CFP: ACM Web Information and Data Management workshop

Enrico Franconi franconi at inf.unibz.it
Fr Jul 6 10:04:32 CEST 2007


                       **** CALL FOR PAPERS *****

9th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management
                              (WIDM 2007)

                   November 9, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal
                 http://workshops.inf.ed.ac.uk/WIDM2007

                   Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB
               In Conjunction with the 16th ACM CIKM 2007

ACM WIDM 2007 is the ninth in a series of workshops on Web Information
and  Data  Management  to  be   held  in  conjunction  with  the  16th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2007).   The   objective  of  the   workshop  is  to   bring  together
researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web
information  can  be extracted,  stored,  analyzed,  and processed  to
provide  useful  knowledge  to  the  end users  for  various  advanced
database and Web applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
-------------------

-- Web Mining:  Web Usage Mining, Web  Classification, Web Clustering,
    Resource Discovery,  Web Personalization, Web  Data Extraction, Web
    Structure Mining

-- Formal Models  for Web  Data and Knowledge  Management: Ontologies,
    Data Models and Metadata, Query Languages, Annotations

-- System  Issues for  Web Applications:  Performance of  Web Applica-
    tions, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P

-- Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving,
    Security, Personalization

-- Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling
    and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web,
    Web Services

-- Web Applications: Digital  Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web
    Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring

-- Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

Submission of abstracts & full papers: July 21st, 2007
Notification of acceptance: August 21st, 2007
Camera-ready copy due date: August 31st, 2007


PAPER SUBMISSION
----------------

Electronic  submission will  be used.   The pdf  version of  the paper
should be submitted to the WIDM 2007 electronic review system no later
than July 3rd, 2007. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready
ACM  format and  should be  at most  8 pages  long.  The  paper should
present  innovative  ideas  on  the  topics of  interest  and  not  be
published or under  consideration elsewhere. More detailed information
about the paper submission procedure will be available at the workshop
website. All accepted papers  will appear in the Proceedings published
by ACM Press.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Irini Fundulaki
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
Irini.Fundulaki at ed.ac.uk

Neoklis Polyzotis
Department of Computer Science,  Univ. of California-Santa Cruz, USA
alkis at cs.ucsc.edu


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Serge Abiteboul (INRIA-Futurs, France)
Ashraf Aboulnaga (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Pablo Barcelo (University of Chile, Chile)
Omar Benjelloun (Google, USA)
Angela Bonifati (ICAR-CNR, Italy)
Chee-Yong Chan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vassilis Christophides (University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece)
Magdalini Eirinaki (San Jose State University, USA)
Tim Furche (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany)
Floris Geerts (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Zoltan Gyongyi (Stanford University, USA)
Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Benny Kimelfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Rajasekar Krishnamurthy (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Bertram Ludaescher (University of California-Davis, USA)
Qiong Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sebastian Maneth (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)
Ioana Manolescu (INRIA-Futurs, France)
Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Tova Milo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Prasenjit Mitra (Penn State University, USA)
Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University, USA)
Alexandros Ntoulas (Microsoft Research, USA)
Fatma Ozcan (IBM Almaden, USA)
Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Arnaud Sahuguet (Google, USA)
Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Martin Theobald (Stanford University, USA)
Vasilis Vassalos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento, Italy)
Stratis Viglas (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Yi Zhang (University of California-Santa Cruz, USA)




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