Bioinformatics databases; Healthcare databases; Finance and marketing databases; Telecom databases; Geospatial databases; Census databases; Meteorological databases; Business intelligence databases; e-Business databases XML-driven data, knowledge, databases Data /dissemination, distributed, processing, management/; XML-data /storage, exchange, compress, metadata/; XML-data and metadata management; XML repositories; Knowledge discovery from XML repositories; XML-data processing /queries, indexing, management, retrieval, mining/; XML data and knowledge /representation, discovery, mining, orchestration/; XML-data in advances environments /clouds, P2P, multimedia, mobile, finance, biotechnologies, geospatial, space/; XML-data and process /data warehouse, workflow, web, learning, control/; Data privacy Privacy models; Privacy metrics; Privacy preservation; Watermarking; Data Hiding; Background knowledge; Privacy /data streams, social networks, databases, semantic web/; Privacy mechanisms /cryptography, privacy-aware access control, generalization-based algoritm, perturbation-based algorithm, preservation, sequental releases/; Practical studies /privacy leaking, privacy breach, threats to privacy, privacy in outsourcing/ Data quality and uncertainty Models, frameworks, methodologies and metrics for data quality; Quality of complex data /documents, semi-structured data, XMLs, multimedia data, graphs, bio-sequences/; Uncertain and noisy data; Uncertain data representation; Processing uncertain data /querying, indexing, mining/; Mining uncertain data/probabilistic, spatially- and temporally- uncertain, uncertain streams/ Data lineage and provenance; Data profiling and measurement; Data integration, linkage and fusion; D uplicate detection and consistency checking; D ata mining and data quality assessment; Quality methods and algorithms / data transformation, reconciliation, consolidation, extraction, cleansing/; User perception on data quality and cleansing; Data query, access, mining, and correlation Data access technologies, Query optimisation, Discovering multi-modal correlations; Mining structural data from non-structural mixed-media documents; Data stream mining /frequent patterns, bursty event detection/; Profile mining; Corelation and anomaly in multi-modal-data /social networks, web traffic logs, sale transactions/; Information retrieval on a mixed collections; Multimedia data mining; Data mining system for medical multimedia data; Contents-based image/video retrieval systems Data and process provenance Provenance architectures and algorithms; Provenance modelling; Information management for provenance data; Provenance ontology and semantic; Provenance querying; Provenance annotation; Security, trust, and privacy for provenance information; Case studies and practice; Reasoning over provenance; Provenance analytics, mining and visualization Data management Distributed Query Languages; Query processing and optimization; Adaptive query processing; Management of mobile data; Managing data privacy and security; Data storage and management; Data stream systems; Data locating; Data warehouse management; Management of dynamic data; Workload adaptability; Transaction management; Performance evaluation and benchmarking or data management ---------------------------------- Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ComDBKDA12.html ====================