CFP: 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

                                CALL FOR PAPERS

                        4th International Conference on 
                  Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE)

                        Roma, Italy, 10-13th December 2003

                Conference Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~wise03


SCOPE:
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The growth of the Web has dramatically changed the way information is accessed 
and managed, thereby opening the door to exciting new scenarios for the 
widespread consumption and exchange of information. 

Along with the excitement, there is also the recognition of an urgent need for 
effective and efficient tools for information consumers, who must be able to 
easily locate, manage and exchange disparate information, ranging from 
unstructured documents and pictures to structured, but often hidden, 
record-oriented data. 

The aim of this conference is to provide an international forum for 
researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their 
knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies and methodologies. We 
invite submissions that address both fundamental issues of Web data management 
and issues related to the development and management of Web-based applications.

A related but more specialized conference on web services and service-oriented 
computing (ICSOC 2003 - http://icsoc03.dit.unitn.it/) is being held shortly 
after WISE in Trento, Italy. 



LIST OF TOPICS:
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Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Deep/Hidden Web
- Web Monitoring & Management  
- Web Mining
- Web Services
- Innovative Web-based Applications
- Web Commerce   
- Web Ontologies
- Web Tools & Languages
- Mobile Web Information Systems 
- Web Data Models   
- Web Performance
- Web Transactions  
- Semantic Web
- Web Information Retrieval   
- Web Query Languages 
- Web Visualization  
- Web Agents 
- Web Intelligence   
- Web-based Enterprise Systems 
- Web Warehousing   
- Web Security 
- Web Metrics  
- XML & Semi-structured Data 
- Web-based Business Processes



CONFERENCE OFFICERS:
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GENERAL CHAIRS 
Stefano Spaccapietra, EPFL, Switzerland
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS   
Tiziana Catarci, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Maria E. Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS   
Paolo Atzeni, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS  
Wolfgang Klas, University of Wien, Austria
Giuseppe Santucci, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

INDUSTRIAL CHAIR   
Fabio Casati, HP Labs, USA    

PUBLICATION CHAIR   
Massimo Mecella, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
   
SPONSORSHIP CHAIR   
Laura Tarantino, Università dell'Aquila, Italy

PUBLICITY CHAIR   
Antonino Virgillito, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR   
Monica Scannapieco, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
   
REGIONAL COORDINATORS   
Europe, Mideast & Africa:       Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Far East & Australia:           Jeffrey Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 
China
Americas:                       Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA

WISE SOCIETY LIAISON & REPRESENTATIVES   
Yanchun Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Klaus Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Witold Abramowicz, The Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Ken Barker, University of Calgary, Canada
Sonia Bergamaschi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Elisa Bertino, Università di Milano, Italy
Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
Alex Buchmann, Darmstadt University, Germany
Christoph Bussler, Oracle, USA 
Diego Calvanese, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Edward Chang,University of California, S. B., USA
Qiming Chen,Commerce One Inc., USA
Vincenzo D'Andrea,Università di Trento,Italy
Anindya Datta ,Georgia Tech University, USA 
Paul de Bra, TUE, The Netherlands
Asuman Dogac, METU, Turkey
David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France
Martin Gaedke, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia Technology, USA
Carole Goble, Manchester University, UK
Alex Gray, University of Cardiff, UK
Sergio Greco, Università della Calabria, Italy
Ian Horrocks, Manchester University, UK
Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece
Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
Kamal Karlapalam, IIIT, India
Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands
Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Qing Li, City University, Hong Kong
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Chengfei Liu, University of South Australia, Australia
Ling Liu , Georgia Tech University , USA 
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada
Fred Lochovsky, HKUST, China
Hongjun Lu , HKUST, China
Jianguo Lu, University of Windsor, Canada
Michael R. Lyu, Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Sanjay Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA 
Pat Martin, Queen's University, Canada
Olivera Marjanovic, University of New South Wales, Australia
Michele Missikoff , CNR , Italy 
Anne H. H. Ngu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Stefano Paraboschi, Università di Bergamo, Italy
Jeff Parsons, Memorial University, USA 
Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete, Greece
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin, USA 
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA 
Michael Rys, Microsoft, USA
Shazia Sadiq, University of Queensland, Australia
Wasim Sadiq, SAP, Australia
Monica Scannapieco, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Karsten Schulz, SAP, Australia
Timos Sellis, NTUA, Greece
Ming-Chien Shan, HP Labs , USA 
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska, USA
Amit P. Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
Oded Shmueli, Technion, Israel 
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA
Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, USA
Roger Tagg, University of South Australia, Australia
Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo, Canada 
Riccardo Torlone, Università di Roma Tre, Italy
Alexei Tretiakov, Massey University, New Zealand
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France
Guido Vetere, IBM-Tivoli, Italy
Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria
Christopher Welty, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea
Jian Yang, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Philip Yu, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center , USA 
Osmar Zaiane, University of Alberta, USA
Carlo Zaniolo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia


IMPORTANT DATES:
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        Abstract: April 29th, 2003 
        Paper/tutorial submission: May 6th, 2003 
        Notice of acceptance: July 15th, 2003 
        Camera-ready paper: September 10th, 2003 
  
        Main conference: December 10th - 12th, 2003
        Workshops: December 13th, 2003
   

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Authors need to submit an abstract of about 150 words by April 29th, 2003 11:59 
PM PST (firm deadline).

Full papers (in pdf format) should be submitted by May 6th, 2003 11:59 PM PST 
(firm deadline).

Submissions are done electronically through the WISE conference management 
website, at http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/WISE03.

Papers should be prepared according to the IEEE Conference format, and have a 
maximum of TEN (10) pages. Each full paper should include a cover page (not to 
be counted in the 10 pages) with the title, authors, mailing and electronic 
addresses, phone, fax number, contact author, conference title and subject 
area. Authors may also add a list of secondary subject areas. Authors should 
certify that their paper represents original work and is previously unpublished.


For more information about WISE 2003, please contact organizers at 
wise03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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