The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems
Engineering (WISE 2013) October 13-15, 2013, Nanjing, China.
http://www.wise2013.org


The aim of this fourteenth edition of the conference series on Web
Information Systems Engineering is to provide an international forum
for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share
their knowledge in the rapidly growing area of Web technologies,
methodologies and applications. Previous WISE conferences were held in
Hong Kong, China (2000), Kyoto, Japan (2001), Singapore (2002), Roma,
Italy (2003), Brisbane, Australia (2004), New York, USA (2005), Wuhan,
China (2006), Nancy, France (2007), Auckland, New Zealand (2008),
Poznan, Poland (2009), Hong Kong, China (2010), and Sydney, Australia
(2011), and Paphos, Cyprus (2012).

The proceedings of WISE'13 will be published in 2 separate volumes by
Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and the best
papers will be recommended for publication in special issues of World
Wide Web.


Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

* Big Data;
* Cloud Computing;
* Discovering Social Web structures and models;
* Deep/Hidden Web;
* Event Processing and Event-driven Systems;
* Evolution and temporal analysis of the Social Web;
* Integration of the Web and Internet-connected Objects / IoT;
* Linked Open Data;
* Peer-Computing;
* Rich Web UI;
* Search, Text and media extraction, clustering and classification of
the Social Web;
* Semantic Web;
* Social Networking;
* Web Agents and Web Intelligence;
* Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce,
e-Government, e-Learning, etc.);
* Web-based Business Processes and Web Services;
* Web-based Enterprise Systems and Transactions;
* Web Data Integration;
* Web Data Mashup;
* Web Data Models;
* Web Information Retrieval;
* Web Metrics and Performance;
* Web Mining and Web Warehousing;
* Web Monitoring and Management;
* Web Security and Trust Management;
* Web Tools and Languages;
* Web Visualisation; and
* XML and Semi-structured Data.

Publication
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All
papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program
committee. All submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the
author guidelines provided by Springer LNCS format and MUST NOT exceed
14 pages. A special issue of WWW Journal is scheduled for extended
versions of some selected papers from the WISE2013 conference.


WISE2013 Keynote Speakers:
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Prof. Wen Gao, Peking University, China;
IEEE Fellow; Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Divyakant Agrawal, The University of California at Santa Barbara;
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow.

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:
Jian Lv, Nanjing University, China

General Co-Chairs:
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo!Research Lab, Spain
Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics, China

PC Co-Chairs:
Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA

Industry Program:

Min Wang, Google Research, USA
Lei Chei, 蔋KUST, Hong Kong, China

Demo Co-Chairs:
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia
Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

WISE Challenge Program Chairs:
Weining Qian, East China Normal University, China
Yabo Xu, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Panel Co-Chairs:
Guoren Wang, Northeastern University, China
Junzhou Luo, Southeastern University, China

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Wojciech Cellary, Poznan University of Economics, Poland

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Publication Chair:
Guangyan Huang, Victoria University, Australia

Local Arrangement Chair:
Jie Cao, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China

Financial Chair:
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia

Publicity Co-Chairs
Haolan Zhang, NIT, Zhejiang University, China
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Wenjie Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia

WISE Society Representative:
Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia

Webmasters:
Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China


Important Dates

Research Paper Abstract Submission: 8th May 2013
Research Paper Submission: 15th May 2013
Demonstration Paper Submission: 15th June 2013
Paper Notification of Acceptance: 3rd July 2013
Accepted Paper Camera-ready: 24th July 2013
Workshop Proposal Submission: 4th April 2013
Workshop Proposal Notification: 25th April 2013