WIDM 2008

**** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ***** 10th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2008)

October 30, 2008, Napa Valley, California http://widm2008.comp.nus.edu.sg/

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB In Conjunction with the 17th ACM CIKM 2008

ACM WIDM 2008 is the tenth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008). 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: Data Models and Meta-data, Semi-structured Data and XML, Query Languages, Annotations, Ontologies

-- System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web Applications, 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 ---

Paper submission:          July 15th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2008 Camera-ready copy due date: August 15th, 2008

PAPER SUBMISSION

Electronic submission will be used. The pdf version of the paper should be submitted to the WIDM 2008 electronic review system no later than July 15th, 2008. 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 The paper should present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be published or under consideration elsewhere.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

Chee-Yong Chan National University of Singapore

Neoklis Polyzotis Department of Computer Science, University of California-Santa Cruz, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

See website for details. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP