ACM WIDM 2003 - Deadlines Extended

                              Call for Papers

                  *** DEADLINES EXTENDED (SEE BELOW) ***

                      Fifth International Workshop on
               Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'03)
                         
                             November 7-8, 2003               
                         New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

                  http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/widm2003
               Sponsored by the ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGMIS


WIDM'03 is the fifth in a series of workshops on Web Information and Data 
Management to be held in conjunction with the Twelfth International Conference 
on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), (http://www.cikm.org/2003). 
The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, 
and developers to study how the 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.

Web Databases: 
        Web Data Models and Meta-data, 
        Web Query Languages, Web Data Storage Systems, 
        Web Indexing, Web Warehousing, Web Data Integration.

Semantic Web: 
        Web Annotation, Ontologies, Semantic Web Services.
 
Web Commerce: 
        Web Services, Intelligent Agents on the Web, 
        Web Site Modeling & Design, Advanced XML Tools, 
        Mobile Commerce.

Advanced Web Applications: 
        Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Intelligent Web Search Engines, 
        Web Visualization Tools, Web Information Filtering.

Performance of Web Applications: 
        Web Caching, Web Monitoring.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Electronic submission will be used.  The postscript or PDF version of the 
paper should be submitted to the WIDM'03 electronic review system no later 
than July 5, 2003. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready format 
and should not be more than 8 pages. The abstract of the papers should be 
submitted electronically by June 28, 2003 to the review system. For more 
detailed information about paper submission, please refer to the workshop 
website. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by 
the ACM Press. The best workshop papers will be invited to be revised and 
submitted to a special journal issue.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of abstract (extended): July 5, 2003 
Submission full paper (extended): July 12, 2003 
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2003
Camera-ready copy due date: September 13, 2003


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

Roger Chiang                                    
University of Cincinnati        
USA
Roger.Chiang-iBn6kZzeiws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Alberto Laender
Federal University of Minas Gerais 
BRAZIL 
laender-qr4C/KlikRcIdKJ7tpkyPg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Ee-Peng Lim 
Program Committee 
Nanyang Technological University 
SINGAPORE
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
James French, University of Virginia, USA
Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL-LSIR, Switzerland
Carlos Heuser, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Patrick Hung, CSIRO, Australia
San-Yih Hwang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan 
Wolfgang Klas, Universität Wien, Austria
Nick Kushmerick, University College Dublin, Ireland
Zoé Lacroix, Arizona State University, USA
Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State Uviversity, USA
Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China
Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Giansalvatore Mecca, University of Basilicata, Italy
Paolo Merialdo, Università Roma Tre, Italy
Wee-Keong Ng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Elke A. Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Arnaud Sahuguet, Bell Laboratories, USA
Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University, Korea
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Altigran S. da Silva, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Vasilis Vassalos, New York University, USA
Chih-Ping Wei, National Sun Yat-Sen  University,Taiwan
Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Kun-Lung Wu, IBM Research, USA
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Yanchun Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China



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