Call for Papers MORE-BI 2012
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*** The 2nd International Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning for Business Intelligence - MORE-BI 2012 ***

One-day workshop held in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2012)

Florence, Italy
October 15 - 18, 2012



*** IMPORTANT DATES ***

Abstract submission: Monday 2nd April 2012
Paper submission: Monday 9th April 2012
Notifications sent: Monday 21st May 2012
Camera-ready papers: Monday 28th May 2012



*** WEBSITE ***

http://morebusinessintelligence.com/



*** SCOPE ***

MORE Business Intelligence Workshops will bring together researchers in conceptual modeling, ontology engineering, knowledge representation, and reasoning with business analysts, developers, managers, and consultants involved in the definition of requirements for, development, use, and evolution of Business Intelligence systems.

The workshop is the first of its kind to provide a forum for both research and practice in the conceptual modeling and reasoning needed for the engineering of Business Intelligence systems, and encourages interdisciplinary discussions in all aspects of this field.



*** TOPICS ***

Topics of interest include:
* Concepts, relations, ontologies, models of decision information and for decision support
* Modeling languages for decision support
* Modeling languages for business strategy and business analytics
* Data cleaning and quality
* Data integration
* Logical knowledge bases for business intelligence
* Automated reasoning for decision support
* Requirements engineering of business decision processes
* Requirements engineering of business analytics processes
* OLAP and classification
* Collaborative and user-centric modeling for decision support
* Models visualization
* Semantic modeling of decision data in Triple Stores



*** PAPER SUBMISSION ***

Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details.

We welcome technical research papers, industrial experience reports, and speculative/visionary papers. Submissions should be in LNCS and pdf format. The maximum length is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS workshop proceedings.

Information on how to submit will be available soon on the workshop website: http://morebusinessintelligence.com/



*** STEERING COMMITTEE ***

Ivan Jureta, FNRS & Louvain School of Management
Stephane Faulkner, Louvain School of Management
Esteban Zimanyi, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Marie-Aude Aufaure, Ecole Centrale Paris
Carson Woo, Sauder School of Business



*** PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***

Alberto Abello, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Daniele Barone, University of Toronto
Ladjel Bellatreche, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique et d'Aerotechnique
Sandro Bimonte, Irstea, Clermont-Ferrand
Farid Cerbah, Dassault Aviation
Dalila Chiadmi, Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria
Olivier Corby, INRIA
Marin Dimitrov, Ontotext
Neil Ernst, University of British Columbia
Cecile Favre, Universite Lyon 2
Octavio Glorio, University of Alicante
Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna
Gregor Hackenbroich, SAP
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna
Alexei Lapouchnian, University of Trento
Sotirios Liaskos, York University
Isabelle Linden, University of Namur
Patrick Marcel, Universite Francois Rabelais de Tours
Jose-Norberto Mazon, University of Alicante
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Stefano Rizzi, University of Bologna
Monique Snoeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Catherine Roussey, Universite de Lyon
Thodoros Topaloglou, University of Toronto
Juan-Carlos Trujillo Mondejar, University of Alicante
Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology


*** PAST EDITION: MORE-BI 2011 ***

See the list of accepted papers and keynote speakers at last year's edition of the workshop at: http://morebusinessintelligence.com/2011/