Databases: Their Creation, Management and Utilization

Information systems are the software and hardware systems that support data-intensive applications. The journal Information Systems publishes articles concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models, process models, algorithms, software and hardware for information systems.

Subject areas include data management issues as presented in the principal international database conferences (e.g., ACM SIGMOD/PODS, VLDB, ICDE and ICDT/EDBT) as well as data-related issues from the fields of data mining/machine learning, information retrieval coordinated with structured data, internet and cloud data management, business process management, web semantics, visual and audio information systems, scientific computing, and data science. We welcome systems papers that focus on implementation considerations in massively parallel data management, fault tolerance, and special purpose hardware for data-intensive systems; theoretical papers that either break significant new ground or unify and extend existing algorithms for data-intensive applications; and manuscripts from application domains, such as urban informatics, social and natural science, and Internet of Things, which present innovative, high-performance, and scalable solutions to data management problems for those domains.

All papers should motivate the problems they address with compelling examples from real or potential applications. Systems papers must be serious about experimentation either on real systems or simulations based on traces from real systems. Papers from industrial organizations are welcome. Theoretical papers should have a clear motivation from applications and clearly state which ideas have potentially wide applicability.

Authors of selected articles that have been accepted for publication in Information Systems are invited by the EiCs to submit the experiment described in their papers for reproducibility validation. The resulting additional reproducibility paper is co-authored by the reproducibility reviewers and the authors of the original publication.

As part of its commitment to reproducible science, Information Systems also welcomes experimental reproducible survey papers. Such submissions must:
(i) apply a substantial portion of the different surveyed techniques to at least one existing benchmark and perhaps one or more new benchmarks, and
(ii) be reproducible (the validation of reproducibility will result in a separate paper following the guidelines of our Reproducibility Editor).

In addition to publishing submitted articles, the Editors-in-Chief will invite retrospective articles that describe significant projects by the principal architects of those projects. Authors of such articles should write in the first person, tracing the social as well as technical history of their projects, describing the evolution of ideas, mistakes made, and reality tests.
We will make every effort to allow authors the right to republish papers appearing in Information Systems in their own books and monographs.

Special Issue on Verification, Control, and Repair in Business Process Management
Submission Date: 2024-08-31

Business process management supports the coordination of complex and interrelated activities within one or many organizations. The legitimate executions of business processes (BPs) are usually represented through a BP model, specifying a partial order between the activities to regulate their execution order (control-flow perspective). Several BP models are also augmented with:

    time and temporal constraints (time perspective)
    resources and allocation policies for task executions (resource perspective)
    data and value assignments to keep track of more sources of information (data perspective)

If a BP model contains errors in any of the perspectives above, the execution of the BP may end with some constraint violated or remain blocked in a livelock/deadlock where progress/conclusion is no longer possible. Errors in BP models reveal imprecision in BPs (illegitimate behavior, over-constrained models, etc.). All this can only worsen if some parts of the BP are uncontrollable (task duration, choice of execution branch, resource availability, variable value assignments, etc.). To guarantee that BPs can be executed "safely" three main methods can be employed:

    verification: determination of errors, constraint violations, livelocks/deadlocks
    control: restriction of the possible executions to ensure constraint satisfaction/process completion
    repair: modification of the model to prevent constraint violations/deadlocks/livelocks

This special issue looks for submissions delving into these three areas of BPs with particular focus on temporal, resource, and data perspectives, considered in isolation or simultaneously, with respect to discrete and/or continuous domains, employing techniques applied at design or runtime. All techniques advancing these areas are welcome. Techniques coming from or lying at the intersection of communities beyond the BPM/IS/PM, whose results can be tailored to BPs, are especially welcome. Pertinent review papers are also welcome.

Guest editors:

Assist. Prof. Matteo Zavatteri (Executive Guest Editor)
University of Padua, Italy
Email: matteo.zavatteri@unipd.it 
Areas of Expertise: formal methods, discrete event systems and supervisory control, temporal networks and reasoning, constraint satisfaction and optimization, planning and scheduling under uncertainty, artificial intelligence, business process management

Assoc. Prof. Massimiliano de Leoni
University of Padua (UniPd), Italy
Email: deleoni@math.unipd.it 
Areas of Expertise: Business Process Management and Modeling, Process Mining, Business Process Improvement, Process Simulation, Predictive Analytics, and Process-Aware Recommender Systems

Prof. Johann Eder
University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Email: johann.eder@aau.at
Areas of Expertise: information systems engineering, business process management, and data management for medical research

Prof. Manfred Reichert
Ulm University, Germany
Email: manfred.reichert@uni-ulm.de 
Areas of Expertise: formal aspects of business process management, flexible business process execution, IoT-aware business processes, object-centric processes, and cognitive aspects of business process modeling and process model comprehension

Manuscript submission information:

Important Dates:

    Submission Open Date: April 30, 2024
    Submission Deadline: August 31, 2024
    Editorial Acceptance Deadline: April 30, 2025

Submission Guidelines:

All manuscripts should be invited by the Guest Editors and submitted electronically through Editorial Manager ® at https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/infosys/default2.aspx. When submitting papers, please select the Article Type as "VSI: Verification, Control, and Repair in BPM". 

Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the "Guide for Authors" of the Information Systems outlined at the journal website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-systems/publish/guide-for-authors.  

All papers will be peer-reviewed following a regular reviewing procedure. 

For any further information, the authors may contact the Guest Editors.

Keywords:

control; verification; repair; business process; multi-perspective models

Special Issue on Best Papers of DOLAP 2024
Submission Date: 2024-09-27

This special issue contains extended versions of the best papers of the DOLAP 2024 workshop, selected by the workshop chairs and the program committee.

Guest editors:

Prof. Enrico Gallinucci (Executive Guest Editor)
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Email: enrico.gallinucci@unibo.it 
Areas of Expertise: big data, nosql, decision support systems, business intelligence

Prof. Matteo Lissandrini
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Email: matteo.lissandrini@univr.it
Areas of Expertise: data exploration; knowledge graphs; graph analytics

Manuscript submission information:

Important Dates:

    Submission Open Date: April 12, 2024
    Submission Deadline: September 27, 2024
    Editorial Acceptance Deadline: January 31, 2025

Submission Guidelines:

All manuscripts should be invited by the Guest Editors and submitted electronically through Editorial Manager ® at https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/infosys/default2.aspx. When submitting papers, please select the Article Type as "VSI: DOLAP2024". 

Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the "Guide for Authors" of the Information Systems outlined at the journal website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-systems/publish/guide-for-authors.  

All papers will be peer-reviewed following a regular reviewing procedure. 

For any further information, the authors may contact the Guest Editors.

Keywords:

Design, Optimization, Languages and Analytical Processing of Big Data

Special Issue on Computation over Compressed Data
Submission Date: 2024-10-31

The aim of the special issue is to attract strong contributions within the fields of compact and compressed data structures and compression-aware algorithms, recent research areas that merge techniques from algorithms, data structures, and information theory in order to tackle “data deluge” witnessed by research fields including, but not limited to, Bioinformatics (collections of genomes and short DNA sequences), Databases (space-efficient relational databases, geographic information systems, searchable graph databases), and versioned web repositories (Wikipedia, GitHub, etc). The relatively recent field of compressed data structures started about two decades ago with the advent of compressed indexes such as the FM-index and the Compressed Suffix Array: data structures supporting the same (or a subset of the) functionalities of well-established tools such as the suffix array and suffix tree, but using one order of magnitude less space. Such a feat was made possible by the natural interaction between compression and searching: a sorted dataset is, simultaneously, easier to search and to compress. A remarkable success of the field is represented by sequence alignment in Bioinformatics: modern DNA aligners such as Bowtie (>20K citations) or BWA (>33K citations) are based on the FM-index and, to date, are employed in virtually all Bioinformatics re-sequencing pipelines requiring the alignment of short DNA fragments on reference genomes.

Guest editors:

Assist. Prof. Giulio Ermanno Pibiri (Executive Guest Editor)Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, ItalyEmail: giulioermanno.pibiri@unive.it 

Assoc. Prof. Nicola PrezzaCa' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, ItalyEmail: nicola.prezza@unive.it 

Assist. Prof. Dominik KempaStony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of AmericaEmail: kempa@cs.stonybrook.edu 

Manuscript submission information:

Submission Open Date: July 1, 2024
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2024
Editorial Acceptance Deadline: October 31, 2025