*** Extended Deadlines ***

                    CALL FOR PAPERS
            Second International Workshop on
 Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise (BIRTE 08)
               http://birte08.stanford.edu/
               August 24, 2008 (tentative)
               In conjunction with VLDB'08
          August 24-30, 2008, Auckland, New Zeland




IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstracts due: May 23, 2008
* Papers due: May 29, 2008
* Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2008
* Camera-ready copies: July 28, 2008



DESCRIPTION

In today's competitive and highly dynamic environment, analyzing data to understand how the business is performing, to predict outcomes and trends, and to improve the effectiveness of business processes underlying business operations has become critical. The traditional approach to reporting is not longer adequate, users now demand easy-to-use intelligent platforms and applications capable of analyzing real-time business data to provide insight and actionable information at the right time. The end goal is to improve the enterprise performance by better and timelier decision making, enabled by the availability of up-to-date, high quality information.

As a response, the notion of "real-time enterprise" has emerged and is beginning to be recognized in the industry. Gartner defines it as "using up-to-date information, getting rid of delays, and using speed for competitive advantage is what the real-time enterprise is all about...
Indeed, the goal of the real-time enterprise is to act on events as they happen"

Although there has been progress in this direction and many companies are introducing products towards making this vision reality, there is still a long way to go. In particular, the whole lifecycle of business intelligence requires new techniques and methodologies capable of dealing with the new requirements imposed by the real-time enterprise.
 From the capturing of real-time business performance data to the injection of actionable information back into business processes, all the stages of the Business Intelligence (BI) cycle call for new algorithms and paradigms as the basis of new functionalities including dynamic integration of real-time data feeds from operational sources, evolution of ETL transformations and analytical models, and dynamic generation of adaptive real-time dashboards, just to name a few.

The series of BIRTE workshops aims to provide a forum to discuss topics related to this emerging field and set research directions of business intelligence (BI) toward the vision of the real-time enterprise.
Following the success of BIRTE 2006 held in Seoul, Korea in conjunction with VLDB 2006, submissions for research, position and experience papers on relevant topics are encouraged.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Models, Architectures and Technologies for Real-time Enterprise Business Intelligence
- Metadata management
- Data quality and cleansing
- BI over streaming data
- Data capture in real-time
- Performance and scalability
- Real-time decision support
- Tuning and management of the real-time data warehouse
- Data warehouse evolution
- ETL for the real-time data warehouse
- Data mining and data analysis in real-time
- Real-time Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
- Real-time OLAP
- Real-time operational data stores
- Staging
- Visualization

Applications of Real-time Enterprise Business Intelligence
- Case studies
- Pitfalls in applying BI tools to real-life problems
- Lessons learned from large practical applications of real-time BI
- Control of the real-time enterprise
- Industrial experiences and challenges

SPECIAL NOTE: To keep the focus of this workshop a paper must clearly state how the work presented relates to the real-time enterprise, how the results apply in this context and if possible, to provide some validation of the application of the work to a real-life problem.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should follow the LNBIP format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0 for details).The first page must contain an abstract, a classification of the topic covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/industry paper). The length of a paper should not exceed 16 pages. Papers in PDF should be submitted electronically to the review web site https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/BIRTE2008/.

PROCEEDINGS

Post-proceedings will be published as a LNBIP volume by Springer-Verlag.


ORGANIZATION

General Chair
Umesh Dayal
Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
umeshwar.dayal@hp.com

PC Chairs
Malu Castellanos
Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
malu.castellanos@hp.com

Timos Sellis
National Technical University of Athens
timos@dblab.ece.ntua.gr

Program Committee:
Martin Bichler, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Christof Bornhoevd, SAP, USA
Mike Carey, BEA, USA
Fabio Casati, University of Trento, Italy
Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft, USA
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
Jayant Haritsa, IISc, India
Howard Ho, IBM Almaden, USA
Tan Kian-Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wolfgang Lehner, University of Dresden, Germany
Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna, Italy
Donovan Schneider, Yahoo, USA
Alkis Simitsis, Stanford University, USA
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Andrew Witkowski, Oracle, USA

Publication Chair
Alkis Simitsis
Stanford University
alkis@db.stanford.edu