ASD 2014 - 8th Conference on Advances in Decisional Systems

The importance given by both the scientific community and industry to decision support systems (DSS) is increasingly high, as evidenced by the number of theoretical works and market tools. Indeed, Decision-making systems enable the company to make decisions at different hierarchical levels by analyzing the current and past to predict the future.
In terms of research, the scientific events of decision making systems are dedicated to consolidate the efforts of researchers on the one hand, and meeting the aspirations of professionals on the other hand. The Conference on Advances in Decisional Systems (ASD) follows this perspective. Seven years already since the first edition of ASD which started as a workshop. The success of the last seven editions encourage us to further continue with the same enthusiasm and ambitions by launching the call for an eighth edition of ASD as a conference.
ASD allows researchers who have already participated in previous editions to be in the same context by exhibiting their latest scientific work. The conference is also aimed at professionals involved or interested in the decision-making, by their pragmatic vision, contributing the expression of new requirements or enhancing existing solutions. It is also an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their work.
Topics
The program committee of ASD’2014 calls for papers presenting research findings and sharing experiences on new research challenges in the following main topics:
Data Warehouse architecture
Data Warehouse design
Multidimensional Modeling
Data integration. Extract, transform and Load (ETL) tools
Multidimensional query languages
Physical organization of Data Warehouses
Performance Optimization and tuning, indexing, cash optimization de caches, etc.
Data Warehouse Maintenance and administration
Data mining
Semantic and decisional ontology
Data Warehouse and Semantic Web
Benchmarking in Data Warehouses
Quality, security and coherence in Data Warehouses
OLAP
Complex, distributed, parallel, virtual, textual and XML Data Warehouses
Big data analytics
Data Warehouse & NoSQL
Decision support systems in the cloud
Social networks analysis
Personalization and query recommendation for DSS
Journal Special Issue
Extended versions of the best papers will be published in a special issue of the journal ISI (Information Systems Engineering), Hermes Editor.