[Dbworld] APWeb'05 Call for papers (submission site is open)

The due date for paper submission is only 2-3 weeks left.
APWeb'05 site is now open for paper submission at http://apweb05.csm.vu.edu.au/ 
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        APWEB'05 CALL FOR PAPERS

The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'05)
        March 29-April 1, 2005, Shanghai, China

            http://apweb05.csm.vu.edu.au/



Invited speakers: 

Professor  Zhiyong Liu
Vice Chairman (Executive), Directorate of Information Sciences 
National Natural Science Foundation of China 


Professor Ah Chung Tsoi
Executive Director, Mathematics, Information & Communication Sciences
Australian Research Council


Professor Ramamohanarao(Rao) Kotagiri, FAA
The University of Melbourne

Profesor John Mylopoulos
University of Toronto
President, VLDB Endowment



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APWeb05 is the seventh in a series of international conferences on WWW 
Technologies.  
APWeb05 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from both 
academic and 
industry to exchange knowledge on WWW-related technologies and new advanced 
applications. 
Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an 
(2000), 
Changsha (2001), Xi'an (2003) and Hangzhou (2004).

The APWeb'2005 includes but is not limited to the following topics:

o Data warehousing and OLAP
o Data cleansing
o Digital libraries
o Distributed and parallel processing
o Grid computing
o Information retrieval
o Information visualization
o Groupware/computer supported cooperative work
o Peer-to-peer systems
o Spatial, temporal and stream data processing
o Web and data mining
o Web applications
o Web community analysis 
o Web database
o Web intelligence
o Web personalization
o Web query languages and interfaces
o Web semantics
o Web services
o Web technology evaluation and benchmarking
o Web technologies for process management
o Workflow management systems and applications
o XML and semi-structured query processing and data management

PAPER SUBMISSION
APWeb'05 invites full papers describing original contributions in all fields of 
Internet 
and WWW related research and applications. A submission should be no more than 
25 pages 
double spacing (about 5000 words), including all figures. Each paper will be 
fully 
refereed by a program committee and judged on its originality, significance, 
technical quality, 
relevance to APWeb'05 as well as presentation. All submissions should be in 
English. 
Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the 
paper be accepted, 
at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.
All papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or less 
preferably, PS or Microsoft Word) 
to the conference website. The title and abstract should be submitted first.
    
    
PUBLICATION 
The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in its Lecturer 
Notes in Computer Science series. 
Complete instructions for authors regarding submission and formatting 
procedures can be found at the APWeb'05 website. 
Papers will be accepted in three categories: regular papers, short papers, and 
industry papers. 

BEST PAPER AWARDS
The APWeb'05 program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award 
(all regular papers are eligible) and one 
winner for the Best Student Paper Award (only the regular papers whose first 
author is a full-time student are eligible).  
The winner of each award will be presented at the conference with an award 
certificate, a cheque and an invitation to submit 
an extended version of the award-winning paper for the consideration of 
publishing in the Journal of WWW.  

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission:    September 17, 2004
Full paper submission:  September 24,   2004 
Acceptance notification: November 26,   2004
Author registration:    December 20,   2004 
Camera-ready copy:      December 20,  2004

Honorary General Chair
Yahiko Kambayashi *
Kyoto University, Japan
 
General Chair:
Shan Wang
Renmin University, China
                                
Program Committee Co- Chairs
Yanchun Zhang 
Victoria University, Australia

Katsumi Tanaka  
Kyoto University, Japan

Publication Chair
Jeffrey X Yu 
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Industrial Chair
Wei-Ying Ma  
Microsoft Research Asia 

Conference Organization Co-chairs
Minglu Li
Shanghai Jiaotong University

Aoying Zhou
Fudan University, China
 
Financial Chair:
Qing Li
City University of Hong Kong, China
 
CCFDBS Liaison
Xiaofeng Meng
Database Society of China Computer Federation & Renmin University

Web Chair
Hao Shi
Victoria University, Australia


Programme Committee   

Toshiyuki Amagasa Nara Institute of Science and Technology  Japan 
Boualem Benatallah University of New South Wales Australia 
James Bailey The University of Melbourne Australia 
Sourav S. Bhowmick  Nanyang Technological University Singapore 
Ulrik Brandes  University of Konstanz  Germany 
Stephane Bressan  National University of Singapore  Singapore 
Jiannong Cao  Hong Kong Polytechnic University       Hong Kong 
Jinli Cao  La Trobe University Australia 
Wentong Cai Nanyang Technological University  Singapore 
Wojciech Cellary The Poznan University of Economics Poland 
Jian Chen Xi'an Jiaotong University & Xi'an Netec Co., Ltd China 
Akmal Chaudhri  IBM developerWorks  USA 
Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen Deakin University  Australia 
Kai Cheng  Kyushu Sangyo University  Japan 
David Cheung  Hong Kong University  Hong Kong 
Kil-To Chong Chongbuk National University Korea 
Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago  USA 
Bin Cui National University of Singapore Singapore 
Qianni Deng   Shanghai Jiaotong Univ China 
Marie-Christine Fauvet Universite' Joseph Fourier France 
Ling Feng  University Twente Netherlands 
Guangrong Gao University of Delaware Newark USA 
Minyi Guo Aizu University Japan 
Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma  USA 
Theo Haerder University of Kaiserslautern Germany 
Jingyu Hou  Deaken University Australia 
Hui Hsiao  IBM Almaden Research Center  USA 
Joshua  Huang The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 
Maolin Huang   University of Technology Sydney Australia
Patrick C. K. Hung  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology China 
Weijia Jia City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 
Qingshan Jiang  Xiamen University  China 
Hai Jin  Huazhong University of Science and Technology  China 
Kamal Karlapalem  IIIT, Hyderabad India 
Hiroyuki Kitagawa University of Tsukuba Japan 
Markus Kirchberg  Massey University  New Zealand 
Shonali Krishnaswamy Monash University Australia 
Huaizhong Kou INRIA  France  
Zoe Lacroix  Arizona State University  USA 
Alberto H F Laender UFMG  Brazil 
Chiang Lee  National Cheng Kung University  Taiwan 
Dik Lee  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Hong Kong 
Thomas Lee University of Pennsylvania  USA 
Weifa Liang, Australian National University   Australia
Hong-Cheu  Liu University of Wollongong Australia 
Chen Li  University of California (Irvine)  USA 
Qing Li City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 
Jianzhong Li  Harbin University of Technology China 
Jiuyong Li University of Southern Queensland Australia 
Xue Li  University of Queensland  Australia 
Chengfei Liu  South Australia University  Australia 
Huan Liu  Arizona State University USA 
Ee Peng Lim  Nanyang Technological University Singapore 
Jianguo Lu  University of Windsor  Canada 
Minglu Li Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 
Michael R. Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 
Wei-Ying Ma  Microsoft Research Asia  China 
Hong Mei Peking University China 
Weiyi Meng  Binghamton University USA 
Xiaofeng Meng  Renmin University of China  China 
Wee Keong Ng  Nanyang Technological University Singapore 
Anne Ngu  Texas State University-San Marcos  USA 
Jun Ni The University of Iowa           USA 
Lionel M. Ni The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Hong Kong 
Jian Pei  University at Buffalo, The State University of New York  USA 
Gitesh Raikundalia  Victoria University Australia 
Keun Ho Ryu  Chungbuk National University  Korea 
Shazia Sadiq  University of Queensland Australia 
Monica Scannapieco  University of Roma 1 Italy 
Hao Shi   Victoria University  Australia 
Timothy K Shih Tamkang University Taiwan 
Keng Siau  University of Nebraska-Lincoln USA 
William Song University of Durham UK 
Jianwen Su  University of California, Santa Barbara  USA 
Kian Lee Tan  National University of Sinagpore  Singapore 
Changjie Tang  Sichuan University China 
Weiqin Tong Shanghai University  China 
Alexei Tretiakov  Massey University  New Zealand 
Jose Vidal  University of South Carolina USA 
Guoren Wang  Northeastern University  China 
Bing Wang University of Hull UK 
Hua Wang University of Southern Queensland Australia
Shengrui Wang Sherbrooke University Canada  
Wei Wang  University of North Carolina USA 
Wei Wang  University of New South Wales, Australia
Yan Wang Macquarie University Australia 
Gerald Weber  Auckland University New Zealand 
Raymond Wong  University of NSW Australia 
Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University  USA 
Yi-Hung Wu National Tsing Hua University Taiwan 
Jitian Xiao Edith Cowan University Australia 
Cheng-zhong Xu Wayne State University USA 
Kai Xu  NICTA Australia 
Li Xu, University of Arizona -- South USA
Jian Yang  Swinburne University  Australia
Laurence T. Yang St. Francis Xavier University Canada  
Lianghuai Yang  Beijing University China 
Qiang Yang  Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Hong Kong 
Yun Yang Swinburne University Australia 
Xun Yi Victoria University Australia 
Arkady Zaslavsky  Monash University Australia 
Minjie Zhang University of Wollongong Australia 
Weining Zhang University of Texas at San Antonio USA 
Weimin Zheng  Tsinghua University  China 
Xiaolong Zhang Wuhan University of Science and Technology  China
Yongbing Zhang University of Tsukuba Japan  
Shuigeng Zhou  Fudan University  China 
Hai Zhuge Institute of Computing Tech. CAS, China China 
Qiang Zhu  The University of Michigan  USA 
      
   

* Prof. Kambayashi  passed away on Feb 6th, 2004. He contributed to the 
preparation of APWeb05 in the early stage. 
To honor his commitment and his contribution to the conference, we will 
dedicate APWeb05 proceedings to him.



Related conference:  ICDE05 in Tokyo.


APWeb05 is to be held in Shanghai during the week before ICDE05.
There are frequent and direct flights between Shanghai and Tokyo.
Delegates/Authors are encouraged to attend both conferences.
For ICDE05 details, please see http://icde2005.is.tsukuba.ac.jp.
ICDE'05 participants are welcome to attend APWeb'05.




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A/Prof. Yanchun Zhang
Director, Internet Technologies and Applications Research Lab
School of Computer Science and Mathematics
Victoria University
Ballarat Road, Footscray
PO Box 14428
Melbourne City MC 
VIC 8001 Australia

Tel: 61 3 9688 5060
Fax: 61 3 9688 4050
yzhang-VveHrOB2sy1WG/WdbR7gnQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://sci.vu.edu.au/~yzhang/

Editor-In-Chief, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1386-145X


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