Overview

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.

Location
Florence, Italy

Date and time
MORE-BI 2012 will be held on one full day between, and including 15th to 19th Ocbtober 2012.
Date will be announced on this website.

Topics of interest

We invite theoretical, technical, and practical contributions on the following topics:

- 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

Purpose and scope

Business intelligence (BI) systems gather, store, and process data to turn it into information that is meaningful and relevant for decision-making in businesses and organizations. The very strong and continuously growing interest in industry in the engineering of BI systems is a response to the inefficiencies arising from the difficulties of finding in meaningful form the data that can relevantly inform decision-making.

Successful engineering, use, and evolution of BI systems require a deep understanding of the requirements of decision-making processes in organizations, of the kinds of information used and produced in these processes, of the ways in which information can be obtained through acquisition and reasoning on data, of the transformations and analyses of that information, of how the necessary data can be acquired, stored, cleaned, how its quality can be improved, and of how heterogeneous data can be used together. The identification and analysis of concepts and relations relevant for the various steps in the engineering of BI systems, the conceptual modeling of requirements for BI systems, of the data used and produced by them, of the transformations and analyses of data, are only some of the topics to which researchers and practitioners of conceptual modeling can contribute, in the aim of constructing theoretically sound and practically applicable models and reasoning facilities to support the engineering of BI systems.

MORE Business Intelligence intends to 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 BI systems. The aim is to initiate discussions and studies in ontologies, modeling languages, and reasoning methods relevant for the engineering of requirements for, and the engineering and specification of BI systems. These modeling and reasoning techniques will provide more precise and rich information for the end-user, bridging the gap between technical and user-centric tools for Business Intelligence.

Workshop proceedings

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.

Submission instructions

MORE-BI 2012 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 the page http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The page limit for workshop papers is 10 pages. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 10 pages will not be reviewed and will be automatically rejected. A paper submitted to MORE-BI 2012 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for the workshop.

By the Abstract submission deadline, submit your abstract via EasyChair, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=morebi2012

We must receive your abstract at the latest on the Abstract submission deadline.

After submitting your abstract, submit the PDF file of your full paper via EasyChair, at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=morebi2012

We must receive your full paper at the latest on the Paper submission deadline.

Important dates

Paper submission (extended): Monday 16th April 2012
Notifications sent: Friday 1st June 2012
Camera-ready papers: Monday 11th June 2012

MORE-BI Steering committee

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

MORE-BI 2012 Program Committee

Contact

For sponsorship inquiries, questions, suggestions, comments, contact Ivan Jureta.