WAIM 2008 Preliminary Call for Papers

The Ninth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management

URL: http://waim2008.nudt.edu.cn/index.html

Email: waim2008@nudt.edu.cn

July 20-22, 2008, Zhangjiajie, China

Organized by National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China.

Sponsored by: Database Society, Chinese Computer Federation; Natural Science Foundation of China

The rapid development and prevalent use of the World Wide Web continue to stimulate the need for new technologies for the design, implementation and management of better Web-based information systems. With widely distributed data of diverse types (structured records, texts, images, video/audio, etc) from millions of autonomous sites and hundreds of millions of users, the Web introduces new challenges beyond the capabilities of traditional database and information retrieval systems. These challenges include the development of effective and efficient techniques and tools for querying, retrieving, integrating, analyzing, and managing the data on the Web.

WAIM'08 will continue the fine tradition of the previous WAIM conferences in providing an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the Web and database communities to share and exchange new ideas, results, experience, techniques and tools related to all aspects of Web data management. The conference invites original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of Web-based information systems, as well as proposals for demonstrations, tutorials and panels. WAIM'08 is expected to attract outstanding researchers from all over the world to Zhangjiajie, one of the most beautiful areas in China.

WAIM'08 topics include but are not limited to the following areas

- Advanced application of databases
- Biological and genome information systems
- Data mining and knowledge discovery
- Data and information quality control
- Data grid
- Data migration and integration
- Database security
- Emerging Web technologies
- Information retrieval
- Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
- Location dependent data management
- Mobile data management
- Multidimensional databases and OLAP
- Multimedia information systems
- Parallel and distributed database systems
- Peer-to-peer data management
- Performance and benchmarking
- Query processing and optimization
- Semantic web and web ontology
- Spatial and temporal databases
- Storage management and access methods
- Web community analysis
- Web mining
- Web data management
- Web services and information management
- Workflow and E-services
- XML and semi-structured data management

PUBLICATION and PAPER SUBMISSION
The proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (agreement pending).

All submitted manuscripts must be in English. Only original manuscripts whose main technical contents have not been published by or submitted to other conferences and journals are allowed. If a paper is accepted, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the work. Authors are required to submit a paper title and short abstract (about 100 words) before submitting the paper. Paper submission will be electronic through the WAIM'08 paper submission site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WAIM2008/Default.aspx). Information about paper format is forthcoming at the WAIM 2008 website. Papers not satisfying the above requirements will be rejected without review.

WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRIAL PAPERS AND DEMOS
In addition to technical contributions, WAIM'08 invites proposals for workshops, panels and tutorials, as well as industrial and demo papers. For workshops, WAIM'08 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. Information about the format for industrial papers and demo proposals will be available at the WAIM 2008 website soon. All submitted industrial and demo papers must have not been published by or submitted to other conferences and journals. All accepted industrial and demo papers will be published in the main proceedings of the conference. Papers accepted by WAIM'08 workshops will be published separately.

Workshop, panel and tutorial Proposals and industrial and demo papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to the corresponding chairs.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts of research papers due: January 8, 2008
Full research papers due: January 15, 2008
Industrial/Demo papers due: January 15, 2008
Acceptance notification: March 17, 2008
Camera-ready copy: April 17, 2008

Workshop proposals: January 22, 2008
Panel/Tutorial Proposals: March 24, 2008

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Honorary Conference Chair:
Huowang Chen, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

General Co-Chairs:
Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Yan Jia, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China.
Weiyi Meng, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA.

Proceedings Chair:
Ning Jing, National University of Defense Technology, China.

Industrial Track Chair:
Jiangning Liu, CVIC Software Engineering CO., China

Demonstration Track Chair:
Dongwon Lee, Penn State University, USA

Tutorial Chair:
Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA

Workshop Chair:
Weihong Han, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China

Panel Chair:
Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Lihua Yue, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
Shuqiang Yang, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
Wei Xiong, National University of Defense Technology, China

Steering Committee Liaison:
Sean X. Wang, University of Vermont, USA


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
-Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
-Lei Chen, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong
-Qiming Chen, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA
-Reynold Cheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
-Gao Cong, Microsoft Research Asia, China
-Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
-Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China
-Ling Feng, Tsinghua University, China
-Ophir Frieder,Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
-Madhusudhan Govindaraju, State University of New York at Binghamton,USA
-Stephane Grumbach, LIAMA(The Sino-French IT Lab Institute of Automation), China
-Giovanna Guerrini, Universita di Genova, Italy
-Weihong Han, National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing,China
-Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
-Ruoming Jin, Kent State University, USA
-Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
-Chiang Lee, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
-Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
-Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
-Yoon-Joon Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea
-Jinyan Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
-Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
-Quanzhong Li, IBM, USA
-Ee Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
-Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
-Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
-Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
-Jiangning Liu, CVIC Software Engineering CO, China
-Qiong Luo, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., Hong Kong
-Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University, China
-Mukesh K Mohania, IBM India Research Lab., India
-Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, USA
-Wilfred Siu-Hung Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,China
-Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
-Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China
-Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
-Weining Qian, Fudan University, China
-Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
-Keun Ho Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea
-Albrecht Schmidt, Aalborg University, Denmark
-Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland, Australia
-Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
-Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA
-Changjie Tang, Sichuan University, China
-David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
-Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
-Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
-Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
-Haixun Wang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
-Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
-Ling Tok Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
-Shan Wang, Renmin University, China
-X. Sean Wang, University of Vermont, USA
-Wei Wang, Fudan University, China
-Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia
-Jirong Wen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
-Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales, Australia
-Wei Xiong,National University of Defense Technology, China
-Shuqiang Yang,National Laboratory for Parallel and Distributed Processing, China
-Lei Yu, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
-Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
-Jun Yang, Duke University, USA
-Ge Yu, Northeastern University, China
-Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
-Philip S. Yu, IBM, USA
-Qing Zhang, CSIRO, Australia
-Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
-Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China
-Lizhu Zhou, Tsinghua University, China
-Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan, USA