CFP: WAIM'04

           WAIM2004 Call for Papers
         5th International Conference on
         Web-Age Information Management
         July 15-17, 2004, Dalian, China
         http://www.neu.edu.cn/waim2004

Scope of Conference
With advances in the Internet and, in particular, various tech-nologies 
around the World-Wide Web over the past years, research on design, 
implementation, and management of Internet and Web-based information 
systems has become increasingly important. As more and more information of 
diverse types becomes available on the Internet and Web, and query and 
retrieval as well as the man-agement of information over the Internet 
become more complex and extremely difficult. Nowadays, the 
anywhere/anytime/any means paradigm is becoming the challenge in 
conceiving, designing, and releasing next generation information systems. 
New technologies, like Wi-fi networks and 3rd generation mobile phones, 
are offering the infrastructure to conceive information systems as 
ubiquitous information systems, that is, systems that are accessible from 
any-where, at any time, and with any device. Novel approaches to de-velop 
and manage the new Internet and Web information systems are in high demand.
The WAIM series of conferences continue its good tradition, aiming to 
provide a unique forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial 
practitioners from around the world to share their rapidly evolving 
knowledge and to report on new advances in Web-based information systems. 
The previous WAIM conferences have been held in Shanghai (WAIM00), Xi'an 
(WAIM01), Bejing (WAIM02) and Chengdu, China (WAIM03). These conferences 
turned out to be very successful and each attracted more than 100 
participants from all over the world.
You are invited to submit original technical papers in English reporting 
recent results in database and related fields. Both research papers and 
experience and application papers are welcome. In addi-tion, papers (both 
regular and short) from the industry sector are also invited, in addition 
to demos and posters (see below).

Topics of Interest
*       Advanced applications of databases
*       Agent technology and information management
*       Biological and genome information systems?
*       Cooperative information systems
*       Data and information quality
*       Data management for pervasive environment
*       Data migration and integration
*       Data mining and knowledge discovery
*       Data and Web warehousing
*       Data Security
*       Database languages and semantics
*       Databases and electronic commerce
*       Design of databases and data warehouses
*       Emerging Web techniques
*       Financial and engineering databases
*       Internet and web-based data management
*       Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
*       Location dependent data management
*       Metadata use and management
*       Multidimensional databases and OLAP
*       Multimedia information systems
*       Parallel and distributed database systems
*       Performance and benchmarking
*       Query processing and optimisation
*       Semantic web
*       Storage management and access methods
*       Spatial and temporal databases
*       Text database and information retrieval
*       Transaction management
*       Visualizing the structure and content of databases
*       Web and database technology
*       Workflow and E-services
*       XML and Semi-structured data
*       Peer-to-peer data management
*       Mobile data management

Submission Guidelines
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS(Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science, http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) 
series. Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic ver-sion of LNCS 
in parallel with the printed version, so the electronic source of accepted 
papers will be required (LaTeX 2e format is pre-ferred). Authors of 
selected papers will be invited to submit ex-tended versions for possible 
publication in an international journal. Authors should submit original 
manuscripts via the WAIM 2004 Web site, as PostScript or PDF 
files.  Papers may not exceed 5000 words.  Use at least an 11-point font 
and no more than 20 double-spaced pages.  (Typically published papers are 
14 pages in LNCS format.) The LNCS Authors Instructions 
subpage(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) contains further 
details.

Industrial Papers
Please submit papers for the industry track to the Industrial Chair, 
Mukesh K. Mohania (mkmukesh-xthvdsQ13ZrQT0dZR+AlfA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by 15 
March 2004.  Please visit 
our Web site for more updated details. Accepted indus-trial papers will be 
also included in the conference proceedings.

Tutorials
Please submit tutorial proposals to the Tutorial Chair, Katsumi Ta-naka 
(ktanaka-p+YfGghn51QyQsM88FCjFA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by 19 April 2004. Identify 
the pre-senter, the 
intended audience, and the scope of the topic. Tutorials may be presented 
as a 90-minute tutorial inside the conference, or as a half day (3 hour) 
or a full day (6 hour) pre-conference tutorial.

Panels
We solicit proposals for panel sessions related to the conference topics 
about which there is controversy and thus a need for public discussion. 
Please send panel proposals to the Panel Chair, Ee-Peng Lim 
(aseplim-HU4z9rI8l8CLvajZxc+D7Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by 3 May 2004.  See our Web 
site for more updated 
instructions.

Demonstrations and Posters
WAIM2004 provides a forum for ongoing work: poster reports on projects in 
progress, demonstrations of alpha- and beta-versions of software tools and 
products, invitations to cooperate on new project ideas, etc.  Please send 
poster and demonstration proposals to the Demonstration and Poster Chair, 
Ji-Rong Wen (jrwen-0li6OtcxBFHby3iVrkZq2A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by 17 May 2004.

Important Dates
Paper abstracts (soft deadline):        09 February 2004
Full papers (firm deadline):            16 February 2004
Industrial papers due:                  15 March 2004
Notification:                           05 April 2004
Tutorial proposals:                     19 April 2004
Panel proposals:                        03 May 2004
Camera-ready papers:                    03 May 2004
Poster & demo proposals:                17 May 2004

Organizers
Hosted by
         Dalian University of Technology, China
         Northeastern University, China
In Cooperation with
         Database Society of Chinese Computer Federation
         ACM SIGMOD (pending)
Sponsored By
         National Natural Science Foundation of China

General Co-Chairs:
         Wang Shan (Renmin University, China)
         Tok Wang LING (NUS, Singapore)
Program Co-Chairs:
         Qing Li (CityU, HKSAR, China)
         Guoren Wang (Northeastern U, China)
Local Organization Co-Chairs
         YANG De Li (Dalian U. Tech, China)
         YU Ge (Northeastern U, China)
Publication Chair:
         FENG Ling (U. of Twente, the Netherlands)
Financial & Registration Chair:
         YU Ge (Northeastern U, China)
Publicity Co-Chairs:
         PENG Zhiyong (Asia-Pacific)
         Arne Solvberg (Europe)
         Mengchi Liu (America)
Tutorial Chair:
         Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University, Japan)
Panel Chair:
         Ee-Peng Lim (NTU, Singapore)
Industrial Track Chair:
         Mukesh K. Mohania (IBM India Research Lab)
Exhibition and Demo Chair:
         Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia)
Steering Committee Liaison:
         Hongjun Lu (HKUST, HKSAR, China)

Program Committee

Stephane Bressan        NTU, Singapore
Keith Chan              Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR
Zheng Chen              Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
David Cheung            University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
K.W. Chiu               Dickson Computer Systems, HKSAR
Gill Dobbie             University of Auckland, New Zealand
Xiaoyong Du             Renmin University of China, China
David Dagan Feng        University of Sydney, Australia
Vivekanand Gopalkrishnan NTU, Singapore
Hong Gao                Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Yanxiang He             Wuhan University, China
Kien A. Hua             University of Central Florida, USA
Richard Hull            Bell-Labs Research, Lucent, USA
Patrick Hung            CSIRO, Australia
Xiao Ji                 Shanghai Baosight Limited Co., China
Qingshan Jiang          Xiamen University, China
Kamal Karlapalem        Intl Institute of Info. Technology, India
Irwin King              CUHK, HKSAR
Jiajin Le               Donghua University, China
Dik Lun Lee             HKUST, HKSAR
YoonJoon Lee            KAIST, Korea
Hong Va Leong           Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR
Jianzhong Li            Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Tianzhu Li              Hebei University, China
Zhanhuai Li             Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
Yaping Lin              Huana University, China
Huan Liu                Arizona State University, USA
Mengchi Liu             Carleton University, Canada
Weiyi Liu               YunNan University, China
Frederick H. Lochovsky  HKUST, HKSAR
Akifumi Makinouchi      Kyushu University, Japan
Dennis McLeod           University of Southern California, USA
Xiaofeng Meng           Renmin University of China, China
Maria Orlowska          University of Queesland, Australia
Zhiyong Peng            Wuhan University, China
Prasan Roy              I.B.M. India Research Lab, India
Junyi Shen              Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Baile Shi               Fudan University, China
John R. Smith           IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Jianwen Su              University of Caliafornia, Santa Barbara, USA
Changjie Tang           Sichuan University, China
Shiwei Tang             Peking University, China
Yufei Tao               City Univ. of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Christelle Vangenot     Swiss Federal Institute of Techn., Switzerland
Daling Wang             Northeastern University, China
Min Wang                IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Tengjiao Wang           Peking University, China
X. Sean Wang            University of Vermont, USA
Raymond Wong            University of New South Wales, Australia
Chunxiao Xing           Tsinghua University, China
Christopher C. Yang     Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR
Deli Yang               Dalian University of Technology, China
Jian Yang               University of Tilburg, the Netherland
Masatoshi Yoshikawa     Nagoya University, Japan
Ge Yu                   Northeastern University, China
Jeffrey X. Yu           CUHK, HKSAR
Lihua Yue               University of Science and Technology, China
Yanchun Zhang           Victoria University, Australia
Aoying Zhou             Fudan University, China
Lizhu Zhou              Tsinghua University, China
Shuigeng Zhou           Fudan University, China
Xiaofang Zhou           University of Queesland, Australia
Yueting Zhuang          Zhejiang University, China
Hai Zhuge               ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Emails of the Program Co-Chairs:
Qing Li:                itqli-89XkVh7fUGUCxDl3mouYzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Guoren Wang:            wanggr-i8cvWjPdmcqPQbnJrJN+5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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