The 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2013)
4-6 April, 2013, Sydney, Australia

APWeb is a leading international conference on research, development and applications of Web technologies, database systems, information management and software engineering, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

This is the first time APWeb is to be held in Oceania. Participants to APWeb 2013 (4-6 Apr) may also attend ICDE 2013 (8-12 Apr) and/or PAKDD 2013 (14-17 Apr), all to be held in Australia.

APWeb 2013 will host three keynote talks from international experts on data management, information retrieval, and database theory. The keynote speakers are:

* Prof. H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA
* Prof. Mark Sanderson, RMIT University, Australia
* Prof. Dan Suciu, University of Washington, USA

A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be given to the best paper and student paper selected from
accepted paper.

APWeb 2013 includes but is not limited to the following areas:

* Advanced application of databases
* Content management
* Data caching
* Data mining and knowledge discovery
* Data and information quality Control
* Data migration and integration
* Deep Web
* Digital libraries
* Distributed and parallel systems
* Grid computing
* Emerging Web techniques
* Information retrieval
* Mobile computing and data management
* Multidimensional databases and OLAP
* Multimedia systems
* Parallel and distributed database systems
* Peer-to-peer systems
* Performance and benchmarking
* Query processing and optimization
* Semantic web and web ontology
* Security, privacy and trust
* Sensor networks
* Service-oriented computing
* Spatial and temporal databases
* Stream data processing
* Storage and data access methods
* Web community analysis
* Web search and mining
* Web services
* Workflow and E-services
* XML and semi-structured data management


***PAPER SUBMISSION***

APWeb 2013 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of Web Management and WWW related research and applications. 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.

Paper submission will be electronic through the APWeb12 Web site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/APWEB2013).

Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PDF files and should not exceed 12 pages.

Abstract due: October 20, 2012
Full paper due: October 20, 2012
Acceptance notification: December 26, 2012
Camera-ready copy: January 8, 2013

A special issue on the World Wide Web Journal will be dedicated to selected papers of APWeb 2013.

***AWARDS***

The following awards will be presented at the conference: Best Paper and Best Student Paper. For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.


***WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS***

In addition to technical contributions, APWeb13 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb 2013 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication.

***KEYNOTE SPEAKERS***

- H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA
- Mark Sanderson, RMIT University, Australia
- Dan Suciu, University of Washington, USA

***CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION***

Conference Co-Chairs
- Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia
- Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Program Committee Co-Chairs
- Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
- Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Wei Wang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Workshop Co-Chair
- James Bailey, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Xiaochun Yang, Northeastern University, China

Tutorial/Panel Co-Chairs
- Sanjay Chawla, University of Sydney, Australia
- Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin University of China, China

Industrial Co-Chairs
- Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research in Brisbane, Australia
- Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research, India

Publication Co-Chairs
- Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Wenjie Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia

Publicity Co-Chairs
- Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
- Jiaheng Lu, Renmin University of China, China

Demo Co-Chairs
- Wook-Shin Han, Kyungpook National University, Korea
- Helen Huang, University of Queensland, Australia

Local Organization Co-Chairs
- Muhammad Aamir Cheema, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Ying Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia

APWeb Steering Committee Liaison
- Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia

WISE Society Liaison
- Yanchun Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia

WAIM Steering Committee Liaison
- Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China