***FINALLY*** The Call For Papers For The Data Warehousing Meeting
Date: 19 Feb 1995 02:44:38 GMT
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ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
DW'95
The 1995 Data Warehousing Institute Annual Conference
Focusing On Practical Solutions To Tough Problems
With Two Concurrent Forums
DSS/EIS'95 and the
ORACLE Data Warehousing Forum
July 24-28, 1995
Washington, DC
Dates For Refereed Papers Submission
Abstracts due:
March 1, 1995
Notification to authors:
March 15, 1995
Camera-ready final papers due:
June 1, 1995
For information on the conference: email tdwi_at_aol.com and include the word conference in the subject or body.
Job prospects for data warehousing professionals are at an all time high. HP, IBM, AT&T GIS, and Sun all report that at last 50 per cent of their commercial server sales in 1995 will be used for data warehousing projects. Thousands of new people want to learn how to do data warehousing right, and a large number of them are coming to the Data Warehousing Institute's Annual Conference in Washington. If you are one people who has already learned the hard lessons of data warehousing, please consider submitting a paper. It will be a fun conference with lots of invited papers by industry experts, courses by the best teachers in the field, BOFs to help you network, as well as the peer-reviewed papers and user panels that will illuminate the problems that experienced data warehousing managers and staff have faced and solved. Approximately 400 people will gather in Washington, DC, July 24-28, to share experiences, learn from the experts, identify practical solutions to current challenges, build support networks, and discuss alternative futures for the field.
DW'95 offers three days of in-depth, authoritative courses and two days of multiple tracks of invited and peer-reviewed technical papers. It also is the home of the Oracle Warehousing Forum: a conference-within-a-conference for DBAs and warehousing managers who are using or plan to use Oracle as the centerpiece of their data warehousing initiative. DW'95 also provides a unique opportunity to review the implementation of the data warehouses developed by companies or government agencies chosen as having the "Best Data Warehousing Applications of 1995." (Nominations close on February 24. If you think you know of a great one, email tdwi_at_aol.com and include "nomination" in the subject line or the body.)
Conference Topics
The overall focus of DW'95 is finding practical solutions to common problems in data warehousing, data mining, decision support and executive information systems. Feel free to offer abstracts on any of the following topics, or a topic of your own:
Topics on Initiating and Justifying DW, DSS, or EIS projects
Gaining top management support
Estimating costs
Going back for more money
Estimating the sizes and capacities of the systems (a paper we would like
to see: "How and Why We Underestimated The Data Volumes and What We Had
To Do To Correct the Error In System Sizing")
Survival Strategies for Data Warehousing Managers
Determining the focus for the warehouse and the requirements it must meet
Gaining early user involvement and buy-in
Keeping user expectations in line
Finding the right driver (the executive who bridges between the data
warehouse manager and top executives)
Getting agreement of common data definitions
Topics on Staffing Data Warehouses
The right skills for DW managers, DSS managers, and EIS managers.
Can COBOL programmers play a role in data warehouses
Can EIS and DSS staff be reinvented as data warehousing managers?
Topics on Using System Integrators
Why I love (hate) the system integrator we chose (success/horror stories)
Tips on managing a data warehousing system integration project
Topics on Data Selection, Extraction and Cleaning
Choosing the right data
How to ask your users what they need (and how not to ask them)
Experiences in using commercial data extraction and cleaning tools: how
they paid off -- or didn't.
Replication: push vs pull
Topics on Information Packaging (DSS/EIS) How DSS/EIS managers migrated to data warehousing Why I love/hate (pick one) for information packaging Roll Your Own delivery system your own with Excel (or PowerBuilder)
Topics on Multi-Dimensional Database Management How multi-dimensional systems are actually used How much better is multidimensional than relational with bit-wise indexing
Topics on selecting platforms
Experiences with parallel systems: how big was the actual gain.
Case studies of co-existence of warehousing and production systems.
Topics on Metadata
Strategies for metadata development
Online business directories: do they work?
Exciting applications
Alarm systems (we'd like to see something on "techniques for triggering
and delivering alarms to data warehousing end users")
Opening the data warehouse to your employer's clients
Data mining success stories
Topics on Security and Systems Management Tools and techniques for administering the data warehouse Tools and techniques for improving security Management automation strategies
Lesson You Have Learned
What you wish you had known when you started your data warehousing
project, but had to learn the hard way.
You don't have to have made a major breakthrough to have your paper accepted. The delegates just want practical solutions for real problems.
Abstract Submission
Abstracts must be 1 to 3 pages long and be received by March 1, 1995. The object of an abstract is to convince the reviewers that a good paper and presentation will result. Your abstract should include:
- A cover page including the title of the paper, the principal author's name, title, organization, address, email, telephone, and FAX numbers, and the names and affiliations of the other authors.
- A description of the problem and its importance. Option: Describe what happened to you or your users that made you aware of how important the problem was.
- Your solution, including details of how it worked. If this is work on emerging technology, try to show what the expected impact will be. If your solution is based on commercial hardware or software tools, name them.
- Data on how well the solution works: before/after comparisons, direct savings, trade-offs, etc.
- Lessons learned.
Where To Submit:
Please send one copy of your abstract to the program committee using one of the following methods. All submissions will be acknowledged.
Preferred method: email (plain text) to tdwi_at_aol.com
Alternative method: fax: 719-599-4395
Alternative 2: postal delivery to DW'95 Abstracts, Data Warehousing
Institute, 1815 H Street NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006.
Questions: email tdwi_at_aol.com or telephone 719-599-4303
Peer-Review Committee Executives
Chair: Dr. Ramon Barquin, Executive Director, Data Warehousing Institute Geane Schubert, Staff Director, Data Warehousing Institute Herb Edelstein, Program Chair, Euclid Associates plus practitioners and consultants
For a DW'95 Registration package, email tdwi_at_aol.com and include the word: "Conference" in the subject line or the body.
For information about the Data Warehousing Institute, email tdwi_at_aol.com and include the word: "Info" in the subject line or the body.
Received on Sun Feb 19 1995 - 03:44:38 CET