Scope

The purpose of the International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications (DATA) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on databases, data warehousing, data mining, data management, data security and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data.

Papers describing advanced methodologies, prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the conference proceedings. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research papers and work-in-progress are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.

Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as demos or tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial, workshop or special session are invited to contact the conference secretariat or visit the conference website.
Conference Areas

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
2. DATA MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY
3. TRUST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY
4. ONTOLOGIES AND THE SEMANTIC WEB


AREA 1: DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Warehouse Management
Change Detection
Legacy Systems
Data Scraping
Warehouse Applications
Datamining
Dimensional Modelling
OLAP and MDA Models
Decision Support Systems
Semi-structured and Unstructured Data
Information Integration
Update Filtering
Self-maintainability

AREA 2: DATA MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY

Big Data
Modeling and Managing Large Data Systems
Organizational Concepts and Best Practices
Architectural Concepts
Data and information quality
Data Modeling
Data analytics
Analytical Database Servers
Data Visualization
Mobile Data Management
Management of Sensor Data
Text Analytics
Business Cases and Cost/Benefit Analysis

AREA 3: TRUST, PRIVACY AND SECURITY

Accessibility of Data
Cloud Computing
Role-Based Access Control
Trust Management
XML Security
Ethical Aspects
Statistical Database Security
Identity Management
Digital Rights Management
Privacy Policies
Cryptography
Malicious Software

AREA 4: ONTOLOGIES AND THE SEMANTIC WEB

Computational Semantics
Interoperability
Web Services
Markup Languages
Social Networking
Corporate Semantic Web
Knowledge Management
Information retrieval
Semantic Web Dynamics
Digital libraries

Keynote Speakers
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Alfred Inselberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Daniela Nicklas, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany
John Shaw, Mainstream Renewable Power, Ireland
Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:

Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".



Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. Authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).
Important Dates

Conference Date: 25 - 27 July, 2012
Regular Paper Submission: March 13, 2012 (extended)
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 16, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 27, 2012
Secretariat

DATA Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5433
e-mail: data.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.dataconference.org/