CFP: WISM 2004 International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling

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*                         CALL FOR PAPERS                            *
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*                    International Workshop on                       *
*           Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM 2004)             *
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*              (Held in conjunction with CAiSE 2004)                 *
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*                            June 8, 2004                            *
*                            Riga, Latvia                            *
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*          URL: http://www.cs.rtu.lv/caise2004/W_WISM.asp            *
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Theme of the Workshop
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Web Information Systems (WIS) use the Web paradigm (and technologies) 
to retrieve information from data sources and deliver it to the users.
An important task for WIS is to bridge the gap between a collection 
of heterogeneous and dynamic data sources and a group of users with 
different preferences using different platforms for accessing the 
information. The diversity of Web users makes the one-size-fits-all 
approach not applicable anymore.
While in the past developing a Web application typically meant ad-hoc 
programming and a mixture of content and presentation design, the 
current data-intensive nature of WIS requires a more rigorous 
development process.
Design methodologies providing guidelines for the creation of modern 
WIS are becoming essential. These methodologies should  facilitate 
different aspects of WIS design such as conceptual design, hypermedia 
design, presentation design, adaptation design etc.
True Web engineering approaches offer designers and programmers a 
design framework often based on a model-driven approach, specifying 
the different aspects of the complete application design in terms of 
different models following the separation of concerns principle.

Goal of the Workshop
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The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for bringing
together researchers, practitioners, designers, and users of WIS
to enable a fruitful exchange of ideas in the state-of-the-art of
this field.

Topics of Interest
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The workshop topics include but are not limited to:

* WIS Architectures
* Semistructured Data in WIS
* Methodologies for WIS Design 
* Semantic Web Information Systems
* Data Models in WIS  
* Web Metadata in WIS
* Query Languages in WIS      
* Integration of WIS
* Ontologies in WIS    
* Optimization Techniques for WIS
* Mobile WIS                  
* WIS for Education
* WIS for E-commerce
* WIS Tools and Languages

Paper Submission
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Prospective workshop participants are invited to submit a paper related 
to one (or more) of the workshop topics. Papers should not exceed 5000 
words in length and should be formatted as close as possible to the 
Springer LNCS style http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
They need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication 
in any other workshop, conference, or journal. The organizers will 
oversee a peer-review process for the submitted papers.  
Papers should be submitted to wism2004-ek1Qb6IBo2Pz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
in PDF format.

Publication
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Workshop proceedings will presumably be published in the official CAiSE 
Workshop proceedings. Authors of selected papers will be invited to 
submit extended versions for publication in the Journal of Web 
Engineering  (JWE) and the International Journal of Web Engineering and 
Technology (IJWET).

Important Dates
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Paper submission                 1 March 2004
Author notification              1 April 2004
Camera-ready paper submission    1 May 2004
Workshop date                    8 June 2004

Organizing Committee
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Flavius Frasincar 
(flaviusf-ek1Qb6IBo2Pz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Richard Vdovjak 
(richardv-ek1Qb6IBo2Pz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Geert-Jan Houben 
(houben-ek1Qb6IBo2Pz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Peter Barna 
(pbarna-ek1Qb6IBo2Pz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

Address
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Information Systems Group
Department of Computer Science
Eindhoven University of Technology
PO Box 513
NL-5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Tel: +31402472733
Fax: +31402463992
Email: wism2004-ek1Qb6IBo2Pz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Program Committee
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Atzeni, Paolo (Universita Roma Tre, Italy)
Baresi, Luciano (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Barrett, Tom (Boeing, USA)
Bieber, Michael (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Cachero, Cristina (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Cannataro, Mario (University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Italy)
Gaedke, Martin (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Goble, Carole (Manchester University, England)
Lowe, David (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Matera, Maristella (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Pastor, Oscar (Valencia University of Technology, Spain)
De Troyer, Olga (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Uden, Lorna (Staffordshire University, England)
Vuorimaa, Petri (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland)
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