DOLAP 2022: 24th International Workshop on Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data




Co-located with EDBT 2022, Edinburgh, UK

March 29, 2022


Call for Papers

DOLAP accepts short and long paper submissions. The page limit is 10 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers (in ACM format). Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the program committee. The best papers presented at DOLAP will be invited to a special issue of Information Systems.

Long papers include novel and mature research, industrial or survey work. Long papers of good quality but not mature enough might be accepted to the workshop as short papers. Short papers include:

  • On-going: novel research works with preliminary results.

  • Vision: position papers outlining research issues for future work.

DOLAP includes a second review round for uncertain cases where either there is no agreement among the reviewers, or they ask for a clarification prior to accepting a paper.

Special Theme: Responsible Data Science. Data Science promises to bring significant improvements in people’s lives, accelerating knowledge discovery and innovation. However, lately, there has been an increasing concern regarding the lack of diversity (leading to exclusion), fairness (leading to discrimination), and transparency (leading to opacity) when making critical decisions. This motivates the need for methods, tools, and systems to ensure that data are used responsibly, especially in applications such as healthcare, education, and public policy. To promote novel solutions to this urgent problem, DOLAP 2022 will devote a special session to Responsible Data Science. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Explainable and interpretable analytics

  • Bias in big data and how to mitigate it

  • Data quality and data cleaning

  • FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) in OLAP

Additional research topics include, but are not limited to:

Design and Language

  • Data management fundamentals: architectures, design, ETL/ELT, modeling, data integration, database design for big data, query processing, maintenance, evolution, security, personalization and privacy in decision support systems.

  • Data Variety: unstructured data (e.g., text), semi-structured data (e.g., XML), multimedia, spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data, stream and sensor data, semantic Web & deep Web, data lakes, data spaces, data quality, graph data.

Optimization

  • Coping with Volume: physical organization, performance optimization and tuning, scalability, MapReduce and Spark for data analytics, performance optimization of ETL/ELT.

  • Coping with Velocity: Deployment on parallel machine, database clusters, cloud infrastructures, smart grid, active/real-time analytics, real-time queries.

Analytical Processing and Applications

  • Analytics and Value: OLAP, data exploration through visualization, recommendation, reformulation, approximate query-answering, personalization, result presentation, data storytelling, graph analytics, process mining, advanced visualization for business contexts.

  • Analytics and Veracity: heterogeneous data integration for analytics, quality aspects of data analysis, exploration outcome and end-user experience, fairness of data analysis, analytics and data driven decision making for the data enthusiasts.

  • Integration of analytics with machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, search engines, predictive and prescriptive analytics.

  • Big Data applications: smart city, smart health, smart energy.


Submission Web site:

EDBT/ICDT Workshop papers must follow the ACM Proceedings Format slightly modified. So, please use the modified ACM LaTeX2e style files based on the EDBT/ICDT template and containing the right copyright information for DOLAP (last update: December 9, 2021):

Long papers cannot exceed 10 pages in length and short papers cannot exceed 5 pages in length. Submissions will be accepted only through the submission site EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dolap2022

The proceedings of the workshop will be published online as a volume of the CEUR Workshop Proceedings, a well-known website for publishing workshop proceedings. It is indexed by the major publication portals, such as DBLP, Citeseer and Google Scholar.


Important Dates:

Paper submission: December 15, 2021

Authors notification: January 23, 2022

Camera ready: February 20, 2022

Workshop date: March 29, 2022