[SEWORLD] Special Issue on Information System Quality

Special Issue of the Journal Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information (ISI) on The quality of data, conceptual models, information processing and systems Special Issue Editors * Jacky Akoka, CNAM & TEM, akoka@cnam.fr * Laure Berti-Equille, University of Rennes 1, berti@irisa.fr * Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CNAM, wattiau@cnam.fr Goal This special issue aims at collecting mature research and research-in-progress papers addressing the quality on all aspects of the information processing chain. The approaches considered involve evaluation and improvement of the quality at various levels: quality of data, quality of conceptual models, quality of information processing and systems. The papers presenting an overview on these topics will also be appreciated. Topics of interest In this issue, the editors encourage submissions of articles on any topic related to quality, whether theoretical, applied, academic or industrial. The following list of subjects is not limited to: - Data Quality - Quality of conceptual models, - Quality models of knowledge representation - Quality of ontologies - Quality systems and software - Metrics of data quality, data models, information processing and systems - Users-centered quality metrics - Techniques for evaluating data quality and detecting data error - Techniques for quality assessment models - Design Patterns for quality in IS engineering - Techniques for improving data quality and conceptual models: cleaning, processing, reconciliation, consolidation - Methodologies and feedbacks from projects of quality improvement for data, conceptual models or systems - Quality in operational application domains (Bioinformatics, Marketing, e-Commerce, etc.) and for various types of data (XML, transactional data, numerical, categorical, multimedia, etc..) Number of expected contributions in this special issue: 6 Program Committee • Omar BOUCELMA, (University Aix-Marseille 3, France) • Mokrane BOUZEGHOUB, (University of Versailles, France) • Tiziana CATARCI, (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) • Corine CAUVET, (University Aix-Marseille 3, France) • Virginia GOASDOUE-THION, (Dauphine University, Paris, France) • Melanie HERSCHEL, (Universität Tübingen, Germany) • Paul JOHANNESSON, (Stockholm University, Sweden) • Zoubida KEDAD, (University of Versailles, France) • Oscar PASTOR, (Valencia University of Technology, Spain) • Veronika PERALTA, (University of Tours, France) • Geert POELS, (Ghent University, Belgium) • Farida SEMMAK, (University Paris XII, France) • Houari SAHRAOUI, (University of Montreal, Canada) • Keng SIAU, (University of Nebraska, USA) • Bernhard THALHEIM, (University of Kiel, Germany) • Dimitri THEODORATOS, (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) • Juan TRUJILLO, (University of Alicante, Spain) Preliminary schedule - Send submission intention: as soon as possible to the coordinators (akoka@cnam.fr, berti@irisa.fr, wattiau@cnam.fr) - Deadline for contributions: March 15, 2010 - Notification: April 30, 2010. - Camera-ready copy submission: May 20, 2010 - Publication: Fall 2010 Instructions to authors Submissions in French or English (maximum 20 pages) should be sent in PDF format using EasyChair http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quality_2010 and must imperatively respect the required format of the journal available at: http://isi.revuesonline.com/revues/24/Hermesguidelines_authors.pdf -- Jacky Akoka Professeur Titulaire de la Chaire d'Informatique d'Entreprise 292, rue Saint Martin 75141 Paris Cedex 03 France Téléphone: 0140272407 Télécopie: 0140272406 To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list.