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         The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications 
             DBKDA 2015 
            May 24 - 29, 2015 - Rome, Italy  | 
       
     
     
     
     Advances in different technologies and domains related to  databases triggered substantial improvements for content processing,  information indexing, and data, process and knowledge mining. The push came  from Web services, artificial intelligence, and agent technologies, as well as  from the generalization of the XML adoption.
     High-speed communications and computations, large storage  capacities, and load-balancing for distributed databases access allow new  approaches for content processing with incomplete patterns, advanced ranking  algorithms and advanced indexing methods.  
     Evolution on e-business, ehealth and telemedicine, bioinformatics,  finance and marketing, geographical positioning systems put pressure on  database communities to push the ‘de facto’ methods to support new requirements  in terms of scalability, privacy, performance, indexing, and heterogeneity of  both content and technology.
     The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, DBKDA 2015, continues a series of international events covering a large spectrum of  topics related to advances in fundamentals on databases, evolution of relation  between databases and other domains, data base technologies and content processing,  as well as specifics in applications domains databases.
     We solicit both academic, research, and industrial          contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
     Industrial presentations are not subject to the format and content constraints of regular submissions. We expect short and long presentations that express industrial position and status.
     Tutorials on specific related topics and panels on challenging areas are encouraged.
     The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
     All topics and submission formats are open to both research and industry contributions.
     Advances in fundamentals on databases
Foundations and  architectures
Design features (data  quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and  distributed approaches, mobility, etc.)
Data quality, data structures,  and data modeling
Advanced indexing  methods
Advanced ranking  algorithms and uncertainty
Physical organization  and performance
Federated  choreographies
Temporal conformance
Evolutionary  clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering
     Databases  and other domains
       Leading-edge database  technology and applications
       Heterogeneous  databases interoperability and mediation
       Databases and Web  services
       Databases and  artificial intelligence
       Databases and agents
       Advances in database  management systems
       Advanced transaction  and workflow management
       Advances on XML and  databases
     Databases technologies 
       Self-managing   databases
       Mobile databases
       Database access
       Embedded  databases
       Very  large scale databases
       Spatial  and spatio-temporal databases
       Data  warehousing
       Multimedia  databases
       Semantic  databases
       Data integration resources on the Internet
       Object-oriented databases
       Web-based databases
       Deductive and active databases
     Databases content processing
       Mining  for complex data
       Mining  for text, video, and pictures
       Knowledge  discovery and classification
       Process  mining
       Scalable  data extraction
       Query processing and  optimization
       Query rewrite rules
       Navigational path expressions  
       Load-balancing in accessing distributed  databases
       Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty
       Storage and replication
       Patterns and similarities in data streams
       Fast matching
       Multiple views
     Knowledge and decision bases
       Knowledge   representation and management
       Knowledge discovery (business intelligence)
       Semantic information
       Ontology and advanced knowledge search
       Heuristics and meta-heuristics
       Intelligent knowledge querying
       Feature sampling and feature selection
       Context-aware knowledge base
       Blogs and social relationship search
       Deductive reasoning
       Reasoning databases
       Ontology-based reasoning
     Specifics on application domains  databases
       Database   applications in Life Sciences
       Advanced database applications
       Bioinformatics  databases
       Healthcare  databases
       Finance  and marketing databases
       Telecom  databases
       Geospatial  databases
       Census databases
       Meteorological  databases
       Business  intelligence databases
       e-Business  databases
      XML-driven data, knowledge, databases
       Data /dissemination, distributed, processing, management/
       XML-data /storage, exchange, compress, metadata/
       XML-data and metadata management
       XML repositories; Knowledge discovery from XML repositories
       XML-data processing /queries, indexing, management, retrieval, mining/
       XML data and knowledge /representation, discovery, mining, orchestration/
       XML-data in advances environments /clouds, P2P, multimedia, mobile, finance, biotechnologies, geospatial, space/
       XML-data and process /data warehouse, workflow, web, learning, control/
      Data privacy
       Privacy models
       Privacy metrics
       Privacy preservation
       Watermarking
       Data Hiding
       Background knowledge
       Privacy /data streams, social networks, databases, semantic web/
       Privacy mechanisms /cryptography, privacy-aware access control, generalization-based algoritm, perturbation-based algorithm, preservation, sequental releases/
       Practical studies /privacy leaking, privacy breach, threats to privacy, privacy in outsourcing/
      Data quality and uncertainty
       Models, frameworks, methodologies and metrics for data quality
       Quality of complex data /documents, semi-structured data, XMLs,  multimedia data, graphs, bio-sequences/
       Uncertain and noisy data
       Uncertain data representation
       Processing uncertain data /querying, indexing, mining/
       Mining uncertain data/probabilistic, spatially- and temporally- uncertain, uncertain streams/
       Data lineage and provenance
       Data profiling and measurement
       Data integration, linkage and fusion
       Duplicate detection and consistency checking
       Data mining and data quality assessment
       Quality methods and algorithms /data transformation, reconciliation, consolidation, extraction, cleansing/
       User perception on data quality and cleansing
      Data query, access, mining, and correlation
       Data access technologies
       Query optimisation
       Discovering multi-modal correlations
       Mining structural data from non-structural mixed-media documents
       Data stream mining /frequent patterns, bursty event detection/
       Profile mining
       Corelation and anomaly in multi-modal-data /social networks, web traffic logs, sale transactions/
       Information retrieval on a mixed collections
       Multimedia data mining
       Data mining system for medical multimedia data
       Contents-based image/video retrieval systems
      Data and process provenance
       Provenance architectures and algorithms
       Provenance modelling
       Information management for provenance data
       Provenance ontology and semantic
       Provenance querying
       Provenance annotation
       Security, trust, and privacy for provenance information
       Case studies and practice
       Reasoning over provenance
       Provenance analytics, mining and visualization
      Data management
       Distributed Query Languages
       Query processing and optimization
       Adaptive query processing
       Management of mobile data
       Managing data privacy and security
       Data storage and management
       Data stream systems
       Data locating
       Data warehouse management
       Management of dynamic data
       Workload adaptability
       Transaction management
       Performance evaluation and benchmarking or data management
      
     INSTRUCTION FOR THE  AUTHORS
     Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
     Publisher: XPS (Xpert Publishing Services)
Archived: ThinkMindTM Digital Library (free access)
Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
Articles will be submitted to appropriate indexes.
     Important deadlines:
     
       
         | Submission (full paper)  | 
         Dec 24, '14 January 26, 2015 
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         | Notification | 
         Feb 25 February 28, 2015 
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         | Registration | 
         March 12, 2015   | 
       
       
         | Camera ready  | 
         April 10, 2015   | 
       
     
     Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
     Contribution types
     
       - regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
       - short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
       - ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
       - extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
       - posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
       - posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
 
       - presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
 
       - demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
 
       - doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
     
     Proposals for:
     
     FORMATS
     Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received submissions will be acknowledged via an automated system.
     Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at  additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here. Latex templates are also available. 
     Slides-based contributions can use the corporate/university format and style.
     Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
     Once you receive the notification of contribution acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
     We would recommend that you should not use too many extra pages, even if you can afford the extra fees. No more than 2 contributions per event are recommended, as each contribution must be separately registered and paid for. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to ensure that the paper will be included in the conference proceedings and in the digital library, or posted on the www.iaria.org (for slide-based contributions).
     CONTRIBUTION TYPE
     Regular Papers (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
       These contributions could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 
       Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type. 
       12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
     Short papers (work in progress) (up to 4 pages long)  (oral presentation)
       Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. These contributions represent partial achievements of longer-term projects. They could be academic or industrial research, survey, white, implementation-oriented, architecture-oriented, white papers, etc. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress.  Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page. 
       12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
     Ideas contributions (2 pages long)  (oral presentation)
       This category is dedicated to new ideas in their very early stage. Idea contributions are expression of yet to be developed approaches, with pros/cons, not yet consolidated. Ideas contributions are intended for a debate and audience feedback. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Idea.  Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. For more details, see the Ideas explanation page. 
       12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
     Extended abstracts (2 pages long)  (oral presentation)
       Extended abstracts summarize a long potential publication with noticeable results. It is intended for sharing yet to be written, or further on intended for a journal publication. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Extended abstract.  Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 
       12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
     Posters (paper-based, two pages long)  (oral presentation)
       Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. 
       A two-page paper summarizes a presentation intended to be a POSTER. This allows an author to summarize a series of results and expose them via a big number of figures, graphics and tables. 
       Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster Two Pages.  Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. 
       8-10 presentation slides are suggested. 
       Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, in addition to the oral presentation.
     Posters (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
       Posters are intended for ongoing research projects, concrete realizations, or industrial applications/projects presentations. The poster may be presented during sessions reserved for posters, or mixed with presentation of articles of similar topic. The slides must have comprehensive comments. 
       This type of contribution only requires a 8-10 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Poster (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
       8-10 presentation slides are suggested. 
       Also a big Poster is suitable, used for live discussions with the attendees, additionally to the oral presentation.
     Presentations (slide-based, only) (oral presentation)
       These contributions represent technical marketing/industrial/business/positioning presentations. This type of contribution only requires a 12-14 slide-deck. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Presentation (slide-only). The slide-deck will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
       12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
     Demos (two pages) [posted on www.iaria.org]
       Demos represent special contributions where a tool, an implementation of an application, or a freshly implemented system is presented in its alfa/beta version. It might also be intended for thsoe new application to gather the attendee opinion.  A two-page summary for a demo is intended to be. It would be scheduled in special time spots, to ensure a maximum attendance from the participants. Please submit the contributions following the submission instructions by using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as Demos. The Demos paper will be posted, post-event, on www.iaria.org.
     Doctoral forum submissions:  (up to 6-10 page article -6 pages covered the by regular registration; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost- ) (oral presentation)
       There contributions refer to PhD dissertations, new PhD approaches, and PhD out-of-the-book thinking, etc. They will be included in the proceedings, posted in the free-access ThinkMind digital library and sent for indexing. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the appropriate contribution type Doctoral forum. 
       12-14 presentation slides are suggested.
     Tutorial proposals
       Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for 2-3 hour long. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.
       Please send your proposals to tutorial proposal
     Panel proposals
       The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA site.
       Please send your proposals to panel proposal
     Workshop proposals
       See http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
     Mini Symposium proposal
       See http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html