Call for Participation - WAIM08 - Web-Age Information Management, Zhangjiajie, China

[Andreas Thor]

You are cordially invited to attend The Ninth International Conference 
on Web-Age Information Management to be held in Zhangjiajie, China from 
July 20 to July 22, 2008.

The registration is now open at http://waim2008.nudt.edu.cn/index.html.

Email: waim2008 at nudt.edu.cn

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 will be held in Zhangjiajie, one of the 
most beautiful areas in China.

The highlights of the WAIM 2008 program are as follows:

Two Keynote Presentations:

      Speaker: Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      Title: From Graph Mining to Information Network Mining

      Speaker: Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales
      Title: Skyline Computation

Three Tutorials:

     Topic: Managing Changes to XML Data: The State-Of-The-Art
     Speakers: Sourav S. Bhowmick, Sanjay Madria, Erwin Leonardi

     Topic: Data Mining for Social Network Analysis
     Speakers: Jaideep Srivastava, Muhammad A. Ahmad

     Topic: Data Mining Algorithms in Bioinformatics: Down and Emerging
            Trends
     Speaker: Jinyan Li

Sixty-Five Technical Paper Presentations

Three Workshops

We look forward to seeing you at WAIN 2008 in Zhangjiajie!

WAIM 2008 Organizing Committee