Deadline extension : ClustWeb EDBT'04 Workshop on Clustering Information over the Web

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*** due to several requirements the paper's deadline is extended to
*** Monday JANUARY 19th, 2004

*** Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings and 
Post-proceedings 
(with revised versions of Workshop selected papers) will be published in the 
LNCS Series 
of Springer-Verlag. 
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ClustWeb 
http://www.csd.auth.gr/~oswinds/clustWeb/ 
Clustering Information over the Web

International Workshop in conjunction with  
Int'l Conference on Extending Database Technology - EDBT 2004 - 
http://www.edbt04.gr

Date/Location :      March 14, 2004 / Heraklion - Crete, Greece

        
Summary
Web data management has become a critical emerging research area, due to the 
exponential 
increase in the information circulation and dissemination over the Web. Several 
research efforts 
have already appeared in the area of Web data mining and this field seems to be 
of interest for 
a wide academic and technical community.  This workshop focuses on clustering 
information 
over the Web, as a mostly emerging topic in current web data mining efforts. It 
will be important 
to understand how the accessing to Web information (such as documents, link 
paths, and users 
on the Web), is benefited by employing clustering mechanisms and methodologies. 

Aim and Scope
This workshop aims to attract contributions in relation to clustering 
Web-related information towards:
* increasing Web information accessibility,
* decreasing lengths in Web navigation pathways, 
* improving Web users requests servicing,
* integrating various data representation standards, 
* extending current Web information organization practices.
New research ideas or practices in the above area are of high importance due to 
the difficulties 
raised by the diversity of Web data structure and representation, information 
distribution, 
communication and accessing costs. Overall, this workshop aims to host work in 
some of the most 
breaking topics, such as Web users clustering, clustering over Web graphs 
structures, clustering 
methods and Web performance, clustering towards Web data prefetching and 
caching. 

Topics
Research, experience as well as position papers are welcome towards exchanging 
ideas and 
perspectives of both researchers and practitioners. 
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
* Web users clustering 
* clustering algorithms over Web graph structures
* clustering Web navigational patterns
* Web data clustering, storage management, and indexing
* clustering for caching and prefetching on the Web 
* Web data representation patterns in clustering methodologies
* prediction models based on Web data classification
* Web users personalization
* the XML standard in Web data classification 
* Web data knowledge extraction towards effective clustering
* Web resources discovery 
* similarity search over Web navigational pathways
* probabilistic models and Web information clustering
* Web usage characterization
* directory services, and information management
* privacy and security over the Web
* Web metrics and measurements in relation to clustering and classification

Papers Submission 
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Original (previously unpublished) papers must not exceed 12 pages in length and 
should be submitted 
electronically  in Portable Document Format (.pdf) or PostScript (.ps) format, 
sent to avakali-nS1Tg549IMhMo1R+fwTmgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or  to 
pokorny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Papers should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science (LNCS) 
guidelines found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 

Accepted papers will be published in the Workshop Proceedings and 
Post-proceedings 
(with revised versions of Workshop selected papers) will be published in the 
LNCS Series 
of Springer-Verlag. 

All submitted papers will be judged on their quality and relevance from at 
least 3 members of the 
program committee. 
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present 
their work. 
Workshop registration information will be available at 
http://www.edbt04.gr/registration.htm.

Important Dates 
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Papers submission               : 19th January, 2004
Acceptance Notification : 15th February 2004
Final Papers Due                : 1th March 2004
Workshop Date           : 14th March 2004

Organizers :
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Athena Vakali
Aristotle University
54124 Thessaloniki
Greece
e-mail : avakali-nS1Tg549IMhMo1R+fwTmgw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jaroslav Pokorny
Charles University 
Malostranske nam. 25, 118 00 Praha 1 
Czech Republic
e-mail: pokorny-pBFVQHbOixTV71O/1wYyMQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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