Building data warehouses and performing OLAP on the top of data warehouses have become critical solutions for knowledge management and business intelligence. Research activities and technologies of data warehousing and OLAP are rapidly expanding. After the first successful DOLAP ‘98 workshop, we would like to bring an open forum for both researchers and industry experts to explore new research developments and recent advances in technologies. One of important goals of DOLAP ’99 is to reduce the gap between research community and industry practitioners. We invite both researchers and practitioners in the areas of data warehousing and OLAP for discussing various open issues, research topics, techniques, practices, and lessons learned from industry for reducing this gap between industry and the research community.

Workshop Outline

The workshop will be held in one day (Nov. 6, 1999), Kansas City, MO. The workshop will include one well-known invited speaker and selected talks from submitted papers. Two types of papers will be solicited: regular papers that address the research topics and techniques and a few number of industry papers that address real-world project experience and lessons (about 3).

Submission of Papers
The workshop solicits two types of papers: Regular papers and industry papers. The regular papers will address research topics in the following areas, but not limited to:

Data modeling for data warehousing
Data warehousing design
Multidimensional models
View materialization
Physical Databases for data warehousing
Query processing and optimization
Data consistency and quality
OLAP technologies
Performance optimization and tuning
Web interface
Relationships between OLAP and data mining
Knowledge discovery with data warehouses

Industry papers will address:

Data warehousing projects
Data Quality
Maintenance of data warehouses
Benchmarks
Experience and lessons
Software for data warehousing and OLAP
Survey

Submitted papers should be approximately 15 pages in double-spaced. Electronic submission is highly encouraged (Postscript, MS Word, RTF). Submission should be sent to song@drexel.edu. Hard-copy submission (4 copies) should be sent to Il-Yeol Song (See address below). Papers will be reviewed by the program committee for their technical merit, originality, significance, readability, and relevance to the workshop. The title page must include the name and email address of the contact author.

Authors will receive notification of acceptance/rejection by August

1. Final versions of the papers to appear in the proceedings will be published by ACM Press and are due on August 20, 1999.