WAIM'03 last CFP

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                     Call for Papers
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          The Fourth International Conference on
              Web-Age Information Management
                       (WAIM 2003) 
        
                       Chengdu, China
                    August 17 - 19, 2003 

                     Conference Web site: 
                http://www.cs.wright.edu/~waim03/

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Submission site is open now at http://buzzard.cs.unc.edu:8087/

Paper submisison deadline is 5pm EST time Friday March 7, 2003

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With advances in the Internet and, in particular, various technologies around 
the World-Wide Web, research on design, implementation, and management of 
Internet and Web-based information systems has become increasingly important. 
As more and more information of diverse types becomes available on the 
Internet and Web, query and retrieval as well as the management of information
over the Internet become more complex and extremely difficult. Novel approaches
to develop and manage Internet and Web information systems are in high demand. 
These issues have been the focus of discussions during the previous WAIM 
conferences in Shanghai, China (June 2000), in Xi'an, China (July 2001) and in 
Bejing, China (August 2002). These conferences were successful and each 
attracted more than 100 participants from all over the world. WAIM '03 will 
undoubtedly continue to provide a forum for researchers, professionals, and 
industrial practitioners from around the world to share their rapidly evolving 
knowledge and to report on new advances in Web-based information systems. 

You are invited to submit original technical papers in English reporting recent
results in database and related fields. Both research papers and experience and
application papers are welcome. While research papers should report original 
research work, experience and application papers should describe the development
and operations of challenging database related systems and applications. 

In WAIM '03, proposals for demonstrations of novel and innovative systems are 
also welcome. The Demos program is an important part of the technical program. 
Proposals for demos should clearly describe what will be demonstrated and should
emphasize the most novel and interesting aspects of the system to be shown. 

Chengdu is the center of South-West China, for science and technology, commerce,
finance as well as communication and transport. Chengdu is also a famous Chinese
historical and cultural city. It has a pleasant climate, exquisite lush 
mountains, and beautiful rivers. Among its renowned scenic spots and historical 
sites are Marquis Wu Shrine, Thatched Cottage Du Fu, and Dujiangyan Irrigation 
System. Chengdu is also home of the giant panda. Chengdu also provides easy 
access to many top tourist attractions, including the Three Gorges on the 
Changjiang (Yangtze) River in the east; to Tibet, Jiuzhaigou, and Huanglong 
Temple in the west; to the Terra-cotta Warriors of Xi'an in the north; and to 
Mt. Emei and the Giant Buddha of Leshan in the south. There are frequent air 
flights between Chengdu and the following cities: Hongkong, Kathmandu, Nagoya, 
Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, every major city in China, and many major 
cities in Europe. 

We expect that the WAIM technical programs will continue to be exciting. We 
encourage you to join us in Chengdu, China, and take part in this exciting 
and enriching event. 

The major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

     Advanced applications of databases 
     Agent technology and information management 
     Biological and genome information systems 
     Cooperative information systems 
     Data and information quality 
     Data migration and integration 
     Data mining and knowledge discovery 
     Data and Web warehousing 
     Data Security 
     Database languages and semantics 
     Databases and electronic commerce 
     Design of databases and data warehouses 
     Emerging Web techniques 
     Financial and engineering databases 
     Internet and web-based data management 
     Interoperability and heterogeneous systems 
     Location dependent data management 
     Metadata use and management 
     Multidimensional databases and OLAP 
     Multimedia information systems 
     Parallel and distributed database systems 
     Performance and benchmarking 
     Query processing and optimization 
     Storage management and access methods 
     Spatial and temporal databases 
     Text database and information retrieval 
     Transaction management 
     Visualizing the structure and content of databases 
     Web and database technology 
     Workflow 
     XML and Semi-structured data 

IMPORTANT DATES

    March 1, 2003   Abstract submission 
    March 7, 2003   Paper/Demo submission
    April 22, 2003  Notification of acceptance
    May 20, 2003    Camera-ready copies 
    August 17-19,2003  Conference Dates
Please check with the conference website in case of date changes.

PUBLICATION

WAIM'03 Proceedings will be published as a volume in the Lecture 
Notes of Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag, and so the published 
papers will be Cited by SCI.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Conference Co-Chairs:

   Jianzhong Li (Harbin University of Technology, China)
   Alberto Mendelzon (University of Toronto, Canada)

Program Committee Co-Chairs: 

   Guozhu Dong (Wright State University, USA)
   Changjie Tang (Sichuan University, China)

Publicity Co-Chairs: 

   Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan Uinversity, China) 
   Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) 

Proceedings Chair: 

   Wei Wang (North Carolina University)

Tutorial/Panel Chair: 

   Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Demo/Industry Chair: 

   Jeffrey Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

Local Organization Co-Chairs: 

   Fan Pingzhi (Southwest Jiaotong University, China).
   Zhang Tianqing (Sichuan University, China)

WAIM Program Committee: 

   James BAILEY, University of Melbourne, Australia 
   Edward CHANG, University of California (Santa Barbara), USA 
   Gillian DOBBIE, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
   FAN Ming, Zhengzhou University, China 
   Wenfei FAN, Bell Labs & Temple University, USA 
   FENG Jianhua, Tsinghua University, China 
   Jiawei HAN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 
   HUANG Shangteng, Shanghai Jiaotong Univ, China 
   JIA Yan, National University of Defence Technology, China 
   Chen LI, University of California (Irvine), USA 
   LI Jianzhong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China 
   Jinyan LI, Institute of Inforcomm Research, Singapore 
   Qing LI, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China 
   LI Zhanhui, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China 
   Xuemin LIN, University of New South Wales, Australia 
   Huan LIU, Arizona State University, USA 
   LIU Weiyi, YunNan University, China 
   Wei-Ying MA, Microsoft Research Asia 
   Weiyi MENG, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA 
   MENG Xiaofeng, Renmin University of China, China 
   Mukesh MOHANIA, IBM India Research Lab, India 
   Peng NING, North Carolina State University, USA 
   Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
   Chaoyi PANG, CSIRO, Australia 
   Jian PEI, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA 
   Arnaud SAHUGUET, Bell Laboratories, USA 
   SENG Junyi, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China 
   SHI Baile, Fudan University, China 
   Kyuseok SHIM, Seoul National University, Korea 
   Wei SUN, Florida International University, USA 
   David TOMAN, University of Waterloo, Canada 
   Riccardo TORLONE, Universita' Roma Tre, Italy 
   WANG Guoren, Northeastern University, China 
   Ke WANG, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
   Min WANG, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA 
   WANG Tengjiao, Peking University, China 
   Wei WANG, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 
   Xiong WANG, California State University at Fullerton, USA 
   XU Jiepan, Nanjing University, China 
   YANG Dongqing, Peking University, China 
   Jian YANG, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 
   Masatoshi YOSHIKAWA, Nagoya University, Japan 
   YU Ge, Northeastern University, China 
   Jeffrey YU, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China 
   YUE Lihua, University of Science and Technology, China 
   Xiuzhen Jenny ZHANG, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), 
Australia 
   ZHOU Aoying, Fudan University, China 
   ZHOU Lizhu, Tsinghua University, China 
   ZHOU Longxiang, Academy of Sciences, China 
   ZHOU Suigeng, Fudan University, China 
   Xiaofang ZHOU, University of Queensland, Australia 

WAIM Steering Committee: 

   Guozhu Dong (Wright State University, USA)
   Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
   Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
   Hongjun Lu (Steering Committee Chair; Hong Kong U. of Sci. & Tech.) 
   Xiaofeng Meng (Renmin University, China)
   Baile Shi (Fudan University, China)
   Jianwen Su (U C Santa Barbara, USA)
   Shan Wang (Renmin University, China)
   X. Sean Wang (George Manson University, USA)
   Ge Yu (Northeastern University, China)
   Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)

Organized by:

   Sichuan University 
   Southwest Jiaotong University

In Cooperation with:

   Database Society of China Computer Federation 
   ACM SIGMOD (to be approved)

Sponsored By:

   National Natural Science Foundation of China


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