DWA 2016 - 2016 1st International Workshop on Data Wrangling Automation

1st International Workshop on Data Wrangling Automation
Barcelona, Spain, December 12, 2016
(satellite workshop of ICDM 2016)
http://www.dsic.upv.es/~flip/DWA2016/
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- Aims and Scope -
It is well known that a great proportion of the time devoted to data mining and, especially, data science projects is devoted to data acquisition, integration, transformation, cleansing and other highly tedious tasks. These tasks are tedious basically because they are repetitive and, hence, automatable. As a consequence, progress in the automation of this process can lead to a dramatic reduction of the cost and duration of data-oriented projects. Recently, inductive programming in general (and the learning of declarative rules and programs from a few user interaction examples in particular) has shown a large potential for this automation. The release of FlashFill (http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/07/excel-flash-f...) as a plug-in inductive programming tool for Microsoft Excel and ConvertFrom-String (https://www.sepago.com/blog/2015/01/16/powershell-...) as a Powershell command on Windows 10 are impressive demonstrations that inductive programming research has matured in such a way that commercial applications become feasible.
The aim of this workshop is to gather practitioners and researchers around the use of inductive programming techniques, programming by example and other learning techniques to automate the data wrangling process. It is well known that a great proportion of the time devoted to data mining and, especially, data science projects is devoted to data acquisition, integration, transformation, cleansing and other highly tedious tasks. These tasks are tedious basically because they are repetitive and, hence, automatable. As a consequence, progress in the automation of this process can lead to a dramatic reduction of the cost and duration of data-oriented projects.
We welcome regular papers, demo papers about benchmarks or tools, and position papers, and encourage discussions over a broad list of topics (not exhaustive):
* Automation applied to data cleaning, data transformation, and data acquisition.
* Visual interfaces to accelerate the automation of data wrangling.
* Domain-specific languages for data wrangling vs general-purpose languages.
* Explanation of data wrangling rules into natural language.
* Automation in ETL (Extraction/Transformation/Load) tools.
* Learning actionable rules automating other parts of the KDD process: model evaluation and deployment.
* Abstraction mechanisms from inductive programming for metadata creation and handling.
* Data wrangling showcases
Apart from the technical sessions, a demo session and the direct involvement of companies such as Microsoft and BigML (https://bigml.com/team), we are planning to have a panel on "“Data Wrangling Automation Challenges"”, a lively discussion on inductive programming tools vs writing scripts.
- Invited Speakers -
(To be announced)
- Submission -
We solicit submissions reporting on:
A- Original research contributions
B- Applications and experiences
C- Surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports
D- Tool papers
E- Position papers and work in progress related to the topics mentioned above.
F- Work in progress papers.
Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of eight (8) pages, in the IEEE 2-column format, including the bibliography and any possible appendices. Submissions longer than 8 pages will be rejected without a review. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society proceedings manuscript style, following IEEE ICDM 2016 submission guidelines.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the IEEE ICDM CyberChair system. We do not accept email submissions.
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a presentation (short or long) during the workshop. Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers will be included in the IEEE ICDM 2016 Workshops Proceedings volume published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and will also be included in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. After the workshop, contributing authors will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue (journal to be announced).
- Important dates -
Submission deadline: August 12, 2016
Notification of acceptance: September 13, 2016
Camera-ready: September 20, 2016
Workshop: December 12, 2016
- Program chairs -
Ben Zorn Microsoft Research (Washington)
Cèsar Ferri Universitat Technical University of Valencia (Spain)
Atakan Cetinsoy BigML (Oregon)
Gustavo Soares Berkeley (California)
Fernando Martínez-Plumed Technical University of Valencia (Spain)
- Program committee -
Luc De Raedt Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Peter Flach University of Bristol
José Hernandez-Orallo Technical University of Valencia
Bongshin Lee Microsoft Research
Ute Schmid University of Bamberg
Mary Roth IBM Research
Armando Solar-Lezama Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rishabh Singh Microsoft Research
Gemma C. Garriga Allianz SE
Janis Voigtländer University of Bonn
Ricardo Aler Mur University Carlos III
Umair Z. Ahmed Indian Institute of Technology
- Contact Person ?
Cèsar Ferri
(web) http://www.dsic.upv.es/~cferri/
(email) cferri-AT-dsic.upv.es