WISE has established itself as a community aiming at high quality research and offering the ground for advancing efforts in topics related to Web information systems. 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), Sydney, Australia (2011), Paphos, Cyprus (2012), Nanjing, China (2013), Thessaloniki, Greece (2014), USA (2015), Shanghai, China (2016), Puschino, Russia (2017), and Dubai, UAE (2018).

The proceedings of WISE 2019 will be published in 2 separate volumes by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, with best papers to be recommended for publication in special issues of international journals. Topics of interest include but not limited to:

* Web-scale Distributed and Cloud Computing
* Recommender Systems
* Deep/Hidden Web
* Clickstream Analytics
* Rich Web UI and HCI
* Semantic Web
* Machine Learning for the Web
* Linked Open Data
* Human Factors and Social Issues
* Web Big Data Techniques and Mining
* Social Web Models and Analysis
* Web Agents and Web Intelligence
* Web Data Models
* Web Information Retrieval and Text Analytics
* Web Metrics and Performance
* Web Mining and Web Warehousing
* Web Security and Trust Management
* Web-based Business Processes and Web Services
* Web Tools and Visualizaton
* Web-based Applications (e.g., Auction and Negotiation, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Learning, etc.)

Paper Submission
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 and MUST NOT be longer than 14 pages.


Important Dates
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Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019


General Co-Chairs
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Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Qing Li, PolyU, Hong Kong
Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada


Program Co-Chairs
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Reynold Cheng, HKU, Hong Kong
Nikos Mamoulis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Yizhou Sun, UCLA, USA


Workshop Co-Chairs
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Leong Hou U, University of Macau, Macau
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia


Industry Chair
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Feifei Li, Alibaba, China


Tutorial / Panel Co-Chairs
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Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT, India
Yunjun Gao, Zhejiang U, China


Sponsor Chair
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Henry Chan, PolyU, Hong Kong


Finance Chair
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Howard Leung, CityU, Hong Kong


Local Organization Co-Chairs
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Hong Va Leong, PolyU, Hong Kong
Andrew Jiang, Macao Conv. & Exhib. Assoc
Man Lung YIU, PolyU, Hong Kong


Publication Chair
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Xin Huang, HKBU, Hong Kong


Publicity Co-Chairs
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An Liu, Soochow University, China
Wen Hua, Queensland University, Australia
Panagiotis Bouros, JGU, Germany


WISE Steering Committee Representative
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Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia