11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information
and Data Management (WIDM 2009)

November 2, 2009, Hong Kong, China
http://widm2009.ist.psu.edu/

Sponsored by ACM SIGIR and SIGWEB
In Conjunction with the 18th ACM CIKM 2009



***** Paper due: July 10th, 2009 *****


ACM WIDM 2009 is the eleventh in a series of workshops on Web Information
and Data Management to be held in conjunction with the 18th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM
2009). The objective of the workshop is to bring together
researchers, industrial practitioners, and developers to study how Web
information can be extracted, stored, analyzed, and processed to
provide useful knowledge to the end users for various advanced
database and Web applications.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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-- Web Mining: Web Usage Mining, Web Classification, Web Clustering,
Resource Discovery, Web Personalization, Web Data Extraction, Web
Structure Mining

-- Formal Models for Web Data and Knowledge Management: Data Models
and Meta-data, Semi-structured Data and XML, Query Languages,
Annotations, Ontologies

-- System Issues for Web Applications: Performance of Web
Applications, System Design, Caching and Indexing of Web data, P2P

-- Methodologies for Web Data Management: Data Integration, Archiving,
Security, Personalization

-- Tools and Infrastructure for Web Data Management: Web Site Modeling
and Design, Web Visualization Tools, Intelligent Agents on the Web,
Web Services

-- Web Applications: Digital Libraries, Web Portals, Warehousing, Web
Information Filtering, Web Commerce, Web Monitoring

-- Web Exploration: Web Crawling, Web Search Engines


IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: July 10th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2009
Camera-ready copy due date: August 15th, 2009


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Electronic submission will be used. The pdf version of the paper
should be submitted to the WIDM 2009 electronic review system no later
than July 10th, 2009. The paper should be formatted in the camera ready
ACM format and should be at most 8 pages long. The paper should
present innovative ideas on the topics of interest and not be
published or under consideration elsewhere. More detailed information
about the paper submission procedure will be available at the workshop
website. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by ACM Press.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Chee-Yong Chan
Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prasenjit Mitra
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Angela Bonifati ICAR-CNAR Italy
Yi Chen Arizona State University USA
Zhiyuan Chen University of Maryland Baltimore County USA
Byron Choi Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong
Bin Cui Peking University China
Hang Cui Yahoo! Research USA
Zhicheng Dou Microsoft Research China
Vuk Ercegovac IBM Almaden Research Lab USA
George Fletcher Washington State University USA
Irini Fundulaki ICS Forth Greece
Floris Geerts University of Edinburgh UK
Bernard Jim Jansen The Pennsylvania State University USA
Panagiotis Kalnis King Abdullah Univ. of Science & Tech. Saudi Arabia
Daniel Kifer The Pennsylvania State University USA
Georgia Koutrika Stanford University USA
Sang-goo Lee Seoul National University South Korea
Chengkai Li University of Texas at Arlington USA
Feifei Li Florida State University USA
Tao Li Florida International University USA
Ee-Peng Lim Singapore Management University Singapore
Bo Luo University of Kansas USA
Gang Luo IBM TJ Watson Research Lab USA
Michael Nelson Old Dominion University USA
Yuan Ni IBM China Research Lab China
Neolkis Polyzotis University of California-Santa Cruz USA
Oded Shmueli Technion - Israel Institute of Tech. Israel
Pierre Senellart Telecom ParisTech France
Raymond Wong Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech. Hong Kong
GuiRong Xue Shanghai Jiao Tong University China