CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
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Chapter Submission Deadline: October 31, 2008
Evolving Application Domains of Data
Warehousing and Mining: Trends and Solutions
A book edited by Dr. Pedro Furtado
Introduction
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Data Warehousing and Data Mining are strategic
technologies in most competitive industries.
They are applied in most fields of human activity,
from commercial to scientific or industrial
areas, and for decision support,
trend analysis and pattern discovery. These technologies have
led to the development of new
solutions and approaches. Some of these solutions have being incorporated
into commercial tools and systems,
while others have produced new advancement opportunities in many
fields of human knowledge. Given this
evolution, it is very important to understand both the theoretical
and practical aspects of those
technologies, solutions and applications to various fields of human knowledge.
The proposed collection of articles presents
foundations, trends and solutions concerning data warehousing
and data mining technologies, and
how these technologies operate and have a positive effect on areas
of human activity and knowledge.
Objective of
the Book
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This book will provide the necessary insight into both
foundation issues and the latest findings
concerning data
warehousing, data mining and their application in human activities. These
technologies have been hot
topics for the past two decades and they share a common goal
of enabling data analysis and
pattern discovery in different application areas. Now that these
fields and their applications are more
mature, there is a clear advantage on putting together a
collection of chapters
that will present not only foundations, but also solutions and applications
and an integrated view of both
technologies.
Target Audience
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The book will be a valuable resource for both
professionals and researchers, from computer
sciences and other
fields, who need to gain knowledge of models, strategies, solutions,
applications and
findings in the field. It will be useful to those wishing to gain background
knowledge, those
searching for specific solutions, and for those searching for the latest
solutions, results
and applications. By bringing together the two related fields and by focusing
also on their integration and
applications, the book fills a gap in the information technology
literature and is also
suitable as bibliography for courses on the subject.
Recommended topics include, but not limited to:
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Data
Warehousing and OLAP
+ Foundations and architectures
+ Design for applications
+ ETL
+ OLAP
+ Cubes, materialized views
+ Query processing and optimization
+ Physical organization and performance
Data Mining
+ Foundations and algorithms
+ Association rules mining, sequence and time series
mining
+ Top-K and gradient mining
+ Classification and ranking
+ Clustering
+ Statistical methods
+ Mining text, web and semi-structured data
+ Temporal, spatial and multimedia mining
+ Mining data streams
+ Graph mining, social networks
+ Soft computing
Issues and Applications
+ Integrating OLAP and data mining for applications
+ Combining OLAP and data mining for complex data
analysis
+ Multidimensional mining
+ Cubing, iceberg cubing, cube compression, mining
over cubes
+ Storage, structures, indexes, intermediate
structures and processes for Scalable Mining
+ Extraction, transformation, cleaning, reduction,
loading and data quality issues
+ Methodological and non-functional features (data
quality, performance, robustness,
scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed
approaches)
+ Application domains: biomedical, healthcare, finance
and marketing, telecom, mobility, etc.
+ Trends and solutions for application domains
Important Dates
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Chapter submission: October
31, 2008
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Authors of accepted proposals are expected to submit full
chapters by October 31, 2008. All
submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review
basis. This book is scheduled to
be
published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science Reference
(formerly Idea Group
Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.
For additional information
regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Department of Information Engineering (DEI)
UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA - Polo II
3030-290
Coimbra
Portugal
Tel: +351
239 790 000
Fax: +351 239 701 266
E-mail:
pnf@dei.uc.pt