WebDB 2004 Call for Papers

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                            Call for Papers
                    Seventh International Workshop on 
                         the Web and Databases
                               WebDB 2004
                       
                            June 17-18, 2004
                  Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France

                 (collocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004,
                    pending final approval from ACM)


La "Toile," or the "Web," hosts ever-increasing volumes of diverse
data and associated services that cannot be fully exploited unless
appropriate management and integration technologies are developed. The
influence of the Web has been remarkable in the areas of databases and
information retrieval, where existing data models, query languages,
and query evaluation strategies are constantly being revisited to
account for new and heterogeneous data types, as well as for new
scenarios under which the data is generated and processed.

The WebDB workshop promotes novel research on next-generation
information systems and encourages interaction between the database
people and other Web-related research communities.  The workshop
provides a forum where researchers and practitioners can share their
knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions at the
intersection of data management and the Web.


* Topics of Interest 

Papers that bridge across the areas of databases and information
retrieval are of special relevance to this edition of the workshop.
Specifically, the topics of interest in WebDB 2004 include but are
certainly not limited to:

- Integration of text into XML and relational databases
- XML query processing and data management
- Web search and distributed information retrieval
- Schema and data integration
- Approximate query answering
- Web mining, exploration, and visualization
- Web privacy and security
- Infrastructure for Web services
- Peer-to-peer search networks


* Paper Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers
that are not being considered for publication in any other forum.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files and be
formatted using the camera-ready templates available at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Papers cannot
exceed six pages in length. Detailed submission instructions will be
available at the electronic submission Web site.


* Important Dates
  
  Deadline for submissions                      March 22, 2004
  Notification to authors                       April 27, 2004
  Camera-ready version of accepted papers due   May 10, 2004


* Workshop Co-Chairs

  Sihem Amer-Yahia, AT&T Labs Research, USA
  Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA


* Program Committee Members

Serge Abiteboul, INRIA, France
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Sergey Brin, Google, USA
Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Junghoo Cho, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Juliana Freire, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Alon Halevy, University of Washington, USA
Taher Haveliwala, Google, USA
Rick Hull, Bell Labs, USA
Giansalvatore Mecca, Universita' della Basilicata, Italy
Philippe Pucheral, INRIA, France
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Cornell University, USA
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University, USA
Wang-Chiew Tan, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Andrew Tomkins, IBM Almaden, USA
Phil Wadler, University of Edinburgh, UK


* Web Chair

  Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Columbia University, USA

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