Introduction

As the business and social environments become more interconnected and dynamic, graph-structured data become more prominent. Graphs have the benefit of revealing valuable insights from their topological properties. A new class of business analytics could be explored from graphs. In addition, a multitude of emerging decision making problems can be represented using graph models and solved using graph algorithms.

We experience thus a growing need to integrate graph data within decision support systems. Such integration will help decision makers to get an extended and more complete understanding of their business environments, and therefore make well-informed and effective decisions.

The evolution of the BI market provided new opportunities but poses new challenges that call for novel theoretical foundations and enabling technological capabilities. Multiple BI challenges are being tackled from both academic and industrial perspectives, and many approaches were proposed in the literature to extend current decision support systems with graphs. Although a big progress has been made in recent years, there is still a need for introducing new models, designing new architectures, and building new technologies that support the emerging Graph BI market with value-added functionalities.

The Graph BI workshop will be held in conjunction with the 21th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS). Its aim is to provide a forum to discuss topics related to the emerging field of Graph BI and set research directions toward making business intelligence more effective.

Research Topics

The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Graph databases and query languages.
• Graph OLAP models and systems.
• Graph mining for decision support systems.
• Graph Data ETL.
• Graph BI dashboard and visualization of graph data and information.
• Large Graph processing systems.
• Novel architectures for Graph BI.
• Challenges from advanced graph applications.
• ...

Programme

The workshop will be held on Sunday September 24, 2017

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