APWEB-WAIM 2009

The Joint International Conferences on 	Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) 5-7 April, 2009, Suzhou, China

http://www.suda.edu.cn/apweb-waim09

APWeb and WAIM are leading international conferences on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xian (2000), Changsha (2001), Xi??an (2003), Hangzhou (2004), Shanghai (2005), Harbin (2006), Huangshan (2007) and Shenyang (2008); and previous WAIM conferences were held in Shanghai (2000), Xian (2001), Beijing (2002), Chengdu (2003), Dalian (2004), Hangzhou (2005), Hong Kong (2006), Huangshan (2007) and Zhangjiajie (2008). For the second time, APWeb and WAIM will be combined to foster closer collaboration and research ideas sharing, and will be held immediately after IEEE ICDE2009 to be held in Shanghai.

APWeb-WAIM'09 includes but is not limited to the following areas:

-Advanced application of databases -Content management -Data caching -Data mining and knowledge discovery -Data and information quality Control -Data grid -Data migration and integration -Deep Web -Digital libraries -Distributed and parallel Processing -Grid computing -Emerging Web techniques -Interoperability and heterogeneous systems -Information retrieval -Information security -Location-based services -Mobile computing and data management -Multidimensional databases and OLAP -Multimedia information systems -Parallel and distributed database systems -Peer-to-peer systems -Performance and benchmarking -Query processing and optimization -Semantic web and web ontology -Security, privacy and trust -Sensor networks -Service-oriented computing -Spatial and temporal databases -Stream data processing -Storage management and access methods -Web-based collaboration -Web-based database integration -Web community analysis -Web mining -Web search and meta-search -Web service and information management -Workflow and E-services -XML and semi-structured query processing -XML and semi-structured data management

PAPER SUBMISSION APWeb-WAIM 09 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. All submissions should be in English. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval).

In addition to technical contributions, APWeb-WAIM??09 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb-WAIM'09 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb-WAIM??09 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval)

IMPORTANT DATES Abstract due:			October 8, 2008 Full paper due:			October 15, 2008 Acceptance notification:	December 10, 2008 Camera-ready copy:		January 5, 2009 Workshop Proposals:  		September 1, 2008 Panel/Tutorial Proposals:	November 15, 2008

Organization Committee

Conference Co-Chairs Sean X. Wang, University of Vermont, USA Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia Qiaoming Zhu, Soochow University, China

Program Committee Co-Chairs Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Local Organization Co-Chairs Jiwen Yang, Soochow University, China Liusheng Huang, University of Science and Technology, China

Workshop Co-Chairs Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Tutorial/Panel Co-Chairs Wenyin Liu, City University of Hong Kong Vivek Gopalkrishnan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Industrial Chair Hui Xue, Soochow University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs Lei Yu, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University,Singapore

Finance Co-Chairs Howard Leung, City University of Hong Kong Genrong Wang, Soochow University, China

CCF DB Society Liaison Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China

WISE Society Liaison Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP