Call for Participation: The 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2010)

[Stéphane Jean]

Apologies for multiple postings
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     The 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems 
Engineering (WISE 2010)

                  http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/

                            December 12-14, 2010
                              Hong Kong, China

                                  Hosted by:
              Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
                              and the International WISE Society

                             CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


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The aim of this eleventh edition of the conference series on Web 
Information Systems Engineering
is to provide an international forum for researchers, professionals, and 
industrial practitioners
to share their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web 
technologies, methodologies and
applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in Hong Kong, China 
(2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001),
Singapore (2002), Roma, Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New 
York, USA (2005), Wuhan,
China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008), and 
Poznan, Poland (2009).

Highlights:

- 4 keynote speeches
   - Beng Chin Ooi (the National University of Singapore)
   - Edward Chang (Google Research China)
   - Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)
   - Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST)
- 51 selected papers (32 full papers and 19 short papers)
- 4 WISE co-located Symposium and Workshops


Keynote Speeches
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   Title: Providing Scalable Database Services on the Cloud
   Speaker: Beng Chin Ooi
            Professor of Computer Science at School of Computing,
            the National University of Singapore (NUS)

   Title: Search and Social Integration
   Speaker: Edward Chang
            Google Research China

   Title: Elements of a Spatial Web
   Speaker: Christian S. Jensen
            Professor of Computer Science,
            Aarhus University, Denmark

   Title: The Ubiquitous DBMS
   Speaker: Kyu-Young Whang
            Distinguished Professor and Professor of Computer Science,
            KAIST


WISE co-located Symposium and Workshops
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   The 1st International Symposium on Web Intelligent Systems & Services 
(WISS 2010)
   http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/WISS2010.html

   The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC 
2010)
   http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~jsh/mbc10/index.htm

   The 1st International Workshop on Cloud Information System 
Engineering(CISE 2010)
   http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/CISE2010.html

   The 1st International Workshop on Web-Supported Concurrent 
Collaborative Work (WSCCW 2010)
   http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~kwchiu/WSCCW2010.html


WISE Program
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The WISE 2010 conference offers a full social program, including the 
conference welcome
reception and the conference banquet.
It provides the following sessions
(http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/program.pdf).

Session 1a: Web Service
Session 1b: Social Networks

Session 2a: Web Data Mining
Session 2b: Keyword Search

Session 3a: Web Search (I)
Session 3b: Web Data Modeling

Session 4a: Recommender Systems
Session 4b: RDF and Web Data

Session 5a: XML and Query Languages
Session 5b: Web Search (II)

Session 6a: Web Information Systems
Session 6b: Information Retrieval and Extraction


Registration
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Registration 
(http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/wise2010_reg_form.pdf) has 
opened.
The early bird registration deadline is 12 Nov, 2010.

The conference venue is Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. More information can 
be found at:
http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/hotel.pdf

It is advisable to make a hotel reservation as soon as possible.
For more details on this, please visit at
http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/Acommendation.pdf

Organizers
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Conference Co-chairs
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   Qing Li, City U of Hong Kong
   Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
   Dennis McLeod, USC, USA

PC Co-chairs
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   Lei Chen, HKUST, Hong Kong
   Peter Triantafillou, U of Patras, Greece
   Torsten Suel, NYU Poly, USA

Organization Chairs
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    Hong Va Leong, PolyU, Hong Kong
    Howard Leung, CityU, Hong Kong

Workshop Co-chairs
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   Dickson Chiu, Dickson Computer Sys., Hong Kong
   Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA-Poitiers U, France

Publicity Co-chairs
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   Hua Wang, U Southern Queesland, Australia
   Raymong Wong, HKUST, Hong Kong
   Stephane Jean, Poitiers U, France
   Feifei Li,  Florida State U., USA

Finance Chair
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   Xiaohua Jia, City U of Hong Kong

Steering Committee Representatives
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   Yanchun Zhang, Victoria U, Australia
   Xiaohua Jia, City U of Hong Kong