ICIQ 2009

14th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) November 7 - 8, 2009 Submission Deadline: July 6, 2009 www.iciq2009.org

Hosted annually from 1996 to 2008 at MIT in Cambridge, MA, the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ) will celebrate its 14th anniversary in 2009 in Potsdam, Germany. Each year, the conference attracts numerous researchers and practitioners from the academic academy and both the public and private sectors. In addition to the official program, there are plenty of opportunities for informal discussions. The conference program will include tracks of practice-oriented papers, research papers, and panel sessions. ICIQ strongly encourages practitioners to submit papers that report experiences, lessons, and perspectives. The 14th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ-09) will be held at the Hasso Plattner Institute on November 7.-8.

IMPORTANT DATES July 6: Submission deadline August 17: Notification of acceptance September 18: Camera-ready copy due November 7-8: Conference

TOPICS OF INTEREST Corporate and organizational IQ _ IQ Management _ Alignment of IQ Management with Business Strategies _ Business Process Performance _ IQ Education and Curriculum Development _ Data Governance Measurement, improvement, and assurance of IQ _ Data Scrubbing and Cleaning _ Record Linkage and Entity Resolution _ IQ Assessment _ Cost/Benefit Analysis of IQ Improvement _ IQ Policies and Standards _ Privacy Preservation and Security Issues in the Process of Data Cleaning Methods, concepts, and tools for IQ _ IQ Concepts, Metrics, Measures, and Models _ Method Engineering for IQ _ Trust, Knowledge, and Society _ Data Provenance and Annotation _ Information Product Theory and Practice _ Metadata and IQ _ IQ of Unstructured and Extracted Data _ IQ in Probabilistic, Fuzzy, and Uncertain Data Management _ IQ in Sensor Networks and Information Fusion _ Data Quality Systems and Tools IQ cases and applications _ IQ Practices: Case Studies and Experience Reports _ Community Input, Pay as You Go, and Crowd Sourcing _ IQ in the Web, Data Integration, and eBusiness _ Scientific Data _ Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence _ Master Data Management

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each submission must be identified as a completed academic paper, research-in-progress, or a practice-oriented paper. The review process is double blind, i.e., authors and reviewers are anonymous. Authors should avoid identifying themselves in the submitted materials. For further information, such as program committee, reviewer guidelines, directions to the conference site, and conference registration, please visit the ICIQ website at www.iciq2009.org. Past events: mitiq.mit.edu

General Chair Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany (naumann@hpi.uni-potsdam.de)

Program Chairs Paul Bowen, Florida State University, (pbowen@cob.fsu.edu) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Purdue University, (ake@cs.purdue.edu) Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen (hubert.oesterle@unisq.ch) Kai-Uwe Sattler, Ilmenau University of Technology, (kus@tu-ilmenau.de)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Carlo Batini (University of Milan, Italy) Laure Berti-Equille (University of Rennes, France) Mokrane Bouzeghoub (Universite de Versailles, France) Ismael Caballero (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) Tiziana Cartaci (University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy) Tamraparni Dasu (AT&T Labs, USA) Helena Galhardas (University of Lisboa, Portugal) Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK) Michael Gertz (University of Heidelberg, Germany) Eberhard Hechler (IBM, Germany) Markus Helfert (Dublin City University, Ireland) Theodore Johnson (AT&T Labs, USA) Barbara Klein (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) Andrea Maurino (Universita di Milano Bicocca, Italy) Paolo Missier (University of Manchester, UK) Boris Otto (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) Mourad Ouzzani (Purdue University, USA) Elizabeth Pierce (University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA) Leo Pipino (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig, Germany) Friedrich Roithmayr (University of Linz, Austria) Monica Scannapieco (University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy) Yasuki Sekiguchi (Hokkaido University, Japan) Valerie Sessions (Charleston Southern University, USA) Kai Simon (Gartner, Germany) Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs, USA) Dan Suciu (University of Washington, USA) Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina, Greece) Vassilios Verykios (University of Thessaly, Greece) Anette Weisbecker (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)

CONTACT INFORMATION For questions about submissions and the program, please contact the ICIQ Program Chairs (see below). For questions about local arrangements, please contact naumann@hpi.uni-potsdam.de. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP