CALL FOR PAPERS
15th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2012)
Co-located with ACM SIGMOD 2012
May 20, 2012 * Scottsdale, Arizona USA
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The WebDB workshop provides a forum for researchers, theoreticians, and
practitioners to share their insights and experiences on problems and solutions
at the intersection of data management and the Web. WebDB is a high-impact
forum in which a number of influential papers have been presented.

Web site: http://db.disi.unitn.eu/pages/WebDB2012/

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Topics of Interest
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This year WebDB will focus on the theme
"Learning from the Web": seeking to exploit the huge amounts of knowledge that can be found on the Web.
Of particular interest is the construction of databases and knowledge bases
from the facts discovered on the Web. However, papers on all aspects of
the Web and Databases will be solicited.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Cloud computing and distributed computing over the Web
Collaborative data management on the Web
Data integration over the Web
Data models and query languages for Web information
Data-intensive applications on the Web
Database support for social network and Web 2.0 applications
Human computing in Web databases
Information retrieval in semi-structured data and the Web
Filtering and recommendation systems
Location-aware Web applications
Modeling, mining and querying user generated content
Personal information management systems
Quality of user generated content and other web data
Semantic search on the Web
Semi-structured data management
Social and tagged data management
The Semantic Web and reasoning on Web data
Web community data management systems
Web information extraction
Web privacy and security
Web services-based architecture and applications
Web source discovery, analysis, and retrieval
Web-based distributed data management

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: March 09, 2012 (11:59pm EST)
Notification: April 15, 2012

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Submission Instructions
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that
are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers should
be submitted electronically as PDF files and be formatted using the ACM
guidelines and SIGMOD proceedings template available at:
http://www.sigmod2011.org/sigmod_formatting.shtml

Papers submitted cannot exceed six pages in length, including reference
and appendix. Submissions should be uploaded through Microsofts CMT submission
site at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WEBDB2012/

All submissions will be handled electronically. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.

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Conference Organizers
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* Workshop Co-Chairs:
Zachary Ives, University of Pennsylvania, USA (zives@cis.upenn.edu)
Yannis Velegrakis, University of Trento, Italy (velgias@disi.unitn.eu)

* Program Committee:
Angela Bonifati, Lille 1 University
Michael Cafarella, University of Michigan
Bin Cui, Beijing University
Carlo Curino, Yahoo! Research
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria
Anish Das Sarma, Google
Alin Deutsch, UC San Diego
AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Aris Gionis, Yahoo! Spain
Francesco Guerra, University of Modena and Region Emilia
Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM T.J. Watson
Vagelis Hristidis, UC Riverside
Panagiotis Karras, MIT
Raghav Kaushik, Microsoft Research
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM T.J. Watson
Donald Kossman, ETH-Zurich
Jayant Madhavan, Google
Alexandra Meliou, University of Washington
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Stelios Paparizos, Microsoft
Chris Re, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Adam Silberstein, LinkedIn
Julia Stoyanovitch, University of Pennsylvania
Panayiotis Tsaparas, University of Ioannina
Haixun Wang, Microsoft, China
Cong Yu, Google Research