Call for Papers
Indianapolis, Indiana August 15-17, 1997
Conference HomePage: http://hsb.baylor.edu/ramsower/ais.ac.97
Mini-track HomePage:
http://mundos.ifsm.umbc.edu/~ramesh/ais97/
*Important Dates*
Paper Submission Deadline - February 28, 1997
Notification of Acceptance - April 14, 1997
Camera Ready Copy Due- May 5, 1997
*About the Mini-track*
Modern organizations utilize a number of diverse databases to accomplish
their day-to-day data management functions. Typically these databases are
heterogeneous in that they store different types of data, represent data
differently, use different data man agement software and run on different
computer hardware. Organizations are increasingly finding the need to
access data from multiple such databases to support their day-to-day
functions, such as, decision making and planning. Hence, it is becoming
increasingly important to develop techniques that facilitate
interoperability among multiple heterogeneous databases.
While advances in communication and database technology have made it
possible for databases to communicate with each other, interoperability
among heterogeneous databases requires the development of techniques to
resolve, among others, the following problems: semantic differences among
the constituent databases, differing structural representations,
differences in logical interpretations of the data , and differences in
naming and formatting conventions that may have been used in the databases.
An emerging trend in heterogeneous database interoperability is Data
Warehousing. Data Warehousing solves the interoperability problem (to a
certain extent) by extracting (a subset of data) from multiple
heterogeneous legacy databases, resolving incompatibilites in the data,
and storing them in one (or more) large read-only databases. Data stored
in the data warehouse is typically used for decision-support applications.
The objective of this mini-track is to provide a forum for IS researchers
to disseminate and exchange ideas on heterogeneous database
interoperability and data warehousing. We would like to encourage papers
on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Any aspect of Data Warehousing
- "Traditional" approaches to Heterogeneous database interoperability and
their applicability in a Data Warehousing context
- New techniques for schema integration - global schema and federated
schema approaches
- Discovery of semantic knowledge from heterogeneous databases
- Resolution of semantic heterogeneity among heterogeneous databases
- Advanced data models for facilitating heterogeneous database interoperability
- Instance integration
- Schema evolution in heterogeneous databases
- Multidatabase approaches to heterogeneous database interoperability
- Metadata representation and its role in heterogeneous database
interoperability
- Intelligent software agents and heterogeneous databases
- Novel architectures for heterogeneous database interoperability
- Query language specifications for heterogeneous database access
- Syntactic and semantic query optimization in heterogeneous databases
- Query decomposition and assembly of results
- Information retrieval techniques and their application to heterogeneous
databases
- Communication paradigms in a heterogeneous database management system
- Transaction management and concurrency control in heterogeneous databases
- Interoperability among advanced databases, such as, temporal, active,
real-time and multi-media databases.
*Mini-Track Chair*
Ramesh Venkataraman
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250
e-mail: venkatar@umbc.edu
Phone: (410) 455-3937
Fax: (410) 455-1073
Please send any questions and all submissions for
the mini-track on Heterogeneous Database Interoperability and Data
Warehosuing to:
*Submission Guidelines*
Each submission must be FORWARDED ELECTRONICALLY AS A WORD PROCESSING
FILE (MS WORD OR WORDPERFECT FORMAT) ATTACHED TO AN E-MAIL MESSAGE to
the mini-track chair. If this is not possible, then authors should
contact the mini-track chair and arrange for a suitable workaround.
Each submission is limited to THREE-PAGES IN LENGTH (APPROXIMATELY
1,750 WORDS) INCLUDING ALL FIGURES, TABLES, APPENDICES, AND
REFERENCES, and must include the following:
a) The name, e-mail address, mailing address,
university/organizational affiliation, and phone/fax numbers of the
contact person for the submission in the first few lines of the file,
b) The submission title and the author's(s') name(s), the author's(s')
e-mail address(es), mailing address(es), and author's(s')
organization/ university affiliation(s),
c) An abstract of the submission,
d) The body of the submission, and
e) A list of references or a bibliography.
All conference submissions and the submission review processes will be
managed through e-mail. The receipt of submissions will be quickly
confirmed by the mini-track chair. Submissions should follow the
style guidelines of the MIS Quarterly. All camera-ready copy
preparation details will be provided to submitting authors by the
mini-track chairs through e-mail upon acceptance.
*The AIS Americas Conference*
The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is a relatively new
professional organization whose purpose is to become the premier
global organization for academicians specializing in Information
Systems. AIS invites scholars and practitioners from throughout the
Americas and the world to contribute to and participate in the program
for the 1997 Americas Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. The
program for AIS'97 is diverse and will serve research and pedagogical
interests of attendees.
Consistent with the first and second Americas Conferences in 1995 and
1996 respectively, the AIS'97 Program is intended to be varied, where
the only restriction is that submissions address organizational or
technical research, practice, or pedagogy in information systems
planning, design, development, management, acquisition,
implementation, usage, or evaluation. All papers and proposals must be
the original work of the authors. Accepted submissions will appear in
the Proceedings, in one to three pages, at the discretion of the
program committee.
For additional information on the 1997 AIS Americas Conference, please
see the homepages referenced above.
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