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. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi’an (2000), Changsha (2001), Xi’an (2003), Hangzhou(2004), Shanghai(2005), Harbin(2006), Huangshan(2007), Shenyang(2008), Suzhou(2009), and Busan(2010). It will go back to Beijing, the birthplace of APWeb, after 12 years. It means a new start for its second cycle in Chinese culture.
APWeb'11 includes but is not limited to the following areas:
o Advanced application of databases
o Content management
o Data caching
o Data mining and knowledge discovery
o Data and information quality Control
o Data grid
o Data migration and integration
o Deep Web
o Digital libraries
o Distributed and parallel Processing
o Grid computing
o Emerging Web techniques
o Interoperability and heterogeneous systems
o Information retrieval
o Information security
o Location-based services
o Mobile computing and data management
o Multidimensional databases and OLAP
o Multimedia information systems
o Parallel and distributed database systems o Peer-to-peer systems
o Performance and benchmarking
o Query processing and optimization
o Semantic web and web ontology
o Security, privacy and trust
o Sensor networks
o Service-oriented computing
o Spatial and temporal databases
o Stream data processing
o Storage management and access methods
o Web-based collaboration
o Web-based database integration
o Web community analysis
o Web mining
o Web search and meta-search
o Web service and information management
o Workflow and E-services
o XML and semi-structured query processing
o XML and semi-structured data management

PAPER SUBMISSION
APWeb’11 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. 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 APWeb’11 Web site. Papers should be submitted in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format (style files are available at LNCS Authors Instructions) as PostScript or PDF files and may not exceed 10 pages.
PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, one volume for main conference and one volume for workshops (pending for approval).
WORKSHOP, PANELS, TUTORIALS, INDUSTRY PRESENTATIONS
In addition to technical contributions, APWeb 2011 invites proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, industry presentations. For workshops, APWeb 2011 will provide administrative support for workshop room booking, registration, and publication. All papers accepted by APWeb 2011 workshops will be published in a combined volume of Lecturer Notes in Computer Science series published by Springer (pending for approval). Proposals or industry papers should be sent as e-mail attachments to apweb2011@gmail.com.
AWARDS
The Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented at the conference. For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.
TENTATIVE VENUE AND IMPORTANT DATES
The Friendship Hotel, Beijing