ACM Journal of Data
and Information Quality NEW
Saturday November 11th, 11:00 am ET
Drs. Yang
Lee (y.lee@neu.edu)
and Stuart Madnick (smadnick@mit.edu)
are the Editors-in-Chief of the ACM-JDIQ and are working out the details with
ACM.
The new web site for the journal is at: http://www.acm.org/pubs/periodicals/jdiq/
The ACM JDIQ welcomes
research contributions on the following areas, but not limited to:
·
Information
Quality in the Enterprise Context, including
o
The
impact and role of information quality on business, work process and strategy
o
The
impact and role on a firm's overall operational or economic performance, cost
and benefits, IT management, human resource management
o
Impact
on knowledge management, customer management, supply-chain management,
extended-enterprise management, and global management.
o
Impact
and role of information quality on groups, organizations, and society.
·
Database
related technical solutions for information quality, including
o
New
types of database systems that manage data, uncertainty (approximate,
probabilistic, inexact, incomplete, imprecise, fuzzy, inaccurate, data)
o
Data
lineage and provenance
o
Data
cleaning
o
Entity
management, entity resolution, and record linking
o
o
Data
Integration Processes
·
Information
Quality in the Context of Computer Science and Information Technology
o
New
ways of understanding, modeling, improving and incorporating information
quality
o
Technical
solutions of information systems
o
Technical
layers of networks and communications
o
Data
Privacy and Protection mechanisms
·
Information
Curation, including
o
Standards and policies for ensuring
information integrity for future generations
JDIQ plans to accept research
conducted using various types of methods ranging from positivists to
interpretive methods, systems building descriptions, and database theory,
including statistical analysis, mathematical modeling, quasi experimental
method, hermeneutics, action research, and case study. JDIQ will accept diverse
research methods that are customary in different research backgrounds and
traditions, both quantitative and qualitative.
Research papers need to demonstrate
the use of a rigorous method or methods. Research papers also need to provide
valuable and relevant implications for applying their findings and solutions in
practice.
JDIQ plans to publish high quality
articles that make a significant novel contribution to the field of data and
information quality. JDIQ will be a peer
reviewed journal employing double blind review mechanism. JDIQ will be a print
publication and will aim for the same online capabilities as that of other ACM
journals. Full papers in JDIQ will be
research papers, in addition there are plans to include one or two short
concise papers in each issue. It is expected that the journal will be published
quarterly.
AUTHORS
Authors for JDIQ submissions are
invited from the entire data and information quality community, which spans
multiple industries as well as the Computer Science, Information Systems,
Operations Research, Bioinformatics, Healthcare, Management, and other
disciplines. ACM members are certainly one pool from which authors will come.
However, the information quality community is bigger than ACM. The number of
conferences, websites, and books either devoted to information quality or with
close ties to data quality issues is growing, attesting to the vitality, size,
and interest in this area.
Sample articles published in other
journals during the past ten years can be found at http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/JDIQ/Sample%20Articles.htm
TIMETABLE
·
Advertising
and Call for Papers – Spring 2007
·
First
Issue Appears – 2008
SUBSCRIPTION
The pricing structure for subscription will be
consistent with other ACM journals. We expect an annual subscription fee of
around US$50 for ACM Members.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief-MIS: Yang Lee, Northeastern University
Editor-in-Chief-CS: Stuart Madnick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Managing Director: Elizabeth
Pierce, The
Associate Editors