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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Workshop on Exploiting Structured Information on the Web (ESIW 2009)
in conjunction with
10th International Conference on Web Information Systems
Engineering (WISE 2009)

Poznań, Poland
October 5-7, 2009

http://integror.net/esiw2009/

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Extended submission deadline: May 15, 2009

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In recent years we observe growing availability of structured
information on the Web. While significant part of it is in a human
readable form, not adapted for automated processing (HTML, AJAX,
Flash, Deep Web, Web applications), more machine-processable
information enters the Web thanks to complementary top-down and
bottom-up tendencies.

Bottom-up tendencies are related to publication of structured
information in a machine-processable form (e.g. in XML, RDF, JSON). It
also covers annotation of unstructured content with meta-data (e.g.
microformats, RDFa, SIOC, MPEG-7). Top-down approaches are related to
algorithmically structuring unstructured information. They combine
different methods of Web mining, information extraction,
classification, categorization, automated linking and named entities
recognition. Moreover, phenomena combining these tendencies, such as
social annotation of resources, are widely present in today’s Web.

More structured information on the Web enables information integration
using shared vocabularies (linked data approach), data mashups
(domain-specific integration), and automated algorithmic information
integration (schemas matching, dataspaces, lexical techniques). In
parallel, popularization of mashup, data monitoring and social data
sharing techniques, enable easier information reuse and growing number
of intelligent services combing various dynamic information sources,
algorithms and explicit or implicit users input.

The ESIW 2009 workshop will adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to
current tendencies in exploiting structured information on the Web.
The workshop will provide an informal and vibrant forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to share their research results
and practical development experiences.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

The topics of the workshop will include, but will not be limited to:

* Federated and inter-organizational Web applications
* Models and query languages for Web data
* Hidden Web resource discovery, retrieval and integration
* Warehousing Web data
* Provenance of Web data
* Web wrappers
* Information extraction
* Managing uncertainty in Web-based data
* Methods for integrating and federating Web data
* Novel applications that exploit structured data sources on the Web
* Data integration and data cleaning
* Lessons learned from application of Microformats, JSON, RESTful
services
* Innovative approaches to data mashups
* Structured information flows on the Web and Web-based information
ecosystems
* Linked data
* Reasoning with incompletely specified structures
* Multimedia metadata / annotation schemes and methods
* Mining users and organizations profile from Web data

PUBLICATION

The proceedings of WISE 2009 workshops will be published by Springer
in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Paper length is 8
pages.

For formatting guidelines and submission instructions please consult
the Paper Submission page:
http://wise2009.ue.poznan.pl/paper_submission.php

IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper Submission May 1, 2009
* Author Notification June 15, 2009
* Camera-ready Papers June 28, 2009
* Author registration June 28, 2009
* Workshop October 5-7, 2009

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

* Dominik Flejter, Department of Information Systems, Poznan
University of Economics, Poland
* Tomasz Kaczmarek, Department of Information Systems, Poznan
University of Economics, Poland
* Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research Brisbane, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Manuel Alvarez, University of A Coruna, Spain
* Michael K. Bergman, Structured Dynamics LLC, USA
* John Breslin, DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland
* Irene Celino, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Terence Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the USA
* Emanuele Della Valle, CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy
* Sebastian Dietzold, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Pavel Dmitriev, Yahoo!, USA
* Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
* Thomas Hornung, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany
* Denis Shestakov, University of Turku, Finland
* Celine van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia, China