Call for Papers - IFLA Library Theory & Research (LTR) Section

World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"
19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa

Call for Papers
Library Theory & Research Section

Theme: LIS research and publishing: the African LIS researcher's story

The IFLA Library Theory & Research (LTR) Section invites African LIS researcher colleagues to submit an abstract for consideration for the LTR Open session program at the IFLA Durban Conference.

Papers should particularly focus on the effects of social, cultural and historical conditions in Africa on LIS research; or compare African LIS research with LIS research in other parts of the world. All papers should include a description of the theoretical and methodological approaches. They should also outline the publishing mechanisms proposed or used to publicise the research and why the particular publishing path has been chosen.

Please email your detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s) by 15 December 2006 to:

Dr Kerry SmithConvenor, IFLA LTR Durban Open sessionE-mail: K.Smith@curtin.edu.au

The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the LTR Section's Standing Committee. Successful proposals will be identified by mid January 2007.

Full papers will be due by 15 April 2007 to allow time for the review of papers and preparation of translations; papers should be no longer than 20 pages. Depending on the final allotted time for our session, we expect that we can allow 20-25 minutes for a summary delivery of the paper during the LTR open session programme.

Please note that the expenses of attending the Durban conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers.

Call for Papers - IFLA Division VII: Education and Research

World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships"
19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa

Call for Papers
Division VII: Education and Research

Theme: The Internet, Libraries and the Changing Information Behaviour: Perspectives for Research and Education

Division VII: Education and Research will hold a 2- hour Program in Durban, South Africa as part of the World Library and Information Congress/ 73rd IFLA Conference.

We invite IFLA Members to respond to this Call for Papers for a program concerned with the topic:The Internet, Libraries and the Changing Information Behaviour: Perspectives for Research and Education

The objective of the program is to present research into the issues raised by the emergence of and the ever more widespread access to and use of the Internet. We wish to examine the challenges and opportunities for libraries that the Internet presents. In the session we want to concentrate on the implications of changing user information behaviour in relation to all types of libraries and information service providers. The topic is of interest to both researchers and professionals. It is important to note that we are looking for research-based papers in the following areas:

- What does the widespread access to the internet mean for the use of libraries - be it public libraries or academic libraries?
- Are LIS educational programs and CPD - programs appropriately responding to changing information behaviour?
- Does access to Internet resources lead to new patterns of reading for pleasure, work and learning?
- What theory development and research are needed as the information seeking strategies of users change due to the use of Internet?
- How can information literacy assist in helping people cope with the new information behaviour shaped by Internet?
- What can we learn from library history that is relevant to the current questions and concerns on changing information behaviour

The papers will be reviewed on their academic merits by an international panel.

Proposals for papers must be submitted by 15 February 2007 to:
Professor Niels Ole Pors,
Department of Library and Information Management,
Royal School of Library and Information Science,
Birketinget 6, 2300 Copenhagen S,
Denmark
E-mail: nop@db.dk

The proposal should include a 4-500 word abstract and all relevant biographical information.

Successful proposers will be notified by 15 March 2007 and must supply the full paper by 1 May 2007.

Call for Papers - IFLA Classification and Indexing Section

World Library and Information Congress
73rd IFLA General Conference and Council
19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa

“Libraries for the Future: Progress, Development and Partnership”


Call for papers

Classification and Indexing Section
Division of Bibliographic Control

The Classification and Indexing Section will be hosting a two-hour session that will consist of the presentation of four papers.

Programme Theme: Partners for subject access to bring libraries and users together

The scope of the programme includes: minority language subject access; bringing user vocabularies into controlled vocabularies and getting users involved with folksonomies and user tagging; providing library instruction to help users with subject access; and cooperative initiatives in Africa.

The IFLA Classification and Indexing Section invites librarians, academics and others involved in research and projects devoted to cooperating with users in designing subject access tools, and to facilitating and extending subject access to library resources to submit proposals for papers on this theme. Papers from African countries would be especially appreciated.

If you are interested in contributing, please send an abstract of 200-300 words in English and relevant biographical information of the author(s) by December 15, 2006 to:

Mrs Leda Bultrini, Coordinator of the Selection Committee
E-mail: ledabul@katamail.com
Fax: +39 06 48 054 226

The submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of the Classification and Indexing Section Standing Committee. The selection will be based on the abstracts and the authors will be contacted by January 31, 2007. The full papers are due on April 15 2007 to allow time for review of papers and preparation of translations. The papers must be original submissions not published elsewhere, and must be no longer than 15 pages double spaced. Papers should be in one of the IFLA languages with a version in English to allow for translation in other IFLA languages. Twenty minutes will be allowed for a summary delivery of each paper at the Classification and Indexing Section’s programme.

Please note that the expenses of attending the Durban conference will be the responsibility of the author(s) / presenter(s) of accepted papers.

For information on the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section, please see http://www.ifla.org/VII/s29/index.htm. For additional information on this call for papers, you may contact Leda Bultrini by e-mail.


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Leda Bultrini
ARPA Lazio - Divisione polo didattico
Dirigente responsabile

Via Boncompagni, 101 – 00187 Roma I
tel. +39 06 48054211 fax + 39 06 48054226

Special Issue of JNLE on Interactive QA - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal Of Natural Language Engineering: Special Issue on Interactive Question Answering

GUEST EDITORS:

Nick Webb (SUNY Albany, USA)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)

IMPORTANT DATES:

1st March 2007 Deadline for submissions
1st July 2007 Notification
1st October 2007 Final copy due

Following the successful workshop on Interactive Question Answering (IQA), held at HLT-NAACL in June 2006, we are pleased to announce a special issue of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering onIQA. This special issue is open to all submissions relevant to this
topic, and is not restricted to papers presented at the IQA workshop.

MOTIVATION

In moving beyond simple factoid Question Answering (QA), it has become clear that insufficient attention has been paid to the user's role in the process, other than as a source of one-shot factual questions or a sequence of related questions. Users both want to and can do a lot more, such as ask a wider range of question types and respond to the system's answer in more ways than with another factual question. Real users can leverage greater mixed-initiative interactive question and answer capabilities, with coherent targeted answers presented in context for easy inspection. Repeat users may want to assume that the system remembers information from their previous interactions -- i.e.,in the form of a user model.

Such developments move the paradigm of QA away from single question,single answer modalities, toward Interactive QA, where the system retains memory of the QA process, and where users develop their understanding of a situation through a fully interactive QA dialogue. Dialogue systems already allow users to interact with simple, structured data such as train or flight timetables, usually though a dialogue component based on some variation of finite-state models. Such models make intensive use of the structure of the domain to constrain the range of possible interactions -- a constraint that it will be difficult to fulfil in the large or even in open domain scenarios that are often the target for QA systems.

To move forward, one needs the combined capabilities of dialogue
systems and open-domain QA systems. We therefore solicit papers
relevant to achieving this goal, which may touch on one or more of the
following key issues:

KEY ISSUES

(1) Integration
- Using dialogue models in open-domain QA (for question expansion, answer candidate ranking, etc.)
- Integrating closed and open domain QA into dialogue systems

(2) Answer structure and presentation
- Supporting interaction about answers
- Enabling the user to understand the range of choices, or the complexity of the data

(3) Models of dialogue
- Using domain knowledge to conduct and constrain interactions appropriately- Characterising generic, generally-applicable types of QA interactions
- Engaging in sub-dialogues for clarification, error-correction, negotiation, etc.

(4) Models of the domain
- A priori models which give a deeper, more consistent representation of the data
- Models built on the fly, which may be shallower or more coarse grain, but are nevertheless sufficient to conduct interactions over different data

(5) Evaluation
- User centred evaluation
- Subjective component to measure: Interaction effectiveness; Results quality; Cognitive load of IQA vs. alternative search methods

SUBMISSIONS

We are expecting full papers to describe original, previouslyunpublished research.

Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions,and should not exceed 20 pages. The preferred formatting system is LaTeX,which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address:

ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/

In case of difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail:

texline@cup.cam.ac.uk.

Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file) to Nick Webb(nwebb@albany.edu).

GUEST EDITORIAL BOARD

Roberto Basili (Universita di Roma, "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Johan Bos (Universita di Roma, "La Sapienza", Italy)
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM, USA)
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
Sanda Harabagiu (LCC, USA)
Ryuichiro Higashinaka (NTT, Japan)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex, UK)
Oliver Lemon (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Steven Maiorano (AQUAINT Technical Steering Committee, USA)
Joe Polifroni (University of Sheffield, UK)
Sharon Small (SUNY, Albany, USA)
Tomek Strzalkowski (SUNY, Albany, USA)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of computerised language processing, whether from the perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community.

Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products,and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed.

Editors:

Professor John I. Tait
University of Sunderland, UK

Dr. Branimir K. Boguraev
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

Professor Ruslan Mitkov
University of Wolverhampton, UK

Professor Martha Palmer
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

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Nick Webb:
Senior Research
ScientistInstitute of Informatics, Logics and Security Studies
University at Albany: State University of New York
tel: +1 (518) 4423082 www: http://www.nick-webb.net
fax: +1 (518) 4422606 email: nwebb@albany.edu

Call for Submissions: Information: Interactions and Impact

Call for Submissions: Information: Interactions and Impact (i3)
25 - 28 June 2007, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
http://www.i3conference.org.uk

i3 is concerned with the quality and effectiveness of the interaction between people and information and how this interaction can bring about change in individuals, organisations, communities and society. The conference will look beyond the issues of use and accessibility of technology to questions about the way interaction with the information and knowledge content of today's systems and services can make a difference to people's lives.

We invite the submission of high quality papers that report original research or critically discuss underlying methodological issues associated with the main themes of the conference. Papers may reflect ongoing or completed research studies and should not have been previously published or currently being considered for publication elsewhere. Preference will be given to papers which address two or more of the following conference themes:

* the quality and effectiveness of user/information interactions (e.g. information literacy);
* patterns of information behaviour in different contexts;
* impact of information or information services on people, organisations, communities and society (e.g. social, learning, cultural and economic outcomes of engagement with information).

Criteria for acceptance
Criteria for acceptance will be based on the following elements:

* the relevance of the paper/poster to the conference themes;
* the extent to which the paper/poster demonstrates awareness of the current state of knowledge in the field (i.e. in relation to theory or practice);
* the originality and significance of the arguments and results presented (i.e. based on new findings and addressing a new problem or focusing on a novel synthesis and in-depth discussion of existing research, which provides a new perspective);
* the appropriateness, validity and robustness of the methodology chosen displaying awareness of limitations;
* the contribution to knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding information interactions and impact;
* the quality of the written abstract (e.g. organisation and clarity).

Submissions will be anonymously reviewed by two members of an international programme committee specialising in one or more of the conference research streams. Notification of acceptance will be emailed to authors and will also include the comments of the reviewers. A list of titles of accepted papers and posters will be published on the i3 website.

Types of submissions
Submissions are invited for full papers, short papers, posters and round table discussions. The conference language will be English

Full papers
Full papers will be allocated 40 minutes (35 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions). Presenters of full papers should submit an extended abstract of 1000 words. Authors who are accepted to give full papers at i3 are also invited to submit a full paper for publication in a special issue for Libri (http://www.librijournal.org).

Short papers
Short papers will be allocated 10 minutes for presentation with opportunities for questions at the end of each session. Presenters of short papers should submit an abstract of 300-500 words.

Posters
Poster presenters will be allocated space for a poster, which should be no bigger than A1 size (594 x 841 mm). The poster should include the title, the author(s) name and affiliation(s) and a description of the research findings. The size of lettering should be legible from a distance and the inclusion of excessive amounts of information should be avoided. Printed copies detailing the main elements of the research may be prepared for distribution. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference (although a specific poster presentation session will be allocated). Presenters of posters should submit an abstract of 300-500 words.

Round Table Discussion
Proposals are welcome from persons interested in chairing a round table discussion (of between 60 and 80 minutes) centred on the major conference themes. Chairpersons should submit an abstract of 300-500 words, explaining the background and goals of their discussion.

How to submit a paper
Contributors should submit abstracts electronically using the online submissions form, located at: http://www.i3conference.org.uk/call/abstractsubmission.htm . Papers will not be accepted via email or by post.

Important Deadlines:

* All abstracts should be submitted by 22nd January 2007.
* Notification of acceptance will be emailed in early March.
* The final copy of full papers for Libri should be received by 1st August 2007. Acceptance of a paper for the conference does not necessarily mean acceptance of the full paper for publication.

Further details about the conference are available from http://www.i3conference.org.uk

Kate Friday, on behalf of the i3 Organising Committee.

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Kate Friday
Research Student
Dept of Information Management
Aberdeen Business School Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
ABERDEEN AB10 7QE
Tel. (01224) 263967
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Conferencia de Carlos Castro Castro (16/11/06)

El próximo jueves 16 de noviembre, a las 11 h. en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca (Francisco Vitoria, 6-16), el Dr. D. Carlos Castro Castro (Director General de Sociedad de la Información de la Junta de Extremadura) impartirá una conferencia sobre "Responsabilidades de los profesionales de la información ante los formatos documentales libres y el software libre".

V Coloquio Iberoamericano del Papiro a la Biblioteca Virtual, La Habana, 12-16 de marzo 2007 - Solicitud de contribuciones

El V Coloquio Iberoamericano Del Papiro a la Biblioteca Virtual estará dedicado al papel de las bibliotecas, archivos y museos en la Sociedad de la Información. La Casa de las Américas invita a bibliotecarios, museólogos, archivistas, profesionales de la información en general, a reflexionar a cerca de la historia, el presente y el futuro de estos centros de información en el mundo, y en especial, en América Latina.

Entre las temáticas a debatir proponemos las siguientes:
Los sistemas de administración de bibliotecas, archivos y museos: planificación, gestión y evaluación de servicios y productos.
Las nuevas tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones; su incidencia en las bibliotecas, archivos y museos.
Archivos, museos y bibliotecas digitales y virtuales.
La Web: una posibilidad para los servicios de información bibliotecarios, archivísticos y museológicos.
Preservación y conservación de la información en forma digital.
Formación de bibliotecarios, archivistas y museólogos en el contexto actual.

PRESENTACIÓN DE TRABAJOS Y PLAZOS DE ADMISIÓN

El Comité Organizador considerará propuestas de ponencias y mesas redondas.
Las ponencias no deben exceder las 10 cuartillas (de 30 líneas con 60 caracteres) mecanografiadas a dos espacios. Se deberá entregar un original y dos copias. El tiempo máximo de exposición será de 20 minutos.
Las propuestas de mesas redondas deben describir el tema, con las preguntas o pormenores para la conducción de la discusión. Rogamos incluir el nombre del moderador y su relación con el tema sugerido.
Los trabajos podrán ser enviados por correo electrónico o entregados en la sede de la Biblioteca hasta el 15 de febrero de 2007.

INSCRIPCIÓN

La cuota de inscripción será de $ 100.00 CUC y se abonará personalmente en la Casa de las Américas. Los participantes nacionales ejecutarán el pago de igual forma, en moneda nacional. La cuota incluye la participación en actividades culturales colaterales al Coloquio y la entrega de la documentación del evento.
La Casa de las Américas cuenta con una Residencia Académica con precios económicos. Si es de su interés puede solicitarnos su reservación 30 días antes de la fecha de su llegada. Contamos, además, con los servicios de varias agencias de viajes (eventos@casa.cult.cu).

Coauspiciado por la Oficina Regional de la UNESCO para América Latina y el Caribe, la Junta de Castilla y León y la Fundación Jorge Guillén de España.


Biblioteca Casa de las Américas
Teléfonos: 552705, 8326380
bibliobd@casa.cult.cu
www.casa.cult.cu
http://laventana.casa.cult.cu

Saludos cordiales

Comité OrganizadorBibliotecaCasa de las AméricasLa Habana, Cuba

Special Issue of IJDL on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL) - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Special Issue on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL)
Int'l J. of Digital Libraries (IJDL)
http://pike.psu.edu/ijdl07/

As the number of digital libraries increases and their scale grows rapidly, it is timely and critical to address research issues in such large-scale digital libraries. This is evidenced by the recent proliferation of articles and talks that concern scaling issues in the context of digital libraries, and the growing interests of other areas of computer science investigating problems that are of interest to the DL community.

Very large digital libraries also emerge from the commercial sector in recent years. These are examples of digital libraries with a very large number of digital objects (i.e., articles and their metadata). One can also imagine a meta digital library that consists of a very large number of independent digital libraries, or a digital library that draws a very large number of users (e.g., SkyServer). Itis also quite possible for a digital library to have all of these scaling perspectives - large number of objects, underlying digital libraries, and users.

Recognizing the importance of research in this area, the International Journal on Digital Libraries is organizing a special issue on VeryLarge Digital Libraries (VLDL). The special issue will focus on high-quality original unpublished research, case studies as well as implementation experiences and survey articles in the area of computational aspects of Digital Libraries that emphasize on techniques that have been or can be applied to the creation, maintenance and usage of large-scale digital libraries.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

- Automated collection development
- Automated metadata extraction, classification, cleaning, matching and maintenance
- Automated terminological and named entity processing
- Automated analysis of patrons' queries
- Creation and maintenance of large DLs
- Efficient data distribution and transmission of DL resources
- Recommendation in DLs
- Design frameworks and architectural issues of large DLs
- Collaborative environments in DLs
- Large scale integration and federation of DLs
- User interface design for dealing with complexity of DLs
- Quality of service and load balancing in large multimedia DLs
- Heterogeneity issues with respect to structure, media or language in DLs
- Interoperability and service-oriented architecture
- Role of government initiatives in the generation of VLDLs

Instructions for submitting manuscripts:

Manuscripts must be written in English and should include a cover page with title, name and address (including e-mail address) of author(s),an abstract, and a list of identifying keywords. In particular, the special issue solicits two types of original and unpublished manuscripts:

- Regular article reports completed VLDLs works (8-10 pages)- Short or Vision article covers recent, work-in-progress, high impact work of VLDLs (2-4 pages)Submission must be properly formatted in the IJDL format. Papers will be subject to two rounds of review. Please indicate that you are submitting to the special issue on Very Large Digital Libraries. Manuscripts must be submitted directly to the guest editors by email.

Important Dates:

- July 1, 2007 : Due date for submission of manuscripts
- October 1, 2007 : Notification of acceptance/rejection
- December 10, 2007 : Due date for camera-ready version
- March, 2008 : Tentative date for publication of Special Issue

Editors of the Special Issue:
Min-Yen Kan
National University of Singapore
kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg

Dongwon Lee
Penn State University
dongwon@psu.edu

Ee-Peng Lim
Nanyang Technological University
aseplim@ntu.edu.sg

About the Journal:

The aim of IJDL is to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information via global networking. In particular, the journal will emphasize technical issues in digital information production, management and use, issues in high-speed networks and connectivity, inter-operability, and seamless integration of information, people, profiles, tasks and needs, security and privacy of individuals and business transactions and effective business processes in the Information Age.

More information about the journal can be found athttp://www.dljournal.org/

Convocatoria Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (16/11/06)

El próximo jueves 16 de noviembre, a las 12:30 h. en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca, tendrá lugar el examen para obtener el Diploma de Estudios Avanzados del programa de doctorado "Metodologías y líneas de investigación en Biblioteconomía y Documentación" (bienio 2004-2006), organizado por el Departamento de Biblioteconomía y Documentación. El tribunal encargado de valorar a los alumnos convocados es el siguiente:
Presidente: Dr. D. Elías Sanz Casado (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Vocal: Dra. Dª. Marta de la Mano González
Secretario: Dr. D. José Antonio Frías Montoya

9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2007) - Call for Papers

9th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2007), Regensburg, Germany, Sept. 3 to Sept. 7, 2007

Call for Papers
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Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery has been widely accepted as a key technology for enterprises and organisations to improve their abilities in data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data. With the exponential growing amount of information to be included in the decision making process, the data to be considered becomes more and more complex in both structure and semantics. Consequently, the process of retrieval and knowledge discovery from this huge amount of heterogeneous complex data builds the litmus-test for the research in the area.

During the past years, the International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK) has become one of the most important international scientific events to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners to discuss latest research issues and experiences in developing and deploying data warehousing and knowledge discovery systems, applications, and solutions. This year's conference (DaWaK 2007), builds on this tradition of facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas,experience and potential research directions.

DaWaK 2007 seeks to introduce innovative principles, methods, algorithms and solutions to challenging problems faced in the development of datawarehousing, knowledge discovery and data mining applications. Submissions presenting current research work on both theoretical and practical aspects of data warehousing and knowledge discovery are encouraged. Particularly,we strongly welcome submissions dealing with emerging real world applications such as real-time data warehousing, analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data, OLAP mining, mobile OLAP, mining natural science data(e.g. bioinformatics, geophysics)

Major Tracks
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Topics of interest include in these tracks but are not limited to:

Data Warehousing
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* Analytical front-end tools for data warehousing/OLAP
* Active/real-time data warehousing
* Data warehouse architecture
* Web/multimedia data warehouses
* Data extraction, cleansing, transforming and loading
* Spatial and spatiotemporal data warehouses
* Data warehouse maintenance and evolution
* Data warehousing in mobile/wireless environments
* Data warehouse design (conceptual, logical and physical)
* Data warehousing and the semantic web
* Data warehousing consistency and quality
* Data warehouse schema evolution and transformations
* Data warehousing with unstructured data (e.g., text) and semi- structured data (e.g., XML)
* Design and maintenance of metadata repository
* Data warehouse security and reliability
* Data warehousing applications: corporate, scientific, government, healthcare, bioinformatics, etc.
* Parallel /distributed data warehousing
* View maintenance/adaptation
* Frameworks for Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI)
* Performance optimization and tuning
* Multidimensional modelling and queries
* Data warehousing and industry applications (e.g. ERP, CRM)
* Integration of data warehouses and data mining

Knowledge Discovery
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* Knowledge discovery framework and process
* Security, privacy and social impact of data mining
* Integration constraints and knowledge in KDD process
* Mining unstructured and structured data
* Data and knowledge representation
* Exploring data analysis, inference of causes, prediction
* Evaluating, consolidating, and explaining discovered knowledge
* Statistical techniques for generation a robust, consistent datamodel
* Interactive data exploration/visualization and discovery
* Mining temporal, spatial and multimedia data
* Data mining techniques: clustering, classification, association rules, decision trees, neural-network, etc
* Mining large/complex datasets, continuous data streams, sensor networks
* Data mining support for the design of information systems
* Mining ubiquitous, moving, time-series data
* Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
* Mining Trends, Opportunities and Risks
* Languages and interfaces for data mining
* Distributed and parallel data mining/knowledge discovery
* Mining from low-quality information sources
* High performance and parallel/distributed data mining
* Complexity, efficiency, and scalability in data mining
* Pre-processing and post-processing of data mining
* Data mining applications: bioinformatics, E-commerce, Web, intrusion/fraud detection, finance, healthcare, marketing, telecommunications, etc

Paper Submission Details
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Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representingoriginal, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF orWord format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages (including all text, figures, references andappendices). Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 12pages with the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages once the paper is accepted. Submissions which are not conform to the LNCS formatand/or which do exceed 10 pages (or up to 12 pages with the extrapurchase commitment) will be rejected without reviews.

Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All acceptedpapers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) bySpringer-Verlag.

Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews.

This year, we will plan to have the Best Paper Awards for the best papers selected by the PC-members.

As the last year, authors of best papers selected from DaWaK2007 conference will be invited to submit an extension for a special issue of International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM).

Authors are requested to send the abstract of their paper to be received byApril 2nd 2007, due date of the full paper electronic submission is April13th 2007.For further inquiries, please contact DaWaK 2007 PC Co-ChairpersonDr. Il-Yeol Song (song@drexel.edu), Dr. Johann Eder (johann.eder@univie.ac.at), or Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho (tho@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Submission of abstracts: April 2, 2007
* Submission of full papers: April 13, 2007
* Notification of acceptance: May 25, 2007
* Camera-ready copies due: June 10, 2007

Program Chairs
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* Il Yeol Song, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
* Johann Eder, University of Vienna, Austria
* Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee details are available on the web site.

Lectura de tesis doctoral (15/11/06)

El próximo día 15 de noviembre, a las 11:30 h., tendrá lugar en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Traducción y Documentación de la Universidad de Salamanca la defensa pública de la tesis doctoral de D. Daniel Flores, titulada "A gestao electrónica de documentos (GED) e o impacto das políticas de software livre: uma perspectiva "transdisciplinar", comparada nos arquivos do Brasil e Espanha", dirigida por la Dra. Dña. Manuela Moro Cabero.