ARES 2006

International Workshop “Dependability Aspects on Data WArehousing and Mining applications” DAWAM 2006.

in conjunction with The First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ( ARES 2006 )

Overview

Nowadays, the rapid growth of information technologies has brought tremendous opportunities for data sharing, integration, and analysis across multiple distributed, heterogeneous data sources. In the past decade, data warehousing and mining are the well-known technologies used for data analysis and knowledge discovery in vast domain of applications. Data mining technology has emerged as a means of identifying patterns and trends from large quantities of data. Data mining has used a data warehousing model of gathering all data into a central site, then running an algorithm against that data.

A growing attention has been paid to the study, development and application of data warehousing and mining. Nevertheless, dependability aspects in these applications such as availability, reliability, integrity, privacy, and security issues are still being investigated. For example, in data warehousing applications, privacy considerations may prevent the approach of collecting data into the centralized warehouse because each data source has different privacy policy. Furthermore, the complexity of security increases as different sources of information are combined. Reliable, consistent and trustworthy of information are also significant requirements in data warehousing applications. Data mining has been shown to be beneficial in confronting various types of attacks to computer systems such as fraud detection, intrusion prevention. In some applications, e.g. clinic information system, government management, business competitive information, it is required to apply the mining algorithms without observing the confidential data values thus demands the privacy preservation. There are also many challenging issues that need further investigation in the context of data mining from both privacy and security perspectives such as mining of imbalanced data, bioinformatics data, streaming data, ubiquitous computing data, grid computing data etc.

The goals of this workshop are to bring together users, engineers and researchers (from industry and academy) alike to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views of techniques and policies, and brainstorm future research directions on various dependability aspects of data warehousing and data mining applications. We strongly encourage researchers and practitioners with interest in the areas of reliability, availability, privacy and security, databases, data warehousing, data mining, and statistics to submit their experience, and/or research results.

Topics related to any of dependability aspects in data warehousing and mining, theory, systems and applications are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas:

Dependability and fault tolerance

High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Survivability of evaluative systems

Reliability and Robustness Issues

Accuracy and reliability of responses

Reliable and Failure Tolerant Business Process Integration

Reliable Event Management and Data Stream Processing

Failure Tolerant and trustworthy Sensor Networks

Highly available data warehouses for business processes integration

Handling different or incompatible formats, and erroneous data

Privacy and security policies and social impact of data mining

Privacy preserving data integration

Access control techniques and secure data models

Encryption & Authentication

Pseudonymization and Encryption

Anonymization and pseudonymization

Trust management, and security

Security in Aggregation and Generalization

User Profile Based Security

Secure multi-party computation

Secondary use of personal data, clinic data, credit record

Fraud and misuse detection

Intrusion detection and tolerance

Data mining applications for terrorist detection

Private queries by a (semi-trusted) third party

Query authentication, logging, auditing, access control and authorization policies

The program of the workshop will be a combination of invited talks, paper/poster presentations and discussions.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: January, 15th 2006 Extension !!!
Author Notification: January, 23th 2006
Author Registration: February, 1st 2006
Proceedings Version: February, 1st 2006

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit research and application papers in IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:

URL: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/publications/cps&file=cps_forms.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&

or http://www.tinmith.net/tabletop2006/IEEE/Format/instruct.htm

Submission are classified into 3 categories (1) full paper (8 pages), (2) short paper (5 pages), and (3) poster (2 pages) representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Contact author must provide the following information: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords and register at our ARES website: http://www.ares-conf.org/?q=submission . Prepare your paper in PDF or MS Word file and submit it to our site or send it to the workshop co-chair: Dr. Nguyen Manh Tho, Institute of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, via email: tho@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

Publication

All accepted papers (full and short papers) will be published as ISBN proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. Based on quality and referee reviews, some papers not suitable for acceptance as full paper will be accepted for presentation at DAWAM 2006 in Poster category and will be also included in the IEEE Proceedings.

A selected number of papers will be nominated to be published as special issues in appropriate journals such as Journal of automatic and trusted computing (JoATC).

Workshop Organizer Co-chairs

Jimmy Huang, Prof.
School of Information Technology,
York University ,
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M3J 1P3
jhuang@yorku.ca

Josef Schiefer, Ph.D.
Senactive IT-Dienstleistungs GmbH ,
Phorusgasse 8
A1040 Vienna, Austria
josef.schiefer@senactive.com

Nguyen Manh Tho, Ph.D. (main contact)
Institute of Software Technique and Interactive System,
Vienna University of Technology ,
Favoriten strasse 9-11/188
A1040 Vienna, Austria
tho@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

Program Committee

Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia

Aijun An, York University, Canada

Pawan Chowdhary, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

LiWu Chang, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain

Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria at Como, Italy

Ulrich Flegel, University of Dortmund, Germany

Tyrone Grandison, IBM Almaden Research, USA

Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada

Jun-Jang (JJ) Jeng, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA and Agnik, LLC

Zongwei Luo, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Taneli Mielikäinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Tho Manh Nguyen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Daniel E. O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA

Stanley Oliveira, Embrapa Information Technology, Brazil

Arnon Rosenthal, MITRE Corporation, USA

Josef Schiefer, Senactive IT-Dienstleistungs GmbH, Austria

Ben Soh, La Trobe University, Australia

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain

Vassilios S. Verykios, University of Thessaly, Greece

Justin Zhan, University of Ottawa, Canada

Sheng Zhong, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA