Deadline Extension - WAIM08 - Web-Age Information Management, Zhangjiajie, China

[Andreas Thor]

WAIM 2008 Call for Papers

The Ninth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management

The modified dates are as follows:

- Abstracts of research papers due:  January 17, 2008
- Full research papers due:          January 24, 2008
- Industrial/Demo papers due:        January 24, 2008

URL: http://waim2008.nudt.edu.cn/index.html

Email: waim2008 at nudt.edu.cn

July 20-22, 2008, Zhangjiajie, China

Organized by National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed
Processing, China.

Sponsored by: Database Society, Chinese Computer Federation; Natural
Science Foundation of China

The rapid development and prevalent use of the World Wide Web continue
to stimulate the need for new technologies for the design,
implementation and management of better Web-based information systems.
With widely distributed data of diverse types (structured records,
texts, images, video/audio, etc) from millions of autonomous sites and
hundreds of millions of users, the Web introduces new challenges beyond
the capabilities of traditional database and information retrieval
systems. These challenges include the development of effective and
efficient techniques and tools for querying, retrieving, integrating,
analyzing, and managing the data on the Web.

WAIM'08 will continue the fine tradition of the previous WAIM
conferences in providing an international forum for researchers and
practitioners in the Web and database communities to share and exchange
new ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools related to all
aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original research
and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of
Web-based information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations,
tutorials and panels. WAIM'08 is expected to attract outstanding
researchers from all over the world to Zhangjiajie, one of the most
beautiful areas in China.

WAIM'08 topics include but are not limited to the following areas

- Advanced application of databases
- Biological and genome information systems
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Data and information quality control
- Data grid
- Data migration and integration
- Database security
- Emerging Web technologies
- Information retrieval
- Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
- Location dependent data management
- Mobile data management
- Multidimensional databases and OLAP
- Multimedia information systems
- Parallel and distributed database systems
- Peer-to-peer data management
- Performance and benchmarking
- Query processing and optimization
- Semantic web and web ontology
- Spatial and temporal databases
- Storage management and access methods
- Web community analysis
- Web mining
- Web data management
- Web services and information management
- Workflow and E-services
- XML and semi-structured data management

PUBLICATION and PAPER SUBMISSION
The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society�s Conference
Publishing Services (agreement pending).

All submitted manuscripts must be in English. Only original manuscripts
whose main technical contents have not been published by or submitted to
other conferences and journals are allowed. If a paper is accepted, at
least one author is required to attend the conference to present the
work. Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract
(about 100 words) before submitting the paper. Paper submission will be
electronic through the WAIM'08 paper submission site
(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WAIM2008/Default.aspx). Information
about paper format is forthcoming at the WAIM 2008 website. Papers not
satisfying the above requirements will be rejected without review.

Best Paper Awards and Special Issue of JCST

Hongjun Lu Best Paper Award and Hongjun Lu Best Student Paper Award will
be given to the best regular paper and the best student paper,
respectively. For a paper to qualify for consideration for the Hongjun
Lu Best Student Paper Award, the first author of the paper must be a
student by the time the paper is submitted to WAIM 2008. The best papers
will be selected by the best paper selection committee.

Authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit
extended manuscripts for possible publication in a special issue of
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST). The extended
manuscripts will go through another round of review.

WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRIAL PAPERS AND DEMOS
In addition to technical contributions, WAIM'08 invites proposals for
workshops, panels and tutorials, as well as industrial and demo papers.
For workshops, WAIM'08 will provide administrative support for workshop
room booking, registration, and publication. Information about the
format for industrial papers and demo proposals will be available at the
WAIM 2008 website soon. All submitted industrial and demo papers must
have not been published by or submitted to other conferences and
journals. All accepted industrial and demo papers will be published in
the main proceedings of the conference. Papers accepted by WAIM'08
workshops will be published separately.

Workshop, panel and tutorial Proposals and industrial and demo papers
should be sent as e-mail attachments to the corresponding chairs.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts of research papers due: January 17, 2008
Full research papers due: January 24, 2008
Industrial/Demo papers due: January 24, 2008
Acceptance notification:  March 17, 2008
Camera-ready copy: April 17, 2008

Workshop proposals: January 22, 2008
Panel/Tutorial Proposals: March 24, 2008


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Honorary Conference Chair:
Huowang Chen, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed
Processing, China

General Co-Chairs:
Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Yan Jia, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China.
Weiyi Meng, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA.

Proceedings Chair:
Ning Jing, National University of Defense Technology, China.

Industrial Track Chair:
Jiangning Liu, CVIC Software Engineering CO., China

Demonstration Track Chair:
Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA

Tutorial Chair:
Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA

Workshop Chair:
Weihong Han, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed
Processing, China

Panel Chair:
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Lihua Yue, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Shuqiang Yang, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed
Processing, China
Wei Xiong, National University of Defense Technology, China

Steering Committee Liaison:
Sean X. Wang, University of Vermont, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Lei Chen, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong
- Qiming Chen, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
- Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Gao Cong, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
- Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China
- Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
- Ophir Frieder,Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
- Jun Gao, Peking University, China
- Madhusudhan Govindaraju, State University of New York at Binghamton,USA
- Stephane Grumbach, LIAMA(The Sino-French IT Lab Institute of
Automation), China
- Giovanna Guerrini, Universita di Genova, Italy
- Weihong Han, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed
Processing,China
- Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
- Ruoming Jin, Kent State University, USA
- Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Chiang Lee, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
- Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Yoon-Joon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
(KAIST), Korea
- Jinyan Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Quanzhong Li, IBM, USA
- Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
- Jiangning Liu, CVIC Software Engineering CO, China
- Qiong Luo, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong
- Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
- Mukesh K Mohania, IBM India Research Lab., India
- Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, USA
- Wilfred Siu-Hung Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,China
- Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
- Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
- Weining Qian, Fudan University, China
- Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
- Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea
- Albrecht Schmidt, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland, Australia
- Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
- Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA
- Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
- David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
- Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Yicheng Tu, University of South Florida, USA
- Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
- Haixun Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
- Shan Wang, Renmin University, China
- X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA
- Wei Wang, Fudan University, China
- Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Jirong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
- Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Wensheng Wu, IBM, USA
- Zonghuan Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
- Wei Xiong National University of Defense Technology, China
- Shuqiang Yang National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed
Processing, China
- Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
- Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
- Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China
- Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Lei Yu, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
- Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Qing Zhang, CSIRO, Australia
- Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
- Hongkun Zhao, Bloomber, USA
- Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
- Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
- Xuan Zhou, L3S Research Center, Germany
- Yongluan Zhou, EPFL, Switzerland
- Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan, USA